Nathan Fillion credited as playing...
Richard Castle
- Javier Esposito: Bro, you have to stop watching these horror films.
- Richard Castle: That same slash of light appeared in the crime-scene photos, okay? In the exact same place--right across my neck. Now it's showing up again in the video feed? That's live feed! That cannot be manipulated!
- Kevin Ryan: Castle, all this stuff about omens and the Antichrist...
- Javier Esposito: You being marked for death...
- Javier Esposito, Kevin Ryan: It's all in your head.
- Richard Castle: Guys...
- Javier Esposito, Kevin Ryan: Look out!
- [Ryan and Esposito pull him back as a piece of mechanical equipment falls from above]
- Richard Castle: You were saying?
- [referring to the hidden safe in his office]
- Richard Castle: If I opened it, I was bound to be disappointed with whatever it was inside. If I *never* opened it, literally anything I imagined could be in there.
- Hayley Shipton: So you chose fantasy over reality.
- Richard Castle: Well, duh.
- Alexis Castle: But we're going to open it now, right?
- Richard Castle: Well, duh.
- [while waiting in the building owned by the wealthy suspect that Castle thinks is the antichrist]
- Richard Castle: Come on, half the city is blacked out, but this place is lit up like a Christmas tree?
- Javier Esposito: The lights probably run on generators.
- Richard Castle: Sure, a thermoelectric generators. Fueled by the flames of Hell.
- Richard Castle: I saw his eyes. It was a demon.
- Kate Beckett: Or someone with night-vision goggles.
- Richard Castle: Beckett, how much proof do you need before you finally accept the fact that your husband has been marked for death!
- Kevin Ryan: Hey, Castle. How you doing, buddy?
- Richard Castle: Well, boys, I looked into the eyes of the devil, so there's that.
- Javier Esposito: Did they check him for a concussion?
- Javier Esposito: You okay?
- Richard Castle: Yeah. You?
- Javier Esposito: Yeah.
- Richard Castle: Good.
- Kevin Ryan: You okay?
- Richard Castle: Yeah, I'm still good. You?
- Kevin Ryan: Yeah, I'm okay.
- Richard Castle: 'Kay.
- Victor Crowne: Now that we know *you're* all okay, can someone untie me?
- [at Peakmore Psychiatric Facility they hear screams in the distance]
- Javier Esposito: Yo, I'd try to escape, too, if I lived here. Who knows what they're doing to 'em back there.
- Richard Castle: Can't be anything worse than what we did historically. Many cultures mistook mental illness for a sign of sorcery. Treatments ranged from, well, prayer to drilling holes in the skull to release the demons.
- Kevin Ryan: Definitely a case of the cure being worse than the disease.
- Richard Castle: Ooh, updating the murder board must mean Holmby's alibi checked out.
- Kevin Ryan: That it did.
- Richard Castle: Yes!
- Kevin Ryan: Really?
- Richard Castle: Come on, I'm just excited to get off the whole orderly thing and on to the trail of the true killer, which is most likely a road paved to hell, because we all know that's where demons come from.
- Kevin Ryan: Well, I will be sure to cross-reference Shaw's visitor against the list of fallen angels, okay?
- Mrs. Kramer: Noah was *shocked* to think that a man he befriended could have hidden such... evil. Noah thought the work they had done together was a mistake and thought it needed to be buried.
- Kevin Ryan: So do you have anything of Shaw's?
- Mrs. Kramer: Oh, no. No, after my husband died, I just couldn't bear going into his office. So I... I hired a company to sell off the furniture and just dump the rest. I told Shaw all of this before he left.
- Kevin Ryan: What time was that?
- Marshall Kramer: Around 5:00.
- Richard Castle: That's still three and a half hours before he met his murderer.
- Kevin Ryan: Yeah. Did he mention anything about where he was going next?
- Mrs. Kramer: No, but he said something in Latin before he walked away.
- Richard Castle: Do you remember what that was? It could be very important.
- Mrs. Kramer: Mmm... Finis omnium... I don't know.
- Marshall Kramer: Nunc est.
- Richard Castle: Finis omnium nunc est.
- Kevin Ryan, Richard Castle: "The end is upon us."
- Richard Castle: Check this out, you guys. Look at this. Billionaire entrepreneur hell-bent on "saving the world" with his water reclamation project? I'm sure.
- Kevin Ryan: Castle, by all accounts, Victor Crowne has helped millions of impoverished people by providing them with clean drinking water.
- Richard Castle: Or is he infecting us with it?
- [seeing a bracelet on Castle, Esposito grabs his wrist]
- Richard Castle: Ow!
- Rollins: Gentlemen, follow me this way, please.
- Javier Esposito: You stole this from the safe to protect yourself?
- Kevin Ryan: Castle!
- Richard Castle: What? You guys have guns.
- Kate Beckett: It was a frayed cable.
- Richard Castle: Yes. Yes, I agree. If by frayed cable, you mean Satan.
- Kate Beckett: Look, Castle, don't take this the wrong way, but you're starting to sound crazy. And not your usual crazy. I mean, next-level nutter.
- [acting like she's possessed, Beckett gives him a scare in the middle of the night]
- Richard Castle: Geez!
- Kate Beckett: [laughing] Gotcha.
- Richard Castle: Not funny, Beckett! I am being targeted by dark forces. I'm serious. I can feel it.
- Kate Beckett: Okay, fine. Can you just feel it in the morning? 'Cause it's late. Let's go to bed.
- Richard Castle: Yeah, give me a few minutes.
- Kate Beckett: All right.
- [picking up what he dropped, he walks a few steps before running into Beckett again]
- Kate Beckett: Boo!
- Richard Castle: Geez!
- Kate Beckett: [laughing] You're so easy.
- Richard Castle: Beckett, listen to me. I looked into the cold, soulless eyes of Victor Crowne, and let me tell you what I saw... Evil.
- Kate Beckett: Well, I looked into the surveillance tapes from Victor Crowne's building, and let me tell you what I saw. Victor Crowne working all night. He never left the building, Castle. He's not our killer.
- Richard Castle: He's not gonna be bound by Earthly laws, Beckett. That's Demon 101.
- Richard Castle: Just to be clear, you really aren't the Antichrist, right?
- Victor Crowne: [laughs] Oh, I love your sense of humor. You saved my life, that means I owe you. So, whatever you want, just ask, it's yours. Okay?
- [shakes Castle's hand]
- Richard Castle: Okay.
- [Crowne winks and smiles as he walks away]
- Richard Castle: Did I just *literally* make a deal with the Devil?
- Lanie Parish: He bled to death from a wound in his left side. My guess is whatever he was stabbed with punctured his subclavian artery. After that, he would've had about thirty minutes to an hour, tops.
- Hayley Shipton: [holding an ax] Mmm. Well, he came in here with this about 9:00 pm. He keeled over shortly thereafter.
- Kate Beckett: So he must've been stabbed between 8:00 and 8:30. There's a... There's a hospital bracelet. Our intruder's name is G. Shaw, and he was a patient at... Peakmore Psychiatric Facility?
- Richard Castle: Yikes.
- Hayley Shipton: You know it?
- Richard Castle: It's a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. Our ax-wielding psycho is an escaped mental patient.
- Lanie Parish: When I conducted the autopsy, I found that the wound had been inflicted by some kind of talon or claw.
- Kevin Ryan: Like an animal?
- Lanie Parish: It gets even weirder. There was a strange substance inside the wound.
- Richard Castle: Let me guess--sulfur?
- Lanie Parish: Yeah, how'd you know?
- Richard Castle: Guys, isn't it obvious? Latin prayers, a claw, sulfur--also known... as brimstone?
- Javier Esposito: [scoffs] Come on, Castle.
- Kate Beckett: Castle, you don't think that...
- Richard Castle: Oh, but I do. We all have our demons. But Gabriel was killed by his.
- Kate Beckett: What did I tell ya? I mean, as soon as the lights go out, bad things happen. You know, at least the precinct is on a backup generator 'cause the rest of the city is gonna have intermittent power. Today's gonna be hell.
- Richard Castle: Well, that's appropriate, since that's the likely place our killer is from. You know, do you think we're gonna need specialized equipment to capture this demon murderer? Something exorcism-esque?
- Kate Beckett: There is nothing supernatural about this case.
- Richard Castle: Our victim was stabbed with a brimstone-covered claw. Or gored by a horn, perhaps. Now what but a demon could do that?
- Kate Beckett: Look, Ryan and Espo are bringing in Dave Holmby, our rogue orderly. And I am sure that they are going to get a very sane and grounded explanation as to why he killed Gabriel Shaw.
- Richard Castle: "Seek the truth and thou shalt be enlightened."
- Kate Beckett: Is that scripture?
- Richard Castle: From the Book of Castle.
- Richard Castle: I know why Shaw came here wielding an ax last night.
- Hayley Shipton: To commit unholy murder on two unbelievably exceptional women?
- Richard Castle: Close, but no.
- Richard Castle: Guys, tell me you're seeing this. A targeted orphan standing to inherit an empire in the center of a religious Armageddon plot? Hello, it's "The Omen"! Shaw believed that Victor Crowne was the Antichrist.
- Alexis Castle: The A... as in...?
- [gestures devil's horns]
- Richard Castle: As in the personification of the Devil. Yes, dear, yes. It... That's why Shaw went after the Crownes. He... He was going after their son.
- Hayley Shipton: Except that was a film.
- [sees Alexis on her phone]
- Hayley Shipton: Please don't tell me you're Googling "the Antichrist" right now.
- Kevin Ryan: No, but, uh, we are interested in this man. Was in here last night?
- [Ryan shows him Shaw's picture]
- Oscar von Eckland: Yeah, around 6:00. Gabriel something. Was looking for my old man.
- Richard Castle: He wanted your father to anoint him with the oil for spiritual battle.
- Oscar von Eckland: How do you know that?
- Javier Esposito: Did you anoint him, Oscar?
- Oscar von Eckland: For fifty bucks, hell yeah I did.
- [sees their expressions]
- Oscar von Eckland: What? He was desperate. So I grabbed one of Pop's old books and I- I whipped up a batch of the anointing oil. And I, uh, wrote some Bible verses on him. It gave him great peace.
- Kevin Ryan: Well, that peace didn't last. The man's dead.
- Oscar von Eckland: Really? What happened to him?
- Richard Castle: He was murdered... by the spawn of Satan.
- Oscar von Eckland: Is he serious?
- Javier Esposito: Very.
