Scandal (TV Series)

You Can't Take Command (2015)

Joe Morton: Rowan Pope

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• [first lines] 

  Mellie Grant : [laughing together]  Mr. Bainbridge!

  Rowan Pope : Please, I am not Mr. Bainbridge. Not to you. Call me Damascus.

  Mellie Grant : Damascus, it's so lovely of you to take time out of your busy schedule to sit down with me.

  Rowan Pope : No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's lovely of you to sit with me. I am so happy to be here with you in person. I am a fan. You are by far the most interesting first lady we have ever had. You have set quite an example for my daughter, I can tell you that. And now, Senator Mellie Grant? Well, what is a billionaire to do? Now, I do not want to take up your whole day. I do want you to know that I have and will continue to support your campaign unreservedly. There are just a few causes that are important to me that I hope will also be important to you.

• Mellie Grant : Who are you?

  Rowan Pope : You do not ask me who I am, Mrs. Grant. You ask me what I need.

• Rowan Pope : [to Olivia on the phone]  I know what you're thinking. The remaining B-613 files will prove I'm Command. Those have been, shall we say, "archived." And in case you were still hoping your mother was an ally, don't. She loves you, just not as much as she loves her freedom.

  Maya Lewis : [cut to prison cell]  Is that it?

  Cyrus Beene : That's it. You agree to deny the existence of B-613 for the rest of your life, and you walk.

  Maya Lewis : Well, I'm gonna need a pen, baby.

• Rowan Pope : [from jail cell]  You think I can't survive this? I've brought down regimes, Olivia, assassinated dictators with my own two hands, shaped history with a single phone call.

  Olivia Pope : Rowan did that. Command did that. He had power, but you? How did you describe yourself? "An old, innocent, doddering paleontologist, who works at the Smithsonian?" You were right. We couldn't take command. But we can take Eli Pope.

  Rowan Pope : Olivia, listen to me.

  Olivia Pope : Goodbye, dad...