Susan Sullivan credited as playing...
Martha Rodgers
- [first lines]
- Alexis Castle: What about Ashley? I mean, shouldn't I tell him?
- Martha Rodgers: Darling, in matters of the heart, it's best not to overthink things.
- Richard Castle: [entering] That's your advice, Mother? With your track record? What chasm of doom has she led you to by way of her tips on romance?
- Martha Rodgers: As it happens, we were discussing secret admirer... etiquette.
- Richard Castle: You have a secret admirer?
- Alexis Castle: I always thought it was silly, but... now I'm kind of intrigued.
- [Alexis is planning to meet her secret admirer]
- Martha Rodgers: Richard, darling, she's right. You are being utterly irrational. It's like when I was doing, uh, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and I thought my understudy was trying to poison me.
- Richard Castle: Oh, yeah. The daily blood tests I paid for. Wait, she did poison you. The Swiss chocolate she gave you was a laxative.
- Martha Rodgers: Eh, well. It added a certain urgency to my performance. But, the point is, you indulged my paranoia. So therefore, I am going to be in the park, five o'clock, at a discreet distance to make sure that Alexis' secret admirer is not an ax murderer.
- Richard Castle: Thank you.