- Will McAvoy: Charlie Skinner was crazy. He identified with Don Quixote - an old man with dementia who thought he could save the world from an epidemic of incivility simply by acting like a knight. His religion was decency. He spent a lifetime fighting it's enemies. I wish he could be here to learn the name of his successor like I just did - our new boss, the new president of ACN is MacKenzie McHale. So this fight is just getting started because he taught the rest of us to be crazy too... You were a man, Charlie... A great big man.
- Charlie Skinner: [In a flashback, in reference to his grandson playing "How I got to Memphis"] "What's a kid from New Rochelle doing singing about Memphis?" He said, "Memphis is a stand-in for wherever you are right now. That it really means that's how I got here."
- Charlie Skinner: [In a flashback while Will is remembering] You know what, kiddo? In the old days... of about ten minutes ago... we did the news well. You know how?
- [Emphatically]
- Charlie Skinner: We just decided to.
- [He gives Will a big smile]
- Neal Sampat: You embarrass me. It took me a long time to build ACN Digital. I was laughed at by the people in this newsroom. People I respect and respect what I did around here, but I built this into a tool that gathered, expanded on and disseminated information that's useful. I kept telling my colleagues and my bosses that the internet is user sensitive just like most things and I watched from a thousand miles away while you proved that. You embarrass me.
- Will McAvoy: [Motioning to a guitar] You mind?
- Bo: No. That's right. You play guitar on the side.
- Will McAvoy: I'm a news anchor on the side.
- Don Keefer: Sloan, you came down here, insulted my anchor and demanded to know why we didn't prepare a better interview. Let me add this to the conversation. For two years I've been listening to people like you say they can't believe no one's been prosecuted for these Wall Street crimes and after two years I'm still fuzzy on what crime was committed and who should be prosecuted for it. You're a financial news reporter who gets to spend an hour on one subject. And I'm at least an average consumer of news, and you have failed to get me to understand what you've called the most important story of the last ten years. So, after you get done telling me how badly we did *our* job last night, you may want to do an internal investigation of your own work.
- [pause]
- Don Keefer: Visit us any time you want.
- Will McAvoy: Do we know if it's a boy or a girl?
- MacKenzie McHale: Yeah, there's a good chance it's going to be one of those two.
- Neal Sampat: [In disbelief about what was being posted on his website for ACN] The nine most overrated movies of all time.
- Bree Dorrit: We thought it would be fun.
- Neal Sampat: For who?
- Bree Dorrit: For... movie fans? Look, I know this is...
- Neal Sampat: And I understand that you went all the way back to The Matrix.
- Bree Dorrit: Yeah.
- Neal Sampat: 1999.
- Bree Dorrit: Yeah.
- Neal Sampat: All time and 14 years are two different units of measurement.
- Will McAvoy: There's a hole in the side of your boat, he says. That hole is never going to be fixed, it's never going away, and you can't get a new boat. What you have to do is bail water out faster than it's coming in.
- Charlie Skinner: [after Will correctly stated the name of a song that was playing] You *do* play a little guitar on the side.
- Will McAvoy: I do a little news anchoring on the side.
- Charlie Skinner: Have you ever thought about having kids?
- Will McAvoy: You mean adopting?
- Charlie Skinner: Adopting. Abducting. Meeting somebody. Getting married. Whatever it takes.
- Will McAvoy: [to a bartender] I thought I saw someone I knew in the audience. And she was prompting me. I was asked a question from the audience, and she wrote an answer down on a pad and pointed to it the way a producer would. But, it was a hallucination. Which I didn't think those really happened, but they do. Never doubt them again.
- [the bartender simply nods as if in understanding, but is otherwise silent]
- Will McAvoy: You're not as helpful as your movie counterparts.
- Will McAvoy: Okay, please help me. I need to fully understand what's happening here.
- MacKenzie McHale: I'm seven weeks pregnant, and there's like a 5 in 9 chance that it's yours.
- Will McAvoy: Are you feeling alright? Should you be standing up? Is it alright for you to be outdoors?
- Will McAvoy: I think maybe we should just put you in a hospital bed right now and hook you up to an epidural. Would that be premature?
- MacKenzie McHale: Yes.
- Will McAvoy: Okay.
- MacKenzie McHale: Will. By any chance, did you tell anyone about the pregnancy?
- Will McAvoy: No. Absolutely not. You're not supposed to do that until after the first semester.
- MacKenzie McHale: Trimester.
- Will McAvoy: Tess, Kendra, Tamara and Martin tricked me into telling them.
- Gary Cooper: Congratulations to you guys. That's going to be one good looking kid.
- Will McAvoy: And then they might have told some people.
- Leona Lansing: You've made a career out of being likable.
- Will McAvoy: I'd like to make a career out of doing the news.
- Maggie Jordan: Have you had a lot of long-distance relationships?
- Jim Harper: Yes.
- Maggie Jordan: Have any of them worked?
- Jim Harper: No.
- Maggie Jordan: Then why is this going to be different?
- Jim Harper: I wasn't in love with them.
- Maggie Jordan: ... Wait, what?
