A scene from Deep Impact 1998
Jenny Lerner

We know everything.

Alan Rittenbouse

Nobody knows everything.

Jenny Lerner

Well, we know about the secret phone lines, and the whispered calls to the president, and about a secretary of the Treasury who's kept his entire department in the dark about what he's really doing, about a cover story about his resignation that just fell through. I mean, sir, you want me to go on?

Alan Rittenhouse

And you're just gonna break it?

Jenny Lerner

Well, that's what we do for a living.

Alan Rittenhouse

Well, congratulations, you now have the biggest story in history. Good luck to you. Personally, I think it's a mistake to run the story, but hey, what the hell? Why not? What difference does anything make anymore? Look, I know you're just a reporter, but you used to be a person, right? I wanted to be with my family. Can you understand that?

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