Cyrus (Jeff Perry) rushes to see Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) but he's still busy with Olivia (Kerry Washington) and Tom (Brian Letscher) won't let him in unless he's got a good reason. Cyrus threatens to make him guard Ted at the playground and tells him he's having a heart attack. Cyrus bursts in on them both and tells him to "get up!" Don't know who locked more shocked Cyrus, Fitz or Olivia. Olivia comes up with a strategy but Fitz will tell them what he wants to do. She returns to work and hears news about Albatross. They think the mole might be Sally Langston (Kate Burton) since she can get into those files too. They have to find out everything they can on her.
Harrison (Columbus Short) tells Olivia the news will break and it's only a matter of time before her name is revealed by Mellie (Bellamy Young) and he wants her to be his client. hHe will do anything for her cos she is his client. Olivia listens to everything he has to say but in the end tells him she isn't his client and wants him to handle Langston. She won't tell Harrison her endgame. Huck (Guillermo Diaz) suggests sending a Trojan horse to Langston via email and when she opens it up they can see her password. David (Joshua Malina) suggests they use her daughter cos she's easier to hack into and when she opens her email they'll be in. Suggesting send her an email about one of the mean girls who's just had her nose down. Huck finds it wasn't Langston cos she was with Fitz when someone was hacking into her computer. Langston with Cyrus going on about marriage being sacred and a "woman scorned" phrase which she claims is from the Bible, Cyrus tells her it's not, funny that, her not knowing where it's from, thought she was religious. She is wallowing in how Mellie was the one who will bring him down. Well he's not down quite yet.
Notice the change in Olivia this time round she's walking round as if she's on cloud nine or whatever it is cos she doesn't look like she's really thought about what will happen if Mellie actually reveals her name, thinking everything will come good in the end. Which it won't, how will she recover being named as Fitz's 'whore.'
Charlie's (George Newbern) in the wind and they must find some way to find him. Jake (Scott Foley) meets with the nameless man again.
Cyrus must take questions and must keep deflecting them, such as the affair being only alleged, whatever happens between Mellie and Fitz is their business, etc. Even James (Dan Bucatinsky) is present but obviously Cyrus won't answer him either. He must go over the same ground with the reporters. Mellie however is not using the ace up her sleeve and isn't revealing Olivia's name just yet. Deep down she hopes she can still salvage something from Fitz and hires a fixer (John Barrowman) like Olivia and wants to know why not use Olivia, cos she's Fitz's fixer. Would have thought that was a little obvious as to why since it's alleged his mistress is someone within the Whitehouse, a Whitehouse worker, ain't it always!
Cyrus tries to talk to Fitz as to how they will spin this and handle it but he doesn't want that. He's decided he doesn't want to run for a second term either. Cyrus also takes his wrath out on James for being gullible and stupid at the same time. Thinking he was the only one his boss would want to interview Mellie, it was Mellie's decision and she played him good. James can't handle that thinking Cyrus always puts him down and first it was Defiance and now this story. Cyrus talks down to him and and raises his hand too quite a lot. He leaves and James has no choice but to burst into tears.
Cyrus meets with Olivia and wants her to talk Fitz out of not running for a second term, in fact he's writing his speech and what he will say. She tells him she can't do that and we're back to Defiance once more. Olivia reminding Cyrus that park used to be a zoo and some would say, still is. Olivia also adds that they already messed up the Republic once and really believes he and Fitz can just be happy, especially when there more powerful forces at work. Cyrus has the footage with Jake and Olivia and can release that publicly so saving Fitz and his running for a second term, but why does he keep it to himself. Well no sooner has Olivia turned her back when up rears the mysterious man. Apparently he knows Cyrus and tells him Charlie is dead tt him, he doesn't want him being used by him since he's his operative.
Charlie needs to be taken care of and to this task cue Jake. He sets up the bakery assistant as one of his own and Charlie's no fool after all he was trained by B613 and he suspects a rat in his pastry. He checks out the bag which has a substance on it which will enable him to be tracked so he touches practically everyone on the street, though why they'd allow themselves to be touched by some madman like that without crying out murder is beyond me. So Jake loses his signal and Charlie in the process. Jake flashing his gun about! So he meets with the man (Joe Morton) at the Monument and gives him the footage of him and Olivia after watching it one last time, can't believe he hasn't kept a copy though, just for insurance purposes. The man threaten him by telling him they could be meeting at the hole instead of here and that was a piece of serious foreshadowing if ever there was any in this show! Apparently Jake was working for both the man and Fitz and had to get in between both Olivia and Fitz.
Fitz calls Olivia and then asks what she's wearing. She hangs up and her phone rings again and she makes the classic mistake of thinking it's Fitz again and tells him she won't tell him whats he's wearing, but it's Jake and he asks her about him again. Olivia tells him to take care and goodbye. Maybe he should have taken her advice then cos nothing bodes well for Jake.
Mellie tells her fixer she needs to know what Fitz is writing in his speech and he's good at what he does so he must find out. Which he does cos it's just been thrown out in the Whitehouse trash, since when was the Whitehouse so careless with its trash anyway? Meanwhile we get Cyrus deflecting yet more questions and covering old ground as he refuses to give them anything. Mellie reads the speech and finds he's not budging at all. She still won't reveal the name.
Cyrus doesn't acknowledge knowing Charlie and so he comes to Olivia for help, holding David at gunpoint. They want the name of the mole and he doesn't give it. He wants a deal in the same way Huck can live his life out in the open. But Olivia didn't get him any deal. Huck takes Charlie and gives him a doughnut before he'll finish the job. Charlie gives him a name and at the last instant Quinn stops Huck from shooting him. Thought Huck would have pulled the empty gun trigger on him to scare him but turns out he was actually going to to shoot him for ruining his life. Olivia runs to the safe to open it and finds the card is still there, which was stupid of her, I mean she isn't thinking at all here. Why open the safe in front of everyone. She's just given Harrison the combination and her brown and black files, brown for those people who owe her favours and the written combination so if the worst comes to the worst, Harrison will take over and run the firm. But lo and behold she reveals the combination to all and sundry. Notice David getting a good look at the combination.
David and his remark of who the president banged and how the name will be revealed was kind of unnerving to Olivia as she just looks away ignoring him. Olivia finds out from Cyrus that Fitz didn't sign the second term candidacy papers and they're still on his desk. She asks him if he wanted to run and when he decided he didn't want to run and tells him he should run cos he wants it to be legitimate this time round, without his father putting him down and without Olivia et all cheating for him. He gives a speech saying his marriage is "none of your business." Then announces his running for a second term. Harrison calls Olivia and they find out that Charlie's been released and Harrison finds the Cytron card is gone. Olivia is given the name of Billy Chambers (Matt Letscher) as the mole, as we see him get the Cytron card from none other than David.
So the mole is Billy Cahmers and David turns out to be a turncoat too! Well it's to be expected he wouldn't let Olivia and associates get away with him losing his job and every other humiliation he went through, not least the which was Abby (Darby Stanchfield) making a complete fool of him too when she lied to him and told him she didn't take the card. That was one reason why he hung around there like a bad smell and kept going on about how he's "a Gladiator now." Well who 'invited' him to become one anyway, no one. But still they weren't weary around him and you know why not just give him all your secrets. Surprised no one blabbed about Olivia and Fitz in front of him. It was obvious it would be David and not Charlie, who would Charlie know they have the card, David was always the one who wanted it and knew they had it.
Had a feeling Fitz wanted to run for another term cos he wanted to prove himself and show he is capable of winning all by his lonesome, but how will this affair news fare for him? Seems like Mellie will come running back too.
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