Sports Night (TV Series)
Ordnance Tactics (1999)
Josh Charles: Dan Rydell
Quotes
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Dan Rydell : Why are you mad at me?
Rebecca : Why were you avoiding me during the bomb scare?
Dan Rydell : I wasn't avoiding you.
Rebecca : You were. We were out on the street for over an hour. It was a perfectly good bomb scare.
Dan Rydell : I tried to find you.
Rebecca : No, you didn't. And every time I tried to find you, someone would say you had just left the place that someone else had just said you had been right before.
Dan Rydell : That was a truly spectacular sentence.
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Dan Rydell : So, we're two likable guys, right?
Casey McCall : I think so.
Dan Rydell : I think we're very likeable.
Casey McCall : I'm liked wherever I go.
Dan Rydell : I'm liked wherever I go *and* wherever you go.
Casey McCall : We're perfectly likeable.
Dan Rydell : Yes.
[Dan and Casey go about their work for a moment]
Casey McCall : And yet somebody tried to blow us up.
Dan Rydell : That's what I'm sayin'.
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Dan Rydell : I was employing the covert ordnance tactics I learned.
Rebecca : Where did you learn covert ordnance tactics?
Dan Rydell : [sheepishly] 'Nam.
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Rebecca : Why were you avoiding me?
Dan Rydell : Why?
Rebecca : Yeah.
Dan Rydell : Take a wild, flailing shot in the dark. Take a ridiculous, nothing on the line, Hail Mary toss from the back court heave as to why I might be avoiding you.
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Dan Rydell : [referring to bombs after a bomb scare] What are the advanced ways they have of detecting these things?
Dana Whitaker : Dan...
Dan Rydell : What are the advanced ways?
Dana Whitaker : Well, as I understand it,
[pause]
Dana Whitaker : they use dogs.
Dan Rydell : I'm outta here.
Casey McCall : Right behind you.
Dana Whitaker : Oh get ahold of yourselves, would ya?
Casey McCall : Dogs?
Dana Whitaker : Dogs. Yes. Specially-trained dogs.
Dan Rydell : We want to meet them.
Dana Whitaker : Guys...
Dan Rydell : We want to meet the dogs right now.
Dana Whitaker : Okay. And what will you say to the dogs when you meet them?
Dan Rydell : She's got a decent point.
Casey McCall : Yeah.
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Casey McCall : Dan.
Dan Rydell : Yep?
Casey McCall : I just wanted to say that if anything terrible ever had to happen to one of us, I'd want it to be you.
Dan Rydell : Thanks.
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Natalie Hurley : We're women.
Casey McCall : What?
Dana Whitaker : We're women.
Dan Rydell : You're women.
Dana Whitaker : Yes.
Casey McCall : I have to say, Danny, that in both their cases, there's considerable evidence to support that theory.
Dan Rydell : Dana...
Dana Whitaker : We're in charge. We're women in charge. And we're keeping it together. That's what we do.
Casey McCall : That's what you do.
Dana Whitaker : That's right.
Casey McCall : Well we're men, we're petrified. That's what we do.
Dan Rydell : We've found that giving into our fears has made us stronger.
Casey McCall : And not just a little pathetic.
Dan Rydell : Right, mostly stronger.
Casey McCall : Yeah.
Dan Rydell : So if you're scared, if you're sad, if you're mad, you should tell us. It's entirely possible we'd be able to say or do something that'll make you feel better.
Casey McCall : That's the other thing we do.
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Dana Whitaker : What are you doing?
Dan Rydell : What?
Dana Whitaker : What are you two doing?
Dan Rydell : Us?
Dana Whitaker : Yes.
Dan Rydell : We're standing here.
Dana Whitaker : Guys, we're on the air in fifteen minutes and thirty seconds, aren't there many things you're supposed to be doing?
Casey McCall : Yes.
Dana Whitaker : Then what are you doing?
Dan Rydell : There was a bomb scare.
Dana Whitaker : I know. Casey...
Casey McCall : There was a bomb scare.
Dana Whitaker : Did you know the two of you have been repeating that over and over for the last hour and twenty minutes? Do you know you've been repeating that over and over?
Dan Rydell : Yes.
Dana Whitaker : Why?
Casey McCall : There was a bomb scare.
Dana Whitaker : Yes.
Dan Rydell : There was.
Dana Whitaker : It's over now.
Casey McCall : Well it worked.
Dana Whitaker : What do you...
Casey McCall : We're scared!