And So The White Hat Moves Into The White House #Scandal #ABC
#TGITAwakens
Well, the stuff hit the fan or nearly hit the fan... sort of. With
Scandal moving ever so close to its winter finale, last night finally
put some heat back into the otherwise lackluster couple of weeks.
The latest episode of Scandal (#Scandal) began with the framing
device of a treaty or accord or whatever they call it when two
countries that have been feuding non-militarily finally come together
and open their borders to each other, singing and holding hands as
they skip through that yellow-flowered field of love. Holding a
dinner for the leaders of the Middle Eastern Muslim country, Cyrus is
shocked when they accept Liv instead of shunning her as the
president's full-time hoe. As she and the President dine with the
leader, his interpreter slyly sneaks a plea for asylum in between the
otherwise frivolous banter.
The man wants to come to America at first for reasons unknown other
than the fact that the leader has become obsessively violent, killing
anyone who so much as breathes incorrectly in his presence. Kept
under lock and key by his country's security, Olivia tells him that
he better have really good leverage/intel on something dirty his
country is doing in order to risk the history-making signing. The
intel he gives her is of the nuclear variety, expressing how he knows
of a factory where they are making and housing nuclear weapons. Not
wanting to risk the treaty, the President says he wants nothing to do
with this and hands it off to Liv.
Meanwhile, as she puts her team on figuring out if the coordinates the man gave to this secret site reveal anything worthwhile, she also has to deal with the slow-rise of the aftermath of her releasing her father from prison, or rather, playing a part in his release. Never one to stray too far away from his baby girl, Eli comes to visit her office and expresses a true sense of fear. Someone is trying to kill him and he's afraid they'll succeed. What? The devil's afraid of going to hell? I'm shocked! Dear God, no. Somebody stop him from being killed. What has he done to deserve such a fate!?
Anyway, having compassion for some reason unknown to me, she tells
all of her current "men"--Jake, the president--that her
father is in danger. Knowing the man's a world-class criminal who has
tried to kill them before, of course both men swell with sympathy
deep in their hearts for the man. The truth is that the president
can't wait to see Eli dead and even sicks Jake on the hunt to find
him. Always one step behind, Jake comes too late to the hideaway he
tracked Eli to, finding instead the former secret service man that
killed the President's son. But apparently Fitz ordered Jake not to
kill the man just bring him back in because ever since he's been
gettin' sex on the reg' from Liv, he's become a cuddly teddy bear.
Back to the guy seeking asylum, when the team manages to find the
listed coordinates on satellite, they do see a building there with
huge trucks entering and exiting. A scan for nuclear activity reveals
zip! The guy must have lied--anything to get out of his country and
to the land of the free. Denying his asylum, Liv focuses her efforts
on trying to figure out how to tell Fitz about her father and what
she did there. But Huck spots a discrepancy in the satellite pictures
over the course of weeks. While tons of trucks come in and out of the
facility, the 18-wheelers sitting in the back of the supposed soda
facility never move. What does come in and out are the water tankers.
Why the need for so much water? To cool mega servers. Turns out the
factory is a cover for a cyber warfare division that has been
responsible for countless digital attacks on western targets. The guy
was partially right.
Running back to the man, Liv finds him with a slit wrist in the
bathroom of his hospital room (her team had to poison him just to get
him away from his country's own detail). The doctors manage to save
his life after which he reveals the reason he wanted asylum. He's
gay. And not to stereotype or be insensitive but gays in the Middle
East don't fair well no matter how important they are to their
leaders.
The day saved, Liv can go back to her place happy, right? Wrong! The
side story of finding her father got Cyrus up to his old tricks of
manipulating at a doctorate-level and using USADA David to dig
through the prison files and figure out who got Eli released. Though
Mellie actually did the act, the paperwork somehow points back to
Liv. She is then detained and brought to that creepy interrogation
cell with the poor lighting and walls that look dungeon-esque.\
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| Epic Cry Face! |
Now forced to tell Fitz, Liv comes clean about everything in a
beautifully artful scene in which none of the dialogue is heard as
the song "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" plays in the
background. Disgusted, Fitz only needed time to cool off before
making another power play of his own and releasing her without
charges. But she is released right into the White House, the place
she didn't want to be living in because it felt like a cage. Her face
telling it all, she is not the least thrilled to be living with her
love-of-her-life boyfriend as she watches the servants move all of
her clothes into their closet. Smooth move, Fitz. The episode ended
on Eli being roped to a chair in a factory and who else but Huck
coming to "ask him some questions."
I loved this episode and I will be referring back to it in a few
weeks when every show starts going on that long winter/holiday hiatus
and the Christmas carols start playing and nothing is on to watch,
but for now I'll keep my secret but interesting topic under wraps.
What do you think? Should Fitz have been so forgiving of Olivia so
quickly? Do you like how he made the silent power play to get what he
wants, knowing that she can't make a real objection to her new digs?
Do you think Huck will actually kill Eli or will the
writers/producers find a way to keep their big villain around? Let
me know in the comments below (hint: click the no comments button if
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P.S. For all you comedy fans out there, Amy Schumer's Trainwreck is
out for the Holiday season. I thought it was an OK comedy, but
nothing to write home about. But hey, if you like it, good for you.
P.P.S. After a late-night viewing of NBC's The Blacklist, I might have to make that my DVRRewind as I see the Provocateurs are hard at work trying to fluster people. The same guy seeking asylum on Scandal was also doing the exact same thing on The Blacklist in the same time slot. Blowing your mind yet?
AmazonP.P.S. After a late-night viewing of NBC's The Blacklist, I might have to make that my DVRRewind as I see the Provocateurs are hard at work trying to fluster people. The same guy seeking asylum on Scandal was also doing the exact same thing on The Blacklist in the same time slot. Blowing your mind yet?
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