Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip2006

Harriet Hayes:
[Harriet and Danny are at the hospital chapel] Get down on your knees.

Danny Trip:
Really?

Harriet Hayes:
Yeah.

Danny Trip:
Why?

Harriet Hayes:
Respect.

Danny Trip:
See, this is my first speed bump. I would think if I were God, I wouldn't have any ego problems. I wouldn't need "Oh Lord, Creator of the Universe, Most Powerful and Merciful and... Handsome of all the Deities." There's a baby that's two weeks premature. Her mom can't stop bleeding. My friend and employee's brother is being held prisoner by medieval heroin dealers. If he needs 10 minutes of sucking up before he'll fix this, I don't wanna work with him.

Harriet Hayes:
The kneeling isn't for him, it's for you.

Danny Trip:
How is it for me?

Harriet Hayes:
It takes the average person in America 60 years to make what you make in a year. Takes the average person in the world 60 *lifetimes* to earn what you earn in a year. You have choices. Same is true for me, and the one thing that isn't handed to you on a silver platter is humility. So I like to begin each day on my knees and each day on my knees.

Danny Trip:
If he's everything you say he is, I shouldn't have to audition.

Harriet Hayes:
It's not an audition.

Danny Trip:
If he's real...

Harriet Hayes:
He is.

Danny Trip:
...and he loves me...

Harriet Hayes:
He does.

Danny Trip:
...why not just fix it?

Harriet Hayes:
I don't know. And I'm hoping it's going to be a long, long time before you get to ask him yourself. [pause] Get on your knees.

Danny Trip:
I wasn't handed anything on a platter. I'm who I am because my parents gave me opportunities. I'm who I am because I worked hard and got good grades. I got what I got because I went after a non-paying entry-level television internship and proved myself. I got what I got because I took *action.*

Harriet Hayes:
Are you a surgeon or a hematologist?

Danny Trip:
No.

Harriet Hayes:
Then what action can you take now?

Danny Trip:
[pause] I'm sorry. It... It feels wrong to be in this room. [exits]

Harriet Hayes:
[looking upwards] This isn't the time, but he... made some reasonably good points.