DDupont
I refuse your offer.
I think you're making a mistake.
DDupont
No. I'm testing your resolve. Removing me will take a lot of lives and Dalton doesn't have the stomach for that.
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How about a practice interview?
I don't think you need that.
Please, it'll push me over the top.
You're already over the top.
Please, Jay, I gotta kill this. When M. Sec sits down with me she's got to think I'm the second coming of... well, me.
Give me 48 hours to try to get Dupont to step down.
And if you can't?
Then send in the Marines.
I don't want to be the guy who's known for blowing the whistle and getting people axed because of it.
There's only one team, and now everyone knows you're on it.
Sorry to crash your party, but this is urgent.
SScott
I doubt it's a matter of life and death.
Actually it is life and death.
Tell Didi I said no problem. But I am going to have to file a report.
GGordon
Of course. Protocol, I guess? [takes out ornaments] Didi says these are yours? It was an isolated incident, Henry.
This always happens! Four years in with no scandals, you get gravel under you wheels and think you're Moses and can part the Red Sea. You can't part anything. You're in a leaky boat with one oar.
I'm not sure I follow this metaphor.
EEsmerelda
Tango is not math. It's sex.
Well, I can appreciate that, but right now, this feels like math.
We're renewing our vows.
EEsmerelda
Ah. This is an American thing. Why do you do these things?
Well, we never really got the wedding we wanted. I was about to deploy to the Marines and, uh, Yeah, we just sort of rushed in a little. We didn't get exactly what we wanted. I wanted a church wedding.
I wanted the dress and my bridesmaids and the... veil...
Yeah, and I wanted the first dance to be a tango.
And I wanted it to be "Baby, I Love Your Way," because that's the best song ever, but anyway, we didn't get any of that. What we got was a cranky judge at city hall.
And 126 years of wedded bliss.
We did get that, and three lovely kids.
Okay, aside from all the obvious questions of humanity, decency, and shame, how can they even do that without blatantly encroaching on federal immigration law?
I'm gonna kill Governor Barker. I mean talk to him... First, at least.
Well, I can talk to Senator Morejon.
Anti-immigration champion? Leader of the Squash Elizabeth McCord Club Morejon?
Was that Win Barrington?
Yes. He's been trying to get in to see Jay.
No, what he's trying to do is circumvent Jay's assistant because he thinks you're a loophole. Blake!
Hmm?
Tell Nina someone's trying to loophole her.
I'm sorry?
He says he's a representative of a wellness advocacy group.
Wellness advocacy. It's Win Barrington trying to lobby Jay to legalize pot.
Ah, yes.
See, part of your job is to sandbag dudes like this who think they can work around the gatekeepers and waste everybody's time with vaporizers and bongs. Dude's a clown. Blake'll fill you in. (walks away)
Okay. Win was Daisy's fiancee. She broke up with him to start dating Matt. Well, actually, they were already secretly dating.
Oh...
By the way, I'm reading you in on classified information.
Oh yeah, no problem.
So on election night a few years ago, Matt was making a play for Daisy, but she went home with Win instead, so what you are looking at now is--
Two alphas, neither of whom ended up with the girl. Got it. So go ahead and make the appointment for Jay?
Oh. God, no. Win's a ridiculous pot lobbyist. I just thought you'd be interested in the gossip.
Man. This is hard. I haven't written a poem since, like, seventh grade. Actually, that was more of a rap.
Ooh, a rap could be fun.
Yeah. Mm... but no. No.
Hey, guys. I think I got something. "The way we love our perfect parents can never be co-opted, though Stevie was an accident and Allie is adopted."
Well, why did we even get a band? They're so cheesy. We should just get a deejay.
Well, no, because Mom and Dad are cheesy, and they wanted a band. And this is their party, and we're supposed to be helping. I mean, how am I supposed to book a decent band in the middle of the holidays, at the last minute?
You were going for "decent"?
No, Jason. I was going for "good." But no I'm at "decent," and tomorrow I might be at "washboard and mouth harp," for all I know.
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