- Hope Murdoch Steadman: [watching their baby sleep] She's so pretty.
- Michael Steadman: Yeah, I know. What if she grows up ugly?
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: I think about that, too.
- Michael Steadman: What if she grows up poor?
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: Will you stop worrying?
- Michael Steadman: Oh, listen, you don't know what I did today. Start packing the bags. We're closing in the morning. I blew off the Teller account.
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: Well, good. Teller's a yutz.
- Michael Steadman: Yeah.
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: I can always go back to work.
- Michael Steadman: No, no, no. You're not gonna go back to work until you want to go back to work. I make plenty of money when I'm not going bankrupt.
- Michael Steadman: Let's go backpacking.
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: Michael.
- Michael Steadman: Come on. We're allowed to have a life, aren't we? What's wrong with spending a few nights away from your kid after seven months?
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: What am I supposed to do, interview babysitters? How do you interview babysitters? "Good morning. Are you a genius? Are you totally wonderful and kind? And have there been any child molesters in your family for the last 12 generations?"
- Michael Steadman: Seems to hit the main points.
- Michael Steadman: Babysitters?
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: Can we talk about it later?
- Michael Steadman: That good.
- Hope Murdoch Steadman: We are never gonna have a babysitter. We are never going to leave this house. We're never gonna have a life until she's 30 and she can baby-sit for us.
- Michael Steadman: [on the phone with a client] That would never work. Because it's sleazy, Mr. Teller. Hasn't that occurred to you?
- [Elliot enters as he talks and tries to get his attention]
- Michael Steadman: No, no, no, no. Their campaign isn't sleazy. I love their campaign. I wish I had done their campaign, but I didn't do their campaign. Therefore, if I steal their campaign, it's sleazy. It doesn't matter what their sales were afterwards. Am I speaking English here? Plagiarism, theft, taking things that aren't yours? Well, you know something? You're right. And one of the privileges of being a bunch of amateurs is we still have the illusion of doing our own work and having a little integrity.
- [mortified, Elliot covers his ears and tries to pretend he's not hearing him]
- Michael Steadman: Which I now see any further association with your business or, in fact, you personally, would make me sick to my stomach and throw up!
- [hanging up, he pretends to hang himself with his tie]
- Elliot Weston: [to make a point, he picks up the receiver] Mr. Teller? Hi. Mike's partner, Elliot. Listen. Mike's had an unfortunate accident, and he's dead. And I just want to tell you how much I like the idea of stealing a Clio Award-winning campaign and especially how much I like the idea of $200,000.
- [hanging up]
- Elliot Weston: Because without that $200,000, we're going out of business, and that's what my partner forgot, and that's why he's dead.