Lessons in Chemistry (2023)

Lewis Pullman: Calvin Evans

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• Elizabeth Zott : Of course, I would be much further along in my research if I wasn't making excellent coffee for mediocre scientists.

  Calvin Evans : You're on the verge of a major scientific breakthrough. You need to talk to Donatti.

  Elizabeth Zott : I did. He said no.

  Calvin Evans : That doesn't make any sense. Why?

  Elizabeth Zott : Sex discrimination.

  Calvin Evans : What?

  Elizabeth Zott : Well, also politics and favoritism and general unfairness. But yes, mostly sex discrimination.

  Calvin Evans : I don't understand. Why would anyone discriminate based on something as intellectually non-determinative as gender?

• Calvin Evans : Hey, I just... I want to apologize once more for the other day. I was, uh...

  Elizabeth Zott : [Elizabeth interrupts]  I can't accept your apology. I-I would like to, but you don't know what you're apologizing for. And so the entire exercise is meaningless. Yes, I did borrow some of your ribose. Some of a very plentiful supply, if I might add. But you have all the resources, and the rapt attention of the entire scientific community, and you take it for granted. You must be intelligent, based upon your myriad of accomplishments. But you walk around like a... like a... like a paranoid, ungrateful, fragile man. So to respond to your comment earlier, I don't hate you. I just-I don't like you.

  Calvin Evans : Thank you. Oh, I-uh, I have something for you.

  [Gives Elizabeth the ribose] 

• Calvin Evans : [after tasting a cake Elizabeth baked]  Whoa, Elizabeth. You're a goddamn artist.

  Elizabeth Zott : It's just... basic chemistry.

• Calvin Evans : Elizabeth, we have to cook!