My Family (TV Series)

Blind Justice (2003)

Gabriel Thomson: Michael Harper

Quotes 

• Susan : (After finding Michael kissing Fiona) Don't be a smart-arse, Michael. You've got to learn to take responsibility for your actions.

  Michael : How can I if you barge in before we get to any action?

• Ben : Look, if you're mature enough to have sex, then you're mature enough to lie about it, OK? Just tell your mother it didn't happen.

  Michael : You want me to pretend nothing happened even though I'm proud of it?

  Ben : Yeah.

  Michael : You're asking me to give up my manhood.

  Ben : [Thinks]  That's what being a man is all about.

  Michael : You're not making any sense, Dad.

  Ben : That's what being a man is all about, too.

• [last lines] 

  Michael : So you see, we didn't really do much at all.

  Susan : I know you're lying, but at least that means you care.

  Michael : Ah no, it's true. I think I'll wait for my wedding night to have sex.

  Susan : I can see again.

  Michael : Just like you waited, Mum.

  Susan : Ah! I can't hear.

• Abi Harper : Your mother's gone blind because she's seen the unseeable: your messy room! She didn't see the girl you had up there, though!

  Susan : Yes, I did. But you know, I'm cool with that.

  Michael : Oh, right! So, cool, you've gone blind? You're so selfish!

  Nick Harper : Hey, mate! Do you not feel bad that you've made mum go blind, alright? Yeah? Because the important thing is... YOU SCORED! GET IN! YEAH!

• Abi Harper : [With Nick, staring at a paper bag with food in it]  It brings to mind the nullity of human existence. It moves me. I think it's your best work yet.

  Michael : Actually, it's my lunch.

  Nick Harper : Plagiarist!

• Michael : Have you come here to lecture me?

  Ben : No, no! Course not! No! What you did was perfectly natural. I mean, I assume it was. I mean, I don't know what you did, but, you know... I'm not asking... I mean, I can imagine... I mean, I don't want to imagine!

  Michael : Dad! I'd rather you lecture me!