Scandal (TV Series)

Seven Fifty-Two (2013)

Guillermo Diaz: Huck

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• [first lines] 

  Huck : [five years earlier, unshaven, sitting on the subway platform]  They're fixing the green line at Petworth connecting red line trains are stuck waiting at Fort Totten, which puts the next train to Shady Grove about 20 seconds away.

  Olivia Pope : Thank you.

  [puts money unto his cup] 

  Olivia Pope : [the train enters the station]  Look at that. Just like you predicted. Are you here tomorrow?

  Huck : Every day.

  Olivia Pope : Coffee's on me.

• Crosby : [14 years earlier]  You took a series of tests. Your test results suggested that you have skills that go way beyond that of a private first class.

  Huck : Like what?

  Crosby : We can test a thousand men and not find one like you. You're gifted. You have an aptitude, a quality, a series of personality traits that we find very valuable here.

  Huck : Here isn't "the Marines", is it?

  Crosby : What do you think?

  Huck : I think we're in a nondescript office park. The door claims this is a paper company, but who names a paper company Acme Limited? There are cameras in the ceiling there, and there. Your suit is nice, but not nice enough to draw attention. And then there's the guy behind me with a bulge in his pocket that I'm pretty sure isn't there because he's happy to see me. I'm pretty sure it's a gun. So, while I'm a big fan of the CIA, I have to say thank you, but no.

  Crosby : You'll take this job or go back to Kosovo on another tour. Those are your only two options.

• Huck : [sitting with a babbling Huck]  I'm a talker. It's what I do. I talk. Since I was a kid I can talk myself in or out of anything, bed-time, homework, curfew. It's how I sold cars, sailed through law school, how I got clients, and get girls. Hell, it almost landed me in jail if it wasn't for Liv But you're not a talker. You're action man. So I can only imagine what you've seen, what you've done, what you've had done to you. And I have to imagine, because you're not just a man of few words, but the fewest words possible. So I fill in the blanks. We all do.

• Olivia Pope : [crouching down to Huck]  I have to admit, I'm not a person who gives change to homeless guys on the Metro. I don't do that. I don't stop, which is I don't stop, but I stopped for you. You made me stop. It was your eyes. You had the saddest eyes. They were sadder than mine. The thing is, Huck, you always say that I saved you. That's not true. It's not even close to true. I had been all alone for a very long time. There are moments, people who somehow they convince me that I'm wrong. That I'm not alone. That I have something to People let you down. People hurt you. People lie. I'm all alone, except for you. Harrison and Abby and Quinn are We take care of them. We love them. But they don't live on the dark side of the moon. They're different. So, Huck, I need you to snap out of this. Whatever this is, whatever happened to you, you *have* to come back to me. I need you. You are all I have. You are everything. Because I didn't save you in that Metro station. You saved me.

  Huck : I think I used to have a family. But I don't remember if they were real, or if I imagined them.

  Olivia Pope : What do you think?

  Huck : I think they were real!

  Olivia Pope : Then they were real. Then you had a family.

  Huck : They were real!

  Olivia Pope : They were.

  Huck : I did terrible things.

  Olivia Pope : We all - do - terrible things.

• [last lines] 

  Kim : [getting off the Metro train]  Javi! Javi, come here. It's cold outside.

  Javi : I want a dollar for the man.

  Kim : Honey, we don't have...

  Javi : Mommy, he looks hungry.

  Kim : You come right back.

  Javi : [runs over to Huck sitting behind a sign]  Here.

  Huck : [looks up and see that the time is 7:52]