Scandal (TV Series)

Snake in the Garden (2013)

Jeff Perry: Cyrus Beene

Quotes 

• Mellie Grant : [chasing him down the hallway]  Well?

  Cyrus Beene : I don't know anything yet.

  Mellie Grant : Oh. He is spending his evenings with a soldier, a man you and I have never met or heard of.

  Cyrus Beene : I'm looking into it, but right now...

  Mellie Grant : There's a snake in the garden, Cy.

  Cyrus Beene : I don't know anything yet...

  Mellie Grant : A garden that we planted and we cultivated and we harvested.

  Cyrus Beene : I do - not - know - anything - yet.

  Mellie Grant : Do I have to take care of this myself?

  Cyrus Beene : I don't know anything *yet*. Yet. Yet. Yet!

  Mellie Grant : I'm simply saying I realize that you are not in the best position with him right now.

  Cyrus Beene : Yes, I am currently on the outside looking in. My nose is pressed up to the glass of life right now, and I want to thank you for that. I do. Because, you know, it reminded me never to let my guard down, not when something Mellie-this-way-comes. But don't you worry about me. I will once again be his warrior. I will once again sit at the right hand of the father. I'm on it, my guard is up, and as a friend of mine likes to say, it's handled.

• [first lines] 

  Cyrus Beene : His name's Jake Ballard. He's a Naval Intelligence officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Put him under the microscope, see what you find. The more dirt, the better.

  Charlie : It'd help to know why I'm doing this. He sleeping with your husband?

  Cyrus Beene : In a manner of speaking, yes.

• President Fitzgerald Grant : [about his Vietnam experiences]  You want to know what happened? I'll tell you what happened.

  Cyrus Beene : I don't care what happened. I don't need to know. Point is, you did *things*. Things you can't talk about. Heroic things you can't put in your memoirs because it would endanger our military operations, things that might even endanger the foundation of the Republic. Who knows? Well, guess what. So did I And just because my battleground was in Ohio and not the Persian Gulf doesn't make me any less of a patriot or make my service any less valiant. And just like you, I can't talk about that service, that operation, because doing so would endanger the Republic for which we stand. But still, I can be proud of it. I am proud of it, just as I hope you are proud of Operation Remington.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : You are equating what you did in Defiance with national security issues?

  Cyrus Beene : I'm saying the right side and the wrong side Are determined not by me and not by you - but by history. History makes the heroes and the villains, sir. You and I, we're just players.

• Olivia Pope : Fitz is getting advice from someone else?

  Cyrus Beene : Yep.

  Olivia Pope : Who?

  Cyrus Beene : You don't know him.

  Olivia Pope : Go for the jugular.

  Cyrus Beene : I always do.