Scandal (TV Series)

First Lady Sings the Blues (2015)

Ivo Nandi: Kostya Pasternak

Quotes 

• Olivia Pope : Release Mary Peterson from duty, to forget she exists, to allow her to go on with her life.

  Kostya Pasternak : [cutting meat]  Mary Peterson? Does she buy meat here?

  Olivia Pope : You probably don't know who I am, but...

  Kostya Pasternak : I don't care to know who you are.

  Olivia Pope : But this can go one of two ways. The first way, the easy way, involves you saying a number, $100,000, maybe $200,000, although I wouldn't push your luck, just some number that makes you comfortable and allows my client to enjoy her retirement. The other way, the complicated way, involves me calling in favors with the Attorney General, my friends at the CIA, and people far darker, dirtier, and deeper underground to make your life a living hell. But the result is always the same: Mary Peterson doesn't work for you or your government anymore. Some people have bark, some people have bite. I have both. So which is it, Kostya?

  Kostya Pasternak : Are you familiar with the town of Verkhoyansk? No reason you would, I guess. It's a small town in Russia where they send political exiles to die for their crimes. It's the coldest place on earth. It's also my home. As a kid, I used to help the KGB drag the frozen bodies out of the prison. I know what happens to traitors. So, you have to pardon me if I'm not afraid of some lady and her mutt. Traitors die, Ms. Olivia. As they should. Be sure you remind your client of this.

  [wipes the blood from his knife]