- Joe Lombardi: Mr. McCovey, you're unhappy to see me and you're right. I don't blame you, I'm a professional nuisance.
- Art Donovan: [Lou is wearing a suit and tie and putting on his jacket] Where are you going?
- Lou Grant: To the beach.
- Art Donovan: Don't forget your shovel and pail.
- Art Donovan: You worried about something?
- Billie Newman: Why?
- Art Donovan: You're tense. You're tapping out an S.O.S. on my shoulder.
- Art Donovan: [after putting down phone] Cops are saying it was that blankety blank newspaper story that did it.
- Lou Grant: Do I get to fill in the blanks?