(BOTH LAUGHING)
Mr. Bainbridge...
Please. I am not Mr. Bainbridge. Not to you.
- Call me Damascus. - Damascus.
It's so lovely of you to take time
out of your busy schedule to sit down with me.
No. No. No. It's lovely of you to sit with me.
I am so happy to be here with you, in person. I am a fan.
You are by far the most interesting
- First Lady we have ever had. - (CHUCKLES)
You have set quite an example for my daughter, I can tell you that.
And now, Senator Mellie Grant?
Well, what is a billionaire to do?
(LAUGHS)
Now, I do not want to take up your whole day.
I do want you to know that I have and will continue
- to support your campaign unreservedly. - (SIGHS)
There are just a few causes that are important to me
- that I hope... - Yeah.
...will also be important to you.
Perhaps we can take a few minutes to discuss them?
Absolutely. That is what I'm here for, Damascus.
Ah. Mmm.
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Does it interest you?
It does.
Liz,
can you go get us the White House literature
on poverty and childhood hunger?
Both the studies and the statistics for the nation and for the state of Virginia.
ELIZABETH: Did you want those right now?
Perhaps I could send that data to Mr. Bainbridge.
- Because that will take... - MELLIE: Now.
Thanks.
- Of course. - Mmm.
(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)
What is this?
Just a bunch of memorabilia I've collected
over the years about you and your husband.
Those are photos of you and Vice President Nichols
doing things you shouldn't be doing. Turn the page.
And there is your husband's Remington file.
He's doing things he shouldn't be doing too.
Who are you?
You do not ask me who I am, Mrs. Grant.
You don't ever ask me who I am.
Where did you get these?
That is also the wrong question.
There is only one question you ask me.
You ask me what I need.
(CUP CLATTERING)
(MELLIE INHALES SHARPLY)
Let me take that for you.
You need a fresh cup.
There's so much more that I could show you.
The two of you are quite busy.
You'll go down. Your husband will go down.
It will be a bloodbath.
Now, ask me what I need.
(SCOFFS)
I am the First Lady of the United States.
That's not going to work on me. So don't bother. Ask me what I need.
I do not like blood stains on my suit,
but I'll suffer them all just for you.
Ask me.
(GASPS)
What do you need?
- A list. - A list?
- A list of names. - What names?
Ah, that is where things become so very interesting for everyone.
First Lady, Mellie Grant, wowed crowds of supporters
with a barnburner of a speech here last night.
That speech, which went viral almost immediately,
handed the Lady a four-point boost putting her neck-and-neck
with democratic opponent Shane Jackson.
It's becoming a very real possibility that history will be made on election day.
The nation could have its first Senator First Lady.
Dan Danzig, live from downtown Springfield.
Back to you, Tanner.
ELIZABETH: We've got radio spots in 20 with local affiliates,
then the, uh, literacy event at the Turner Library in Manassas.
And then you have dinner tonight with the mayor of Newport News.
Um, both of you.
Whatever Mellie needs.
What's nice is that you don't have to do much.
The media loves Mellie. She was on every channel this morning.
It's like you were born for this.
You have truly hit your stride. I can't get that kind of attention.
Look, she can be the wife of someone powerful
and she can be powerful too. How can that be?
Good heavens, it's the apocalypse. Film at 11:00.
- I'm tired. - FITZ: No, it's candidate fever.
We all get it.
You are so close.
Which is good, because you can smell the victory.
And bad because it's out of your hands.
You feel like climbing the walls.
Fitz...
You are doing great.
- (SIGHS) - She's doing great, isn't she?
Polls are good. She's got broad appeal and she's drawing in donors.
There was a big fish last night.
If she wins this election
and becomes a money-maker for the RNC,
they will carry her to the Oval Office on the wings of doves.
FITZ: See that?
This is it, Mel. This is your moment.
(KISSES)
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
Ma'am, is...
Is there something I can do for you?
Uh, anything you need?
There is something you can do for me.
I need you to get me a list.
- DAVID: State your name for the record. - Uh, Jake Ballard.
- Is that your given name? - No.
Can you state your given name, please, for the record?
FITZ: We're in this together. OLIVIA: We're in this together.
How did you first meet Command?
JAKE: I was in West Lafayette, Indiana.
- I was 19. Just passed my PST. - DAVID: PST?
Physical Screening Test to be a Navy Seal.
Seventy push-ups in 70 seconds, stuff like that.
(INAUDIBLE)
So Command approached you after you passed this test?
JAKE: No, he approached me after I set a new record.
Command does not accept passing grades.
So Command recruited you. He asked you to join B-613.
No, he asked me to join a mission.
FITZ: Do you think I'll make a good President?
I think you'll make a great President.
(DOOR OPENS)
- Well? - JAKE: I think it went okay.
Okay? It went great. He was great.
- I was nervous. - Yeah.
The jurors loved him. They were sympathetic, engaged.
Connected. Keep it up after the lunch break and we're good.
That's the money session.
When he testifies about Remington.
Rosen, maybe we hold Remington. Only use it when we really need it.
We really need it now. There's never a time we don't need it.
Okay, so maybe I reframe Remington
to minimize the blowback on the White House. On Fitz.
No. No, no reframing, no minimizing.
Look, if the point is Remington,
- and if it's our big gun, I don't see why... - No, you don't see and you should.
Remington is a point,
but Remington is not the point without the President.
Remington, the President shooting down that plane, that whole mission?
It's not spies killing spies.
It's not some dictator being murdered or disappearing some bad guy.
It was the taking of 329 innocent lives by a future world leader.
It was the covering up of that atrocity by a United States senator
so that his son could be governor and then president.
It was kingmaking at the highest level.
And it was the birth of B-613,
an illegal domestic spy organization
whose sole purpose was to work outside of the bounds
of the United States Constitution.
It's not the big gun. It's the only gun worth firing.
I'll do whatever you want me to do.
We have one goal.
To bring down my father and to shut down B-613 for good.
To do what is right.
So you tell the truth. The whole truth.
No matter what happens. No matter who gets hurt.
I can't do lies. My whole life is lies my father told me.
We should grab lunch before the jurors get back.
- Coming? - Go eat. I'm fine.
Can you imagine a world without B-613 in it?
Where your life is normal?
Our life is normal?
- I need to go. - No! Stay a little longer.
I need to be there for Liv.
I'll be back. Okay?
When it's all over, I'll be back.
And life will be normal.
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
(BEEPS)
Liv?
- Hey. - FITZ: Hey.
I caught Mellie's Springfield speech.
I think she's actually going to win this thing.
You must be feeling good.
I am feeling good.
Senator Mellie Grant.
Guess where I'm headed right now.
Where?
To stand with Clarence Parker
on the spot where they gunned down his son
and sign the Brandon Bill into law.
I forgot that was today.
Not bad as far as legacies go, right?
The historians will give you full marks for this one.
Clarence Parker...
If it weren't for you, that man would never have made it into the Oval Office.
You did that.
And Susan Ross.
If it weren't for you, Susan would never have made it to the Oval Office.
I blame you for Susan, by the way.
(CHUCKLES) Susan is a national treasure.
- Susan's a muppet. - (CHUCKLES)
- She's amazing. - I agree.
- She terrifies Cyrus. He runs from her. - (LAUGHS)
He literally runs in the other direction when he sees her.
No, seriously. You picked a good one.
You always do.
What's wrong?
(SNIFFLES)
- Nothing, but I have to go now, so... - Liv.
You don't call me unless there's something wrong these days,
so what's wrong?
I just wanted to say hello.
(CHUCKLES)
And good luck with Mellie's election.
And congratulations on the Brandon Bill. That's...
That is the man I voted for.
I'm proud of you.
Liv...
I know we're not...
But I want you to know... I'm grateful.
(OLIVIA EXHALES)
For everything.
Thank you.
Goodbye, Fitz.
(BEEPS)
(PANTING) Liv, something happened.
- (SIRENS WAILING) - (INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
Liv!
Olivia.
(RETCHING)
REPORTER: The victims, 16 passengers and the driver of their bus,
were jurors in a...
That list of names...
- It was those jurors. They're all dead. - Stop talking!
REPORTER: ... 16 grand jurors murdered.
Seventeen people...
I took a lot of questions on this at the morning briefing...
- Kick 'em over to Justice. - I would,
but no one doing press at Justice
seems to know what the hell this is about.
I've got reporters Woodward and Bernsteining all over me.
It's gross. We need to put out a statement.
Saying what, exactly? We don't know anything.
- Not our problem. - Saying that
the President of the United States expresses his deep sorrow
over this terrible loss of human life,
and that a full federal investigation is underway.
Is there a full federal investigation underway?
- I don't know, but shouldn't there be? - Absolutely.
If there isn't, we need to make one happen.
Abby, put out your statement. Cy...
Rosen's running the Justice Department.
I want him to explain to me what this grand jury was meeting about.
Very good, sir.
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
My parting gift to all of you.
- Enjoy. - OLIVIA: David.
I'm the Attorney General of the United States of America.
I marshal the forces of justice
in the most powerful democratic country on the face of the Earth.
My Justice Department is equipped to do everything in its power
to protect federal grand jurors, take every precaution,
follow every protocol, and we did.
We did everything right to keep them safe, secure,
and they're all dead.
It doesn't mean we quit. We don't quit.
We fight harder.
We get those jurors justice. We avenge their deaths.
Normally, I'd be all, "White hat, whoo-hoo!"
But I got a phone call an hour ago.
The court stenographer, Fay, that's her name, Fay.
She knits hideous scarves that I have to wear
so I don't hurt her feelings.
Fay was killed by a hit-and-run driver while walking her dog.
Except she doesn't have a dog.
Everyone who heard Jake's testimony, everyone who was in that courtroom,
is dead now.
Except for me.
And you.
And while I live for justice,
I don't want to die for it.
- Okay? - Okay.
What? Not okay. Not okay, Liv.
We don't need him.
Um, he's the Attorney General.
He's the one that hands out the indictments.
We kind of need him.
We don't need him!
He wants out? He's out. He wants to quit? Let him.
We do not need him. We can do this without him.
- What are we doing? - I don't know.
Rowan killed 17 people. We prove he's behind that...
Maybe we get him for murder.
It's B-613. The chances of finding proof...
QUINN: What? You got a better idea?
I didn't think so.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
I didn't think you'd get far without these.
I'm so angry that I'm vibrating. I can feel it in my bones.
- Okay... - No. No, don't hug me.
I'm sick of being comforted.
I'm sick of fighting and losing.
I'm sick of him being in my way.
I am not his victim, I am not his child.
And right now? Right now, I don't want to gladiate for everyone else.
I want this.
I want this. This is mine, Jake.
I want what's mine. I'm owed. And watch me take it!
And then, for once in his life, he's the scared kid and I'm Command.
And then he's got nothing, no one.
He's trapped. Because you can't take Command, right?
Right.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
You wanna get out of here, just say the word.
Any part of the globe is yours. I go where you go.
It doesn't matter where I go or what I do.
I'm still trapped. I'm still his prisoner.
You okay?
I have to go.
You've got a visitor.
Hi, Mom.
You're blocking my view.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
I told you not to speak to me. Not now.
I just want to make sure that you know
if there is anything you need me to do...
I need you to keep your mouth shut. Can you do that?
- Yes, ma'am. - Then start now.
- Cyrus... - Whatever it is, Fitz can't do it.
He has a full schedule. Your campaign is not the only thing...
You, get me the media director, what's his name, Boggs,
from Justice in here.
If Rosen isn't going to return my phone calls,
I'm putting Boggs on the podium,
he can damn well face the press himself.
- Rosen's not returning your calls? - Not the point!
Cyrus...
- He has a full schedule. - Cyrus...
Take the VP. Susan's from Virginia.
Keep her as long as you like.
I killed those grand jurors.
Is that everything? Is there more?
That's everything.
(SIGHS)
Say something, Cyrus.
Oh.
Are you waiting for me to tell you what to do?
How to fix this? 'Cause I got nothing.
I'm not in this. I'm not.
All I did was pass along a few names.
I had no idea what any of it was about and I still don't.
You told me you are personally responsible
for an actual busload of innocent people dying.
(CHUCKLES) My God. Virginia's in for a real treat,
should you actually get elected.
- Cyrus... - I'd say that's a long shot now.
Especially if this ever leads back to you.
This cannot lead back to me.
You! You! You!
It's always that, ain't it, Mel?
- You think I did this for me? - (LAUGHS)
Here we go.
I did this for us.
Fitz, you, the entire administration.
Oh, that's right, I forgot you and Fitz are a team.
I did this for all of us.
Well, where's your teammate now?
Are you gonna tell your teammate
you've added slaughter to your résumé?
What was I supposed to do?
You tell me, what was I supposed to do?
That man was standing there with our lives in a file.
Me and Andrew. Fitz and Liv. He had pictures.
He knew about Defiance. He knew what we did to Sally's husband.
He knew about some secret mission
Fitz was involved with called Remington.
- Remington? - Yeah.
You're sure he said Remington?
If you had seen what was in that file, Cyrus...
- I'll take care of it. - (SIGHS) What?
I'll take care of it.
- You... You will? - Yes, I will.
I'll see to it that everything's going to be all right.
Okay?
Shh.
Don't tell Fitz.
Well, well. They did a number on you, didn't they?
They did.
You got that I've-been-in-the-hole look all on your face.
I'm here to talk about my father.
Oh, for the love of...
All right.
Go on.
Mama's listening.
I tried everything. Every strategy. Every tactic.
Dedicated every fiber of my being to destroying him.
I went over the plans 1,000 times.
You need to get out more.
And I still wasn't able to do what you did.
- What I did? - You played him.
You controlled him. You took down that plane and escaped.
You beat him, you won.
Boo, I'm living out the rest of my days in this cell.
You call that winning?
You could have killed him if you wanted to.
So,
I want to know.
How'd you do it?
You sure do love a problem.
What?
That's what you do for living, right?
Fix problems?
- I don't know what... - (LAUGHS) You're so vain.
It's always about you, isn't it?
The problems you create so that you can solve them.
The power you have to wield
so that you can feel important.
Did your father and I not tell you
you were special enough when you were little?
Did we not give you enough hugs?
Aw, baby.
Is that why you think you have to win all the time?
Why can't you seem to drop anything and just let it be?
I told Eli that we should have had more kids,
given you a brother or a sister.
Someone your own age who could have put you in your place
from time to time or at least given you some damn attention.
Maybe then you would have realized
this uppity-fantasy world
you've decided to be a part of,
it's not real, boo.
Now, you need to come on back down to this planet,
where the world doesn't revolve around you.
I shouldn't have come.
You ever ask yourself why nobody else is trying to take down your father?
- Thank you for your time. - It's not for lack of enemies, baby.
There are more than enough people around to hate that man.
OLIVIA: Goodbye, Mom.
If only those people realize
there was actually someone to hate.
Nobody even knows there is an enemy to be taken down.
Nobody even knows he exists.
Ah, hell...
I missed the beginning.
- Is that all of them? - Yeah.
And the originals from Kim.
JAKE: You want to tell us what's going on?
HUCK: We shouldn't be here.
- I have a plan. - Yeah, I figured that.
- This is the CIA, Liv. - I'm aware of that.
- It's crawling with B-613 agents. - Huck.
JAKE: He's right, Liv. When I was Command,
I was in regular contact with several sources here.
But not the director herself.
I don't understand. Are you saying...
I'm saying, what if the director found out there was a rogue element
operating under her nose without her knowledge or approval?
The reason my father is able to act with impunity
is that so many of the people whose authority he undermines
have no idea he exists.
Why not tell them?
LOWRY: A top-secret spy organization operating outside of my jurisdiction.
- And it is run by your father. - Yes.
(CHUCKLES) Forgive me for smiling, Ms. Pope,
but that may be one of the most preposterous things I have ever heard.
2011, uprising in Yemen.
Assassination of the president.
A band of militant students.
That was me.
OLIVIA: Bombing at the Sheffield Hotel in London.
(SCOFFS) An al-Qaeda offshoot.
B-613. Remember Senator Cromwell?
Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee?
His plane crashed into the Rockies.
After 2 pounds of C-4 blew the cockpit wide open.
Libyan revolution.
School shooting in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Distraction for the media while B-613
blew up the presidential palace in Kenya.
B-613 is real.
- Olivia... - OLIVIA: It's real.
And I think from that look in your eye, you already knew that.
So the question I have for you now,
is what are we going to do about it?
(INTERCOM BEEPS)
Marvin, I'm going to need my team assembled.
Code Bravo Alpha Five.
Stay here. This may take a while.
- CYRUS: Damascus Bainbridge? - (LAUGHS)
Am I not allowed a sense of humor?
If it were up to me, you wouldn't be up allowed much of anything.
And besides,
I didn't think it was funny. You're never funny.
Cyrus, don't bite the hand that helps you.
Helps us?
You call that stunt you pulled with the First Lady help?
A few days ago, I did you the favor of a lifetime,
extinguishing the scandal that would have engulfed this nation
in flames.
That grand jury's sole purpose was to expose my organization
and everyone with ties to it.
Including the President. Including you.
Favor number one.
I didn't kill your Attorney General as an added personal favor to you.
Plus, I know that confirmation hearings can be laborious.
Favor number two.
Did your parents not teach you any manners?
Cyrus, I think the words that you're looking for are "thank you."
CYRUS: Come on, Damascus.
You saved your own hide as much as you saved ours.
Be that as it may, they were favors. And now you owe me.
Mrs. Grant?
(SIGHS)
What?
I just wanted you to know...
- (SIGHS) - What is it, Elizabeth?
That if there's anything I can do for you, I'll do it.
I mean it, anything.
I'm fine with giving you those names. I'm fine...
I'm fine with what happened to those people.
If it means you're going to win, I'm fine with it.
Because I stand behind my candidate no matter what,
and I'll protect you no matter what.
But you need to tell me everything, Mrs. Grant.
You need to tell me exactly what happened with Mr. Bainbridge.
So I can do my job.
And make sure you win.
(SIGHS)
Sit.
(DOOR OPENS)
Why aren't you answering Cyrus' calls?
'Cause I don't want to talk to him.
Funny, but you're going to have to, and if not to Cyrus then to me.
The press is killing me out there, David.
They've got a million valid questions, and I don't have a single answer.
The grand jury, whatever it's for, I can spin what needs spinning,
but the White House has a right to know.
See, that's the thing. The White House can never know.
That's why all those people died, so the White House would never know,
so that no one would ever know.
We were going to bring it all into the light,
tell America the truth,
but it turns out the truth doesn't always want to be told.
Those files... It was those files, wasn't it?
David...
Tell me what's going on?
Pour you a drink. Tell you a story.
Is this why Olivia Pope was being auctioned off?
Is this why you wanted her killed? Because of what she knows?
She knows fairy tales told to her at bedtime
by bogeymen who don't exist.
Don't play games with me, Cyrus.
We all knew about B-613,
but it was supposed to be a small team.
Four or five men. Kills only. This?
This is an enormous secret intelligence organization
operating behind the CIA's back.
For who knows how long!
About 30-ish years. If it did exist. Which it doesn't.
Well, it stops now.
I'm having this Rowan arrested, brought in and brought down.
I won't have it.
Honey. I'm gonna call you honey
because I can't remember your first name and I don't care.
Honey, you wanna be reasonable about this.
Because a shadow intelligence organization
operating quite happily and powerfully in secret
for decades inside the FBI, CIA, NSA,
if there was such a thing, well, that would be like a sleeping lion.
And isn't it safer
to tiptoe around the lion?
What do you think happens if you poke the lion?
Whose face does the lion rip off first?
I think it rips off Honey's face first.
B-613 doesn't exist.
Never has, never will.
What's going on?
Hey! What is happening?
- Director Lowry, what is happening? - Are you arresting us?
What is happening?
Okay.
"We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union,
- "establish justice..." - Captain Jake Ballard,
Naval Service number 4...
- "...for the common defense..." - Captain Jake Ballard, Naval Service...
- Jake Ballard... - Sixth Amendment!
...45228... - "Liberty to ourselves
"and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution."
What's the charge?
JAKE: Captain Jake Ballard...
OLIVIA: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused enjoy the right to have
"the assistance of counsel for his defense!"
JAKE: Jake Ballard, naval service, 45228...
OLIVIA: What's the charge?
And now we turn to First Lady Mellie Grant's historic bid
to become the next United States Senator from Virginia.
A BNC poll shows Grant and Shane Jackson locked in a virtual tie
as voters head to the polls tomorrow.
The White House is experiencing a rise as well
as a tweeted photo of the President and Vice President
in line at a market buying food for campaign volunteers has gone viral.
FITZ: I want to thank you all for coming here tonight,
to spend Election Day Eve with Mellie and me.
Your support has been invaluable, and we couldn't be more grateful.
- Hear, hear. - (LAUGHING)
Mostly, though, I'd like to thank my wife.
When you've been married to someone as long as I've been married to Mellie,
you think you know them,
and maybe, if you're as flawed a person as I am,
you start taking them for granted.
Never again.
This past year has been a complete revelation to me.
Mellie's desire to take a more active role in public service,
the drive she's shown, her leadership skills,
her ability to inspire people, breathtaking.
Though not nearly as breathtaking as the way she was able
to put the pieces of our lives back together
after our son Jerry died.
Losing a child?
Most people never recover from that.
It destroys families, upends marriages.
Not ours.
Mellie rose from the ashes of that tragedy
and brought me along with her.
I never thought I would smile again,
let alone find the will to lead.
And yet, here we are.
Me, presiding over a second term I couldn't be more proud of.
She...
On the brink of becoming a United States Senator.
(CHUCKLES)
Her love, her friendship,
means everything to me.
As a team, we've never been stronger.
So, please join me in raising a glass to my best friend
and Virginia's next senator...
- (CHUCKLES) ...Mellie Grant.
I am not worthy of you.
(SIGHS)
To Mellie!
ALL: To Mellie!
Thank you all. And thank you, Fitz.
The best husband and partner a gal could ever have.
Mmm. (LAUGHS)
(SIGHS)
(LAUGHS)
- Is everything okay? - He insisted.
Who?
ELl: Mrs. Grant. Damascus Bainbridge.
Why are you calling me?
To congratulate you.
The election isn't until tomorrow.
(SCOFFS) You've already won.
Giving me those names, you saved your husband's career
and kept yours alive, and I think you will win tomorrow.
I'm... I'm pretty good at picking these things.
I don't want to speak to you again.
That's not a choice you get to have.
We're a team now. We work together now, partners.
I can help you achieve your goals, Senator, President,
and you can help me with mine, but that's for the future.
Let's enjoy the work we've already done these past few days.
Congratulations, Mrs. Grant.
(INAUDIBLE)
QUINN: Abby. ABBY: What?
- It's Quinn. - Okay, what?
Listen, long story, but Olivia went to the CIA with the B-613 files.
- What? - Yeah.
We haven't heard from her since. Can you try to track her down?
- Quinn... - How the hell did you get in here?
- Hey! - Okay, gotta go.
- (BEEPS) - Listen, here's the deal.
We can beat the crap out of you, tie you up, scare you so bad
you won't tell anyone you saw us, but you know what?
There's been too much violence in my life lately.
I don't want to deal with that. So, how about this?
Here's $134. Why don't you just take this,
go hang out in the break room for 20 minutes.
We'll be gone by the time you get back.
Look, I don't know who the hell you people are, but I'm calling security.
So if I were you, I'd get the hell out of here.
Hey, buddy? We just told you
what was going to happen if you didn't take the money.
So, why didn't you take the money, hmm?
(GRUNTS)
Are these the jurors?
Ah... They're all sewn up. If the killer left anything behind, it's long gone by now.
- Yeah, let me see. - HUCK: I already checked those.
So, uh, maybe you could do me a solid.
I'm thinking of moving to New Zealand
and I've invited our mutual friend here to join me.
I... I know we haven't been best friends lately, you and I...
But, uh, maybe you could put in a good word for me.
Something wrong?
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
Come on. Let's get out of here.
Where are we with the jurors?
Did we find out where they were meeting?
- CYRUS: Not yet, sir. - Why not?
Because secret grand juries are secret. It's going to take some time.
- I can make a call to Justice. - I'm handling this, Mr. President.
You just stay where you are and work on Mellie's final push.
I will get answers for us, don't you worry.
Thank you, gentlemen.
- I know what this is about. - I don't think you do.
Just go ahead. Fire me.
Save me a good old-fashioned Cyrus Beene schooling
and just fire me.
Because I did what I thought was right.
I'm not going to fire you, Rosen.
Why would I fire you? You're the Attorney General.
(CHUCKLES)
My Attorney General.
A new one? They'd be asking questions and be all honest.
Plus,
I'd have to start from square one.
I'd waste months hunting for their weaknesses, their pressure points.
With you, David, I already know your pressure point.
You only have one.
Abby.
(CHUCKLES)
She's banging that Leo guy like crazy and it's going great,
they're talking about moving in together,
but you still carry a sad little torch for her redness.
You still love her.
So if something were to happen to her...
Suicide. Aneurysm. Car accident.
You can't threaten me like that.
Actually, I can.
You see, when you know someone's pressure point,
you can make them do just about anything.
What do you want from me?
You are going to shut this whole thing down.
Once and for all.
So we can all get back to our lives.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
David?
- What are you doing here? - Did you see Liv? Is she okay?
- OLIVIA: David, who sent you? - What's this, Rosen?
The affidavit before you hereby formally withdraws
and effectively repudiates the statements regarding B-613
you provided this afternoon.
What? You want me to recant?
DAVID: Upon signing this document, you will be released from this room.
If I agree to lie, I'm set free.
So this is, "I saw Goody Johnson with the devil, Joe McCarthy,
"let's name the communists" sort of thing.
- Rosen. - Do you understand?
What happened? What did they do to you?
- Do you understand? - OLIVIA: Was it Cyrus?
Is that who's watching us right now?
- This guy's gonna come through for us? - (SIGHS) He better.
DAVID: Margaret Cooper. 133, Ridgeley Drive in Bloomington, Indiana.
You want to be very careful right now...
She lives off the money you send her every month, doesn't she?
We have her bank statements, Jake.
If you don't sign this affidavit, you will be convicted of treason.
Terrorism. That money will be considered terrorist funds
and your mother will be jailed.
- Jake signed. - OLIVIA: David.
What are they threatening you with?
Here's the thing. You both have to sign.
So if you don't sign, then even though Jake did,
he will still go away.
You'd be taking away Jake's freedom.
And then they'd have to bring in Huck. Quinn.
The only way I'm going to sign this thing is if Liv signs.
And seeing how that's not gonna happen...
So much for being the good guys, huh, Rosen?
All right. So, we're done here. Send them on home.
(DOOR CLOSES)
Have you spoken to Olivia?
Olivia?
- Pope, Cyrus. - No, I have not spoken to Olivia Pope.
I was on my way out, Red.
Busy day. Lots to do.
I can't keep doing this with you, Cyrus! It's getting old! Aren't you tired of it?
The lying, the scheming,
me running around like I'm Nancy Drew
with my fingers crossed, hoping you haven't killed Olivia.
Have a... A soul. Be a human being.
I can't tell you.
Does it have to do with the dead jurors?
- I can't tell you. - Why not?
Because you don't have the clearance!
It is getting old. I am tired of it.
But it's my job.
To protect his interests and serve his needs.
To spin the world and raise the sun.
I can't have a soul.
If I had one, I would never accomplish a thing.
(SIGHS)
(CELL PHONE VIBRATING)
(BEEPS)
- What? - ELI: Olivia. Welcome home.
- What do you want? - (LAUGHS)
Simply to say, "Good game."
Your little plan? Your Hail Mary?
So simple. So smart. Heroic.
Well done.
I didn't get you this time, but someone will.
And as long as Command's fingers are on the puppet strings,
then there's a link, a way to take you down.
But now I'm confused. You succeeded.
If your goal was to take Command down,
then you were successful. You did it. You destroyed Command.
Wiped away Command's existence.
Got your message, tell me about the job.
- (GUNSHOT) - (GRUNTS)
ELI: There were only a few agents left who could identify me as Command.
I know what you're thinking.
The remaining B-613 files will prove I'm Command.
Those have been, shall we say, archived?
(BEEPS)
(GUNSHOT)
And in case you were still hoping your mother was an ally, don't.
She loves you, just not as much as she loves her freedom.
- Is that it? - That's it.
You agree to deny the existence of B-613
for the rest of your life, and you walk.
Well, I'm gonna need a pen, baby.
Your little stunt wiped B-613 off the map.
You killed Command. You shot Command to death.
Luckily, your father didn't get caught in the crossfire.
Rowan is dead, but Eli Pope?
Well, now, I'm just an old, innocent,
doddering paleontologist who works for the Smithsonian.
No one is looking at me. No one is searching for me.
No one would ever even think to wonder what I'm up to.
I am free. And for that, baby, Daddy thanks you!
Sleep well, Olivia.
MAN: Your new junior senator, Mellie Grant!
- (CHEERING) - Thank you! Oh, thank you, everybody!
Wow, this is just... (LAUGHS)
I am so thankful and honored and humbled
to be able to serve the great state of Virginia
as your new senator.
FITZ: Whoo! Yes!
Virginia is a special place to me.
Congratulations, Mr. President.
Congratulations to you.
You did good work, Liz. Thank you.
Well, we survived.
Hopefully, it's all behind us.
(SIGHS)
What's behind us?
What are you talking about?
I'm sorry. I've overstepped. I thought you knew.
Knew what?
It's not my place, Mr. President.
Tell me what you were talking about. Survived what?
The donor.
What donor?
I guess nobody told you.
There was a donor to Mrs. Grant's campaign.
He came to her in the last few days.
He knew things about her. About you.
Things people don't know.
Terrible things.
He asked her to do something.
Who was he?
I don't know who he was exactly,
but maybe you'd recognize him, or...
Well, here.
MELLIE: And I would also like to thank all the volunteers...
What did he ask her to do?
- (SIGHS) - So many of you have worked so hard,
but I have to say a special thank you to the one person
without whom I wouldn't be here.
He is my hero, my inspiration, and my biggest supporter.
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States,
Fitzgerald Grant!
(CHEERING AND APPLAUDING)
Thank you, Virginia!
Thank y'all so much!
(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE CONTINUE)
So that's it? We're really not going to do anything?
I signed an agreement.
An agreement that forbids me from pursuing this any further
or even talking about it, so not another word, all right?
So Rowan just walks away. Scot-free.
Quinn...
Even if I talked, it wouldn't do any good.
He's destroyed any and all evidence
that could point to the existence of B-613.
As far as the world knows, it was never there.
Really? Because we've got $2 billion that says it was.
- What? - The money Huck stole from B-613.
That money doesn't prove anything.
Oh, it came from their accounts. You can trace it back.
That money has been run through so many offshore accounts,
it could've come from anywhere.
Say that last thing again.
What? The money could have come from anywhere?
Really?
- Anywhere? - HUCK: Yeah.
Anywhere. Why?
(CHUCKLES)
- Elijah Pope? - Yes.
- You're under arrest. - (LAUGHS)
- For what? - Embezzlement of government funds.
Ah...
Let me tell you about the terrible mistake you're about to make.
- Allow me... - You know what, chief?
I hear this story, like, five times a day.
Go ahead and cuff him.
(HANDCUFFS CLICK)
- OLIVIA: Embezzlement, huh? - (LAUGHS)
Now, this, this is worth the price of admission.
OLIVIA: I talked to the detectives.
Apparently they got an anonymous phone call.
Someone saying you've been picking the pockets of the Smithsonian
since the day they made you department head.
You think I can't survive this?
I've brought down regimes, Olivia.
Assassinated dictators with my own two hands.
Shaped history with a single phone call.
Rowan did that. Command did that.
He had power. But you?
How did you describe yourself?
"An old, innocent, doddering paleontologist
"who works at the Smithsonian."
You were right, we couldn't take Command.
But we can take Eli Pope.
- Olivia, listen to me. - Goodbye, Dad.
Olivia. Olivia!
(QUINN BREATHING HEAVILY)
Why are you working with Rowan?
- I don't know what you're talking about. - Yes, you do.
Those bodies in the morgue. I know your work. I'd know it anywhere.
That was you.
I was at that crime scene, I was on that bus, it was you.
Get out of my office.
Sit down.
- You're going to shoot me? - I will.
- You're not going to shoot me. - I will shoot you.
I will shoot you like the animal you are.
You want to test me?
(BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY)
Why are you working with Command?
I didn't have a choice.
Of course you have a choice.
You always have a choice.
You could've asked for help.
You could have talked to me or Liv or Jake.
We could have helped you. There were other ways.
I didn't want to do it.
That's a lie.
You're lying! I saw what you did.
You did want to. You're not thinking anymore.
You're just killing because you want to kill.
- I didn't want to lose my family. - Your family?
You can't be with Kim and Javi!
Who you are? What you've become? You can't be with them.
- Stop it! - You don't deserve them!
You don't deserve us.
- Me or Liv or any of this! - Stop!
I am done. I am done defending you, Huck.
I'm done protecting you.
The best thing I could do for you is to shoot you.
Right here. Right now.
(VOICE BREAKING) Then do it.
Please, Quinn. Do it.
(BREATHING RAGGEDLY)
MELLIE: Well, what's proper? How long do I wait
to form an exploratory committee?
To run for president?
MELLIE: (CHUCKLES) I mean, I need to get sworn in first, obviously,
and see what committees I'm on and introduce a couple of choice bills...
Go on some fact-finding missions,
get your pictures taken in combat zones.
Exactly! Brilliant!
You! Cyrus, when I am President, there's still a place for you here.
Ha-ha!
- That's very funny. - (MELLIE LAUGHS)
MELLIE: Oh.
You think I'd let you be president? After what you did?
What? What I did? Fitz...
I know about the jurors.
(GASPS)
(STAMMERS)
(EXHALES)
Fitz, I was trying to protect you.
That man was blackmailing you
and I did what was needed for our team.
(SIGHS)
I made the sacrifice for us, for our team.
I did the only thing I could do.
We are not a team.
You don't even know what you did wrong.
You don't even know why it was wrong.
- I was wrong to take care of us? - Get out.
Fitz...
Now, clearly, we are not having this conversation this evening.
- So let's just all... - Get out.
Pack your bags and get out of my house!
(GLASS THUDS)
Fitzgerald...
- Fitz... - Before I throw you out.
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
(DOOR OPENS)
(FOOTSTEPS DEPART)
(DOOR CLOSES)
What's going on?
She... She knew about the jurors?
Cyrus.
Mellie came to you. I know that.
You went to the CIA. I know that too.
You arrested Olivia. You released Maya.
You worked with the man who killed my son.
I know everything. So don't lie to me.
- Sir... - Do not lie to me!
And do not tell me you were trying to protect me.
- Sir, please... - You're fired.
(DIALS INTERCOM)
- Charlotte? - Yes, sir?
Have Secret Service strip Cyrus Beene of all of his security clearances.
And have him removed from the grounds immediately.
Uh, yes, sir.
And have them bring me my car.
I'm going out.
I know I have some du Bellay stashed away somewhere,
and there should be some beer left over in the fridge.
Why are you just standing there? Come inside.
This is where the ride ends.
What?
My mission is complete.
Your mission?
B-613 is gone. Command is in jail.
I have delivered you home. Safe and sound.
My mission is complete.
And it has been my pleasure.
- Take care, Liv. - Jake...
Jake, come on.
Don't you dare.
They asked me to look out for you.
Both of them.
Your father, the bad guy. And the President, the good guy.
They both asked me to keep you safe. They both made you my mission.
And I went over the line on both accounts.
- That's not... - I'm in love with you.
And if I am telling the whole truth,
no matter who gets hurt, it goes like this.
I am in love with you,
but you are in love with him.
You are owed, Olivia.
You want what's yours?
Go and take it.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
Ah. Merci.
MAN: Excuse me, are you dining alone?
MAYA: Not anymore.
They're going to need your access badge, too.
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGS)
(DOORBELL RINGS)
(KNOCKING)
Do you want us to open the door, sir?
No.
(SIGHS)
OLIVIA: Nice view.
Hi.
You're here.
I'm here.
Charlotte is very helpful and informative.
(CHUCKLES)
What happens now?
Whatever we want.
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