- Marla Evans: You can go blind from that, you know.
- [indicating the magazine Watson is holding]
- Carl Watson: [dropping the magazine] I'll take my chances.
- Marla Evans: Will you cash this for me?
- Carl Watson: That's what the sign says, don't it?
- [cashes her welfare check and hands her the money]
- Carl Watson: What are you doing Friday night?
- Marla Evans: Friday?
- [holds up the money she just received]
- Marla Evans: I'll be in Paris.
- Carl Watson: What about Saturday?
- Marla Evans: London.
- [turns to leave]
- Carl Watson: If I go blind, It'll be your fault.
- Art Donovan: Seems a couple out in Paqoima trying to hold the construction of a freeway there.
- Lou Grant: What's the problem?
- Art Donovan: Well, it seems that the off ramp will go right through their living room.
- Lou Grant: Oh... be convenient getting to work.
- Art Donovan: This guy works at home.
- Lou Grant: See if you can tear Martinson away from writing his novel long enough to cover it.
- [cut to an older newsman sitting at his desk with resting his face on both hands]
- Lou Grant: [on phone at the Tribune] Eh, you're in pretty rough territory, be careful.
- Billie Newman: [on carphone] The Animal's here with me.
- Lou Grant: Yeah, don't let anybody hurt him.
- Joe Rossi: How did the thieves get in the building? It took me ten minutes to get by two doormen and the TV monitors.
- Joe Rossi: I've got to hand it to me: this is good. I'm a good writer.
- Billie Newman: And modest, too.
- Joe Rossi: Modesty is the opiate of the mediocre.
- Billie Newman: It's not vanity...
- Lou Grant: It never is.
- Billie Newman: ...but I'd like to know how my story can be so unimportant as to end up on page 26 opposite the shipping news.
- Art Donovan: Shipping news is important. It's not as important as it was in the old U-Boat days, sure, but it's still the first thing I turn to in the morning.
- Billie Newman: [having just angrily hung up her phone] That was your friend, Higgins at the Hall of Records.
- Joe Rossi: [giggles] He's a character, ain't he?
- Billie Newman: [mock laughter] Ah, haha, I can think of a better word to describe him.
- Joe Rossi: You know, Higgins can be very helpful sometimes.
- Billie Newman: Did he ever ask you to sleep with him in return for his help?
- Joe Rossi: He asked me to go camping with him, once...
- Detective Collins: Rossi! This is Saturday. Don't you ever take a day off?
- Joe Rossi: I had a day off last year.
- Art Donovan: Did you read Rossi's feature on Mrs. Walker?
- Lou Grant: [glum] Yeah, I read it.
- Art Donovan: I don't think he's ever been better.
- Lou Grant: Me neither. I couldn't change a word.
- Art Donovan: Why is it that guys that write as well as Rossi always have personalities like Rossi?
- Lou Grant: Maybe... if the two of us went over it together... we could find something wrong with it.
- Joe Rossi: [punching his leg while on a stakeout] I've lost all feeling in this leg.
- Detective Collins: What are you worried about? You don't write with your legs, do ya?
- Barbara Shaw: I just wanted to thank you.
- Billie Newman: Oh, don't.
- Barbara Shaw: I'm gonna save your stories about Marla and Lisa. And when she's old enough, I'll show them to her. She should know about her mother. About what happened. And, that someone cared about it.