- [first lines]
- Jake Ballard: [visiting him in jail] Who are you working with?
- Rowan Pope: How could I, prisoner 052213, at the Milford Federal Correctional...
- Jake Ballard: Lazarus one is your invention, your baby. If B-613 is left for dead, this is how you refill its coffers - steal some paintings, set a fire, leave a couple of charred forgeries behind, and then sell the originals to gangsters and oligarchs for billions. What happened at the Louvre that's Lazarus one, your plan. So either this is you working with someone on the outside to rebuild your empire...
- Rowan Pope: My empire? Look around you. Thanks to my daughter and her infinite wisdom, I am no longer in a position to protect our Republic.
- Jake Ballard: So this is Liv's fault?
- Rowan Pope: Isn't it?
- Francesca Hunter: [narrating her biography special] Eli Pope grew up an orphan on the mean streets of Detroit, but envisioned something more. He worked three jobs to put himself through college, eventually earning his PhD in paleontology. He married Maya, a young secretary, and they had Olivia. They were living the American dream. That dream was shattered when Maya was tragically killed in a plane crash. Olivia was just 12 at the time. Now a single father, Eli Pope sent Olivia to Surval Montreaux, an elite Swiss boarding school whose powerful alumni include eight of the world's top billionaires. He once told a colleague that he was on a quest to do the impossible: raise an African-American girl who felt fully entitled to own the world as much as any white man.
- Rowan Pope: I don't have to regain my power. Power true power is never lost. And freedom?
- [laughs heartily]
- Rowan Pope: Boy, I am always free. No one will ever cage me.
- Mellie Grant: Cyrus and let's not forget Susan Ross.
- Cyrus Beene: If Fitz gets impeached, Susan Ross becomes president, and we all know how that turns out. The woman's gonna eat her own head and set herself on fire at the same time, after which the country will desperately want someone who's the polar opposite of Susan.
- Olivia Pope: [sitting with her computer] I have at least 1,000 threats of rape here, just on this one site, from guys who are mad that I had the audacity to be born female and black.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Olivia, turn off the computer.
- Olivia Pope: Do you think if I told them I own a gun and that I've shot someone, they'd threaten to rape me? Do you think if I told them I've survived being kidnapped and tortured, they would get that their weak little misspellings barely make me blink? That I would welcome the chance to take out a little bit of PTSD on the next man who put his hands on me? You think they'd still want to...
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Turn off the computer now, or I will come over there, walk through all the reporters outside your building, and turn it off for you.
- Quinn Perkins: You went off-script.
- Marcus Walker: This is war. There is no script. You can choose the battle, but if you send me out, I'm fighting *my* way. I don't play. I don't hide. I don't hold back or look for exits, and I sure as hell don't lean on the ropes and take it. I swing, because that's me. That's who I am. That is how I gladiate.
- Marcus Walker: So Who's gonna tell Olivia I work here now?
- Huck: I will. I'm damaged. She doesn't like to yell at me.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: It's Olivia's job as a fixer, to be smart, to be practical and unemotional. She makes the the smart move. In her office, the smart move is the only move that counts, but you know what? We don't work for Liv. I'm President of the United States. We work for the American people. The playbook is the Constitution. In my office, it's not about doing the smart thing. It's about doing the right thing.
- [last lines]
- Senator Linda Moskowitz: It's late, Mellie.
- Mellie Grant: I know. I take it you've seen the news. That's why I called you here because I wanted to talk to you. About impeaching my husband.
- Francesca Hunter: [cut to TV show] I'm Francesca Hunter, and tonight we are, as always, on the hunt.