Castle (TV Series)

Secret Santa (2012)

Penny Johnson Jerald: Captain Victoria Gates

Quotes 

• Captain Victoria Gates : [her phone chirps]  Oh! Speaking of people having their homes stolen.

  Kate Beckett : Is that your mother-in-law again, sir?

  Captain Victoria Gates : Detective, if you happen to receive a report of a homicide tonight at my address, do me a favor. Ignore it.

  Kate Beckett : [laughs]  Yes, sir.

• Captain Victoria Gates : There's a Manhattan flight corridor which doesn't require you to radio in if you stay under 1,300 feet. My mother-in-law is a licensed pilot, as she keeps reminding me. Part of a larger effort to make me feel inferior.

  [pause] 

  Captain Victoria Gates : I'm sorry.

  [chuckles] 

  Captain Victoria Gates : Did I just say that out loud?

  Kevin Ryan : Sounds like she's staying with you, Captain?

  Captain Victoria Gates : One day soon, your in-laws will visit, too. And when they do, think hotel. Oh, Lord, I hate the holidays.

  [walks away] 

  Richard Castle : [quietly]  Yet another quality she has in common with the Grinch.

• Captain Victoria Gates : Remember that class-action suit against SunCove Funding?

  Kate Beckett : Yeah.

  Captain Victoria Gates : My contact at the SEC dug these up. SunCove's original Articles of Incorporation, showing the name of the account signatory. Look familiar?

  Kate Beckett : [reading]  "James Edmund Smith." The victim.

  Richard Castle : *Santa* is the shark who bilked those people out of their homes?

  Captain Victoria Gates : He has more blood on his hands than that. Tim Cabot's father died in a car crash. Fell asleep at the wheel working *three* jobs to pay his inflated mortgage, courtesy of Edmund Smith. That was Christmas Eve five years ago.

  Kevin Ryan : The Christmas that Edmund walked out on his life.

  Richard Castle : So... it was a tale of redemption. Edmund moves next door to the family whose lives he destroyed, dedicating his life to repairing theirs. Never telling them who he really is.

  Javier Esposito : But what if Tim found out?

  Richard Castle : Then it's a very different tale.

• Captain Victoria Gates : Mr. Castle, I am on my way uptown to meet my mother-in-law to have tea and those tiny freaking sandwiches. So why don't you just say what's on your mind?

  Richard Castle : I'm just so worried about Detective Beckett. I mean, she work so hard. Don't you think she deserves a little holiday? Isn't there someone else who could take that Christmas Eve shift?

  Captain Victoria Gates : First of all, how I schedule my people is not your concern. And having said that, Detective Beckett volunteered to take the shift.

  Richard Castle : [blindsided by the news]  Uh, when did she do that?

  Captain Victoria Gates : Earlier today, she came to me and asked to take Detective Eldin's shift. He has a family, and she doesn't.

  Richard Castle : Okay, then. Problem solved.