You know what you should do before you go? You should come up here one night and cook us a rack of ribs. I realize oven cooked isn't nearly as good as the smoker, but I bet you'd make 'em delicious anyhow.
I tell you I got something good goin', and your first thought ain't "Freddy, congratulations", it's "make me ribs". What's my big send-off? I get to cook you ribs!
Frank Underwood
No, look, you are being way oversensitive about this. You're misinterpreting what I meant.
I've got everything masked. The algorithms for ICO and the campaign are identical. It's just a question of variables you input.
Frank Underwood
Give me English.
AMAidan Macallan
One spoon. I can use it to stir my coffee, to eat soup, to boil heroin. All they see is the spoon, not what I do with it.
Frank Underwood
Or we could just get rid of the spoon.
AMAidan Macallan
Shut it down? That would be a shame, especially after yesterday.
Frank Underwood
What happened yesterday.
AMAidan Macallan
Beyond happened.
Frank Underwood
Beyond?
AMAidan Macallan
What your wife said in South Dakota. Beyond what's pretty and perfect. Liberation from convention, from the past. Beyond surface, beyond bullshit, beyond the election.
Frank Underwood
Beyond marriage.
AMAidan Macallan
Yes, exactly. You're not just husband and wife. You're not just running mates. You're both, and more. You're what's possible. The Conways are everything that everyone wants to be. You're everything everyone wants to become.
I feel sorry for you. Two years. That's all you're going to get in here. You're not going to last any longer than Walker did. And what kills you is that I'll make a great president, the kind of president who'll actually be remembered. And isn't that worse than dying, Frank? Being forgotten?
Ninety-nine percent of this job is in the dark. You had your little moment in the sun today, but what are you going to do when you have to make a thousand little decisions that no one will ever hear about or appreciate? I think you're excellent at running for president, but I don't think you're equipped to actually be one.
Look down, straight down, across the lawn. Right to the gate. You see them? Those people want a voice. Some for, some against. And they're looking back across the lawn, toward the windows, and they're thinking, "I wonder what the President and the First Lady are doing tonight? And will they be able to protect us?"
What did you think would happen when you came in here, Francis? That you could threaten me, tell me the DNC'll throw money at my primary opponent next cycle if I don't play ball? Or were you gonna flatter me? "Elder of the party" this, "bellwether senior member" that.
Frank Underwood
You know, I'm somewhat delighted that you developed a personality at this late date. But I would ask you to rethink this. To come out this way on this thing in the twilight of your career will do nothing but sully your Wikipedia page.
DRDavid Rasmussen
You have no idea, do you? No one hears you walking the halls of this building. Not anymore.
Frank Underwood
Who are you working for?
DRDavid Rasmussen
Excuse me?
Frank Underwood
I served next to your jellied spine for two decades. You've never shown an ounce of courage. You don't have what it takes for revenge. So someone must have offered you something rather sweet.
So what? We both know something the rest of the world refuses to acknowledge. There is no justice, only conquest. And let me tell you, we let them evacuate DC, we are done, Claire. We've lost.
No argument here. I trust only what I can hold in my hand or see on my horizon.
Frank Underwood
Well, but you can't just sit back and admire the view. I've learned you've got to grab the present by the balls. That's where the American people live.
TBTed Brockhart
You sound more like a salesman than a president, Mr. President.
Frank Underwood
Well, if we're Americans, then we are salesmen, right? That's our birthright. Cars and phones and a gallon of gas.
TBTed Brockhart
That's not how I see America. I'm a patriot. I serve.
Frank Underwood
Well, then, we salute you, General. But you serve to what purpose? So the rest of America can sell. I mean, you and I, right now, this weekend, we're here at this camp selling ourselves.
TBTed Brockhart
Character speaks for itself. People want a president they can trust.
Frank Underwood
No, they don't. They want a president they know. And I know them. The only future I'm interested in is the next four years. So, yes, I'm selling tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that. I'm selling a boy who used to live on a peach farm who now lives in the White House. I'm selling a tomorrow that you can see and touch and feel. Now, you take that away, and I don't know what this country has left. Except a group of grown men standing around in a circle, all staring at a small screen. Looking in instead of looking out. Heck, give me a peck of dirt any day of the week.
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Frank Underwood
