Sharon Gless credited as playing...
Madeline Westen
- Madeline Westen: I've been through our records dozens of times. We lost a lot of that stuff in a hurricane a few years ago, and I've got files that, um, are nothing but mildew.
- Tina: Isn't that the worst? I lost a couch that way.
- Madeline Westen: I swear, sometimes I think we should all move to Phoenix.
- [Tina lets out a loud laugh, catches herself. Madeline chuckles back]
- Madeline Westen: You can't be serious.
- Michael Westen: Mom, I wish there was some other way.
- Madeline Westen: She's my friend, Michael! You're asking me to go back to my friend, a woman I tried on *bathing suits* with for God's sake, a- an- and *blackmail* her into giving you documents?
- Michael Westen: I told you there was a reason not to get too close.
- Madeline Westen: Why? So I wouldn't feel bad when I destroy a life?
- Michael Westen: Mom, these are bad guys! They're using desperate people!
- Madeline Westen: Don't you talk to me about *using* people! You're asking me to force Tina in- to sneak into the records office; she's gonna lose her job!
- Michael Westen: And if she doesn't people will lose their lives!
- [Madeline tries to light a cigarette]
- Michael Westen: It's one job. I know it's not easy, but if you do the math, Mom...
- Madeline Westen: That's what this is? "The math"?
- Michael Westen: Sometimes, yeah.
- Madeline Westen: Is this what you do, Michael? You destroy good people?
- Michael Westen: My job is to help people. And that can mean doing things that I wish I didn't have to do. And sometimes there's no other way. Now, you lived in the same house I did. You made hard choices, so you know this as well as I do.