The Devil Came In: The Scandal Winter Finale Recap

Rowan’s Read

Things got pretty intense in that interrogation room. Fitz kept asking Rowan questions and Rowan kept coolly responding “It’s above your pay grade Mr. President.” And I think the check to his authority Fitz got mad disrespectful. He told Rowan how he sleeps with his daughter every chance he gets, how he could describe the way she tastes etc. He said it obviously to get a reaction from Rowan. But all of that backfired in a major way. Instead of crumpling at the thought of his daughter spreading her legs for the president, Rowan checks the president in what has to go down as one of the most powerful monologues in “Scandal” and television history. Some one called it a read on white, male privilege. That’s accurate. He said a mouthful but I’ll include some of the best lines from the diatribe here.

When Fitz says he loves Olivia: 

“You love that she is a door marked exit.”

When Fitz tells Rowan he doesn’t know anything about him.

“You are always going to be Senator Grant’s disappointing boy Fitz.”

And finally and most brilliantly:

“Don’t use the person that I made to make you into a man. You are a boy. “

Whew Jesus that was a read like no other.