- Mike Ross: [en route to Harvey's office] So, are we gonna talk about that little welcome speech that Jessica made for Louis?
- Harvey Specter: We don't have to talk about it because Louis isn't going to accept it.
- Mike Ross: Why not?
- Harvey Specter: Because it'll be a cold day in hell when he can accept being Maverick to my Iceman.
- Mike Ross: Don't... don't you mean Iceman to your Maverick?
- Harvey Specter: No, I don't.
- Mike Ross: You actually want to be Iceman over Maverick?
- Harvey Specter: Who got the trophy?
- Mike Ross: Who's the better pilot?
- Harvey Specter: The one who got the trophy.
- Mike Ross: Wrong, because in the end, Maverick saved Iceman. If he hadn't, Trophy Boy would be sitting on the bottom of the Indian Ocean right now.
- Harvey Specter: Where he'd still be the man.
- Mike Ross: According to you.
- Harvey Specter: According to me is the only according to that matters.
- Mike Ross: Here we go.
- Henry Gerard: [overhearing and joining in the conversation] Maybe, but according to me, Viper was the real hero of that film.
- Harvey Specter: Louis, I just offered to consider giving you one of my clients, so I suggest you let Gerard go.
- Louis Litt: No, I'm not letting anything go, because it doesn't make any sense. Not only can't he stand you. He doesn't respect you because he's got things...
- Harvey Specter: What did you just say to me?
- Louis Litt: I said he doesn't respect you.
- Harvey Specter: Well, you know what? He definitely doesn't respect YOU, because when he told me he needed a lawyer, I tried to send him your way, and his exact words were, "I don't want Louis. I want you."
- Louis Litt: Fine. Then I'll just take another one of your clients.
- Harvey Specter: You're not taking a thing.
- Louis Litt: You just said that I could...
- Harvey Specter: Look, I don't give a shit what I just said, okay? My clients are my clients, and, you don't get out of my office in the next three seconds, something's gonna happen between you and me, and I guarantee it won't end with you keeping all of your teeth.
- Harvey Specter: You figured this out on your own?
- Mike Ross: I would've done it faster, but I had to order some sushi.
- Harvey Specter: [chuckles] "Would've done it faster." That's what you said your first week here, except it was pizza instead of sushi.
- Mike Ross: Yeah, I'm growing.
- Harvey Specter: You mean Rachel taught you how to eat.
- Mike Ross: Like I said, I'm growing.
- Harvey Specter: The last time you saw me, you told me I wasn't fit to practice law in your ivory tower.
- Henry Gerard: What I told you was, is that you'll sacrifice ethics for wins, and right now I'm not in my ivory tower, and I need a win.
- Harvey Specter: I knew it. You're just like everybody else. The ends don't justify the means until it's your ass on the line.
- Henry Gerard: So you admitted to yourself that I didn't do this?
- Harvey Specter: I've admitted to myself that you came to me because this case needs rule-bending, and you're gonna tell me why right now.
- Henry Gerard: The money.
- Harvey Specter: Yes, the money. If you weren't bribed, where the hell did you get that $25,000 from?
- Henry Gerard: You know where it came from. It's the same thing you tried to use to blackmail me last year.
- Harvey Specter: Let me get this straight. You have an explanation for the money that would get you out of this whole thing.
- Henry Gerard: But I can't use it.
- [Harvey gets up immediately and walks away]
- Henry Gerard: Where are you going?
- Harvey Specter: To get you out of this. Welcome to the real world, Professor.
- Mike Ross: Gloating? No, no-no-no. I'm not... I'm not gloating. I'm merely recognizing the fact that you completely changed your mind based entirely on what I said.
- Harvey Specter: Which is gloating.
- Mike Ross: Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.
- Jessica Pearson: What do you want, Louis?
- Louis Litt: I want something for continuing to cover your as
- Jessica Pearson: You got something. You got your name on the wall.
- Louis Litt: Now I want the respect that comes with it.
- Mike Ross: Wait, we can't say where the money came from?
- Harvey Specter: No, we can't, because he was playing backroom poker, and if that comes out, Harvard fires him.
- Mike Ross: Are you kidding me? He's an ethics professor, and he's breaking the law?
- Harvey Specter: Where the hell do you think my chip comes from?
- Louis Litt: Harvey said he wouldn't let me have any of his clients.
- Donna Paulsen: No, he said he would, but then instead of taking him up on it, you went ahead and shit on his feelings.
- Louis Litt: Please. Harvey doesn't have feelings.
- Donna Paulsen: You of all people should know that a person can overreact when they're hurt.
- Louis Litt: If you're referring to me, I do not overreact when...
- Donna Paulsen: Okay, whatever you say, Fatty-Baldy.
- Louis Litt: Okay, get the hell out of my office and... Fine, you have a small, legitimate point.
- Mike Ross: Well, if we can't use his alibi, how are we supposed to get him out of this?
- Harvey Specter: I don't know, "Professor," but you're the one who wanted us to take this case, so why don't you use that big brain of yours and find a solution?
- Louis Litt: What I want is respect!
- Donna Paulsen: Then get out of your own way and get on the god-damn team!
- Louis Litt: You mean the team that kept Mike's secret from me?
- Donna Paulsen: NO, Louis! I mean the team that protected its own, because that's what teams do! And, you know, I shouldn't even be telling you this, because she wasn't going to, but if you need a little bit more evidence of what we do for each other, then take a look at Rachel, because she got Katrina a job.
- Louis Litt: What?
- Donna Paulsen: That's right. Your former associate -- and you've been treating Rachel like shit. So, if you're done yelling at me, then I suggest you go fix one of the thousand things that you've screwed up lately, because the rest of us -- we are DONE fighting for you!
- [Harvey drops Gerard as a client]
- Harvey Specter: I thought he was better than us. I sat in that class and listened to him talk about what kind of lawyers we should be, and I always let him down because I knew that wasn't the kind of lawyer that wins... and I wanted to win; so, I argued with him, and he looked down on me.
- Mike Ross: And now, instead of you letting him down, he let you down.
- Harvey Specter: He turned out to be no better than any of us.
- Harvey Specter: Louis is gonna look back with his beady little eyes and say "Embezzlement? That's not how I got my name on the wall," and the shit's gonna hit the fan anyway.