The gladiators need to find Billy Chambers (Matt Letscher) and the Cytron card as Huck (Guillermo Diaz) and Quinn (Katie Lowes) look for Billy. Quinn hacks into the camera feed at Governor Reston's (Tom Amandes) mansion to find if he's been there. Huck says he's worried about Quinn cos she's becoming like him and Olivia (Kerry Washington) asks if she's hurt anyone yet. Well she spoke too soon since it'll only be a matter of time before she does. Huck is also worried about her and who she's with, with Olivia finally saying she's worried about herself too.
They try to work out how the card was stolen and Abby (Darby Stanchfield) knows there's so many combinations to the safe so how could Charlie have found it so easily. She doesn't get a chance to figure it out though. Olivia, Cyrus (Jeff Perry) Hollis (Gregg Henry) and Mellie (Bellamy Young) have a crisis meeting to decide how they will handle Billy and are waiting for one more person. Obviously it's Fitz (Tony Goldwyn). Hollis wants him taken care of once and for all but Fitz doesn't want anymore bloodshed. Has he grown a conscience after he took care of Verna. Mellie wants to leave but Fitz forces her to stay and finally when she leaves Cyrus tells her Fitz is working through this and really wants Mellie back to run by his side. However he has other plans, he wants to eventually marry Olivia and wants her to become First Lady when he wins a second term. Olivia knows this is impossible, but they find the time to be together again right then and there.
James (Dan Bucatinsky) goes on TV being asked about Fitz and Mellie's marriage and he demands to know from Cyrus whether Fitz is seeking spiritual guidance from his pastor. Cyrus refuses to tell him since The Washingotn Post will be all over it anyway cos Cyrus is feeding them info.
Th mysterious man, whom Cyrus calls Rowen (Joe Morton) tells Jake (Scott Foley) he wants Olivia brought in and he knows what will happen if he doesn't. A woman stands behind him and Jake knows exactly who she is. Rowen later meets with Cyrus and tells him he has the ammo but still refuses to release the 'sex tape.' Cyrus won't do that to his friends. Olivia finds out Reston has the card and is meeting with Fitz right now but Cyrus doesn't get there in time as he has a heart attack. Fitz denies everything Reston accuses him about Defiance but Reston wants to run as a joint ticket with Fitz and to throw Sally Langston (Kate Burton) side.
Fitz gives Olivia the leverage to fix how she will come to the Whitehouse with him and he tells this to Mellie when she visits Cyrus in hospital. Fitz tells her they will divorce, he will support her political career and he will go out on some dates with women which the tabloids will report and then he will find love with his associate and friend, Olivia. If Mellie makes a big deal about it then he will play the race card and accuse her of being a racist. None of the women's groups will stand for that. Cyrus tells him it would work but obviously as Olivia tells Fitz Cyrus wants Mellie by Fitz's side.
Billy needs the Cytron card as Reston wants it to show Olivia he has it and has proof of the 'allegations'. David (Joshua Malina) hands over the card after Billy gives him the whole spiel about how David was used and how Billy killed the CIA Director, Molly and Wendy and set him up for her murder. David calls them his friends and after Billy admitting he set up David for murder it's highly unlikely he would go along with him now even if he had that intention in the first place, which clearly he didn't. It was difficult to think David would actually have a bad bone in his body when he was always the guy out for justice. Reston calls Billy eventually and they find his location. Huck and Quinn torture Billy for the card but Huck can't go through with it. Quinn takes over and uses the drill on him, without any hesitation or regrets. Billy tells them where the card is. But when Abby retrieves it she finds it's a fake.
They realize it was David who took the card. All the time he was here he was figuring out the combination so he didn't see Olivia open the safe after all and worked it out for himself. Olivia is at home with her usual glass of wine and asks Fitz if he wants to come over. He can't and then she sees someone trying to get into her apartment. She locks the door and is grabbed from behind by Jake. The door opens and he shoots that woman between the eyes! Taking Olivia back to her office where she'll be safe he tells her about B-613 and Olivia realizes he is part of it, but that's of no importance. He saved her life twice and he's in danger now. He has to leave and tells her how his mission was to bed her. She tells him to close his eyes and kisses him. Oh no Jake is for the hole!! Cyrus gets out of hospital just to see Olivia and he tells her not to live in a fantasy world and act like Romeo and Juliet. That Fitz killed Verna and he admitted it to him. "Real life is not a romance novel." She was being naive wasn't she so was Fitz, especially when he finally cracks it and shows Fitz that tape, well CD. Saying he's the only adult in the room. Wouldn't have said that after his showdown with James on a few occasions.
Fitz even tells Oliva he didn't care about Jake but they could start over and she doesn't want that. He should get back with Mellie, leave behind his father, Defiance is dead (finally!) and he should win on his own terms. Fitz goes to Mellie and lays his head on her her lap as she touches his head. He was acting like a child here. Abby finds an envelope for Olivia and Quinn returns looking as happy as Larry after what she did to Billy. As Huck retreats into his corner and Quinn can't figure out why he's doing that. Really Quinn, after what he's been through, did she think he'd be pleased at what she's doing.
David gives Cyrus the card but he wants something in return as Olivia listens to the recording he left for her, where he gets Billy's confession on tape. Fitz gives a press conference where he says David is now the US Attorney and he did what no one else could do, bring down the mole who was selling secrets and behind the killings. Does this spell the end of Langston?
Olivia sits at her desk and puts on her white hat as the title suggests. As she also tells Fitz she took Harrison (Columbus Short) et al over a cliff and they need her, she can't leave them as she's "their gladiator." As she leaves her apartment to happily go jogging you just know that smile is going to be wiped off her face. Especially when she's besieged by reporters who ask her if she's having an affair with the President. Two men take her into the car, where surprise, surprise Rowen is waiting as she calls him "dad." Can't say that really came as a big surprise.
Cyrus crushing the Cyron card with a figurine of Lincoln from his desk but then just discards it into the bin. SO David achieved what none of them could do and still maintained face as well as getting his job back and his career back on track at the same time, without any double crosses or betrayal. He never lost sight of the objective at hand though he might have had an ulterior motive, but he really was the one who wore the white hat this season and perhaps a true gladiator.
As expected Jake is thrown into the hole and will be tortured for his loyalty to Olivia, but at least he was ballsy enough to go against B-613 and all that it stands for even if it was for his feelings, whether or not he says he had a job, a mission, it's clear there was more to this than just his objective and he really did have some affection towards Olivia, otherwise he wouldn't have saved her, twice. She thinks he's a good guy but he tells her he's not and though it was a little up in the air since he came onto the show, it's apparent he is one of the good guys after all.
Olivia still chooses the wrong men in her life and perhaps this was something her father must be blamed for. But it is amazing how she thinks she will get the fairytale at the end of the day or the five years after Fitz's second term in office and is willing to wait for it since it's a long time to do that. Is Fitz really deserving of this anyway as he always gets his own way, always and the way he went to Mellie was rather creepy and demeaning in a way. After everything that happened he will do anything to get a second term. He just ended up where he started at the beginning of the season. Of course the other question is who leaked Olivia being his mistress, was it Mellie getting her revenge for when he cast her aside at the hospital. Or perhaps more likely Rowan.
Cyrus had some funny scenes this ep like being in the ambulance on his last legs and still on the phone, but apparently not, he pulled through. Then he and James not forgiving each other. But he also was the only one who saw reality for what it really was. There is no way Fitz and Olivia can be together in the Whitehouse and in public.
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