Mellie: So, the one fund got transfered to the other fund, and that's the same as the other other fund, and that's all important.
Paul: That's it. Exactly.
Mellie: You have a very glamourous job.
Paul: That's how I can afford to take you to all these fancy places.
Mellie: Hey, this is the nicest offer I've had this month. Or, last month.
Paul: Weren't you... seeing someone? Rick.
Mellie: Dick.
Paul: Really? I thought it was Rick.
Mellie: Oh, his name is Rick.
Paul: Uhh.
Mellie: Uhm-uhm. He said he didn't see me as a long term investment, so he wanted to dump the stock before it went public. He talks like that. He works at a donut shop.
Paul: What a Rick.
Mellie: Yeah. Hey, I get that I'm not the gold standard in LA...
Paul: Please, you're gorgeous.
Mellie: ...but, I do have access to important government information that I don't understand.
Paul: Boils down to this: today was a slightly better day for the good guys than it was for the bad guys.




Mellie: Are you always gonna show up bleeding? 'cause it'd kind of funny how I'm not getting used to it.
Paul: It was her.
Mellie: You met Caroline?
Paul: I saw Caroline. And I met Rebecca. And I let both of them get away.
Mellie: So it's all true.
Paul: I knew it was true, I just... didn't expect... if it had been anybody else, the jail cells would have been full and I would have been busy writing the great American arrest report. I never thought it'd be her.
Mellie: Did you get the guy? The... John, the client... what are they called?
Paul: I talked to him.
Mellie: And?



Mellie: And you kissed him?
Paul: I'm sorry.
Mellie: I'm not. I mean I am. I-I mean you are. Don't do that. Don't inflate the stock before you dump it. Don't think about her and kiss me.
Paul: I wasn't.
Mellie: Forget it. I think it's best if we forget it. It'd be stupid anyway, we're neighbours, we should just...
Paul: We should be neighbourly.
Mellie: Great. Yes. Neighbourly. Can I borrow a cup of sugar? Like that. So, why don't you tell me about today?
Paul: The guy's name was Joel Mynor.
Mellie: Joel Mynor, from Bouncy the Rat? He's on the cover of Wired.
Paul: You read Wired?
Mellie: I can see the cover at stores. Brownish hair, pudgy, kind of cute?
Paul: I don't remember him as cute.




Mellie: My God, you're so... neighbourly.
Paul: So... can I borrow a cup of sugar?
Mellie: I don't think I've got any sugar left.




Mellie: I'm not gonna freak out on you.
Paul: Ahh... good?
Mellie: When you tell me this is all a mistake, and I should forget it ever happened, I'm gonna be very cool. You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.
Paul: And what if I don't say that?
Mellie: I'll still be cool. But not as cool.
Paul: What if you tell me it was a mistake?
Mellie: Oh God you're gonna be so clingy, weeping and moping? Texting me?! Oh, it's too embarassing.
Paul: I'm not a piece of meat, you know. I have a heart.
Mellie: Blah, blah.



Mellie: I was thinking about Caroline.
Paul: Well I wasn't.
Mellie: I believe you. And... I believe you should find her. I think what they're doing is wrong. And I don't love seeing you get beat up and shot, but... I think your work is important.
Paul: Then help me out.
Mellie: Is this the part where you dress me up and use me as bait? 'cause those movies never end well.
Paul: It's the part where I run down at Tiggy Pork and grab us dinner. Then we go over my files, and you give me your perspective on some stuff. You may see something I didn't.
Mellie: You think I'd be helpful?
Paul: Yeah.
Mellie: That's the sweetest thing you've done for me all day.
Paul: Well. What about the... the other things?
Mellie: Fetch me spring rolls, then I'm gonna bust this case wide open.


No quotes for this. Just Mellie kicking ass.


All right, fess up. How many of you thought she was gonna be Jenny Calendar-ed (that's totally a world in the Jossverse)?