"Castle" Suicide Squeeze (TV Episode 2010) - Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle

[after Beckett and Castle finish questioning a suspect]

Captain Roy Montgomery : Well?

Kate Beckett : We'll check his alibi, but my gut tells me it's not him.

Richard Castle : We should get a warrant, run his subscribers against any hate mail that the Vegas might have gotten.

Captain Roy Montgomery : You sure you got no cop in the Castle family tree?

Richard Castle : No, us Castles are mostly con artists and circus folk, sir.

Captain Roy Montgomery : No, I think there's a little cop in there somewhere.

[Montgomery leaves, while Beckett and Castle head back to her desk]

Kate Beckett : Con artists and circus people, huh?

Richard Castle : Yep, and mind readers.

Kate Beckett : Really? So tell me what I'm thinking.

[Castle bends over, feigning pain, then puts his fingers to his temple]

Richard Castle : Ahh! Your're... You're thinking... You don't care and you want me to stop talking.

Kate Beckett : Ooh, that's uncanny.

Richard Castle : It's in the blood.

Richard Castle : Did you just use the word "veritable"?

Kate Beckett : Yes, I did.

Richard Castle : Sexy.

Kate Beckett : You should hear me say "fallacious".

[Martha is teaching Alexis to read minds; Castle's phone rings]

Alexis Castle : [putting hand to head and concentraing] That must be Beckett.

Richard Castle : How did you know?

Alexis Castle : [dropping her act] It's after ten... on a weekday. Who else is it gonna be?

Richard Castle : Oh, she is good.

Captain Roy Montgomery : Let's find out why Vega comes back from Cuba and suddenly needs 200 grand.

Kate Beckett : Okay.

Javier Esposito : So where do you want to start?

Kate Beckett : You guys look into Vega's financials, see if we missed anything. Castle and I will start with Cuba.

Richard Castle : Cuba! Good idea. I'll bring the mojitos, you get the beach towels.

Kate Beckett : Oh, I don't know, Castle. Me in a swimsuit under the hot, blistering sun...

Richard Castle : I'd be happy to rub lotion on you.

M.E. Sidney Perlmutter : Cause of death was cerebral hemorrhaging, as expected.

Kate Beckett : Any way to estimate the height of the attacker based on the angle of the blows?

M.E. Sidney Perlmutter : Normally, yes, but in this case your attacker's first swing landed a little south of his head.

Kate Beckett : How far south?

M.E. Sidney Perlmutter : Ehhh... Enough to make him a soprano.

Richard Castle : Oh! Should have worn a cup.

Alexis Castle : Doesn't it bother you that you don't know who your dad is?

Richard Castle : No. Why, does it bother you?

Alexis Castle : It's like... I have this family tree, and there's a whole *chunk* of it missing. There's a whole part of my history that doesn't even exist. I mean, really, how could Gram not know?

Richard Castle : My first year of college, I, uh, went to a party, met this girl Alison. In the space of six hours we met, we talked, we danced, we fell in love. Next morning she was gone. I spent a year trying to find her, but I never learned her last name. There's not a week that goes by I don't think about her. Your Gram told me that she loved a lifetime the night she met him.

Alexis Castle : Don't you feel like you're missing out, not knowing?

Richard Castle : No! Oh, no, that's the beauty of the mystery. Right now, my father could be an astronaut, a pirate, a humanitarian, winner of the Nobel Prize. I mean, what one man could live up to all that?

Alexis Castle : Hey, Dad.

Richard Castle : Hey, Daughter. What are you doing up so late?

Alexis Castle : Waiting for you.

Richard Castle : Did I do something wrong?

Alexis Castle : No. I was just thinking about what you said about your dad. How he could be anything you imagine him to be, an astronaut or a pirate.

Richard Castle : Whipped cream inventor.

Alexis Castle : Or whipped cream inventor. But there's one thing he can't be.

Richard Castle : What's that?

Alexis Castle : A dad. Just a regular dad. Teaching his son how to ride a bike, or helping him with homework, or having a catch. Makes me sad you didn't get to have those things.

Richard Castle : Well... I can't miss what I didn't have.

Alexis Castle : What if you could have it?

Richard Castle : You have a time machine behind the kitchen counter?

Maggie Vega : So, you're Lara?

Kate Beckett : She was born in Cuba right after Mr. Vega defected.

Richard Castle : She's not his girlfriend. She's his daughter.

Maggie Vega : Cano had a daughter?

Lara Blanco : My father didn't know how you would like to have me here. He... he had fear to tell you about me.

[Lara turns to Esposito for help]

Javier Esposito : Its' okay.

[Lara speaks in Spanish]

Javier Esposito : [translating for Lara] She says she knows her father loved you very much, and didn't want to hurt you.

[Lara speaks in Spanish again]

Javier Esposito : [translating for Lara] And that she hoped and he hoped that together you could be a family.

Maggie Vega : [taking Lara's hands] Yo soy Maggie. Mi casa is su casa.

Lara Blanco : [in tears] Thank you.

Bobby Fox : Let me get this straight. An illegal, claiming to be Cano Vega's daughter, after being in this country for less than twenty-four hours, identifies someone who kind of looks like me, from a distance, at night? Well, gee, guys, what am I... What, do I sign my confession right now... or after the big, uh, press conference?

Richard Castle : Now's good.

Richard Castle : [to Alexis] Yes, you come from a long line of hucksters and charlatans, myself included. But we have high hopes for you.

[first lines]

Martha Rodgers : Tell me, Seer... what do I hold in my hand now?

[blindfolded Alexis puts her hands to her head and concentrates]

Alexis Castle : You're holding...

[long pause]

Alexis Castle : A wallet.

Martha Rodgers : Yes! Incredible! Ten out of ten!

Richard Castle : What's going on?

Alexis Castle : [taking off blindfold] Gram's teaching my how to read minds.

[last lines]