Kate Beckett: Castle!
Kate Beckett: This... is... heaven. This is absolute heaven.Richard Castle: Yeah, you mean spending the day with your future husband?Kate Beckett: No, no, not that.Richard Castle: Not that?Kate Beckett: No, no, no, I mean, not only that. It's 2:00. I'm in my PJs. We're reading the newspapers. I never get to do this.Richard Castle: Because you never take any time off.Kate Beckett: All we have to do is loaf around. There's no work. No goals other than to waste hours on end.Richard Castle: Okay, stop describing my life.
Richard Castle: Paul is the writer. Lone Vengeance is the subject. That's their relationship. It's you and me, all over again. But I'm Paul, and you're Lone Vengeance.Kate Beckett: Really, Castle? Is that how you see me, like a sword-wielding killer?Richard Castle: Depends. Will you be scantily clad?Kate Beckett: In your dreams.
Kate Beckett: They started up about eight weeks ago, according to those e-mails. He met her after one of his... book signings and he asked her out for coffee and that was a... It was just a couple of weeks after we started seeing each other.Lanie Parish: Oh, sweetie.Kate Beckett: He told her that needed to keep it a secret, because he was with someone else... And then when he tried to break it off about a week ago, she threatened to go and tell his girlfriend. He offered to come over to her apartment to talk things through. And that was the night of the murder.Lanie Parish: He had motive... What did Castle say when you talked to him?Kate Beckett: He said that the e-mails were faked. He said he never wrote that story and that he was being framed...Kate Beckett: You should have seen him, Lanie. He looked like a little boy, he was so scared... I know him, Lanie... He is... an immature, egotistical... self-centered jackass sometimes, but he's not this.