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{{Tapped Out Quest
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|level = 5
|update = {{TOCU|4th of July 2015}}
|requirements =
|characters = {{Ch|Richard Nixon}}, [[Lisa]]
|optional =
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'''Scandal-gate''' is a premium questline in ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''. It was introduced in the {{TOCU|4th of July 2015}} content update. It requires {{Ch|Richard Nixon}} to be obtained.

== Dialogue ==
=== Pt. 1 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After tapping on Richard Nixon's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Brockman Icon}}
{{TB|This just in! Last night, a break-in occurred at the historic Scandal-gate Hotel.}}
{{Tapped Out Brockman Icon}}
{{TB|The thieves raided the headquarters of the Springfield Botanical Society, making off with $9.78 in petty cash and some packets of seeds.}}
{{Tapped Out Brockman Icon}}
{{TB|Several of the seed packets were for petunias. I don't know why that detail is considered relevant by the half-wits who wrote this copy for me to read off the teleprompter.}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon|Surprised}}
{{TB|A break-in at the Scandal-gate? It's happening again…}}
{{Tapped Out Wiggum Icon}}
{{TB|I'll get my best man on it. My best man is not very good, unfortunately. He's terrible. But he's a slightly better man than my other men, who are all shockingly bad men.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Richard Nixon Turn Himself In|4 hours|the [[Police Station]] or [[Scandal-gate Hotel]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|After starting the job|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|Look no further, copper! Nixon is your man. Nixon is behind this heinous crime.}}
{{Tapped Out Wiggum Icon}}
{{TB|Isn't that impossible? You just beamed into town like five minutes ago.}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|Nixon did it, and now he's orchestrating a vast cover-up to hide his involvement. This thing goes all the way to the top.}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|Mr. President, why are you trying to take the blame for something you obviously didn't do?}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|Nixon obviously did so do it. Nixon's behind this despicable political attack. Arrest Nixon.}}
{{THT|After finishing the task|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Curious}}
{{TB|What political reason could there be for you to target a group of elderly gardening enthusiasts?}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|Follow the money.}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Deadpan}}
{{TB|Nine dollars and seventy-eight cents? THAT money?}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|I know! Nixon must be a lunatic. But he definitely did it. Just like in 1972.}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 2 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After tapping on Richard Nixon's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|Mr. President, now that we're alone, please tell me why you're taking the fall for the break-in at the Scandal-gate?}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|I have to. Just like I had to in 1972. To protect the American people.}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Angry}}
{{TB|But you WERE behind that break-in! Everybody knows that. There were YEARS of investigations, THOUSANDS of articles…}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|All lies, planted by the jive turkeys who were really behind it. They were running scared. Because Nixon and his friends had cracked the case.}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|Dick Nixon, you see, is a master detective. Nixon makes Sherlock Holmes look like a blithering idiot. And Nixon filled his White House with fellow super-sleuths.}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|Ehrlichman, John Dean, Haldeman and Nixon called ourselves “The Mystery Solvers Club.” We had closed hundreds of cases the fuzz deemed “unsolvable.”}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|At night, we prowled the streets of D.C., magnifying glasses in hand, collecting clues.}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|But when, in 1972, we realized the truth behind the break-in, we decided it was too big, too terrible to ever get out.}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|The American people need to believe in their government. But they also need the bad guys to get caught. So we let ourselves BECOME the bad guys.}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|It's like in “The Dark Knight” when [[Batman]] lets himself be framed for the murder of Harvey Dent. Nixon is pretty sure that's based on Nixon, by the way.}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|I've never seen it.}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|Never seen “The Dark Knight?” How is that even possible? It's like my seventh-favorite movie EVER. Come on. We're watching it right now.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Richard Nixon Watch “The Dark Knight”|6 hours|the [[Simpson House]]}}<br>{{Task/Job|Make Lisa Watch “The Dark Knight”|6 hours|the [[Simpson House]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 3 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After tapping on Richard Nixon's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon|Happy}}
{{TB|NOW do you see, Lisa? NOW do you dig how Dick Nixon is maybe an even better Batman than Christian Bale?}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|Not really. What WAS this horrible truth you were trying to keep from the American people?}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|In Washington, nothing is as it seems. What you think you know, you don't. And what you definitely don't know, you do.}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|Tell me -- who are the LAST two people you would ever expect to be the masterminds of the break-in?}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|Geez, I don't know… Probably Woodward and Bernstein?}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|BINGO.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Richard Nixon Blow Everyone's Minds|60 minutes|[[Scandal-gate Hotel]]}}<br>{{Task/Job|Make Lisa Get her Mind Blown|60 minutes|[[Scandal-gate Hotel]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 4 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After tapping on Lisa's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Angry}}
{{TB|Woodward and Bernstein were crusading, intrepid reporters who re-established the rule of law in Washington!}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|They were conservative operatives posing as reporters, at a hardline neo-Fascist think tank posing as The Washington Post.}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|It says so on the masthead: “The Washington Post is a front for a hardline neo-Fascist think tank.” Why doesn't anyone ever read the masthead?}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Embarrassed}}
{{TB|Well, it's kind of small print. I assumed it wasn't that important…}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|Anyway, those reactionaries had to do SOMETHING to stop me. They knew about my second-term agenda.}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|Which was?}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|Please understand that Nixon's biography is a lie. Nixon grew up on an anarchist Marxist Buddhist hippie commune on the upper slopes of [[Mount Everest]].}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Deadpan}}
{{TB|Where the air is far too thin to breathe…}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|Shut up.}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Angry}}
{{TB|You're insane.}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|NIXON WAS LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD, AND NIXON SAYS SHUT UP.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Lisa Sulk|45 seconds|the [[Simpson House]]}}|colspan=2}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
}}

=== Pt. 5 ===
{{Table|
{{THT|After tapping on Richard Nixon's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|Anyway, Nixon spent decades deep undercover as a Republican. All to set up my glorious second term. I called it: “The Love Agenda.”}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|We were gonna press the “reset” button on America. No more military, no more money. No more “rich” and “poor.”}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|No more “police.” No more “fire department” or “hospitals.” Just people, you know? Hanging out, digging on good music and positive vibes.}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Nagging}}
{{TB|That's a great system. Very well thought out.}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon|Annoyed}}
{{TB|Then Woodward and Bernstein caught wind of it, and eighty-sixed the whole beautiful vision.}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|But we'll get there. People are too damn groovy not to get there.}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
{{TB|I really hope you're wrong about that.}}
{{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
{{TB|In fact, I'm gonna go soak up some love right now. Later, square.}}
{{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Nagging}}
{{TB|So long, Another Intensely Disappointing Ex-President.}}
{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Richard Nixon Wave to the People|12 hours}}|colspan=2}}
{{TBT|'''Message'''}}
{{TB|Unlock Washington and Lincoln to see what our greatest Presidents think of our least-great President!}}
{{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|200}} and {{XP|20}}|colspan=2}}
}}

{{Tapped Out Quests/4th of July 2015}}

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 {{TB|So long, Another Intensely Disappointing Ex-President.}}
 {{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Richard Nixon Wave to the People|12 hours}}|colspan=2}}
-{{TBT|'''Message'''}}
+{{Tapped Out Message}}
 {{TB|Unlock Washington and Lincoln to see what our greatest Presidents think of our least-great President!}}
 {{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|200}} and {{XP|20}}|colspan=2}}

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 {{TB|Several of the seed packets were for petunias. I don't know why that detail is considered relevant by the half-wits who wrote this copy for me to read off the teleprompter.}}
 {{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon|Surprised}}
-{{TB|A break-in at the Scandal-gate? It's happening again…}}
+{{TB|A break-in at the Scandal-gate? It's happening again...}}
 {{Tapped Out Wiggum Icon}}
 {{TB|I'll get my best man on it. My best man is not very good, unfortunately. He's terrible. But he's a slightly better man than my other men, who are all shockingly bad men.}}
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 {{TB|I have to. Just like I had to in 1972. To protect the American people.}}
 {{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Angry}}
-{{TB|But you WERE behind that break-in! Everybody knows that. There were YEARS of investigations, THOUSANDS of articles…}}
+{{TB|But you WERE behind that break-in! Everybody knows that. There were YEARS of investigations, THOUSANDS of articles...}}
 {{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon|Annoyed}}
 {{TB|All lies, planted by the jive turkeys who were really behind it. They were running scared. Because Nixon and his friends had cracked the case.}}
@@ Line 66: / Line 66: @@
 {{TB|Dick Nixon, you see, is a master detective. Nixon makes Sherlock Holmes look like a blithering idiot. And Nixon filled his White House with fellow super-sleuths.}}
 {{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
-{{TB|Ehrlichman, John Dean, Haldeman and Nixon called ourselves “The Mystery Solvers Club.” We had closed hundreds of cases the fuzz deemed “unsolvable.”}}
+{{TB|Ehrlichman, John Dean, Haldeman and Nixon called ourselves "The Mystery Solvers Club." We had closed hundreds of cases the fuzz deemed "unsolvable."}}
 {{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
 {{TB|At night, we prowled the streets of D.C., magnifying glasses in hand, collecting clues.}}
@@ Line 74: / Line 74: @@
 {{TB|The American people need to believe in their government. But they also need the bad guys to get caught. So we let ourselves BECOME the bad guys.}}
 {{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon|Happy}}
-{{TB|It's like in “The Dark Knight” when [[Batman]] lets himself be framed for the murder of Harvey Dent. Nixon is pretty sure that's based on Nixon, by the way.}}
+{{TB|It's like in "The Dark Knight" when [[Batman]] lets himself be framed for the murder of Harvey Dent. Nixon is pretty sure that's based on Nixon, by the way.}}
 {{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
 {{TB|I've never seen it.}}
 {{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon|Annoyed}}
-{{TB|Never seen “The Dark Knight?” How is that even possible? It's like my seventh-favorite movie EVER. Come on. We're watching it right now.}}
+{{TB|Never seen "The Dark Knight?" How is that even possible? It's like my seventh-favorite movie EVER. Come on. We're watching it right now.}}
-{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Richard Nixon Watch “The Dark Knight”|6 hours|the [[Simpson House]]}}<br>{{Task/Job|Make Lisa Watch “The Dark Knight”|6 hours|the [[Simpson House]]}}|colspan=2}}
+{{THT|{{Task/Job|Make Richard Nixon Watch "The Dark Knight"|6 hours|the [[Simpson House]]}}<br>{{Task/Job|Make Lisa Watch "The Dark Knight"|6 hours|the [[Simpson House]]}}|colspan=2}}
 {{THT|Quest reward: {{Cash|100}} and {{XP|10}}|colspan=2}}
 }}
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 {{TB|Tell me -- who are the LAST two people you would ever expect to be the masterminds of the break-in?}}
 {{Tapped Out Lisa Icon}}
-{{TB|Geez, I don't know… Probably Woodward and Bernstein?}}
+{{TB|Geez, I don't know... Probably Woodward and Bernstein?}}
 {{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
 {{TB|BINGO.}}
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 {{TB|They were conservative operatives posing as reporters, at a hardline neo-Fascist think tank posing as The Washington Post.}}
 {{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
-{{TB|It says so on the masthead: “The Washington Post is a front for a hardline neo-Fascist think tank.” Why doesn't anyone ever read the masthead?}}
+{{TB|It says so on the masthead: "The Washington Post is a front for a hardline neo-Fascist think tank." Why doesn't anyone ever read the masthead?}}
 {{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Embarrassed}}
-{{TB|Well, it's kind of small print. I assumed it wasn't that important…}}
+{{TB|Well, it's kind of small print. I assumed it wasn't that important...}}
 {{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
 {{TB|Anyway, those reactionaries had to do SOMETHING to stop me. They knew about my second-term agenda.}}
@@ Line 120: / Line 120: @@
 {{TB|Please understand that Nixon's biography is a lie. Nixon grew up on an anarchist Marxist Buddhist hippie commune on the upper slopes of [[Mount Everest]].}}
 {{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Deadpan}}
-{{TB|Where the air is far too thin to breathe…}}
+{{TB|Where the air is far too thin to breathe...}}
 {{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon|Annoyed}}
 {{TB|Shut up.}}
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 {{THT|After tapping on Richard Nixon's exclamation mark|colspan=2}}
 {{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
-{{TB|Anyway, Nixon spent decades deep undercover as a Republican. All to set up my glorious second term. I called it: “The Love Agenda.”}}
+{{TB|Anyway, Nixon spent decades deep undercover as a Republican. All to set up my glorious second term. I called it: "The Love Agenda."}}
 {{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
-{{TB|We were gonna press the “reset” button on America. No more military, no more money. No more “rich” and “poor.”}}
+{{TB|We were gonna press the "reset" button on America. No more military, no more money. No more "rich" and "poor."}}
 {{Tapped Out Richard Nixon Icon}}
-{{TB|No more “police.” No more “fire department” or “hospitals.” Just people, you know? Hanging out, digging on good music and positive vibes.}}
+{{TB|No more "police." No more "fire department" or "hospitals." Just people, you know? Hanging out, digging on good music and positive vibes.}}
 {{Tapped Out Lisa Icon|Nagging}}
 {{TB|That's a great system. Very well thought out.}}