Scandal · Season 1
You think you have a father? I am so sorry but you don't have a father. You have Command. You were raised by Command. Command doesn't have a family. Command has soldiers. You take orders like any other soldier. You've been taking orders from Command since the day you were born.
My father is not a God. He is a man.
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, when you refer to me from this point forward. it will be as Captain Ballard. Is that understood?
I wasn't aware we were on speaking terms, Dad, let alone having dinner.
We are family, Olivia. Families fight. That's what they do. That doesn't mean you stop calling. That doesn't mean you stop showing up for dinner. When we fight, we forgive and forget.
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 just turn your head and then you and that Fitz guy can just dance off into the sun.
Don't ever talk about me and the sun and another man again. Don't ever do that. Okay?
I tried, Olivia. I tried my best. For the first time in your life, you are on your own. You think the world is so terrible with me in it? Wait 'till you see what it's like without me.
There's a special place in Hell for women who don't support other women.
There's a special place in Hell for women who spout that tired quote to justify their bad behavior.
You're not leaving. You were never leaving. You can never leave me alone because you have no place to go. The only life you have is the sad, twisted one you built here. The one where you lurk int he shadows, pull puppet strings, and pretend the world couldn't exist without your protection. You can't disappear, become a normal person, because Dad, you are not normal. You are a sick, lonely man who only knows how to lie and call it love.
Could you be more ungrateful? You're my flesh. There would be no Olivia Pope if not for me.
Who are you, Cy?
Liv...
Who are you, Cy?!
Liv!
Who are you, Cy?
I am one of the most powerful men in the world.
Who are you!?
I am one of the most powerful men in the world.
Oh, yeah? So you're not a bitch baby?
I run this country. I'm nobody's bitch baby.
I don't know. You still sound like a little bitch baby to me.
I am not a little bitch baby!
Then show me! Prove it to me right now! Show me who you are, Cyrus Beene!
So tell me, Mr. President. What's the one thing in the world that you can't live without? The one thing that you'd do everything in your power to get back?
What did you do to her? What did you do?
Tell me, Mr. President. How you liking that war now?
Ian, I know everything looks really bad right now and you don't know me, but I'm gonna tell you something and I need you to believe me. I'm gonna save us.
Jake and Fitz can't help you. There is no man to rescue you. Do you hear me? No one. No one is going to help you. You are the only gladiator in the place. You are all you've got. You have to rescue yourself.
He was a nice boy. But he was a boy. And you are a man, a great man, and I had to choose between a nice boy and a great man, and I chose the great man, and I am not sorry about that. I am proud of that. He was a sacrifice. I am a sacrifice. There are sacrifices that need to be made for greatness, brush that needs to be cleared for the path of history.
I need to know who I can trust in the White House.
Is that why you're here?
Yes. In my detail, who can I trust? Where can I speak privately?
The face that launched a thousand ships.
What?
Helen of Troy. Menelaus got her back, but it took him ten years of war. Will you launch a thousand ships to save Ms. Pope?
Why aren't you calling the White House?
If I call the White House, they'll kill Olivia. They can't go get her.
Then...it's the three of us? We bust in there and take on god knows how many armed mercenaries ourselves? All right. I'm down.
The irony is he chose you because he thought you would be loyal.
Probably the same reason he chose you.
The two of you don't belong here, not with Gus, not trapped in this place with him. You don't deserve what's going to happen to you. What are you, 24, 25? You've got your entire lives ahead of you, the whole world ahead of you, and with your skills, those minds, the potential you have, the chance you have. You did not lie in bed at night dreaming of being kidnappers, human traffickers, terrorists. You didn't dream of life in a Supermax prison, or on the run, or doing whatever the hell Gus tells you to do which is actually the worst option. You dreamed of power, of being successful, of running companies, of building something great. You should be getting wined and dined by venture capitalists, not working with some gun-wielding lunatic. Which one of you do you think he'll shoot first so he only has to split the money two ways instead of three?
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