- Rob: They're not real. You get that, right? None of it is real. The critics aren't real. The customers aren't real. Because... *this* isn't real.
- Chef Finway: [laughing awkwardly] Okay...
- Rob: Derek, why do you care about these people? They don't care about you. None of them. They don't even know you because you haven't shown them. Every day, you'll wake up, and there'll be less of you. You live your life for them, and they don't even see you. You don't even see yourself.
- [long pause; Derek's tight smile has slowly faded into a look of sorrow and regret]
- Rob: We don't get a lot of things to really care about.
- Charlotte (formerly Restaurant Waitress): [Waitress giving rote announcement that accompanies the deconstructed scallops she has just delivered in a smoke filled globe to Rob and Amir's table] We all have a set of beliefs about the world around us. To challenge them is to acknowledge our foundation is sand, but it opens us up to something greater, to pure connection, to true life. Today's journey begins by uniting the depths of the sea with the riches of our forests. We've emulsified locally sourced scallops encased in a flash-frozen seawater roe blend, on a bed of foraged huckleberry foam, all bathed in the smoke from Douglass fir cones.
- Rob: I'd like to speak to the chef.
- Rob: What happened to the persimmon tree?
- Bryce: What's a persimmon?
- Rob: It's a uh.. it's an orange fruit looks kind of like tomato.
- Rob: You can't eat it if it's not ripe it's awful
- Rob: But if you give it time, it gets rid of these things called tannins and then they are very good.
- Bryce: I don't think we have a persimmon tree
- Rob: No? That's okay
- Bryce: Did it die?
- Rob: Every 200 years we get an earthquake, right along the coast. One's coming up. When the shockwave hits, most of the city will be flattened. Every bridge will fall into the Willamette. So, there's no where to go, even if we could. Anyone who survives that's just waiting. Five minutes later, they'll look up, and they'll see a wave, ten stories high. And then all this, everyone, it's all gonna be at the bottom of the ocean. Again.
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