Scandal (TV Series)

Seven Fifty-Two (2013)

Kerry Washington: Olivia Pope

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• [first lines] 

  Huck : [five years earlier, unshaven, sitting on the subway platform]  They're fixing the green line at Petworth connecting red line trains are stuck waiting at Fort Totten, which puts the next train to Shady Grove about 20 seconds away.

  Olivia Pope : Thank you.

  [puts money unto his cup] 

  Olivia Pope : [the train enters the station]  Look at that. Just like you predicted. Are you here tomorrow?

  Huck : Every day.

  Olivia Pope : Coffee's on me.

• President Fitzgerald Grant : I wanted to win this on my own. I wanted to win it because I deserved it. I wanted to win it because I had the will of the people behind me. I wanted to own becoming president of the United States of America. I didn't want it handed to me. I didn't want you fixing it for me. That's what you do, Livvie. You handle. You fix.

  Olivia Pope : I was trying to help.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : You don't fix me! You don't handle me! That is not love. That's control.

• Olivia Pope : [crouching down to Huck]  I have to admit, I'm not a person who gives change to homeless guys on the Metro. I don't do that. I don't stop, which is I don't stop, but I stopped for you. You made me stop. It was your eyes. You had the saddest eyes. They were sadder than mine. The thing is, Huck, you always say that I saved you. That's not true. It's not even close to true. I had been all alone for a very long time. There are moments, people who somehow they convince me that I'm wrong. That I'm not alone. That I have something to People let you down. People hurt you. People lie. I'm all alone, except for you. Harrison and Abby and Quinn are We take care of them. We love them. But they don't live on the dark side of the moon. They're different. So, Huck, I need you to snap out of this. Whatever this is, whatever happened to you, you *have* to come back to me. I need you. You are all I have. You are everything. Because I didn't save you in that Metro station. You saved me.

  Huck : I think I used to have a family. But I don't remember if they were real, or if I imagined them.

  Olivia Pope : What do you think?

  Huck : I think they were real!

  Olivia Pope : Then they were real. Then you had a family.

  Huck : They were real!

  Olivia Pope : They were.

  Huck : I did terrible things.

  Olivia Pope : We all - do - terrible things.