Scandal (TV Series)

White Hat's Back On (2013)

Jeff Perry: Cyrus Beene

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• James Novak : [arriving at his hospital bed]  You bastard. Don't you die on me when I'm so mad at you. Don't you dare die.

  Cyrus Beene : Come here. Come here.

  James Novak : [hugging him]  I don't forgive you.

  Cyrus Beene : I don't forgive you either.

  James Novak : Please don't die.

  Cyrus Beene : I'll do my best.

  [both weeping] 

• President Fitzgerald Grant : [In Cyrus' hospital room]  I'm not leaving here with you.

  Mellie Grant : Our approval ratings are up, fitz. If you plan to run and win, we need to capitalize on the public's support.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Mellie, this phase of our lives, capitalizing on public support as a definition of marriage, is over. Make no mistake you are going to leave the White House. You'll want your own political career, and I will back you and campaign for you, and never speak of my ex-Wife Mellie Grant in anything but the most glowing of terms.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : And then, about a year into my second term, I will go one or two high-profile dates with well-educated, age-appropriate career women, which will be chronicled in immaculate detail by tabloids around the globe. And when word leaks six months later That I've been spending time with one of my oldest, dearest, most trusted advisors, who selflessly acted as the mouthpiece of my administration when I was lying half-dead on a hospital bed, who has always stood beside me as my friend and colleague... When it gets out that she and I have started, after all this time, to care for one another in a way that is no longer strictly professional, America will love her.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : And let's be honest. My relationship with olivia is going to spark a real dialogue. And it is going to blow the Republican party wide open, and let some light and air into places that haven't seen change in far too long. So the party will *love* her. And you want to be on the right side of history here. Trust me, you do.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : Now, if you don't want to play along, if you leak Olivia's name, if you refuse to go gently - well, it only takes a few whispers of the word "racist" before the feminist groups and the religious groups, and even the Republican National Committee turn up their noses at your stink. But I don't want to do that, Mellie. I want to help you join me as a living, breathing monument to redemption and second chances, and the America we all hope still exists.

  Mellie Grant : [walks out of the room] 

  Cyrus Beene : I take it Liv came up with that?

  President Fitzgerald Grant : She did.

  Cyrus Beene : [wistfully]  It's good.

• Cyrus Beene : Hollis, this is the White House. This man is the President. Talking about murder in the White House is like talking about sex in the Vatican in front of the Pope. We don't do it.

• Cyrus Beene : Your job has only two requirements, Sally. One is to not die, the other is to be loyal to the president. That's it! Don't die! Be loyal! The only other creature in this White House who has the same sweet deal is the president's dog, Hank! Hank can do those two simple things! Why can't you?

• Cyrus Beene : I'm still unclear why any of this matters to B-613.

  Rowan Pope : You know how people say, "I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you" at parties. I could tell you, but then I *would* have to kill you. We're not at a party, and I am not laughing.

• Olivia Pope : I'm going to be with him, Cyrus. We have a plan. It's going to work. I love him.

  Cyrus Beene : Let me get this straight. Highly trained black ops assassins broke into your home and tried to kill you. And instead of that, oh, making you run toward reason, instead of the possibility of death making you decide that maybe it's better to be single, he have decided that the killers were merely firing heart-shaped bullets made of bubbles and candy that signified that you and boyfriend Fitzy are MFEO made for each other?

  Olivia Pope : Cyrus, you're being dramatic.

  Cyrus Beene : Really? Really? I'm being dramatic? I'm being dramatic?