- Charlie Eppes: What kind of crazy Kool-Aid do they make you drink when you join the Physics Department?
- [Asked when Larry defends research into Simon Kraft's psychic abilities]
- [after the case wraps up, Don and Charlie arrive home, still arguing about the merits of the psychic's powers, and Alan comes down the stairs]
- Alan Eppes: What, you guys, are you still at it? Look, it's obvious you're not gonna agree on this...
- [They continue arguing, Charlie suggesting maybe the man's work with the CIA gave him insight into the drug trade...]
- Don Eppes: Charlie, that is so thin.
- Charlie Eppes: I don't think it's...
- Alan Eppes: I agree with Don, it's pretty thin.
- Charlie Eppes: Oh, and attributing superhuman powers to a psychic, yeah that's 'thick'.
- Don Eppes: No, listen, I'm not saying everything he did was real, but you can't rule out...
- [There's a crash, startling all three of them, and they all turn to look where something has fallen off the wall]
- Alan Eppes: What's that?
- Don Eppes: ...That's Mom's picture.
- Charlie Eppes: [scoffs] Oh, don't start to say that that meant something, okay?
- Don Eppes: [giving Charlie a look] C'mon... that's spooky.
- Alan Eppes: [picking up the picture] You know, your mother never liked it when you guys argued.
- Charlie Eppes: Oh, there's many reasons that that just fell-Look, it's fallen before. You were supposed to put an earthquake anchor on that wall, Dad.
- [Alan rehangs the picture on the wall]
- Don Eppes: So, what that, that's a coincidence?
- Charlie Eppes: Coincidence and nothing more.
- Don Eppes: [still skeptical] Yeah... I dunno... That's weird.
- [Don and Alan exchange a look, then look back at Charlie, who's looking at his mother's picture and seeming less certain now...]
- Charlie Eppes: ...Coincidence.