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Castle: Do you do drugs?
Alexis: No.
Castle: Are you sure? Cause you can tell me.
Alexis: Dad, am I lethargic and uncharacteristically irritable?
Castle: No.
Alexis: Are my eyes bloodshot for no apparent reason?
Castle: No. Except when you're sick
Alexis: That's an apparent reason.
Castle: Right.
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Castle: What's the class?
Martha: Introduction to life coaching. It's always been my desire to make a difference, whether on stage or off. And I have had cards made.
Castle: It says here I'm your client.
Martha: Well of course you are, haven't I been telling you what to do your entire life?
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Castle: Reading the paper? You are going to lose all of your wired teen hyper texting nano gizmo street cred.
Alexis: I'm a rebel. I like it old school.
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Beckett: So why the burial at sea?
Castle: The vikings believed that if you wanted to reach Valhalla you needed a vessel.
Beckett: Gun-toting viking? That's your theory?
Castle: No no no, they also launched their dead with a sacrificial woman... and some booze... and a good horse.
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Castle: Who was murdered and... was it gruesome?
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Alexis: (about Martha) Dad c'mon, be a little more supportive, she's trying... to help people.
Castle: Yeah, to my liquor cabinet.
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Beckett: Whoever staged Max's suicide wanted us to believe that he killed himself out of guilt over shooting Donny, which makes me think Max didn't kill Donny after all.
Castle: The other kids corroborated Romy's story that Max pulled the trigger.
Beckett: I didn't say he didn't shoot him. I said he didn't kill him.
Castle: Is that a Zen kōan one hand clapping thing?
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Castle: Did you know in the original Greek, 'tragedy' literally means 'goat song'? I know, doesn't make any sense to me either, but whatever that first story was, I can't help but think, bad things must have happened to that goat…
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Capt. Montgomery: You gotta be kidding me. I already told the brass that we got the guy.
Castle: I can see how that would be a little awkward.
Capt. Montgomery: The Mayor even called to thank me... he's in for the Knicks game by the way.
Castle: Sweet!