The Newsroom (TV Series)

Main Justice (2014)

Thomas Sadoski: Don Keefer

Quotes 

• Jim Harper : [Entering the control room]  Do you have the first idea how any of this equipment works?

  Don Keefer : I don't know how electricity works. Just start pressing buttons.

• Don Keefer : [Cocky, still wearing a headset]  Freedom won, and not a bullet was fired.

  Jim Harper : [Just as smug as Don]  Let this day be recorded in the all...

  Maggie Jordan : Your fly's unzipped.

  [She leaves the control room] 

  Jim Harper : I'm not sure how I feel about new confident Maggie.

  Don Keefer : She's lookin' good.

  Sloan Sabbith : [From the studio set]  I can still hear you.

  Don Keefer : [pause]  Do you think there's any chance she's, uh...

  Sloan Sabbith : I'm not pretending.

• Alex Thacker : The copy should have been assigned to me, but Gary assigned it to Stacey.

  Don Keefer : [to the HR rep]  Once I give it to Gary, Gary gets to make that call.

  Alex Thacker : Based on merit, not based on who he prefers to sleep with at any particular moment.

  Gary Cooper : I'm not sleeping and I've never slept with Stacey.

  Alex Thacker : That may or may not be, but probably is a lie.

  [beat] 

  Alex Thacker : What we know for sure is Gary flirted with me, hit on me, took me out five times, slept with me twice, and then dumped me in a pile with the rest of the staffers he's used for his pleasure.

  Don Keefer : I can't emphasize this enough. This is the new HR rep.

  Alex Thacker : And I'm fine with all of that.

  Don Keefer : So we're cool.

  Wyatt Geary : No.

  Alex Thacker : What I am not fine with is being passed over for an assignment at work because I exercised poor judgment in my personal life.

  Gary Cooper : I gave it to her because she's better at this kind of thing.

  Alex Thacker : What kind of thing?

  Gary Cooper : The intersection of pop culture and the Holocaust. That might sound crazy.

  Don Keefer : It did.

  Gary Cooper : Look, I've gone out with several of the women in this building.

  Don Keefer : Maybe you don't understand what HR does.

  Alex Thacker : You're saying Stacey is a better writer than I am?

  Gary Cooper : She's a different writer than you.

  Alex Thacker : Different? Like I'm tired of this one, so I'll try a different one?

  Don Keefer : I told Gary to give it to Stacey, all right? He is covering for me. I told him to give it to her because she is a better writer than you are.

  Alex Thacker : Well, what am I supposed to do?

  Don Keefer : Write better. That's it. Thank you both.