- Laurel Gough: Ray didn't tell me that you were coming. I hope the guard in the lobby didn't give you trouble?
- Billie Newman: Hm, no, I always look like I know where I'm going, even when I don't.
- [smiles]
- Laurel Gough: I'll tell Ray you're here. I'll tell the guard you're here, too.
- Billie Newman: Maybe you'd also better tell Ray that I write for the Tribune.
- Laurel Gough: [catches on] Oh... I'll see if he's in.
- Billie Newman: [having identified a bunch of names as baseball players] Well, they all have their signatures on a baseball at K.D.F. properties offices. And I have a hunch that they all have something to do with Horsehide Enterprises.
- Lou Grant: They certainly do. Horsehide is a slang expression for baseball.
- Billie Newman: Yeah?
- Art Donovan: That's what baseballs are made out of.
- Billie Newman: [sadly] Horses?
- Art Donovan: No, probably old, unhappy horses.
- Billie Newman: Would you at least let me get an interview out of this?
- Ted McCovey: Sure, if you drive me back to my hotel.
- Billie Newman: They make you Man of the Year and they don't give you a ride?
- Ted McCovey: I tell 'em I only need a car one way. Ballplayers can always get a lift back.
- Lou Grant: Was the safe unlocked at any time when they were here?
- Vern Eggly: No.
- Lou Grant: You're sure?
- Vern Eggly: The safe was always locked.
- Lou Grant: [relieved] Oh, that's good.
- Vern Eggly: But there's nothing in it.
- Lou Grant: There isn't? Where's your codebook?
- Vern Eggly: It's right here.
- [picks up a large book lying on top of a computer terminal]
- Lou Grant: You're supposed to keep that in a safe!
- Vern Eggly: It won't fit in the safe.
- Art Donovan: [Billie is telling Art she broke up with Ted] Billie, you got a lot of friends out there.
- Billie Newman: I know.
- Art Donovan: Don't pick me to tell this to. I'm the least good person to be listening to how some no-neck's got you tied up in knots.