Richard Castle: Whoa, whoa. Someone say "murder"? Hold on! I'll get my coat.Javier Esposito: Look at him, all excited.Kate Beckett: Yeah, like a kid at Christmas.Kevin Ryan: With a dead body under the tree.
Trapper John: Where's my bus?Kate Beckett: The bus is on its way. It'll be there in twenty minutes.Trapper John: The hostages will be dead in two.Kate Beckett: No, nobody needs to die. Okay? It's coming. It's just, it's stuck in traffic.Trapper John: We have *rules*, Kate. I said I wouldn't kill anyone. You said you'd get me a bus. I lived up to my end of the deal.Kate Beckett: And I'm gonna live up to mine in just...Trapper John: I warned you not to jerk me around. Now, I was clear about the consequences. Do I have to prove how serious I am? Is that it?Kate Beckett: Okay, I-I think we both just need to take a deep breath and we can talk about...Trapper John: I'm done talking!Kate Beckett: What was that?Trapper John: A warning shot, Kate. The next one's for the kill!Martha Rodgers: Don't you touch him, you son-of-a-bitch!Richard Castle: No, no! Davenport, hold her back! I got this.Trapper John: [cocking his gun] I'm gonna make pretty red stains out of your boyfriend, Kate. I got my gun to his throat, and I'm gonna paint a Jackson Pollock with his insides!Captain Peterson: You need to calm him down.Kate Beckett: Listen to me, jackass, I do not control traffic. So you're gonna have to give me 20 minutes.Trapper John: Now you've got one minute, Kate.Kate Beckett: No! I've got 20. Do you hear me? Twenty. Because if you pull that trigger, I will walk through those doors and personally put a bullet through you skull.Trapper John: Okay, Kate, you got 20 more minutes.Captain Peterson: Well, that's one way to negotiate.
Alexis Castle: How do you do it, Dad?Richard Castle: Do what?Alexis Castle: Well, that letter that you have framed in your office.Richard Castle: My first manuscript rejection.Alexis Castle: Yeah. How can you stand having it there?Richard Castle: Because it drives me. And I got twenty more of those before Black Pawn ever agreed to publish "In a Hail of Bullets". That letter... that letter reminds me of what I've overcome. Rejection isn't failure.Alexis Castle: It sure feels like failure.Richard Castle: No, failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. It's how you handle it that determines where you'll end up.Alexis Castle: My whole life has been about making sure I could get into any college I wanted. What's it about now?Richard Castle: Give it time. You'll figure it out.
Senator William Bracken: No. No no no no, forget it! I've got nothing to say to you!Richard Castle: Oh, tough! I know Beckett was here and I know why! So you're gonna call off your dogs right now.Senator William Bracken: Or what? Are you gonna write something mean about me?Richard Castle: Or I'm gonna start a scholarship in your name and offer it to the children of the first inmate who shanks you in the prison laundry.Senator William Bracken: You'll be wasting your money.Richard Castle: Oh, forgive me if I don't take your word for it.