- Olivia Pope: At every fundraiser, every dinner, you'll be giving a speech selling yourself, selling the ticket, selling the friendship.
- Andrew Nichols: Selling the bromance.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: How is that even a word?
- Jake Ballard: And one more thing.
- Olivia Pope: What?
- Jake Ballard: Stock your damn fridge.
- [beginning to undress]
- Jake Ballard: If I'm gonna be your fake boyfriend all day, I'm gonna come home at the end of it and drink real beer and eat real food. Wine is not beer, and pop corn is definitely not food.
- Olivia Pope: What are you doing?
- Jake Ballard: I'm gonna take a shower. It's been a long day, and I want to wash it off me before we have pretend sex.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: You stay away from Olivia.
- Mellie Grant: What does that feel like?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: What does what feel like?
- Mellie Grant: To be so hot for someone, so turned on by them that you would put everything you have ever worked for at risk. Does it feel good? Is it an amazing high? Or is it so intense that it actually hurts, like a fire in your belly?
- Olivia Pope: You went too far with Quinn.
- Huck: No, *you* went too far.
- Olivia Pope: Excuse me?
- Huck: You took in a wild monster and you groomed me and petted me and trained me to sit at your feet, but that doesn't make me a puppy, Liv, that just makes me a very loyal monster. So I didn't go too far, I went exactly as far as my leash allows. And you hold the leash. You ruined her life, and you made me save her, and then you gave her to me to take under my wing.
- Olivia Pope: Huck...
- Huck: You hold the leash. You went too far. You should have never given me someone to love. Monsters eat people, Liv. It's what we do.
- [first lines]
- Olivia Pope: [argument being overheard in the hallway by the Secret Service] Can you just let it go?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Let it go? No, I can't!
- Olivia Pope: Well, I'm not talking about it.
- President Fitzgerald Grant: He's standing outside our door.
- Jake Ballard: [in the hallway] You guys always lock down the entire floor?
- Tom Larsen: Standard operating procedure.
- Olivia Pope: ...How many times are we gonna have this conversation?
- President Fitzgerald Grant: Well, what the hell is he doing here?
- Olivia Pope: He's here because there is a pack of reporters covering your fundraiser downstairs.
- Tom Larsen: ...When we go international, we lock down the floors above and below, as well.
- Charlie: Truth be told, I've never been much of a computer guy. I mean, we all learn the basics, but more killing, less coding, I say.
- James Novak: [panicked phone call] We're out of time, David. That metal-on-metal sound you hear? It's Cyrus forging his sword, the one he's going to cut my throat with as soon as he finds out I'm Publius. Do you hear what I just said?
- David Rosen: I did, and while I'm always up for a good blacksmith metaphor, I'm not sure there's anything I can say that's gonna make you feel any safer.
- Olivia Pope: [as Jake enters her apartment] What?
- Jake Ballard: Hello to you, too. You called me. You said it was important. You told me to come home early. I used my official "boyfriend of Olivia Pope" key.
- Cyrus Beene: He didn't show?
- Charlie: Must have been spooked. Want me to grab the reporter instead? We could text Publius that we'll kill her unless he shows up. What kind of name is Publius anyway? Latin for "dweeb"?
- Andrew Nichols: [admiring a painting] I don't mean to sound like a rube, but that's Jackie Kennedy's portrait. Right there. I could just reach out and touch it. I could grab it off the wall and run.
- Mellie Grant: [giggling] Don't. Armed men will take you down to the ground in under 15 seconds. We do not touch the first ladies.
- Jake Ballard: Can I help you?
- Tom Larsen: I believe it's how I can help you, sir.
- [hands him a USB drive]
- Tom Larsen: This is everything from today. I'll be making nightly deliveries from now on to keep you up to date.
- Jake Ballard: You're B-613?
- Tom Larsen: Yes, sir. I'm your eyes on the inside.