- Lou Grant: Duncan was with a woman when he died.
- Billie Newman: He was In Flagrante Delicto?
- Art Donovan: What does that mean?
- Billie Newman: It means he died with her boots on.
- Hotel Manager: You're not gonna print the name of the hotel, now are you? I mean, eh, I mean there's just no need to bring this favor to an L.A. institution.
- Lou Grant: Good point. We'll just say that he died in an unspecified fleabag on 120 West 14 street.
- Art Donovan: What happened to your hand?
- The Animal: I was in Rossi's place, feeding his dog. Dog bit me.
- Art Donovan: Oh, better take the dog to the vet, get it checked for rabies.
- The Animal: Then what?
- Art Donovan: Well, if the tests are positive, you'll have to be destroyed.
- The Animal: [a beat] That's good, Art, that's real good.
- Charlie Hume: [a tremor shakes the church during Lou's disastrous eulogy] Quake.
- Margaret Pynchon: Or the wrath of God...
- Lou Grant: [Lou is the only one in the office rattled after a small earthquake] You know, that was my first quake.
- Charlie Hume: We all have to lose it sometime, Lou.
- Ralph Tumora: People don't give cockroaches credit for having sensitivity.
- Joe Rossi: That's true. I never have.
- The Animal: If you ever need any more, I've got loads of 'em in my kitchen.
- Lou Grant: [Lou has messed up a eulogy at Duncan Aldrige's funeral] It just didn't come out right.
- Margaret Pynchon: Nobody's blaming you...
- Lou Grant: [quietly] Thanks.
- Margaret Pynchon: ...for the quake.