- Dan Rydell: Eli's Coming.
- Casey McCall: Eli?
- Dan Rydell: From the Three Dog Night song.
- Casey McCall: Yes?
- Dan Rydell: Eli is something bad, a darkness.
- Casey McCall: "Eli's coming. Hide your heart, girl." Eli is a inveterate womanizer. I think you're getting the song wrong.
- Dan Rydell: I know I'm getting the song wrong. But, when I first heard it, that's what I thought it meant. Things stick with you that way.
- Dan Rydell: What are you, nuts? Huh? Are you- are you- are you just some... nutty-nut girl who's nuts?
- Dan Rydell: They say it's always calmest before the storm. That's not true. I'm a serious sailor. It isn't calm before the storm. Stuff happens.
- Jeremy Goodwin: Maybe he stopped off.
- Dana Whitaker: Where?
- Jeremy Goodwin: For a pretzel.
- Dana Whitaker: I'm serious. He was supposed to be ...
- Jeremy Goodwin: Well, he has been in Europe for 2 weeks. He hasn't had a decent pretzel. Maybe he stopped off and that was the cause for the delay.
- Dana Whitaker: And how long does it take to buy a pretzel?
- Jeremy Goodwin: Well, you've punctured a hole in my theory.
- Natalie Hurley: Also, Bobbi isn't here yet.
- Jeremy Goodwin: She called from the car.
- Dana Whitaker: And?
- Jeremy Goodwin: Stopped off for a pretzel.
- Dana Whitaker: What's the rule on when do you call the police?
- Jeremy Goodwin: Well, at my house it was 15 minutes after school let out.
- Dan Rydell: What's wrong with Jack?
- Dana Whitaker: He's sick.
- Dan Rydell: How sick?
- Dana Whitaker: He's got flu-like symptoms.
- Dan Rydell: Oh honestly, who doesn't?
- Dana Whitaker: Isaac's gonna want to show us pictures from his vacation so I'm going to get a welcome back cake and we'll have a little party in his office tomorrow.
- Casey McCall: What kind of cake?
- Dana Whitaker: What kind of cake?
- Casey McCall: Yes.
- Dana Whitaker: I don't know Casey - why do you ask?
- Casey McCall: I'm particular about cake. And I have to say it's been my experience that men buy better cake than women. I've found that women tend to get these yogurt-frosted low-cal things laced with a rum and fruit concoction that make eating cake into something you do to be polite. So that's why I was asking what kind of cake you were planning on getting to celebrate Isaac returning from vacation.
- Dana Whitaker: Wow, I didn't know you felt so strongly about, but now that I do I guess the answer is - whatever cake I damn please.
- Casey McCall: Excellent.