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Clips from Madam Secretary - The Beautiful Game (S03E03)

"- mourns Rabbi Lowenthal. - (phone rings)"
Madam Secretary
"Um, keep me posted, all right?"
Madam Secretary
"- Thanks, Jay. - Sorry."
Madam Secretary
"Hey, Mo. What's up?"
Madam Secretary
"I passed on your concerns about Ian Conroy to the higher-ups."
Madam Secretary
"They want you to be his handler for the mission."
Madam Secretary
"(chuckles) I can only imagine what he thinks about that."
Madam Secretary
"He's up for it."
Madam Secretary
"Doggie likes the man with the rolled-up newspaper."
Madam Secretary
"He needs someone who believes in him,"
Madam Secretary
"and the minute he finds out that's not me, which he will,"
Madam Secretary
"he is gonna flip out,"
Madam Secretary
"and that could put the entire mission at risk."
Madam Secretary
"I hear you, man. All right, I had to ask."
Madam Secretary
"Okay. Listen, uh,"
Madam Secretary
"Good luck. Bye."
Madam Secretary
"(sighs)"
Madam Secretary
"Sounds like somebody's getting let down easy."
Madam Secretary
"Oh, you ready for this?"
Madam Secretary
"Being celebrated for a Nobel Peace Prize nomination"
Madam Secretary
"I haven't gotten and no longer feel I deserve in the slightest?"
Madam Secretary
"- I am so ready. - Come on."
Madam Secretary
"NELLY: Madam Secretary. I'm so honored you could come."
Madam Secretary
"Are you kidding? We're old Wahoos."
Madam Secretary
"(chuckles): I'm sorry."
Madam Secretary
"This is my husband Henry McCord. Nelly Conlon."
Madam Secretary
"Such a pleasure to meet you."
Madam Secretary
"Conlon Hall is my favorite place to hear music."
Madam Secretary
"Oh, you are so gracious. Call me Nelly."
Madam Secretary
"Oh, do you mind if we get a quick photo?"
Madam Secretary
"- I'm sorry to ask. - ELIZABETH: No, not at all."
Madam Secretary
"I'm finally catching up with social media."
Madam Secretary
"Oh, well..."
Madam Secretary
"Evolve or die, right?"
Madam Secretary
"I suppose you have some theologian's perspective"
Madam Secretary
"on all this cultural narcissism, Henry?"
Madam Secretary
"Well, I just think it's an expansion"
Madam Secretary
"of self-representation."
Madam Secretary
"I get it."
Madam Secretary
"Spoken like a man who checks his Facebook page, like, never."
Madam Secretary
"I have Facebook?"
Madam Secretary
"I'm gonna get us a drink."
Madam Secretary
"I have to tell you, UVA has had seven Nobel laureates."
Madam Secretary
"I like to think that I've figured out a few things"
Madam Secretary
"move the needle with the committee."
Madam Secretary
"I..."
Madam Secretary
"I didn't realize that the Nobel committee needs lobbying."
Madam Secretary
"I know, you think they're all off in fjords somewhere."
Madam Secretary
"(both laugh)"
Madam Secretary
"But with everything online,"
Madam Secretary
"any kind of buzz matters."
Madam Secretary
"Like that, uh, NewsSource cover."
Madam Secretary
"- That was fantastic. - Oh, I'm-I'm not sure"
Madam Secretary
"you want some of the attention that's been getting."
Madam Secretary
"If some silly nonsense about your legs"
Madam Secretary
"is what gets your message out there, I say work it."
Madam Secretary
"Bosie!"
Madam Secretary
"(chuckles)"
Madam Secretary
"Is there something online about my legs?"
Madam Secretary
"NELLY: Secretary McCord,"
Madam Secretary
"may I introduce Victor Boseman,"
Madam Secretary
"Nobel laureate in Economics."
Madam Secretary
"- Oh, cool. It's really nice to meet you. - VICTOR: Madam Secretary."
Madam Secretary
"Dr. McCord."
Madam Secretary
"Sorry, I'm geeking out a little."
Madam Secretary
"HENRY: Well, Elizabeth was a math major,"
Madam Secretary
"so I'm sure"
Madam Secretary
"- the geeking is mutual. - (chuckles)"
Madam Secretary
"What's your theory? I mean, can I ask?"
Madam Secretary
"Broadly speaking, it concerns contract negotiations."
Madam Secretary
"I could never"
Madam Secretary
"- explain that to anybody. - Huh."
Madam Secretary
"VICTOR: Basically it's a statistical analysis"
Madam Secretary
"of optimal contractual arrangements,"
Madam Secretary
"building on Hart and Holmstrom's theory."
Madam Secretary
"The idea is to find out if there's a quantifiable balance"
Madam Secretary
"of interdependence that engages the goodwill"
Madam Secretary
"of both parties; and it turns out there is."
Madam Secretary
"Maybe the whole peace deal is easier than you think."
Madam Secretary
"VICTOR: Of course, it sounds reductive,"
Madam Secretary
"but it-it really does come down to both parties"
Madam Secretary
"having some baseline of mutual interdependence"
Madam Secretary
"with a few very simple,"
Madam Secretary
"very clear incentives."
Madam Secretary
"Huh. Is that all?"
Madam Secretary
"(laughs)"
Madam Secretary
"(door closes)"
Madam Secretary
"ELIZABETH: Gee, Mr. Math. (sputters)"
Madam Secretary
"Silly me, if I'd only just plugged Iran and Israel"
Madam Secretary
"into the right equation, then, well,"
Madam Secretary
"they could have been tangoing weeks ago."
Madam Secretary
"I mean, Iran yanking the most important piece of a peace deal"
Madam Secretary
"hours before we head into our final negotiations."
Madam Secretary
"I mean, is that really fair?"
Madam Secretary
"Some misguided lunatic"
Madam Secretary
"throwing a bomb at a rabbi he doesn't agree with,"
Madam Secretary
"get killed along with him."
Madam Secretary
"Is that fair?"
Madam Secretary
"But, hey, if I show just a little more leg,"
Madam Secretary
"maybe UVA will get another Nobel Prize."
Madam Secretary
"Hey, kids."
Madam Secretary
"You guys are back early."
Madam Secretary
"Possibly drunk."
Madam Secretary
"Well, it's been a stressful week."
Madam Secretary
"Well, you looked smoking hot on your magazine cover."
Madam Secretary
"Oh, my God, do you see that?"
Madam Secretary
"I mean, even in my own house, I am appraised like a show pony."
Madam Secretary
"Okay."
Madam Secretary
"All I said was you looked hot."
Madam Secretary
"Alison, it's not a reality show!"
Madam Secretary
"Fine. Forget I said anything."
Madam Secretary
"I'm gonna assume this is"
Madam Secretary
"somehow different than when Dad was called "arm candy""
Madam Secretary
"by a magazine, and everybody was just okay with that."
Madam Secretary
"Yeah, it's different."
Madam Secretary
"Oh, hey. How's Ali?"
Madam Secretary
"(sighs)"
Madam Secretary
"Oh, give yourself a break."
Madam Secretary
"I feel like a failure on every level."
Madam Secretary
"You do realize that just getting the Israelis and the Iranians"
Madam Secretary
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