- [first lines]
- Ellen Parsons: Please don't do this.
- David Connor: I don't want this life.
- Ellen Parsons: David...
- David Connor: We're done.
- Patty Hewes: [cut to Hewes office] He called off the engagement?
- Ellen Parsons: Maybe we went too far. Do you regret what we did?
- Nancy: You're going to have to look comfortable answering Patty's questions about corporate malfeasance, about accounting irregularities, and about why you stole the life savings of 5,000 people.
- Arthur Frobisher: That might be easier than singing.
- Party Guest: How is it that a woman who's argued cases before the supreme court hates to give a speech in public?
- Patty Hewes: There are nine people on the Supreme Court, and only six are awake on any given day.
- Arthur Frobisher: I'm here because I'm willing to negotiate.
- Patty Hewes: There's nothing to negotiate. This isn't about money.
- Arthur Frobisher: Oh, no, no, no, of course not. I know you don't give a shit about justice, Patty. So what do you want?
- Patty Hewes: I want you disgraced. I want history to erase your every achievement. I want you to feel the disgust in your children's eyes when they look on you in shame.
- Arthur Frobisher: This has been lovely...
- [walks away]
- Patty Hewes: It's rude to abandon a girl on the dance floor.
- Arthur Frobisher: The song's over, Patty.
- Patty Hewes: Almost as bad as abandoning a girl in a burning car.
- Arthur Frobisher: All right. Let's get this over with, shall we? $300 million.
- Patty Hewes: Must have been horrible, her face smashed clear through the windshield.
- Arthur Frobisher: $450 million.
- Patty Hewes: Blood everywhere, gasoline, searing heat. I'm told that you never forget the smell of burning flesh.
- Arthur Frobisher: $850 million, that's my final offer.
- Patty Hewes: Did she shout out your name when she died? Arthur! Arthur? Arthur!
- [last lines]
- Tom Shayes: [finding residence empty] Patty? Patty?
- Tom Shayes: [leaving phone message] Patty, it's me again. Where the hell are you?