Scandal (TV Series)

I'm Just a Bill (2015)

Kerry Washington: Olivia Pope

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Rowan Pope : You look good, Olivia. Looks can be deceiving, though, can't they? I see you have a few more locks. That's good. You can never be too careful, can

  Olivia Pope : What do you want?

  Rowan Pope : I have a problem a rather big one, actually, and since you're a fixer, I thought I'd come to you. You see, apparently there's a group of people who have decided that I'm a criminal. They're building a case, some preposterous claim about a top-secret spy organization called B-613 that I'm *supposedly* the head of. I mean, have you ever heard anything so ridiculous? Anyway, I'd be happy to shut it down myself, but I'm just a paleontologist at the Smithsonian and I don't think my methods would work, so I'm giving you a chance one chance to shut it down yourself. If you can do that in the next 48 hours.

  Olivia Pope : I'm not lifting a finger for you.

  Rowan Pope : Tell me, who do you think stands to lose the most when this so-called B-613 is made public the quiet paleontologist collecting bones or the man down the street who could have pulled the plug on it and didn't? Who, in fact, actively participated, put his own man at the helm, using him to service his own agenda.

  Olivia Pope : I don't care about any of that. I care about justice.

  Rowan Pope : You say that to me now because you're angry at me, but think who we are talking about, what you have done for him, the things you've sacrificed. Is your hatred for me so great...

  [laughs maniacally] 

  Rowan Pope : So great that you are willing to tear him down, too?

• Marcus Walker : This is what you do? This is your job? I call you, and you pack up a dead body for me?

  Olivia Pope : I know this is hard for you. Prison is harder.

• Franklin Russell : And you are beautiful and very sexy incredibly... sexy. And a lot of fun believe me, I've enjoyed every minute of our time together, but this whole Alex thing is, uh I'm looking for something more stable. So...

  Olivia Pope : My life is very complicated. And I want it to not be complicated. And I'm with you, when I'm "Alex," nothing is complicated. I want that. I need that.

• Marcus Walker : And, hey, no regrets, right? I mean, I get to tell people I did the right thing. That's something.

  Olivia Pope : That's more than something. That's everything. That's what saves you in the end. You do the wrong thing, *then* you're done. Not at first. It only feels like a misstep at first, a compromise, a concession to reality, a bad move well-played. But at some point, you're only going in that direction. By the time you realize how far down that path you are, you're lost. Everything is unrecognizable. You are unrecognizable to yourself. You find yourself doing things you never thought you'd do, in ways you never thought you'd do them, to save things you're not even sure you want to save, but you can't help it. *That's* when you're done. You are *not* done. You did the right thing here.

• Rowan Pope : So, have you decided to take my case? Am I one of your clients now?

  Olivia Pope : You're right. You do know me. I looked at all possible outcomes. I understand what needs to be done. And I picked a side. But not yours. I won't do it. I'm not stopping the case against B-613.

  Rowan Pope : You're not?

  Olivia Pope : This case is good. It's right. Huck, Jake, all of the people you've hurt and tormented over the years, they want justice. They deserve justice. And that's the only way the Republic stands. Justice is, in fact, the point of the Republic. And I may care about him. But as you said, I will never allow a person to get in the way of what I know to be right.