Kate Beckett: You're trying to drive me crazy, aren't you?Richard Castle: Well, apparently, I already do, if we end up with three kids.Simon Doyle: Would you like to know their names?Richard Castle: Yes!Kate Beckett: No!
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.
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.
Kate Beckett: NYPD! Stay where you are.Richard Castle: That's a vacuum packer at one o'clock.Kate Beckett: Looks like we've found our murder weapon.Kate Beckett: Have you seen this man?Richard Castle: My partner is crazy and may start firing at any moment.Kate Beckett: Go! Go!Kate Beckett: Semester abroad?Richard Castle: Nah, TV show I used to love.Kate Beckett: Ehn, nice job.Richard Castle: Thanks.