The Newsroom2012

Alex Thacker:
The copy should have been assigned to me, but Gary assigned it to Stacey.

Don Keefer:
[to the HR rep] Once I give it to Gary, Gary gets to make that call.

Alex Thacker:
Based on merit, not based on who he prefers to sleep with at any particular moment.

Gary Cooper:
I'm not sleeping and I've never slept with Stacey.

Alex Thacker:
That may or may not be, but probably is a lie. [beat] What we know for sure is Gary flirted with me, hit on me, took me out five times, slept with me twice, and then dumped me in a pile with the rest of the staffers he's used for his pleasure.

Don Keefer:
I can't emphasize this enough. This is the new HR rep.

Alex Thacker:
And I'm fine with all of that.

Don Keefer:
So we're cool.

Wyatt Geary:
No.

Alex Thacker:
What I am not fine with is being passed over for an assignment at work because I exercised poor judgment in my personal life.

Gary Cooper:
I gave it to her because she's better at this kind of thing.

Alex Thacker:
What kind of thing?

Gary Cooper:
The intersection of pop culture and the Holocaust. That might sound crazy.

Don Keefer:
It did.

Gary Cooper:
Look, I've gone out with several of the women in this building.

Don Keefer:
Maybe you don't understand what HR does.

Alex Thacker:
You're saying Stacey is a better writer than I am?

Gary Cooper:
She's a different writer than you.

Alex Thacker:
Different? Like I'm tired of this one, so I'll try a different one?

Don Keefer:
I told Gary to give it to Stacey, all right? He is covering for me. I told him to give it to her because she is a better writer than you are.

Alex Thacker:
Well, what am I supposed to do?

Don Keefer:
Write better. That's it. Thank you both.