Designated Survivor (TV Series)

#thesystemisbroken (2019)

Benjamin Charles Watson: Dontae Evans

Quotes 

• Secret Service Agent #1 : It's not a clean site, but we made a buffer between POTUS and the RPs.

  Dontae Evans : RPs?

  Seth Wright : Uh, real people.

  Tom Kirkman : I'm not sure about this. What am I supposed to do, the speech?

  Seth Wright : Well, just, um... just feel it out when you get up there. Wing it.

  Tom Kirkman : Wing it? That's an interesting communications strategy, Seth.

• Dontae Evans : Holy shit. You're the press secretary.

  Seth Wright : Uh, for now, yeah. You are?

  Dontae Evans : Dontae Evans. I'm the, um, director of online engagement. I mean, my boss is director of online engagement, but she hasn't shown up the last couple days.

  Seth Wright : Okay, well, I need someone to come along on the president's Iowa trip, handle online messaging. Can you do that?

  Dontae Evans : Yeah.

  Seth Wright : [turning to leave]  Great.

  Dontae Evans : What, like, right now?

  Seth Wright : Now would be great, yeah.

• Dontae Evans : You're on Twitter, right?

  Seth Wright : Bane of my existence, Dontae.

  Dontae Evans : Maybe you saw this hashtag I created a couple days ago. "The system is broken", it's called. I can show you...

  Seth Wright : Let's just keep it moving, Dontae.

• Seth Wright : [on the phone]  I know it's short notice, but it's "rabbit out of the hat" time, okay? I need you to look at the entire caucus event calendar, see if there's something we can piggyback on.

  [hanging up] 

  Seth Wright : You better not be playing "Fortnite", dude.

  Dontae Evans : Not all millenials play video games, dude.

• Dontae Evans : Do you remember the hashtag I told you about before we left?

  Seth Wright : I hope it doesn't hurt your feelings to say that I do not.

  Dontae Evans : Okay, after the State of the Union, I put this hashtag out, "the system is broken." You know what trending is?

  Seth Wright : I know what trending is, Dontae.

  Dontae Evans : [showing him his tablet]  It's generating a ton of traffic. People are really responding to what the president said. They're posting videos, venting about broke shit, broke politics.

  Seth Wright : These videos, they're all coming from one specific event.

  Dontae Evans : Yeah. It's an abandoned mall. It's a protest. I guess they planned it to counterprogram the caucuses.

  [Seth leaves] 

  Dontae Evans : Hey, where are you going with my tablet, man?

  Seth Wright : I gotta talk to the president.

• Seth Wright : Man, I started the day thinking I was gonna get fired and I ended the day getting promoted.

  Dontae Evans : I mean, I started the day as a low-ranking specialist in the Office of Digital Strategy. I ended the day as director of online engagement.

  Seth Wright : [with a laugh]  Nice try, Donate.

  Dontae Evans : It's worth a shot.

  Seth Wright : Hey, tomorrow, though, I want you to pack up your desk in the EEOB and head over to the West Wing. You work for me now.