Scandal (TV Series)

The Last Supper (2014)

Kerry Washington: Olivia Pope

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Jake Ballard : So, now I'm innocent, is what you're telling me. Good. Pleased to hear that. Should we each take turns hugging? Or how does this work, exactly?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Look, Jake...

  Jake Ballard : *Captain* Ballard. Jake is what my friends call me. You're not my friend, Mr. President. Friends don't put you in prison for crimes you didn't commit. They don't refuse to hear you when you're telling them the truth. They don't hit you when you can't hit back. So from this point forward, when you refer to me, it will be as Captain Ballard, is that understood?

  Jake Ballard : Liv, has Rowan been arrested?

  Olivia Pope : There isn't enough proof.

  Jake Ballard : Okay, good.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Good?

  Jake Ballard : What's easier? Killing a man when he's surrounded by guards, or doing it when he's out on the street and there's no one there to protect him?

  Olivia Pope : No one's killing anyone.

  Jake Ballard : Someone's killing someone.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Jake...

  Jake Ballard : *Captain* Ballard!

  Olivia Pope : We want justice, too, Jake. We all want justice.

  Jake Ballard : I don't want justice. I want to kill your father. And I want you to let me do that.

• Olivia Pope : Enemies?

  Elizabeth North : Enemies? I am the female head of the Republican National Committee. I don't know what a friend is.

  [chuckles] 

  Elizabeth North : The Dems, disgruntled staffers, the NRA, big pharma, every major contributor to the party. Oh, and my ex-husband thinks I'm a real bitch, too.

• Olivia Pope : I wasn't aware we were on speaking terms, dad, let alone having dinner.

  Rowan Pope : [sighs]  We are family, Olivia. Families fight. That is what they do. That doesn't mean you stop calling or you stop showing up for dinner. When we fight, we forgive and forget.

• Olivia Pope : We need you to handle this discreetly.

  Jake Ballard : Discreetly and creatively.

  David Rosen : Wait, what do you mean?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : If we held a trial and the court records became public, not only would it blow back on Livvie as the daughter of the man we're accusing, but it could disrupt the entire government, and mire it in scandal for generations to come.

  Olivia Pope : You see how that would be a problem, yes?

  David Rosen : So, if I'm to understand correctly, you're looking for a legal avenue that provides the kind of discretion that, say, a military tribunal would provide? Even though that hasn't been a legal - legal avenue since, what, 1866?

• Cyrus Beene : [upon seeing compromising photos]  God, I'm a stupid stupid man.

  Olivia Pope : We both know that isn't true.

  Cyrus Beene : No, I know exactly how stupid I am, because I've done this to people.

  [scoffs] 

  Cyrus Beene : I have set people up in exactly this way. I exploited their lust and their greed and their weakness to get exactly what I want. I wrote the book on this particular brand of political extortion, and yet somehow I fell f-for it anyway. Me. The White House chief of staff. Allegedly one of the most powerful men in the country. I've compromised my integrity,

  [breathing shakily] 

  Cyrus Beene : my family, my president. For what?

• Jake Ballard : You could let me rot in here. Be easy. Solve all your problems. I mean, I did tell him that you loved me, too, but I was just messing with his head. All you have to do is turn your back, and you and that Fitz guy can dance off into the sun.

  Olivia Pope : Don't ever talk about me and the sun and another man again. Don't ever do that. Okay?

  Jake Ballard : Okay.

• Olivia Pope : You said we can't just wave a shiny object and expect him to come running. You're wrong. I'm the shiny object. And my father will come running.