Hey guys! I know other people have written about this episode but I loved it so much I just couldn't resist! Okay this is in a few different point of views.
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Madeline's POV:
I knew Michael didn't want me to get involved for the same reason I was shaking so bad I couldn't even light my own cigarette. Michael is overprotective. I may be old, but I can handle myself. I had to get involved.
Michael said it wasn't going to feel like an act. Of course I didn't believe him. I knew my own son would never hurt me. Then in the blink of an eye he changed. Michael looked so much like his father. Especially with the way he was wearing his hair now. It made his forehead look bigger, like Franks. I wondered when someone was going to tell him his hair looked awful like that.
Being thrown across the room and pushed against walls brought back too many bad memories. I knew I had to keep going in order to save those girls. When Michael, Sam and I were standing on the porch and Michael turned back into the monster he was inside, I knew I had to stop him. I wasn't able to stand up to Frank for 30 years but Michael was no problem for me.
Michael is not his father. Part of Frank will always be there, but Michael will never be him.
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Michael's POV:
I should never have let my mom go in there. I knew it was a bad decision from the start. I had no problem slipping into character. My mother wasn't a trained operative. She hasn't learned how to repress all your feelings and go with it.
I was surprised by her acting in there. At least I thought it was acting. Until we left the room and she wore the same terrified look. When she said she hadn't seen that in a long time it hit hard. I spent my whole life trying not to be like my father, and here I was. Pushing around the same woman he had.
I know I could never turn into my father fully. I've been on the other end of his fist, and I know what it's like. You're vulnerable, and alone.
I wasn't surprised when Fiona asked what she was talking about. Spies usually don't talk about their past. Fiona knows some of it, but I guess not as bad as it was. She probably didn't put it together. Fiona knows that I don't like to bring my personal life into my jobs.
I thought I wasn't my father, but for a moment I was. Not when I was pretending, and yelling at my mom like I didn't know her. When we were ourselves, standing outside. I turned into him. I needed her to snap me back into myself.
I can never escape who I am. I will always be my father's son. Part of him will always be in me. When I look in the mirror I see his face.
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Fiona's POV:
I wasn't sure why Maddie was so scared. She knew Michael was just acting. Michael has pushed me around for our cover before. It's how we help people. Madeline came out of that room truly petrified. It was her own son. Didn't she trust him?
I was lost in her and Michael's conversation. What did she mean by 'I haven't seen that in a long time'? They ignored me when I voiced my thoughts. Had Michel used her on a job before? No, Madeline's helped out on jobs before, but never like this.
When Michael told me he didn't want to talk about, I wanted to know even more. Michael forces his feelings back down. I think all spies do. There was a sad flicker in his eyes.
I knew he was hurt, but Michael Westen doesn't lay his feelings out for the world to see. He hides them until they push him to the very edge. Then we drag him back.