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First Aired: Jul. 15, 2012 on HBO

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Season 1 » Episode #04 - I'll Try to Fix You

The Newsroom - 01x04 I'll Try to Fix You

Summary: Will's mission suffers a setback when he attracts a tabloid's attention; Wade approaches Will with some information about the government's fight against white-collar crime; while Maggie finds a date for Jim, Sloan has trouble being a matchmaker.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

MacKenzie McHale	played by Emily Mortimer
Reese Lansing	played by Chris Messina
Nina Howard	played by Hope Davis
Carrie	played by Kathryn Hahn
Wade Campbell	played by Jon Tenney
Lisa Lambert	played by Kelen Coleman
Kaylee	played by Natalie Morales (II)
Monica	played by Missy Yager

Episode Quotes

Charlie Skinner: Let's open to page six, which for some reason is on page 10.

Reese Lansing: Every second you're not current a thousand people are changing the channel to the guy who is. That's the business you're in. MSNBC, FOX and CNN all say she's dead. Don, tell him.
Don Keefer: It's a person. A doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

Will McAvoy: Mac, get in here with Charlie right now.
Mackenzie MacHale: Is everything...
Will McAvoy: Right now! [points to Charlie as he enters the room] You tell Leona that if she wants me out of this chair, she better bring more than just a couple of guys.
Charlie Skinner: That's exactly what I'll fucking tell her!
Will McAvoy: I'm not fucking around, Charlie!
Charlie Skinner: Feet of fucking steel!
Will McAvoy: Mac
Mackenzie MacHale: I'm sorry.
Will McAvoy: It's not your fault
Mackenzie MacHale: I fucked everything up.
Will McAvoy: It's gonna be all right.
Don Keefer: [Entering the studio] What the fuck is going on?
Will McAvoy: You're a fucking newsman, Don! I ever tell you otherwise, you punch me in the face!
Don Keefer: Okay, but you're back in 30.

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Mistakes/Goofs

Goof (continuity error): At 21 minutes, the dark water mark patch on Will's shirt changes side and in volume from shot to shot through out the scene

Trivia

Guest-star Hope Davis and cast-member Jeff Daniels appeared together in the play "God of Carnage" on Broadway in 2009.