Scandal (TV Series)

A Door Marked Exit (2013)

Joe Morton: Rowan Pope

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• President Fitzgerald Grant : I'm screwing her, you know. Your daughter. Every chance I get. The things I could tell you. About the way she tastes. She's quite a girl. Talented.

  Rowan Pope : [tied to an interrogation chair]  You're funny. You're a funny, funny man.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : I am?

  Rowan Pope : Or should I say "boy?" You're a boy. You've been coddled and cared for, pampered and hugged. For you, it's always summertime and the livin' is easy. Daddy's rich! And your mama's good-looking. You're a grant! You've got money in your blood. You are a boy. I'm a man. I have worked for every single thing I have ever received. I have fought and scraped and bled for every inch of ground I walk on. I was the first in my family to go to college, my daughter went to boarding school with the children of kings. I made that happen. You cried yourself to sleep because daddy hurt your feelings. Because papa banged his secretary. Because it hurt to have so much money.

  Rowan Pope : [really getting worked up now]  You spoiled, entitled, ungrateful little brat! You have everything handed to you on a silver platter, and you squander it. You're given the world, and you can't appreciate it because you haven't had to work for anything! So now you've decided that the one thing that you want is my daughter, my child. Mine. What I made. What I created. You could talk about what a great lay she is to try to get a response from me all you want. But guess what? I am actually, quite literally above your pay grade, which means that I know that you believe that you are in love with her. As wrong as you may be.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : I *do* love her.

  Rowan Pope : You love that she is a door marked "exit."You love that she is your way out. Because if you are with Olivia Pope, you don't have to fulfill your father's dream of being President. If you are with Olivia, you no longer have to be your father's son. An apple never falls too far from the tree. You are always going to be senator Grant's disappointing boy, Fitz. She is always going to be the formidable Olivia Pope. Don't use the person that I made to make you into a man. You're a boy!

  President Fitzgerald Grant : You don't know anything about me.

  Rowan Pope : Sadly, boy, I know everything about you. You disappoint me as a suitor for my daughter's hand.

• President Fitzgerald Grant : I thought we could have a little talk. This is what I don't understand. Why have me shoot down that plane if you already had her in custody?

  Rowan Pope : That's a matter of national security, and it's above your pay grade, Mr. President.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Here's the thing about power, Rowan. It's always hard to accept when you've lost it.

  Rowan Pope : Or to realize you never had any at all.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Why shoot down that plane? Why keep Olivia's mother in prison for 22 years? And why let Liv think her mother was dead all this time?

  Rowan Pope : That's a matter of national security, and it's above your pay grade, Mr. President.

• Rowan Pope : B-613 is not an individual. Cut off the head of the snake, and another will grow in its place. Remember that, Mr. President.

• Jake Ballard : Sorry you didn't get the memo. I'm Command now, effective immediately.

  Rowan Pope : The hell you are.

  Jake Ballard : "B-613 is not an individual. Cut the head off the snake, and another one will grow in its place."

  [coming out from behind Rowan's old desk] 

  Jake Ballard : If you'd like a job here at wonderland, we can have you take our aptitude test. If not, I'm gonna have to ask my agents to escort you to the street...

  Jake Ballard : [making a call]  It's done.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : We're gonna make a good team, Jake.