Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 2 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Fake Palindromes
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.17.2013
Janie: "Yeah, well. He said he was going to dinner with Bigelow, I hate Bigelow and he's covered for him before so I didn't want to double check..."
L/G: "-- Before. Great."
Janie: "I mean, how embarrassing. Yeah. But all I did was go to the restaurant. He wasn't there, so I drove around angry for a while and went home. That's when I got the call, and then I just remembered the good times and felt very much like a widow. Now, about my money."
Alicia: "First of all, I'm already pissed at you, and now Jeffrey Agos is here, so I don't have time to sugarcoat this
AGOS AGONISTES
Agos: "Diane! Listen, I just wanted to go over Cary's head real quick and dangle some money in front of you..."
Diane: "You've got my attention."
Agos: "The thing is, I think it's a soft No, based on the general counsel feeling weird about some snot-nosed fourth-year throwing his weight around like he's some big shot that could take his old man..."
Diane: "We can be blind, when it comes to our children. Or in my case, our employees. But I think I get it now. Keep talkin'."
What's funny about this storyline being in this episode is that it's exactly the same thing, but on the industrial level. When a company does something shitty, you will have people saying, "Well, that was legal. A corporation cannot be moral or immoral. It worked within the lines. Loophole is just another word for retard tax." Which is a story you can tell yourself, fine, as long as you ignore that when the same company has access to the laws themselves, then your system is broken.
It's no longer about "well, it was legal to do that," when it's the corporation itself defining what's legal in the first place. The only person who can chat at Monopoly is the banker, and he's gonna tell you it's okay because he got away with it. That stops being a defense, and starts being disingenuous at best and, at worst, the kind of shit we're talking about: Needing an internal story loud enough to drown out the sound of your internal voice, that nobody else will ever care about because they are people who've transcended that level of selfish childishness and know what it looks like.
Cary: "Hey, Diane! Hey, Dad! Diane, I'd like you to meet Dale Dazzo, the CEO of Emmonds Pharmaceuticals..."
Dazzo: "Uh, this is the most charming human being I have ever met in my life. I don't even remember the lunch where he ambushed me. I looked up into those baby blues, and suddenly I was standing here. Begging you to come back and work with us."
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