Powerless (TV Series)

Emergency Punch-Up (2017)

Christina Kirk: Jackie

Quotes 

• [indicated two men with microphones sitting on Van's couch] 

  Jackie : Are they feeding you jokes in an earpiece?

  Van Wayne : No.

  Jackie : No?

  Van Wayne : All right, fine. The corporate retreat is my only opportunity to get face time with the big dogs. Gabe and Noah over here wrote for "The Harvard Lampoon" and were executive story editors for "The Suite Life of Zach & Cody".

  Jackie : What a great use of a Harvard education.

• [Jackie nudges Emily who has fallen asleep at her desk] 

  Emily Locke : You forgot to assign homework!

  Jackie : God, even in your dreams, you're still you.

• [ominous alarm sounds] 

  Ron : Which alarm is that? Zombie virus?

  Jackie : Alien invasion? Giant spider robots from another dimension where the Nazis won?

  Teddy : No, that one goes "Ee-you-ee-you-ee-you".

  Emily Locke : [looking through the office's disaster manual]  No, it's a gas attack.

  Ron , Jackie , Teddy , Wendy : Ugh!

• Emily Locke : Okay, hold on, hold on, I can fix this. Now there's no reason we can't have fun and bond here. You know, I've got my karaoke machine and...

  Wendy , Teddy , Jackie , Ron : No!

  Emily Locke : So that's a maybe on the karaoke.

• [Emily has sniffed the truth gas, which will kill her in two hours unless they can coax her into the safe area] 

  Jackie : Emily is not coming in. Somebody's gonna have to go save her. Normally that would be Emily.

  Wendy : So are you going to do it?

  Jackie : I came up with the idea, so I've done my part.

• Jackie : So now what are we going to do? The bathroom bucket is gone and Emily is about to die. We need to fix one of these things.

• Jackie : Guys, Van/Gabe is right. I think we know the sacrifice we need to make to get Emily back in here.

  Wendy , Teddy , Van Wayne , Ron : Oh

  [bleep] 

  Wendy , Teddy , Van Wayne , Ron : !

  [the gang starts to sing Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" on the karaoke machine]