David DoyleQuotes

Robert Caulfield: Somebody took a shot at me.

Walter Loughlin: When?

Robert Caulfield: Yesterday.

Walter Loughlin: Thank God I've got an alibi.

Robert Caulfield: Look, when a reporter tells his assignment editor that he thinks he may be on to something that could be really big, the assignment editor is supposed to say: "You've got 48 hours, kids, and you better come up with something good or it's going to be your neck!" That's what he's supposed to say, I saw it in a movie.

Walter Loughlin: You're not crazy, I'm crazy. I'm crazy for listening and I'm crazy for saying what I'm about to say. I'll give you 24 hours to come up with something. Not 48. I saw the movie too, it was 24.

Walter Loughlin: [[Bob Woodward|Woodward; [Carl Bernstein|Bernstein; [w:Patty Hearst|Patty Hearst; [w:John F. Kennedy assassination|Kennedy assassination] Listen to me and listen good. I don't like you, Caulfield. You're ambitious. You think the way to get ahead is to come up with the scoop of the century. ] and ] were good reporters, that's how they did it. Not by telling me they've located ] three times like you did or that brilliant piece of investigative journalism you pulled off by finding an eye witness to the second gunman in the ]. The small fact that the man had been in a mental institution at the time never deterred you, not Scoop Caulfield. Now most reporters are like me. They are plodders. They spend a lot of their time checking little things... like facts. They cover mundane stories like wars and trials and hearings. You never seem to have enough time in your busy schedule to stoop so low as to cover a story. You occupy your time with tips from people who never existed. Driving your car into water and claiming it wasn't your fault. Getting shot at by unseen gunmen. Now I really hate to interrupt your meteoric career with something so plebeian as a legitimate story. However, a train load of propane gas had the bad taste to derail near Galveston and there's a whole town that just might blow up. So it would be just really peachy of you if you would join your film crew that's waiting for you on the plane at this very moment while we speak.

Robert Caulfield: That was some speech.

Loughlin: I thought so.

Walter Loughlin: You're fired! Oh, I love how that sounds. I love that so much I'm going to say it again. You're fired. You're through. Oh, I love it!