The Newsroom (TV Series)
One Step Too Many (2013)
Hamish Linklater: Jerry Dantana
Quotes
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MacKenzie McHale : Any Questions?
Jim Harper : Sarin gas?
MacKenzie McHale : I don't believe it either. And I also don't believe in Santa Claus but if I saw eight reindeer take flight...
Jim Harper : You haven't seen eight reindeer. You've talked to someone who's seen eight reindeer.
Jerry Dantana : And we have someone who's tweeted about the reindeer and a third witness who's interviewed victims of the reindeer and a highly placed confidential source who's confirmed that in this place, at that time, reindeer flew.
Sloan Sabbith : It could matter less, but Santa Claus has nine reindeer.
Don Keefer : Rudolph!
Sloan Sabbith : Dasher Dancer Prancer...
Neal Sampat : Blitzen...
Sloan Sabbith : How many is is that?
Jerry Dantana : It really doesn't matter.
Jim Harper : You really believe we used Sarin.
Jerry Dantana : Yes.
Jim Harper : On civilians
Jerry Dantana : Yes.
Don Keefer : Dasher, Dancer, Prancer...
Jim Harper : What are you doing?
Don Keefer : Well, I'm just digesting what I just heard. I'm doing a fact check on the number of reindeer...
Sloan Sabbith : Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Comet, Blitzen, Cupid, Donner, Vixen and somebody else.
Neal Sampat : Rudolph.
Sloan Sabbith : Thank you.
Don Keefer : How many was that?
Sloan Sabbith : Start again. Dasher...
Jim Harper : No.
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Jim Harper : Do we even have Sarin gas?
Jerry Dantana : We're not supposed to. They were supposed to be destroyed by 2007 according to the Chemical Weapons convention but it wasn't. We still have it. The DOD confirms that.
Jim Harper : We may have it, but we've never used it. We didn't use it in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the First Gulf War and we were fighting people that did have...
Jerry Dantana : Those all happened before 9/11. We torture people now. We kidnap them, wire tap them...
Jim Harper : Drop deadly gas on civilians?
Jerry Dantana : It happened, Jim. This is the one we know about.