Who Got Shot?!?!?

"Scandalous Thursdays!"

"Hi!  My name is Faith Margaret and I watch Scandal."  I enjoy it.  Thoroughly…and will blog  right here about all new episodes on Thursday nights beginning next week.  Oh!  Your theories about what is happening next in this suspenseful show are welcomed along with my musings. 

I don’t care what he does or what he says.  I STILL do not believe Jake as Command.  He ain’t ready, baby!  He is confessing to Olivia that it just may be too much and wants to just be the cat that sells paper.  The REAL Command would NEVER say anything like that.  Period.  And Quinn gets to talk to Jake any damn way she pleases?!?  Cue my incredulous stare.  Come.  On!  You and I both know nobody talks to The REAL Command like that!  Fire Jake!  Fire Jake!  Fire Jake!  *stomping around in a circle with my picket sign*

Sally Langston is losing her righteous mind!  She would scare me if I ran into her with the clever way she can dress you down with her venomous tongue and her intimidating stare.  “Yum yum, crispy piggy!  Yum!  Yum!”  I have GOT to find a way to use that line in the midst of some heated argument I am having with someone.  I digress.  Sally’s number one dude is quite motivated to figure out how to stop Sally from confessing to the world that she killed her husband, effectively interrupting The REAL Command’s plan for fear of getting “fired” by The REAL Command.  Sally called Olivia the devil right before telling her she knows she is not a religious woman and won’t hold it against her.  That Sally has a way with words, doesn’t she?

David.  David.  David.  Believing Cyrus’ ultra sensitive husband will stand with him until the end, he runs to Olivia again with the drama.  He makes a good case to Olivia appealing to the White Hat part of her business (which must be collecting hella dust in the closet because she has not worn it in a minute), “This is your chance to be on the right side again, Olivia.”  Abbey rescued him last week from the trunk of a car behind that Publius mess and she cautions him one more time to be careful.  But does he listen?  No.  Typical.   

The REAL Command is working to push Sally Langston towards the White House in his mission to destroy President Grant and he will not be deterred.  Don’t you love his laugh?   Diabolical, evil and delightful at the same time.  Cyrus ran to Jake asking for him to let that weirdo, Charlie freelance from B6-13 and kill Sally Langston to avoid her confessing and destroying any chance of President Grant winning reelection, which Jake politely declines.   Not to be deterred, Cyrus makes a beeline to his homie for a little bit of help.  She tries to distance herself from the fray,  “I’m gonna walk into the light and feel the sun on my face, Cyrus!” but despite her best effort to deny him, she decides to clean up another horrible mess for the sake of the Republic.  Kinda reminds me of that scene from The Godfather when Al Pacino says, “Every time I try to get out, they pull me back in!”  Back to the shadows for you, Olivia. 

Jake wants Olivia to stand in the sun with him but she keeps lurking into the shadows with anyone connected to the White House.  He seems to really want to have a real relationship with Olivia.  Still.  And she disappoints him every time.  I can hear the chorus of angry voices in the background remarking about how much of a slut Olivia is for letting Jake take advantage of her while she still is navigating that mess Fitz.    

Incredulous that he has been lied to and left out of the goings on again, President Grant saves the day.  He steps in and offers Sally a sign from God that convinces her to not confess to the country she killed her husband.  Olivia makes her way back to Fitz after the debate and calls it what it is.  “How dirty and dark it is behind he curtain of power.  This is what we do.  This is how it works.  There is no clean.  Just like there is no Vermont.”  Basically, we do dirt for this thing we have going and instead of trying to clean up the dirt, let’s just enjoy it since it’s all around us.    

If Cyrus doesn’t stop crying an sniveling and apologizing to James when he gets busted and James shames him?  He only cries when he feels power slipping from him hands.  And David Rosen loses again!  James meets him to back out of joining his crusade to bring down murderers in the White House and he is back to square one. It’s almost comical, really.  Until someone shows up firing on folks and it is fake ass Command Jake.  My money is on David Rosen taking that last bullet.  And James runs sniveling into the night to be found next week in a fetal position in nearby bushes.    

Is Jake serious about letting Quinn into the B6-13 family or is he using her to even the score with Olivia after she did what she always does after she’s intimate with Jake.  Reminds him she is Team White House. 

It’s amazing to me the lengths people will go to maintain the ownership of power in the White House.  I mean, I knew it…but I really didn’t know it, you know?  With every episode of Scandal the more suspicious I become (like I needed much help) of what happens in Washington D.C.  It must be tough to know all the salacious, incredible and moral testing information as a political figure.  I imagine many of them seek therapy or some sort of support once they leave the political arena to just get their minds right.  Fascinating use of religion juxtaposed against the backdrop of power and evil in the White House.  I would be lost, too if I couldn’t hear Jesus’ voice anymore. 

   

They sure are hiding Kerry Washington’s pregnancy well.  Until next week…