Mellie (Bellamy Young) stands over Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) in the nursery and berates him not only for sleeping there since they have other rooms but also cos he won't let Olivia (Kerry Washington) go, he's bene having wet dreams about her. He doesn't sleep anywhere else cos the press will get hold of it but she thinks he can make up a story like he doesn't want to disturb her whilst she's pregnant and he had a late night solving the nation's troubles and keeping them at safe. Abby (Darby Stanchfield) and David (Joshua Malina) spend the night together, twice over and his mother calls which he must take privately, mother being Alissa (Brenda Song) so he was kind of using Abby to begin with as I said last episode but now it means more to him.
The parents of a missing college girl ask Olivia for help in finding her. Senator Davis (Norm Lewis) thinks Olivia can help. She used to date diplomats and then blog about them, but her blog hasn't been updated as Harrison (Columbus Short) finds out. Olivia suggests Jenny's parents, Janet (Eve Gordon) and Peter (Todd Waring) go public and alert the media. Jenny's secret life is made public on the news and the reporter asks where her parents were in all of this, questioning how she was raised. Quinn (Katie Lowes) finds out a girl is in a hospital and her picture is being faxed over, maybe it's Jenny. Olivia gets a call from Bill and IDs a DB found in the woods as being that of Jenny. That scene was a little Without A Trace, whilst they wait for the fax to come through, Olivia finding out Jenny is dead, nicely done.
Jenny was at a State Department party when she disappeared and Harrison has a list of the guests whilst the car wind screen glass found by the ME identifies which car she was in. The ME also says her injuries weren't enough to have caused her death, so she was lying in a ditch for five hours losing blood. Olivia is horrified at that and makes it her mission to find the killer. Harrison and Quinn cross reference the drivers of the car to the party and find one match to Alexander Lavich (Creighton James) a Kurkistan diplomat, so he has diplomatic immunity. He can't be brought to justice in the US unless the President asks Kurkistan to revoke his immunity, he refuses to do this as Olivia already knows why when she speaks with Cyrus (Jeff Perry) cos the country's help will be needed if the US raise an air strike over East Sudan.
Cyrus tells her to leave before he arrives and he does arrive. Telling her the same thing. Mellie is frustrated at her 'duties' and doesn't want to be seen with children puking on her cos their parents don't want to immunize them, she wants to do more and sit at the 'adult' table. Though Cyrus refuses to help. Olivia knows Jenny's parents must protest in order for the President to take notice. So this is watched by Mellie and she protests outside not as the First Lady, but as a mother who is outraged at what happens to women in Kurkistan and doesn't want that to happen to her daughter, to her or to Olivia even. Cyrus tells Fitz about the two women in his life and Fitz can only laugh at how they got together. Cyrus: "The women in your life play a very mean game of political chess."
Cyrus arranges a meeting at their usual place but Fitz turns up instead and tells her he deported Lavich, it was the only thing he could do since Kurkistan refused to revoke his status. He asks Olivia if she wants to "hitch a ride on Airforce One". She can't do this anymore and they should just go their separate ways, she can't join his mile high club and do nothing else. He wants to face up to his responsibilities and leaves and she cries.
Huck (Guillermo Diaz) attends his AA meeting and meets a cocaine addict who tells him about how rats bleed when they're tested with artificial sweetener. Peter is angry at Olivia doing nothing and Huck tells him not to get that gun and shoot him cos he'll never live with himself after that. Speaking from experience of course, so Huck does the next, not so best thing and ensures Lavich pays for Jenny's death. As the news reports he suffered a heart attack. Huck attends AA and talks of falling off the wagon and enjoying his perfect whisky again.
David finds Quinn's ex boyfriend had a phone conversation with an oil company and he meets with Doyle (Gregg Henry) who won't let him speak with his Head of Security. Abby breaks into his apartment and finds his 'wall.' She confronts Olivia about not keeping secrets and wants her to talk to her, but Olivia doesn't. She has a call instead. Prompting Abby to see David and ask if what they have is something more. He tells her he doesn't think it's about Olivia or Quinn but about Cytron. Olivia arrives at a meeting with the Supreme Court judge, Verna (Debra Mooney) whom she was just supporting through chemo, Mellie, Cyrus and Doyle to talk about David.
Harrison is happy to let Olivia have her secrets cos without her help he'd be behind bars and studying for an 8 year book keeping degree. So why are Olivia and Mellie both in on the meeting cos whenever they've seen each other or had words about one another they've painted a very different picture, of hating each other etc and here we see them sitting round a table. What another conspiracy of which Quinn is a part of? Not sure if this story is actually going to get interesting or not. Does this also mean Olivia and Fitz will be taking a break from each other so we won't have to watch them make googly eyes at each other!
Oh Abby do not like you, she's always got a bone to pick with someone, air her rants and raves and even if it turns out she is on Olivia's side, I still don't like her. Neither does Quinn so I'm not alone, ha!
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