- [last lines]
- Olivia Pope: They said it was a mechanical failure - something they could never quite figure out how a plane could just fall out of the sky. That doesn't happen. That never happens. So they recalled the engine, but it turns out they didn't need to, because it wasn't the plane at all. Because what nobody knew it didn't crash. It was shot down, right out of the sky. Someone killed them, all 329 of them. They fell into the ocean. And they died. So I want you to answer the question. Where were you during Operation Remington?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Like I said, I don't know what you're talking about.
- Olivia Pope: One of the bodies in the ocean was my mother. Do you still not know what I'm talking about? Fitz...
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I don't know what you're talking about.
- Olivia Pope: I was 12 when she died. I was 12.
- [first lines]
- Maya Lewis: Livvie? Olivia!
- [pulling off young Olivia's headphones]
- Maya Lewis: Hey I'm leaving. I'll call you and daddy from Heathrow when I land, okay? It's only for a couple of days, just until my boss gets settled. And I left casseroles in the freezer. I love you, Olivia.
- Young Olivia: I know.
- Maya Lewis: [gives her a big hug] Good-bye, baby.
- Young Olivia: Bye mom.
- Leo Bergen: [to Huck and Jake] There's probably only two people in the world who can tell me if this really happened. One of those people is my father, and I can't ask him because he'd probably kill both of you, or maybe even all three of us to teach me some kind of sick lesson. And the other's the President. So that's where I'm going, to the White House to ask him myself.
- [closes the elevator door]
- Mellie Grant: I did everything but roll your whore up in a rug and unfurl her at your feet! I begged her. I bled for this!
- President Fitzgerald Grant: It's done, Mellie. We find someone else.
- Mellie Grant: You want to win? There is no one else.
- Quinn Perkins: [arriving at the office] Got your coffee.
- Harrison Wright: You're late. Where have you been?
- Quinn Perkins: Getting your coffee. Then there was traffic.
- Harrison Wright: There's an app for that.
- Quinn Perkins: Oh, is there an app to help you get along with your coworker? There should be.
- Congresswoman Josephine Marcus: We've already got over $6 million and counting.
- Abby Whelan: $6 million might pay for the gas, but it sure as hell won't buy you the plane. You want to walk to Iowa
- Olivia Pope: You've done a great job mobilizing the grass roots, but you're getting pummeled by Reston's ads on the airwaves. And your post-debate spike in the polls It's nearly gone. It's time to respond with ads of your own Big media buys. Reston's already locked up the big donors. Then we unlock them. Those people out there working their tails off, along with the millions of people who have pledged their support one crumpled dollar at a time They believe in me because I'm not accountable to big money. You want to be mayor of Red Springs or Ralph Nader, turn your back on PAC money and large donations. You want to win Iowa or New Hampshire and become the party's nominee?
- Congresswoman Josephine Marcus: All right, line up the fat cats. Let's just get this over with.
- Olivia Pope: Be careful.
- Jake Ballard: We're only digging up dirt on the most powerful man in the world. How dangerous could that possibly be?
- Rowan Pope: Olivia, why are you calling?
- Olivia Pope: I have so many questions I want to ask you, but I'm afraid you'll kill my friends if I do. So, you know, let's just talk about the weather, or uh, how I can't form attachments to people because my mother is dead, and my father is that thing that goes bump in the night. Or... You pick a topic.
- Rowan Pope: Olivia. One thing I've learned in life, Olivia, is that the past is the past. It's best if you leave it there.
- Olivia Pope: Ignoring the attacks on you, being likable all the time, does not get you elected President. You need to show your claws at some point. Show you have claws. You're too nice.
- Congresswoman Josephine Marcus: Nice got me this far.
- Olivia Pope: Nice got you a congressional seat in Montana. Nice doesn't get you President, unless you want to be President of Candy Land.
- Congresswoman Josephine Marcus: Listen, I know who I am, and I know what works with voters.
- Olivia Pope: You don't have any voters yet
- Congresswoman Josephine Marcus: Hey! I'm the one running for President here, okay, not you.
- Cyrus Beene: Well, Reverend, I like being married, and I believe in a woman's right to choose. But how about *you* get to keep all that righteous indignation that fills your collection plate every Sunday, and President Grant and I go pray on some new tax breaks?
- Reverend Coles: The Lord speaks through you, brother Beene.
- Cyrus Beene: Yeah. I get that a lot.
- Cyrus Beene: My husband always said my big mouth was gonna get me in trouble someday.
- Olivia Pope: Or make you President.
- Candace Marcus: So you all you're really full-service, aren't you? You raise money, organize the ground game, bury secrets, and still have time to go out and make fake political ads. You're wearing the same nail polish as the shaky hand.
- Abby Whelan: She needed to get angry. We needed to get her there.
- Candace Marcus: Is there a line you won't cross?
- Abby Whelan: We'll let you know when we find it.