- Sloan Sabbith: His logic is inconsistent.
- Don Keefer: How?
- Sloan Sabbith: He doesn't believe his source should have leaked classified documents.
- Don Keefer: Neither do I.
- Sloan Sabbith: But, he's unwilling to help law enforcement capture the source by identifying him.
- Don Keefer: He can't. I'd be unwilling, and so would you.
- Sloan Sabbith: I know. But, following that logic, he should also not be willing to broadcast the story. If he believes no one should ever leak because it poses a credible threat, then why is he broadcasting the story?
- Don Keefer: Well, I can't speak for Will, but I will. Uh, this leak he believes is a good leak. What he's very reasonably worried about is the bad leak, so he'd prefer there are no leaks.
- Sloan Sabbith: You and Will are making the same unilateral decision you don't want a leaker to make.
- Don Keefer: I trust strangers less than I trust me.
- Sloan Sabbith: Your logic is consistent though horrifying.
- Jim Harper: No one's gonna ever guess you guys are a couple.
- MacKenzie McHale: Did you see Charlie?
- Will McAvoy: After the show. He was cleaning his 12 gauge with Maker's Mark and muttering 'Kill the wabbit.'
- Wyatt Geary: Is lying to corporate something you do habitually?
- Sloan Sabbith: Don and I like to make decisions about lying on a case by case basis.
- MacKenzie McHale: The source risked everything. Neal's hiding in South America. Will's facing a grand jury. Fahda and his family fled the country. And it was for nothing!
- Reese Lansing: Mac.
- MacKenzie McHale: It was for nothing!
- Reese Lansing: Yeah. Selling the company's the only way you get to live to fight another day.
- MacKenzie McHale: Do we *ever* get to *win* one?
- Sloan Sabbith: Somebody ratted us out?
- Wyatt Geary: Yes.
- Sloan Sabbith: Nobody around would drop a dime. You're blowin' smoke. Who cheesed?
- Don Keefer: Okay, Mugsy.
- Lucas Pruit: I'm gonna infuse ACN with tens of millions in your budget. How does that sound? I'm gonna get 18 to 25 year olds to watch the news so it can support itself, and so it doesn't die when you do. The news gathering and newscasts will have tentacles in every reach of the Internet. Interactives, podcasts, live streams, Tublr, Facebook, Twitter. We'll make our audience reporters in the field through Instagram and Vine, Snapchat, and blogs. You still with me? Our users become the audience and our audience becomes the contributors. That's my plan.
- Charlie Skinner: Needless to say, I'm impressed by your indifference to talent, experience and credentials. And I assume the absence of the words truth, trust, and professionalism in your mission statement was an oversight. Your contempt for the second rate seems to be a contradiction too, since you believe the best reporting is done by anyone with a phone and the time it takes to write 'epic fail'. And as an old guy, I've got a lot more respect for 18 to 25 year olds than you do, 'cause I don't believe their heads will explode if you stop patronizing them for an hour a night, and tell them what the fuck's going on in their lives and maybe even in the lives of other people!
- Lucas Pruit: The air up on that pedestal must be pretty thin, 'cause you are delusional, sir.
- Charlie Skinner: If I am, I plan on staying that way. And my network's staying too. We've got a problem now, you and me! Have a good evening.
- Lucas Pruit: 'Proud' is generally what people pretend they are when they've lost.
- Charlie Skinner: 'Cryptic' is what people generally are when they pretend they have supernatural powers.
