Mark Blum credited as playing...
Lewis Estridge
- Lewis Estridge: [talking privately in the break room] All I'm suggesting is that there might be facets of this that you're not considering.
- Chuck Lane: Why are you defending him?
- Lewis Estridge: Nobody is defending him, Chuck.
- Chuck Lane: Of course you're defending him.
- Lewis Estridge: He's a kid.
- Chuck Lane: He doctored his notes, Lew. Just consider that for a second, you know? He sat down, and he hand-wrote a bunch of phony quotes, and then he handed them in as source material for the fact-check. Doesn't that offend you?
- Lewis Estridge: Of course it does.
- Chuck Lane: He also lied to his editor. That's supposed to offend you, too.
- Lewis Estridge: He's a confused, distraught kid, obviously, Chuck. So suspend him for a couple of months, but let's not bury him.
- Chuck Lane: [Shaking his head] Suspend him.
- Lewis Estridge: There are also political considerations to take into account here. The rest of the staff, the way they feel about him.
- Chuck Lane: I... I already know all that.
- Lewis Estridge: What I'm saying is if you fire him, some of these people will leave. I don't know if we'd still have a magazine at the end of the day.