- Otto: [intercepting Olivia in the hallway] Now, why can't I ever find a feisty gal like you in the real world? If you were gonna shoot me, you would have done it already. You've hesitated, love, which means you're not sure you got the heart to pull the trigger. It's nothing to be ashamed of. That's a man's tool you got there.
- [first lines]
- Olivia Pope: [answering the door] Hmm. You're just in time.
- Jake Ballard: You look happy.
- Olivia Pope: Are you coming in? I found two bottles of Du Bellay at this tiny, little wine shop in Adams Morgan. Two!
- Jake Ballard: Liv, I need to talk to you about your father.
- Otto: [abducting her] Do you have a death wish or something?
- Olivia Pope: I only negotiate with people with the power to say yes or no, and you don't have that. You're not in charge. No one in this ambulance is in charge. The guy back in the apartment who had his hand over my mouth, he was in charge. He never said a word, but you all looked at him every time you spoke. You were checking for approval. He is in charge, he says yes or no, so me begging and bargaining here with you is a waste of my breath. And you can't kill me unless he says you can, so, no, I don't have a death wish. It's just that he's not here to be afraid of.
- Otto: Ma'am, there are many, many things scarier than death.
- [injects her]
- Olivia Pope: [huddled in squalid cell] I'm going to save us, okay? Okay? Say it.
- Cellmate: You're going to save us.
- Olivia Pope: Yes. I'm going to save us.
- Cellmate: How?
- Olivia Pope: I'm Olivia Pope.
- [begins laughing]
- Olivia Pope: And it's funny because it's useless.
- Ian McLeod: I was told you had to be returned in your original packaging, shall we say, so I needed just the right set of extreme circumstances, didn't I, to pop your cork. The secret to you you always have to save everyone.