Burn Notice (TV Series)

A Dark Road (2010)

Sharon Gless: Madeline Westen

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• 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.