- Andrew Martin: Alright, where's your office?
- Joe Rossi: [points] There's that desk over there.
- Andrew Martin: That's it, just a desk? I thought you were an important guy?
- Joe Rossi: It's one of the newer desks...
- Andrew Martin: [having entered the Tribune news room holding a gun to Rossi's head] If anybody moves, I'm gonna blow his head off.
- Joe Rossi: Take it easy... I don't have a whole lotta friends in this room.
- Lou Grant: [tossing a magazine to Donovan] Hey, I saw this in the Sunday magazines section. You think my place could look like that?
- Art Donovan: [smiles] No.
- [hands it to Carla]
- Lou Grant: What do you think?
- Carla Mardigian: Well, you don't have the beams like this, or the bay windows here, or the brick fireplace, or the view of the ocean.
- Lou Grant: I've got an ashtray like that...
- Andrew Martin: [pointing a gun at Rossi while Rossi types] What are you stopping for?
- Joe Rossi: I'm thinking.
- Andrew Martin: Don't think, just write.
- Sgt. Pierce: My men can start their assault as a diversion.
- Lou Grant: [speaking out of the side of his mouth to be inconspicuous] Forget words like 'assault'. I got friends in there.
- Sgt. Pierce: [referring to Andrew Martin] He started this.
- Lou Grant: This isn't a school yard fight!