- Jimmy Collins: [comes storming in] Lea Michele? Lea Michele?
- Derek Wills: If you say it one more time, she magically appears.
- Jimmy Collins: Do you understand anything about this show, huh? The point is to come out of nowhere, take people by surprise. You cast a celebrity, it overshadows everything!
- Derek Wills: The Diva is the biggest superstar in the world, right? She's Lady Gaga, she's Madonna, and if we cast a real star to mirror that, that would be a big coup, all right? I know what I'm doing here, Jimmy. Just let me do my job.
- Jimmy Collins: I've let you do a lot of things I'm not cool with. Not this one. It's my show!
- [tosses down script, storms off]
- Jimmy Collins: Uh, that's my shirt.
- Karen Cartwright: No, I think it's mine.
- Jimmy Collins: Oh, yeah, did you go to Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn?
- Karen Cartwright: Not technically. But... see the way the fabric's worn through?
- Jimmy Collins: Hmm.
- Karen Cartwright: The neckline is... stretched out
- [he scoffs]
- Karen Cartwright: so that it...
- [slips it on]
- Karen Cartwright: falls off one shoulder,
- [he laughs]
- Karen Cartwright: like that? That makes it a girl's shirt. Can I have it?
- Jimmy Collins: Well, you certainly look better in it than I do, that's for sure.
- Karen Cartwright: Thanks for walking me home. I can take it from here.
- Derek Wills: You sure?
- [she nods]
- Derek Wills: You don't need an escort upstairs?
- [she chuckles]
- Derek Wills: We could get another drink. I know a spot on the corner.
- Karen Cartwright: I have an early rehearsal tomorrow, and the director's a control freak.
- Derek Wills: Fair enough. Good night.
- Karen Cartwright: 'Night.
- Karen Cartwright: I'm crazy about him. Seeing him perform today made it so clear. Even right now, watching him hit on that guy for Kyle, has me all... melty.
- [giggles]
- Ana Vargas: [chuckles] Then tell him.
- Karen Cartwright: He's not into me.
- Ana Vargas: Then you'll know. And you'll cry. And you'll hate him, and then you'll move on. At least you put yourself out there.
- Karen Cartwright: [sighs] I'm scared...
- Ana Vargas: What if I put myself out there first?
- [takes swig of drink]
- Karen Cartwright: Let me ask you a serious question.
- [backs out:]
- Karen Cartwright: Should we have one more drink?
- Jimmy Collins: [takes glass from her] Yeah, I think you've had enough for tonight.
- Karen Cartwright: Come on. This is the first time we've been out in ages, and you've been blowing me off lately.
- Jimmy Collins: Yeah, I know.
- Karen Cartwright: Why? Do you like me or not?
- Jimmy Collins: Of course I like you.
- Karen Cartwright: No. I mean... Do you like me?
- Julia Houston: [finds Tom sorting script pages] Ugh. Locked in your bedroom at your own cast party? You look like me at my Sweet Sixteenth.