- Elizabeth McCord: Do not come near me, with that. Don't.
- Elizabeth McCord: I love you.
- Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord: I know.
- Henry McCord: Consider giviing your mum a break.
- Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord: God, dad. You would defend her if she was standing over a bloody corpse, with a knife.
- Henry McCord: I would not. It would totally depend on who the corpse was.
- Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord: You guys really don't know me at all, do you ?
- Henry McCord: Other than sucking snot out of your nose with a tube when you were two days old, I'm barely acquainted with you.
- Elizabeth McCord: They are reporting that your guys fired into the crowd and provoked the attack.
- Isaac Bishop: Let's not convict them just yet, okay ?
- Elizabeth McCord: You let me know the minute I can.
- Russell Jackson: If it's any consolation, that's not how the President sees it. He thinks you saved his ass. Told me to tell you that.
- Elizabeth McCord: Were you ? Going to tell me that ?
- Russell Jackson: I haven't decided.
- Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord: I don't know what I'm going to do yet. I need more than half a day to think about it.
- Elizabeth McCord: Well, let me take the mystery out of it for you. You're going back to college.
- Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord: Not back to Lovell. I alerted my advisors and signed the forms.
- Elizabeth McCord: Your cerebral cortex isn't fully formed until you're 25 years old. That's the decision-making part of your brain. That's science.
- Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord: Good night, Mom...
- Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord: [looking at memorial invitation for George] Remember those bad magic tricks he used to do?
- Elizabeth McCord: You never fell for those?
- Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord: [laughing] No!
- Elizabeth McCord: Even as a kid?
- Stephanie 'Stevie' McCord: No, they were terrible. He was funny, though.
- Elizabeth McCord: He could hide an entire top secret operations, make it disappear into thin air, but not a quarter.
- Isaac Bishop: Can I ask you how you plan to handle the financial end?
- Elizabeth McCord: We have a discretionary fund. This'll classify as a home improvement.
- Isaac Bishop: Happy to pave over the money trail accordingly.
- Elizabeth McCord: No. I'm not afraid if this becomes public.
- Isaac Bishop: So the illusion of transparency?
- Elizabeth McCord: No, Mr. Bishop, actual transparency. I'm happy to defend actions that protect our people. And making the ambassador's home safer qualifies as an improvement, don't you think? Maybe I'll throw in a fountain.
- Isaac Bishop: If anyone is well-acquainted with your code of ethics, Madam Secretary, it is "the new guise of Satan."
- Elizabeth McCord: I didn't actually call you Satan.
- Isaac Bishop: No, no. Just my life's work.
- Daisy Grant: [staff meeting] We need to release a statement.
- Matt Mahoney: Explaining your mystery daughter.
- Blake Moran: Not a "mystery" daughter.
- Elizabeth McCord: By "mystery" do you mean born out of wedlock, or sired by aliens?
- Matt Mahoney: Well, we'd like to remove all doubt about either of those speculations.
- Elizabeth McCord: Knock yourself out. Can we talk about matters of national security now...