- Kate Beckett: [referring to Alexis] You know, she's got an amazing brain. I mean, if she wanted to, she'd make an incredible lawyer.
- Richard Castle: Yeah, like I don't lose enough arguments to her already. What about you? You ever regret it? Not getting your law degree?
- Kate Beckett: Um, I'd rather take criminals down than send them up.
- Richard Castle: Really?
- Kate Beckett: Mm-hmm.
- Richard Castle: Because with your mind, I bet you could've made Chief Justice. You have all the qualifications. You're smart, you are intimidating, and you look very, very good in a robe.
- Kate Beckett: Wow. Really?
- Richard Castle: Mmm.
- Kate Beckett: Care to take a ten minute recess in my chambers?
- Richard Castle: If it please the court, I would.
- [she laughs and leans in to kiss when her phone rings]
- Kate Beckett: Oh. I think we're gonna need a continuance.
- Richard Castle: Uh, objection.
- Kate Beckett: Overruled.
- [answers phone]
- Kate Beckett: Beckett.
- [Gates has asked Castle to compete in the precinct talent competition, and he nonchalantly signs up Beckett, as well]
- Javier Esposito: Oh, Castle. You really don't think you have a shot at winning that trophy?
- Richard Castle: Oh, I think I have more than just a shot.
- Kate Beckett: Castle.
- Javier Esposito: You do understand that me and Ryan have been rehearsing for months.
- Richard Castle: Well, what Beckett and I have cannot be rehearsed. It's chemistry. The intuitive bond, each person knowing what the other's thinking.
- Kate Beckett: Castle, can we talk for a second over... there?
- Richard Castle: [to Esposito] I knew she was gonna say that.
- [turns and follows Beckett]
- Javier Esposito: Mmm.
- Kate Beckett: Don't you think you should have... asked me before signing me up for this?
- Richard Castle: I thought you were on board. Uh... you were trash-talking Ryan about it before.
- Kate Beckett: Yeah, that's when I thought that there was no chance in hell that we would actually do it.
- Richard Castle: Oh, relax. We'll just do our routine.
- Kate Beckett: We don't have a routine.
- Richard Castle: Come on! That thing in the shower? That is delightful.
- Kate Beckett: No, that's not a routine. That's two naked people singing when there's no one around to see or hear it.
- Richard Castle: So we'll add some dance steps and clothes. It's can't-miss.
- Richard Castle: Look... about the routine, I know you're worried, but...
- Kate Beckett: It's okay, Castle. It doesn't matter what we do.
- Richard Castle: Hey, that's the spirit!
- Kate Beckett: It's gonna be a disaster.
- Richard Castle: That's not the spirit.
- Kate Beckett: I'm probably gonna trip, my dress is gonna split. Video's gonna go viral.
- Richard Castle: Okay, now you're just sounding paranoid. Where is this coming from?
- Kate Beckett: I'm just saying, Castle, it could happen. I mean, there's a reason why Captain Gates doesn't get up on the stage and have fun.
- Richard Castle: I just always assumed it was because she was genetically incapable of it.
- Kate Beckett: Since when do you turn down a challenge?
- Richard Castle: Oh, they know we're better. No sense in embarrassing them.
- Kate Beckett: You know, don't you?
- Richard Castle: Know what?
- Kate Beckett: That's why we got pulled from the line-up. Kimmel's your bud. You must have called him and told him to perform so we wouldn't have to. Or... so that I wouldn't have to.
- Richard Castle: I... may have overheard you talking to my mother.
- Kate Beckett: You did that for me?
- Richard Castle: No more of a sacrifice than what you were gonna do for me. Kate, why wouldn't you just say something?
- Kate Beckett: I didn't want you think less of me, and I really didn't want anyone else to know, so... Stupid.
- Richard Castle: No, not stupid. Just human.
- Kate Beckett: Aren't you disappointed you're not gonna be able to perform for an audience?
- Richard Castle: The only audience I care about is you.
- Kevin Ryan: [chuckles] Well, back in reality, our John Doe was found this morning by sanitation workers. No phone, no wallet.
- Kate Beckett: Cause?
- Lanie Parish: Blunt-force trauma to the back of the head. Probably a pipe or a baseball bat. Based on lividity, I'd say it happened between 12 and 2 a.m. this morning.
- Richard Castle: Any witnesses?
- Javier Esposito: A guy who lives nearby heard screams around 1 a.m. He looked out his window, he saw a car speeding away.
- Kate Beckett: He get a make and model?
- Javier Esposito: Just taillights. But he said it looked like a sports car. Ryan and I are gonna keep looking for witnesses and street cam footage, but it's an industrial area, so coverage is spotty.
- Kate Beckett: Wait a minute. I think I know this guy. He's the personal injury attorney on TV who has those late-night ads.
- Lanie Parish: Oh, my God. You're right! That's, uh...
- Richard Castle, Javier Esposito: The Pitbull.
- Kevin Ryan: The Pitbull?
- Richard Castle: Yeah. Richie "The Pitbull" Falco? Come on, man, you've seen the ads. A guy's head on a dog's body. "You've been in an accident? Take the law by the tail."
- Lanie Parish: "And get a bite at the settlement you deserve."
- Kate Beckett: "I'll make the law...
- Kate Beckett, Lanie Parish, Richard Castle, Javier Esposito: ...your bitch."
- [Espo translates something in Spanish]
- Kevin Ryan: Why am I the only one who's never seen this commercial?
- Javier Esposito: Because it comes on late at night. And when you're not moonlighting, your honeymilk-sipping ass is in bed by ten.
- [last lines]
- [Castle and Beckett singing Got You Under My Skin in the shower]
- Richard Castle: '"Don't you know, little fool, you never can win?'
- Kate Beckett: "Use your mentality"
- Richard Castle: "wake up to reality"
- Kate Beckett: "But each time that I do just the thought of you"
- Richard Castle: "Makes me stop before I begin"
- Richard Castle, Kate Beckett: "'Cause I've got you under my skin"
- Kate Beckett: Oh.