Scandal (TV Series)

Snake in the Garden (2013)

Bellamy Young: Mellie Grant

Quotes 

• Mellie Grant : [chasing him down the hallway]  Well?

  Cyrus Beene : I don't know anything yet.

  Mellie Grant : Oh. He is spending his evenings with a soldier, a man you and I have never met or heard of.

  Cyrus Beene : I'm looking into it, but right now...

  Mellie Grant : There's a snake in the garden, Cy.

  Cyrus Beene : I don't know anything yet...

  Mellie Grant : A garden that we planted and we cultivated and we harvested.

  Cyrus Beene : I do - not - know - anything - yet.

  Mellie Grant : Do I have to take care of this myself?

  Cyrus Beene : I don't know anything *yet*. Yet. Yet. Yet!

  Mellie Grant : I'm simply saying I realize that you are not in the best position with him right now.

  Cyrus Beene : Yes, I am currently on the outside looking in. My nose is pressed up to the glass of life right now, and I want to thank you for that. I do. Because, you know, it reminded me never to let my guard down, not when something Mellie-this-way-comes. But don't you worry about me. I will once again be his warrior. I will once again sit at the right hand of the father. I'm on it, my guard is up, and as a friend of mine likes to say, it's handled.

• Mellie Grant : You're not their father anymore. And you are not Fitz anymore. You know who you are? You know who you've become? You're big Jerry. You're your father. Everybody in this White House, Cyrus and me included, tiptoe around, trying to figure out how to get on your good side. But you don't have a good side! You've turned into your father! So you should understand how your children feel, considering how much you hated your dad. They didn't want to come. And so I told them they didn't have to. Deal with it. Put another glass of scotch on top of it and just deal with it.

  President Fitzgerald Grant : [looks down and takes his hand off of his glass]