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- Cyrus Beene: How does it feel to be the most powerful person in the world?
- Olivia Pope: Right. It feels right.
- [first lines]
- Olivia Pope: [from the bed as Fitz enters very agitated] Hi.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: What are you doing?
- Olivia Pope: What does it look like I'm doing?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Olivia! I specifically told you your mother was not to be released. And yet, somehow...
- Olivia Pope: I released her. Yes. Because it needed to be done. Any second now, my mother is going to meet with whoever paid her to assassinate Mellie, and when she does, all this will finally be over.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: That's what you're telling yourself? What if you're wrong?
- Olivia Pope: I'm not wrong.