The Newsroom (TV Series)

5/1 (2012)

Thomas Sadoski: Don Keefer

Quotes 

• Don Keefer : [to fellow passengers on the plane]  She set the Treasury Secretary on fire.

  Sloan Sabbith : [to Peter]  It's true.

  Peter : Why?

  Sloan Sabbith : Just to show the other Cabinet Secretaries that I could.

• Captain Louis Embry : Is there a problem, sir?

  Don Keefer : Yeah, I was asking how paranoid you have to... you have to be...

  [sees the Captain belongs to United Airlines] 

  Don Keefer : Captain, my name is Don Keefer. That's Elliot Hirsch and that's Sloan Sabbith. We work for Atlantis Cable News. And we wanted you and your first officer and Flight Attendant Crazy Lady to be the first ones on this plane to know that our armed forces killed Osama bin Laden for you tonight.

  Captain Louis Embry : You're serious?

  Don Keefer : Yes, sir.

• Don Keefer : [to Elliot]  . What is this compulsion you have to look on the bright side? I can never count on you to be Jewish.

• Don Keefer : You have to let us off this plane.

  Flight Attendant : I'm not letting you unbuckle your seatbelt, you think I'm letting you off the plane?

  Don Keefer : If you knew what we know -

  [turns to the other passengers] 

  Don Keefer : which is nothing- you'd be behind us and they'd be behind us, and I think later on tonight, you're gonna be saying, 'I wish I had been more cooperative with that passenger.'

  Flight Attendant : I think later on tonight you're gonna be saying, 'These handcuffs hurt my wrists.'

• Don Keefer : Let me out! Let me out, and I will push the plane to the gate.