- President Fitzgerald Grant: [emerging disheveled from a computer closet] It won't happen again.
- Olivia Pope: I was talking about Defiance.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: That wasn't a mistake. That was betrayal. We are done. I may not be able to control my erections around you, but that does not mean I want you. We are done.
- Cyrus Beene: The problem is, he's not using me like he's supposed to. I'm the guard dog, I'm the bad cop, I'm the dragon that gets released. I run the meetings and make the calls and help him come to decisions. Except I'm not. He's isolating himself. He's shutting me out. He's running for the country, for real, on his own.
- [first lines]
- Mellie Grant: [entering his bathroom] Honey, I'm back.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: [from the shower] Do you have it?
- Mellie Grant: It's 7:00 in the morning.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Do you have it or not?
- Mellie Grant: Yes.
- [hands him a drink through the shower door]
- Mellie Grant: You didn't sleep at all last night. Maybe you should...
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Don't.
- Mellie Grant: Okay.
- [takes off her robe and enters the shower behind him]
- President Fitzgerald Grant: What are you doing?
- Mellie Grant: I thought you could use a little morning pick-me-up.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Mellie...
- Mellie Grant: Shh. You don't have to do anything. I'll do all the work.
- [knees down]
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Mellie...
- [acquiesces]
- Mellie Grant: [a knock at the door] Ignore it.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Yes?
- Cyrus Beene: Mr. President?
- Cyrus Beene: Cyrus, you're in my bathroom.
- Cyrus Beene: Yes, sir, Mr. President. I'm as unhappy about that as you are. I sent two aides, and neither had the courage to knock. Sir?
- Mellie Grant: Hi, Cyrus.
- Cyrus Beene: ...Good morning ma'am.
- Mellie Grant: A-all set for the christening tomorrow?
- Cyrus Beene: Yes. Thank you... Sir?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: You have bad news.
- Cyrus Beene: Four Americans have been kidnapped abroad.
- David Rosen: Your theory of the crime is that I, David Rosen, the man whose job you're now occupying, whose chair you're now sitting in, your longtime colleague with extensive legal training and no prior record whatsoever, picked up a woman at a bar and then brought her to my place, where I promptly stabbed her to death. Because that's what I am a stabber. Give me a knife and I'll stab anything. Oh, how I love to stab. Which is why, when I finished stabbing her in my apartment, I carried the body to her place and stabbed it some more. Why settle for a crime of passion when a burglary gone wrong is so easy to stage?
- Mike Sylva: You were the last person she was seen with.
- David Rosen: By a bartender who's routinely drunk for the last two-thirds of his shift. Trust me, I'm a regular. Which in evidentiary terms means you have absolutely nothing. So if you want to keep this job, stay in this nice office, look out at that beautiful view of the mall every day and put yourself on the fast track to Attorney General, don't be an idiot. Leave me alone and forget this ever happened. Because only an idiot pursues cases he stands no chance of winning. I learned that the hard way. If I were you, I'd spare myself that shame. And since I'm under no legal obligation to continue this bizarre and humiliating visit to my old office I'll leave you to it.
- Harrison Wright: Well That was fun. We should, uh, do it again soon...
- [follows his client out the door]
- Cyrus Beene: [arriving at christening] The ceremony will be short and sweet. They abbreviate for the godless.
- David Rosen: [about the flash drive] There's over 350 pages of high-level, classified military intelligence on there. Nuclear missile locations. Black sites. The coordinates for the president's wartime bunkers. There's 6 of them in the country, just in case they ever ask it on "Jeopardy!"
- [last lines]
- Jake Ballard: [on the phone] Where should we go? Got any ideas?
- Olivia Pope: There's a quiet little French place on Connecticut everyone's raving about.
- Jake Ballard: Quiet's not really my thing.
- Olivia Pope: No?
- Jake Ballard: I had four brothers and two sisters. Quiet, uh Quiet freaks me out.
- Olivia Pope: So what is your thing?
- Jake Ballard: Honestly? People watching.
- [sits down in front of a wall of monitors]
- Jake Ballard: It's got its own category on Zagat. So does late-night dancing, but I'm guessing that's not in the cards.
- Olivia Pope: Depends how much wine I drink.
- Jake Ballard: Really? Well, then maybe we should go to that French place. How does, uh how's 8:00 on Friday sound?
- Olivia Pope: 8:00 on Friday sounds perfect.
- Jake Ballard: Good. Well, I will see you then, Olivia Pope.
- Olivia Pope: See you then, Captain Ballard.
- [hangs up and watches her reaction on one of the screens]
- David Rosen: How much do I owe you?
- Olivia Pope: What?
- David Rosen: For your services. Or did you take a commission when I sold my soul to the devil?
- Olivia Pope: Your troubles aren't over. Not by a long shot.
- David Rosen: But you and I are. Everything you've ever done for as long as I've known you has been tailor-made to hurt me, so I'm done. I'm done with you, I'm done with your people. So how much, Olivia?
- Olivia Pope: David...
- David Rosen: How much?
- Olivia Pope: You can't afford me...
- [walks out]
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I need to know I'm making the right call.
- Mellie Grant: You are the president. Any call you make is right.