- Rowan Pope: There is, incidentally, a point. If there are no more white hats, if the deck is always stacked, and if everyone you love is a monster, there is, in fact, someone worth saving.
- Olivia Pope: Who?
- Rowan Pope: Everyone! Everyone is worth saving! Even the monsters, even the demons. Everyone is worth saving. In the face of darkness, you drag everyone into the light. That is the point. At least, I like to think that is the point of you.
- Quinn Perkins: You come for some more teeth? A finger?
- Huck: I came here to kill you. Put you down. You cracked Liv's safe, I saw you on the camera. You're broken. You're a threat. So I came here to put you down. But then I was sitting here, and I realized... I saw you on camera. I trained you, I made you. And you are good, Quinn. You're special, talented, which means I shouldn't have seen you on camera. You would have de-magged the optics, looped the visuals, cut the upload. There's no way I would have seen you on camera unless you wanted to be seen.
- Quinn Perkins: I don't know what you're talking about.
- Huck: You wanted me to see you. You wanted us to know what Jake was doing, what B613 was doing. You're not broken. Somewhere in there, you're still a gladiator.
- Rowan Pope: 183. That's the number of people I'm responsible for killing. Not the number of people I've killed, the number I'm responsible for. There's a difference. You get an order to kill someone, well, maybe you pull the trigger, but it's not on you. They ordered it. If you didn't kill the poor bastard, somebody else would. But when you become Command, you are the one giving the orders. You are the one making the decisions. You have to choose who lives, who dies. You are responsible. So you become the hand of God. 183. I know all of their names. I know how old they were, if they had children, if they would be missed. I never made a decision lightly. I always suffered a bit with each one. The responsibility of that, the gravity of that, the weight of it, it marks me. It stains me. It never leaves me. I am responsible. 183. So, whatever you think of Jake, however you want to punish him, being the hand of God is already the worst punishment in the world.
- [last lines]
- Jake Ballard: [to James lying in the street] I'm sorry. I really am. I did the others quick and clean. I wish I could have done that with you. I'm sorry I had to be so sloppy with you, but I have to make yours look like a carjacking. It has to look like an amateur did it. So it's going to hurt, and it's going to take some time. I'm sorry. But I'm gonna sit here with you. I'm gonna stay with you until it's over. I'm not going to let you die alone. You're not alone. Ella, your daughter's gonna be okay. Nothing is going to happen to her. She's safe. She is safe. You're almost there. You're almost there. Any minute now.
- Abby Whelan: David, look at me. Something's wrong. Something bad has happened to you - something terrible. You don't hide that from me, you don't lie about it to me, you give it to me. You let me share it. I love you. You are my heart. What happens to you happens to me.
- David Rosen: I'm supposed to send an innocent man to jail for a carjacking he didn't commit. That's the price I have to pay for still being alive. But I can't bring myself to do it.
- Abby Whelan: Oh, David.
- David Rosen: He killed them right in front of me, Abby. Shelby, Vanessa, James - they're all dead and I'm alive.
- David Rosen: So exposing Jake, that's a death wish. But taking down the entire organization, that's something within my reach? Me, David Rosen, and my army of one?
- Olivia Pope: Army of two. We'll do it together. Brick by brick, we'll tear that building down until there's nothing left but a hole in the ground. To do that, though, we need to be patient. Patient and alive. So instead of standing alone and turning this into a suicide mission, stand with me and turn this into a cause. Lose this battle so we can win the war.
- [first lines]
- David Rosen: [at gunpoint] Please, please. Oh, God.
- Jake Ballard: I've always liked you, David. You seem smart. Are you smart, David? Can you work with me on this, or do I need to stop liking you?
- Adnan Salif: So, now that I've paid your retainer, where do we go from here?
- Maya Lewis: We find ourselves a terrorist.
- Adnan Salif: Well, I thought that's what you were.
- Maya Lewis: No, not at all.
- Adnan Salif: You blew up a plane.
- Maya Lewis: That was personal. Terrorists use violence to advance their convictions: God, country. And since I'm not burdened by those I'm more of a facilitator. I don't make bombs, I make money.
- Lance McCollum: Who the hell are you?
- Charlie: [aiming his gun at him] We're the United States government, and we're here to ask you to serve your country.
- Olivia Pope: You told me you would be different.
- Jake Ballard: I *am* different.
- Olivia Pope: No! No! Fitz gave you the keys to this office and immediately you became my father!
- Jake Ballard: I am different! Because when something awful needed to be done, I did not pull some poor, broken soldier out of a hole and make him do something that would give him nightmares for the rest of his life. I did that awful thing myself. James Novak died in a carjacking. Accept that and the world keeps spinning.
- Olivia Pope: And if I don't?
- Jake Ballard: Bad things happen to good people all the time.
- Olivia Pope: [about B613] Brick by brick, we'll tear that building down until there's nothing left but a hole in the ground. To do that, though, we need to be patient patient and alive. So instead of standing alone and turning this into a suicide mission, stand with me and turn this into a cause. Lose this battle so we can win the war.