Martha Rodgers quotes from Castle

Martha

How did you get so smart?

Martha

Richard. Whatever mistakes I've made in my life, I raised a good man.

Martha

Only women of substance have worn these gems. They've been waiting, Katherine, for you.

Castle

What's the class?

Martha

Introduction to life coaching. It's... it's always been my desire to make a difference, whether on stage or off. And I have had cards made, haha.

Castle

It says here I'm your client.

Martha

Well of course you are, haven't I been telling you what to do your whole life?

Alexis

My, dad, nervous for a date?

It's not a date - it's an undercover operation.

Martha

I don't know why you won't tell me where the party is.

Because you'll show up.

Martha

Nothing you say will change how we feel. What men don't understand is the right clothes, the right shoes, the right make up, it hides the flaws we think we have, and make us look beautiful to our selves, that's what makes us look beautiful to others.

Castle

Used to be all she needed to look beautiful was a pink tutu and a plastic tiara.

Martha

we spend our whole live trying to feel that way again.

Martha

If it's a hit, who knows how long it could run? Then I could take it on the road.

Alexis

You mean you'd leave us?

Martha

Well, only for nine months of the year. [noticing Alexis' concerned expression] Oh, don't look so sad. [noticing Castle's dreamy expression] And, you, don't look so happy.

Yeah. Sounds pretty. Little creepy, though.

Martha

Very creepy.

Alexis

How's it creepy?

"Death, she grows near"? It’s kind of like Final Destination, but in song form.

Alexis

She doesn't mean "death" death.

Well, what other kinds of death are there?

Alexis

Allegorical, metaphoric, symbolic, spiritual, emotional, sexual –

Okay, okay, that's quite enough. I think I'm paying far too much for her education.

Martha

What will Chet think if he expects 1980s Martha, and present-day Martha shows up?

Castle

You tell anyone I said this, and I'll deny it. And I'm only gonna say it once; 1980s Martha was pretty great, but present-day Martha is pretty spectacular, too.

Martha

I'm still waiting for that moment, actually.

Castle

...I set you up for that, didn't I?

Martha

What if it doesn't work out? What if it does?

Castle

That's the cost of living.

Martha

Oh, Richard, darling, you're just in time. I made dinner. [Holds up a takeout container]

Castle

Mother, what are you doing here?

Martha

Oh, we're eating. You know, something families do a couple of times a day.

He wants to learn more about my writing process.

Martha

And by "writing process" you mean your procrastination until the very last second...

Alexis

And then writing out of a desperate panic in a caffeine-induced haze.

Martha

That one?

No, not that one. [Alexis giggles] The one where I find authenticity by doing hands-on research with the NYPD.

Castle

Wonder what's up with Alexis. She seems a little out of it.

Martha

Isn't it obvious?

Castle

What?

Martha

Oh, she's in love.

Castle

Alexis?

Martha

Oh, come on, darling. In case you haven't noticed, she's not a little girl anymore.

Castle

Thank you, mother. I think if Alexis were in love she would've told me.

Martha

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. The fact that she hasn't told you is how we know it's real.

Castle

[Warningly] Mother.

Martha

Okay. And the fact that she mentioned it to me last night.

Castle

Who is he? Where did she meet him?

Martha

Oh, I don't know. She wouldn't say. No, diva's honour. She didn't tell me anything. She didn't even tell me his name.

Castle

[Sulkily] Can't believe she told you and not me. I'm supposed to be her go-to guy.

Martha

Oh, darling, of course you are. It's just, you know, it's first love. It's magical, ethereal. It defies logic.

Martha

Richard, your phone.

Castle

[He shrugs] Mmm.

Martha

[Picks it up] Ah, Beckett. Maybe it's a nice murder, darling. Brighten your day.

Martha

Good boy.

Castle

[Answers] Castle.

Martha

It's like when I was doing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and I thought my understudy was trying to poison me.

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

Eh, added a certain urgency to my performance. But the point is, you indulged my paranoia. So therefore I'm going to be in the park - five 'o clock - at a discreet distance to make sure that Alexis' secret admirer is not an axe murderer.