The Newsroom s03e04 Contempt

Good afternoon.
I'll tell you, Mr.
Geary, this isn't the best time.
You two are a couple.
We're not, but maybe we can do this later.
No, you are.
I have a signed letter declaring that you are.
It was sitting in my office in a pile of things I hadn't gotten to yet.
- Somebody ratted us out? - Yes.
Nobody around here would drop a dime.
You're blowing smoke.
- Who cheesed? - Okay, Mugsy.
- You did.
- Huh? - You did.
- Which one of us are you talking to? - I think you know.
- What's he talking about? Sloan wrote a letter to HR declaring the two of you a couple.
Yeah, it was after you made $125 on the Chipotle trade I tipped you off to.
We spent the last two weeks trying to conceal from this man that we're dating and the whole time you knew you'd sent him a letter saying we were dating? - Mm-hmm.
- Why? Well, obviously I was hoping he'd never find out.
But you knew he was gonna read the letter eventually.
Eventually is a wonderful time of day.
This was a cross that bridge when we get to it situation for me.
And here we are.
We're at the bridge.
- Wyatt - Is lying to corporate something you do habitually? Don and I like to make decisions about lying on a case-by-case basis.
Maybe you've helped enough.
Please, don't transfer one of us.
We don't work together enough, but the little we do works.
And if you ask Sloan to choose between me and her job, you wouldn't be able to get that sentence out before she said her job, and I really like her and I'm trying to be good enough.
And this here is the best thing that I do.
And can I say one more thing? It's just occurred to me that your company is only going to own my network until the end of the day, so what the hell has this all been about? - Come to think of it - I'm blown away you let me do it this long.
Why did you do it this long? Fun.
I work in HR.
Our days aren't scored by the "Hallelujah Chorus.
" I don't know anything about the story you were all working on, but I know enough to say sorry.
Good luck to the two of you.
I'm a big fan.