Another explosive episode where lives still hang in the balance at least of the major players. Huck Guillermo Diaz) enters the lift with Charlie (George Newbern) and Hollis (Gregg Henry) and Huck tells Hollis that Charlie is here to kill him unless Huck kills him first. That is if Hollis accepts David's (Joshua Malina) offer then he will kill him. Hollis agrees to remains quiet. Olivia (Kerry Washington) tells Cyrus (Jeff Perry) Hollis didn't shoot Fitz (Tony Goldwyn). Who is having a photoshoot with his son and Mellie (Bellamy Young) at the Whitehouse. He tells Mellie he wants a divorce and still wants to visit his son afterwards. He thinks of calling his son Wallis but she thinks he'll be bullied. The name has family connections.
Fitz tells Olivia he's getting a divorce and doesn't want her marrying Edison (Norm Lewis). Yes Fitz get things your own way until you change your mind. Olivia and her gladiators try to work out who really had Fitz shot which leads her to Verna (Debra Mooney). Well it had to be one of them, obvious suspects aside since only they knew of the vote rigging and well it had to be about clearing house and conscience and who had the most to lose, Verna. She came across as self righteous as if she would get off easily. Verna is shown watching Fitz and Olivia kissing and tells Olivia it was for the love of her country and how she wants , well, absolution. Which she ain't getting! If it was about country she would come clean and admit her own part in it but she doesn't. Verna wanted her legacy to live on and that she'd be remembered for what she did.
Olivia refuses to turn her in and confess since it will do more harm than good. Up until now Fitz was the innocent party in all of this but not anymore showing he's his father's son after all and as I said in one of my previous reviews, here he really shows the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Verna calls David and Fitz also comes to see her. As for his timing who called him or did he just happen by in the midst of all this turmoil? David isn't allowed in but sees Fitz there when he comes out wanting help with Verna.
David subpoenas James (Dan Bucatinsky) to appear at the Grand Jury trial for the vote rigging and he needs the memory card for this. Olivia and her team listen to the tapes they made of Abby (Darby Stanchfield) and David cos Huck was being interrogated and couldn't turn them off but Abby insists they listen to nothing about her. Abby listens to David telling her he loves her over and over. Also they find out about the card from Cytron. Abby agrees she should be the one to steal the card from his apartment. Then confronts Olivia about getting paid off to tell her David abused her.
James tells Cyrus about the subpoena and Cyrus makes him strip so he realizes he's not wearing a wire, as he does the same. Cyrus tells him he wanted to run for President but he wasn't tall or pretty enough and so all he ever could be was chief of staff and then retire one day and go teach. James is more worried about being a father and looking after their daughter.
Then we see how far Cyrus will go to protect his investment as he gets Charlie to kill James. That's so absurd going on about how he loves him and he's his husband but the next minute he's just treating him like any other liability to save his own neck. At the last minute he tells Charlie to abort and calls Olivia. She asks Harrison (Columbus Short) to drink with her at 9am in the morning. James lies on the stand and tells David he didn't have a card and told him nothing about vote rigging. Abby arrives with the card as does David who knows she took it but she denies it. How could you be so stupid considering no one else knows about it. Abby gives them the card when David walks out on her. Harrison all the time telling her that he did this cos of Olivia and she's helped all of them and they're her gladiators. Oh stop with the gladiator line, seems he gets that every week!
Olivia refuses Edison and gives him back the engagement ring. She tells him love must be painful and hurt and that's what she wants. He tells her that's what love isn't. He must be thinking she's delusional or something cos instead of finding happiness, she wants pain.
At the funeral Olivia tells Fitz she'll wait for him for however long it takes but he tells her he's not divorcing, "it's political suicide" especially since screwing your mistress is one thing, but marrying her is another. Oh drive the knife in further. That was a turn up for the books and really no better than what Edison said to her two episodes ago, you know, "whore, criminal, liar, cheat." Fitz really implied much the same in that Olivia is really nothing and a nobody. He gives his eulogy on Verna saying everything she wasn't as we see Verna confess to him that she tried to kill him. He wonders why she didn't just expose him and why kill an innocent woman. She tells him about the vote rigging which would really have irked his manhood. I mean that his father was right and he couldn't win this election on merits alone! So he ensures nothing gets out and his Presidency and in fact his own legacy survives. He removes her oxygen as she dies.
Ooh Fitz didn't think you had it in you. SO this reinforcing that Fitz is now like everyone else and has his hands dirty. For now all he was guilty of was having a mistress but murder to save himself is something completely different, suppose he believes in an eye for an eye and wanted nothing more but to prove them right. That they drove him to this. He asks Mellie if he can trust her cos there's no one else and he thought she tried to have him killed. Which she'd never do. So they get back together now! Have to say didn't see that coming: all this talk of killing this ep. No tot mention Quinn (Katie Loewes) wanting Huck to kill Doyle. He talks her round cos she's better off living as Quinn and putting Lindsay behind her.
Seems like no one is clean in this world of politics and they just seem to be getting deeper and deeper into the mess of their own doing. Who's to say this vote rigging story won't surface again and true to life we're shown how this administration, and now even Fitz himself is no longer worthy of office. Or it could be said he's just reinforcing what the others made him out to be by tarnishing his election even before he had won or lost. Thus effectively making him who he is. So they have none but themselves to blame.
Strange how Fitz would confide in Mellie though, not about what he did to Verna but wanting her by his side. The lesser of two evils or was he ensuring he can stand up on his own two feet now. We'll have to wait and see.
Verna: "You are not the President...you're naive, you're pampered, you sail through life clueless as a child. But you are not stupid." So the penny drops as he finds out he can rely on no one.
Fitz: "You believe that my Presidency is so important than anything else right. You must. You've worked so hard to get me here." That's one thing Olivia should have been more aware of. After all the work they did, the lies they told, how did she think he would or she could just throw it all away for her of all people. Perhaps the title should read, nobody likes a cry baby, ha! Well that's sort of the implication.
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