SPOILER ALERT! (do not continue reading if you don’t want to know what happened in this episode)
So let’s just jump right into this week’s episode of Scandal shall we? The episode opened with a flashback, shedding light on some questions we’ve all had for at least the past season. We get a glimpse of Olivia and her father’s relationship at a Sunday dinner. We find out that their relationship after her mother’s death is strained. After the dinner, while standing in the subway Olivia is attacked and then saved by Huck who lived in the subway as a homeless man at the time. This episode spent a lot of time jumping between the past and the present.
Olivia & Her Father’s Back Story
Olivia asks Huck about where he learned to fight like that and he reveals he was a part of B6 13. Olivia relays this info to her father in hopes that he can help her help Huck, not knowing that her father heads that organization. Olivia seeks out David Rosen (this is when she firsts meets him) for information about the criminal allegations her father claimed in relation to Huck. Reaching a dead end she goes off of words Huck said during his subway rant using words “Wonderland” and “Acme” and drives to Wonderland Street to Acme building (how convenient).
She realizes Acme is on the pen that belonged to her father and ties two and two together. She asks her father about it at dinner and he completely shuts her down and that’s when they initially stop speaking. B6 13 takes Huck (this is shown during the second season, episode 19 ‘Seven Fifty Two’) and Olivia shows up at her father’s house with Edison pretty much threatening him, with Edison’s new position, to release Huck. He releases him but Edison is badly hurt in the process and demands Olivia give Edison back his ring. She officially breaks all ties with her father.
The Fitz/Mistress Scandal & the Present
Pope & Associates new client is Jeanine, the White House aide Mellie and Cyrus (and possibly the Gladiators) set up to take the fall for Fitz sex scandal. Fitz wants Olivia to do everything she can to convince the people and media that Jeanine is not his mistress and makes this clear to Cyrus and Mellie.
Up to their schemes, Cyrus and Mellie come up with a plan to make sure that Jeanine’s name stays in the news as the mistress, doctoring a schedule that made it seem like Jeanine spent a lot of time alone with Fitz while Mellie was away from the White House. The Gladiators go to work proving the White House allegations are false.
Olivia’s daddy pops up at Pope & Associates to make sure Olivia sticks to the story of Jeanine being Fitz mistress by threatening to kill Jake Ballard. Olivia turns to Huck for information on what B6 13 does to their agents who go rogue, then asks Fitz to find out if Jake is still alive, and if so, to get him away from the organization. Fitz is told by Cyrus that he’s not B6 13’s favorite person at the moment and that he can’t just have B6 13 turn Jake over to him.
Mellie calls Jeanine in the middle of the night, after Olivia goes to the morgue to confirm that a body isn’t Jake’s, and gets into her head. She promises her two million dollars if she goes on live television and confesses to sleeping with the president. Olivia struggles with if she should let Jeanine lie or tell the truth and let Jake die. Fitz calls her and lets her know he has no control over getting Jake released and Olivia pretty much reads him which of course (as always) kicks Fitz into gear. This is where he says the viewer’s favorite line of the night “How presidential are my balls now, Cy?” He calls a press conference and says he did indeed have an affair with Jeanine.
Quinn, who’s been researching Olivia and her father’s relationship, confronts Huck with her findings and Huck freaks the heck out. He approaches Olivia in the parking garage for the truth and grabs her by the neck choking her and screaming, asking if her father was “Commander”. After letting her go she tells him that that’s who her father is and Huck leaves. The episode ends with Olivia receiving a call from her father who tells her to open the door. When she does she finds a a badly beaten, almost unrecognizable Jake Ballard.
Final thoughts…
– I may be the only one, but I hope Jake’s return means the end of the Olivia and Fitz back and forth. I am over it, I want her to move on and open up her heart to someone else more deserving.
– I also hope Jake hasn’t turned all bad from his time in “The Hole”. Judging from the show’s newly formed hashtags #GoodJake #BadJack, only time will tell.
– I’m glad the mistress story is closed and I look forward to getting into the background of some of the other Gladiators, particularly Harrison.
Judging from next week’s episode it’s going to be a definite chest grabber and I’ll be right along for the ride.
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