Scandal (TV Series)

I'm Just a Bill (2015)

Joe Morton: Rowan Pope

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Rowan Pope : You look good, Olivia. Looks can be deceiving, though, can't they? I see you have a few more locks. That's good. You can never be too careful, can

  Olivia Pope : What do you want?

  Rowan Pope : I have a problem a rather big one, actually, and since you're a fixer, I thought I'd come to you. You see, apparently there's a group of people who have decided that I'm a criminal. They're building a case, some preposterous claim about a top-secret spy organization called B-613 that I'm *supposedly* the head of. I mean, have you ever heard anything so ridiculous? Anyway, I'd be happy to shut it down myself, but I'm just a paleontologist at the Smithsonian and I don't think my methods would work, so I'm giving you a chance one chance to shut it down yourself. If you can do that in the next 48 hours.

  Olivia Pope : I'm not lifting a finger for you.

  Rowan Pope : Tell me, who do you think stands to lose the most when this so-called B-613 is made public the quiet paleontologist collecting bones or the man down the street who could have pulled the plug on it and didn't? Who, in fact, actively participated, put his own man at the helm, using him to service his own agenda.

  Olivia Pope : I don't care about any of that. I care about justice.

  Rowan Pope : You say that to me now because you're angry at me, but think who we are talking about, what you have done for him, the things you've sacrificed. Is your hatred for me so great...

  [laughs maniacally] 

  Rowan Pope : So great that you are willing to tear him down, too?

• Rowan Pope : So, have you decided to take my case? Am I one of your clients now?

  Olivia Pope : You're right. You do know me. I looked at all possible outcomes. I understand what needs to be done. And I picked a side. But not yours. I won't do it. I'm not stopping the case against B-613.

  Rowan Pope : You're not?

  Olivia Pope : This case is good. It's right. Huck, Jake, all of the people you've hurt and tormented over the years, they want justice. They deserve justice. And that's the only way the Republic stands. Justice is, in fact, the point of the Republic. And I may care about him. But as you said, I will never allow a person to get in the way of what I know to be right.