- [last lines]
- Olivia Pope: [surprising him on the balcony of the Oval Office] Nice view. Hi.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Hi. You're here.
- Olivia Pope: I'm here. Charlotte is very helpful. And informative.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: What happens now?
- Olivia Pope: Whatever we want.
- [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.
- Olivia Pope: We have one goal. To bring down my father and to shut down B-613 for good. To do what is right. So you tell the truth. The whole truth. No matter what happens. No matter who gets hurt.
- David Rosen: Everyone who heard Jake's testimony everyone who was in that court room is dead now. Except for me. And you.
- [Jake]
- David Rosen: And while I live for justice, I don't want to die for it.
- Maya Lewis: You sure do love a problem.
- Olivia Pope: I don't know what you're...
- Maya Lewis: You're so vain. It's always about you, isn't it? The problems you create so that you can solve them. The power you have to wield so that you can feel important. Did your father and I not tell you you were special enough when you were little? Did we not give you enough hugs? Aww, baby.
- Cyrus Beene: This is an enormous secret intelligence organization operating behind the CIA's back for who knows how long. About 30-ish years, if it did exist, which it doesn't.
- CIA Director Lowry: Well, it stops now. I am having this Rowan arrested, brought in, and brought down. I won't have it.
- Cyrus Beene: Honey, I'm gonna call you honey because I can't remember your first name and I don't care. Honey, you want to be reasonable about this. Because a shadow intelligence organization operating quite happily and powerfully in secret for decades inside the FBI, CIA, NSA, if there was such a thing, well, that would be like a sleeping lion. And isn't it safer To tiptoe around the lion? What do you think happens if you poke the lion? Whose face does the lion rip off first? I think it rips off honey's face first.
- David Rosen: Just go ahead. Fire me, because I did what I thought was right.
- Cyrus Beene: I'm not gonna fire you, Rosen. Why would I fire you? You're the Attorney General. *My* Attorney General. A new one? They'd be asking questions and be all honest. Plus I would waste months hunting for their weaknesses, their pressure points. With you, David, I already know your pressure point. You only have one Abby.
- Cyrus Beene: I can't tell you.
- Abby Whelan: Why not?
- Cyrus Beene: Because you don't have the clearance. It is getting old. I am tired of it. But it's my job to protect his interests and serve his needs, to spin the world and raise the sun. I can't have a soul. If I had one, I would never accomplish a thing.
- 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...
- Jake Ballard: They asked me to look out for you. Both of them your father, the bad guy, and the president, the good guy. They both asked me to keep you safe. They both made you my mission. And I went over the line on both accounts.
- Olivia Pope: That's not...
- Jake Ballard: I'm in love with you. And if I am telling the whole truth, no matter who gets hurt, it goes like this... I am in love with you. But you are in love with him. You are owed, Olivia. You want what's yours? Go and take it.