Scandal (TV Series)

The Last Supper (2014)

Scott Foley: Jake Ballard

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Jake Ballard : So, now I'm innocent, is what you're telling me. Good. Pleased to hear that. Should we each take turns hugging? Or how does this work, exactly?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Look, Jake...

  Jake Ballard : *Captain* Ballard. Jake is what my friends call me. You're not my friend, Mr. President. Friends don't put you in prison for crimes you didn't commit. They don't refuse to hear you when you're telling them the truth. They don't hit you when you can't hit back. So from this point forward, when you refer to me, it will be as Captain Ballard, is that understood?

  Jake Ballard : Liv, has Rowan been arrested?

  Olivia Pope : There isn't enough proof.

  Jake Ballard : Okay, good.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Good?

  Jake Ballard : What's easier? Killing a man when he's surrounded by guards, or doing it when he's out on the street and there's no one there to protect him?

  Olivia Pope : No one's killing anyone.

  Jake Ballard : Someone's killing someone.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Jake...

  Jake Ballard : *Captain* Ballard!

  Olivia Pope : We want justice, too, Jake. We all want justice.

  Jake Ballard : I don't want justice. I want to kill your father. And I want you to let me do that.

• Olivia Pope : We need you to handle this discreetly.

  Jake Ballard : Discreetly and creatively.

  David Rosen : Wait, what do you mean?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : If we held a trial and the court records became public, not only would it blow back on Livvie as the daughter of the man we're accusing, but it could disrupt the entire government, and mire it in scandal for generations to come.

  Olivia Pope : You see how that would be a problem, yes?

  David Rosen : So, if I'm to understand correctly, you're looking for a legal avenue that provides the kind of discretion that, say, a military tribunal would provide? Even though that hasn't been a legal - legal avenue since, what, 1866?

• Jake Ballard : You could let me rot in here. Be easy. Solve all your problems. I mean, I did tell him that you loved me, too, but I was just messing with his head. All you have to do is turn your back, and you and that Fitz guy can dance off into the sun.

  Olivia Pope : Don't ever talk about me and the sun and another man again. Don't ever do that. Okay?

  Jake Ballard : Okay.

• Jake Ballard : So... stakeouts are kind of boring, huh?

  Huck : You have no idea.