- David Rosen: So who do you think killed her? See, I've got this nagging feeling you've got a pretty good idea. I know I give you a long leash on a lot of things, and I like to, because despite my better judgment and all my protests to the contrary, I really do consider you a friend. But I can't look the other way here, not on this. I'm an assistant US Attorney, Liv. I prosecute crime. I get the bad guys. So at some point, even with you, I gotta draw the line. I gotta do my job. Gotta be the sheriff.
- Olivia Pope: The white hat looks good on you.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: [to his Secret Service agents] Kennedy never left the White House in secret? What am I, born yesterday?
- Hal Rimbeau: Sir, we have no knowledge of...
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Look, I want to go somewhere spontaneously. How do I do that?
- Tom Larsen: I would inform our immediate supervisor at the Secret Service, who'd inform the head of the Secret Service and the White House Press Secretary, who'd inform the White House Press Corps.
- Tom Larsen: I would inform our immediate supervisor at the Secret Service, who'd inform the head of the Secret Service and the White House Press Secretary, who'd inform the White House Press Corps. 150 individuals would assemble, along with your bulletproof presidential limousine, your chase-and-follow car, your ambulance, two unmarked vehicles, as well as the sharpshooters and the marine guard...
- President Fitzgerald Grant: No.
- Tom Larsen: Sir?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: What if I wanted to go somewhere alone, no Secret Service, no press, no anything?
- Hal Rimbeau: Technically, the President of the United States is allowed to refuse the protection of Secret Service, but, uh...
- President Fitzgerald Grant: "but, uh," what?
- Hal Rimbeau: It needs to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, sir. And recorded in the National Record.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: [chuckles] I'm not a prisoner.
- Tom Larsen, Hal Rimbeau: No, sir.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I am the most powerful man on the planet.
- Tom Larsen, Hal Rimbeau: Yes, sir.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: But I can't leave my house.
- Tom Larsen, Hal Rimbeau: No, sir.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: You see where I might be a little bit annoyed?
- Tom Larsen, Hal Rimbeau: Yes, sir.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I am a grown man. I am going to leave here. If I have to walk out to the staff parking lot with you two following me, jump into someone's 1994 Civic, and drive off without protection, I am going to leave. I would like to be safe, and not jeopardize the economy of this country when I did so. Can you come up with a way to make that happen?
- Tom Larsen: Two sedans, covered parking, one sharpshooter, and your ambulance.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: One sedan and covered parking. No sharpshooters and no ambulance.
- Tom Larsen: One sedan, covered parking, no sharpshooters, we keep the ambulance and add two agents.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Sold...
- [walks out the door]
- Hal Rimbeau: Just like 43...
- [first lines]
- Olivia Pope: Answers, people. We need answers, and time is of the essence.
- Quinn Perkins: Her phone's gone and her purse. She ran away. You told her she was gonna have to go on TV, she freaked out, and she ran away.
- Abby Whelan: I gotta say, as crime scenes go, it's pretty clean. No broken locks, no signs of struggle, and I'm not finding any prints aside from yours and Amanda's.
- Quinn Perkins: Because it's not a crime scene. Because she ran away.
- Huck: There's someone watching you.
- Olivia Pope: What?
- Huck: Your trash is gone, and it's not trash day, and there's a sedan parked across the street, US government plates, tinted windows.
- Olivia Pope: [looks out the window] What about Amanda, Huck?
- Huck: Whoever it was came up through the service elevator, picked the lock on the back door, sedated her, taped her up, got her in a duffel bag. In and out, probably seven minutes, six if they were quick.
- Olivia Pope: How do you know?
- Huck: That's how *I* would do it.
- Charlie: [mocking Huck] Hey, you ever want to come back, make a little more money than the US Government pays, you give me a call. Talent like yours should not go to waste. And, uh, it's not like Charlie Brown, it's like Manson. Charlie Manson. Now that's a name. Huck Finn?
- [laughs]
- Charlie: Come on...
- Olivia Pope: [to the president on the phone] If you didn't kill her, we both know who did. Tell me I'm wrong. You let a pit bull off his leash, he mauls a baby. No one blames the dog. You let Cyrus off his leash. That's on you!
- [snaps cell phone shut]
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Amanda Tanner's dead.
- Cyrus Beene: How sad.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Aren't you gonna ask how it happened?
- Cyrus Beene: No. Should I?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: A young woman died. A member of this administration.
- Cyrus Beene: I said how sad I was. You didn't hear me? I'll say it again. *How* sad. Let's lower the flags.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: For God sakes, Cy, show some respect.
- Cyrus Beene: [moving in front of his desk] 120 innocent Americans, children, mommies and daddies and best friends and husbands and wives died in that plane crash yesterday. *That's* sad. We lost one of the few sane and worthy members of the Senate yesterday. *That's* sad. Four Navy SEALS died in Afghanistan, and that doesn't even touch Sudan, Congo, northern Mexico. *That's* sad. But the disturbed girl who made it her life's mission to take down this administration, the one who was happily - no gleefully carrying your illegitimate bastard child, she's no longer with us? Well, I'm sorry if I'm not sitting Shiva. I'm sorry if I can't help but see the millions of people that we'll actually be able to help, now that Amanda Tanner is gone. I *am* sorry. But this is a good thing. It is a good thing for us. It is a good thing for the country. And...
- [walks out closing the door behind him]
- Huck: [talking crazy-like to Charlie who is naked, bound & gagged man on the bed] I don't want you to think that I'm doing this because I'm mad at you, because I'm not. I'm not. You trained me, but it was the Agency, really. They took stuff from me, and not just my name, or my ability to ever contact my family again.
- [putting on rubber gloves]
- Huck: I was young, I was fresh out of college, and they made it sound fun. We *had* fun, didn't we? That's the problem. It's horrible and it's sickening, and just when you think you can't take any more, it gets *fun*. The US Government really knows its stuff, yeah? Something in you just falls away, and it gets fun. There's a high. It's good. It's so good, which is what I wanna remind you of how good it can get. You think about that. Okay, I'm thinking about it 'cause I'm rusty. I'm sober. This is gonna be bad for me for a while, but I'm gonna push through the horrible and the sickening, and then something's gonna fall away, and I'm gonna start enjoying myself. All right?
- [gets a drill bit out of his toolbox]
- Huck: And we both know what an artist I can be.
- [mounting the drill bit into his drill]
- Huck: And like any junkie, I'm gonna enjoy the high for as long as I can. Okay? You ready old friend?
- [spins up the drill]
- Airline Executive: What exactly are you insinuating, Ms. Pope?
- Olivia Pope: I don't like to insinuate. I'd rather deduce likely scenarios. And in my scenario, you get a mechanic's report that says you have to ground all your MW-85s, which would cost you millions and send your customers running to your competitors. You'd worry about what your stockholders are going to say. You'd worry about your job. That's understandable. If I'm CEO, it's the last thing I'd want. So, one report goes missing no harm, no foul that is until 120 people fall out of the sky.
- Airline Executive: This is not some kind of conspiracy.
- Stephen Finch: She doesn't insinuate, she deduces...
- Huck: She didn't suffer.
- Quinn Perkins: How do you know?
- Huck: 'Cause I know what you do to people to make them suffer. She didn't suffer. It was a good... death.
- [last lines]
- Olivia Pope: [answer a knock at her door and stands speechless]
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Hi.
- Olivia Pope: Hi.