Scandal (TV Series)

More Cattle, Less Bull (2013)

Kerry Washington: Olivia Pope

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• [first lines] 

  Olivia Pope : [about a lull in dinner conversion]  What?

  Rowan Pope : It's just astonishing, that's all. We're almost finished with dessert, and you haven't once accused me of any crimes against humanity. I think we're making progress. No?

  [chuckles] 

  Olivia Pope : You know what I've learned? I've learned that accusing you of things means nothing. It leads to power games and moves and you making my friends kill people. So instead of speaking my mind, instead of being the brave, outspoken girl my mother taught me to be, I'm chewing my food, fulfilling my contract. And when we're done, I'll go home and immediately try to forget this ever happened. Until next Sunday, when we do it all again.

  Rowan Pope : How fascinating, that you think *that's* your mother's legacy, being brave and outspoken, when everything you've become, everything you are, is clearly because of me.

  Olivia Pope : I think you mean in spite of you.

  Rowan Pope : Two sides of the same coin, my dear.

  [receiving the check] 

  Rowan Pope : Thank you. As for making your friends kill people, that's something Huck brought on himself. He leaves *me* alone, I'll leave *him* alone. Jake, too.

• Olivia Pope : [after admitting her teen pregnancy on national television]  Candace You handled that beautifully.

  Congresswoman Josephine Marcus : I just destroyed the most important relationship in my life. I'm glad you found that beautiful. You're fired.

• Huck : Two things make a coincidence. Three things make a conspiracy.

  Jake Ballard : What's the third thing?

  Huck : The passenger list. Fifth name from the top.

  Jake Ballard : [reads]  "Maya Lewis."

  Huck : She never took her husband's name.

  Jake Ballard : What was her husband's name?

  Huck : "Pope."

  Jake Ballard : No!

  Huck : Liv's mom...

  Olivia Pope : [Huck and Jake now at her door]  What?