Doug Stamper and Meredith Lee in “Unfinished Business”

Doug Stamper

The organ network. It answers to you.

Yes and no. In a regulatory capacity...

Doug Stamper

You have the power to modify the recipient list.

That's up to the network. They have an expert committee that determines...

Doug Stamper

The president's life will not be decided by a committee.

Let me show you something. [shows him a spreadsheet] He was number three yesterday. Number one got a transplant. That puts the president at number two. His chances are very good. But this man, Anthony Moretti, he's just hours away from dying.

Doug Stamper

Then let him die.

I'm not doing this. It's not just the law, it's the ethics.

Doug Stamper

Then change your ethics, or you can resign and and your deputy can make this call. And if he won't, then he can resign too. I will strip away this entire department until I find who I need.