Patriot (TV Series)

L'Affaire Contre John Lakeman (2017)

Kurtwood Smith: Leslie Claret

Quotes 

• Leslie Claret : So, how're we doing John on this new morning?

  John Tavner : Pretty good.

  Leslie Claret : You know John I spent some time last night, just well pondering how I was going to respond to you this morning. On this new morning.

  John Tavner : Cool.

  Leslie Claret : Yeah, it was cool. I thought do I just fire him first thing? Say hey, just not a good fit because I give two shits about this place and you don't so not a good fit, so adios. But then I thought "Hey, we all deserve a second chance." I know that. Hell. Ya know?

  John Tavner : Yeah.

  Leslie Claret : So I thought "Hey, I'll just give the kid something simple to do. We'll start with that. We'll build from there. I'll ask the kid to just draw a little circle and maybe in the simple act of trying his best maybe he will win me over with a simple circle." Here's the impression your little circle made on me, John. It lacked focus, ambition, clarity, precision, dedication, passion and honesty. And well, it reminded me of you. So it seems you'll be staying on for this weekend's duck hunt and then it seems you'll have some new morning of your own at some new endeavor. I wish you well.

• Leslie Claret : [to his work group]  We make circles. Circles don't exist in nature, folks. The sun? No. Planets? Not quite. Circles are perfect. And nothing perfect exists in nature. Flaws in all. Slightly oblong, our planets, the sun. Like us. But here, at McMillan, we make them. And we place them in the world. The perfect form across the world. We make circles. And all you have to care about, the only thing that you have to care about, is this one little thing: perfection.