Castle (TV Series)

Cops & Robbers (2011)

Stana Katic: Kate Beckett

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• Trapper John : [answers phone]  Where's my bus?

  Kate Beckett : The bus is on its way. It'll be there in twenty minutes.

  Trapper John : The hostages will be dead in two.

  Kate Beckett : No, nobody needs to die. Okay? It's coming. It's just, it's stuck in traffic.

  Trapper John : We have *rules*, Kate. I said I wouldn't kill anyone. You said you'd get me a bus. I lived up to my end of the deal.

  Kate Beckett : And I'm gonna live up to mine in just...

  Trapper John : I warned you not to jerk me around. Now, I was clear about the consequences. Do I have to prove how serious I am? Is that it?

  Kate Beckett : Okay, I-I think we both just need to take a deep breath and we can talk about...

  Trapper John : I'm done talking!

  [Trapper turns and fires his gun towards Castle] 

  Kate Beckett : What was that?

  [cut to a desktop computer smokes from the gunshot] 

  Trapper John : A warning shot, Kate. The next one's for the kill!

  [Trapper makes his way towards Castle] 

  Martha Rodgers : Don't you touch him, you son-of-a-bitch!

  Richard Castle : No, no! Davenport, hold her back! I got this.

  Trapper John : [cocking his gun]  I'm gonna make pretty red stains out of your boyfriend, Kate. I got my gun to his throat, and I'm gonna paint a Jackson Pollock with his insides!

  Captain Peterson : You need to calm him down.

  Kate Beckett : Listen to me, jackass, I do not control traffic. So you're gonna have to give me 20 minutes.

  Trapper John : Now you've got one minute, Kate.

  Kate Beckett : No! I've got 20. Do you hear me? Twenty. Because if you pull that trigger, I will walk through those doors and personally put a bullet through you skull.

  Trapper John : [after a tense moment, he lowers his gun]  Okay, Kate, you got 20 more minutes.

  Captain Peterson : Well, that's one way to negotiate.

• Kate Beckett : [answers phone]  What do you want, Castle?

  Richard Castle : Tell me you need me.

  Kate Beckett : Excuse me?

  Richard Castle : I'm stuck in a bank helping my mother get a loan from my banker. Please tell me that there's a murder somewhere we could be solving.

  Kate Beckett : Uh, sorry, there's no dead bodies, just a lot of paperwork, but you're welcome to come and do your share, for once.

  Richard Castle : Only thing worse than being here is being there doing paperwork.

  Kate Beckett : You know, how come we're partners when I'm chasing down bad guys, and as soon as there's paperwork, I'm on a solo mission?

  [Castle is distracted having noticed suspicious people in hospital scrubs enter the bank] 

  Richard Castle : Hmm.

  Kate Beckett : What?

  Richard Castle : I think this bank is about to be robbed.

  Kate Beckett : Really? Are you that bored?

  Richard Castle : There's a man and a woman here, dressed in scrubs, and both of them have suspicious bulges in their jackets.

  Kate Beckett : Castle, I think your writer's imagination is getting away with you.

  [a third man enters the bank, locks the door and turns around with a gun] 

  Dr. Howser : Everybody get down on the floor!

  Richard Castle : [softly]  It's not my imagination. It's definitely not my imagination.

• Kate Beckett : Esposito, there's a 10-30, New Amsterdam Bank and Trust on Lex. Call Dispatch!

  Kevin Ryan : 10-30? Since when are we handling bank robbery calls?

  Kate Beckett : Castle's there.

• Kate Beckett : Castle!

  Richard Castle : Beckett?

  [seeing the hostages are all okay] 

  Richard Castle : They're here!

  Richard Castle : I told you. Huh?

  Kate Beckett : Oh, my God!

  [knells down in front of a bound Castle] 

  Kate Beckett : Here we go. Ready?

  [Beckett cuts Castle's zip tie restraint, and they share a tender look] 

  Kate Beckett : Okay. How are you?

  Martha Rodgers : He's not the only one here, you know.

• [last lines] 

  [Beckett hands Castle a glass of wine] 

  Richard Castle : Ah! Thank you. And I didn't get a chance to properly thank you for saving my life.

  Kate Beckett : Oh, there's no need, Castle. We're partners. It's what we do.

  Richard Castle : Yes, some of us more than others, of course.

  Kate Beckett : Wait, what is that supposed to mean?

  Richard Castle : Only that this is the eighth time you've saved my life, and I've saved your life nine times.

  Kate Beckett : Okay, first of all, I can't even believe that you're keeping score. And secondly, there is no way that you've saved my life more than I have yours. Nine? Please.

  Richard Castle : Well, let's review, shall we? The first time, I distracted that mad gunman with the champagne bottle. And yes, that was a save. Even you admitted it. The second time, the, um, serial killer put a bomb in your kitchen while you were taking a shower. I had to brave the hellish flames to pull you out of your bathtub. *Won't* be forgetting that any time soon.

• Kate Beckett : [on phone]  Castle, I need you to listen very carefully. How many are there?

  Richard Castle : There are... three.

  [a gun is cocked behind his head] 

  Richard Castle : Make that four.

  Trapper John : So you're the hero I'm gonna make an example of.

  [John takes Castle's phone] 

  Trapper John : [to Beckett on phone]  Sorry, your friend can't talk right now.

  Kate Beckett : I wouldn't worry about him. I'd worry about yourself. I've got squad cars on their way.

  Trapper John : You a cop?

  [to Castle] 

  Trapper John : You called a cop?

  Richard Castle : No, I, uh, we were already on the line when you guys came in.

  Kate Beckett : Listen to me, so far, nobody has been hurt and nothing has been stolen. So if you just leave the same way that you came in, you can just disappear.

  Trapper John : [to Beckett on phone]  You gonna promise not to come look for me?

  Kate Beckett : I don't look, I hunt. And trust me, you don't want that. So leave now, and this will just be a quirky little article in the Metro section.

  [pause, as John considers it] 

  Trapper John : Sorry, sweetheart, I'd rather make the front page.

  [hangs up] 

• Richard Castle : Even as a *hostage*, I help you solve murders. Beckett, I think... I think you have the perfect partner.

  Kate Beckett : [laughing]  Yeah, except he doesn't like doing paperwork.

  Richard Castle : Touché.

• Kate Beckett : [on phone]  This is Detective Kate Beckett. I understand that you wanted to speak with me.

  Trapper John : Yeah, I don't like that other guy.

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, me either.

  Kate Beckett : [to Peterson with mike covered]  You said to build a rapport.

• Richard Castle : Okay, so he uses his military connections to hire that team of mercenaries in the bank. And then to avoid loose ends, Ron rigged the C-4 to blow early.

  Javier Esposito : Talk about cold-blooded.

  Kate Beckett : And he did all of this just for the contents of Agnes' safety-deposit box? Castle, you said that there were photos and letters in there, right?

  Richard Castle : Yeah. Trapper John must have given them to Ron when he was being escorted back from the restroom. Because right after *that*, he faked a seizure and was let go.

  Kate Beckett : But why? I mean, what was so special about his former mother-in-law's safety-deposit box?

  Richard Castle : Former mother-in-law?

  Javier Esposito : Yeah, Ron was married to Agnes' daughter, Tanya. Both her and her son, Connor, were killed in a boating accident about a year ago.

  Richard Castle : No, no, Ron spoke about Connor, and he did not speak about him like he was dead. Connor is still alive.

  Javier Esposito : Well, I don't know what to tell you, Castle, it says right here Connor's dead.

  Kevin Ryan : I'm not so sure about that. Turns out that neither his wife, Tanya, nor Connor's body was ever recovered.

  Richard Castle : Why would the wife fake their deaths?

  Kevin Ryan : Domestic abuse. However, Ron had the connections and the wealth to avoid prosecution.

  Richard Castle : So the system failed her. She and Connor couldn't escape Ron's abuse, so she faked their deaths and disappeared.

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, but to disappear, she had to walk away from her former life.

  Richard Castle : Sever ties with everything and everyone she ever knew.

  Kate Beckett : Except she couldn't, especially with her mom, Agnes.

  Richard Castle : Which is what the safety-deposit box was for. It's a means of communication. It's like a Cold War drop box in some John le Carré novel. Only... Tanya wouldn't be able to risk making the drops. So who would make the drops for her?

  Kevin Ryan : Our mystery man, who was posing as Agnes' dead husband. He was Tanya's middleman.

  Kate Beckett : Okay, so Tanya sends the photos and the letters to the middleman. The middleman puts them in the safety-deposit box for Agnes. The box serves as a mailbox.

  Richard Castle : Only it's better than a mailbox 'cause it's locked up inside a bank.

  Kevin Ryan : Ron must have suspected that they fake their deaths, and that's when he bugged Agnes' home.

  Javier Esposito : And when Ron found out about the box, he killed Agnes for the key.

  Richard Castle : Right, and with the clock ticking, he hired that crew to stage the bank robbery to get to the box with that key.

  Kate Beckett : You know, those photos and letters will say exactly where his wife and son are hiding. He's on his way there now, and we know what he's gonna do once he gets there.

  Richard Castle : He's gonna kidnap his son and kill his wife.

• Captain Peterson : Who are you?

  Kate Beckett : Detective Kate Beckett, Homicide.

  Captain Peterson : I'll be sure to call you if someone dies. Meanwhile, I need you to step outside...

  Kate Beckett : No, sir, my partner is in that bank.

  Captain Peterson : Wait, we got a cop in there?

  Kate Beckett : He's a civilian investigator. He and I were on the phone when they took over the bank. He said that there's four suspects in there. They're dressed up in doctors' scrubs.

  Captain Peterson : Anything else you can tell me?

  Kate Beckett : Yeah, I spoke with one of the suspects.

  Captain Peterson : Okay, what was his demeanor?

  Kate Beckett : Calm, actually, very calm.

  Captain Peterson : Thanks for the intel, we'll do everything we can to get your partner out safe.

  Kate Beckett : Okay, so what's our next move?

  Captain Peterson : Well, your next move is to leave my command post.

  [Beckett opens her mouth to argue] 

  Captain Peterson : You want to help your partner, let me do my job.

• Kate Beckett : Why didn't he ask me for something?

  Captain John Davis : What?

  Kate Beckett : Sir... he gave me twenty minutes and he didn't ask for anything in return. If he wanted to maintain control, he would have *asked* for something. I mean, this is all way too easy.

  Captain John Davis : Take the win, detective.

  Kate Beckett : No, sir, something is going on, we're just not asking the right questions.

• Kate Beckett : Sir, what happened to the robbers?

  Captain Peterson : They're dead. They blew themselves up.

  Kate Beckett : What?

  Captain Peterson : Apparently, the C-4 was part of the exit strategy. They blasted a hole straight through the bottom of the vault and opened the ceiling on an abandoned subway station below. Smart plan, if they didn't screw it up. They must've triggered the explosion before they took cover and they killed themselves.

  Martha Rodgers : Oh!

  Richard Castle : It's not possible. C-4, it's a very stable explosive. It wouldn't go off accidentally, and these guys were not dime-store bandits. They were trained. They were military precision. They-They wouldn't set off an explosion prematurely.

  Captain Peterson : Really? I got an assortment of body parts that tells me they did.

• Kate Beckett : Father McCaskey, I'm Detective Kate Beckett, this is Richard Castle. We need to know where Tanya and Connor Brandt are hiding.

  Father McCaskey : I don't know what you're talking about. Tanya and Connor have been dead for over a year.

  Richard Castle : Father, you don't understand. Agnes Fields has been murdered. Ron Brandt has the contents of her safe-deposit box. He's on his way to them now.

  Father McCaskey : What? How could this happen? That box was there to protect them.

  Kate Beckett : It didn't, Father, but we can. We need to know their address.

  Father McCaskey : Of course. 14 Cascadilla Street, Ithaca.

  Richard Castle : Ithaca. That's only four hours away. Ron could already be there by now.

• Captain Peterson : Really? What would a safe-deposit box have to do with anything?

  Kate Beckett : I don't know, but if Castle went to the trouble of sending that message, it means something.

  Captain Peterson : How do you know it's him?

  Kate Beckett : Trust me, it's him.