1 00:00:00,063 --> 00:00:02,452 Olivia Pope, are you the president's mistress? 2 00:00:03,296 --> 00:00:04,444 Yes. 3 00:00:04,469 --> 00:00:05,770 Previously on "Scandal"... 4 00:00:05,795 --> 00:00:08,531 Olivia Pope has a certain reputation here in Washington. 5 00:00:08,556 --> 00:00:10,257 You're talking about the fact that Pope's 6 00:00:10,282 --> 00:00:11,449 been linked to several powerful men? 7 00:00:11,474 --> 00:00:13,058 As to their nature, 8 00:00:13,083 --> 00:00:14,968 you'd have to talk to Ms. Pope about that. 9 00:00:14,993 --> 00:00:16,805 Pope, got a visitor. 10 00:00:16,830 --> 00:00:19,281 - The Louvre is on fire. - Lazarus one? 11 00:00:19,726 --> 00:00:21,644 Who are you working with? 12 00:00:21,669 --> 00:00:24,486 How could I, prisoner 052213 13 00:00:24,511 --> 00:00:26,648 at the Milford Federal Correctional... 14 00:00:26,673 --> 00:00:28,423 Lazarus one is your invention, your baby. 15 00:00:28,448 --> 00:00:30,078 If B613 is left for dead, 16 00:00:30,103 --> 00:00:31,973 this is how you refill its coffers... 17 00:00:31,998 --> 00:00:33,198 steal some paintings, set a fire, 18 00:00:33,223 --> 00:00:34,971 leave a couple of charred forgeries behind, 19 00:00:34,996 --> 00:00:37,786 and then sell the originals to gangsters and oligarchs for billions. 20 00:00:37,811 --> 00:00:40,986 What happened at the Louvre... that's Lazarus one, your plan. 21 00:00:41,011 --> 00:00:43,642 So either this is you working with someone on the outside 22 00:00:43,667 --> 00:00:45,011 to rebuild your empire... 23 00:00:45,036 --> 00:00:46,402 My empire? Look around you. 24 00:00:46,427 --> 00:00:48,245 Thanks to my daughter and her infinite wisdom, 25 00:00:48,270 --> 00:00:49,447 I am no longer in a position 26 00:00:49,472 --> 00:00:50,956 to protect our Republic. 27 00:00:50,990 --> 00:00:52,007 So this is Liv's fault? 28 00:00:52,042 --> 00:00:53,369 Isn't it? 29 00:00:53,394 --> 00:00:56,615 Eli Pope grew up an orphan on the mean streets of Detroit, 30 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:58,319 but envisioned something more. 31 00:00:58,344 --> 00:01:00,478 He worked three jobs to put himself through college, 32 00:01:00,503 --> 00:01:03,238 eventually earning his phd in paleontology. 33 00:01:03,263 --> 00:01:06,385 He married Maya, a young secretary, and they had Olivia. 34 00:01:06,410 --> 00:01:08,466 They were living the American dream. 35 00:01:08,491 --> 00:01:09,801 That dream was shattered 36 00:01:09,826 --> 00:01:12,041 when Maya was tragically killed in a plane crash. 37 00:01:12,066 --> 00:01:14,729 Olivia was just 12 at the time. 38 00:01:14,753 --> 00:01:18,353 Now a single father, Eli Pope sent Olivia to Surval Montreaux, 39 00:01:18,378 --> 00:01:19,772 an elite Swiss boarding school 40 00:01:19,797 --> 00:01:22,816 whose powerful alumni include 14 current world leaders 41 00:01:22,841 --> 00:01:25,346 and eight of the world's top billionaires. 42 00:01:25,371 --> 00:01:27,455 He once told a colleague 43 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:29,914 that he was on a quest to do the impossible... 44 00:01:29,939 --> 00:01:31,910 raise an African-American girl 45 00:01:31,935 --> 00:01:34,096 who felt fully entitled to own the world 46 00:01:34,121 --> 00:01:35,491 as much as any white man. 47 00:01:35,516 --> 00:01:37,918 Olivia got a little arrogant... 48 00:01:37,943 --> 00:01:40,431 A little drunk on her own sense of power. 49 00:01:40,456 --> 00:01:43,896 So drunk that she forgets the most basic facts. 50 00:01:43,921 --> 00:01:45,768 She forgets everything that I taught her. 51 00:01:45,793 --> 00:01:47,536 Nature abhors a vacuum. 52 00:01:47,561 --> 00:01:51,432 By putting me here, Olivia has created a dangerous one. 53 00:01:51,465 --> 00:01:53,994 That quest was expensive and ultimately his downfall... 54 00:01:54,019 --> 00:01:57,103 Eli Pope embezzled millions from the Smithsonian payroll 55 00:01:57,128 --> 00:01:58,995 and now serves time in federal prison. 56 00:01:59,020 --> 00:02:00,437 You're a desperate man in here. 57 00:02:00,462 --> 00:02:03,081 You want out. You want to regain your power and free yourself, 58 00:02:03,106 --> 00:02:06,508 and you and I both know that you're enacting Lazarus one. 59 00:02:06,533 --> 00:02:08,814 You can either tell me who you're working with now, 60 00:02:08,839 --> 00:02:11,806 or I will find them and kill them. 61 00:02:11,831 --> 00:02:14,314 It's as if you've learned nothing from me. 62 00:02:14,339 --> 00:02:17,162 I think I failed with you. 63 00:02:17,187 --> 00:02:19,989 Did he succeed? Did he do the impossible? 64 00:02:20,014 --> 00:02:22,705 Is Olivia Pope her father's success story? 65 00:02:22,730 --> 00:02:23,869 Did he go too far? 66 00:02:23,894 --> 00:02:26,339 Did Olivia Pope's manufactured sense of privilege 67 00:02:26,364 --> 00:02:28,811 make her feel so entitled to that brass ring of power 68 00:02:28,836 --> 00:02:31,322 that she simply took it instead of earning it? 69 00:02:31,347 --> 00:02:33,056 Or is she still questing? 70 00:02:33,268 --> 00:02:36,999 Is Olivia Pope still seeking to fulfill her father's dream? 71 00:02:37,024 --> 00:02:39,650 I don't have to regain my power. 72 00:02:39,675 --> 00:02:43,933 Power... true power... is never lost. 73 00:02:43,958 --> 00:02:46,776 And freedom? 74 00:02:46,801 --> 00:02:49,509 Boy, I am always free. 75 00:02:49,534 --> 00:02:52,276 No one will ever cage me. 76 00:02:53,429 --> 00:02:54,629 You always leave a trail. 77 00:02:54,663 --> 00:02:56,776 It how you ended up in here. 78 00:02:57,099 --> 00:02:58,116 And it's how I'm gonna find 79 00:02:58,167 --> 00:02:59,455 who you're working with on the outside. 80 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:00,580 Over the next hour, 81 00:03:00,605 --> 00:03:03,123 we're going to take you inside corridors of power, 82 00:03:03,148 --> 00:03:06,934 behind closed doors, and, yes, even between the sheets, 83 00:03:06,959 --> 00:03:10,908 to uncover the sometimes thrilling, sometimes sordid, 84 00:03:10,933 --> 00:03:14,452 always mysterious world of Olivia Pope. 85 00:03:14,477 --> 00:03:16,580 Happy hunting. 86 00:03:19,305 --> 00:03:23,329 - Synced and corrected by martythecrazy - - www.addic7ed.com - 87 00:03:41,688 --> 00:03:43,306 You're early. 88 00:03:43,331 --> 00:03:44,915 Hey, Quinn. 89 00:03:44,940 --> 00:03:46,357 Look, it's good to see you, but I... 90 00:03:46,382 --> 00:03:47,638 I know. You're waiting for Layla. 91 00:03:47,663 --> 00:03:49,214 But you don't have a date with Layla, Marcus. 92 00:03:49,239 --> 00:03:51,240 You have a date with me. See? 93 00:03:51,727 --> 00:03:53,110 Oh, don't worry. 94 00:03:53,151 --> 00:03:54,370 Layla's real, and from her e-mails, 95 00:03:54,395 --> 00:03:55,448 I think she really likes you. 96 00:03:55,473 --> 00:03:57,307 She just didn't text you to meet up tonight. I did. 97 00:03:57,332 --> 00:03:58,964 - All right, what in the hell... - You're broke, Marcus. 98 00:03:58,989 --> 00:04:00,667 You're unemployed because you screwed the mayor's wife. 99 00:04:00,692 --> 00:04:02,370 You're damaged goods, but you're charming and attractive, 100 00:04:02,395 --> 00:04:03,557 and you can drive a narrative. 101 00:04:03,582 --> 00:04:04,948 Plus, you know, stray dogs. 102 00:04:04,973 --> 00:04:06,590 Okay. Now I see. 103 00:04:06,615 --> 00:04:07,510 You're crazy. Is that it? 104 00:04:07,535 --> 00:04:08,409 You're one of those crazy chicks? 105 00:04:08,434 --> 00:04:09,518 I'm offering you a job. 106 00:04:09,543 --> 00:04:11,347 - A job? - A job. 107 00:04:11,371 --> 00:04:12,971 Olivia Pope and associates needs a mouthpiece. 108 00:04:12,996 --> 00:04:13,870 You're good with the press. 109 00:04:13,895 --> 00:04:15,095 You won't just be some corporate spinner. 110 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:16,404 You'll be one of us. 111 00:04:16,429 --> 00:04:18,380 Look, the job is yours if you want it. 112 00:04:18,405 --> 00:04:19,822 It's the best job you'll ever have. 113 00:04:19,847 --> 00:04:21,431 You will change lives, you will slay dragons, 114 00:04:21,456 --> 00:04:22,906 you will love the hunt more than you ever dreamed. 115 00:04:22,931 --> 00:04:24,431 And I am not crazy. 116 00:04:24,456 --> 00:04:25,623 I'm a gladiator in a suit. 117 00:04:25,648 --> 00:04:27,198 That's what you are when you work at O.P.A. 118 00:04:27,223 --> 00:04:28,237 You're a gladiator in a suit. 119 00:04:28,262 --> 00:04:31,064 Do you want to be a gladiator in a suit? 120 00:04:31,089 --> 00:04:33,424 No. 121 00:04:33,449 --> 00:04:35,617 No?! 122 00:04:35,642 --> 00:04:37,503 Look, that was flashy. You do flashy well. 123 00:04:37,528 --> 00:04:39,029 I know because I've seen how you do business. 124 00:04:39,054 --> 00:04:41,003 The problem is, I don't like what I've seen. 125 00:04:41,028 --> 00:04:43,363 You might slay some dragons, but the way they go down... 126 00:04:43,388 --> 00:04:44,971 You cut corners. You break rules. 127 00:04:44,996 --> 00:04:46,413 You think the law is a suggestion. 128 00:04:46,438 --> 00:04:47,846 You're shifty, you're shady, 129 00:04:47,871 --> 00:04:49,354 and you lie even when you don't have to. 130 00:04:49,379 --> 00:04:51,643 That might work for you, but it doesn't work for me. 131 00:04:51,668 --> 00:04:53,135 Plus, you're hemorrhaging clients. 132 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:55,473 In less than six months, you'll be as broke as I am, 133 00:04:55,498 --> 00:04:58,151 so do I want to be a gladiator in a suit? 134 00:04:58,176 --> 00:05:00,751 Hell, no. 135 00:05:04,055 --> 00:05:05,155 Have you seen this garbage? 136 00:05:05,189 --> 00:05:06,705 You see what they're calling her in there? 137 00:05:06,723 --> 00:05:07,323 Yes. 138 00:05:07,348 --> 00:05:08,854 And in every other newspaper in the world. 139 00:05:08,879 --> 00:05:09,885 The morning shows? 140 00:05:09,910 --> 00:05:11,604 Morning, when people's kids are in the room. 141 00:05:11,629 --> 00:05:13,880 Gave estimates on how many men she'd slept with 142 00:05:13,905 --> 00:05:15,870 and at what age she'd lost her virginity. 143 00:05:15,895 --> 00:05:17,679 - Yes, sir. I saw... - It's disgusting. 144 00:05:17,704 --> 00:05:18,786 Liv's blindfolded 145 00:05:18,811 --> 00:05:20,510 on her knees in front of the firing squad, 146 00:05:20,535 --> 00:05:21,604 and we're doing nothing. 147 00:05:21,629 --> 00:05:22,996 Well, you told me to do nothing. 148 00:05:23,021 --> 00:05:24,972 Abby tied her hands! 149 00:05:26,209 --> 00:05:29,044 We need to concentrate on things we can possibly fix... 150 00:05:29,069 --> 00:05:30,402 Like senator Gibson. 151 00:05:30,427 --> 00:05:33,045 The republican leadership is going to put the screws to me. 152 00:05:33,070 --> 00:05:35,112 - We knew this was coming. - But I know Gibson. 153 00:05:35,137 --> 00:05:36,221 I've charmed him in the past. 154 00:05:36,246 --> 00:05:38,096 Let me feel him out and see if I can... 155 00:05:38,121 --> 00:05:39,737 - You're fired. - Mr. President... 156 00:05:39,762 --> 00:05:42,431 Do not talk! You are done talking. 157 00:05:42,456 --> 00:05:44,123 You are fired. 158 00:05:44,148 --> 00:05:45,409 Uh, sir, it's not the best time... 159 00:05:45,434 --> 00:05:46,767 I want her gone by the end of the day. 160 00:05:48,133 --> 00:05:50,004 Let me fix this. Go back to your office. 161 00:05:50,029 --> 00:05:51,503 Do not leave this building. 162 00:05:51,528 --> 00:05:52,778 Do not turn over your hard pass. 163 00:05:52,803 --> 00:05:54,138 Just wait. 164 00:05:54,746 --> 00:05:56,030 Where we going? 165 00:05:56,055 --> 00:05:57,138 Paris. 166 00:05:57,163 --> 00:05:58,938 I can't go to Paris. 167 00:05:58,963 --> 00:06:00,737 Yes, you can. 168 00:06:00,762 --> 00:06:02,596 I got a job. You got a lot of contacts over there. 169 00:06:02,621 --> 00:06:03,621 You're going to Paris. 170 00:06:03,646 --> 00:06:04,813 Fine. It's gonna cost you. 171 00:06:04,838 --> 00:06:07,423 Someone launched Lazarus one. 172 00:06:07,448 --> 00:06:09,448 The Louvre fire. 173 00:06:09,473 --> 00:06:10,632 That sucks. 174 00:06:10,981 --> 00:06:12,348 Eh. But I have a business. 175 00:06:12,373 --> 00:06:14,231 To just take off like this... 176 00:06:14,256 --> 00:06:15,840 Look, you helped us take down B613, 177 00:06:15,865 --> 00:06:17,950 so whoever's doing this is your enemy as much as mine. 178 00:06:17,975 --> 00:06:19,307 I'm not asking you to work for free. 179 00:06:19,332 --> 00:06:21,132 I'm asking you to work for your life. 180 00:06:24,049 --> 00:06:26,433 You cannot fire Abby. 181 00:06:26,458 --> 00:06:27,640 You're being emotional. 182 00:06:27,665 --> 00:06:29,709 Yes, I'm being emotional. I'm pissed. 183 00:06:29,734 --> 00:06:31,418 What's wrong with being emotional about this? 184 00:06:31,443 --> 00:06:32,977 Ok, now you're an idiot. 185 00:06:33,002 --> 00:06:34,620 Did you just call me an idiot? 186 00:06:34,645 --> 00:06:36,257 We have been over this. 187 00:06:36,282 --> 00:06:38,477 You're the president of the United States. 188 00:06:38,502 --> 00:06:40,951 You don't get to be emotional. 189 00:06:40,976 --> 00:06:42,209 You have to be smart. 190 00:06:42,234 --> 00:06:43,667 And firing your Press Secretary 191 00:06:43,692 --> 00:06:46,128 in the middle of a scandal is not smart. 192 00:06:46,153 --> 00:06:47,589 You're a leader. 193 00:06:47,614 --> 00:06:49,932 - Think like a... - Like a leader. It's... 194 00:06:50,846 --> 00:06:53,012 I know I said I would do this. 195 00:06:53,336 --> 00:06:55,159 Abby went behind my back. 196 00:06:55,184 --> 00:06:55,979 She betrayed you. 197 00:06:56,004 --> 00:06:58,455 Abby did exactly what I would have done. 198 00:06:58,668 --> 00:07:01,049 Then you're an idiot. 199 00:07:14,185 --> 00:07:16,437 I told you... 200 00:07:17,354 --> 00:07:19,875 This is my choice to make. 201 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:22,137 If you take that away from me... 202 00:07:23,779 --> 00:07:25,801 I do not need to be rescued. 203 00:07:25,826 --> 00:07:27,327 I find it offensive. 204 00:07:27,352 --> 00:07:30,078 So I sit on my hands while you act as a punching bag? 205 00:07:30,103 --> 00:07:30,851 No. 206 00:07:30,877 --> 00:07:34,266 You walk down the hall and give Abby her job back. 207 00:07:34,291 --> 00:07:36,141 Liv. They are crucifying you out there. 208 00:07:36,166 --> 00:07:37,633 How long can you handle that? 209 00:07:42,636 --> 00:07:43,586 Liv? 210 00:07:43,619 --> 00:07:44,867 Oh, my God. 211 00:07:50,443 --> 00:07:51,443 Liv? 212 00:07:51,468 --> 00:07:52,344 I have to go. 213 00:07:52,369 --> 00:07:54,289 Liv? 214 00:08:00,555 --> 00:08:01,860 Olivia Pope. 215 00:08:01,885 --> 00:08:04,897 Age 23 in her first year at Georgetown law. 216 00:08:04,922 --> 00:08:06,141 My dream job? 217 00:08:06,528 --> 00:08:08,366 The White House. 218 00:08:08,656 --> 00:08:11,211 One day, I'd really love to work there. 219 00:08:11,236 --> 00:08:13,606 I want to impact a national agenda 220 00:08:13,631 --> 00:08:15,070 that drives America forward. 221 00:08:15,095 --> 00:08:18,277 What better, more influential place to do that 222 00:08:18,302 --> 00:08:19,367 than the White House? 223 00:08:19,392 --> 00:08:20,846 A few short years later, 224 00:08:20,871 --> 00:08:22,772 Olivia Pope would, in fact, have a seat 225 00:08:22,797 --> 00:08:24,758 at the world's most powerful table, 226 00:08:24,783 --> 00:08:27,687 next to a man she helped get elected. 227 00:08:27,712 --> 00:08:29,750 Is Olivia Pope a political savant? 228 00:08:30,051 --> 00:08:32,886 Or a woman so ambitious she would do anything 229 00:08:32,911 --> 00:08:34,178 to get where she wanted to go? 230 00:08:39,630 --> 00:08:41,231 No one is gonna be taking pictures of you 231 00:08:41,256 --> 00:08:42,467 from that apartment anymore. 232 00:08:42,492 --> 00:08:43,625 I rented it, 233 00:08:43,650 --> 00:08:45,367 several hundred dollars above market. 234 00:08:45,392 --> 00:08:46,734 You sweep the place? 235 00:08:46,759 --> 00:08:48,624 All clear... no bugs, no taps, no cameras. 236 00:08:48,649 --> 00:08:50,227 Burners. Month's supply. 237 00:08:50,252 --> 00:08:51,883 Use a new one each day and then ditch the old one. 238 00:08:51,908 --> 00:08:53,525 I know the drill. 239 00:08:56,862 --> 00:08:59,052 What? 240 00:09:00,539 --> 00:09:01,887 So, here's the thing... 241 00:09:01,912 --> 00:09:03,484 between the press and our clients, 242 00:09:03,509 --> 00:09:05,357 we're kind of swamped at the office. 243 00:09:05,382 --> 00:09:07,834 Quinn, the last thing we need is another person in our business. 244 00:09:07,859 --> 00:09:09,406 Okay, but I tried to hire Marcus Walker 245 00:09:09,431 --> 00:09:10,633 - to help out, who you like... - Quinn. 246 00:09:10,658 --> 00:09:12,965 He shut me down anyway. I... 247 00:09:12,990 --> 00:09:15,241 - look, I just really think we need someone. - No. 248 00:09:15,266 --> 00:09:17,251 Whatever's going down, you two should be able to handle it. 249 00:09:17,285 --> 00:09:19,086 - Understood? - Understood. 250 00:09:19,111 --> 00:09:20,194 Coming up, we talk 251 00:09:20,219 --> 00:09:22,387 to Olivia Pope's third-grade teacher. 252 00:09:22,412 --> 00:09:25,914 I can kill the cable altogether. 253 00:09:26,177 --> 00:09:29,185 Don't bother. 254 00:09:32,892 --> 00:09:34,413 She's late. 255 00:09:34,438 --> 00:09:36,241 It's France. There's no such thing. 256 00:09:36,266 --> 00:09:38,671 - You sure she's got art contacts? - Yeah, this is her thing. 257 00:09:38,696 --> 00:09:40,750 If someone's selling stolen paintings, she'll find them, 258 00:09:40,775 --> 00:09:41,937 and then she can pose as the buyer. 259 00:09:41,962 --> 00:09:43,344 Mm-hmm. And she's good? 260 00:09:43,378 --> 00:09:44,561 Yeah, she's good. 261 00:09:44,595 --> 00:09:46,132 She's got more kills than you and me put together. 262 00:09:46,157 --> 00:09:47,074 She's legend. 263 00:09:47,099 --> 00:09:48,900 Oh, and she's hot. Like sexy hot. 264 00:09:48,925 --> 00:09:50,726 - I've been working on her for years. - What's her name? 265 00:09:50,751 --> 00:09:52,210 Hello, Charlie. 266 00:09:52,235 --> 00:09:54,360 Elise. 267 00:09:54,385 --> 00:09:58,264 I'd like to introduce you to... Jake. 268 00:10:05,901 --> 00:10:07,902 Elise is a nice name. 269 00:10:07,927 --> 00:10:09,380 And French... that's a good way to go. 270 00:10:09,405 --> 00:10:10,663 It's Jake? 271 00:10:10,688 --> 00:10:13,089 That's what you're calling yourself? 272 00:10:13,124 --> 00:10:15,141 Well, Jake... 273 00:10:15,166 --> 00:10:16,559 Deal's off. 274 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:19,128 Au revoir, Charlie. 275 00:10:26,845 --> 00:10:30,413 The senator has no comment at this time 276 00:10:30,438 --> 00:10:32,005 other than that she is looking forward 277 00:10:32,030 --> 00:10:34,265 to serving the good people of Virginia 278 00:10:34,290 --> 00:10:35,257 as their junior senator. 279 00:10:35,282 --> 00:10:36,414 In fact, right now, 280 00:10:36,439 --> 00:10:38,620 she has a senate women's caucus meeting to get to, 281 00:10:38,645 --> 00:10:40,679 so if you could all just let her do her job. 282 00:10:40,728 --> 00:10:42,845 Hello, ladies. I'm sorry I'm late. 283 00:10:42,870 --> 00:10:45,042 The press caught me in the rotunda. 284 00:10:45,067 --> 00:10:48,081 But I wanted to say how honored I am to be here, 285 00:10:48,106 --> 00:10:50,667 and I will work hard. 286 00:10:50,692 --> 00:10:52,054 Where were you on the agenda... 287 00:10:52,079 --> 00:10:53,646 equal pay? Reproductive rights? 288 00:10:53,681 --> 00:10:55,666 That's not why we asked you here. 289 00:10:55,857 --> 00:10:57,324 Oh. 290 00:10:57,349 --> 00:10:58,925 Then why are we meeting? 291 00:10:58,950 --> 00:11:00,902 Senator Grant, how about you take a seat? 292 00:11:06,153 --> 00:11:08,204 Mellie, I know this is your first day, 293 00:11:08,229 --> 00:11:10,376 so let me tell you how the senate really works. 294 00:11:10,401 --> 00:11:12,323 A bunch of men are going to gather somewhere, 295 00:11:12,348 --> 00:11:14,326 and they will have cigars, and they will have scotch, 296 00:11:14,351 --> 00:11:15,813 and they will make themselves a deal. 297 00:11:15,838 --> 00:11:17,403 What the deal is, we won't know. 298 00:11:17,454 --> 00:11:18,972 There will just be some votes... 299 00:11:19,006 --> 00:11:20,673 votes we've probably worked our asses off on 300 00:11:20,708 --> 00:11:21,924 for God only knows how long 301 00:11:21,959 --> 00:11:23,558 that'll suddenly go a different way. 302 00:11:23,583 --> 00:11:24,868 But this is a bipartisan caucus. 303 00:11:24,893 --> 00:11:26,605 Why would you work together? 304 00:11:26,630 --> 00:11:28,683 This isn't about Republicans and Democrats. 305 00:11:28,708 --> 00:11:30,482 It's about peckers... too many peckers. 306 00:11:30,507 --> 00:11:32,926 The men have their own way of doing things, 307 00:11:32,951 --> 00:11:35,661 so we started having ours. 308 00:11:39,461 --> 00:11:40,695 Good news. 309 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:43,899 I've lined up interviews on every afternoon talk show. 310 00:11:43,924 --> 00:11:45,207 "Why afternoon?" You ask. 311 00:11:45,232 --> 00:11:47,978 Because aggrieved women love their afternoon talk shows. 312 00:11:48,003 --> 00:11:51,446 More cheating bastards get raked over the coals 313 00:11:51,471 --> 00:11:52,884 on those comfy couches than... 314 00:11:52,909 --> 00:11:54,283 They want to impeach him. 315 00:11:55,024 --> 00:11:56,187 What? 316 00:11:56,238 --> 00:11:57,019 Fitz. 317 00:11:57,044 --> 00:11:58,501 The women of the senate... 318 00:11:58,526 --> 00:11:59,838 all the women of the senate... 319 00:11:59,863 --> 00:12:01,113 want to impeach him. 320 00:12:01,138 --> 00:12:03,156 But only if I give the go-ahead. 321 00:12:03,181 --> 00:12:06,313 They want to impeach a man for having an affair? 322 00:12:07,121 --> 00:12:08,137 They want to impeach a man 323 00:12:08,171 --> 00:12:10,106 for having an affair that everyone just shrugs about 324 00:12:10,157 --> 00:12:12,258 because a man having an affair is a daily occurrence. 325 00:12:12,292 --> 00:12:15,144 They want to impeach a man because all we ever hear 326 00:12:15,195 --> 00:12:16,662 is how women are controlled by their hormones, 327 00:12:16,664 --> 00:12:17,830 but what is more hormonal 328 00:12:17,864 --> 00:12:19,832 than man who can't keep it in his damn pants? 329 00:12:19,866 --> 00:12:22,696 They want to impeach a man because he broke his vows 330 00:12:22,721 --> 00:12:24,737 and disturbed the office of the presidency 331 00:12:24,762 --> 00:12:26,682 and distracted the country with his libido, 332 00:12:26,707 --> 00:12:29,108 and the only person that gets raked over the coals 333 00:12:29,142 --> 00:12:30,618 is the woman he screwed. 334 00:12:30,643 --> 00:12:32,037 That's why. 335 00:12:32,062 --> 00:12:33,579 But that's... that's, um... 336 00:12:33,604 --> 00:12:35,238 He's a man. 337 00:12:35,263 --> 00:12:38,235 Cyrus! 338 00:12:38,443 --> 00:12:40,877 It doesn't matter anyway because I am not doing it. 339 00:12:40,902 --> 00:12:42,803 You're not going to have him impeached? 340 00:12:42,828 --> 00:12:44,733 - Of course not. - Hold on. 341 00:12:44,758 --> 00:12:46,377 - Mellie, let's talk about this. - No. 342 00:12:46,402 --> 00:12:48,720 Fitz put himself in the cross hairs. 343 00:12:48,745 --> 00:12:50,737 That merits a conversation. 344 00:12:51,002 --> 00:12:52,774 If I went after him, it would look vindictive. 345 00:12:52,808 --> 00:12:53,775 Or righteous. 346 00:12:53,807 --> 00:12:54,754 I'm a freshman senator. 347 00:12:54,779 --> 00:12:56,077 I need to keep a low profile, 348 00:12:56,102 --> 00:12:58,582 start out where other freshman senators start out. 349 00:12:58,627 --> 00:13:01,828 On some do-nothing subcommittee in the capitol basement? 350 00:13:01,942 --> 00:13:04,393 I do not want to impeach my husband. 351 00:13:04,444 --> 00:13:05,886 No. 352 00:13:05,911 --> 00:13:07,558 What you really want is the oval. 353 00:13:07,583 --> 00:13:08,733 So let's not be too hasty 354 00:13:08,758 --> 00:13:10,291 because this doesn't have to be about your husband. 355 00:13:10,316 --> 00:13:12,717 This can be about your country, about the greater good, 356 00:13:12,742 --> 00:13:15,297 - about a leader who deceived the American people. - Cyrus... 357 00:13:15,322 --> 00:13:17,338 and let's not forget Susan Ross. 358 00:13:17,363 --> 00:13:19,541 If Fitz gets impeached, Susan Ross becomes president, 359 00:13:19,566 --> 00:13:21,127 and we all know how that turns out. 360 00:13:21,152 --> 00:13:22,594 The woman's gonna eat her own head 361 00:13:22,596 --> 00:13:24,363 and set herself on fire at the same time, 362 00:13:24,397 --> 00:13:27,166 after which the country will desperately want someone 363 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:28,973 who's the polar opposite of Susan. 364 00:13:28,998 --> 00:13:31,542 Someone stately. Someone with gravitas. 365 00:13:31,567 --> 00:13:33,073 Someone who's a true leader. 366 00:13:33,098 --> 00:13:35,684 You, Senator. 367 00:13:35,789 --> 00:13:37,848 This is it. 368 00:13:37,904 --> 00:13:39,822 Your chance. 369 00:13:39,847 --> 00:13:41,263 Either you go after your husband now 370 00:13:41,314 --> 00:13:42,764 and claim the White House for your own, 371 00:13:42,815 --> 00:13:44,983 or you do nothing and end up being 372 00:13:45,018 --> 00:13:47,819 that sad little well-meaning freshman senator, 373 00:13:47,854 --> 00:13:50,355 sitting on that do-nothing subcommittee, 374 00:13:50,380 --> 00:13:52,582 publicly grinning at the world, 375 00:13:52,607 --> 00:13:56,138 privately wanting to hang yourself. 376 00:13:59,721 --> 00:14:02,071 Known around town as a fashion icon 377 00:14:02,096 --> 00:14:04,641 for her expensive shoes and flashy purses, 378 00:14:04,666 --> 00:14:07,197 Olivia Pope isn't someone who goes unnoticed. 379 00:14:07,222 --> 00:14:11,101 The articulate, often outspoken Olivia Pope 380 00:14:11,126 --> 00:14:11,998 remains silent. 381 00:14:12,023 --> 00:14:13,556 It is fair to wonder if the apple 382 00:14:13,581 --> 00:14:15,252 didn't fall too far from the tree. 383 00:14:15,277 --> 00:14:17,328 Her father is incarcerated. 384 00:14:17,353 --> 00:14:20,138 champion of Brandon Parker and other urban causes. 385 00:14:20,163 --> 00:14:22,525 Is Olivia Pope that good or simply lucky? 386 00:14:22,550 --> 00:14:24,060 She was always very aggressive. 387 00:14:24,085 --> 00:14:25,213 Some might say arrogant. 388 00:14:25,238 --> 00:14:26,823 - Her father's incarcerated! - Simply lucky. 389 00:14:26,848 --> 00:14:28,497 Liv has no plan. 390 00:14:28,522 --> 00:14:29,800 Meanwhile, our client roster 391 00:14:29,825 --> 00:14:31,459 is getting gobbled up by the other firms. 392 00:14:32,943 --> 00:14:34,177 Cream? 393 00:14:34,202 --> 00:14:35,337 What are you doing here? 394 00:14:35,362 --> 00:14:36,705 Where do you guys keep the cream? 395 00:14:36,730 --> 00:14:37,630 Seriously? 396 00:14:37,688 --> 00:14:38,787 I changed my mind. 397 00:14:38,812 --> 00:14:40,002 I accept the job. 398 00:14:40,027 --> 00:14:41,744 I'm ready to gladiate in a suit or whatever. 399 00:14:41,769 --> 00:14:44,158 - We're not hiring. - Perkins told me something different. 400 00:14:44,183 --> 00:14:45,783 Phone's been ringing off the hook since I got here. 401 00:14:45,808 --> 00:14:47,361 - Anybody gonna answer that? - You have to leave. 402 00:14:47,386 --> 00:14:48,760 - He doesn't know what he's talking about. - Liv said that we had... 403 00:14:48,785 --> 00:14:50,455 Liv said for me to handle things. 404 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:51,970 That's what I'm doing. It's handled. 405 00:14:51,995 --> 00:14:53,829 Everything I said earlier still holds, 406 00:14:53,854 --> 00:14:55,182 but I need the cash, 407 00:14:55,207 --> 00:14:56,530 and I might as well take it from you guys 408 00:14:56,555 --> 00:14:57,822 while you still have it to offer. 409 00:14:57,847 --> 00:15:00,408 So, when do you want me out there facing the reporters? 410 00:15:00,433 --> 00:15:02,195 All we need is to keep our clients. 411 00:15:02,223 --> 00:15:05,119 So our strategy is, it's business as usual 412 00:15:05,144 --> 00:15:06,469 at Olivia Pope and associates. 413 00:15:06,494 --> 00:15:07,658 Olivia is working. 414 00:15:07,683 --> 00:15:09,478 She's so busy taking care of her many clients 415 00:15:09,503 --> 00:15:11,634 that she's too busy to address the media, et cetera. 416 00:15:11,659 --> 00:15:13,123 You get the drift? 417 00:15:23,515 --> 00:15:24,415 No. 418 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:25,740 - Let me in. - No. 419 00:15:26,589 --> 00:15:28,391 We're gonna stand here. 420 00:15:28,416 --> 00:15:30,127 I'm gonna say "let me in" a few more times. 421 00:15:30,152 --> 00:15:31,928 You're gonna say "no" a few more times. 422 00:15:31,953 --> 00:15:33,420 And you're gonna give me a look you always give 423 00:15:33,438 --> 00:15:34,721 when you want me to know how mad you are, 424 00:15:34,747 --> 00:15:37,845 but eventually, we both know you're going to let me in 425 00:15:37,871 --> 00:15:40,267 because you always let me in. 426 00:15:47,864 --> 00:15:49,798 Nice. Elise does well. 427 00:15:49,823 --> 00:15:51,807 She's an art dealer. She has to. 428 00:15:51,832 --> 00:15:54,614 What? You thought I couldn't handle business on my own? 429 00:15:54,639 --> 00:15:55,805 I thought you were dead. 430 00:15:55,830 --> 00:15:56,997 I was at Grand Central Station, Jake. 431 00:15:57,022 --> 00:15:58,072 I was at Grand Central Station. 432 00:15:58,097 --> 00:15:59,697 You were nowhere. I was there, Jake. 433 00:15:59,722 --> 00:16:01,927 - You were not there. - I was late. 434 00:16:01,952 --> 00:16:03,045 I was late, but I was there. 435 00:16:03,070 --> 00:16:04,170 I waited! 436 00:16:04,203 --> 00:16:05,702 Protocol lets me have 25 minutes. 437 00:16:05,727 --> 00:16:06,661 I gave you an hour. 438 00:16:06,686 --> 00:16:07,552 I got there! 439 00:16:07,577 --> 00:16:08,860 You left me! 440 00:16:08,885 --> 00:16:10,902 You left me behind. 441 00:16:11,842 --> 00:16:14,227 You should have trusted I would make it. 442 00:16:14,262 --> 00:16:15,896 You should have waited. 443 00:16:25,365 --> 00:16:27,129 Look... 444 00:16:27,811 --> 00:16:29,175 Elise... 445 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,051 I don't need an apology. 446 00:16:31,076 --> 00:16:33,303 You're here about the job. 447 00:16:33,398 --> 00:16:35,081 What's the job? 448 00:16:35,106 --> 00:16:38,217 We're on the trail of some stolen art pieces. 449 00:16:38,242 --> 00:16:39,876 I need you to put out some feelers. 450 00:16:39,901 --> 00:16:41,417 Find out who's selling, make a buy. 451 00:16:41,442 --> 00:16:44,244 We put a GPS chip in the cash and track them to their boss. 452 00:16:44,269 --> 00:16:46,403 Exactly. 453 00:16:49,213 --> 00:16:51,698 I really thought you were dead. 454 00:16:51,723 --> 00:16:55,023 25 minutes no-show is one thing, but an hour? 455 00:16:55,048 --> 00:16:57,808 I thought you were dead. I thought... 456 00:16:58,387 --> 00:17:00,871 I grieved. 457 00:17:04,767 --> 00:17:07,566 I really loved being married to you. 458 00:17:09,112 --> 00:17:11,847 We were good together. 459 00:17:37,866 --> 00:17:39,116 Liz! 460 00:17:39,141 --> 00:17:40,692 Senator. 461 00:17:41,315 --> 00:17:43,750 I have to investigate him, Liz. 462 00:17:43,775 --> 00:17:45,799 We're all Republicans... Family. 463 00:17:45,824 --> 00:17:47,425 We can find a way to work this out. 464 00:17:47,450 --> 00:17:49,182 I'd sure like to, but I sure can't. 465 00:17:49,207 --> 00:17:51,330 We're talking about sex between consenting adults. 466 00:17:51,355 --> 00:17:54,720 Unfortunate, yes. Illegal? Absolutely not. 467 00:17:57,732 --> 00:18:01,167 The woman ran his campaign, worked in his White House. 468 00:18:01,192 --> 00:18:03,494 She had access to things. He paid her for things. 469 00:18:03,519 --> 00:18:04,933 So don't try and give me your talking points 470 00:18:04,958 --> 00:18:07,065 like I'm some senior citizen drooling away in my la-z-boy 471 00:18:07,090 --> 00:18:09,247 watching cable news from sunup to sundown. 472 00:18:09,272 --> 00:18:11,507 His whole administration he's had these bitches 473 00:18:11,532 --> 00:18:13,717 - lined up like planes on a Jetway. - Senator. 474 00:18:13,742 --> 00:18:14,742 Are you telling me this woman 475 00:18:14,767 --> 00:18:16,185 isn't pulling his strings like a marionette? 476 00:18:16,210 --> 00:18:18,262 There are legitimate questions. 477 00:18:18,636 --> 00:18:20,880 Now, the president can answer them in person, 478 00:18:20,905 --> 00:18:22,841 or he can come up to the Hill 479 00:18:22,866 --> 00:18:26,085 and answer them under oath on live television. 480 00:18:30,744 --> 00:18:33,122 I'm here to get some of my things. 481 00:18:33,147 --> 00:18:34,388 What are you doing? 482 00:18:34,413 --> 00:18:36,357 Don't shush me, and don't tell me it's not a good time. 483 00:18:36,382 --> 00:18:38,033 I have a right to be here whenever I... 484 00:18:38,133 --> 00:18:39,567 what? 485 00:18:48,753 --> 00:18:50,684 I wonder where Teddy is. 486 00:18:50,709 --> 00:18:51,717 You can't find him? 487 00:18:51,742 --> 00:18:53,413 I've looked everywhere. 488 00:18:53,438 --> 00:18:57,874 Have you looked... Over here? 489 00:18:57,899 --> 00:18:58,974 Not yet. 490 00:19:12,151 --> 00:19:14,522 Well, I don't see anything! 491 00:19:14,547 --> 00:19:16,249 Wow! 492 00:19:16,274 --> 00:19:17,381 Where could he be? 493 00:19:17,406 --> 00:19:19,443 How do we lose a whole boy? 494 00:19:37,586 --> 00:19:39,632 I don't want us to fight anymore. 495 00:19:39,822 --> 00:19:43,765 If you don't hurt me, I won't hurt you. 496 00:19:43,790 --> 00:19:45,931 Okay? 497 00:19:47,521 --> 00:19:49,365 Okay. 498 00:19:50,974 --> 00:19:53,266 Okay. 499 00:19:58,561 --> 00:20:00,145 I'm gonna get my things. 500 00:20:00,170 --> 00:20:01,540 I'll pick him up tomorrow. 501 00:20:01,572 --> 00:20:02,867 Okay. 502 00:20:21,128 --> 00:20:27,633 Come out, come out, wherever you are! 503 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:29,695 In his first run at the White House, 504 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:30,853 governor Fitzgerald Grant's presidential hopes 505 00:20:30,888 --> 00:20:32,414 were stopped dead 506 00:20:32,439 --> 00:20:34,383 after a humiliating defeat in the Iowa caucuses. 507 00:20:34,408 --> 00:20:38,156 Campaign manager and future chief of staff Cyrus Beene 508 00:20:38,181 --> 00:20:38,931 was desperate. 509 00:20:38,956 --> 00:20:40,223 Not just desperate... we were broke! 510 00:20:40,248 --> 00:20:42,049 The consultants... the dozens of beltway bandits 511 00:20:42,074 --> 00:20:43,361 earning 40 grand a month... 512 00:20:43,386 --> 00:20:45,687 they'd all failed to provide a winning strategy. 513 00:20:45,712 --> 00:20:47,813 Frankly, Olivia Pope was the only strategist 514 00:20:47,838 --> 00:20:48,905 I could afford at the time. 515 00:20:48,930 --> 00:20:50,400 I also knew she'd be great. 516 00:20:50,425 --> 00:20:53,923 I had no idea she'd be a miracle worker. 517 00:20:53,948 --> 00:20:55,600 A miracle worker, indeed. 518 00:20:55,625 --> 00:20:58,939 In three weeks, Olivia Pope turned a fourth-place candidate 519 00:20:58,964 --> 00:21:01,533 into the winner of the south Carolina primary. 520 00:21:01,558 --> 00:21:02,635 Keep an eye on her. 521 00:21:02,659 --> 00:21:04,376 She'll be a household name, Mark my words. 522 00:21:06,404 --> 00:21:09,736 Thus Olivia Pope is in a unique position of being a black woman 523 00:21:09,761 --> 00:21:11,512 in a world dominated by white men. 524 00:21:11,537 --> 00:21:13,688 But being an outsider is something Pope... 525 00:21:13,713 --> 00:21:14,630 sorry. 526 00:21:14,655 --> 00:21:15,605 I can't watch any more. 527 00:21:15,630 --> 00:21:17,548 It's the same crap over and over. 528 00:21:17,573 --> 00:21:19,642 I was in line at the grocery store this morning. 529 00:21:19,667 --> 00:21:22,236 There was a couple in front of me... white, mid-60s. 530 00:21:22,261 --> 00:21:23,711 The wife's looking at a picture of Liv 531 00:21:23,736 --> 00:21:24,802 on the cover of some tabloid 532 00:21:24,827 --> 00:21:26,411 and the husband's going on and on 533 00:21:26,436 --> 00:21:28,070 about how angry Liv looks, 534 00:21:28,095 --> 00:21:30,501 how he totally believes she took advantage of the president 535 00:21:30,526 --> 00:21:32,444 because she looks conniving and power-hungry, 536 00:21:32,469 --> 00:21:35,521 but the wife... God bless her... defended Olivia 537 00:21:35,546 --> 00:21:37,369 by saying, "she must be pretty sharp 538 00:21:37,394 --> 00:21:38,931 if she pulled herself up by her bootstraps 539 00:21:38,956 --> 00:21:40,540 and made it out of the ghetto." 540 00:21:40,788 --> 00:21:44,673 Liv went to one of the most expensive boarding schools 541 00:21:44,698 --> 00:21:46,668 in Europe! 542 00:21:50,570 --> 00:21:52,438 So you're not here for the money. 543 00:21:52,463 --> 00:21:54,565 I'm here to help a sister out who helped me when I needed it. 544 00:21:54,590 --> 00:21:55,723 Well, what's your suggestion? 545 00:21:55,748 --> 00:21:57,168 We call the press out. 546 00:21:57,193 --> 00:21:59,544 Make the public aware of what they're really being sold. 547 00:21:59,569 --> 00:22:01,336 We shift the conversation away from Olivia 548 00:22:01,361 --> 00:22:02,327 to the reporting of Olivia. 549 00:22:02,352 --> 00:22:03,785 Olivia's name is on that door. 550 00:22:03,810 --> 00:22:04,993 Stick to the plan. 551 00:22:05,018 --> 00:22:06,837 Gladiators don't ask questions. 552 00:22:07,933 --> 00:22:09,967 That's gonna take some getting used to. 553 00:22:12,122 --> 00:22:15,124 If you don't sit down with Senator Gibson, 554 00:22:15,149 --> 00:22:17,064 the judiciary committee is going to launch an investigation. 555 00:22:17,089 --> 00:22:18,623 This was the smart strategy? 556 00:22:18,648 --> 00:22:20,673 They mercilessly attack Olivia, 557 00:22:20,698 --> 00:22:23,449 and I have to stop my own party from investigating me. 558 00:22:23,474 --> 00:22:24,993 Remind me... what was the dumb strategy? 559 00:22:25,018 --> 00:22:26,775 The one where you've already been impeached. 560 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:28,446 The fact that Gibson is willing to negotiate 561 00:22:28,478 --> 00:22:29,267 means this is working. 562 00:22:29,292 --> 00:22:30,892 You're only here because firing you right now 563 00:22:30,917 --> 00:22:32,100 would add fuel to the scandal. 564 00:22:32,125 --> 00:22:33,993 Do you really think talking to me is your best move? 565 00:22:34,018 --> 00:22:35,431 It won't just be the senate, sir. 566 00:22:35,456 --> 00:22:36,697 If congress investigates you, 567 00:22:36,722 --> 00:22:38,390 I'll be forced to appoint a special counsel. 568 00:22:38,415 --> 00:22:40,212 A special counsel can run wild. 569 00:22:40,237 --> 00:22:43,493 No one tells them what to do. They'll bulldoze you and Liv. 570 00:22:47,943 --> 00:22:50,438 Set the meeting with Gibson. 571 00:22:57,674 --> 00:22:58,759 Feed's up. 572 00:22:58,784 --> 00:23:00,918 I got to hand it to you, boss. 573 00:23:00,943 --> 00:23:01,943 You got game. 574 00:23:01,968 --> 00:23:03,018 What are you talking about? 575 00:23:03,043 --> 00:23:04,243 Oh, I'm just saying. 576 00:23:04,268 --> 00:23:06,259 Your girlfriend back home chooses another dude. 577 00:23:06,284 --> 00:23:07,334 It's all up in your face. 578 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:08,658 So you hop across the Atlantic 579 00:23:08,683 --> 00:23:11,068 and slide back in with a hottie who hates your guts. 580 00:23:11,093 --> 00:23:12,845 Impressive. You're an idiot. 581 00:23:12,870 --> 00:23:14,142 Why is this so grainy? 582 00:23:14,167 --> 00:23:16,087 I-I don't know if I'm the guy to be giving advice here. 583 00:23:16,112 --> 00:23:16,884 You're not. 584 00:23:17,362 --> 00:23:18,746 Bonjour. 585 00:23:18,771 --> 00:23:20,103 - Zoom in. - Got it. 586 00:23:20,128 --> 00:23:22,189 Running QR-15 facial recognition. 587 00:23:22,214 --> 00:23:23,431 He brought the painting. 588 00:23:23,456 --> 00:23:25,856 Yevgeny Valenkov. Based in St. Petersburg. 589 00:23:25,881 --> 00:23:29,134 Affiliated with the Semion Mogilevich Syndicate. 590 00:23:29,159 --> 00:23:31,394 I don't understand. This guy isn't B613. 591 00:23:32,527 --> 00:23:33,661 What are they saying? 592 00:23:33,686 --> 00:23:34,886 He's got a Delacroix in the case 593 00:23:34,911 --> 00:23:36,044 and a Renoir in a warehouse. 594 00:23:36,069 --> 00:23:37,040 - That's it? - That's it. 595 00:23:37,065 --> 00:23:38,415 Where are all the other paintings? 596 00:23:40,416 --> 00:23:41,350 What's going on? 597 00:23:41,375 --> 00:23:42,842 I-I can't get it back. 598 00:23:42,867 --> 00:23:44,915 What's he saying? He wants to see the money. 599 00:23:44,940 --> 00:23:45,957 We got to get in there now, boss. 600 00:23:45,982 --> 00:23:48,801 No, if... if we go in now, we're blown. 601 00:23:48,826 --> 00:23:50,615 She knows what she's doing. 602 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,244 - Can you get the feed? - I'm trying! 603 00:24:02,199 --> 00:24:04,349 Elise? 604 00:24:05,309 --> 00:24:06,598 You're gonna be okay, Eise. 605 00:24:08,121 --> 00:24:09,596 Hey. 606 00:24:09,707 --> 00:24:10,999 Elise. 607 00:24:11,024 --> 00:24:12,758 I shot him. 608 00:24:12,783 --> 00:24:14,184 You shot him. 609 00:24:14,209 --> 00:24:15,223 You're gonna be okay. 610 00:24:15,248 --> 00:24:16,382 You hear me? 611 00:24:16,407 --> 00:24:17,390 Stay with me, Elise. 612 00:24:22,138 --> 00:24:23,913 This was your father? 613 00:24:23,938 --> 00:24:25,776 Yep, back when he was a congressman. 614 00:24:25,801 --> 00:24:27,565 Had the whole place in stitches. 615 00:24:27,590 --> 00:24:30,351 That's hilarious. 616 00:24:30,998 --> 00:24:33,051 Now, gentlemen... 617 00:24:33,358 --> 00:24:35,605 We all know why I asked you here. 618 00:24:35,630 --> 00:24:37,027 I made a mistake... 619 00:24:37,051 --> 00:24:38,378 Betrayed the people's trust... 620 00:24:38,403 --> 00:24:41,421 And, in doing so, created a situation 621 00:24:41,446 --> 00:24:44,214 where you can either support me and risk looking like fools 622 00:24:44,239 --> 00:24:46,940 or throw me under the bus and help the democrats hang me. 623 00:24:47,004 --> 00:24:49,556 But as it's me who put you in this position, 624 00:24:49,581 --> 00:24:52,717 I'm willing to offer some things in exchange for your mercy. 625 00:24:52,742 --> 00:24:54,448 Now, Steve, I know you have a tight race 626 00:24:54,473 --> 00:24:55,432 coming up in November. 627 00:24:55,458 --> 00:24:57,503 I'm prepared to stump hard on your behalf 628 00:24:57,528 --> 00:24:59,455 and put my whole machine behind your fundraising efforts. 629 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:00,671 The president's also prepared 630 00:25:00,696 --> 00:25:01,963 to back the infrastructure bill, senator. 631 00:25:01,995 --> 00:25:04,018 Even though there's way too much pork 632 00:25:04,044 --> 00:25:06,111 going to your cronies there in Wyoming, Arnie. 633 00:25:06,136 --> 00:25:07,686 Liz will finalize all the details. 634 00:25:07,711 --> 00:25:09,991 Now, unfortunately, I do have a country to run, 635 00:25:10,016 --> 00:25:12,090 so as much as I'd like to stay... 636 00:25:14,163 --> 00:25:16,362 Sit, Mr. President. 637 00:25:16,644 --> 00:25:17,980 This has been fun. 638 00:25:18,005 --> 00:25:19,713 But as far as I'm concerned, 639 00:25:19,738 --> 00:25:22,534 we're still at the foreplay stage of the evening. 640 00:25:22,566 --> 00:25:24,636 The fun stuff still lies ahead. 641 00:25:24,661 --> 00:25:26,094 So have yourself a seat 642 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:32,616 and let's start talking about the true cost of mercy. 643 00:25:40,701 --> 00:25:43,253 This is preposterous. 644 00:25:43,278 --> 00:25:45,346 Well, we'll roll them back in increments. 645 00:25:45,371 --> 00:25:47,172 That way there will be less media attention. 646 00:25:47,197 --> 00:25:48,935 Equal pay? The Brandon bill? 647 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,278 Those were huge legislative achievements, senator. 648 00:25:51,305 --> 00:25:53,239 For the democrats. Not for us. 649 00:25:53,274 --> 00:25:55,341 No. Absolutely not. 650 00:25:55,376 --> 00:25:59,775 Gentlemen, can we have the room, please? 651 00:26:00,185 --> 00:26:02,775 That means you, too, Liz. 652 00:26:11,297 --> 00:26:13,265 Stanley, this isn't politics. 653 00:26:13,290 --> 00:26:14,161 This is extortion. 654 00:26:14,186 --> 00:26:15,136 All right, how about this? 655 00:26:15,161 --> 00:26:17,807 How about I give you equal pay? Hmm? 656 00:26:17,832 --> 00:26:18,898 I'll let you keep that. 657 00:26:18,932 --> 00:26:20,783 Arnie only put that in there, I think, 658 00:26:20,808 --> 00:26:22,392 'cause his wife is driving him bonkers. 659 00:26:22,417 --> 00:26:23,767 So that's yours. 660 00:26:23,792 --> 00:26:25,176 But in return for that favor, though, 661 00:26:25,201 --> 00:26:27,635 I must insist you give us the Brandon bill. 662 00:26:27,660 --> 00:26:31,220 Stan, listen to me... whatever you have to do to kill those provisions... 663 00:26:31,245 --> 00:26:32,161 executive order... 664 00:26:32,186 --> 00:26:33,263 I'm not gonna do that. 665 00:26:33,288 --> 00:26:34,822 I'm afraid you don't have a choice. 666 00:26:34,987 --> 00:26:38,442 You know, I've had dalliances, Mr. President. 667 00:26:38,467 --> 00:26:39,516 We all have. 668 00:26:39,678 --> 00:26:41,629 Your problem is, you got caught. 669 00:26:41,654 --> 00:26:44,640 And that's why it's you on your knees in front of me 670 00:26:44,665 --> 00:26:45,964 instead of the reverse. 671 00:26:45,989 --> 00:26:48,590 Kill the Brandon bill. 672 00:26:48,615 --> 00:26:50,543 You made a lot of enemies for us 673 00:26:50,568 --> 00:26:52,753 with the law and order community passing that thing. 674 00:26:52,778 --> 00:26:54,462 If you could find a way of quashing it, 675 00:26:54,487 --> 00:26:56,504 that would make all the difference. 676 00:27:00,365 --> 00:27:02,416 Let me think about it. 677 00:27:05,552 --> 00:27:07,670 Oh, and, sir? 678 00:27:07,695 --> 00:27:11,147 Next time you decide to go outside your marriage, 679 00:27:11,172 --> 00:27:13,090 choose yourself a girl 680 00:27:13,115 --> 00:27:15,884 who's a little more palatable to the base. 681 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:20,488 What is that supposed to mean? 682 00:27:22,340 --> 00:27:24,592 Full roll-back on the Brandon bill, 683 00:27:24,617 --> 00:27:27,035 or we start pursuing impeachment. 684 00:27:27,060 --> 00:27:28,285 Sir. 685 00:27:37,103 --> 00:27:39,157 Friends say Pope's post-college years 686 00:27:39,182 --> 00:27:40,889 were typical of an urban 20-something... 687 00:27:40,914 --> 00:27:43,967 scraping by, having fun, and hustling to make her mark. 688 00:27:43,992 --> 00:27:46,442 Those hard times faded, though, 689 00:27:46,467 --> 00:27:49,052 once Pope began dating older men. 690 00:27:49,077 --> 00:27:51,062 No doubt drawn to her youth and beauty, 691 00:27:51,087 --> 00:27:54,106 the men shared not just the fact that they were older, 692 00:27:54,131 --> 00:27:55,139 but they were powerful. 693 00:27:55,164 --> 00:27:56,811 Pope was even once engaged 694 00:27:56,836 --> 00:27:59,288 to senate majority leader Edison Davis. 695 00:27:59,313 --> 00:28:02,426 Senator Davis' office refused comment for this piece. 696 00:28:02,451 --> 00:28:05,886 One thing that is certain is that with each new relationship, 697 00:28:05,911 --> 00:28:07,578 Pope's profile increased 698 00:28:07,622 --> 00:28:10,038 along with the power of the subsequent suitor. 699 00:28:10,063 --> 00:28:14,561 Knowing this, is it any wonder that Pope would set her sights 700 00:28:14,586 --> 00:28:17,321 on the powerful man on the planet? 701 00:28:34,473 --> 00:28:35,489 What? 702 00:28:35,524 --> 00:28:37,274 I need to talk to you. 703 00:28:37,475 --> 00:28:38,592 About the Brandon bill. 704 00:28:38,617 --> 00:28:41,615 Did you know that there's a porn version of us? 705 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:43,941 Actually three, I think. 706 00:28:43,975 --> 00:28:44,975 Yeah. 707 00:28:45,010 --> 00:28:46,254 - Liv... - And a lot of people, 708 00:28:46,279 --> 00:28:48,480 a lot of anonymous Internet people, 709 00:28:48,505 --> 00:28:50,440 cowards who won't use their names, 710 00:28:50,465 --> 00:28:51,992 apparently want to have me killed. 711 00:28:52,017 --> 00:28:53,267 Also raped. 712 00:28:53,301 --> 00:28:55,770 How come whenever a woman does something that people don't like 713 00:28:55,795 --> 00:28:57,612 the only way these men on the Internet 714 00:28:57,637 --> 00:29:00,038 know how to express themselves is by threatening rape? 715 00:29:00,063 --> 00:29:01,496 Listen. Turn off the computer, Liv. 716 00:29:01,521 --> 00:29:02,688 No, seriously. 717 00:29:02,713 --> 00:29:04,446 I have... 718 00:29:04,679 --> 00:29:09,466 At least 1,000 threats of rape here, 719 00:29:09,468 --> 00:29:11,363 just on this one site, 720 00:29:11,388 --> 00:29:14,207 from guys who are mad that I had the audacity 721 00:29:14,232 --> 00:29:16,465 to be born female and black. 722 00:29:16,490 --> 00:29:17,153 Olivia... 723 00:29:17,178 --> 00:29:18,244 Turn off the computer. 724 00:29:18,269 --> 00:29:21,554 Do you think if I told them I own a gun 725 00:29:21,579 --> 00:29:24,980 and that I've shot someone, they'd threaten to rape me? 726 00:29:25,005 --> 00:29:26,204 Do you think if I told them 727 00:29:26,229 --> 00:29:29,145 I've survived being kidnapped and tortured, 728 00:29:29,170 --> 00:29:31,605 they would get that their weak little misspellings 729 00:29:31,630 --> 00:29:32,812 barely make me blink? 730 00:29:32,837 --> 00:29:34,805 That I would welcome the chance 731 00:29:34,830 --> 00:29:38,049 to take out a little bit of PTSD 732 00:29:38,074 --> 00:29:39,892 on the next man who put his hands on me? 733 00:29:39,917 --> 00:29:41,218 You think they'd still want to... 734 00:29:41,243 --> 00:29:43,289 turn off the computer now, 735 00:29:43,314 --> 00:29:44,597 or I will come over there, 736 00:29:44,622 --> 00:29:46,222 walk through all the reporters outside your building, 737 00:29:46,247 --> 00:29:48,064 and turn it off for you. 738 00:30:06,337 --> 00:30:07,803 I'm fine. 739 00:30:07,828 --> 00:30:10,145 I'm just... 740 00:30:10,170 --> 00:30:14,004 I'm losing it, but only a little bit. 741 00:30:16,890 --> 00:30:19,758 I'm fine. 742 00:30:37,947 --> 00:30:39,564 How's that arm? 743 00:30:39,589 --> 00:30:40,924 Flesh wound. 744 00:30:40,949 --> 00:30:42,818 You've seen me take worse. 745 00:30:42,843 --> 00:30:45,759 I'm sorry for getting you involved in this. 746 00:30:45,784 --> 00:30:46,984 If I knew you'd get hurt... 747 00:30:47,035 --> 00:30:49,419 I never showed up at grand central station. 748 00:30:50,681 --> 00:30:52,799 We're spies. 749 00:30:52,824 --> 00:30:55,213 There's no forever for us. 750 00:30:55,238 --> 00:30:56,906 We both knew that. 751 00:30:56,931 --> 00:30:59,183 And what about now? 752 00:30:59,532 --> 00:31:01,965 What about now? 753 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,769 Come back to the states with me. 754 00:31:11,602 --> 00:31:15,112 Those senators came to you! 755 00:31:15,114 --> 00:31:16,839 They're deferring to you. 756 00:31:16,864 --> 00:31:19,047 They're bowing down. What should that tell you? 757 00:31:19,072 --> 00:31:21,206 That's it time to come out from behind the throne 758 00:31:21,231 --> 00:31:23,698 and wield some power that's got your name on it! 759 00:31:23,723 --> 00:31:25,667 I won't do it, Cyrus. 760 00:31:25,692 --> 00:31:27,393 As much as I want to, there's no way 761 00:31:27,418 --> 00:31:29,017 that I come out of this looking like anything more 762 00:31:29,042 --> 00:31:30,026 than a vindictive harpy. 763 00:31:30,051 --> 00:31:31,402 The smart play... 764 00:31:31,427 --> 00:31:34,195 the smart play is to take the high road. 765 00:31:34,220 --> 00:31:35,953 You know that. 766 00:31:37,262 --> 00:31:39,947 What that man did to you... 767 00:31:39,972 --> 00:31:41,372 What he did to us... 768 00:31:41,397 --> 00:31:42,997 Is on completely different levels. 769 00:31:43,022 --> 00:31:44,506 Cyrus, come on. 770 00:31:44,531 --> 00:31:46,165 He was my husband. 771 00:31:46,190 --> 00:31:49,259 You were just colleagues, friends. 772 00:31:49,284 --> 00:31:51,987 Why are so hell-bent on revenge? 773 00:31:52,012 --> 00:31:53,880 Let it go already. 774 00:31:53,951 --> 00:31:56,520 C-colleagues. 775 00:31:56,554 --> 00:31:57,386 Friends. 776 00:31:57,411 --> 00:32:01,285 Mellie, I devoted my life to him, to you, 777 00:32:01,310 --> 00:32:02,386 to the Grant cause. 778 00:32:02,411 --> 00:32:05,674 The last 14 years have been... 779 00:32:08,933 --> 00:32:11,201 He kicked me in the teeth and didn't even look back, 780 00:32:11,226 --> 00:32:13,060 and I'm supposed to just it go? 781 00:32:13,085 --> 00:32:16,104 I guess that's the difference between me and you, Cy. 782 00:32:16,129 --> 00:32:17,558 When my heart is broken, 783 00:32:17,583 --> 00:32:20,102 I can get up and dust myself off 784 00:32:20,127 --> 00:32:22,312 and walk away with some dignity. 785 00:32:23,781 --> 00:32:25,515 Dignity's a good visual. 786 00:32:26,736 --> 00:32:29,009 That's... that's what you think the difference is? 787 00:32:29,034 --> 00:32:30,551 Between you and me? No, no. 788 00:32:30,576 --> 00:32:31,760 There difference between you and me 789 00:32:31,785 --> 00:32:33,073 is that your heart was never broken 790 00:32:33,098 --> 00:32:34,282 because you never loved him. 791 00:32:34,307 --> 00:32:37,666 You needed him, used him, coexisted with him, 792 00:32:37,691 --> 00:32:39,511 but you did not love him! 793 00:32:39,536 --> 00:32:41,754 I would have died for that man. 794 00:32:41,779 --> 00:32:44,247 I loved him as my son... 795 00:32:44,272 --> 00:32:45,705 As my child... 796 00:32:45,730 --> 00:32:47,310 As my soul. 797 00:32:47,773 --> 00:32:50,123 That does not end. That never ends. 798 00:32:50,148 --> 00:32:53,617 It just rips a hole inside of you that never closes. 799 00:32:53,642 --> 00:32:55,075 Your child is dead! 800 00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:57,318 You can visit his grave, bring him flowers. 801 00:32:57,343 --> 00:32:59,611 You know exactly where he is and what he is. 802 00:32:59,636 --> 00:33:02,011 My child is breathing and talking 803 00:33:02,036 --> 00:33:04,570 right down the block from me at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 804 00:33:04,595 --> 00:33:05,866 but I can't see him. 805 00:33:05,891 --> 00:33:08,108 I don't know how he is or what he needs 806 00:33:08,133 --> 00:33:09,383 or if he's even okay. 807 00:33:09,408 --> 00:33:10,472 He's surrounded by vultures 808 00:33:10,497 --> 00:33:12,503 who want to pick the flesh from his bones, 809 00:33:12,528 --> 00:33:15,045 but he doesn't know it. 810 00:33:15,070 --> 00:33:16,737 And I do. 811 00:33:16,762 --> 00:33:19,530 And I'm not there to shelter him from the storms, 812 00:33:19,555 --> 00:33:24,612 to pick up after him, to remove the obstacles in his path. 813 00:33:24,637 --> 00:33:28,875 Your child is safe in the ground 814 00:33:28,900 --> 00:33:31,575 where everything bad has already happened. 815 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,470 But my child... my soul... 816 00:33:35,645 --> 00:33:38,080 all you have to do is turn on the news 817 00:33:38,105 --> 00:33:40,023 to see that the bad things for him 818 00:33:40,048 --> 00:33:41,500 are just getting started. 819 00:33:41,884 --> 00:33:43,992 Get out... 820 00:33:44,195 --> 00:33:47,234 Before I have you thrown out. 821 00:33:48,092 --> 00:33:51,345 Oh, no need, no need. 822 00:33:51,996 --> 00:33:53,997 I quit. 823 00:34:00,628 --> 00:34:02,078 reason, high crimes and misdemeanors. 824 00:34:02,129 --> 00:34:03,728 These are the charges for impeachment, 825 00:34:03,753 --> 00:34:05,170 according to our constitution. 826 00:34:05,221 --> 00:34:08,640 Just which of them, if any, will president Grant face? 827 00:34:08,674 --> 00:34:10,709 Within minutes of Ms. Pope's declaration, 828 00:34:10,743 --> 00:34:13,445 pundits began postulating how, and if, 829 00:34:13,479 --> 00:34:15,597 Grant broke the law with his affair. 830 00:34:17,049 --> 00:34:18,800 Are you gonna respond to allegations? 831 00:34:18,834 --> 00:34:20,118 Where is Olivia Pope? 832 00:34:20,152 --> 00:34:21,152 When's she coming out of hiding? 833 00:34:21,187 --> 00:34:22,721 Just tell us why she won't defend herself 834 00:34:22,755 --> 00:34:24,276 as passionately as she defends her clients. 835 00:34:24,301 --> 00:34:25,968 She's usually so well-spoken. 836 00:34:30,412 --> 00:34:32,112 "For a black woman." 837 00:34:33,914 --> 00:34:36,344 "She's usually so well-spoken for a black woman." 838 00:34:36,369 --> 00:34:37,802 Isn't that what you meant? 839 00:34:37,837 --> 00:34:40,605 I say that because I've been looking at the last 72 hours 840 00:34:40,630 --> 00:34:42,030 of your station's news coverage, 841 00:34:42,055 --> 00:34:43,138 and when you're not suggesting 842 00:34:43,163 --> 00:34:44,863 that Olivia Pope is an angry black woman, 843 00:34:44,888 --> 00:34:46,488 you're implying she's a homewrecker 844 00:34:46,513 --> 00:34:47,613 who slept her way to the top. 845 00:34:49,047 --> 00:34:50,948 What the hell was that? 846 00:34:50,973 --> 00:34:52,807 - Gladiating. - You did the exact opposite of what I asked. 847 00:34:52,832 --> 00:34:53,898 You can only dodge so long. 848 00:34:53,923 --> 00:34:55,106 At some point, you have to throw a punch. 849 00:34:55,131 --> 00:34:56,432 You went off-script. 850 00:34:56,457 --> 00:34:58,792 This... Is... War. 851 00:34:58,817 --> 00:35:00,400 There is no script. 852 00:35:00,425 --> 00:35:01,416 You can choose the battle, 853 00:35:01,441 --> 00:35:03,385 but if you send me out, I'm fighting my way. 854 00:35:03,410 --> 00:35:04,827 I don't play. I don't hide. 855 00:35:04,852 --> 00:35:06,352 I don't hold back or look for exits, 856 00:35:06,377 --> 00:35:08,077 and I sure as hell don't lean on the ropes and take it. 857 00:35:08,102 --> 00:35:10,010 I swing because that's me. 858 00:35:10,035 --> 00:35:12,870 That's who I am. That is how I gladiate. 859 00:35:19,162 --> 00:35:20,518 They're gonna try to confuse you. 860 00:35:20,543 --> 00:35:22,644 They will bring up your past criminal record to rattle you. 861 00:35:22,669 --> 00:35:24,136 When you get stuck or don't know what to say, 862 00:35:24,161 --> 00:35:26,296 just accuse them of playing dog-whistle politics. 863 00:35:26,321 --> 00:35:28,486 Now, Quinn Perkins wasn't always your name. 864 00:35:28,511 --> 00:35:30,179 Before you started working for Ms. Pope, 865 00:35:30,204 --> 00:35:31,538 you were known as Lindsay Dwyer. 866 00:35:31,563 --> 00:35:32,813 The "Molotov Mistress." 867 00:35:32,838 --> 00:35:34,122 That's what you were going for, right, Dan? 868 00:35:34,147 --> 00:35:35,798 But why would you bring that up now 869 00:35:35,823 --> 00:35:37,157 when we're supposed to be talking about... 870 00:35:37,182 --> 00:35:39,616 Olivia Pope doesn't fit with the slutty-mistress stereotype. 871 00:35:39,641 --> 00:35:41,541 So instead of representing her as she is... 872 00:35:41,566 --> 00:35:42,866 a formidable, passionate advocate... 873 00:35:42,891 --> 00:35:44,341 you take the easy route, shading her, 874 00:35:44,366 --> 00:35:45,916 using all manner of coded language. 875 00:35:45,941 --> 00:35:47,709 There's a name for that, Claire, and it's... 876 00:35:47,734 --> 00:35:48,951 Dog-whistle politics. 877 00:35:48,976 --> 00:35:50,910 That's your buzzword. That's your talking point. 878 00:35:50,935 --> 00:35:52,402 Dog-whistle politics. 879 00:35:52,427 --> 00:35:54,111 Yeah, okay, but what exactly is that? 880 00:35:54,136 --> 00:35:57,167 It's racism, sexism, anti-semitism, misogyny. 881 00:35:57,192 --> 00:35:59,460 It's bigotry in the form of a language so coded that... 882 00:35:59,485 --> 00:36:01,470 Only the person it's targeting is insulted by it, 883 00:36:01,495 --> 00:36:03,329 - like a dog whistle. - It lets them get away with it. 884 00:36:03,666 --> 00:36:06,354 - Are you accusing me of using offensive language? - Yes. 885 00:36:06,379 --> 00:36:08,025 On this network alone, Olivia Pope 886 00:36:08,050 --> 00:36:09,484 has been described as lucky... 887 00:36:09,509 --> 00:36:10,642 sassy, ambitious... 888 00:36:10,667 --> 00:36:12,451 well-spoken, well-mannered, articulate... 889 00:36:12,476 --> 00:36:15,428 shrill, calculating, overconfident, secretive... 890 00:36:15,453 --> 00:36:16,720 urban, hot-blooded... 891 00:36:16,745 --> 00:36:18,212 known to use thug politics... 892 00:36:18,237 --> 00:36:19,605 arrogant, a siren. 893 00:36:19,630 --> 00:36:21,998 Words like these mean nothing to the general public, 894 00:36:22,023 --> 00:36:23,223 which is why the media... 895 00:36:23,248 --> 00:36:24,965 and I'm including you in there, Claire... 896 00:36:24,990 --> 00:36:26,182 can get away with using them. 897 00:36:26,207 --> 00:36:28,303 But when women of color, like Ms. Pope, 898 00:36:28,328 --> 00:36:29,795 hear that kind of coded language, 899 00:36:29,820 --> 00:36:31,349 they know exactly what you're getting at. 900 00:36:31,374 --> 00:36:34,823 Well, that's all the time we have tonight. 901 00:36:34,848 --> 00:36:37,807 Would you like to add anything else before you go? 902 00:36:37,832 --> 00:36:39,516 Dog-whistle politics. 903 00:36:39,541 --> 00:36:40,491 Yes. 904 00:36:40,516 --> 00:36:42,885 You've said that a few times now. 905 00:36:47,212 --> 00:36:48,812 So... 906 00:36:48,837 --> 00:36:50,537 Who's gonna tell Olivia I work here now? 907 00:36:50,562 --> 00:36:51,907 I will. 908 00:36:51,932 --> 00:36:53,182 I'm damaged. 909 00:36:53,207 --> 00:36:55,191 She doesn't like to yell at me. 910 00:37:02,511 --> 00:37:04,195 Mr. President. 911 00:37:04,220 --> 00:37:05,654 Abby. 912 00:37:05,850 --> 00:37:07,418 Liv said I can't fire you 913 00:37:07,452 --> 00:37:09,169 because you did exactly what she would do. 914 00:37:09,650 --> 00:37:12,005 Do you always do what Liv would do? 915 00:37:12,030 --> 00:37:13,630 Well... 916 00:37:13,655 --> 00:37:15,722 I learned from her playbook, so... 917 00:37:15,747 --> 00:37:17,044 I don't know. I guess so. 918 00:37:17,095 --> 00:37:19,780 Just look at the first page. 919 00:37:19,831 --> 00:37:21,176 It's a summary. 920 00:37:30,951 --> 00:37:33,285 Sir, the Brandon bill is your legacy. 921 00:37:33,310 --> 00:37:34,978 Yeah. 922 00:37:35,013 --> 00:37:37,981 What would Liv do about that? 923 00:37:41,041 --> 00:37:43,526 If you have any hope of avoiding impeachment, 924 00:37:43,551 --> 00:37:46,192 I'm sorry, but you have to give Gibson what he wants. 925 00:37:46,217 --> 00:37:47,662 That's what Liv would do? 926 00:37:47,687 --> 00:37:50,061 That's the smart move, yes. 927 00:37:53,131 --> 00:37:54,097 Abby. 928 00:37:54,132 --> 00:37:55,482 Sir? 929 00:37:55,507 --> 00:37:59,278 It's Olivia's job as a fixer to be smart... 930 00:37:59,303 --> 00:38:01,230 To be practical and unemotional. 931 00:38:01,255 --> 00:38:03,173 She makes the the smart move. 932 00:38:03,198 --> 00:38:05,866 In her office, the smart move is the only move that counts, 933 00:38:05,891 --> 00:38:07,751 but you know what? 934 00:38:08,453 --> 00:38:10,521 We don't work for Liv. 935 00:38:10,967 --> 00:38:13,018 I'm president of the United States. 936 00:38:13,043 --> 00:38:14,510 We work for the American people. 937 00:38:14,535 --> 00:38:17,051 The playbook is the constitution. 938 00:38:17,165 --> 00:38:22,619 In my office, it's not about doing the smart thing. 939 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:24,728 It's about doing the right thing. 940 00:38:29,777 --> 00:38:31,728 Dog-whistle politics. 941 00:38:31,753 --> 00:38:34,979 We interrupt this broadcast with some breaking news. 942 00:38:35,004 --> 00:38:37,409 Dog-whistle politics. The president's motorcade was seen leaving the White House 943 00:38:37,434 --> 00:38:38,985 roughly eight minutes ago 944 00:38:39,010 --> 00:38:41,711 and is currently traveling down Wisconsin Avenue. 945 00:38:41,746 --> 00:38:43,179 White House sources tell us 946 00:38:43,214 --> 00:38:44,974 no outing was planned for the evening, 947 00:38:44,999 --> 00:38:46,516 so president Fitzgerald Grant 948 00:38:46,550 --> 00:38:48,518 appears to be taking an unscheduled ride 949 00:38:48,552 --> 00:38:49,760 in the presidential limousine. 950 00:38:49,785 --> 00:38:51,932 We are unsure where exactly the president is headed. 951 00:38:51,957 --> 00:38:53,490 What are you doing? 952 00:38:53,516 --> 00:38:56,284 But he's clearly not visiting the Capitol or the Pentagon. 953 00:38:56,327 --> 00:38:59,096 The motorcade now making its way through a residential area. 954 00:38:59,121 --> 00:39:00,755 Don't you dare. 955 00:39:00,780 --> 00:39:03,247 Don't you dare. That is, in fact, the same neighborhood 956 00:39:03,272 --> 00:39:04,806 where the president's mistress, 957 00:39:04,831 --> 00:39:08,729 former communications director Olivia Pope, currently resides. 958 00:39:08,754 --> 00:39:13,291 And I'm being told that this is Olivia Pope's building. 959 00:39:13,316 --> 00:39:15,580 For those of you just tuning in now, 960 00:39:15,605 --> 00:39:17,581 the president of the United States 961 00:39:17,606 --> 00:39:19,607 appears to be visiting the woman 962 00:39:19,632 --> 00:39:21,766 with whom he's been having an affair. 963 00:39:43,218 --> 00:39:44,450 What the hell are you doing? 964 00:39:47,271 --> 00:39:49,840 What the hell are you doing? 965 00:39:49,865 --> 00:39:51,871 The right thing. 966 00:39:51,896 --> 00:39:54,331 I'm taking my girlfriend on a date. 967 00:39:58,205 --> 00:40:00,307 Guys, look away, 968 00:40:00,332 --> 00:40:03,734 cause I'm gonna make out with my girlfriend now. 969 00:40:03,759 --> 00:40:05,629 Fitz. 970 00:40:05,654 --> 00:40:08,839 Fitz. Fitz! 971 00:40:23,711 --> 00:40:25,329 An unprecedented sight. 972 00:40:25,354 --> 00:40:27,893 President Grant escorting his reputed mistress, 973 00:40:27,918 --> 00:40:29,427 Olivia Pope. 974 00:40:29,452 --> 00:40:32,504 A bold move, as if he's daring the world 975 00:40:32,529 --> 00:40:34,521 to come between them. 976 00:40:41,322 --> 00:40:42,572 Olivia... Reputed... Daring... 977 00:40:42,597 --> 00:40:46,106 Will Olivia Pope become our next first lady 978 00:40:46,131 --> 00:40:49,132 or the first lady to take down a sitting president? 979 00:40:50,816 --> 00:40:52,047 It's late, Mellie. 980 00:40:52,072 --> 00:40:54,239 I know. I take it you've seen the news. 981 00:40:56,240 --> 00:40:57,273 That's why I called you here... 982 00:40:57,298 --> 00:40:58,835 because I wanted to talk to you... 983 00:40:58,860 --> 00:41:01,835 About impeaching my husband. 984 00:41:02,585 --> 00:41:04,232 I'm Francesca Hunter, 985 00:41:04,257 --> 00:41:08,216 and tonight, we are, as always, on the hunt.