Toby and Will in “No Exit”

Toby

What you wrote for Russell tonight was profoundly disturbing.

Will

Because he upstaged the President?

Toby

Because he might win.

Will

What?

Toby

Who was the first person to shake his hand after the speech tonight?

Will

I wasn't watching.

Toby

Of course you were.

Will

Chuck McGill, they golf.

Toby

In a room full of 600 reporters McGill's not a golf buddy, he's Chairman of Ways and Means. You made a calculation; you positioned him brilliantly. It never for a second crossed my mind before, but if you keep this up, he might win.

Will

Thanks.

Toby

It wasn't a compliment. You need to get the hell out of there. You're grooming this clown for a win and then what?

Will

Four more years. A better prescription drug plan, maybe the educational overhaul you guys can't seem to get off the ground.

Toby

With Howdy Doody at the helm?

Will

This isn't a dictatorship. There are hundreds of people running this White House. The salient detail being they're all Democrats. You most of all...

Toby

There are no launch codes at my desk! At the event of what I perceive to be a threat, I can't deploy troops to invade so much as a 7-Eleven. I don't care who you surround this guy with, he's going to wield a tremendous amount of power.

Will

He'll be fine. The Party wants a win. 60 million Democrats want...

Toby

Winning is easy.

Will

You only hit it once, and maybe never again.

Toby

Because you back the guy who should win, not the guy who will win. I backed a man of vision, who's still hanging on to his integrity with his teeth. You're damn straight I won't win again.

Will

There has to be a future, Toby. Someone will take the torch. You will despise the very notion of them whoever they may be.

Toby

Go find someone you can honestly respect. Groom him.

Will

I'll comb the countryside.

Toby

We went to Hokumville, New Hampshire, to find one, yeah. Comb the countryside.

Will

You go. If it's so important, you go. [pause] That's what I thought.