Scandal Recap (And More) 2.14: “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”
Back at Rosen’s place, he fills the fixer gang in on the dead girl. Her name was Wendy, and they both were regulars at a bar. The last ten months were not good to Rosen. He lost his position as US Attorney, no other firm would hire him, and his grandmother paid his rent last month. Basically, he’s living how most of the people I know are living right now, and that saddens Pope and Associates. Rosen’s fall from grace is supposed to be illustrated by the fact he’s in the company of silent, apparently unenthused children at some district high school. Shonda, this is not the way to make us feel for Rosen. This really just makes him look like a bad teacher. Quinn and Huck stage the scene at Wendy’s place. Huck nearly has a moment when Quinn stabs Wendy again for some on-scene blood spatter. Eww to that whole scenario. Meanwhile, Fitz continues to shut Cyrus out, in that cold way Fitz does everything that he does.
The gang finds out via pictures on her phone that Wendy had a very active sexy-spy life with every conveniently attractive and muscular fair skinned man in DC, from club owners to bike messengers to Rosen. She did so to gain access to information pertinent to a scandal that each man was directly or indirectly involved in. Whatever she was looking for in this last case with Rosen, however, did her in.
Meanwhile, in the school where motivation goes to die, Rosen starts to spin conspiracies in Olivia’s presence, although this time he’s wrong. He thinks Olivia is behind this framing scheme. Olivia, though, has her own theory, and asks Cyrus if he hired someone to frame Rosen for murder. They treat this kind of like when I ask my sister if she ate the last clementine in the fridge. Cyrus denies this, and Olivia moves on. They talk about Cyrus’s daughter’s christening. Olivia gets a call: Rosen is arrested.
Cyrus and Mellie decide that if Fitz is going to shut those that are close to him out, that eventually, he will connect with someone new, and that new person may find out about Defiance…and they will all go to jail. They resolve to find a way to get close to him again.
Harrison represents a stoic Rosen at the US Attorney’s office. As they enter, I shout at my television, “Look! It’s that guy from Sex and the City who was really into Charlotte’s feet!” I will never not see this man as that character, so, in my mind, he apparently moved out of New York, distraught over the lack of Charlotte’s feet in his life, went to law school, and became the new US Attorney. He and the other lawyer who are currently employed as such both sit and listen to Rosen lose it some more. “Oh, how I love to stab.” he jokes. He storms out, because Foot Lawyer really has no evidence to hold him with.
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Olivia walks into a set that looks nothing like what The Pentagon actually looks like (who knows from experience? This guy. Bam.) and runs into–dun dun dun–Cute Donut Guy, who’s name is not Donut, but Captain Jacob Ballard. They verbally spar about Wendy and what information could have gotten her killed. They basically tell each other nothing. Captain Donut (I’m going to call him this from now on, and I love it) asks Olivia out. She declines.
Fitz and Cyrus argue, yet again, but this time Cyrus has worn Fitz down with some very good advice on the hostage situation. Will things get better? Of course not.
David continues his descent when he fires Olivia. He asks her how much he owes her. Olivia utters a diva hot line I hope to utter one day, “You can’t afford me.”
Mellie and Fitz are in a limo on the way to the christening. Mellie pins everything that happened with Defiance on Cyrus. Oh, Mellie. “I can be an animal if I want to be. I’m glad to rip the flesh off anything that comes between me and…” she stops because the next word likely had nothing to do with her husband. He falls for this speech, mostly because he’s now too tired to care about thinking objectively anymore. I’d feel the same way, man.
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