- Dale Jennings: I did hide things from you. I'm sorry. The things that I hid are the things that I don't want to exist.
- Helen Norville: Are you gay?
- Dale Jennings: Every time, um, anything happened, I'd tell myself, 'That's it. It's the last time. It's out of my system.' But, you know, I have these feelings. They won't go away. But neither will my feelings for you. And it feels like... it's like being torn apart.
- Helen Norville: I was admitted to a mental institution when I was 16 for six months. So... here we are.
- Dale Jennings: [crying] I can't go up there like this.
- Helen Norville: You're gonna be just fine. I'm gonna be right next to you. I love you just the way you are.
- Tim Ahern: Was I the first?
- Dale Jennings: No, there was someone in high school. A friend. Didn't work out very well.
- Tim Ahern: Can I ask what happened?
- Dale Jennings: His father caught us after school one day. They called the police. He said I forced myself on him. And I was taken to the station... in front of everyone. They called me a pervert. I had to change schools.
- Dennis: [on the radio] Geoff's been booted. Rob's done a runner. Lindsay's blowing his top. Like, he's literally foaming at the mouth. So I need you to get back here now, please.
- Tim Ahern: You're on the desk.
- Dale Jennings: Uh, I don't know.
- Tim Ahern: You are.
- Dennis: Given recent history, we're not running with that until you've confirmed with at least three sources.
- Noelene: We can be the source that confirms it!
- Dennis: Noelene, if we go balls out with the biggest disaster ever and you're wrong, you're gonna get sacked again and I'm not gonna be able to defend you this time.
- Noelene: You didn't defend me last time. Rob did.
- Dennis: That's what he says.
- Evelyn Walters: Do not give that interview! Take a day to collect your thoughts. Do you think if you bury the News at Six, some other network's going to pick you up? They won't! They watch the numbers as closely as anyone.
- Geoff Walters: I think you've done enough with your little interventions, Evvie.
- Evelyn Walters: My little interventions are the reasons you have held that position for the 30 years you have. Yes, I spoke to Lindsay this morning. I have always been there quietly managing situations. If I hadn't, this moment would've happened years ago. You might have decades of work ahead of you-your best years, mine too-but only if you listen to me!
- Dale Jennings: Have you always known who you are?
- Tim Ahern: Yeah.
- Dale Jennings: I think we're very different people, Tim.
- Tim Ahern: Was I the first?
- Dale Jennings: No, there was someone in high school. A friend. Didn't work out very well.
- [after finding out he's being ousted]
- Geoff Walters: You're a better performer than Lindsay. I'll give you that.
- Helen Norville: I was warned only an hour and a half ago. I had no idea.
- Geoff Walters: I want you to come with me right now to the CEO. We'll refuse this together. It's me today, but you will end up in the same position.
- Helen Norville: I have no sway...
- Geoff Walters: They can't do this unless you agree to keep on script. I'm asking you not to. Now, I've always been very discreet about your personal struggles. I've been encouraged to go to the press. I refused. I always put our partnership above everything.
- Helen Norville: That's not how I remember it. Not once since I've been on this desk have you shown me the slightest bit of warmth or defended me or protected me. And I have always known that you would welcome my failure. You've just never had the guts to declare it.
- Lindsay Cunningham: [to the bullpen] Safe to assume there's gonna be a few changes for tonight's bulletin. We don't know how it's gonna play out, but, uh, we're gonna say Geoff won't be coming back, so Brett, you'll be doing sport. Rob, you'll be on the desk with Helen. Thank you.
- Rob Rickards: Uh, Lindsay.
- Lindsay Cunningham: Yeah?
- Rob Rickards: Sorry, mate. I'll do sport, but that's it.
- Lindsay Cunningham: No, you'll do what I fuckin' tell you to do. That's your job.
- Rob Rickards: Yeah, and I appreciate the opportunity, but it's not for me, mate. I'm sorry.
- Lindsay Cunningham: I couldn't give a rat's ass what's for you. Son, I'm trying very hard not to do me rag here, so I'll make it simple. I took you from being a broken-down football player who could barely string two words together, I had your teeth done and now look at you. You are the bloke on the brink of snagging one of telly's biggest gigs.
- Rob Rickards: And I appreciate it, but, like I say, I just want to do sport.
- Lindsay Cunningham: You walk out on us now, you leave us in the lurch, you will never step foot in this network or any network again.
- Rob Rickards: Well, then. Thank you for the last five years and I'm sorry it's come to this.
- Noelene: The story is only going to get bigger and bigger, for at least a week. I can deliver it all for you if you take me off autocue and make me a producer.
- Dennis: Can you at least wait until we've got the bulletin on air before you hardball me?
- Noelene: No. Tell me now.
- Dennis: [pauses] Fine.
- Noelene: Fine?
- Dennis: Fine.