Scandal

Quinn: I am done. I am done defending you, huck.

The best thing I could do for you is to shoot you.

Please, Quinn. Do it.

Last season on "scandal"...

Man: Your new junior senator!

There was a donor to Mrs. Grant's campaign.

What did he ask her to do?

I need you to get me a list.

Pack your bags and get out of my house!

Cyrus, you arrested Olivia.

You worked with the man who killed my son.

You're fired.

I am in love with you.

But you... Are in love with him.

Hi.

Hi.

Lovers of Liberty, good evening.

Tonight, I come to you

filled with the righteous indignation of a true American.

Tonight, my flag waves and my patriotic fires burn,

because tonight, over in the white house,

the man who calls himself our president is throwing a party.

He's making a mockery of what our fine nation stands for.

He has betrayed honor and virtue.

And tonight, he celebrates that betrayal.

Tonight, he bathes in his filthy glory.

Tonight, he has the audacity to ask us...

Patriots, Americans...

To join him in his jubilation,

to skip with him down the road to sodom and gomorrah.

And all the while, he holds our hands

and tells us fairy tales...

A young woman, a commoner, an all-American girl,

who falls in love with the golden son who would be king?

Really?

It's a story.

And not a very original one, at that.

Hi.

Hi.

And even if it is true,

even if it is the single greatest

true love story of all time,

are we supposed to care?

Am I supposed to swoon?

Do not hold your breath.

The amount of money spent on this party is atrocious.

Your hard-earned tax dollars needlessly and lavishly spent

on a five-course meal with... What did I read?...

Two, no, three kinds of wine plus champagne.

Wow.

Thank you.

No. Okay.

Be careful.

This dress is couture.

I need it to stay perfect.

Then take it off.

And what is it all for, Liberty lovers?

Why, it is for our very own

American Princess and her prince charming!

Ha!

That's what the white house would like you to think.

But isn't it more likely that the president is simply using

our own Princess Emily,

her humble Iowa roots,

her sure-footed midwestern values?

Using her marriage to prince Richard to justify

throwing this overpriced white house state dinner

for the nation of caledonia?

Isn't it possible that the goal is really

to butter up Princess Emily's mother-in-law,

her majesty, queen Isabel?

Isn't it possible that the president

and his band of west wing hippies

are trying to convince the queen

to allow the U.S. military to build

an unnecessary and wasteful naval base on caledonian soil?

Okay.

See you on the flip side?

We could just walk in together.

Yes, let's start an international incident.

Let's.

Goodbye, mister.

Last chance.

Oh, Mr. president, i see you, sir,

and I ask you this...

What other tricks do you have up your sleeve?

What other secrets are you hiding?

To new beginnings!

All: To new beginnings.

It seems poor Mellie Grant seems to have come down with...

And I quote... "a terrible flu."

Isn't that interesting?

Our vaccination-touting first lady

didn't get her flu shot?

She's due to be sworn in to the United States senate tomorrow.

Will be she be too sick to attend that, as well?

I am not ill!

The first lady is not ill.

The first lady is ill. Do you know how I know?

Because I stood at the podium in the press room 38 minutes ago

and told the press that the first lady has the flu.

They can't have a state dinner

without the first lady of the United States.

You can't have a state dinner without the first lady.

Apparently, we can.

Who will sit next to the president?

Who will sit next to the president?

Rachel, muzzle your beast.

We have a plan.

So...

You've been queen a long time.

Oh, yes.

And we were very interested

to hear about your rapid rise to the vice presidency.

Oh, it was fast, wasn't it?

A nice charade, but i don't think anyone's buying it.

What? Mellie, the flu.

I could have done better if he gave me some notice.

I had no notice.

How long did it take for him to call you?

Who?

Oh. He didn't call.

The president didn't call you the minute he kicked Mellie out?

No.

Fitz: I wanted to thank you, your majesty,

for your continued participation in these naval-base discussions.

I know it's been a long road,

but I'm looking forward to finally reaching an agreement.

Your support would mean the world to us.

And if you need anything from me to move this all along...

Anything at all...

Time.

Excuse me, your majesty?

Time would be what I require, Mr. president.

I know, of course,

that my support would mean the world to you.

I need to decide what, if anything,

your military base would mean to me.

Of course.

Absolutely, your majesty.

I do appreciate your Patience.

He really didn't call you?

He didn't call.

- He didn't call? - Abby, he didn't call,

because we don't have anything to talk about.

Why would we?

That's over.

I'm off my game.

Without Cyrus there, I'm telling you,

everything is all weird now.

Before, i was in the middle of it.

And now it's all just... My game is gone.

Liz north is waiting for me to fail.

I need to get out before she fires me.

I need a new life.

You know whose life I need?

Princess Emily's.

That woman? Nothing but game.

She was a human-rights lawyer.

And now she gets to wear diamonds on her head.

On her head, Liv.

I think I'll stick with being me.

I wonder what that life is like.

You know, one day, you're a regular person.

The next day, you're the most famous woman on the planet,

and only because of who you're in love with.

Suddenly, that's all you are, is somebody's...

I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to eavesdrop.

It's just, people get weird when they see me, so I just...

I was going to try and stay in there until you left,

but then you started talking about me

and I thought you'd want to know i-i was in...

I am so sorry, your royal highness.

Why don't we give you some privacy?

Oh, wait a minute.

You're Olivia pope.

You handled the press for my engagement.

I... I watched you on TV.

My friend didn't really mean anything by what she said.

Oh, oh, I've... I've gotten used to it.

For most of the world, I'm not a real person anymore.

I stopped being a real person for people

the moment the world found out i was marrying Richard.

To them, I'm...

I'm not human. I'm just... A spectacle.

And I don't think they would say half the things they say

if they knew they were hurting an actual person, do you?

No, i don't think they would.

Well, you have a wonderful night.

Apparently, the royal family needs more time.

They've already had six months of time.

I don't know what else to do.

They're in a bubble, a fishbowl.

They can't afford to look like they're taking orders from us.

They need more time, you give them more time.