Scandal

Looks like she's headed in some kind of medical Plaza.

Abby: Lillian forrester is pregnant,

which explains why she hasn't been working out as much in the mornings,

and it also explains why she's made three incognito visits

to a medical center which houses... count them...

Seven ob/gyn doctors.

You're following her?

You made that my job when you started dating her,

and now that you've knocked her up...

You're sure about this.

Of course I'm sure.

You think I would just come in shooting from the hip

on something of this magnitude?

Move past the denial stage quickly

so we can discuss how we're going to...

Oh, hmm. What?

I, uh, false alarm. I was wrong. She's not pregnant.

It's actually worse... Much worse.

I'm up eight points.

And did you see my numbers with women under 40?

I could pass Susan Ross there, you know?

I might actually win this thing.

- Stop celebrating. - What?

We need every vote you can get.

And I want you to get latinos.

With vargas as the democrat in the general?

That's exactly that Susan and Hollis are thinking.

They're all but ceding vargas the latino vote.

I think that's shortsighted and ignorant,

as if they all vote as one group.

Do you know how diverse latinos are?

There are plenty of socially conservative latinos

who see Frankie vargas as far too liberal...

Folks who would want to get behind a republican candidate,

and I think they're just waiting for someone to pay them some attention.

I don't want to be one of those candidates that tries to speak Spanish

and accidentally calls someone a crocodile.

No, you never speak Spanish, ever... to anyone.

Please.

You are for immigration,

you're a mother who lost her son,

you're for families...

And god.

You want me to go catholic?

I want you to sit down with cardinal Suarez.

Get his endorsement.

I'm divorced.

The cardinal has backed divorced candidates in the past.

I filibustered for 16 hours on behalf of planned parenthood.

Will the cardinal be fine with my belief...

That every woman should retain control

of what happens in her uterus?

There's no way he takes a meeting.

Hello. Abby: It's me.

No matter what I say next, we never had this conversation.

Forrester is out.

We are clear.

Why are you meeting with a reporter from the times?

You look good.

Healthy.

Andrew.

I feel good, too... Being able to speak again.

Especially now, when I have so much to say.

What have you told Lillian?

Just a little tale about a president going to war

for his mistress.

You tell her it was you who had me kidnapped?

I believe i left my name out of it.

Why are you doing this?

I pee into a tube, Olivia.

Crap in a bag that hangs from my chair.

Yeah, because a piece of shrapnel

from a terrorist attack you staged got lodged in your brain.

You really have no idea, do you?

I had a stroke

because your friends paid a goon

to jam a needle in my neck.

I don't know why you think that's true.

Because it is.

Anyway, this is not an old grievance.

This is a fresh frickin' wound,

and I'm going to make them pay for it.

Look.

This is not the way.

I assure you, Andrew.

It is not the way, because this time,

you're not just up against Fitz and Cyrus and Mellie.

You are up against me, the bitch you left for dead.

Elizabeth: We'll kill the story.

Tell the times it's a matter of national security,

threaten to throw the book at them if they publish.

David: Not going to work. Fitz: Why?

Because I would be the one throwing the book,

and we don't have the grounds to do that.

Abby: I don't get it.

Why would Andrew risk his reputation like this

when the world thinks he's a hero?

Because someone put a needle in his neck and he's angry.

Anyone care to cop to that?

Wasn't me.

Nope.

What's so funny?

Nothing. Mellie: What if I talk to him?

Elizabeth: Why, because his love for you runs so deep?

You have a better suggestion?

Yeah, you could drop out of the race,

spare yourself the embarrassment when this all comes out.

You do realize Susan goes down, too.

Susan had nothing to do with this.

Technically, no, but she's associated with you now,

and you, which means when your names turn to dirt,

which they will, so will hers.

Cyrus.

I'm sorry.

It's just seeing you all sweat like this.

Mellie: You're neck's on the line, too, mister.

This story gets out, you're going to jail.

Would you care to respond to that, Mr. president,

or should I?

Cyrus has immunity.

You're kidding.

From any and all potential crimes

during his stint at the white house.

It was one of his conditions before returning

to the white house and taking his job back.

He was barely there a month.

I certainly got the better end of that deal, didn't I?

Mellie: Well, then go already.

Get out of here. And miss this?

I'm still a member of this distinguished club, Mellie.

Just a non-voting one.

You know, there is one way out of this.

Nobody's mentioned it yet,

but I'm sure we're all thinking it.

David: I'm gonna cover my ears now.

We are not going to kill him. Why?

Did you just say, "why"?!

Because we are not animals!

Because it's wrong.

The man had you kidnapped.

If we kill Andrew, we are no better than he is.

Elizabeth: Oh, great. So we'll all go to jail,

but at least we'll be better people.

You need to talk to him.

I think i suggested that. It's not gonna work.

Mellie talks to Andrew.

I'm sorry. Is this your meeting now?

Yes. You need to leave. Great.

You were expecting me to protest?

We need to shred

whatever physical evidence is out there...

Documents, e-mails that prove

the president went to war for Liv...

They all need to be destroyed.

Lillian can't publish until she corroborates Andrew's story.

The less that's out there, the better off we'll be.

Thank you for coming when I called.

You didn't call. Abby did.

Man: Paris, Beirut, you know, Iraq, Iran.

You know, I speak very, very, um, fluent Spanish.

Huck.

It was you, right?

You put Andrew in that coma.

It was you?

In case you're thinking about

finishing what you started, don't.

Understood?

What'd I miss?

Have you heard back from the cardinal?

Not yet.

I left two messages for him.

Leave him another.

Another. Go.

We need to find and destroy

anything related to why we went to war in west Angola.

Also, anything that could link Andrew and Mellie...

Photos, e-mails, texts.

I don't care if it's a blank post-it,

we still make it disappear.

What do you want?

The Jefferson institute of neuromuscular rehabilitation.

Vice president Nichols is a patient there.

Room 303. I don't do that anymore.

That's what you said last time.

Yeah, well, this time I mean it.

He's waving a machete, huck.

The president, Mellie, Susan Ross, me...

We're all gonna get our heads chopped off.

I don't care about that.

But you care about Liv.

You care about her.

Forget the rest of us.

This will ruin her.

He kidnapped her.

She was sold because of him.

She was... Shut up!

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