- Frank Tassone: My problem? My problem is you. Carol, it's the people who trot their poor children out like race horses at Belmont; who derive some perverse joy out of treating us like low-level service reps. I mean, do you remember the teachers who sat with you, who held you by the hand, who taught you to add and subtract, or showed you Gatsby, Salinger, for the first - Mockingbird even? Do their names escape you? Are their faces a blur? You listen to me! You don't want to see us as people because that is not convenient for you. You just leave us behind, at will. Never think about us again. You might forget, but we don't. We never forget. Ever.
- Big Bob Spicer: It's not your fault. She built up a decade's worth of trust with all of us. We were asleep at the wheel.
- Big Bob Spicer: You were my guy. I brought you in. I defended you. Now, I'm compromised, now. We all are.
- Frank Tassone: So, we were at dinner - how ever many years ago. It was no where fancy. It was a pizza place on Bell Boulevard. Two Greek salads and a fountain drink. And I fucked up. I used the wrong card by accident. It was for 20 dollars. And I said, I'll even it all out on Monday. I'll reimburse the school out of pocket. Whatever we had to do, you know. Monday came and went. Nobody said anything. Nobody - nobody cared. On Tuesday, it was a 60 cent bagel. Bob, if I wanted the money, I would have gone to Wall Street.
- Phil Metzger: The receipts are gone. They're in the bin of a shredder probably.
- Frank Tassone: But, she could have replaced them. I mean, there's a very real scenario here where all the other expenses are legit, right?
- Phil Metzger: Maybe. I don't know.
- Frank Tassone: Okay, Phil. Phil, she's not some criminal mastermind, right? Pam is our friend and she has made a stupid mistake.
- Phil Metzger: What about the State Controller? He could barge into this office at any given moment and conduct an outside audit.
- Frank Tassone: Has he ever done that once in your 30 years of experience?
- [Phil shakes his head no]
- Frank Tassone: Exactly.
- Big Bob Spicer: We've run the numbers and, folks, there's no simpler way for me to put it: our children are getting smarter.
- Frank Tassone: It's not perfect. But, it works. What we have here works. I hope we can keep it that way.
- David Bhargava: Are you asking me if I was a part of it? No, I wasn't. Not at any point in time. I promise you. But, you got to understand, those were guys that I come up with my entire career. Guys whose kids, you and Neal played with on the weekends. Guys with families. They were good people. And it was all gonna even out in the long run, so, who cares? I didn't say anything. I could have. But, I didn't. And that's something I live with.