Designated Survivor (TV Series)

Two Ships (2017)

Brian McNamara: Dave Rhodes

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• Dave Rhodes : I don't remember you being this quiet, Emily.

  Emily Rhodes : Didn't want to interrupt you while you were telling your life story. It's missing one thing, though. Me.

  Dave Rhodes : Emily, I am so sorry.

  Emily Rhodes : I don't need your apology. My mother does.

  Dave Rhodes : It's not what you think.

  Emily Rhodes : Really? Because I think you were too busy skiing and getting a tan to be a dad.

• Dave Rhodes : I left because your mother and I weren't in love.

  Emily Rhodes : So that's why I never heard from you; because you didn't love my mother.

  Dave Rhodes : I-I-I'm not here to make excuses. All I can tell you is that I knew if your mother wasn't in my life, then I couldn't be in yours.

  Emily Rhodes : You're right. That's... that's not an excuse. That's worse. That is cowardly and pathetic.

  Dave Rhodes : Emily.

  Emily Rhodes : Do you know what it's like to be a little girl with a birthday? And you run home from school praying that this is the year your dad sends you a card.

  [her voice breaking] 

  Emily Rhodes : And you get home and check the mail, and no. It's not the year. And there never was a year.

• Lyor Boone : So, she doesn't get it from you.

  Dave Rhodes : No, I can't say I've ever had kombucha.

  Lyor Boone : Try storing vinegar in a locker for a decade. Then add bleach and urine.

  Emily Rhodes : [bumping into them]  Thank you, Lyor. You can go earn your taxpayer money now.

• Emily Rhodes : Sorry I keep abandoning you.

  Dave Rhodes : Don't be. I love meeting your friends. They think the world of you.

  Co-Worker Two : [passing by]  Hey, Mr. Rhodes.

  Dave Rhodes : Heya, Matt.

  Emily Rhodes : Who's Matt?

  Dave Rhodes : Oh, he works in the word processing pool. I think he's got a little something going with Dana.

  Emily Rhodes : Who's Dana?

  Dave Rhodes : She works with Hank in personnel.

  Emily Rhodes : [blankly]  Oh.

  [her phone buzzes] 

  Emily Rhodes : I'm so sorry. I will come find you.

  Dave Rhodes : I'll be the guy beaming with pride.

• Dave Rhodes : There really used to be a pool in the White House?

  Emily Rhodes : Yep. President Nixon covered it in 1970, turned it into a briefing room.

  Dave Rhodes : His first mistake.

  Emily Rhodes : Oh, but not his last.

• Dave Rhodes : Hey, you think there's a chance I might meet your boss?

  Emily Rhodes : Today might be tough, but maybe we can swing by for a second.

  Dave Rhodes : Think I could get a picture?

  Emily Rhodes : Sure.

  Dave Rhodes : Good, 'cause I want to show you something.

  [taking something out of his jacket pocket] 

  Dave Rhodes : It's called the BottleMaven. Just press a button, out pops the cork.

  Emily Rhodes : A corkscrew.

  Dave Rhodes : The last word in corkscrews. And it would mean the world to my investor group if I could get a picture of the President with it.

  Emily Rhodes : The President doesn't endorse products.

  Dave Rhodes : No problem. Uh, he could hold the bottle. I'll hold the BottleMaven.

• Dave Rhodes : Emily, I wanted to reach out to you a thousand times. But I didn't know what to say.

  Emily Rhodes : How about goodbye?

  [he stands to leave; he pauses and pulls a newspaper article out of his wallet and places it on the table] 

  Dave Rhodes : I carried this around for twenty years, about a little girl from Akron who won a really big spelling bee. I kept it because of the picture. But, well, now that I've finally seen you again... I don't need it anymore.

  Emily Rhodes : [emotionally]  Dad, wait.