SCANDAL Recap: There is Always a Price for Betrayal

Oh Scandal how I’ve missed you…Three weeks away is too long.

A Professor and a Coed: The case of the week revolves around a woman named Sarah (Lisa Edelstein) who had a long ago affair with the Judge the White House has nominated to fill Vera’s seat. Harrison, Abbey and Olivia head over to Sarah’s house to get her side of the story. When Cyrus finds out Olivia is handling this scandal he is livid. He wants her to shut it down right now. When Olivia refuses to do anything other than what is best for her client Cyrus utters the “Line of the Night”
Olivia: I’m apolitical. Cyrus: Is your vagina apolitical?
In retaliation Cyrus puts a team on Sarah to find out everything about her, they end up painting her as a stalker to the media.
To make matters worse Sarah’s company tries to fire Sarah for being in breach of their morality clause. Harrison and Abbey have a small chat about their strained relationship – basically Abbey realizes now that Harrison is a Gladiator first and a person second – before going to the board meeting where the company Sarah works for is about to fire her. Harrison and Abbey show up with an empty box – a box they claim is full of dirt they spent the week digging up on the board members. They called the boards bluff and thankfully it worked.
Sarah keeps her job and there might be a chance her husband will be able to eventually forgive her for the affair.

Confidential Informant: Olivia pays Jake a visit at his office to give him the information she got from the Albatross files concerning the American hostages. She makes him promise he won’t say where it came from though or bring it to the CIA.
Jake visits Olivia at her case of the week location to make sure the intel she gave him is sound. While he is talking to her an overeager paparazzi snaps a picture of Jake with Olivia. Olivia says it happens but Jake doesn’t seem so happy about it. He obviously can’t be seen with Olivia by the press.
Deciding to trust Olivia Jake brings the CIA intel on the hostages to Fitz, sighting an anonymous source. Poor Olivia gets no credit – which is how she wanted it but it still was a little sad that she is helping Fitz without him realizing it. Fitz uses the intel to plan a raid and free the hostages – It is quite successful.
Later that night in a ski mask and gloves, Jake breaks into the paparazzi’s house to get the picture he took of him and Olivia. The paparazzi gets home during the break in and Jake beats the crap out of him, takes the memory card with the picture and gets out of there.
With the case over Olivia heads back home when Jake shows up, black eye and bloody lip, something he says is due to being mugged. While she is getting ice for his face he sits on her couch and smiles at his own cameras – it’s so creepy. It was up until that point that I almost forgot Jake was crazy, which says something for Scandal writing and Scott Foley as an actor.

Dynamic Duo: In what can only be described as the best and most unlikely partnering Quinn and Huck (that’s right no more Quinnsay) continue their mentor/mentee program. Huck is all Jedi Master with the lesson in stalking, and who better to practice on then the Director of the CIA.
Huck and Quinn figure out the dry cleaner the CIA Director uses is the drop point for his bad bad activities and they are right. Unfortunately for Quinn by the end of the episode she is on the CIA Directors radar.

Ruined: It wouldn’t be an episode of Scandal without some heartbreaking Fitz and Olivia drama.
When Fitz finds out Olivia’s client is the person standing in the way of his Supreme Court Nominee he makes a late night call to her…well after drinking quite a bit, liquid courage and all that.
Fitz: I wish you had been honest with me. If you didn’t think I was good enough to be President…I trusted you, you know. You were all I had. You ruined me. I’m ruined.
Olivia: I’m ruined.
Fitz: I don’t care.

So there we have it. What did you guys think? Thankfully there will be a new episode next week.

Scandal airs Thursday 10/9c on ABC