Scandal (TV Series)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2014)

Scott Foley: Jake Ballard

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Jake Ballard : [to James lying in the street]  I'm sorry. I really am. I did the others quick and clean. I wish I could have done that with you. I'm sorry I had to be so sloppy with you, but I have to make yours look like a carjacking. It has to look like an amateur did it. So it's going to hurt, and it's going to take some time. I'm sorry. But I'm gonna sit here with you. I'm gonna stay with you until it's over. I'm not going to let you die alone. You're not alone. Ella, your daughter's gonna be okay. Nothing is going to happen to her. She's safe. She is safe. You're almost there. You're almost there. Any minute now.

• [first lines] 

  David Rosen : [at gunpoint]  Please, please. Oh, God.

  Jake Ballard : I've always liked you, David. You seem smart. Are you smart, David? Can you work with me on this, or do I need to stop liking you?

• Olivia Pope : You told me you would be different.

  Jake Ballard : I *am* different.

  Olivia Pope : No! No! Fitz gave you the keys to this office and immediately you became my father!

  Jake Ballard : I am different! Because when something awful needed to be done, I did not pull some poor, broken soldier out of a hole and make him do something that would give him nightmares for the rest of his life. I did that awful thing myself. James Novak died in a carjacking. Accept that and the world keeps spinning.

  Olivia Pope : And if I don't?

  Jake Ballard : Bad things happen to good people all the time.