A guy drops 70 bucks in a dive bar. He's either buying rounds for the house or else he's wasted off his ass. Either way, he's gonna stand out.
S1 E7Counterfeit Reality
What'd you do, you opened it? What is with you, man? Even when we were kids, you were always going through my stuff.
You always had cool stuff.
S1 E8Identity Crisis
Oh, I see we're off on yet another exciting area of criminology.
It's like the evidence proves him right and wrong at the same time.
Oh yeah, the old paradox of Schrödinger's cat.
Is that that Persian that keeps hiding out in our garage?
Uh-uh, it's an intellectual exercise.
I knew that.
You know, I've been running some numbers from your minor league days. I wanted to see which ones were the best pitches for you to go after.
Charlie, I don't like to think about it too much, all right?
Why not? If you can analyze your performance, you can improve it, Don.
Some things are about how it feels.
S1 E9Sniper Zero
Children are wormholes. They're portals into the unreachable future and unattainable past. Well as .the things stand now, they exist only in theoretical realms.
Well.. I consider, you might have some trouble selling a woman the idea of carrying your wormhole.
Evaluating my immediate prospects for a conventional nuclear family, I've just now begun to consider adoption.
How long have you been considering that?
Three days.
Give it a few more days.
S1 E10Dirty Bomb
What, you didn't think I'd have a back-up plan?
In the first place, uh, we-we're not even sure that there, that there is a bomb, so ...
Bomb?
Well, we don't know where it's gonna go off.
Well, maybe not, but I would suggest that people quickly taking a ride out of town in an easterly direction might be of help right now.
Well, possibly not with these current wind conditions.
Look, what you hear stays in this room.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
A truck carrying three casks of this stuff was hijacked this morning.
Oh, that's not optimal.
HHouser
We're fairly confident that hasn't happened yet.
You're fairly confident?
Listen, Charlie, if you've got one failing, it's only that you don't think like a criminal ... 'course, what does that say about me?
S1 E11Sacrifice
I heard that, uh, Don was leaning towards the wife.
That's right.
Seems to be the first place they look nowadays.
I don't understand. I mean, if you hate the person you're married to that much, get divorced.
Even the thought of divorce holds its own special horrors, let me tell you.
Well, you and mom never thought about ... I mean, I was never witness to any kind of ...
That's exactly the way we wanted it.
You know what they say: Applied physicists are from Venus; Theoretical physicists wonder why it spins in the other direction.
S1 E12Noisy Edge
Hey, Charlie.
Hey.
What's up?
Just grading tests for my non-linear dynamics class.
Glad to see you're taking my advice and having some fun.
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