The Scandal YOLO Episode. If I had to guess, YOLO is exactly what the writers say to each other before the come up with the next plot twist to have us sitting our couches mouths agape with shock and confusion. Let’s jump in and dissect those moments from last night.
Don’t Mess with Huck
Man, Huck is more gully than I ever imagined. I seriously thought he was just going to pretend to torture Quinn. I expected him to bust out laughing when he licked the side of her face but he was not playing any games. He had her all bound and gagged up and left her like that for hours. Fortunately, he didn’t get too far into the game. He stopped at ripping her teeth out, which, as Charlie explained, is relatively tame. Initially, I couldn’t understand why he was doing this. I thought he really liked Quinn. But later it all made sense. It does like Quinn but his loyalty to Olivia allowed him to give her the business.
Sally Converts
Though Sally would like her constituents to believe that she’s a Holy Roller, when it comes down to it, she’ll sell her soul if it meant a seat in the White House. I mean that literally. When her advisor flips the script on her and asks her to choose God or politics, she hesitates for all of a second before serving her new master. Sally is only righteous when she’s casting judgment on other people. As someone mentioned on Twitter last night, there was a “word” in that scene.
Jake Checks The President
I haven’t liked Fitz for a minute but last night he was particularly annoying. So I was very ready for the moment Jake walked into the Oval, suited and booted, ready to let the president know the real deal. Apparently, aside from the fact that they’ve both slept with Olivia, there is years of tension that exists between these two. But perhaps Fitz was too self absorbed to notice it. So Jake broke it down for him. The whole thing is in the video below but in case you can’t watch, here’s what he said when the president asked him what was his problem.
“Remington is my problem. Just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, doing my duties, serving my country, I get sucked into the wake of your political destiny and end up enslaved to B613, to Rowan for the past 22 years. Meanwhile, you shake a few hands, you say a few words, you become governor and then president. You didn’t have my back on that mission. You still don’t.”
He tells the president to get off his butt and do something about Rowan and B613. Fitz says it’s not time yet. As Jake is walking out, Fitz tells him he’s not interested in being a hero but interested in being Olivia’s hero, to which Jake responds “Must be nice letting other people fight your battles.”
Weeeellll… until Jake said that I never noticed that Fitz really doesn’t do much on his own. Everything is delegated to someone else or someone else is always cleaning up the mess he’s created.
I did notice that Jake said the president didn’t have his back during the mission so it’ll be interesting to get their full backstory and find out what he meant by that.
//www.youtube.com/v/nGKwZqIELAc?hl=en_US&version=3
The Betrayal
When James hints that he’s going to be home alone with Daniel Douglas, Cyrus makes sure he runs home from work so Daniel and James don’t get a chance to have sex again. He walks in the room to find James typing away on his computer. He tells him he knows that he slept with Daniel. And that’s when James goes off. He knows that Cyrus sent him over there like a prostitute… a cheap one. And he asks for a divorce. What was particularly poignant about that scene was the moment James told Cyrus he was extra foul for being a gay man trying to sneakily “out” another gay man for political gain. Of course this is terrible, especially since Cyrus lived this lie himself not too long ago; but if he was willing to kill James, the man he loves, anything else is small potatoes.
Cyrus and Mellie Finally Understand Each Other
Remember how much trash Cyrus talked to Mellie before he sent his husband over to seduce another man? He was surely on some “my husband is not your husband” type mess. Well, that’s not entirely true now. And for the first time Cyrus understood how Mellie feels living with a man who has been consistently sleeping with someone else. She tells him, he’ll be able to make it. He’ll just go numb and get used to it. If I were naïve, I’d say that now Cyrus will be more sympathetic to Mellie… but I highly doubt it.
Poor Quinn
Last night was the first time I’ve felt sorry for Quinn in months. Sure she brought all of this upon herself but I really sympathized with her when she said “Huck was the only person I had and he hurt me. And now I don’t have anybody.” That’s real.
Quarlie
But shortly after Quinn’s break, Charlie comforts her with the D the suggestion that he’s here for her now. Though they couldn’t kiss 20 seconds earlier, they devour each other’s faces before having sex. Little does Charlie know, this is all a setup. Quinn is there to get more information for Huck. Charlie really should know better. He knows Huck is not going to just let someone go just because he felt sorry for them all of a sudden. She’s obviously still of some use to him.
Mama Pope is the monster
How beautiful is it that Olivia takes her mother on as a client? She and her associates work diligently to get her out of the country without having her discovered by the B613 members. She puts her on a flight to Hong Kong, equipped with a gun and cell phone and gives her a hug all before realizing her mother is the real terrorist and her father has been trying to protect Olivia and the country from her for decades. Honestly, I assumed as much from the way she ate through her own damn arm and took that doctor out. A civilian just isn’t equipped with those type of skills. And now, Daddy Pope’s comment about not liking to kill makes a whole lot more sense. But in all fairness, neither one of Olivia’s parents are exactly angels.
I’ve Committed a Sin
There’s really not too much more to say about this. Sally is more off her rocker than we thought. I can’t understand why she would kill her husband when she knew the man was gay long ago. It didn’t take all that. It’ll be interesting to see if this crazy lady still attempts to run for the white house. LOL! She waited until she got that close to start slipping. And am I the only one who found it funny that the first person she called was Cyrus?! Shame on it all.
