Scandal (TV Series)

The Last Supper (2014)

Joe Morton: Rowan Pope

Quotes 

• Olivia Pope : I wasn't aware we were on speaking terms, dad, let alone having dinner.

  Rowan Pope : [sighs]  We are family, Olivia. Families fight. That is what they do. That doesn't mean you stop calling or you stop showing up for dinner. When we fight, we forgive and forget.

• Rowan Pope : [dining with Olivia]  I didn't have a a role model for how to be a dad, and I stumbled. I know that. I got angry when I shouldn't have. I focused too much on how you did rather than how you were doing it. I didn't say enough how important it was to me, when you were trying, that you were struggling, because it was. Because I should've understood because that's what *I* was doing. Trying. And struggling. I tried.

• [last lines] 

  Rowan Pope : You know what they would have done to me, what they always do to people like me. A trial, an execution. You were going to let them do that to me. After all I've done to protect you from them.

  [sirens wailing in distance] 

  Rowan Pope : I tried, Olivia. I tried my best. For the first time in your life, you are on your own.

  [getting up to leave] 

  Rowan Pope : You think the world is so terrible with me in it? Wait till you see what it's like without me.