Quotes
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John Raglan : [Beckett has brought Castle to their meet] Lady, what part of "no cops" didn't you understand?
Kate Beckett : He's not a cop.
John Raglan : Well, who the hell is he, then?
Kate Beckett : He's someone I trust.
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[first lines]
Kate Beckett : [answers phone] Beckett.
John Raglan : [on phone] Detective Beckett?
Kate Beckett : Yeah.
John Raglan : This is John Raglan.
[pause]
John Raglan : I was lead investigator on your mother's homicide twelve years ago.
Kate Beckett : I remember you, Detective Raglan.
John Raglan : Listen, I... We need to talk, about your mother's case. There's something you don't know. There's a coffee shop at 4th and Main. Meet me there in an hour. Just you. No cops.
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[Beckett and Castle meet Ragland at a coffee shop]
Kate Beckett : Tell me what I don't know about my mom's murder.
John Raglan : Everybody drinks their coffee out of cardboard cups these days. Or those plastic travel mugs. But there's... There's something about the way ceramic warms your hands that...
[laughs]
John Raglan : It's weird...
[coninue laughter]
John Raglan : the things you notice. I just got the long face from the doc. Lymphoma... Six months.
Kate Beckett : Sorry to hear about that.
John Raglan : [sighs] Every year around the holidays, they-they run that "Christmas Carol" on local TV. When I was a kid, I remember Jacob Marley scared the *hell* out of me... forced to drag that-that chain around in the next world.
Richard Castle : "I wore the chain I forged in life."
John Raglan : "I made it link by link."
[pause]
John Raglan : I hid a lot of sins behind my badge... and now I gotta carry 'em. But your mother's case, that one weighs a ton.
Kate Beckett : Why? Because you wrote it off as random gang violence when you *knew* it wasn't?
John Raglan : I did what I was told. And I kept quiet... because I was afraid. About a year ago, there was a hostage standoff in your precinct. You killed a hit-man named Dick Coonan. It was a big deal in the papers... People noticed.
Kate Beckett : Who hired Coonan to kill my mom?
John Raglan : You need some context here. This thing started about nineteen years ago, back before I ever knew who Johanna Beckett was. Nineteen years ago, I... I made a bad mistake, and that started the dominoes falling. And one of them was your mother.
[Raglan's shot through his coffee mug]
Kate Beckett : [to the patrons, yelling] Everybody on the ground, now!
[sees bullet hole in window]
Kate Beckett : Back away from the window! Away from the window!
Richard Castle : You're hit.
Kate Beckett : I'm fine. It's not my blood.
