- Charlie Hume: [Billie is covering a hostage situation on the spot] This is good stuff that Billie is sending in, but why didn't she interview that father who offered to change places with his kids?
- Art Donovan: Where'd you get that?
- Charlie Hume: Peggy Daye just interviewed him on Channel 6.
- Lou Grant: [sarcastic] Well, why don't you turn the volume up real loud, Charlie, we'll just copy it down.
- Charlie Hume: [slightly miffed] I merely mentioned it.
- [leaves]
- Billie Newman: [in phone booth on the scene] Everything is just sort of on hold here, Lou. Some of these parents are beside themselves.
- Lou Grant: [on other line at the City Desk] I can imagine...
- [notices something on TV covering the same story]
- Lou Grant: Eh... wait a minute, Billie. Why is the, eh... why is the Swat team leaving?
- Billie Newman: [springs into action] You tell me. I didn't know they were. You seem to have a better seat than I have.
- [hangs up]
- Adam Wilson: [watching the TV news coverage of the hostage situation] Well, so much for the home edition.
- Joe Rossi: Yeah, the whole city's having breakfast and watching this.
- Art Donovan: You mean they're not sitting there glued to their newspapers waiting for further developments?
- Lou Grant: TV wins this round, no contest.
- Charlie Hume: [Lou and Charlie are surprised to see Mrs. Pynchon in the break room] Mrs. Pynchon. We don't often see you in here.
- Mrs. Pynchon: Well, the last time was in 1977. It doesn't seem to have changed much.
- Lou Grant: Some of the sandwiches are new.
- Lou Grant: You missed your calling, Charlie. You would've made a top notch psychiatrist.
- Charlie Hume: No need to be sarcastic.
- Lou Grant: Or a detective, even.
- Charlie Hume: It was merely an observation.
- Billie Newman: [upset with Lou] So when something I write gets changed around to satisfy someones notion obout what makes good copy, it makes me...
- [searches for a word]
- Billie Newman: ... it makes me furious.
- Lou Grant: Livid, right? Outraged.
- Billie Newman: Damn it, now you're even rewriting my yelling at you!