- [Esposito and Castle are watching a sex video to verify a suspect's alibi]
- Captain Victoria Gates: This is inappropriate workplace behavior.
- Javier Esposito: This is evidence, sir. Our suspect's alibi hinges on this.
- Captain Victoria Gates: Oh...
- [watches video]
- Captain Victoria Gates: Oh!
- Kate Beckett: [approaching] So, does his story pan out?
- Javier Esposito: Yeah. It seems like he's covered for the entire time-of-death window.
- Captain Victoria Gates: I hope you're not going on the time-stamp on this video.
- [to camera]
- Captain Victoria Gates: That could be faked, you know.
- Kate Beckett: It's not the only thing on this video being faked.
- Richard Castle: Come on, what's the big deal? It'll be fun.
- Kate Beckett: Look, Castle, what we do here, this is... mine. And just because they wanna invade my privacy, it doesn't mean that I have to help them do it.
- Richard Castle: Okay, well, that may be, but... these cameras, they're not going anywhere. They're gonna see something. I just want them to see what I see.
- Kate Beckett: [Seeing a guitar with blood on it] So, that's the murder weapon.
- Richard Castle: Mmmm. It's a Gibson Les Paul. '59 flame top, if I'm not mistaken. And I'm... rarely mistaken.
- [Playing to the camera, he smiles then drinks from his coffee cup. He almost chokes and takes a painful breath, whispering]
- Richard Castle: It's hot.
- [Ryan and Esposito come in with a suspect]
- Kate Beckett: Hey, is that our stalker?
- Javier Esposito: Ex-stalker. He won't be seeing daylight any time soon.
- Kevin Ryan: Uh, LT, could you please take him to the interrogation room? Thank you.
- Javier Esposito: [to camera] You should watch from observation while I tear this guy apart.
- Kate Beckett: So, uh, we like this guy?
- Kevin Ryan: We found blood-stained overalls in his van. We sent 'em to be tested to see if they match the blood from our vic.
- Javier Esposito: Oh, they *match*. Trust me, bro.
- [to camera]
- Javier Esposito: You don't have to worry about this creep hurting anyone ever again. That's a gift from me to you. You're welcome, America.
- [after interviewing Sam Spear who was writing new music for James Swan, the victim]
- Richard Castle: Taking the music in a new direction but he didn't want the rest of the band to know... Of course. Swan was going solo.
- Javier Esposito: Makes sense. The director said that Swan was the creative force behind the group, that if he left the band they would flounder.
- Richard Castle: What if one of the other members found out and confronted him?
- Javier Esposito: They argued, and things got ugly.
- Richard Castle: Right. He wasn't about to stay. And they weren't about to let him play George Michael to their Andrew Ridgeley.
- Javier Esposito: Andrew who?
- Richard Castle: Exactly. So they pick up a guitar
- [to camera]
- Richard Castle: and wham!
- [Sam plays a dramatic chord to emphasize Castle's point. Castle and Esposito look over at him]
- Sam Spear: It's what I do.
- Richard Castle: [to Esposito] That's not bad.
- Javier Esposito: It gives it weight.
- [after being caught as the person who killed the victim by hitting him with a guitar]
- Zeke: Do you know what it's like to play all those *crappy* street fairs, living on nothing but Ramen noodles, sleeping in a van for 14 months? And then he calls me to his trailer after the show and tells me that *I'm* out? I admit, I might not be the world's greatest bass player. But...
- Richard Castle: No, but you sure can handle a guitar.
- Zeke: Oh, come on, man! I didn't mean to kill him! We're finally about to hit it big and he wants to Pete Best *me*? For some *roadie*? I just... Oh! I just *lost* it! Ahhh! God! No!
- Richard Castle: [whispers to the camera] You know, Pete Best was a drummer. I think Stu Sutcliffe would have been a more apt comparison.
- Richard Castle: [arriving at the crime scene and playing to the cameras] Richard Castle, novelist. My latest, "Frozen Heat", in stores now. Have you met, uh, Nikki Heat's inspiration, Detective Beckett?
- Kate Beckett: [hiding her face with her coffee cup] Lanie, what else do we know?
- [last lines]
- [Giving a 'come hither' motion with her finger to the camera man, and leading him down the halls and around corners]
- Kate Beckett: Come here. Come on... Look, I know I'm not the easiest person on the planet to get to know, but you guys have been patient, and I've got something to show you. It's a secret. Actually, Castle doesn't even know about it. It's, it's this place that I love to go to. And once you see it, I think you guys will understand me a whole lot better.
- [She opens a door and motions him inside]
- Kate Beckett: Go ahead. All the way in the back.
- [It's a supply cabinet. The camera swings around in time to see Beckett stick out her tongue and then close the door and lock it]
- Cameraman: [Off camera] Heeeyyy! Hey!
- Captain Victoria Gates: Hey, are we close on locating Campbell?
- Kevin Ryan: Well, his picture is out to all patrol cars citywide, and I've sent his photograph to all the hotels in our database.
- Javier Esposito: Yeah, but the trouble is he uses aliases in order to stay off the DEA's radar.
- Captain Victoria Gates: Well, why's the DEA interested in him?
- Kevin Ryan: The Church of Worldly Enlightenment isn't just your friendly neighborhood cult. It's also a twenty-acre pot farm, run by the 300-plus members, all for Campbell's personal profit.
- Captain Victoria Gates: Why don't the feds shut him down?
- Kevin Ryan: They've tried. Something about freedom of religious expression.
- Keith: Yo, here it is.
- Zeke: What?
- Keith: The review from last night's show.
- Billy Bash: Do we want to hear it?
- Keith: Only if you like being called the next Nirvana.
- Billy Bash: Yeah, right.
- Zeke: [reading the review] Dude, he's not kidding. "Holy Shemp's future is now. They're about to explode just like one of singer Keith Blue's signature screams."
- Keith: [screams] *Yeah*!
- [the band cheers]
- Billy Bash: Did you hear that? We're taking off, baby!
- Keith: Hey, hey, where's James? They're comparing him to The Edge.
- Kate Beckett: Lanie's got something she wants us to see.
- Richard Castle: [to camera] Lanie? Who's Lanie?
- [he gives Beckett a look urging her to play to the camera]
- Kate Beckett: [awkwardly] Uh... Lanie is our medical examiner and she works at the morgue. And she's got information that she wants us to see and we are keeping her waiting.
- [leaves quickly]
- Kevin Ryan: [to camera] Still a little stiff.
- Richard Castle: It's early. She could tighten that up. But she's getting better.
- Richard Castle: [to the camera] You know, Detective Beckett is not an unfriendly person. She's just got walls. Just, let's call them... layers. Layers upon layers of... uh, well, walls. But once you *scale* those walls, the effort is worth it.
- Javier Esposito: [whispering] Castle, keep your voice down please. All right? I've already had one guy bolt on me today. Element of surprise is key. See, I can be circumspect. Folks would be lost without me.
- Richard Castle: [laughing to the camera] He went the wrong way.
- Caroline: I was a kid... Drifting. Campbell promised me meaning... a spiritual focus. But in return he took away everything.
- Kate Beckett: Caroline, are you worried about these cameras? 'Cause if you wanna have them gone...
- Caroline: No. Mmm-mmm... I want the world to know what a monster this man is.
- [first lines]
- Sound Technician: Testing. Testing. One, two, three. Testing.