House of Cards (TV Series)

Chapter 38 (2015)

Kevin Spacey: Francis Underwood

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• Francis Underwood : [seething]  She can go after me all she wants. But she goes after Claire, I'll slit her fucking throat in broad daylight!

• Francis Underwood : You're finally one of us.

  Heather Dunbar : One of who?

  Francis Underwood : [getting uncomfortable close]  The men, in their smokey back rooms.

• [last lines] 

  Francis Underwood : I'm not the first politician that some people don't trust.

  Claire Underwood : We've been lying for a long time, Francis.

  Francis Underwood : Of course we have. Imagine what the voters would think if we started telling the truth.

  Claire Underwood : Not to them. To each other.

• Francis Underwood : I have only one thing to say. Go fuck yourself.

• Claire Underwood : [reading from Yates' book]  A cold fusion of two universal elements. Identical in weight, equal in force. United they stand. A union like none other. The un-splittable atom of American politics.

  Francis Underwood : Well, he was right about some things.

• Doug Stamper : Make me your Chief of Staff. You promised. You promised there'd be a place for me here when I was ready.

  Francis Underwood : That was before you fell off the wagon and walked in here with that journal.

  Doug Stamper : I've made mistakes. I've fallen down more than once, and you've always been there to pick me up. But you've been falling down for the past year, too, and you need someone to pick you up this time. It's not Remy. It's not Seth. It's me, Frank.

  Francis Underwood : And how can I know I can ever trust you again?

  Doug Stamper : Because I just lit two million dollars on fire.