Scandal (TV Series)

Where the Sun Don't Shine (2014)

Kerry Washington: Olivia Pope

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• Olivia Pope : I need you to listen to me very carefully, because I'm going to speak to you right now the way the Cyrus Beene I know would speak to you. When did you decide to let them ruin you?

  Cyrus Beene : Excuse me?

  Olivia Pope : So your life's unfair. So what? That's how it is. So, they're mean-girling you in the press, they're calling you names that hurt your little soft spots deep inside? Well, so what? That's how it is. So you lost someone you loved. You lost the one person who felt like family. Well guess what, grow the hell up because that is how it is! The Cyrus Beene I know doesn't hide in his half-empty closet and wet his pants like a little bitch baby! The Cyrus I know is a patriot. He bites the bullet, and he does what it takes to serve the Republic at all costs. So, I want to know, right now, in this moment, who you are. Because the pathetic shell of a person I'm looking at right now doesn't deserve to stand on the presidential seal in the oval office, let alone tell the president what to do. Who are you, Cy?

• Elizabeth North : There's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women.

  Olivia Pope : There's a special place in hell for women who spout that tired quote to justify their bad behavior.

• [first lines] 

  Maya Lewis : Thank you, baby. Thank you for getting me out of there.

  Jake Ballard : Maya, where's Rowan? When is the last time you saw him?

  Maya Lewis : [to Olivia]  Did they show it to you the place where your father kept me? Did you see it?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : If you're not willing to cooperate, if you don't tell us everything you know...

  Maya Lewis : What are you gonna do to me? Not a damn thing. My daughter is here now. Olivia Pope is here. Now. You so much as lay a finger on me, and we will Sue your ass. Tell 'em, Livvie. Handle them.

  Olivia Pope : You haven't charged her.

  Maya Lewis : That's what I'm talking about. This is a violation of my rights. They haven't even told me what I'm being accused of.

  Olivia Pope : Murder, terrorism, treason, to start. Charge her, and lock her up.

  Maya Lewis : Livvie.

  Olivia Pope : As for my father, hunt him, find him, and kill him.

  [walks out of the room] 

  Maya Lewis : Olivia. Olivia!

• Olivia Pope : Michael will be required to repay you in full with a million-dollar penalty if he violates any of the terms of the contract - confidentiality, public appearances, random drug testing.

  Michael : So, Cyrus would basically own me.

  Cyrus Beene : You mean as opposed to just renting?

• Olivia Pope : You're a sick, lonely man who only knows how to lie and call it love.

  Rowan Pope : Could you be more ungrateful? You're my flesh. There would be no Olivia Pope if not for me. As difficult as it is to admit, I have failed as a father. And it saddens me because I bled and toiled and allowed myself to be hated, all for your protection, all so that you could believe that you were truly special. But instead of gratitude, I get scorn, ridicule, mockery. And worst of all a daughter who sends in her clan of good old boys to kill me, your own blood, every chance you get! It is your life that is sad. It is you who cannot be normal. It is you who have no comprehension of love. So, what? Your stomach turns every time you look at me? Well, let me be the one to break it to you, Olivia you are simply looking in the mirror.

• Olivia Pope : So, where to?

  Cyrus Beene : I'm thinking Europe. They have a long history of accepting failure and disgrace.