Scandal (TV Series)

No More Blood (2015)

Joe Morton: Rowan Pope

Quotes 

• Jake Ballard : [out in the Canada wilderness]  I'm here about Olivia.

  Rowan Pope : Did she scratch my records?

  Jake Ballard : She's been taken.

  Rowan Pope : Taken?

  Jake Ballard : To force the president into war in West Angola. Now she's being sold on the international auction block to the highest bidder.

  Rowan Pope : [laughs heartily]  It's unbelievable. Unbelievable! I've been gone how long? I mean, has it been a week? And already you've lost - no, sorry not "lost." She's been taken.

  Jake Ballard : These are professionals.

  Rowan Pope : Well, that distinguishes them from you, now doesn't it? Do you fish?

  Jake Ballard : No.

  Rowan Pope : You know, people who don't fish think that fishing is lazy or boring, but it is the complete opposite. There are a hundred little decisions to be made, variables to be considered. And you're never quite sure what made the difference. Did I cast too high, too far to the left? Did I reel it in too slow, or, or, or too fast? Is the lure too shiny or too dull? Do I stay here, or should I go over there? And you know it's not luck, but you do not know by how much. People are predictable, unchanging, monotonous. They use the same language, they offer the same excuses, they make the same mistakes. People are endlessly disappointing, because you hope they won't be. I knew that she would need me. I knew that you'd come here begging for help. This was all predictable, all disappointing. This is why I am fishing, because I am never disappointed out here - because I don't expect anything - because anything is possible. I can be hopeful out here, even in failure, because I know if I just go out there, around that tree, it might be different, something might be different - something I do might make a difference.

  Jake Ballard : She's your daughter.

  Rowan Pope : [scoffs and picks up his fishing pole]  I don't have a daughter.