- Mary Richards: Well, I'll just - I'll just have to go to jail, that's all. It's the right thing. It's the honorable thing.It's the only thing. There's just one problem.
- [Suddenly hysterical]
- Mary Richards: I don't want to go to jail, Mr. Grant. I'm afraid to go to jail. I've never been to jail, Mr. Grant. I never even had to stay after school!
- Ted Baxter: They asked me what my name was and what I did.
- Murray Slaughter: And what did you tell them?
- Ted Baxter: I told them I was the best darn newsman in all of America.
- Murray Slaughter: You didn't.
- Ted Baxter: I had to. I was under oath.
- Georgette Franklin: Goodbye Mary and don't worry about your plants. I'll come and water them and talk to them every day. But I won't tell them where you are. I'll make something up.
- Lou Grant: Mary, I want you to reveal your source.
- Mary Richards: Okay, you look me in the eye and say that.
- Lou Grant: [Lou turns to face Mary] Mary, I want you to reveal your source.
- Mary Richards: You're looking me in the nose.