Designated Survivor (TV Series)

Capacity (2018)

Adan Canto: Aaron Shore

Quotes 

• Aaron Shore : Hey, Hannah. You didn't answer my calls.

  Hannah Wells : I was at the hospital.

  Aaron Shore : Yeah, like, ten hours ago. Hey, you can't see the President like this.

  Hannah Wells : He needs to know that Andrea Frost is the hacker. And a murderer!

  Aaron Shore : We need incontrovertible evidence of that, not a circumstantial case.

  Hannah Wells : Oh, the hell we do.

• Aaron Shore : You think you can just waltz into the Oval with blood on your shirt and convince the president that his close friend...

  Hannah Wells : I don't care who the hell she is, Aaron.

  Aaron Shore : Hannah, I'm on your side here. But you'll have one shot at persuading the president. Go home, all right? Get cleaned up. Gather your thoughts. Keep working the case.

  Hannah Wells : I have been working this for months.

  Aaron Shore : Hannah, I'm sorry about Damien. I am. But this has to be bulletproof.

  Hannah Wells : What, you want a smoking gun? We may never get that. Meanwhile, she's still out there.

  Aaron Shore : Hannah, I'm not asking you.

• Ethan West : Mr. Shore, do you have an opinion as to the president's conduct of the war against Kunami?

  Aaron Shore : I'm not sure what you're asking.

  Ethan West : How did he do, Mr. Shore? How'd he do?

  Aaron Shore : Well, he brought to justice a leader of a regime that set off a dirty bomb on American soil and was about to gas its dissidents...

  Ethan West : But we didn't find out about the gas until after we declared war.

  Aaron Shore : Yes.

  Ethan West : And the justification for war, the dirty bomb, the emir wasn't behind that, was he?

  Aaron Shore : Not directly, no.

  Ethan West : So what we need to talk about is how the president made his decision to plunge this country into war.

• Ethan West : So he discarded advice. He refused to confer with his allies, and he started a war.

  Aaron Shore : Which is his constitutional perogative.

  Ethan West : To not verify facts before putting lives at risk? That's his perogative?

  Aaron Shore : Yes.

  Ethan West : And that's just irrational, yes?

  Aaron Shore : We won the war. Removed a tyrant. If that's irrational, then sign me up.

• Kendra Daynes : Mr. Shore, is war ever rational?

  Aaron Shore : A conscious decision to kill other human beings may be necessary, but rational, no. I wouldn't call it that.

  Kendra Daynes : George Washington. Woodrow Wilson. FDR. All took us into war. By that definition, they were all irrational, correct?

  Aaron Shore : Correct.

  Kendra Daynes : [pointedly to West]  Then I think President Kirkman's in good company.

• Tom Kirkman : Aaron, you were briefed on this from the beginning. What the hell?

  Aaron Shore : Sir, Hannah Wells is the best agent we've got.

  Tom Kirkman : I'm not disputing that. But she didn't prove anything. In fact, from where I sit, the only thing she managed to do was smear the name of one of our country's greatest entrepreneurs.

  Aaron Shore : I grant you, sir, her case is not ironclad. But... but if you connect all the dots...

  Tom Kirkman : And leap to every possible conclusion, you may - *may* - have found the hacker.

  Aaron Shore : Sir, Hannah Wells took down Patrick Lloyd. She figured out who was behind the dirty bomb. If she says there's something here, I-I'm inclined at least to give her the benefit of the doubt.

  Tom Kirkman : If you expect me to believe any of this, she needs to come back with more. A lot more.

• Aaron Shore : There was no one else in the Oval besides Frost and the president.

  Hannah Wells : And the president sure as hell wasn't cooperating with West, which means that Frost is undermining him.

  Kendra Daynes : But the president was clear. We can't question her.

  Hannah Wells : So Frost gets away with it.

  Kendra Daynes : Unless you can find an ironclad way to incriminate her.

• Aaron Shore : You know what White House employees can't do? Accost private citizens in public places and defame them. You're not getting any of this, are you? Hannah, I vouched for you. To the president. I put my neck on the line! What the hell were you thinking?

  Hannah Wells : They're all dead, Aaron.

  Aaron Shore : Who?

  Hannah Wells : Scott Wheeler. Jason Atwood. John Foerstel. Damian Rennett. Everyone who gets close to me dies.

  Aaron Shore : [heavy sigh]  Yeah. I'm sorry.

  Hannah Wells : I'm not gonna let Andrea Frost get away with this. I won't let her.

  Aaron Shore : I'm pulling you from the hack investigation, Hannah. I have to. You've done enough.

• Emily Rhodes : Is that the, um, Type-2 diabetes diet?

  Aaron Shore : I mean, if everything goes south, I figure, you know, we'll have minutes to leave this building. And I wanted a souvenir that wouldn't amount to grand theft.

  Emily Rhodes : A sugar shaker?

  Aaron Shore : You remember Bernie from the cafeteria?

  Emily Rhodes : Mm-hmm.

  Aaron Shore : He put it behind the register. He said I was oversweetening my cortados.

  Emily Rhodes : Sweet revenge.

  Aaron Shore : Yeah.

  Emily Rhodes : I'm, uh... I'm taking the scorpion paperweight the Governor of Guam left us.

• Emily Rhodes : Do you ever think about us?

  Aaron Shore : How do you mean?

  Emily Rhodes : Well, we had that kiss last year. Once. And it was, you know, it wasn't bad as far as kisses go.

  Aaron Shore : Definitely serviceable.

  Emily Rhodes : You ever wonder what would've happened if there were a sequel?

  Aaron Shore : I - I did. But I decided long ago not to pursue it.

  Emily Rhodes : Why?

  Aaron Shore : Because then you wouldn't be here in my office a year later, exchanging stories about how we're the two lowest-rent crooks in the history of the White House.