Designated Survivor (TV Series)

The First Day (2016)

Natascha McElhone: Alex Kirkman

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Quotes 

• Tom Kirkman : How you holding up?

  Alex Kirkman : I spoke to Duncan. The courts are closed.

  Tom Kirkman : Markets, banks, schools, airports, everything.

  Alex Kirkman : Half the junior associates in the firm, they're thinking of leaving Washington.

  Tom Kirkman : How's Penny? You think she even understands what's happening?

  Alex Kirkman : Besides the fact that we now live in the White House, her father is the president, and she's sleeping in a very big bed? No, not really. I've been trying to keep her away from the TV.

  Tom Kirkman : And Leo?

  Alex Kirkman : He's been in his room all day with the door shut.

  Tom Kirkman : So, basically being Leo.

  Alex Kirkman : Basically.

• Alex Kirkman : [arriving at the remains of the Capitol]  Are you ready for this?

  Tom Kirkman : How can anybody be ready for this?

• Alex Kirkman : I hate this that they picked it out for me.

  [putting on a jacket] 

  Alex Kirkman : Look. I look like the White House sofa.

  Mike Ritter : [holding up a Kevlar vest]  It's to fit over this, ma'am.

  Tom Kirkman : Mike, is this all really necessary?

  Mike Ritter : Two ways the president and his family can leave the White House: out the front door in Kevlar vests and a thirteen car armed motorcade or out the back in a Chevy and a ball cap.

• Alex Kirkman : Light reading?

  Tom Kirkman : Well, sadly, it seems that Wikipedia is a little thin on constitutional law theory.

  Alex Kirkman : Well, did the lawyers not give you any answers about Michigan?

  Tom Kirkman : They gave me plenty of answers. They just weren't the right ones.

• Alex Kirkman : Governor Royce said that? That he's the highest authority?

  Tom Kirkman : That's what he said, and in no uncertain terms. Then he hung the phone up on me.

  Alex Kirkman : Well, he doesn't get to do that. He has a constitutional obligation...

  Tom Kirkman : Don't you get it, Alex? Royce wants to tear up the Constitution, and he's not the only one.

  Alex Kirkman : Well, you can't let him.

  Tom Kirkman : Trust me, I'm not going to.

• Leo Kirkman : How is she?

  Alex Kirkman : Well, how do you think she is? She just watched her father almost get trampled. You had one job: to keep her away from the TV.

  Leo Kirkman : I did.

  Alex Kirkman : Until you didn't. You... you left her alone.

  Leo Kirkman : I got a phone call. It... it's not my job to be her parent.

  Alex Kirkman : Well, guess what? We're all doing jobs that we weren't doing yesterday. Leo, nothing's the same anymore. Look, I know it's asking a lot. But you're just gonna have to grow up faster.