For years, Martha Rogers had been wishing her son would find a nice girl and settle down. Her maternal instinct (or something) had told her that neither of his first two marriages were going to last. Though she loved Alexis dearly, she was quite of the opinion that her granddaughter was the only good thing to come of Richard's short-lived union with Meredith, and his second marriage had been even shorter.

When Martha heard about Detective Kate Beckett, her first thoughts were that her son's new muse sounded like a good catch. Here was a woman who had her head screwed on right. She was intelligent and headstrong, had direction, and wasn't a slave to the mall. And despite not being ideal trophy-wife material, she was all his son seemed to talk about these days.

When she met Beckett, and saw the two of them together, she decided she had to make Richard see just how well-suited the police officer was. Oh, yes, she was a good catch. Possibly the best that Martha's son had snared in quite some time.