This was probably the best episode of the season! But almost everyone is more concerned with their personal life than their jobs.
Olivia is still torn between two lovers. Despite all the guts and gore and B613 torture she has seen, her nightmares are full of steamy sex with two interchangeable lovers. Poor dear. From my perspective, in that nightmare, Jake is the clear winner. Better in bed, and more importantly not married to either a woman or a country. Maybe she knows this. That would explain her plea to Fitz to let her see Jake. When she gets her visit with Jake he gives her access to an offshore account. The fact that his password is “Emily” makes me sort of waffle back toward Fitz. I mean couldn’t he add her birthdate or something? At least make it alphanumeric?
Olivia is off her fixer game. She gets played by a guy is on death row for trying to kill the president. She’s more interested in keeping Jake alive. She also needs to convince Fitz NOT TO TRUST HER EVIL FATHER. It seems all Poppa Pope has to do is kiss a little ass and the leader of the free world is putty in his hands! WTF Fitz? And all Olivia has to do is give him hope.
Cyrus is still clueless. But his paid lover, Michael, is not. He realizes he is under-charging everyone, especially Elizabeth. So he ups his rates. Abby is getting better at this whole Olivia Jr. thing and let’s Cyrus know it’s his “backdoor” that is the leak. Now Cyrus will probably use his lover to catch the bad guy, or girl in this case. Cyrus is good at using his lovers. 
Mellie once again steals the show. Bellamy Young has taken what was supposed to be very short role and overshadowed everyone on the show. She did get a taste of the own medicine though when Carol Locatell burst into the White House as Bitsy, a bereaved first lady who is anything but bereaved. Bitsy had nearly all the great lines last night starting with, “Oh please, my husband’s only religion was believing he had to screw anything with a pulse. But, since us bitches have gotta get throw this dog and pony show, I’m gonna need you to sit down shut up and follow my lead. Imma take the office, I’ll do the planning and you go crochet or vaccinate fat kids or whatever silly hobby makes you feel like you are making a difference, show up for the photo ops and I’ll have someone call you if I need you for anything else.”
Bitsy says the powers that be would never admit that a Tri-Delt from Tuscaloosa was actually running the White House, she will be remembered for telling idiots not to litter or the wife of a man who did something with his life. Mellie is getting quite the mentoring on this episode. I hope she keeps Bitsy’s number.
Mellie is back in full force and Bitsy has given her a road map. She shuts down Elizabeth on a plan to make Fitz squirm. Old Mellie is back and that’s great. But I might miss Smellie Mellie just a little. With the Mellie 2.0 up and running, will Andrew return to the scene? I think so. I love the scene with Mellie leaving the funeral with Bitsy and the impromptu speech to the press promising that there will be no base closings. It’s her first decision as POTUS! Bitsy’s approval by saying, ” I have a joint in my purse and it’s not going to smoke itself. Would you care to join me on the Truman balcony?” Priceless.
Huck is playing video games all the time because he is playing with his son! I somehow missed that the first time I watched. How long until he is luring him away somewhere. Be careful Huck! Also, while you are busy trying to reconnect with your kid, someone is stalking Olivia, the woman you have sworn to serve and protect.
Olivia always gets her way with Fitz. Daddy won’t like this.
Fitz: “You and I are ruined. We don’t have a chance now. Too much has happened.”
Olivia: “If you hand him over… if you give him to my father to be killed…you and I will never ever have any hope of EVER being together again,” Liv spits and hisses through a curled upper lip.
Fitz: “Are you saying there’s any hope now?”
Olivia: “I’m saying the man I know, the man I voted for the man who took the oath of office would never hand him…”
Fitz: (interrupting her diatribe with a soft repetition of the question) “Are you saying there’s hope?”
Then Fitz keeps screaming the question, “ARE YOU SAYING THERE’S HOPE?” While Olivia screams back “Don’t hand him over! Don’t Give Him to my Father!”
Fitz: Are you saying there’s hope?
Cue the music, the teary eyes the dramatic pause. And finally in a somewhat defeated utterance it comes….
Olivia: “There’s hope.”
He said that Emily was his sister’s name. The first ladies were definitely the stars of the show last nite. I loved it… I didn’t thin we would see the day that Cyrus got this sloppy
I’m aware he said Emily was his sister’s name. I watch the show twice and recapped it rewatching many parts. I then put my thoughts into the post above. I didn’t think who Emily was, was important. What I thought was important was why such a smart guy would have loads of money in an off shore account with a very easy to hack password.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Maybe because nobody knows he even has a sister? I don’t know, just a guess, a shot I the wind. He had to tell Olivia why it the password was Emily. Jake is and has always been a super private guy. We know nothing about him. But LAWDDD is he hot. Beaten up, maybe even more.
Then again the password could just be yet another example of the Scandal writers getting lazy, yet again, they do have their moments. As long as their lazy doesn’t affect my Mellie I’m all good!
This was the season’s best epi but I want powerhouse Live back, I’m tired of and so over whiny, crying Liv. She is so off her game and what happened to her “gut” but maybe the end reveals she’s on her way back. Even her client manipulated the heck out of her. Wow, that was some steamy dream!!!
Cyrus and Fitz got told by Abby who is part Gladiator again. Cyrus’s face when he realized lover man is the mole was priceless and I think we will see the old Cy next week. He realized he’s slacking. Guess Michael won’t be getting that big bonus he was expecting from Elizabeth for the military base closing and future top secret spy game leaks.
I still think Fitz wants to trust Rowan b/c last time none of them (Fitz, Liv, Huck, Jake, etc.) trusted Rowan and they all believed Mama Pope who was set free only to enjoy and participate in her rampant killing spree and the whole bloody world went to hell. I see Fitz as a man that was once torn by his loyalty to Jake, until Jake bedded Liv and then up and left town with her at Fitz’s lowest moment after losing his male child. I’m not sure but I like to think he wanted to believe Jake up until Tom and mastermind Rowan presented all the evidence against Jake. Fitz and Liv have hope.
As for Harrison have they let that whole who killed Harrison thing drop and why isn’t Liv concerned about it since Harrison was supposed to be one of her best buds? I don’t get what motive Jake would have supposedly had to kill Harrison. Loved that Huck was playing vids with his son…backend way to connect with him. Millie, Millie, Millie is finally back to reality and with a new career focus to be the great woman running the country behind the leader of the free world. She and Bitsy were a great treat to watch. Glad Quinn found the box but who in the world is tracking Liv with all those photos and why were people killed over them? Great opening with The Isley Brothers and great ending with Al Green.
I also wonder is the evidence proving Rowan’s involvement in Fitz’s son and Harrison’s murder is in Jake’s account along with money and who knows what else.
Last I checked my off shore accounts, they were full of money, not evidence of conspiracies. Do you people not have bank accounts? Can you keep DNA evidence or tacos or yours? Because mine only have money in them. Am I doing it wrong?
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Lol, wish I did have an offshore! A little slow and confused over here thinking bank deposit box with pics as evidence, etc. TT you always inspire me!
I have a safe deposit box in and old school bank (with a key I have & the bank has, the kind I open in a private room, an actual BOX) that can contain anything I want it to contain. An “offshore account” is a different story.
TT, what do you think Liv will find in Jake’s account and, will Cyrus kill off his paid piece when he finds out he’s a plant?
um, money? and yes.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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I see I’m not alone!
I find that Fitz’s ability to believe Papa Pope is so laughable and predictable.I think he knows damn well Jake didn’t do it. How would Jake have the time to kill Jerry and then kill Harrison and drive him thousands of miles away when by then he was already on a jet with Olivia. Wasn’t he also in the process of trying to prevent a bomb killing the VP and potential VP? So in the meanwhile he was planning a sneak attack? Why would Jake have Quinn posted up with the old B16 dude to get intel about the fact that HE was the one that killed Harrison? (Has Quinn not offered up this information?) Not to mention that Jake was found waiting for Fitz in the oval office with the same files that are being used against him. Does Fitz think Jake is that stupid to go to the White House to show him incriminating evidence against HIMSELF. Last but not least, Fitz knows that Jake had no reason to kill Jerry. What did Jake have to gain by killing him? B16? Fitz gave him that organization.. Olivia?? He was already sleeping in her bed and like he told Fitz, Olivia would never want him if he knew that he was capable of killing her married boyfriend’s son..
The only reason why Jake is in there in the first place because Fitz knows that Olivia loves her some Jake. So much so that she was willing to run away with him. Having him killed and/or locked up prevents him from his favorite brown sugar..
Great points all. But bear in mind Harrison’s life was in the balance between seasons right up to the point where the actor’s real life crimes cost Harrison is fictional life. Lots of rewrites happened. So how much of it is poor rewrites and how much of it can we attribute to what Fitz’s real thought process is?
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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I think mores to Fitz’s thought process. Harrison was on his way out anyway. You know Miss Rhimes doesn’t deal with the drama and he was definitely on the chopping block so I think she was planning his departure way back then. Him remaining alive would have caused a bigger “rewrite.” Otherwise the dead kid storyline would have been too easy to put on Papa Pope with a witness still around. Also, its another way to make the Fitz vs Jake struggle more dramatic. I mean her running away with Jake would have been too much like her moving on. Now Fitz has the ability to letting off some of his “you took my woman” aggression onto Jake. (Which I don’t think he would have otherwise been able to do so easily)
He knows Jake didn’t do the killing himself, but he could believe that Jake gave the order to Tom. Jake isn’t all that damn innocent; didn’t he kill James, threaten David and sleep with his friend’s mistress? Tamara, please forgive my pet peeve and wondering why people can’t get it right after all this time rant…the First Lady’s name is MELLIE!!
Next week’s preview shows Olivia asking Jake who GAVE HIM the order to kill the kid.
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Olivia is talking to Tom, not Jake. At first I thought it was Jake too. Olivia is trying to get the truth out of Tom. Again, Tom’s loyalties are more with Papa Pope than they are with Jake. Papa Pope was command for many years just because he was ousted from a position (which also feeds into the motive of him being behind it all) means that all of the power and mind control that he gained is just finished?
Let’s not forget the reason why James is dead was because he was protecting the “Republic.” James was going out the story about the VP killing her husband which would have caused the WH to crumble. As far as sleeping with Olivia, heck her daddy put him up to it and Fitz asked him to “keep an eye on her.” I think while watching her he developed actual feelings.
Lolz, so true: “I mean couldn’t he add her birthdate or something? At least make it alphanumeric?”
Definitely the best episode of the season, particularly the Bitsy and Mellie Show. I felt differently about Olivia’s relationship with Jake for the first time, really, in this episode — that it had credibility. Jake and Olivia’s relationship is now making the Fitz-Oliva drama more palatable.
Mellie had great line when she was leaving to funeral & FItz was nursing his hand in his jammies. She asked if she should have staff bring him some fried chicken
Favorite episode! The women had the power.
-Abby checked both the President and Cyrus.
-Mellie is back. I love how she found her new purpose and no longer grieving.
-Quinn is continuing to do the bulk of the work in the office and finds the pictures in the locker.
-Olivia is daddy’s girl. She played everyone: Abby, David, Fitz and her dad. Her last line was priceless.
Can’t wait to next week.
Bad Judge is canceled. Not sure if I should bother watching it now. :/
It’s not particularly great TV. The episodes are 22 minutes on demand. It’s sort of over the top the first episode, but gets better with each one. It’s fun, but it not particularly educational.
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Well if it is that fun I will download it when the season ends and binge watch it. With a glass of port in one hand maybe a taco in the other.
It’s moderately fun. Easy don’t expect much it’s okay to get up for a snack while it is running fun.
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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So like that Selfie show? I can write a lot of emails and ‘watch’ that at the same time.
Yes. I’ve only seen like one episode of Selfie, but it’s probably funnier.
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Oh Dear… No HTGAWM ?
I haven’t had a chance to rewatch. hopefully soon.
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Glad that Mellie has gotten her groove back.
I think next week’s episode Olivia is asking Tom who game him the order to kill the president’s son, not Jake.
YES!!!!!! Best Episode of the season! Absolutely loved it.
Mellie. Bitsy. I rolled when she said she had the joint.
Can Olivia trust her gut to tell her that Tom will be truthful in his answer?
*what the heck happened to cyrus’s kid*
He probably sold the kid into slavery.
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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TT why was I reading this last exchange between Fitz and Liv all drama for my co-workers?!?!?!? I love your recaps….and can one of you call Lov and tell her to get her ish together and do some actual “fix it” work!!!!
ha! Thanks.
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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