- Kate Beckett: Okay, Magoo, let's see that bottle.
- Jeffrey McGuigan: Seriously? You're just gonna walk into my crib and start bossing me around?
- Richard Castle: Well, I don't see it here. You didn't happen to... break the bottle over... something?
- Jeffrey McGuigan: Hey, what is this about? You know, I may have dropped out of Cornell when my company went *public*, but I still know my rights.
- Kate Beckett: That bottle that you purchased might have been used to commit murder. So unless you wanna learn your Miranda rights, you better quit stalling and show us where it is.
- Jeffrey McGuigan: Yeah, okay, cool. I'm not stalling.
- Kate Beckett: Great.
- Jeffrey McGuigan: Yeah.
- [Jeffrey goes to retrieve the bottle from the trash bin]
- Richard Castle: You were throwing it out?
- Jeffrey McGuigan: It's in the blue bucket. I recycle.
- [Jeffrey hands over the bottle; Castle takes it gingerly in a handkerchief]
- Kate Beckett: Well, it's still *intact*... Unless a sliver of glass came out when it hit.
- Jeffrey McGuigan: Man, nobody hit anybody.
- Richard Castle: Yes, well, keep mixing root beer with fine Scotch, that may change.
- [seeing Alexis and her goth friend Gracie leaving the precinct]
- Kate Beckett: Wow. I remember that phase. That's about when I got my tattoo.
- Richard Castle: You got... a tattoo? Wh, uh... Where?
- Richard Castle: The East River? A GA chip? Relapsed gambler gets in too deep with his bookie, ends up floating in the drink.
- Kate Beckett: Are you kidding me? You just went from Gambler's Anonymous to mob hit?
- Richard Castle: This is the most celebrated body depository this side of the Jersey Wetlands. Mark my words, this guy has mob ties. Case closed!
- [Castle turns to leave, high fiving a patrol cop; cut to the precinct]
- Javier Esposito: [handing over Donnie's file] No mob ties.
- Richard Castle: Are you sure?
- [Esposito stares daggers at him]
- Richard Castle: Good work.
- Lanie Parish: Same glass, but the shard in Donny's head is way too big to have come from this bottle.
- Richard Castle: Which means it can't be the only remaining bottle in the world.
- Kate Beckett: Clearly... not.
- Richard Castle: [swabbing the bottle with a Q-tip and inhaling the aroma] Which means I still have a shot at getting a taste.
- Kate Beckett: Which means that Donny came across a second bottle.
- Richard Castle: Yeah, upside his head.
- Kate Beckett: There's got to be 100 bottles of Scotch on these walls.
- Richard Castle: Take one down and pass it around.
- [offering Castle one of the old bottles of Scotch that were found]
- Captain Roy Montgomery: This is early Christmas, baby!
- Richard Castle: [choking up] I was not expecting this.
- Javier Esposito: Are you crying?
- Richard Castle: Yes. I don't know what to say.
- Kate Beckett: Try, "Let me get my checkbook."
- Richard Castle: Yes. Of course, of course. But I... I will only accept this if you all share it with me.
- Captain Roy Montgomery: [holding up a glass] Twist my arm.
- Richard Castle: No, not here. Um... At the Old Haunt. We will toast to Donny with his family.
- Kevin Ryan: Yeah, wh-wh-what ab... what about that place? What happens to The Old Haunt?
- Javier Esposito: It's gonna go back to the bank. Which means that TJ McChucklenuts is gonna get another shot at it.
- Richard Castle: Oh, I wouldn't worry about The Old Haunt.
- Kate Beckett: You bought it, didn't you?
- [last lines]
- Richard Castle: So, you joining us?
- Kate Beckett: You know, I'd love to. It's late and I've got a lot of paperwork.
- Richard Castle: [checking his watch] It's nine o'clock on a Saturday.
- Javier Esposito: [checking his own] It's 9:15, actually.
- Richard Castle: [singing] The regular crowd shuffles in.
- Kevin Ryan: [joining in] There's an old man sitting next to me.
- Javier Esposito, Captain Roy Montgomery: [joining in, as well] Making love to his tonic and gin.
- [they all look at Beckett expectantly]
- Kate Beckett: [giving in] He said "Son, can you play me a memory? I'm not really sure how it goes."
- Richard Castle, Kate Beckett, Javier Esposito, Kevin Ryan, Captain Roy Montgomery: [leaving together] But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete, when I wore a younger man's clothes. Sing us a song, you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody...
- Richard Castle: Maybe somebody marched Donny at gunpoint down to the river and killed him there.
- Kate Beckett: If the killer had a gun, why would he use a bottle?
- Kate Beckett: Don't ruin my story with your logic.
- Javier Esposito: According to his fingerprints, his name is Donald Hayes, Navy veteran, served in Desert Storm, and he's been a dock worker since '94.
- Kevin Ryan: Somehow still employed as one. Our victim, *Donny* Hayes, currently clocked in and on duty at the East Side docks.
- Richard Castle: Which either means he's an incredibly dedicated zombie...
- Kate Beckett: Or he's a suspect in our murder.
- Richard Castle: So... this piece of *crap* we're looking for, Magoo, is a priceless red bottle of Scotch.
- Jeffrey McGuigan: Yeah, it had a price, all right. Though it was pretty tasty.
- Richard Castle: [insulted] Tasty? You describe a 135-year-old bottle of Scotch as... "tasty"?
- Jeffrey McGuigan: I mean, you know, after I mixed in a little root beer.
- [Alexis joins Martha at the counter where Castle is mixing drinks]
- Alexis Castle: [sadly] I need a drink.
- [Castle looks at her in disbelief]
- Alexis Castle: H-two-O. Dirty.
- Richard Castle: Tap water it is.