Scandal (TV Series)

First Lady Sings the Blues (2015)

Kerry Washington: Olivia Pope

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• Mary Peterson : Have another. Pryaniki. Russian spice cookies. I tell my grandkids I had a neighbor growing up who used to make them for me. They think Nana's from Wisconsin.

  Olivia Pope : Must be interesting, lying to everyone you know, including your own family.

  Mary Peterson : Growing up, we were poor. Really poor. Not American poor. My little brother starved to death because we didn't have enough food. That kind of poor. Russian poor. The KGB were recruiting, and it turned out I was gifted. I had the eye of a sniper, and I would kill anything with my bare hands without asking questions. They said I'd have all the food I wanted, a warm bed to sleep in, shoes. I'd have shoes. All I had to do was learn English, go to America, and murder people when ordered. Why would I say no to that? It was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.

• Olivia Pope : Release Mary Peterson from duty, to forget she exists, to allow her to go on with her life.

  Kostya Pasternak : [cutting meat]  Mary Peterson? Does she buy meat here?

  Olivia Pope : You probably don't know who I am, but...

  Kostya Pasternak : I don't care to know who you are.

  Olivia Pope : But this can go one of two ways. The first way, the easy way, involves you saying a number, $100,000, maybe $200,000, although I wouldn't push your luck, just some number that makes you comfortable and allows my client to enjoy her retirement. The other way, the complicated way, involves me calling in favors with the Attorney General, my friends at the CIA, and people far darker, dirtier, and deeper underground to make your life a living hell. But the result is always the same: Mary Peterson doesn't work for you or your government anymore. Some people have bark, some people have bite. I have both. So which is it, Kostya?

  Kostya Pasternak : Are you familiar with the town of Verkhoyansk? No reason you would, I guess. It's a small town in Russia where they send political exiles to die for their crimes. It's the coldest place on earth. It's also my home. As a kid, I used to help the KGB drag the frozen bodies out of the prison. I know what happens to traitors. So, you have to pardon me if I'm not afraid of some lady and her mutt. Traitors die, Ms. Olivia. As they should. Be sure you remind your client of this.

  [wipes the blood from his knife] 

• [last lines] 

  Olivia Pope : [holding a gun to his head]  I couldn't figure it out. How did my dad know about the Russians? Then I realized it was you. You were there. You were sent to kill Jake. You're B-613, and now you're gonna tell me what the hell foxtail is.

  Franklin Russell : You're making a mistake, Alex. Aaah!

  Olivia Pope : It's Olivia! And this is definitely going to hurt.