First of all this is a two-part episode. Why? I mean don’t all the episodes build on the previous one? Why give this one a distinction of being part one of two?
We start with Poppa Pope trying to blow Jake up. But Jake knows all the tricks. So in the war between Jake to see who gets killed first, Jake wins the first battle.
Olivia and Quinn get called in to extract the president’s daughter from a sex and drug party. She was filmed with two young men a position called the Eiffel Tower (girl bends from the waist to give one guy head while the other takes her from behind. They guys high five about her back, forming a crude Eiffel Tower of flesh.
Poppa Pope is pissed with Tom for fucking up the car bomb that was planted to kill Jake. Jake tries to ally with Tom to take Poppa Pope out. Poor Tom is fucked either way. How is he stuck in the middle of this duel to the death?
Abby flounders around in Olivia’s old job and is pissed that Olivia keeps getting called in to take care of business.
Mellie loses her shit when she sees Olivia in the White House. Fitz tries to keep Mellie in the dark about the sex tape, but it doesn’t take long for it all to come out. Fitz annihilates Mellie and by doing so seems to snap her out of her deep dark depression. This cause “Smellie Mellie” to trend on Twitter. At least long enough to comfort the little sex kitten .
The gladiators work to find out who the boys are in the video. The future porn star can’t seem to remember who they are even when given a line up but eventually the find the parents of the boy with the video. Quinn goes to rough up Bobby the guy that made the sex tape.
They call in the parents but they are assholes and want $2.5 million dollars from the president to keep things quiet. For some dumb reason Olivia goes along with this idea. Olivia delivers the line that Shonda clearly wrote in to take a stab at the real housewives and others, “She’ll be no better than a reality star, the lowest form of life.” Throw that shade, Shonda. Liv still thinks her mother is the one that killed Fitz’s son. She blames her for ruining her relationship with Fitz. Fitz and Olivia make out in the oval office. Fitz says he almost died without her. Then, Fitz found out that Liv was standing in the sun with Jake the whole time she was away. He’s devastated. He tells Olivia to pay off the asshole parents.
Jake damn near kills Rosen to get the B613 files. Rosen seems to be having a hard time sticking to his morals. He’s really not made for this kind of evil doing. Will he eventually break or move over to the darkside?
Olivia goes to meet with the parents for the pay off. They have raised their price to $3million. The mom calls Karen a dirty little sluts. Olivia finally gets pissed and takes their pictures which she plans to release to the media and the police because selling the tape amounts to child pornography. They freak out and turn over the tape for free. Why didn’t she just do that to start with?
An investigator informs Fitz of some issues with Tom. Specifically he seems to be the one that got the virus that killed the president’s son. Tom calls Jake and they make a plan to take Poppa Pope down. Tom tries to squeal on Poppa Pope but then he busts in to take over questioning at Fitz’s request. Tom tries to call for a lawyer and then for the president. All to no avail. Tom puts it all on Jake. Jake gets carted away. And so does Tom.
Next week: Liv tries to save Jake.
Damn you shonda rhimes! are you setting me up to cry a river over jake?
Poppa Pope knows all. He was super scary with Tom interrogating him on who gave the order to kill Fitz’s son, and with a straight face too! Poor Tom, I liked him but guess he’s a goner now. This is the second time this season we’ve seen Liv’s angry side. First it was throwing her college friend against the wall and now shredding those greedy uppity parents to keep quiet about the sex tape. Where is all of Liv’s anger coming from? I am still an olitz fan so really enjoyed their scenes. Oh my, eiffel tower sure is dirty. Jake, oh Jake, how you going to get out of this?
bye Jake. No more days of you choking Liv.
No, no, no, no do not kill Jake!! Dang Shonda, for goodness sake, let him live for at least half of this season. (UGH!!!!) Once again Eli-Ronan-Papa Pope double crosses everyone and gets what he wants in the end. I hope we will be introduced to lots of new characters because OPA has grown thin with all of the recent deaths. There is little staff left at OPA to fix the scandals on Scandal. I feel an empty void and miss the late Harrison and James, who each added to and enhanced the story lines. In the meantime, Abby is pissed off at Olivia while working in exile at the White House; Jake, Olivia’s right hand man, will most likely die in one of the next few episodes; and Olivia only has Huck and Quinn to rely upon at OPA. I am over the Charlie-HuckleberryQuinn love affair/mentor relationship tug of war. I definitely am not interested in seeing any combination of them as lovers again. YUCK!!
I am holding on to hope that the plots will get better. I could see the season possibly unfolding like this: Fitz will order Jake’s death, and then regret it once he realizes Eli was behind Jerry’s death and the bombing all along. Charlie will reappear after he kills Jake to compete for Quinn’s attention and to unhinge Huck. The agent who killed Jerry will go to jail where someone will kill him after he makes a videotaped confession about what really happened because he is willing to spill the tea to save himself. Huck’s past will have to become more prominent since Jake is no longer going to be there to help him with his work. We may finally get more details about his family and what happened when he went to see them. The cutthroat battle for the White House Chief of Staff position will heat up between Cyrus and Portia De Rossi’s character. Cyrus will turn to Olivia once Portia De Rossi tries to blackmail him with the evidence provided by Michael (Cyrus’ new paid plant paramour), which will lead to the moment that reunites Fitz and Olivia. Olivia’s return to the Fitz’s side will boil Mellie’s frozen territorial heart and make them rivals for Fitz’s attention once again. Mellie will not settle for being the elephant in the room that everyone must tip toe around for too long. There will be many significant plot twist involving Mrs. Grant as she grieves her son loss and finds her place again among the Washington power brokers.
Let’s not forget there is a Supreme Court seat to fill and David Rosen may play a pivotal role in that. Finally, Marie Wallace-Maya Pope is ready to escape the hole and assassinate Papa Pope at any moment, and I think this time she will succeed. First David, then Harrison, and now Jake. Good grief, Shonda Rhymes!! Make this work or I may have to get on a plane and find my own private island in the sun. To be continued…………
I wouldn’t count Jake out just yet!! I don’t know what miracle is gonna happen to save him, but I’m sure Shonda will come up with something. I also don’t believe Harrison’s dead. We didn’t see the actual killing or the body. There’s a reason Jake is investigating Harrison’s “death” and it justifies keeping Jake around longer so that he uncovers the truth. Maybe not this season, but I’m convinced it’s coming!
If you think we will see Columbus Short on the show again, you are quite mistaken. That is not going to happen.
Jake….poor Jake!!! I don’t want him to go but he has gotten himself in a clusterfuck that even Olivia can’t Pope him out of!!! I loved that Fitz gave Smelly Mellie that Reality Check and told her, “YOU HAVE BEEN A MOTHER TO NO ONE!” LMAOOOOOOOO! The look on her face was priceless!
I don’t think that “reality star” shade was directed at the Hoysewives at all!! I was thinking more like Kim Kardashian being that it’s a sextape being discussed here….no? Makes more sense to me but who knows …
Ha. Shonda was taking a direct stab at RHOA.
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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For the love of all things holy.. what happened when Huck went to visit his family? Urgghhh Scandal is loosing its appeal with me. I am glad that OPA is back but this Liv/Fitz storyline needs to die. Can Papa Pope please put Quinn in a hole? She really irks me. Can the Jake/Papa plot be resolved one way or the other? Can we please wrap up all of these last season issues and move forward? Yes, in my mind Shonda Rhimes reads your blog and will take my suggestions under consideration 🙂
I’m just not feeling it this season. Not making sure im home on Thursday night content with watching it later whenever i get around to. Previous seasons seemed better. The ending scene in i think the second showof this season with Syrus (sp?) making out withhis new love interest completely grossed me out sorry just how wen i feel
I’m still baffled by Jerry, didn’t Harrison pay someone to make it be Fitz’s son and not his half brother ??? Poor Liv, both parents are crazy! Can’t see how they can kill Jake, then what? I would love to see Liv and Fitz together but then there is no Scandal!