SCANDAL

Amanda Tanner is pregnant. What?

Previously on "Scandal"...

I want to tell the world what he did.

Amanda.

I want them all to burn for this.

You don't have to worry about that sex tape,

because who needs a sex tape

when you've got a fetus full of presidential D.N.A.? That's not my baby.

I'm out. I'm gonna tell them the truth.

She's not our problem. She's a kid.

Our real problem is Olivia Pope.

President Fitzgerald Thomas grant III

has declared war on you, Olivia.

May God have mercy on your foul.

Answers, people.

We need answers, and time is of the essence.

Her phone's gone and her purse. She ran away.

You told her she was gonna have to go on TV, she freaked out,

and she ran away. I gotta say, as crime scenes go, it's pretty clean.

No broken locks, no signs of struggle,

and I'm not finding any prints aside from yours and Amanda's.

Because it's not a crime scene. Because she ran away.

There's someone watching you. What?

Your trash is gone, and it's not trash day,

and there's a sedan parked across the street...

U.S. government plates, tinted windows.

What about Amanda, huck?

Whoever it was came up through the service elevator,

picked the lock on the back door, sedated her, taped her up,

got her in a duffel bag.

In and out, probably seven minutes, six if they were quick.

How do you know?

That's how I would do it.

My secretary has a standing order

to stop you from walking in here. Alissa, you're fired.

One of my clients is missing.

Have you looked in jail? You often seem to find them there.

Her name is Amanda Tanner.

She's 27 and she was staying in my apartment.

How long has she been gone?

Five, six hours. You consider that missing?

That's barely enough time to rack up a good bar tab.

Oh, God.

What's wrong?

I know I ask a lot of you, but this Amanda thing is big.

She's a good kid and she was under my protection.

Can you help me find her?

I'll see what I can do.

Thank you, David.

Don't fire Alissa. I snuck in while she was in the bathroom.

You're late. I keep trying Amanda's phone,

but it goes straight to voice mail. When I say "all hands on deck"...

Harrison, she's our client. She's missing. I mean all hands on deck.

We should be doing things. Things should be happening.

Shouldn't we at least file a missing persons report?

Just 'cause you don't see things happening,

doesn't mean things aren't happening.

With Olivia, things are always happening. I just don't...

what could possibly be more important than Amanda right now?

That.

I first met Paul ten years ago at the governor's conference.

I thought my speech was pretty killer,

so when Paul took me aside afterward,

I was looking forward to simply

"congratulations, Fitz. You moved me to tears."

And then for ten very long minutes,

he told me, point by point, why every word out of my mouth

was not only wrong

but potentially the dumbest thing

any politician had ever said.

Senator Sanchez told you the hard truth because he cared,

because he thought we could all do better.

He scored no political points

and never asked for anything in return,

but he earned my profound gratitude,

and today, my profound sadness.

Of course the senator would be the first to object

if I stood up here today and talked about him

and failed to mention

the 119 other people who died this morning.

This is...

A tragic day for all of us.

Our prayers are with all those who lost loved ones

on flight 684.

Where's my daughter?

Any information at all?

I can't... oh!

Ms. Pope, Nelson O'Shea,

pilots' union. Nice to finally meet you.

Yes. I wish it were under better circumstances.

Yes. Very sad.

So it's a standard crash investigation.

We'll need you to make a statement

on belief of the pilots' union

to the press as soon as possible.

The airline P.R. is up there right now, so... you let them go first?

I didn't think it was a problem.

Sky national has immediately activated

our emergency response protocol

and is in direct contact with the F.A.A. and N.T.S.B.

Although our primary concern at this time

is for the passengers on board the aircraft and their families,

we're able to assure you,

this particular plane has a perfect safety record.

And there it is.

They're saying it's the pilot's fault. No, he didn't. He just said...

they're not saying it, but they're saying it,

and this crowd's eating it up with a spoon.

Make sure we know when the memorial is

so we can clear my schedule. Sir, we ought to take this chance

to bring the D.R.E.A.M. act to a vote.

Cyrus.

The poor man's still scattered across the Virginia countryside,

and you want to start using him to leverage a vote?

Paul wanted this more than anything.

A pathway to citizenship for immigrant kids

who go to college... he'd be honored.

It's a divisive issue, even within our own party.

Let me put a call in to his wife,

she if she'll reach out to the fence sitters.

How close is the vote? Nose count has us within four or five.

Ah, we're gonna look opportunistic.

Never let a crisis go to waste, Mr. president.

Make the call.

And how long was her tour of duty

in the air national guard?

And she flew C-141S out of Dover?

Okay. Thank you so much.

How many times do I have to tell you

you can't just walk in here whenever you feel like it?

Look, Amanda Tanner is gone, and that means my story is gone,

but it also means your client is gone,

so I thought I could just walk in here and talk to you.

If Amanda is gone... and I'm not saying she is...

then I'm sure Olivia's working on it. Well, I saw the news.

Doesn't she have her hands full with this plane crash?

Sometimes just because you can't see things happening

doesn't mean they're not happening... or something,

you know, if she is gone.

There's a missing persons report, Quinn.

There's a report? Who... who filed it?

Amanda's father.

So what are you calling yourself now?

Huck. You?

Charlie.

Huck finn? That's funny.

Well, Charlie, like Charlie brown?

I thought you were dead.

I'm not dead.

Huck freaking finn?

Don't make fun of my name.

You out of business?

I was never in business.

It's lucrative when you contract out.

I'm a retired government employee.

Oh, really? You sure? You know what they say...

"once you go black, you never go back."

Ops, that is. Black ops.

You never could tell a decent joke.

So what do you want then?

Female, 5'4", 105 pounds,

27 years old... Amanda Lynn Tanner.

Don't know what you're talking about.

You're getting sloppy in your old age.

You crossed the street at a light.

I got you on the traffic cam.

Well, then. You don't need to ask me about her, now do you?

You got me on the traffic cam.

Yeah. But where is she?

No. No. That's just tacky. That's tasteless.

You know better than to ask.

What did you think?

That you were gonna buy me an assassin's brunch

and then we'd hold hands?

No. Jeez. Now you're off looking for missing girls?

Come on. Ugh. Tacky.

Stop looking. She's gone.

Hey, you ever want to come back,

make a little more money than the U.S. govern pays,

you give me a call.

Talent like yours should not go to waste.

And, uh...

It's not like Charlie brown. Like manson.

Charlie manson. Now that's a name.

Huck finn?

Come on.

Ah.

Hey, buddy.

Welcome, everyone.

This is the preliminary C.V.R. meeting

of all interested parties to sky national flight 684.

This morning, I'll play the black box recording

in its entirety without stopping.

You'll hear it once and once only.

The national transportation safety board

prohibits you from recording what you're about to hear.

You are allowed to take notes, but you are prohibited

from taking those notes from this room.

Any questions?

Here it is, my special fruit drink.