Richard Castle: Ahh! Ahhhhh!Richard Castle: I'm just kidding.Kate Beckett: Castle!Richard Castle: I can't believe you fell for that.
Kate Beckett: Castle?Richard Castle: Hmm.Kate Beckett: Should I be worried about your commitment to our engagement?Richard Castle: No. why?Kate Beckett: 'Cause it says right here that you're getting back together with your ex-wife.Richard Castle: What?Kate Beckett: Right here, page six.Richard Castle: "Castle caught cuddling with ex-wife publisher". No, no. This was a business lunch. We were discussing Heat and Storm books.Kate Beckett: Oh, so, um, you weren't...Kate Beckett: "gazing lovingly into her eyes"?Richard Castle: She had spinach in her teeth! That's just... Okay. I don't... See, this wouldn't happen if you just let me announce our engagement.Kate Beckett: We already talked about this. Everyone that's important to us already knows.Richard Castle: Yes, and just because I'm a public figure doesn't mean you need to be one, too. I know.Kate Beckett: Exactly.Richard Castle: Well, so long as you don't mind this sort of thing happening.Kate Beckett: I don't. 'Cause it's not true. And it only gives me more material to torture you with.Richard Castle: Mmm, and the student becomes the master.
Kate Beckett: And if you tell anyone what I'm about to say, there's gonna be another shooting, but... I've gotten used to you pulling my pigtails... I have a hard job, Castle, and having you around makes it... a little more fun.Richard Castle: Your secret's safe with me.
Richard Castle: When Alexis was four, we went Christmas shopping at some mall in White Plains. I was trying on some... charcoal fedora. I turn around, she is gone. Vanished. I looked... everywhere. So did mall security, so did the police. We searched for an hour... You don't have to be a... novelist to think of all the worst-case scenarios.Kate Beckett: Where'd you find her?Richard Castle: Behind a... rack of winter coats. She got bored. She crawled underneath there and went to sleep.Richard Castle: To this day, I still dream about that.