- Willa McPherson: [into the phone] Is that what you think? That you can just shit all over me and this magazine? This is 'Dirt Now'. We've outsold every other weekly two weeks running, and we're about to make it a third. So, you listen to me you insignificant piece of shit! You're giving me this story because if you don't, 'Dirt Now' will have a camera up your client's ass every second of every day. If she so much as blinks at another contestant, we're going to run that she's screwing him! Every pit stain, every ounce of cellulite, every photograph that makes her look semi-retarded, will be splashed, full-color, in the pages of our magazine, and that's off the top of my head. Wait until I give it some real thought. You've got 20 minutes to get her contestant-nailing ass over here before I make her a pin-up girl for every S.T.D. known to man, and then some!
- Lucy Spiller: You son-of-a-bitch! You gave up a source! You gave up Prince Tyreese!
- Brent Barrow: I had to! Tweedy McDaniel and his thugs... they came over to my house. They were gonna cut my dick off and feed it to me. You'd do the exact same thing if they threatened to cut your dick off.
- Lucy Spiller: [scoffs] Oh, you're a barrel of laughs.
- Brent Barrow: They were going to kill me, Lucy! Next, they would have come over to your house and tried to kill you to.
- Lucy Spiller: I don't care! Rule number one in the tabloid world: you never, NEVER give up a source! Thanks to you Prince Tyreese is finished. He may never play basketball again if he survives.
- Brent Barrow: Oh, what about you? You blackmail a rising basketball star, threaten to ruin him unless he becomes your snitch in tracking a murdered rap star. You print the story after I told you not to, knowing that the killers would come after us, and yet again I'M the one that comes off as the asshole here?
- Lucy Spiller: I'm not the one who gave up a source!
- Brent Barrow: Lucy, when I first hired you for this job four years ago, you moved into Carl's old office after he moved out. In his office, he hung on his wall a large, full-lenght mirror that was imported from Greece, which was worth maybe $10,000. The first thing you did when you moved into his office was that you took that mirror down.
- Lucy Spiller: So?
- Brent Barrow: So I think that it's about time that you found that mirror and put it back up so you can have a good look at yourself and wonder where did all your humanity go?