Scandal (TV Series)

You Can't Take Command (2015)

Jeff Perry: Cyrus Beene

Quotes 

• Cyrus Beene : This is an enormous secret intelligence organization operating behind the CIA's back for who knows how long. About 30-ish years, if it did exist, which it doesn't.

  CIA Director Lowry : Well, it stops now. I am having this Rowan arrested, brought in, and brought down. I won't have it.

  Cyrus Beene : Honey, I'm gonna call you honey because I can't remember your first name and I don't care. Honey, you want to be reasonable about this. Because a shadow intelligence organization operating quite happily and powerfully in secret for decades inside the FBI, CIA, NSA, if there was such a thing, well, that would be like a sleeping lion. And isn't it safer To tiptoe around the lion? What do you think happens if you poke the lion? Whose face does the lion rip off first? I think it rips off honey's face first.

• David Rosen : Just go ahead. Fire me, because I did what I thought was right.

  Cyrus Beene : I'm not gonna fire you, Rosen. Why would I fire you? You're the Attorney General. *My* Attorney General. A new one? They'd be asking questions and be all honest. Plus I would waste months hunting for their weaknesses, their pressure points. With you, David, I already know your pressure point. You only have one Abby.

• Cyrus Beene : I can't tell you.

  Abby Whelan : Why not?

  Cyrus Beene : Because you don't have the clearance. It is getting old. I am tired of it. But it's my job to protect his interests and serve his needs, to spin the world and raise the sun. I can't have a soul. If I had one, I would never accomplish a thing.

• Rowan Pope : [to Olivia on the phone]  I know what you're thinking. The remaining B-613 files will prove I'm Command. Those have been, shall we say, "archived." And in case you were still hoping your mother was an ally, don't. She loves you, just not as much as she loves her freedom.

  Maya Lewis : [cut to prison cell]  Is that it?

  Cyrus Beene : That's it. You agree to deny the existence of B-613 for the rest of your life, and you walk.

  Maya Lewis : Well, I'm gonna need a pen, baby.