Castle (TV Series)

A Death in the Family (2009)

Susan Sullivan: Martha Rodgers

Quotes 

• Martha Rodgers : And you know, nothing you can say will change how we feel. What men don't understand is, the right clothes, the right shoes, the right makeup, just... It hides the flaws we think we have. They make us look beautiful to ourselves. That's what makes us look beautiful to others.

  Richard Castle : Used to be... all she needed to feel beautiful was a pink tutu and a plastic tiara.

  Martha Rodgers : We spend our whole lives trying to feel that way again.

• [after Castle allows Alexis to go to the junior prom] 

  Martha Rodgers : I don't know. I haven't met him.

  Richard Castle : You are letting her go out with someone that you've never met? What kind of a father are you?

  Martha Rodgers : You are letting her go out with someone that you've never met. What kind of a father are you?