- Quinn Perkins: [to Huck as he walks in] What are you doing here?
- Jake Ballard: Lay off, Perkins. He's here to help.
- Quinn Perkins: Help? Well, if I need someone to helpfully murder busloads of innocent Americans and chop their heads off for fun, I'll give Huck a call. Otherwise, no, thanks. I'm good.
- Huck: I'm fixed. Jake fixed me. I'm okay now.
- Quinn Perkins: Yeah, fixed? There aren't enough meds in the world to fix...
- Jake Ballard: I'm here with him. He's fine.
- Quinn Perkins: Oh, you're like his slaughter sponsor? Yeah, that's totally fine. My bad.
- Jake Ballard: Can we put aside the name-calling and the blood-feuding and just get to work?
- Susan Ross: [late at night] I'm wondering Do you think about us?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: What?
- Susan Ross: Do you think about us The people who voted for you, America? Do you think about us when you're having an affair in the White House In our house? Do you think about why we voted for you?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I fell in love. Susan, I'm a flawed person, just like anyone else.
- Susan Ross: Mr. President, you don't get to be just like anyone else. That's not the job you signed up for.
- Quinn Perkins: I have been mad at you for, like, ever.
- Huck: Go away...
- Quinn Perkins: But then I started thinking,
- Huck: Go away...
- Quinn Perkins: "What's so sane about me?"
- Huck: Quinn...
- Quinn Perkins: I dispose of bodies, and I get turned on by crime scenes. Hacking is hot. I am not your all-American girl, and I don't want to be.
- Huck: [breathing heavily] You're not wrong about me. Something's wrong with me.
- Quinn Perkins: That's my point. Something's wrong with me, too.
- Huck: I missed you. I missed you a lot.
- [first lines]
- Sally Langston: [monologuing on her TV show] Lovers of Liberty, are we to believe this man is capable of guiding our nation with prudence and common sense, with that seductress, Olivia Pope, distracting him with a body made for - Dennis, will you show us the photographs again? We've been sold a bushel of lies, a barrel of snake oil.
- Abby Whelan: Sir, those photos are everywhere. I've got a roomful of press getting rowdier by the minute. There's blood in the water. We're gonna need a game plan. We're gonna need a statement. We're gonna need A bigger boat.
- Elizabeth North: She's right. The press needs to hear from the White House from you. Sir?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I'm going back to the residence...
- Elizabeth North: Because?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Because Olivia is there. I can't make a statement without Olivia.
- Elizabeth North: Mr. President, I don't think that's a good...
- President Fitzgerald Grant: If a statement is being made, Olivia and I are making it together.
- [leaves the room]
- Elizabeth North: So, what History's being made tonight? For the first time ever, the president and his mistress address the nation. Why are you so calm?
- Abby Whelan: Do you really think she's gonna get in front of the camera and admit that they're having an affair? It's Liv. She's the best in the business. The president's about to get Pope'd.
- Mellie Grant: You placed Olivia in a dangerous position. You outed her. You thought by throwing me out of the White House and moving her in, you'd be making this grand gesture. Finally, she wouldn't be just a mistress anymore. But the minute she stepped through these doors, the minute she moved in here, she became what we all become when we live here, and what is that? Yes. A statue, inhuman, viewed from every angle, discussed, exposed. She's not just a mistress now. She's America's mistress. History will preserve her as such.
- Huck: [advancing on office intruder] Give me the camera.
- Photographer: Really? No comment? Did your boss ever say what the president was like in bed?
- Quinn Perkins: [pushes Huck aside and starts pulling on the camera]
- Photographer: [grunting] You can't take that.
- Quinn Perkins: [holding him in a lock] You are trespassing. There is not a scratch on you. There is no video to prove I took your video. If you don't get out of here, I will kick your ass, and you can tell everyone a girl beat you up. Or, I can give you to him, and you won't be able to tell anyone anything ever again. Your choice.
- Abby Whelan: Why are you doing this? You're gone. Why do you care?
- Cyrus Beene: Red. Who do I hate more than Elizabeth North?
- Abby Whelan: No one?
- Cyrus Beene: And who does Elizabeth North hate even more than she hates me?
- Abby Whelan: Mellie.
- Cyrus Beene: Right.
- Olivia Pope: I'm scared, and I don't know what to do. I don't have any answers. How is that a good thing?
- Jake Ballard: [sighs] Well, we're at our best when we're scared. Your instincts are heightened. Your adrenaline's right beneath the surface. Everything's crystal clear and your focus becomes like a laser and you just know what comes next. You know what to do. You know the answers. And you just act.
- Olivia Pope: Did my father teach you that?
- Jake Ballard: You really want to know?
- Jake Ballard: Liv, loving the president isn't a crime.
- Olivia Pope: [sniffles] And yet here I am being hunted and chased like a thief in the night.