Vernon Masters and Jack Thompson in “Unfinished Business”

You need to start playing the long game here. The SSR is a wartime agency, and the war is over.

Jack Thompson

Am I being fired?

Worse. You're becoming irrelevant. The entire department of war is being restructured, which means that the SSR is going the way of the dinosaur. It's a different world now. And you've got to ask yourself, "do I want to be the former chief of the SSR or the current muckety-muck of the next big thing?"

Jack Thompson

I want to be in the muck.

And that's the kind of attitude that's gonna serve you very well.