#the squab and the quail

[captainsavre]

The guy won a Macarthur Genius Award. Do you know who they give those awards to? Geniuses. Okay? He's got one company bringing clean water to Africa and another one that might actually cure cancer. So, yes, when you're in a room with him alone, I'm a little jealous. CASTLE - 5.22 The Squab and the Quail

[renegadesstuff]

“Nope, 'cause tonight it's all about me giving you a romantic full-body massage.” 🥹

S5E21, “The Squab and the Quail” aired 11 years ago (April 22, 2013) ❤️

[lifewithaview]

Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic in Castle (2009) The Squab and the Quail

S5E21

As soon as it becomes clear that self-made billionaire Eric Vaughn, even more slick then Castle, was the murder target, not the society dinner companion who was accidentally served his poisoned dish, Vaughn gets the commissioner to assign him the best close protection: Becket. While she dodges flirtation and bullets at their 'safe' hotel suite, jealous Castle is determined to crack the case to get his girlfriend romantically-safe home. The means used by the killer inspire Castle's daring, perhaps too convenient suspicion...

*About a year later, Ioan Gruffudd (Eric Vaughn) began starring in Forever (2014). The series obliquely mirrors Castle and Beckett's partnership in the sense that his character, a civilian, partners with a homicide detective to investigate murders in New York.

[coyohte]

Stana Katic as Kate Beckett | From Castle Season 5x21: The Squab and the Quail

[kineats]

could u do recipes for a raccoon kin? i like to eat a lot of meat!!

i am also a golden retriever kin ,

i dunno if that helps.

Sure thing!! Raccoon Ask #3~

Raccoons love love LOVE eggs and seafood! I'll throw in some bird recipes too~

Raccoon:

Bacon and Egg Cups

Puffball Mushroom Pasta

Mushrooms and Oysters

Ways to Cook Clams (My fiancee has caught raccoons digging them up at local beaches~)

Chinese Fried Squab

Roast Grouse

Salted Duck Eggs

More Duck Egg Recipes

Jammy Eggs

Poached Quail Eggs

Roast Fish Recipes

Grilled Whole Fish

Traditional Scotch Eggs

Retriever:

Peanut Butter Recipes!

Chicken Liver Pate

Garbage Plate (and Another Version)

Cube Steak with Gravy

Beef Tips and Gravy

Thai Peanut Chicken

Lamb and White Bean Chili

Blueberry Carrot Muffins

Fried Apple Rings

Cheddar Bacon "Cookies"

More Savory Cookies

Peanut Butter Cereal Treats

Meatball Soup (or Meatballs in Gravy)

Meatloaf

Babish's "Bachelor Chow" (Video; Imitation Dog Food)

[nikki-rook]

I would rather watch Castle and Beckett on their deathbeds together a hundred times than watch this stupid squab and quail episode

Now, that DOES NOT mean I agree with the stupid ass ending of the show either, but hell it's better than this TORTURE

I do enjoy the quirkier parts of this episode but it isn't enough

[tiny-buzz]

Moving deeper into the “Casino Regis.”

***

Past the table games, past the circuitous gateway to the high-roller mezz, past the newer slots, usually placed in prominent positions, to draw the eye and the ears (you can’t close your ears), and when I say the new ones I’m talking about the glitzy ones, see, the ones with the giant 4K screens, the encircling color wheels that bring you into them, a kid in a cyclotron, a particle in a ferris wheel, making you part of the action, and don’t forget the ones with the licensable characters and celebrity likenesses, those do a good number on the daily, with voices that call out, scream, beg, flirt unknowingly, promise, and cajole — there’s one with Delicious the Alligator, from the 1970s cartoon, a favorite among Gen X, and there’s one with Samantha Boncare, a dreamy-lidded long-dead starlet from the black and white era, reanimated thanks to the miracles of language models and stock photography, watching you with an electric eye, constantly winking, and last, at the tail-end, a giant, ever-shifting dragon, female, again, and flirtatious, again, oddly — you arrive on the perimeter of the casino floor.

His voice, floating over your shoulder, sounding like a chummy backslap: “I hope you brought your appetite.”

Before you, suddenly, inevitably, opens up a pathway to flavor: Cafe R — the R stands for Regis. “The R stands for Ridiculously Good Food,” he interrupts, and he’s not wrong, but the neon says “REGIS” so you understand both to be true. You pass a Romanesque statue that does double-duty as a water feature — you hesitate to call it a fountain in the formal sense — and begin the food experience.

Cafe R is a buffet, with limited table service, mostly as an organizational imperative than a leisure. A plate is pushed, excitedly, into your hands by a passing waitress, flirting without breaking stride.

“When I was growing up in the Bronx, there were a few house rules at meal time. One, chew with your mouth closed. Jesus Mary and Joseph, the ruckus if you chewed with your mouth open, don’t get me started. Now, two, and this one is important: never pair riesling with quail. And three, you always start with soup.”

AND SO the first table is stacked with cauldrons, each bubbling, with soups you recognize by name but don’t recognize by smell, tickling you, beguiling whiffs, memories of previous soups, in simpler times, in smaller cities. You move toward it and past it, counterclockwise around the outside of the cafe.

“For our international patrons, or anyone that likes the tastes of the East, we’ve got wonton, egg drop, and more,” Regis suggests, helpfully. “There are Asian flavors throughout.”

Then the next table: the fish. Salmon, cod, catfish, flounder, carp, some still alive, some only recently departed, chopped into pieces, or fried, or baked, sushi (for the tastes of the East). “I’ve never been a fish guy — even at Notre Dame — but heck, this cafe is for everyone, and fish is cheap. Glory, it’s a cheap, cheap animal. Ever been to the ocean? Fish love the ocean.”

Again, he has a point. But onward to the mains (a demure filet that Regis advises against and so you skip), the removes (you had enough mint in your mouthwash this morning and so skip the lamb) the roasts (you take a little slice of squab then immediately drop your plate; a replacement is pushed into your hands saucily by a rapidly passing waitress), the salad (you scoop crunch kale to bed your new dish), the colds (Regis tells a story about the first time he tried fois gras, and how Kathy Lee started to cry when the waiter explained what it was), and finally, the “Chaos Course.” You espy a lovely looking carbohydrate, and snag it. “That’s a favorite of mine,” Regis pipes up, “because I invented myself. My three favorite things, mixed into one hearty bite, like a sandwich, but don’t call it a sandwich. Presenting: the Chinese bologna loaf.” It is very much what it appears to be.

The last table is a giant pit of mixed nuts. You scoop out a handful and put them in your pocket, for later. And as you step back, you feel like you’ve overlooked something. You glance at your plate: the Chinese bologna loaf sits expectantly.

“I know what you’re saying. I know what you’re saying. Regis, is there anything — anything at all — that could really put some oomph in my eats?” He chuckles. “Well, we’re two steps ahead of you. It’s been there all along. Take a look to your left. Toward where you came in.”

There, at the front, under the neon, is the gleaming — I know, I know, everything in this place gleams, but wow, it is REALLY gleaming — white Roman non-fountain from earlier. Yes, at the front, the entrance, the beginning of it all. You walk over to the fountain, almost afraid — you have strong opinions about moving water. And then (but then?) trumpets, actual trumpets, not from a sound-chip or a directional audio beam, but a waiter, multitalented, flirtatiously trumpets. And with the cue, the heavens open up, the structural cistern gurgles with life. And the water changes. Before you, now, in this world (America) and this life (2023, Regis Weekend, which by the way is extended through Thursday, August 31) you witness a miracle, the water turns to a geyser of cheese.

You are frozen. Who wouldn’t be? What eyes are prepared for this, in a casino, regardless of quality and rating? But like the horn started the change, his voice, clarion, prompts you to action. “Dip your Chinese bologna loaf in the pallid cheddar font for a fun mouth experience,” urges Regis, and you oblige him, and he’s right, he’s right he’s always right. It was what the Chinese bologna loaf was missing — a lacquering of cheezy flavor.

Giggling with satisfaction, you take things a step further. You stick your face in the font. You are born flavor, rivulets of cheese enter your ears and nose and mouth. Lifting your head up, you breathe air that smells like money. The glory (everlasting) and the promise (big prizes at the table games) and the now (Cafe R and the R stands for Cheese) converge on this function: the night still to come.

“Looking cheesy, baby!” says Regis with delight, doing his best sultry Samantha Boncare impersonation, your ear bones vibrating through the melted dairy, which arguably is a better conductor of his voice than unfilled space ever was. “Now, if you’re like me, your belly is full. But what good is a full belly if you’ve got an empty heart?”

Great question. “I promised you both dinner and show. So. Folks: it’s showtime. Onward to the theater.”

[castle-dominion]

castle 5x22 the squab & the quail

hhhhhh this episode reminds me I have work this afternoon screw that. I just prayed an entire rosary so I get to go home early

Ok wow gay servers such a thing, loud chefs, loud expo, GIVE THEM THE GOSHDARN CHIT THO squab & quail DON'T TOUCH THE PLATE LIKE THAT Spray on purpose or...? poison? Ew glass tables

that is a lot of money & pricey af the poison would not work that fast... in a situation like that, point at some SPECIFIC person & tell them to call 911

Girl he's playing a videogame pwned XD he had plans to play with Patel! it's not my mom it's worse XD so true bestie

canadian lol

lmao ew capitalism

clipped the *oof* now

RC: Last supper list. (off their look) You and a table of 12 with anyone from history. What is mine, you ask? I’m glad you did. In order it is, Lincoln, Einstein, Ian Fleming, John Lennon, Joan of Arc, Sinatra – (he notices BECKETT’S face dropping. she sighs) And you, of course. Ok but Joan of Arc MMMMM that smile from ryan XD

at least he holds up a finger nice of him ig HE KNOWS HIS BOOKS

Esposito has returned Lmao ofc it was propped open, u know how hot it gets & how many chefs smoke?

"when you're paying attention" lol

dark hair MAYBE

shouldn't be but it always is RC: Corporate raider shutters a chemical plant and ends up eating crow. Or in this case, poisoned squab. It’s poetic. Diabolically speaking.

Nice outfit on esposito. also ryan. & everyone. Like beckett.

Maybe smth from the carribbean where his family was?

I don't need to clip but Iwill, lanie <3

castle REMEMBERS the menu? maybe ryan just didn't know lol

Lucas, this is the kid who said yes chef & served the plates

Yep all this screaming. I don't want to go to work.

KB: Do you know anyone that would want you dead? Eric Vaugh: No Me: you're a rich capitalist, what are you thinking? he's actually... surprisingly,, considerate

Petra? the indian boy?

PRIVATE security

a heart in the coffee <3 <3 I could clip this but I won't RC: (scoffs) Jealous? (off her amused look) Yes. Yeah he's cool & stuff but I love YOU KB: he is not interested in me VG: hi, he wants u specifically I think it's cool how she wants to recommend specific uniformed officers lol ONLY beckett?

Hit list? clipping this jenny my beloved wow esposito's hair JE: Because at the moment he is stupid drunk. Seeing double. skfjslkdjfsdkfsj RC: To make him the best damn cup of coffee he’s ever had.

He did a background check? good afternoon <3 David Anderson (the attorney): If he gives you any trouble we can put him on investor conference calls all day.

Saxiphone Lanie my beloved freebie five?

Talented researcher bro Beckett's turtleneck <3

I like her outfit & esposito looks kind of boring but nice & ryan looks beautiful I recognize her tbh the room is too dark. The other room needs to be darker for the glass to work

castle rattling the door what is even..?? XD XD XD RC: Okay, so after two cups of coffee, a latte, and three espressos our homeless friend Mr. Hazelton over there finally sobered up. yk i'm clipping

nice transition into the building them walking, rly good

Oof right in the head like that...

OH YES THEY REMEMBERED THE ALLERGY THEY GAVE HIM IN S1 HECK YEAH KR: I’ll live, unlike Cory Harrison. Ok that reminds me, in the The Ring episode, ther was no forced entry for the first vic, they never solved that

Ey beckett is here VG: You and the boys can go back there Mr. Castle. Why kill the busboy after getting him to kill someone else? using one murder to cover up another?

Just like my mom. She trusts me, but not the ppl I'm around castle chill

RC: Let’s get to that restaurant and get some answers. CASTLE leads the way out the door but RYAN and ESPOSITO don’t follow him. They head for their desks. RC: Seriously, guys. I mean it.

is this the same hotel they used in LA?

Sussman? gun ok yeah valid but ew she's right Ooh! Thank you sir! the essential lol, booze & a pretty girl

*hits himself in the eye* you know during The Thing, she coud have said "we were that close because he did a dumb" but the champagne was already poured so it would not have been a good excuse *update* yeah castle visits the hotel at some point after champagne before The Thing

Ooooof, legit? This is new york!

She is going to reveal that!?!? not too much tho ooh architecture! You patented that? I mean,,, you have a reason,, but make it free too bro I have suffered for it XD

Gates is so pretty castle not knowing how to do stuff & ryan doing it for him jashsjdfkjsfdh also castle investigator moments, gates is probably impressed what's on his neck? KB: Oh my gosh. You’re sounding like my dad dropping me off at summer camp. Remember petra tho? JEALOUSY

Tory jdsfdsjflkh I love her See? I mentioned the neck THE PRESCHOOL I was right! POSSIBLE match

Apple XD & alexis <3 Castle don't yell at your daughter MARTHA NOT THE RIGHT THING TO SAY & alexis' shirt martha is sort of right but GIRL SHUP

Wait they said ballistics would take a few hours, why are they still at work? why is CASTLE home? He would be the one to stay as long as possible! why didn't they text the photo last time? JE: Yep. He’s a match for height, age, and placement of creepy neck tattoo.

He really is a charmer except for one thing: why won't you sleep with me? Well you could CALL castle & ask his permission... say "hey I want to sleep with him but I LOVE you & I want your permission, because I respect you & if you say no then I will not" & that might actually be the thing to drive castle to say yes bc she trusts him & loves him & will always come back to him even if she sleeps with this guy. & also castle would be able to say she slept with eric vaughn & still chose me

He dead?

Castle <3 lol she's right KB: Yeah, preferably one without windows that snipers can't shoot through.

KR: Hey Beckett, I hate to do this to you, but I need to take your statement. *taps his notebook* Beckett could have said "actually if he was there I must have been a bit farther back" also it's cool how dever gets to wear his wedding ring (with duplicates of it) on camera bc his character is canonically married. & ryan's wife's actress is married to ryan's actor. Cool af. KR: Right … (he moves to where she gestures) … here. *He looks up and realizes he’s right in BECKETT’S space. He backs up a bit and looks to the hole in the window.* *almost clocks her in the jaw* stumbled you say. ryan taking it down as if he believes her yk rly sus, eats the wrong food, stumbles at the shot, sounds like he knew what was going on. KB: He kissed me castle KR: I'M DONE HERE *leaves*

RC: Well, if he kissed you, why wouldn’t you just push him away? KB: RC: Oh. Which is why he’s not dead.

She's from a farming family? She's a lead researcher. I'm proud of her. Why else would he want toxin? Oh. nvm. rival lab. AFTER the drop? No deposit fee? I would say "one quarter now to know you're good, I give you what you want, the remainder after" or smth.

Going on a tour! WAIT WHAT? HE AUTHORIZED IT? mexicali? she believes him too much girl that's exactly how they make money.

RC: Oh Beckett. That’s what they said about Bernie Madoff. Like Madoff, it’s quite possible Vaughn’s entire empire is a house of cards. If Felder was going to visit MexiSolar he would have found out about the scam. The house of cards would collapse. Eric Vaughn couldn’t have that. And what better way to get away with murder than to make yourself look to be the intended target? Don’t you see? This entire thing is a charade.

RC: Of all the confessions over all the years, this one is going to hold a special place in my heart. the universe demands why not get ryan or esposito?

Right, he doesn't actually look at the things he signs, he doesn't oversee the day-to-day... that's how you become a billionaire. He would NOT have JUST ONE person overseeing, he would delegate. it's like when you're a chef, if you own the place you don't cook. If you are a manager you don't line cook. You delegate to your test kitchen manager, your individual establishment managers, they delegate to their sous chefs & chefs to parties, there is not (usuall) one person who owns the place & then delegates to a single manager, they would delegate to multiple people who are in charge of different things.

RC: Oops yeah digging your own grave b'y

key word: FEEL LIKE you know them right, new york is way closer to the canadian border than mexico. Ooh the music!

Tell him he's on your last supper list. I like his outfit Do you? *tries to catch him in the elevator*

viddy game & a rose. playstation specifically. HE JUST BROKE THE CORD

Just symbolic

Becks, you can ask him again.

Ok I have an extra 12 minutes. Then I have abt half an hour before I need to go to work. Which is stupid. I need to leave for work an hour & a half before my shift!?!? I mean it is a 45 minute bus ride & I need to be there 15m early to change & iron so that's an hour, but my bus either gets there 5 minutes early (or less) or 35 minutes early. So that's another 15min there, & ofc I need to give myself 15m before I leave just in case. That's more like when I stop doing whatever I'm doing & get ready to go. But I might not be able to get it done in 15m so I need to use these 10 extra minutes right now. I need to put on my binder & make sure I have my bus tickets & stuff. Then I can leave. so it's an hour & a half. ew af.

So I might not get started on the next castle, I might instead try to post some of my drafts & clips so I can get space on my phone.

Pray that I get cut early pls.

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Penny Johnson Jerald   as  Captain Victoria Gates    2013   in  Castle   “The Squab and the Quail“    

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2804932/

[fluffybird1]

Autumn babies!

[renegadesstuff]

Katherine 'Kate' Beckett in S5E21, “The Squab and the Quail” 💙

[pollylynn]

Title: Spite WC: 800 Episode: The Squab and the Quail (5 x 21)

She would like the record to show that she is suffering for her sins. She’s not sure who is reading the record or who might find any consolation in her suffering. But still. She would like the record to show . . . 

It’s the kind of suffering that doesn’t look much like suffering. It involves a breathtaking view of the city and linens that have hoarded all the thread count in the western hemisphere. It comes with nonstop, one-sided conversation she has no interest in being a part of. It’s the kind of suffering that involves superb champagne she truly does not want. She does not want it, yet feels compelled to accept it just to shut Vaughn up, that’s about the only fact that she would like to not have stricken from the record. Everything else can go. 

Of course, that lone fact, dangling in isolation, is absurd. There shouldn’t be an entry into the record that need such extensive redaction. Their shouldn’t be a record that needs to be scrubbed of all these four-star details. There needn’t have been a record at all like that. 

In the hairline fracture instants in the wall of conversation that flow out of Eric Vaughn’s mouth  she contemplates an alternate timeline. It’s a very Richard Castle moment, and even though she’s pissed at him—even though she’s frustrated and quite possibly in some logically and emotionally dodgy look what you made me do head space—she misses him sharply just then. 

She misses the short work they’d have made of this threat file, with the boys providing an assist. She feels cheated out of the commentary he’d have surely had on Eric Vaughn’s almost literally unbelievable tolerance for and generosity toward those who’d gladly boil his rabbit or embezzle him blind. She longs for the familiar creak of his chair and the butt-numbing discomfort of her own. She misses being in her element and she imagines a world in which her answer to the Captain’s blithe delivery of the news about her new job description was an emphatic No. 

It’s a timeline that could have been. Let the record show that. It would not have been comfortable, bringing that timeline into being. Vaughn is obviously  high profile enough to have activated Gates’s PR senses. She would have pushed—possibly threatened—but Kate knows she could have pushed back. She very well could have insisted that her place was in the precinct, leading the investigation. She could have manipulated the PR senses, innocently wondering what it might look like if the press were to somehow get a hold of the information that a city employee was seen, roller bag in hand, heading for the elevator at the Fairwick in the company of the very an she was supposed to be protecting. She could have handled the Gates-related consequences if she had said no. 

And maybe he would have gloated. That’s a distinct possibility in this alternate timeline. He might have strutted around, puffing out his chest over his obvious win. He might have been insufferable, going on and on, wondering who the hell Vaughn thinks he his. He might have devoted all of his energies into not so much solving Arthur Felder’s murder as discovering all of Eric Vaughn’s foibles and failures. He might have turned his literary powers to micro-stories of f Eric Vaughn dying in gruesome, yet ridiculous ways, and they might have laughed about it. Or they might have been bored by the whole damned case, because really, it is just one bad guy after another who had been forgiven, kept on, helped out. 

Lanie may have never forgiven her. Lanie may have never recovered from the scandalous news that Kate Beckett had turned down a change to cosy up to the man who makes everyone’s list. The boys might have—would have—made fun of her for the fact that their would-be victim has a crush on her. They probably would have spun Castle right up and left her with the unenviable  task of explaining with a confidence she no longer feels that Eric Vaughn cannot have any kind of serious interest in her.

It’s not a great timeline. It’s far too fraught with drama than she ever goes for voluntarily. But it’s better than this one. It’s better than chanting to herself that she’s doing her job, she’s following orders, she’s a victim of circumstance. 

It’s true. All of it is true. And still, she could have said no to Eric Vaughn. 

But she didn’t because she wants him to be jealous and she wants to be annoyed that he is. She didn’t because he has bruised her ego. She didn’t for reasons—not one of them likely to be good—still doesn’t understand. 

A/N: I hate this stretch of episodes so  much it almost achieve morphousness. 

images via kissthemgoodbye

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[bronx-bomber87]

DVD mess up

Drives me INSANE that on castle s5 dvd they have the squab and the quail AFTER Still when Still aired originally after the squab ep. I know it’s the other way around just annoying for new fans who don’t know that mess up. They’re gonna think they’re backpedaling with it in that order. Just irks me and wanted to get it off my chest LOL hopefully this helps any new viewers just Incase *stops ramble continues rewatch*

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KATE BECKETT | 5x21 | The Squab and the Quail