SPOILER ALERT! (stop reading if you don’t want to know what happens in this episode)
I can now officially say that Jake is my favorite person on this show. find out why and read this week’s recap below!
There’s footage of a possible murder on a cliff where it looks like the husband either fell or was pushed by his bride off a cliff and it peaks Mellie’s interest. David is heading the initiative to get the president’s gun law passed and he’s feeling pretty great about being inside the bubble.
Olivia stops by her father’s house just to say hello. Daddy Pope diagnosis her and tells her that he knows how she feels coming out of deep cover; everything is different and she reveals that everything feels colder. He tells her to bring Jake over for dinner and he’ll learn to like Jake because she does.
Abby calls Olivia because Catherine called her thinking she still worked for OPA. Olivia and crew go to see her because her daughter Caitlin never came home. She tells her that they’ll find her and she calls Jake to ask him about dinner with her father. He tells her no because she’s not his girlfriend and that’s something that he’d do for his girlfriend, especially since Daddy Pope threw him in the hole.
Mellie is deeply enthralled in the bride and groom cliff case. Fitz asks her if she still wants to go visit the grave and she tells him to go without her.
Jake knocks Charlie out and takes him to an unidentified location to torture him. Before he can get to cutting Charlie tells him that he only wants one thing. Meanwhile, Quinn finds Caitlin and tells Olivia before she gets a call from Jake. She goes to him and finds out that Charlie’s one request was the whole night with Quinn and she’s not too thrilled about it. Quinn asks him what he wants and tells him that he must’ve thought she’d crawl back to him. During the exchangehe goes to grab her but she’s quicker. He tells her that the truth is no one wants her but him.
Abby walks in on Mellie doing research on the cliff case. She doesn’t believe the wife killed him. Abby tries to convince her that flying out to talk to Jeff, a park ranger, will pull attention from the gun laws. She tells Abby that they’ll fly him in instead. Abby goes to tell Cyrus but he doesn’t want to hear it. He kicks them out once he gets a call from Michael.
Abby goes to Fitz to tell him about Mellie but he tells her to give her what she wants. David comes in to talk to Fitz after getting shut down in court with the gun law bill. Fitz, at his breaking point, and tells him that he needs this bill to pass. If he’s not going to be a soccer dad in Vermont then he needs this to count for something.
Huck goes to Olivia’s house in the middle of the night with a sex tape of Catherine and her daughter’s boyfriend. He also shows her messages and voicemails of Caitlin trying to get away from her mother. Olivia goes to call the hotel because she sent Catherine to where Caitlin was but they find out that Caitlin is dead.
Olivia confronts Catherine and she tries to deny it but Olivia tells her all of the evidence that they have about her and Caitlin’s boyfriend’s affair. She tells Olivia that she didn’t kill her daughter right before her husband shows up.
Charlie is playing head games with Quinn, telling her about how being a spy is lonely. She tells him that she doesn’t get lonely because she has people. She also tells him that she’s not like him and he goes to kiss her and she reciprocates. Jake walks in and tells him that time is up. Quinn goes to leave and Charlie tells her to he’s there for her whenever she gets lonely.
Abby goes to Olivia to try to get information about Catherine but Olivia won’t tell her. She gets upset and leaves before telling Olivia that she doesn’t have to be a Gladiator to be a friend to Catherine. Olivia goes to talk to Jake but he won’t let her in unless it’s a booty call because he’s working. She tells him that he doesn’t have a job and asks if there’s a woman in there. He tells her it’s none of her business because they’re not in a relationship and she’s in love with another man. Olivia gets upset talking about how he won’t go to dinner with her father and she’s done playing games with him.
David confronts Judge Sparks about his ruling on the gun law act. He tells him that he has records of him covering up killing a woman. The judge changes his ruling and the White House staff congratulates him.
Catherine goes to Olivia and tells her that she was bored and she had sex with a kid and it was great, but once Caitlin found out she realized she ruined everything. She tells her that she’s disgusting but she did not kill her daughter. Quinn shows up at the office and is upset because no one noticed that she was gone for 24 hours. She tells them that this is how Harrison died and when someone goes missing for 24 hours we need to look for them.
Jeff, the park ranger, shows up at the White House and Mellie is overjoyed at his arrival. Mellie tells them her thoughts on the case with graphs and packets about how the wife didn’t kill the husband. Fitz walks in not knowing what the meeting is about and Mellie tells him to have a seat. Jeff interrupts her and tells her that she’s right and that two witnesses already came forward and stated that the husband did indeed fall. Mellie doesn’t handle that information well and Abby lies about her having another meeting to get her out of her current meeting.
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Fitz calls in Abby to apologize for yelling at her and to thank her for all she’s done since she joined the team. She tells him that he needs to apologize for messing up her name and he does. He tells her to sit down then asks her about Olivia and Abby tells him that she’s fine. Meanwhile Jake calls Olivia to tell him that he’s in for dinner with her father while looking at photos of Tom with his hand on little Fitz shoulder before he died.
Huck tells Quinn that he’ll look for her the next time she goes missing. David finds out that Judge Sparks committed suicide with a gunshot to the head.
Jake, Olivia and Rowan have an awkward family dinner and Olivia excuses herself for a phone call and Jake goes in on Rowan. He tells him that he knows he killed Harrison and that he was the one who killed Fitz son. He tells him that he needs to leave town because he’s going to tell Olivia what he’s done and he has the perfect place for him to go– the island. Rowan tells him that he won’t be going anywhere just before Olivia walks back in.
Huck brings in footage of someone on an elevator who could possibly be Caitlin’s killer just as they hear news that Catherine has been arrested for her daughter’s murder.
Cyrus meets with Michael and Michael tries to convince him to take him up on his offer, pay for his services and go with him up to his hotel room. Cyrus agrees and Michael reports back to Lizzy.
Some takeaways…
– I kind of feel like the weekly cases have been leaving us with cliff hangers, never to be fully resolved. It doesn’t really look like we’re going to get closures or if we do, it’ll be episodes down the line.
– From the previews, we’re about to get thrown into some Olivia and Fitz drama and I don’t want it. I mean we could’ve went this entire first half without it and I would’ve been perfectly fine with it.
– I may be the only one but I am loving Jake this season. His constant reads on Olivia and his boldness with Daddy Pope, I’m interested to see how his character develops this season. I’m almost tempted to predict that this may be the season when Jake dies. He’s come pretty close in previous seasons but I just have this sinking feeling that this season may be the one when he actually dies.
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