- Eleanor Darby: Mr. President, I came to inform you that the Cabinet has concluded its deliberations.
- Tom Kirkman: I understand. Let's get this over with.
- Eleanor Darby: The majority of the Cabinet wishes you to... continue in your capacity of President.
- Tom Kirkman: I was not expecting that. Please thank them for this opportunity and their support. Needless to say, this has been a difficult time.
- Eleanor Darby: Well, sir, it's behind you now. It's behind all of us.
- Tom Kirkman: [she turns to leave] Madam Vice President... what made them come to this decision?
- Eleanor Darby: Two things, sir. Your staff's loyalty to you through everything. Loyalty is a consequence of leadership. And leadership is a touchstone of competence.
- Tom Kirkman: And the second thing?
- Eleanor Darby: You. You, sir. The Tom Kirkman who started this job twenty months ago - ambivalent, aspirational, honest to a fault - is the same Tom Kirkman that they saw today. You have not changed one bit, sir.
- Kendra Daynes: Dr. Louden. Aaron. Emily. You.
- Tom Kirkman: West is only calling four witnesses.
- Kendra Daynes: That he's apprised us of. But depending on how his case is going, we may be in for a few surprises.
- Tom Kirkman: He's not obligated to follow typical notification procedures?
- Kendra Daynes: He's not, sir. The 25th Amendment proceeding is not a typical hearing.
- Tom Kirkman: One day prep. No, it's not.
- 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.
- Dr. Adam Louden: That's not what I said.
- Ethan West: Those are your words on those tapes, aren't they, Doctor?
- Dr. Adam Louden: Yes, but...
- Ethan West: You didn't say the president was suffering from PTSD?
- Dr. Adam Louden: You're taking it out of context...
- Ethan West: You didn't say that the president was anxious and depressed?
- Dr. Adam Louden: The leak of my tapes has been professionally devastating for me. I'm not gonna sit here and let you compound that humiliation by mischaracterizing my conclusions. If you're not gonna let me answer, I don't need to be here.
- Dr. Adam Louden: I never said, at any time, that Tom Kirkman was not fit to be President of the United States.
- Ethan West: But your notes say he doubts he can do the job.
- Dr. Adam Louden: Self-doubt is common when we lose a loved one.
- Ethan West: Do you think his symptoms disqualify him from the presidency?
- Dr. Adam Louden: I have no expertise as to the necessary qualifications of the Oval Office.
- Kendra Daynes: Dr. Louden, has the president improved since you started treating him?
- Dr. Adam Louden: Absolutely.
- Kendra Daynes: PTSD, anxiety, depression - all normal responses to a tragedy - have they diminished in the intervening months?
- Dr. Adam Louden: Yes. The diagnoses on my tapes were provisional.
- Kendra Daynes: Is the president currently in sound mental and emotional health?
- Dr. Adam Louden: He is.
- Kendra Daynes: Thank you.
- Ethan West: You say he's improved, but he has good days and bad days, right?
- Dr. Adam Louden: Yes. Like us all.
- 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.
- Chuck Russink: Here's the bank camera shot of the assassin's car. You can't really make out the license plate.
- Hannah Wells: You can make out the first two numbers. And they trace back to a silver sedan registered to Apache Aerospace; Andrea Frost's company.
- Chuck Russink: Yes, and those two digits also come to 814 other plates registered in the district.
- Hannah Wells: Okay, how many of them are silver sedans?
- Chuck Russink: Hannah, you're not listening.
- Hannah Wells: How many?
- Chuck Russink: [running a search on his computer] 212.
- Hannah Wells: We also found more writings. Recent anti-government postings that we can trace back to Gamine. And we know that Gamine is Andrea Frost.
- Chuck Russink: We're getting there, okay? But it's still not enough.
- Hannah Wells: It is for me. Chuck, she's not just a-a saboteur. She's a killer. The plumber who broke into NASA, Damian. They're both dead. We keep looking for evidence that we already have!
- Tom Kirkman: Agent Wells, you have been a tremendous asset to your country, and to this administration. But I'm deeply troubled by what you've just told me, and for a number of reasons. But I'll start with the biggest one first. You do know who Andrea Frost is?
- Hannah Wells: Unfortunately, sir, I do.
- Tom Kirkman: She's not just a close personal friend of mine. She's a widely-respected industrialist. Someone who helped us save astronauts from the Space Station, helped us find the dirty bomb.
- Hannah Wells: All so she could get close to you, sir.
- Tom Kirkman: I'm sorry. I might be missing something here, but your claim that Andrea Frost is responsible for all these hackings and murder is solely based on your assertion that she uses the Internet handle "Gamine" and is a fan of Alan Turing; which by the way, so am I.
- Hannah Wells: Mr. President, I know that all of this sounds very far-fetched. But this conclusion is a product of months and months of painstaking work. Have I ever led you astray before?
- Tom Kirkman: Thank you, Agent Wells. That'll be all.
- 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.
- Tom Kirkman: This isn't what we agreed to, Senator. We had a deal.
- Senator: Which we're honoring by fully funding the medical research you advocate. $6 billion.
- Lyor Boone: Which you're offsetting by eliminating $6 billion in cost-of-living increases to Medicaid.
- Tom Kirkman: Meaning that if we were ever to discover new life-saving medication, most Americans couldn't afford it.
- Senator: Sir, we can't squeeze blood from a stone. We got to give somewhere.
- Emily Rhodes: How about the billions of dollars of pork your two parties have jammed into the budget?
- Senator Cameron Feller: If you're referring to the reasoned compromises that have gotten this budget the votes to pass...
- Tom Kirkman: There's absolutely nothing reasonable about our failure to care for our sick. I'm not signing it.
- Senator Cameron Feller: Your veto would shut down the government, sir.
- Tom Kirkman: You want to avoid a government shutdown, honor the deal. Or there's the door.
- Emily Rhodes: Sir, now may not be the time for hardball.
- Lyor Boone: She's right. We have 'till midnight to get this sorted out. Get the budget funded, then we can tackle medical research.
- Tom Kirkman: I'm not gonna be forced into making a choice between medical innovation and access to medical care. That will not be my legacy.
- Lyor Boone: [standing to follow Kirkman out] Nope. It'll be hitting the self-destruct button right before getting dragged out of office.
- Tom Kirkman: Dax, thank you so much for coming. It's great to see you, man.
- Dax Minter: Always, Tom. But I'm assuming the suddenness of my summons means this isn't strictly personal.
- Tom Kirkman: Well, I wish it was, but I'm afraid you're right.
- Tom Kirkman: How well do you know Dr. Andrea Frost?
- Dax Minter: Pretty well. A woman like that in the tech sphere, she's a unicorn. Certainly makes an impression.
- Tom Kirkman: I asked you here because I think you're an excellent judge of character. And I need you to judge hers for me. Do you think she's capable of sabotage?
- Dax Minter: Sabotage?
- Tom Kirkman: Hacking into governmental and technological hubs.
- Dax Minter: If you're asking me could she do it, yeah. She's brilliant. If you're asking me would she...
- Tom Kirkman: I'm afraid that's what I'm asking.
- Dax Minter: You don't get to be the first female tech billionaire without a ruthless streak.
- Tom Kirkman: Yeah. But cyberterrorism? It just doesn't seem to fit the profile of the person I know.
- Dax Minter: I agree. But how well do we really know anyone?
- Dax Minter: So... how you doing with everything?
- Tom Kirkman: Well, besides the fact that half the country thinks I'm crazy... it's been a hard year. But I'm getting by.
- Dax Minter: If you need a breather, I have a bottle of 1823 Louis XIII with your name on it.
- Tom Kirkman: Well, when I find the time, I'd love to share it with you.
- [indicating a model car on his shelf]
- Tom Kirkman: Until then, I've got a pretty cool reminder of you right here in my office.
- Dax Minter: They're rolling off the assembly lines as we speak. Come by. Take a real one for a spin.
- Tom Kirkman: Well, if I'm stil sitting in that chair in three weeks, I'll make it a priority.
- Ethan West: Yeah, I'd like to call my next witness, please. Dr. Frost.
- Tom Kirkman: [quietly to Kendra] She's a private citizen.
- Ethan West: She has knowledge of the president's fitness, as per the tapes.
- Tom Kirkman: [quietly to Frost as she takes the stand] I'm sorry.
- Ethan West: Dr. Frost, are you and the president close friends?
- Dr. Andrea Frost: We're friends, yes.
- Ethan West: Does he ever discuss his job with you?
- Dr. Andrea Frost: Yes.
- Ethan West: So the President confessed doubts to you about his ability to do the job?
- [she flashes back to their conversation in the Oval Office]
- Ethan West: Dr. Frost?
- Dr. Andrea Frost: Yes.
- Kendra Daynes: Mr. President, the conversation you had with Dr. Frost, who was in the room with the two of you?
- Tom Kirkman: No one.
- Kendra Daynes: Which means she's cooperating with Ethan West.
- Tom Kirkman: No, she was subpoenaed.
- Kendra Daynes: To testify. Why would she volunteer details of a private conversation that incriminates you?
- Kendra Daynes: Hannah Wells gave me a dossier on Dr. Frost. I would like to use it to question her.
- Tom Kirkman: You want to suggest that she's the hacker, right?
- Kendra Daynes: Yes, sir.
- Tom Kirkman: No. I won't allow it. Understood?
- Kendra Daynes: Yes, sir.
- 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.
- Hannah Wells: Mr. West, I'm Hannah Wells. FBI. You got a second?
- Ethan West: I got half a second.
- Hannah Wells: I'm investigating possible criminal conduct by Dr. Andrea Frost.
- Ethan West: It's not my concern.
- Hannah Wells: It is if you were conspiring with her to undermine the presidency.
- Hannah Wells: I understand that Dr. Frost just testified to the contents of a private conversation her and the president had in the Oval Office. A conversation she related to you.
- Ethan West: Wow, is there nobody who doesn't know about this hearing?
- Hannah Wells: My point is if we make a case against Dr. Frost, and you aided her attack on the White House, that makes you an accessory after the fact.
- Ethan West: Let me save you some time, Agent Hannah Wells.
- [taking a letter from his coat pocket and giving it to her]
- Ethan West: The conversation that you allude to was brought to my attention through this anonymous letter. I did not co-conspire. I did nothing wrong. I just merely received a tip.
- Hannah Wells: A tip?
- Ethan West: A tip. You know what a tip is, don't you? It's the part of the iceberg that this White House is about to slam into.
- Lyor Boone: The president will never sign this.
- Senator Cameron Feller: Yes, he will, Lyor, because time's up for your boss.
- Lyor Boone: I'm sorry?
- Senator Cameron Feller: This president's under duress. We are not. So we have to be able to look our constituents in the eye tomorrow and explain why we made concessions with someone who is no longer a viable partner.
- Emily Rhodes: What do you mean "no longer viable"?
- Senator Cameron Feller: This is the deal, Emily. The final deal. And I think this president understands the concept of finality.
- Senator: We'll be waiting for his answer.
- Emily Rhodes: [the Senators leave] They know about the hearing.
- Lyor Boone: Yep. Any leverage the White House had just went up in smoke.
- Hannah Wells: So, what's next?
- Dr. Andrea Frost: Excuse me?
- Hannah Wells: NASA. The power grid. The president's therapy tapes. What's your next target?
- Dr. Andrea Frost: Do I know you?
- Hannah Wells: I'm Hannah Wells. FBI.
- Dr. Andrea Frost: I have no idea what you're talking about, Agent Wells. But I'm a close friend of President Kirkman's.
- Hannah Wells: Yeah, you're a close friend. You're trying to undermine his entire administration. Is that what friends do?
- Hannah Wells: You are not just a saboteur, Dr. Frost. You are a murderer. And your henchman got the wrong guy.
- Dr. Andrea Frost: You have no idea who you're talking to.
- Hannah Wells: I know exactly...
- Dr. Andrea Frost: So let me enlighten you. I'm someone who keeps her promises. And if you ever slander me in public again, I promise you this will be your last act working for the government or anyone else.
- Seth Wright: [leaving a press briefing] I'm very confident the world is gonna come crashing down around us.
- Emily Rhodes: Maybe don't say that.
- Seth Wright: You know what Nixon did on his last day in office? He didn't shut the government down. He got a haircut, okay? He thanked his staff.
- Emily Rhodes: Nixon's goose was already cooked.
- Seth Wright: And our guy is getting plucked in front of our eyes. And yet here we are, the hunky-dory brigade.
- Emily Rhodes: And we carry on until we're carried out. That's what we do here.
- Seth Wright: Yes, Em, I get that. And I'm down. But, you know, it's like Custer's last stand around here.
- Emily Rhodes: For all of us. Look, I have to testify, and I can't take the Fifth. If I'm asked about telling Chuck to break the law to protect the president...
- Seth Wright: What are you gonna do?
- Emily Rhodes: Face the music. That's the order of business today.
- Seth Wright: 'Till the band stops playing.
- Ethan West: Ms. Rhodes, are you loyal to the president?
- Emily Rhodes: Of course.
- Ethan West: And you follow his directives?
- Emily Rhodes: I'm his Chief of Staff. I carry them out.
- Ethan West: Let's talk about how you do that.
- Ethan West: Well, the president is obsessed with loyalty.
- Emily Rhodes: He's not obsessed.
- Ethan West: Preoccupied?
- Emily Rhodes: The president is a very loyal man. He expects it in return.
- Ethan West: And you follow his directives, right?
- Emily Rhodes: Yes, I said that.
- Ethan West: Well, if you're preoccupied with loyalty and you listen to what the president says, then the preoccupation must be his, am I right?
- 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.
- Cornelius Moss: Well, Mr. West, what can I do for you?
- Ethan West: Well, sir, it's more a matter of what can you do for your country? The Cabinet is trying to remove President Kirkman, sir.
- Cornelius Moss: It's a somber occasion. I take it they have retained you?
- Ethan West: I am the humble steward charged with bringing the relevant facts to light, yeah. I was thinking you may have some. Mr. President.
- Cornelius Moss: Yes. Yes, I do.
- Ethan West: Would you be willing to share those with the Cabinet?
- Cornelius Moss: Well, as you say, Mr. West, it's about what I can do for my country.
- Ethan West: How far do your concerns about the president's mental health go back?
- Cornelius Moss: Months. At least since the death of his wife.
- Ethan West: And what was the basis of this concern?
- Cornelius Moss: I personally observed President Kirkman's growing and dangerous paranoia.
- Ethan West: And as a member of the president's Cabinet, did you also notice the mental deterioration?
- Cornelius Moss: Since the day of his wife's death, absolutely.
- Ethan West: Did you take these concerns to him?
- Cornelius Moss: Repeatedly. He was defensive. Accused me of not supporting him.
- Ethan West: What did you notice about his decision-making after his wife died?
- Cornelius Moss: Erratic. At times, dangerously impetuous. At times, crippled by indecision. You fold in the paranoia, you've got a toxic combination.
- Ethan West: So in your expert opinion, is Tom Kirkman fit to continue as president?
- Cornelius Moss: No. No, he is not.
- Kendra Daynes: Secretary Moss, did you leave the Kirkman administration on good terms?
- Cornelius Moss: No.
- Kendra Daynes: What happened?
- Cornelius Moss: I became weary of President Kirkman's accusations that I was undermining him. Tired of his failure to follow my counsel. So I resigned.
- Kendra Daynes: In fact, you were fired.
- Cornelius Moss: I was not.
- Kendra Daynes: Oh, come on Mr. Secretary.
- Cornelius Moss: It's "Mr. President", Ms. Daynes. And I know what you're implying: that I'm here on a vendetta. Except I was not fired. In fact, President Kirkman held a press conference in which he acknowledged reluctantly accepting my resignation. Surely you're not suggesting President Kirkman is a liar.
- Tom Kirkman: How much damage did Moss do?
- Kendra Daynes: A respected ex-president. He hurt us, sir.
- Lyor Boone: It was brilliant.
- Tom Kirkman: Excuse me?
- Lyor Boone: Moss leaked classified intel. Now he's testifying against you. He helps oust you, his legal problems are over.
- Tom Kirkman: [getting the point] Right. If I somehow manage to survive this, my administration's subsequent prosecution of him would look like political retribution.
- Lyor Boone: I think Moss is the reason your Cabinet turned against you.
- Tom Kirkman: They're all his people. I appointed them at his recommendation.
- Lyor Boone: They're loyal to him. I'm betting he orchestrated a whisper campaign. Primed his people for the 25th.
- Tom Kirkman: Well, I can't worry about what he did. I need to worry about what we're going to do. Kendra, where do we stand?
- Kendra Daynes: We're doing our best, sir, but we need to change hearts and minds, and I'm not sure we're doing that.
- Emily Rhodes: I just heard from leadership. More rollbacks.
- Tom Kirkman: [looking through the folder she hands him] Everything we worked for for the last six months, they're throwing out.
- Lyor Boone: Mr. President, it's gonna get worse by the hour. You need to make a deal.
- Tom Kirkman: This isn't a deal. They're strong-arming us.
- Lyor Boone: If your last act is shutting down the government, it won't seem like an act of conscience.
- Emily Rhodes: It'll seem like spite.
- Lyor Boone: Or proof of insanity.
- Tom Kirkman: [thinking it over] Son of a bitch. Fine. Emily, get the Congressional and Senate leadership back up here. We need to button this up.
- Tom Kirkman: A compromise?
- Ethan West: Yes, sir. You step down voluntarily and return to your post as HUD Secretary.
- Emily Rhodes: What's the president's stated reason for leaving?
- Ethan West: Pick one. He's not a politician, he doesn't like the aesthetic. No one's gonna bat an eye.
- Kendra Daynes: You have a well-deserved reputation for hardball. Why are you suddenly coming to the table?
- Ethan West: Because it's a win-win situation. I mean, do you need a better reason than that?
- Tom Kirkman: You're hedging your bets. Even though the deck's stacked against me, you're worried I might pull out an inside straight.
- Ethan West: Whatever my reasoning, it's a gift horse. Don't look it in the mouth.
- Tom Kirkman: I'm sorry, Mr. West. But if the Cabinet wants me out of this building, they're gonna have to do it the hard way.
- Ethan West: Okay, sir, but when you look back on this, remember I tried to give you a way out.
- Ethan West: Mr. Kirkman, would you do anything to protect your brother?
- Trey Kirkman: I'm not sure I know what you mean by "anything."
- Ethan West: Well, did you confront me at the White House mess earlier today?
- Trey Kirkman: I wouldn't call it a confrontation. It was a conversation.
- Ethan West: A pretty threatening conversation. I wonder, uh, did your brother put you up to it?
- Trey Kirkman: My brother didn't put me up to anything.
- Ethan West: So you confronted me of your own volition?
- Trey Kirkman: Yep.
- Ethan West: Well, considering the role I play in your brother's fate, uh, do you think that's rational?
- Trey Kirkman: I'll let you be the judge of that.
- Ethan West: It's irrational, but it's not surprising, 'cause your family has a history of mental illness.
- Trey Kirkman: We have no such history.
- Ethan West: Well, you were diagnosed with bipolar disorder and spent two weeks in the hospital in 1998.
- Trey Kirkman: I was under observation. I was going through a break-up with a long-term girlfriend.
- Ethan West: Are you still on your meds?
- Trey Kirkman: Yes. When you're diagnosed, they keep you on the medication as a precaution.
- Ethan West: And your mother was hospitalized, too, with depression in 1975.
- Trey Kirkman: She was briefly in a facility.
- Ethan West: Mental illness runs in your family.
- Trey Kirkman: No, being human does.
- Trey Kirkman: I'm sorry, Tom.
- Tom Kirkman: For what?
- Trey Kirkman: I hurt you in there.
- Tom Kirkman: You think I'm upset about what you said in there? Why didn't you tell me? I'm your brother. All those years, everything you were going through.
- Trey Kirkman: You were busy with your own life. I had spent mine being a burden. I didn't want to be that anymore.
- Tom Kirkman: Trey, you are not a burden.
- Tom Kirkman: When this whole thing is over, regardles of the outcome, I want us to go somewhere. Just the two of us, brothers.
- Trey Kirkman: And forty Secret Service.
- Tom Kirkman: Believe it or not, they're pretty good at keeping a low profile.
- Trey Kirkman: It's a deal, big brother. I know just the place. Fort Knox. I'll bring one suitcase...
- Tom Kirkman: I was hoping that we could go somewhere that wasn't gonna land you in jail.
- Trey Kirkman: Are you gonna show me the UFOs?
- Tom Kirkman: [reconsidering the whole thing] Okay.
- Trey Kirkman: Tom, I won't tell anybody. I swear.
- Senator: I thought we made our position clear.
- Lyor Boone: You made yourself perfectly clear. You are a couple of unprincipled shakedown artists.
- Senator Cameron Feller: Emily, please remind the political director who he is talking to.
- Emily Rhodes: Of course. Lyor, you are talking to a couple of unprincipled shakedown artists.
- Senator Cameron Feller: You can tell the president that when the government shuts down, he has only himself to blame, for everything.
- Tom Kirkman: No need, Senator. I think I got the message.
- Senator Cameron Feller: W- Mr. President.
- Tom Kirkman: Don't worry. It's just politics. You're pushing an advantage. That's how the game works.
- Senator: Yes, sir. It is.
- Tom Kirkman: Problem is, I don't play the game, and I'm not about to start. You both made a deal, and I expect you to honor it.
- Senator Cameron Feller: Respectfully, sir, circumstances have changed.
- Tom Kirkman: Not for me. But if this is, in fact, my last day, I'm not gonna waste it striking a compromise I don't believe in.
- Senator: That's your choice.
- Tom Kirkman: Yes, it is. It was also my choice to leave Vice President Darby a letter telling her the only budget deal to sign was the one that we had previously negotiated. I fully expect her to comply with my wishes because, well, she gave me her word like I gave you mine.
- Senator Cameron Feller: Uh, Mr. President...
- Tom Kirkman: So, when the government shuts down, you can explain to the American people that the only people whose word doesn't seem to matter is yours. Time for playing games, Senators, is over. Do your job.