Scandal (TV Series)

Crash and Burn (2012)

Guillermo Diaz: Huck

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• [first lines] 

  Olivia Pope : Answers, people. We need answers, and time is of the essence.

  Quinn Perkins : Her phone's gone and her purse. She ran away. You told her she was gonna have to go on TV, she freaked out, and she ran away.

  Abby Whelan : I gotta say, as crime scenes go, it's pretty clean. No broken locks, no signs of struggle, and I'm not finding any prints aside from yours and Amanda's.

  Quinn Perkins : Because it's not a crime scene. Because she ran away.

  Huck : There's someone watching you.

  Olivia Pope : What?

  Huck : Your trash is gone, and it's not trash day, and there's a sedan parked across the street, US government plates, tinted windows.

  Olivia Pope : [looks out the window]  What about Amanda, Huck?

  Huck : Whoever it was came up through the service elevator, picked the lock on the back door, sedated her, taped her up, got her in a duffel bag. In and out, probably seven minutes, six if they were quick.

  Olivia Pope : How do you know?

  Huck : That's how *I* would do it.

• Huck : [talking crazy-like to Charlie who is naked, bound & gagged man on the bed]  I don't want you to think that I'm doing this because I'm mad at you, because I'm not. I'm not. You trained me, but it was the Agency, really. They took stuff from me, and not just my name, or my ability to ever contact my family again.

  [putting on rubber gloves] 

  Huck : I was young, I was fresh out of college, and they made it sound fun. We *had* fun, didn't we? That's the problem. It's horrible and it's sickening, and just when you think you can't take any more, it gets *fun*. The US Government really knows its stuff, yeah? Something in you just falls away, and it gets fun. There's a high. It's good. It's so good, which is what I wanna remind you of how good it can get. You think about that. Okay, I'm thinking about it 'cause I'm rusty. I'm sober. This is gonna be bad for me for a while, but I'm gonna push through the horrible and the sickening, and then something's gonna fall away, and I'm gonna start enjoying myself. All right?

  [gets a drill bit out of his toolbox] 

  Huck : And we both know what an artist I can be.

  [mounting the drill bit into his drill] 

  Huck : And like any junkie, I'm gonna enjoy the high for as long as I can. Okay? You ready old friend?

  [spins up the drill] 

• Huck : She didn't suffer.

  Quinn Perkins : How do you know?

  Huck : 'Cause I know what you do to people to make them suffer. She didn't suffer. It was a good... death.