Scandal (TV Series)

The Price of Free and Fair Elections (2014)

Jeff Perry: Cyrus Beene

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• Olivia Pope : [sitting stunned in a hospital hallway]  We're going to win the election now. They lost their child. America will rally behind them.

  Cyrus Beene : We're going to win. I hadn't really thought about it.

  Olivia Pope : I did. A child is dead, and that's the first thing that popped into my head.

  Cyrus Beene : I was going to let that church blow up with everyone in it.

  Olivia Pope : How did we get like this? When did we stop being people?

  Cyrus Beene : Were we ever people? Or did serving at the pleasure of the president just help us to shed our pesky skins and unmask us as the monsters we really are?

• [first lines] 

  President Fitzgerald Grant : [practicing his speech]  Members of the Hightower family, distinguished guests, my fellow Americans. It is a great honor and privilege for me to be here with you today. Today we remember and say goodbye to a man who loved his country, madly. A man who worked to better his country, profoundly.

  Cyrus Beene : [letting a call going to voice mail]  You've reached Cyrus Beene, please leave a message.