- Jake Ballard: [out in the Canada wilderness] I'm here about Olivia.
- Rowan Pope: Did she scratch my records?
- Jake Ballard: She's been taken.
- Rowan Pope: Taken?
- Jake Ballard: To force the president into war in West Angola. Now she's being sold on the international auction block to the highest bidder.
- Rowan Pope: [laughs heartily] It's unbelievable. Unbelievable! I've been gone how long? I mean, has it been a week? And already you've lost - no, sorry not "lost." She's been taken.
- Jake Ballard: These are professionals.
- Rowan Pope: Well, that distinguishes them from you, now doesn't it? Do you fish?
- Jake Ballard: No.
- Rowan Pope: You know, people who don't fish think that fishing is lazy or boring, but it is the complete opposite. There are a hundred little decisions to be made, variables to be considered. And you're never quite sure what made the difference. Did I cast too high, too far to the left? Did I reel it in too slow, or, or, or too fast? Is the lure too shiny or too dull? Do I stay here, or should I go over there? And you know it's not luck, but you do not know by how much. People are predictable, unchanging, monotonous. They use the same language, they offer the same excuses, they make the same mistakes. People are endlessly disappointing, because you hope they won't be. I knew that she would need me. I knew that you'd come here begging for help. This was all predictable, all disappointing. This is why I am fishing, because I am never disappointed out here - because I don't expect anything - because anything is possible. I can be hopeful out here, even in failure, because I know if I just go out there, around that tree, it might be different, something might be different - something I do might make a difference.
- Jake Ballard: She's your daughter.
- Rowan Pope: [scoffs and picks up his fishing pole] I don't have a daughter.
- [last lines]
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I tried to give up my wife for you! My office! And you backed out every time!
- Olivia Pope: Of course I did! If you gave up the presidency, what did I do all of this for? Everything we did, I did all of it. If you gave up the presidency, it would be a waste! Everything I've sacrificed to get you here, to keep you here, so you could be the best, so you could make history, so you could be the president you were meant to be. And you were. You were the president you were meant to be. And then, when the true test came along, when I was taken because of you, you go to war? You sent thousands of innocent soldiers into harm's way, some of them to their deaths, for one person.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I had to save you.
- Olivia Pope: You didn't save me! I'm on my own!
- [first lines]
- Fereshteh: Take off the Hood. Smile for the camera.
- [speaking Farsi into her phone]
- Gus: This is taking too long.
- Olivia Pope: It's an ambush. She asked the buyer if the men are in place. As soon as they verify my identity, they're going to kill you.
- Gus: Stay out of this.
- Olivia Pope: Do you speak Farsi?
- Gus: No, and neither do you.
- Olivia Pope: [begins speaking in Farsi]
- CIA Director Lowry: During her tenure in the White House, Olivia Pope had a top-level security clearance, which gave her access to highly classified information, much of it red zone, some of it highly dangerous - information that, in the wrong hands, would be catastrophic to our nation's security and international relationships.
- Cyrus Beene: Catastrophic?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I don't scare easily, Director. I'm going to need specifics.
- CIA Director Lowry: We have done our homework, Sir. Let me paint the picture. If Olivia Pope goes to the Saudis, they'll have our illegal black sites in Amman. Southeast Asia, they'll learn about our anti-terror surveillance programs. We have four countries, four, who will discover the deaths of their leaders were not due to natural causes. And I am sure that England and Germany would be extremely interested to find out we spy on our own allies.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Make your point.
- CIA Director Lowry: My point, sir, is that that's the good news. What is truly terrifying is what they will want for her return. Russia will ask you to close our bases in Turkey, neutering us in that region. Pakistan will ask for drone technology to wipe India off the map once and for all. And ISIS will want the immediate release of hundreds of terrorists hell-bent on killing innocent Americans.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: None of which will come to light if Ms. Pope is extracted safely.
- CIA Director Lowry: In our estimation, there's a 30% chance of that.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Even with our best SEALS on the ground?
- CIA Director Lowry: Even with our best SEALS on the ground.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: [plowing forward with his rescue Olivia agenda] We should consider working a separate deal with MI6 because at this point...
- Cyrus Beene: [blurting out] Oh, for the love of God. You moron! You child! When are you going to learn? The finest minds of our government have told you what needs to happen, and still! I built you from the ground up, from the ground up! You are all that I have to show for my life! I made you a warrior! I made you a king! I made you leader of men! And this is what you do? This is what you leave me with? No! No! No! I'm done. I quit. I quit! And you can take your flowers and daisies and your "love conquers all" and your hope, and you can choke on it, because I don't work here anymore!
- [stomps out of the Oval Office]
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Cyrus?
- Cyrus Beene: [stirs from his daydream]
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Don't you agree?
- Cyrus Beene: Excellent points, all, sir.
- Quinn Perkins: If we lose... if we lose Liv for good, I know what she is to you. I know how important she is. I know you need her - but I need you. You may be Liv's Puppy, but I'm kind of yours.
- Cyrus Beene: What I am about to say will never be spoken about again outside this room. She is precious to him, you understand? She is his beating heart, held in the hands of his enemies. With her they can bend him, they can break him, they can make the president of the United States dance like a monkey at a county fair. And as long as his heart is out there, beating in the hands of China, North Korea, Drug Lords, Russia - God knows who else - we are screwed. We stop it. We stop that beating heart. And that, my friend, is what your president would want us to do. It is what he would demand that we do. If his heart were not out there, if it were in here, he would do it himself. So, we do what he cannot do. We may need to neutralize the asset.
- Stephen Finch: $2 billion. You're worth $2 billion. You're not a person, Liv. You're a small country.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Did they hurt you?
- Olivia Pope: Let's just... Not...
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I mean, I'm asking... Did they hurt you?
- Olivia Pope: I wasn't raped. Guess what I learned. There are worse things than rape.