Scandal (TV Series)

Where's the Black Lady? (2015)

Tony Goldwyn: Fitzgerald Grant

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• [first lines] 

  President Fitzgerald Grant : [in the Oval Office]  Charlotte? Get me Jake Ballard. Find Cyrus, and I want the heads of the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA in my office yesterday. Did you hear me?

  Charlotte Reid : Yes, sir. Only...

  [men push past her] 

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Agent Fielding. I didn't call for the Secret Service. Can I help you?

  Agent Fielding : We're here to help *you*, Mr. President.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Help me?

  Agent Fielding : The Vice President thought you would have trouble following his instructions, staying on the straight and narrow, not calling in your friends in the FBI, the CIA, the NSA. He told us it would be difficult for you not looking for Miss Pope. He told us you would need our support. That's why we're here, Mr. President, to support you, to help you, to watch you.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : The Secret Service takes their orders from *me*, not the Vice President.

  Agent Fielding : I don't think that I've been clear. I'm not talking about just the Secret Service. There's also White House aides, pages, staff, military guards, a couple of secretaries, oh, and a few of the valets and butlers in the residence. Consider us all your support group. We're watching you, keeping an eye on you, all of us at all times. Cameras, listening devices, every phone call, every toilet flush. See? We care. You should be grateful for all this support. It would be a shame if Miss Pope was beheaded. Don't you agree, Mr. President? They don't call this the Crown Jewel of the American Prison System for nothing. We'll be seeing you Sir.

• Andrew Nichols : Four to six weeks? Excuse me for talking out of turn, but that's too long a wait.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : I'm making sure our soldiers don't walk into an ambush.

  Andrew Nichols : And if we wait for the rivers to run dry, how do we know the rebels won't use that time to plot and execute another attack on our home soil?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : You're talking about hypothetical risks.

  Andrew Nichols : Tell that to the shrapnel in my ass.