Burn Notice (TV Series)

Pilot (2007)

Sharon Gless: Madeline Westen

Quotes 

• Michael Westen : [Answering his cell phone warily]  Hello?

  Madeline Westen : Michael?

  Michael Westen : [surprised]  Mom?

  Michael Westen : [narrating]  My mom would've been a great NSA communications operative.

  Michael Westen : How did you get this number?

  Madeline Westen : That's how you greet your mother? I got it from your girlfriend, Fiona.

  Michael Westen : Mom, what do you want?

  Madeline Westen : Were you going to come and see me?

  Michael Westen : I'm not going to be in town that long, so I can't.

  Madeline Westen : Well, come now then, you can drive me to the doctor.

  Michael Westen : I don't even have a car, so...

  Madeline Westen : Yeah, well, you'll figure something out.

  [hangs up] 

  Michael Westen : [narrating]  Drop me in the middle of the Gobi Desert, bury me in a goddamn cave on the *moon*, and somehow, she'd find a way to call me and ask me for a favor.

  [Michael screams into a pillow] 

• Madeline Westen : You know, you missed your father's funeral. By eight years.

  Michael Westen : The last time I talked to him, he said, "I'll see you in Hell, boy," so I figured we had something on the books.