The gathering from last episode have their secret meeting and Mellie (Bellamy Young) is concerned how she's at risk being here and Olivia (Kerry Washington) adds they are all risking being here. Especially if David (Joshua Malina) finds out the link between Cytron and Doyle Energy. Olivia says she will 'fix' David. David is allowed to keep his job if he lets go pursuing Olivia and this investigation. Her next problem is a dead man at the Governor's house, shot twice with his pants down. Apparently he was raping the Governor's wife and he shot him. Governor Reston (Tom Amandes) used one of his guns from his collection as he's a pro-gun Democrat as Olivia knows from the election. The rapist happened to be a contractor at his house and he built the entire house from scratch.
Jane Powell (Mina Badie) who is David's replacement arrives and Olivia wants her to meet at the office, looks like Olivia has something on her too. Cyrus (Jeff Perry) finds James (Dan Bucatinsky) has his old job back at the Whitehouse Press corps cos Cyrus didn't let him have a baby. The President is at the G8 conference and whilst he's away there can't be any other news made cos it will distract from the summit and belittle his presence there. James tries to ask what Mellie thinks of the East Sudan crisis. She arranged dinner for the four of them and Cyrus tells her she can't do anything again which leads to any distraction from the G8. She shows her defiance saying she doesn't want to be at that meeting anymore and Cyrus tells her, tough she has to be cos she wanted to sit at another table and that table is it. She may be a political animal but he's a "monster."
Olivia wants everyone to find whatever dirt they can on the contractor and Quinn (Katie Lowes) finds he was a serial shoplifter. Harrison (Columbus Short) and Abby (Darby Stanchfield) talk to his employees and find one's been laid off. Abby finds a hair in the kitchen sink and then finds long, dark hair all over the house, the shower, the pool, etc. Olivia realizes his wife, Joan (Brenda Strong) was having an affair with the contractor. She breaks the news in no uncertain terms and the Governor admits he didn't know. Oh yeah, he's the governor and won't know if his wife is cheating on him, highly unlikely! The Governor wants to keep this quiet since he's been labelled a hero in the press. Olivia warns him if there's an investigation and the police find it's not rape then Joan will end up in prison and there'll be no leniency for him either. He wants all paper trails destroyed, if there are any.
David meets a worker from Doyle Energy and is told that they are open to hacking via their software. David also turns up at Olivia's office telling her the rape case is now a homicide. Joan decides to tell the truth and tell them she was having an affair, she loved her husband but after the election he wasn't the same. One county in Ohio cost him the election, 4, 359 votes is all he could think of after that. She should have helped him but she gave up on them. Olivia finds photos in the file showing the Governor knew of the affair. He tells her he doesn't care about those votes anymore since this 'incident' has revived his political career. Which is what he wanted anyway.
Huck (Guillermo Diaz) has a date with the AA woman and he asks Harrison what he should do. Harrison suggests a restaurant and still has her number on his hand. Abby types it onto the computer and sees a post it on the computer, 'The Griddle 3.30pm, realizing the meeting David had was a plant. Also the software Quinn's boyfriend was working on was used for slot machines but also for voting machines. Olivia has David's apartment bugged and listens to Abby when she tells David of this. Doyle (Gregg Henry) wants to take care of David himself if Olivia's method doesn't work and dismisses the other as if they're at a school. Thus it appears Fitz didn't win the election fairly and squarely and Olivia knew.
Cyrus turns up at Olivia's to discuss his woes and he's missed her. They got all pally rather quickly after last season. Especially since he killed Amanda Tanner, had her killed, killed Quinn's new love squeeze (yes he made Brendan Hines leave the show - unforgivable!!) She tells him Edison (Norm Lewis) wants to go out with her but it's too early for her, since "all roads lead to Fitz." SO what happened to Olivia's white hat and more importantly her gut. She said she was off a few eps back, but is she still in that situation, especially since she and Fitz parted ways, obviously that won't last long, or else the show would be losing viewers in droves. Did anyone miss Fitz this ep? Seeing as he wasn't in the ep he had to get plenty of mentions and not just in the title, such is the powerful influence of the 'leader of the free world.'
Kind of hard to imagine Olivia knowing about David all along and not doing much to deter him until we get the 'round' table gathering. Also she knows about Abby too, at least now but that's the part that's meant to make this interesting, what will she do with Abby, really I don't find myself caring. Though David's conspiracy storyline is more intriguing, at least for now.
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