Fitz is awoken from his precious slumber and made to deal with his still intoxicated daughter, Karen. He nearly loses it before Olivia let’s her out of the room and calms Fitz down, since, of course, she’s the only one who can do it. He almost begs her to find who has the video and deal with the situation quietly. The next scene, we see Huck and Quinn walking through the White House meaning…Olivia is indeed taking this case. Fitz is happy she’s there and even Cyrus, but the moment Mellie sees Olivia roaming those hallways once again, there was no way she could keep her cool. Interpretation: when they start hooking up again. Fitz now drops his cool, caring, award winning husband behavior to call his wife “smelly mellie” amongst a number of other various insults. He follows that by revealing that their daughter made a sex tape and there is no one better for the job to cover it up than Olivia Pope. There’s this uncomfortable moment of waiting for Mellie’s response. Will she respond to Fitz’s cruel accusations about her or about Karen’s sex tape? Instead, she decides to attack Fitz, saying his daughter is doing just as her father does. Harsh, but, what did he expect after calling his wife smelly? Luckily, she shuts the Morgan’s down in a very “Olivia Pope” manner, affirming she is the best and what she does and will destroy them if they don’t back down. They sign some sort of confidentiality papers and Olivia steps back into the spotlight. But, why isn’t Jake there to celebrate with her? It’s clear throughout the episode that Jake is working up to revealing to both Olivia and the president about Rowan’s involvement in the murder of Jerry Jr. We know he commanded Tom Larson, the secret service agent we thought was most trustworthy to Fitz, to kill him. In the final scene, however, Rowan is brought in to interrogate Tom. Rowan is a master at his skill and forces Tom to say it was Jake who set the order to kill Jerry. As Jake sits patiently outside the Oval office, he is taken away by security and Tom is hauled off in cuffs. Rowan wins again, Fitz wins again, and Olivia…she is due for a rude awakening into just how corrupt these two men in her life really are. As she does with the subject of all her investigations, it’s time to slap a picture of both her father and Fitz on the window in her office and unravel the webs each of them continues to string together. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing.
