- [first lines]
- Huck: [five years earlier, unshaven, sitting on the subway platform] They're fixing the green line at Petworth connecting red line trains are stuck waiting at Fort Totten, which puts the next train to Shady Grove about 20 seconds away.
- Olivia Pope: Thank you.
- [puts money unto his cup]
- Olivia Pope: [the train enters the station] Look at that. Just like you predicted. Are you here tomorrow?
- Huck: Every day.
- Olivia Pope: Coffee's on me.
- Crosby: [14 years earlier] You took a series of tests. Your test results suggested that you have skills that go way beyond that of a private first class.
- Huck: Like what?
- Crosby: We can test a thousand men and not find one like you. You're gifted. You have an aptitude, a quality, a series of personality traits that we find very valuable here.
- Huck: Here isn't "the Marines", is it?
- Crosby: What do you think?
- Huck: I think we're in a nondescript office park. The door claims this is a paper company, but who names a paper company Acme Limited? There are cameras in the ceiling there, and there. Your suit is nice, but not nice enough to draw attention. And then there's the guy behind me with a bulge in his pocket that I'm pretty sure isn't there because he's happy to see me. I'm pretty sure it's a gun. So, while I'm a big fan of the CIA, I have to say thank you, but no.
- Crosby: You'll take this job or go back to Kosovo on another tour. Those are your only two options.
- Charlie: [14 years earlier - training Huck] So, we kill people. That's the job. That's what you signed up for. Ah, I'm getting ahead of myself here. We don't just kill. We torture people, right? And we get the information we need, then we kill them. We're neat, we're smooth, we're thorough. We leave no trace. Ah, I see you looking at the door. That's a normal reaction. But there are no outs here, my friend, no take-backs. You signed a contract with the US government. You agreed to serve your country. The job it's no different than the marines. The people we target, they're enemies of the state. Traitors. They would do this nation harm, same as the combatants you would have happily popped in Kosovo. The only difference being, most of them are American citizens.
- Cyrus Beene: You know what happens if a bored nurse or an arrogant doctor tweets that the president, the same one who was shot in the head ten months ago, is in the hospital in the middle of the night? Markets panic, reporters swarm, DEFCON levels change.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Cats and dogs will finally get along?
- Cyrus Beene: Sir You have no idea how much damage control this requires. The lies I've had to tell James Madison in order to replace their staff on this floor, with military personnel who won't tell the New York Times that the president of the United States is here on a late-night booty call.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I'm here. I'm staying here until Olivia is discharged, because that's what you do when someone you love is in the hospital. You're welcome to wait here with me, run whatever kind of interference you think is best, but I'm here.
- Jake Ballard: [walking in with coffees] I'm sure you've got an army of Secret Service agents that know your exact cream-to-sugar ratio, but I just thought, as long as I was down there...
- Huck: [sitting with a babbling Huck] I'm a talker. It's what I do. I talk. Since I was a kid I can talk myself in or out of anything, bed-time, homework, curfew. It's how I sold cars, sailed through law school, how I got clients, and get girls. Hell, it almost landed me in jail if it wasn't for Liv But you're not a talker. You're action man. So I can only imagine what you've seen, what you've done, what you've had done to you. And I have to imagine, because you're not just a man of few words, but the fewest words possible. So I fill in the blanks. We all do.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: I wanted to win this on my own. I wanted to win it because I deserved it. I wanted to win it because I had the will of the people behind me. I wanted to own becoming president of the United States of America. I didn't want it handed to me. I didn't want you fixing it for me. That's what you do, Livvie. You handle. You fix.
- Olivia Pope: I was trying to help.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: You don't fix me! You don't handle me! That is not love. That's control.
- Jake Ballard: [meeting on park bench] I may need out, sir.
- Rowan Pope: Excuse me?
- Jake Ballard: I'd like you to reassign this mission to someone else. I'm feeling there's a conflict of interest here.
- Rowan Pope: Because of your relationship with the president?
- Jake Ballard: Yes.
- Rowan Pope: Remember who we are, captain Ballard. There's no such thing as out.
- Olivia Pope: [crouching down to Huck] I have to admit, I'm not a person who gives change to homeless guys on the Metro. I don't do that. I don't stop, which is I don't stop, but I stopped for you. You made me stop. It was your eyes. You had the saddest eyes. They were sadder than mine. The thing is, Huck, you always say that I saved you. That's not true. It's not even close to true. I had been all alone for a very long time. There are moments, people who somehow they convince me that I'm wrong. That I'm not alone. That I have something to People let you down. People hurt you. People lie. I'm all alone, except for you. Harrison and Abby and Quinn are We take care of them. We love them. But they don't live on the dark side of the moon. They're different. So, Huck, I need you to snap out of this. Whatever this is, whatever happened to you, you *have* to come back to me. I need you. You are all I have. You are everything. Because I didn't save you in that Metro station. You saved me.
- Huck: I think I used to have a family. But I don't remember if they were real, or if I imagined them.
- Olivia Pope: What do you think?
- Huck: I think they were real!
- Olivia Pope: Then they were real. Then you had a family.
- Huck: They were real!
- Olivia Pope: They were.
- Huck: I did terrible things.
- Olivia Pope: We all - do - terrible things.
- [last lines]
- Kim: [getting off the Metro train] Javi! Javi, come here. It's cold outside.
- Javi: I want a dollar for the man.
- Kim: Honey, we don't have...
- Javi: Mommy, he looks hungry.
- Kim: You come right back.
- Javi: [runs over to Huck sitting behind a sign] Here.
- Huck: [looks up and see that the time is 7:52]