Brad Lund

Diana Hastings: [knocks, door opens, sighs] Hi.

Mayor Braun: Come on in.

Diana Hastings: Thank you. I'm so sorry. I... I'm pulling the plug.

Mayor Braun: Hey, hey.

Diana Hastings: I mean, we have the money we need. We have more than we would need. And this would... destroy your brother.

[inhales deeply]

Diana Hastings: And I'm just so sorry.

Mayor Braun: Hey. You have nothing to be sorry for. You saved us, Diana.

Diana Hastings: [looks down] Mm-hmm.

Mayor Braun: This place was done. Just another town in the middle of nowhere, going nowhere. And everyone agreed... yours was the best idea we had. Unless you want to go back to the two Mikes' idea of... ostrich meat farms. Diana, you moving back here, caring so much... I mean, this whole thing...

[sighs]

Mayor Braun: Well, I just know how proud of you your dad is and how proud your mom would be. And how grateful every single one of us are for what you've done and everything you've given. It's working.

Diana Hastings: Okay.

[sighs]

Diana Hastings: What do we do about Gary?

Mayor Braun: Whatever Gary thinks he's got, why don't we just give him something better?

Gary Zimmer: So you used me.

Diana Hastings: We used you? You guys only show up here once every four years, and only then 'cause it's a swing state. And then, when it's over, you're gone. But we're still here with all the same problems we had before, just waiting around for you to come back and make the same empty promises as last time. We used the system. You make millions of dollars funneling tens of millions of dollars into this election economy. All we did is take a cut.

Gary Zimmer: Hmm. Well... I guess I just... I thought that maybe you and I had a little something.

Diana Hastings: [scoffs] I'm 28. I mean...

[chuckles]

Diana Hastings: in what world would this... be okay?

Gary Zimmer: D.C. and L.A., parts of New York, Miami, maybe Dallas.

Gary Zimmer: Mm.

[chuckles]

Gary Zimmer: Look... it wasn't personal.

Gary Zimmer: Mm.

Diana Hastings: It was math.

Gary Zimmer: Math.

Diana Hastings: But this system, the way we elect people, it's terrifying. And exhausting. And I think it's driving us all insane.