Joanna Kerns credited as playing...
Celeste Cooper
- [last lines]
- Celeste Cooper: [with the reporters] Laurel?
- [Laurel glares at her]
- Celeste Cooper: It's not too late to tell them, sweetheart. Tell them, Laurel. Tell them I did it all for you.
- Laurel Cooper Rogers: [bows her head down in anger] Goodbye, Mother.
- Celeste Cooper: [leaves with the reporters] That's OK, she's just confused. When this is over, she'll know that I was right, and everything will be back to normal. Everything will be normal again.
- George Cooper: She's right, he's a nice guy.
- Celeste Cooper: Nice? He's a pathological liar. That ad was deliberately misleading. Up and coming business man my ass!
- Celeste Cooper: I want you to shoot him in the head. When you walk out, I want him dead, not just wounded.
- Celeste Cooper: When I have proof that he's dead, when I see the story in the papers I'll pay you the rest. Just call me and say...
- [thinks]
- Celeste Cooper: .. the carpet's been cleaned.
- Dale Cutler: [as Celeste answers the phone] Yeah, the carpet's been cleaned.
- Celeste Cooper: Oh. Did you clean it completely?
- Celeste Cooper: Laurel, look at me. I am black and blue! I tried to warn you and now he's attacked me.
- Laurel Cooper Rogers: Don't worry about the bruises. I saw Dr Johnson. The plastic surgeon. You had your eyes done.
- Celeste Cooper: [to Laurel, after meeting Ted for the first time] Oh, sweetheart. You must be so disappointed. When he said he was in the auto business, he failed to mention that he was at the bottom.
- Dale Cutler: So, is your sister satisfied?
- Celeste Cooper: Oh, she's satisfied. I'm satisfied. Everyone's happy except... ..
- Dale Cutler: Except?
- Celeste Cooper: [laughing gleefully] The one that's in the morgue!