- Katie Vasser: So, um, did you see Livia at the swingers party?
- Dan Vassar: Yeah.
- Katie Vasser: What'd you guys do?
- Dan Vassar: Talk.
- Katie Vasser: You went to a swingers party and all you did was talk?
- Dan Vassar: That and watch the Nixon "I am not a crook" speech on the news. It was a rush to see it on the day that it actually happened.
- Katie Vasser: Honey, I love that you went to a wife-swapping party and it was Nixon that turned you on.
- Dan Vassar: I don't wanna do this anymore Liv.
- Livia Beale: Yeah, I know.
- Dan Vassar: Some higher power wants me to do his dirty work, I wanna know why.
- Livia Beale: Good luck with that.
- Dan Vassar: You travel to the future.
- Livia Beale: And you travel to the past.
- Dan Vassar: The only time we meet is on business. We were never meant...
- Livia Beale: We were never meant to live together in your present. Or mine. We were never meant to be, Dan.
- Dan Vassar: We're out of sync. We always were.
- Abby Armstrong: My life has changed its course and I'm just gonna go with it.
- Dan Vassar: Well, sometimes you don't have a choice.
- Abby Armstrong: Yeah. What about you?
- Dan Vassar: Ah, you know, I'm just trying to get home.
- Livia Beale: Okay, Dan, what's going on with the keys?
- Dan Vassar: Wait a minute. A key party?
- Livia Beale: What's that?
- Dan Vassar: I didn't think this actually happened, but... Men swapping wives in the seventies.
- Livia Beale: Eww.
- Elliot Langley: Are you finding that other people are interested in your work?
- Dan Vassar: As a matter of fact, yes.
- Elliot Langley: Men with guns always wanna control the men with ideas.
- Dan Vassar: Is that why you left that think tank? Thurn-Tippit, was it?
- Elliot Langley: Yes. The Patriot Act made my research at Thurn accessible to the government. They rationalized that in a time of war, they needed access to anything that could help defeat terrorism.
- Dan Vassar: Defeat terrorism? What are you working on? Something the FBI might be interested in?
- Elliot Langley: Just don't tell anyone about your book. Even a novelist has to worry about losing intellectual property, hmm?