Mere weeks after springing on Rick those three magical little words, Castle‘s Kate in Monday’s Season 5 finale will hang a cloud over their coupling with an entirely different utterance — and TVLine has a first look at the foreboding moment.

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As previously established on the ABC drama, Beckett — after proving her mettle during the drone strike murder case — got an invite to interview for a plum gig with the Attorney General’s office… in Washington, D.C.

Rick actually stumbles upon the news of his lady love’s possible job change in a clip posted by our pals at Yahoo TV. And though Kate in that moment stresses the “just an interview” aspect, by the looks of things in our exclusive sneak peek below, there’s been a (gulp) development.

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After you check out this clip, someone run over to the park and boot Jimmy and his buddy D.J. off the swings, because I think we’re gonna need two vacancies, pronto.

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