- Seymour Birkhoff: [after everybody failed the hacking exercise:] Alex... You never launched your exploit. Why?
- Alex: I don't know. This... hacker stuff is really... complicated.
- Seymour Birkhoff: Actually, it's not. It's simple. Because, you see, I do all the "hacker stuff." I write the exploit. *I even make it look like a video game so your tween minds can understand it!*
- [Alex suppresses giggle]
- Seymour Birkhoff: You think that's funny?
- Jaden: Must be the drugs, Sir.
- [Birkhoff looks at her, annoyed]
- Jaden: You know how it is with junkies.
- Alex: [to Jaden] I thought our files were secret.
- Seymour Birkhoff: [to the other trainees:] You know what? This is pathetic, all of you, get out of here! The bunch of you, up and out of your seats!
- [they scamper - Alex as well, but...]
- Seymour Birkhoff: Not you! You stay!
- [Jaden is lingering]
- Seymour Birkhoff: You too, get out of here! Left foot in front of the right one, you can handle that, right?
- [to Alex:]
- Seymour Birkhoff: All right, you stay here, and you work this until you get it right. I'm gonna check back with you in half an hour.
- [glares into her face:]
- Seymour Birkhoff: And it better be right... because scrubs who can't pass the basics... don't survive very long in here.