Scandal: Episode 2 Recap 10.1.15

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scandal recapLast week bible thumping Sallie let the cat out of the bag about Fitz and Olivia on national television. While everyone scurries to find out how the pictures proving that the POTUS is having an affair, Olivia bolts and jumps ship right in the thick of it all. It is clear that the leak came from the inside of the White House. In normal Olivia fashion, she ignores the problem and directs her attention to her work life. The White House refuses to confirm nor deny the affair while trying to keep the hungry media away.

Millie pops up early the following day still trying to strike a deal with Fitz to find a way back into the White House. It turns from her making demands to Fitz calling her bluff refusing to take the divorce papers off of the table with Millie quivering for a renewed alliance by the end of their conversation. Fitz is a bad boy. He really is not budging on the matter of her going along the divorce or taking her power hungry behind right on to federal prison for treason.

Jake reintroduces Huck when the team is on the cusp of beginning a new case. Quinn almost crapped her pants because she is still disgusted the Huck was the person to slaughter everyone on the bus last season. He reassures her that he has been “fixed” by Jake. Olivia leaves town to hunt down the person of focus of the case her team has begun to work on. It’s a distraction from the circus that has been created around her hot affair with Fitz.

Olivia calls Jake in to get the son, Gavin, of the dead man’s case they are working. The stepmom, Stephanie, points the blame at her stepson but he exposes the fact that she had been cheating his late father for 5 years. After having researched the stepmom’s background they know that the prenup she signed made it clear that if she ever cheated she wouldn’t get anything. The stepson is confident that they will find evidence of her affair which gives her reason to be the one to push his dad down the stairs.

Quinn is taking a huge chance poking the bear that resides in Huck. There were a few times that I swore he was going to pluck her eyelashes from her face. Abby takes the advice of Cyrus to take the reigns of the scandal at hand and create change. She does just that during a press conference telling the press that the Millie still lives in the White House. Abby nearly loses her job and gets her ass handed to her after basically lying through her teeth.

The Vice-President, Susan, gives the real to Fitz reminding him that he is not a normal person and doesn’t get to be a flawed person because thats not the job he signed up. Olivia was swallowed up by a crowd of people who recognized her. Jake swooped in and saved the day but Gavin lifted the keys to the rental from her purse to be able to disappear. Quinn brings Olivia up to speed that Gavin was indeed being written out of his dad’s will and had been forging his dads signature on checks refocusing the guilty spotlight back on him.

Olivia actually got on my nerves with this heart to heart camp fire style cuddle session she had with Jake. David does discover that the leak came from inside of Millie’s offices but not directly from her. Abby reminds Fitz that after seeing the pictures of Olivia and Jake in the media storm that she will always do whats best for her. After mulling over the truth of what Abby brought to his attention, he calls Millie to apologize and to come home. David hands over the proof telling the truth as to who leaked the photos of Fitz and Olivia. It was the White House Chief of Staff, Elizabeth, that leaked the photos. She used to work for Millie and knew her key code to set her up.

Gavin is finally found and fesses up as to why he pushed his late father down the stairs. He did it because his dad always teased him. How childish, right? So Fitz brings Millie back into the White House and they prepare for their first sit down with a reporter to deny the affair. Fitz leaves Olivia a message filling her in about his plans to deny it all because he loves her too much to make her sacrifice her life for him. Once Olivia arrives back home she is met with microphones being placed in her face asking those burning questions of there being truth to her being the President’s mistress. She answers, “Yes.”

It will be interesting to see how it play out next week the White House denying it and Olivia confirming it.

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