David (Joshua Malina) leaves the school where he's teaching and drops his papers, thinking he's being followed. He rushes straight over to Olivia's (Kerry Washington) where Harrison (Columbus Short) thinks they're after Wendy's flashdrive and so won't hesitate to k.., David finishes for him, kill him. He hasn't seen anyone but has a feeling. Olivia sends Huck (Guillermo Diaz) to watch him and Huck by now is reeking. Obviously it's cos of his waterboarding torture which makes him have an aversion to the water, or as he tells Quinn (Katie Lowes) at the end when she confronts him about it, it's the rain and when it stops raining he'll be fine. Yeah cos this is Washington, the sunshine state!
Olivia meets Jake (Scott Foley) at the restaurant which he doesn't like at all cos he can't have a date here. He takes the wine and they leave, ending up at the Jefferson Memorial. She calls it a meeting, he insists on date. She wants to ask about him Albatross. Wendy knew about it so she must have told him too. He will answer but then they'll go back to their date. He tells her it's about State Department documents being sold to Tehran and some dead man did it.
Mellie (Bellamy Young) thinks Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) is drinking too much cos he's not sleeping and she has him under her thumb for now. She leaves for bed and he has a visitor in the middle of the night. All so mysterious until we find out it's Jake. He seems to know Fitz very well as they reminisces as they name drop other friends they knew. We get the big reveal that it was Fitz who wants Jake to watch Olivia. Gotta wonder why. It's gone from photo surveillance to full blown video surveillance but he won't tell Jake why, even when he tries to pry. He just tells him she's no good. Well Jake is learning all about Olivia for himself since 'dating' her isn't in his brief. Though right about now even Jake can't put two and two together and figure out the real extent of their 'relationship' and how far the animosity goes. I call it animosity cos it's a love/hate relationship as far as Fitz and Olivia are concerned.
Olivia has a new client, the Caldwell, a political dynasty, Peter (Eric Mabius) wants their youngest, Will (Sam Page) elected as governor of North Carolina. To do this Olivia tells him he needs a wife but everyone thinks he's gay cos he hasn't seen anyone for ten years. He denies being gay but anyone could see it's cos of his feelings for his sister in law, Marion (Lisa Sheridan) and vice versa. Yes it was one of those stories which will be close to Olivia's heart, least so cos she's going through the exact same thing. Broken heart, lost love nothing will come of it. So they need to find Will a wife.
In a quiet moment, quiet, ha, Abby (Darby Stanchfield) gets it on with David again on the desk which appears to be Olivia's office, I wasn't looking, ha. But they do that again in the car later on, David's car, saw that, ha, and she tells him it doesn't mean anything. The terrorists send the Whitehouse a video showing one of the hostages being beheaded which Mellie is privy to, as is Cyrus (Jeff Perry) and Cyrus knows they must launch a drone strike and show strength. Fitz agrees to do this and later tells his other staff that it was Mellie's idea, "blood for blood." Mellie thinks she should speak with the families to tell them they're negotiating behind the scenes. Cyrus hates being left out in the cold but obviously Fitz seems to be relishing it. Also he confides his feelings to Olivia and hates how Mellie is getting in on the act and his job. Olivia thinks he should just let her be Mellie cos sooner or later she'll put a foot wrong and then Cyrus will step in.
Jake watches Olivia be unhappy in her bedroom in her robe and calls her. She undresses but at least he had the decency to turn the camera off, thus far! Mellie thinks she should talk to the families, a conference call, and tell them what they're doing. Cyrus gets his own back as he blabs to a reporter that she should call in too. This gets leaked obviously and Fitz isn't too happy. Mellie is summoned which she enjoys and is told off about going behind his back giving out military info to civillians. Meanwhile Abby tells the potential wife of Will about what she'll be getting into with the family and clearly she puts her off. Thus they go for the second choice.
Olivia is invited to the fundraiser and learns Fitz will be there too. Harrison calls to tell her one of the candidates leaked the story to the press and she wants him to handle it. Which he does by telling the reporter he can have the entire story instead of just this one breaking news one. Fitz makes his speech endorsing Will as candidate and watches Olivia who doesn't seem to be interested in him, as she gets a call from Jake and Harrison, he tells her the story is handled and Jake, calling him Henderson, thinks he's Olivia's man. Yeah right. Anyway Jake wants a second date and she's really happy which Fitz picks up on from afar.
Olivia realizes Will has feelings for Marion, took her time cos if she was on the ball, she'd have picked it up sooner, like the first time we're shown her. She sees the two of them together and tells him to end it, giving him a speech about how Peter loves her, will never leave her, they have children, celebrate anniversaries whilst he has nothing. He should end it and make his own life. Easier said than don as she's the voice of experience. Olivia finds out Peter already knew about the two of them, but family comes first. Fitz summons Jake again and asks if Olivia is seeing a man. He lies and tells her there's no man involved. I want to see how long this lie lasts and does Jake really think he can keep seeing Olivia without Fitz finding out.
Didn't know whether to be happy or not, in a sly way, the way in which Jake pulled the wool over Fitz's eyes he kind of deserves it for everything he's done to Olivia really. I mean everything like having her at his beck and call and then just dropping her like that cos his what, pride is hurt amongst other things. Instead of confronting her and Cyrus and the others about the vote rigging he just plays them. Of course they know he knows but he should face it like a man too.
The other aspect of the episode is that a woman named Molly (Mageina Tova) comes forward. She's been following David cos she knows who killed Wendy. She saw him having a fight at her house and she knows he knows too. Olivia gets Huck to find if there's any footage at her house. Huck manages to unencrypt one of Wendy's files and Olivia is surprised too when she sees it. Also Grayden Osborne (Kurt Fuller) tells Fitz that he's done a thorough check and the mole isn't in the CIA or any of the other agencies. That's cos it's you. That much was obvious. Seems Fitz is no longer running a tight ship, especially after being shot seems like everyone's crawling out of the woodwork. Cos lo and behold, Molly IDs Osborne as the man who argued with Wendy as he appears on the TV. Small world is Washington. And there was Kashfar bounded again over and over.
Some choice lines from Jake this ep, such as " I can never get used to calling you President." "Who would have thought you would be here?" Kind of harks back to that whole vote rigging again. I know that was dealt with but looks like Fitz wasn't capable of achieving or amounting to much on his own. Mellie said that, his own father said that too, and now Jake is saying it. Though hopefully we get some more reveals on how well they know each other and from where. Aside from the navy it looks like, since Fitz was in the navy too. Maybe Jake harbours a little resentment towards Fitz and so is happy to 'mess' around with Olivia on the side. Kind of implying he may have an inkling that this is personal for Fitz. Only an inkling. But still can't help but get shivers when thinking none of Olivia's conversations are private any longer. Shame they don't don't talk about private stuff anymore. Though Cyrus does mention their feelings about Mellie.
Love Olivia's white dress, you know she's not going to get up to any hanky-panky by the sorts of clothes she wears, no short skirts here, or any skirt and this dress was too tight! ha. Though have to see what she wears with Jake! Enjoyed this ep, Scandal hotting up as it hasn't of late, especially with the Defiance eps!
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