Another week, another episode of Scandal.
I was tickled this week when Olivia Pope quipped "I'm Black" while trying to explain to Fitz that there was no way the NAACP was going to endorse Sally Langston for president. Like, as great as it is for Olivia to invoke race on a show that doesn't speak much about it, you'd think she would also remember some lessons so many of us know: "Don't start no shit, won't be no shit." And my personal favorite: "Punks jump to get beat down."
So Jake was right to lay into Olivia over her using her womanly ways to hack his phone and gain the info needed to shut down B316. But as boyfriend number two explained to her, she put her main boo, married Fitz, in harms way as Mama Pope/Maya Lewis/Marie Wallace is about to drop a bomb on him. Speaking of that jackass, he and Cyrus were in Olivia's office, too, to learn Olivia's follies and all of the leg work she put in to make it happen. Fitz pouted. Shocker.
And because that wasn't enough of a whirlwind in mere minutes, Rowan Pope arrived to stomp with the big dogs and joined in on discussions on how to locate Marie and her gang of terrorists -- including some mystery blond man who Papa Pope swears destroyed his family. Unfortunately, because Olivia didn't mind her damn business and shut B316 down before Jake and co. could take Marie out of the game, there is a very limited amount of time to track these fools down (with even less resources).
Ideally, this would be the part where everyone would come together for the good of the country and work together to bring down the terrorists. But, haha, bitch, this is Scandal—so no. On this show, #TeamPetty reigns supreme, thus, Rowan looked at Jake and essentially said "He gotta go, B!" Jake was then told "everything you own in the box to the left." Olivia did run after him, only he went all, "Don't call me when this blows up in your face." on the woman. Did Olviia call him later? Yes. Did he pick up? Of course. Why did he waste his breath? He loves Fitz's girl.
Don't fret for Jake, though. He punked David Rosen into helping him. A past death threat will make you accommodating.
With him gone from that office, Rowan, Quinn, Charlie, and the rest of Olivia Pope & Associates work to locate Marie. Liv subsequently puts Fitz on a time out at the White House. Given it's six days before the election, this is not the best timing for him to be sitting out the campaign. On top of that, some senator that Fitz was homeboys with died and Cyrus pushed him to do the eulogy given the dead senator was a favorite of the Latino community.
Huck found Marie's terrorist bae Dominic and he along with Rowan interrogated him. It took a while, but ultimately a game of Russian roulette convinced Dominic to call Marie on his cell. They wanted Marie on the phone long enough to track her location down. That didn't work because Marie was like, "Bye, Dominic. See you at the crossroads." Then Rowan shot him dead right in Olivia's office.
Olivia was mortified and then those two finally had a pow wow about her mother. Liv let her daddy know that while Marie and Dominic played the hell out of him by way of Marie marrying him for the sake of extracting information from him, the woman is a sociopath who doesn't love alone. Kind of like, "It's not you, dad, it's her. Mom's crazy, yo." Rowan countered that if there's any person Marie does love, it's Liv. Liv was like, "Nu uh, mama threatened to kill me." Rowan was like no-no, baby, if that crazy ass woman wanted you dead she would've cut you to the white meat already.
So once Fitz decided to go out and campaign because he was started to lose to Langston, Liv agreed to go down to Defiance, Ohio at the campaign rally. In their minds, they were stopping Marie from setting off the bomb. You know, since Marie would never blow up her baby girl. Marie showed up at Olivia's office, confronted Rowan and told her to bring her baby home. The end result was Olivia finding her daddy dying on the floor. That woman is the Beyoncé of fucking people up.
Thanks to Jake, we know that Marie's real plan is to blow Fitz up at the dead senator's funeral. He calls Cyrus, who decides to stall Fitz's arrival, but doesn't warn everyone else. Why? So Sally can die and burn in hell (read that in Samuel L. Jackson's voice, please). Oh, Cyrus. You're back to being an evil asshole. You're going to be alright, chap!
Okay, I feel like I'm running a marathon here because there's always way too much going on.
So, in a few lightning rounds:
This is disgusting, but I suppose dually meant to be. Still, let's quit it with the sci-fi freak themed sex scenes with these two weirdos.
I'll accept this...I guess.
Alright, on to the best part of this show: Mellie. Mellie was loose off that goose the entire episode and I loved it. Although it probably wasn't the nicest idea to expose your husband by way of a paternity scandal days before the election, Fitz is an asshole so he does need to burn. However, Liv swooped in after Rowan revealed the Langston campaign's plans to expose the news that Jerry isn't Fitz's kid -- prompting a confrontation with Mellie. Better luck next time, Mellie. Or better yet, you need to finally let Fitz know exactly what all happened to you and why you look at him like the repulsive, self-centered brat that he is.
Don't let me down on the finale next week, girl!
Written by Michael Arceneaux (@youngsinick)
