A Senator talks of how the President (Tony Goldwyn) almost took them to war over Sudan and Olivia (Kerry Washington) watches him and calls him telling him he shouldn't wear pinstripes and he's her client now. Olivia finds a man in her backseat who tells him they're after him and will kill him, that they've been spying on him and she yells for him to get out, as she drives off he shouts they know about the calls to the West Wing and she drives back. Oh she heard that! Artie (Patrick Fischler) is a low-level data entry clerk at the NSA and claims to have stolen their programme, Thorngate, showing they've been spying on American citizens. Nothing was done by his supervisor so he stole it.
Olivia meets with the NSA to discuss this programme but it is denied, Olivia says she's confirmed Artie is crazy. Olivia tells them to take him to a safehouse and then Huck (Guillermo Diaz) unencrypts the programme to find Cyrus (Jeff Perry) on the phone to Hollis Doyle (Gregg Henry) talking about the President going hunting. The programme goes into self destruct mode and Olivia questions who else knows about this. Artie mentions Monica. Abby (Darby Stanchfield) and Harrison (Columbus Short) are sent to talk to her and Abby wants to play good cop, she manages to get them into Monica's apartment but they find her dead of an apparent suicide but Abby claims it's not and there's a black sedan outside.
Olivia wants info from Senator Davis (Norm Lewis) who is on the Intelligence Committee but he doesn't give her anything since it's all top secret. Cyrus shows a photo of their meeting to Fitz who loses it. He was her former boyfriend. SO much for playing nice with Mellie (Bellamy Young) who received baby clothes from Queen Elizabeth (really?) Olivia believes if they can blame the NSA for the murder then they can corroborate Artie.
Olivia is taken hunting to talk with Fitz and he is riled up for getting involved with this and believes Davis provided her with info cos they looked so cosy in the photo. They kiss and Olivia pushes him away saying "I am not yours" and he can't just take her anywhere. Thorngate is used for anti-terrorism. Olivia thinks they can protect Artie if they go public and involve the TV station into broadcasting the story, but only if Huck can hack into the NSA. But the TV network has been given an injunction from the Justice Department insisting if they go ahead they will be traitors.
She shows the Head of the Network his wife at home with his baby and he decides to air the interview. They need the autopsy reports and the black sedan. Abby manages to get hold of the report which shows Monica died by an insulin injection. Quinn (Katie Lowes) is shown in flashback telling them about Artie's allergies and his Type 1 Diabetes. Artie sets the smoke alarm off and escapes from the safehouse. Olivia realizes he played them as he needed someone to hack the system. He can now sell it to the highest bidder. Olivia agrees with the NSA if they can get Artie back they are off the hook.
David (Joshua Molina) is still obsessed with Olivia and thinks that maybe Quinn is innocent after all. Lindsay is harassed by Abby who keeps calling her Lindsay, a liar and fraud. Quinn has enough of her and gets her own back. David wants Abby to buy him a drink and they end up together.
Mellie finds out Fitz saw Olivia whilst hunting which explains his mood change and threatens Fitz with bringing him down and that she can ensure he won't be elected for a second term as she has all the attributes in her life and the sacrifices she made for him to ensure she is. He should stop seeing her. Fitz is called a ticking bomb by Cyrus, saying he knew about the calls to Olivia since he's ensuring Fitz is protected from himself. Davis is removed from the Committee and says he's on Olivia's books now and he's her client pro bono. Huck tells Olivia not to worry about him.
So much happened in this episode and it was good to see Olivia put Fitz in his place, that she's not there for him at his beck 'n' call doing whatever he wants, whenever he wants. She was played by Artie cos as Harrison says, her gut is off cos of Fitz. She needs to step back from him. Abby was irritating, they way she kept hounding Quinn, cos she's so perfect. How does she know David's not gonna use her for info about Olivia, you know, pillow talk.
Mellie back to her old self and it was her who wanted Fitz to go on the hunt to begin with, since he said he can cancel it cos of his pregnant wife. Was she really expecting him to get back to playing 'happy families.' Well she's shown her true colours once again so much for asking forgiveness last episode.
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