Jon Stewart credited as playing...
- Trent: You know I'm not just asking you to dinner as a pre-emptive strike against litigation. I'm asking because...
- Meredith: I'll have dinner with you.
- Trent: What changed your mind?
- Meredith: Anyone who can say 'preemptive strike against litigation' with a straight face deserves a dinner companion.
- Meredith: Wow.
- Trent: Yeah I know, the flowers are a little much, but I'm late. But only because I had second thoughts about the flowers and threw them away halfway down the block. Then had third thoughts and went back and got them.
- Meredith: I'll tell you what I don't want. I don't want all this calculated artificiality. This dress, these stupid little bows in my hair, they aren't me. I mean, look at you. You - you don't sit around your house in an Armani suit, do you?
- Trent: No. My house is black-tie.
- Meredith: I have a hard time trusting men.
- Trent: I'm not men. I'm not a group. I'm just me.
- Meredith: [on the phone after Mark's funeral] Trent, is it too late to say "I love you"?
- Trent: It's early.
- Meredith: Look, Trent, you're a nice guy, I don't...
- Trent: [groaning] Oh, oh, that's - you know...
- [heading for the railing]
- Trent: I'm swimming to shore, you can call the Coast Guard.
- Meredith: Oh, come on!
- Trent: Nice guy? That's - I haven't been dismissed with that since high school!
- [pause]
- Trent: Does that mean no second date?
- Meredith: I don't deal with passion well.
- Trent: Maybe you don't like that loss of control. You prefer to be the director, telling everyone what to do.
- Meredith: It's pretty painfully obvious, isn't it.
- Trent: Somewhat painful, yes... You know there's something to find out about me.
- Meredith: What's that?
- Trent: That I take direction pretty well.
- [Fumbling on a date]
- Meredith: As you can see I'm not very good at this.
- Trent: You're charming.
- Meredith: Well, That doesn't take long does it?
- Trent: What doesn't?
- Meredith: I mean, you turn a guy down a-and WHAM. he just metamophoses into an anger ball.
- Trent: An 'Anger ball'?
- Meredith: See.
