- Calvin Trager: Anybody who can't make money off Sports Night should get out of the money-making business.
- The Stranger: Do you feel responsible for the show failing?
- Dana Whitaker: The show didn't fail. The man I work for, a guy named Isaac Jaffee... he took a chance on me, and I didn't rise to meet his... expectations. And there are people who work for me who needed me to be a better field captain. The *show* didn't fail. But I do feel responsible, and that's gonna have to be all right with you.
- The Stranger: You know what would make you feel better right now?
- Dana Whitaker: Really, nothing.
- The Stranger: You don't want to hear what I think would make you feel better?
- Dana Whitaker: I really don't.
- The Stranger: In the three day history of our relationship, have I been wrong about anything?
- Dana Whitaker: Look...
- The Stranger: Dana, I'm what the world considers to be a phenomenally succesful man, and I've failed much more than I've succeeded. And each time I fail, I get my people together, and I say, "Where are we going?" And it starts to get better.
- Dana Whitaker: [out of breath] Is your name...
- The Stranger: Dana, what...
- Dana Whitaker: Is your name...
- The Stranger: What the hell happened?
- Dana Whitaker: I had to run from... I think I'm hyperventilating.
- The Stranger: Jack, you got a paper bag?
- Dana Whitaker: Is your name...
- The Stranger: Stop talking.
- Dana Whitaker: I just need your water.
- [downs his drink in one gulp]
- The Stranger: That was a gin martini.
- Dana Whitaker: Yes. I know that now. Is your name Calvin Trager?
- The Stranger: Yes.
- Dana Whitaker: There was something that was big and you invented something that made it small?
- The Stranger: Yes.
- Dana Whitaker: You own Quo Vadimus.
- The Stranger: Yes.
- Dana Whitaker: You bought Continental Corp?
- The Stranger: Turns out I picked up a few more shares of stock, yeah.
- Dana Whitaker: Why didn't you tell me?
- The Stranger: I just wrote a check for 18 billion dollars Dana. My scouting says you don't keep a secret so good.
- [Realized that he got flowers from Rebecca]
- Dan Rydell: She walks out of my life a year ago. She walks back in with cards and a flower.
- Casey McCall: They welcome the Tigers to The House That Ruth Built this evening.
- Dan Rydell: Excuse me, Casey, but Ruth didn't build the house *this* evening, did he?
- Casey McCall: No, Dan, and thank you very much for correcting my every mistake, no matter how small, oh, these many years.
- Dan Rydell: What are friends for?
- Casey McCall: Annoying the hell out of you?
- [Isaac has told Dana about a new bid from Quo Vadimus. Dana is "not" telling Dan and Casey]
- Dana Whitaker: Isaac doesn't trust that when he tells me something, I can be cool. He thinks it's gonna spread around and the information'll get all twisted and I'm going to show him he's wrong.
- [Back in Isaac's office]
- Isaac Jaffe: Three, two, one...
- Jeremy Goodwin: Isaac, I don't know if you heard. Six this morning there was a bid from an Italian airline called Platypus.
- Isaac Jaffe: Yeah. Keep it under your hat, would you?
- Rebecca Wells: Would you like to take me to dinner?
- Dan Rydell: I just got hit in the head with a ladder. I gotta buy you food now?
- Natalie Hurley: Remember your interview?
- Jeremy Goodwin: With you and Dana?
- Natalie Hurley: Before that, just me.
- Jeremy Goodwin: Yeah.
- Natalie Hurley: You had the job when you walked in the door.
- Jeremy Goodwin: I tripped.
- Natalie Hurley: Yes, and then you said "Excuse me" to the threshold.
- Jeremy Goodwin: Yes.
- Natalie Hurley: I wanted to do one of those things where you shut the door, knock everything off the desk and, you know...
- Jeremy Goodwin: Well, I don't think you'd have had to use a lot of force on me.