Lou Grant (TV Series)

Aftershock (1977)

Edward Asner: Lou Grant

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• Lou Grant : [having just had a small earthquake]  Take a look at the damage out near Palmdale, take the Animal with you.

  Joe Rossi : Why me?

  Lou Grant : Because if the Earth opens up, I want you to be there.

• Lou Grant : Duncan was with a woman when he died.

  Billie Newman : He was In Flagrante Delicto?

  Art Donovan : What does that mean?

  Billie Newman : It means he died with her boots on.

• Hotel Manager : You're not gonna print the name of the hotel, now are you? I mean, eh, I mean there's just no need to bring this favor to an L.A. institution.

  Lou Grant : Good point. We'll just say that he died in an unspecified fleabag on 120 West 14 street.

• Lou Grant : [Lou is the only one in the office rattled after a small earthquake]  You know, that was my first quake.

  Charlie Hume : We all have to lose it sometime, Lou.

• Joe Rossi : Come on, Lou, cockroaches?

  Lou Grant : I've read about lots of scientific research going on about animals sensing quakes before people do.

  Joe Rossi : Yeah, but cockroaches are just barely animals.

  Lou Grant : They're just barely insects, but maybe you'll find a funny angle on it.

• Lou Grant : [Lou has messed up a eulogy at Duncan Aldrige's funeral]  It just didn't come out right.

  Margaret Pynchon : Nobody's blaming you...

  Lou Grant : [quietly]  Thanks.

  Margaret Pynchon : ...for the quake.

• Lou Grant : What do you do when guys cling to you?

  Billie Newman : Well, mostly I cling back.