BWW Recap: Doctor, Doctor, Give Me the News on SCANDAL

Well, it seems Shonda Rhimes was out for blood on one of her main characters this evening. Thank heaven, it wasn't Jake Ballard. (No offense, McDreamy). Yes, Jake's life was spared after last week's horrifying cliffhanger, but he's far from out of the woods.

Mellie's storyline finally started to get interesting this week as Sally Langston convinces the public via her TV show that it isn't appropriate for a Senator to be married to the President. Not knowing exactly how to play it, the team sends Cyrus on Sally's show and oh what a scene. These two bantering back and forth with so much underlying history and tension between them was sheer genius. Cyrus is very against Mellie's campaign, but boy did he stand up for her. As amazing as the stint goes, it doesn't help and it's only after Fitz turns to Liv for advice does Mellie's campaign start to turn around.

Russell reports to Rowan that he has eliminated Jake, but Rowan knows better. If Jake were dead, he would have heard about it by now. He shoots Russell in the arm and tells him to get the job done. Olivia finds Russell at the hospital, where he claims he was randomly shot on the street and takes him to the underground hospital with Jake as she assumes this is another attack on the people closest to her.

Quinn discovers a very, nearly dead Jake in the office. Charlie calls in an underground doctor to save him and the doctor wants a favor in return. His friend, ex-Russian Spy Black Sable or as she's now known, friendly neighborhood grandma, Mary Peterson, needs help. The KGB is trying to pull her back in and she just wants to enjoy her retirement. Olivia agrees to help her in exchange for saving Jake's life. When Huck tracks down Mary's handler, Costea, Olivia tries to threaten him, but he's with the Russian mob, he doesn't scare easily. Finally, she hands over the information on Rowan and tells Costea to kill Command and he'll look like a hero in exchange for leaving Mary alone. He agrees, but when Olivia shows up to Mary's, she along with her two grandchildren and Costea are dead. Rowan calls Olivia and glows that she will never win.

Back at the underground hospital, Jake awakens to find he's lying next to the man who tried to kill him. He manages to barely fend him off, but Russell's cover is still in tact. Jake with tubes down his throat cannot communicate who Russell is to anyone. Olivia calls the entire Grand Jury investigation off despite Rosen and Huck's objections.

Russell reports to Rowan that she called it off and Rowan tells him to move on to "Foxtail." Olivia seduces Russell and at the last moment pulls a gun on him. She figured out that he was the only person who could have informed Rowan and she demands to know what the hell Foxtail is.

There was a pretty tense moment when Jake woke up and met eyes with Russell while he was strapped to a gurney. Damn. And Abby's absolute disgust at the reason that there wasn't a law in place against the First Lady running for office was hilarious. Hilarious and, yes, I would have to agree, repulsive.

However, the scene of the night was between Cyrus and Sally. I could have watched them go back and forth for hours, they were so damn entertaining. And what performances, making nice with each other while the truth lie in deep hatred. It was so well-crafted and believable. From Sally calling out Cyrus for wanting to run for Senator to him going right back in her face with the fact that if her political career had turned out differently, her husband could have been the "First Gentleman." Just brilliant. But her show is ridiculous. I mean, can you imagine a former politician hosting a show on a news network where all they do is spout uninformed and antagonistic opinions? Haha, oh Shonda, you and your fiction.

Lines I Love:

• Sally - Does it sit right with you, lover of Liberty, to have a member of the legislative branch share a bed with the head of the Executive Branch? Is it illegal or vomit-inducing?

• Abby - But it is legal. Because no one ever imagined that a woman would ever get an idea in her pretty, little head to run for office. So Mellie Grant's run for Senate is legal because of misogyny. In this instance, misogyny is our friend, that's what you're saying?

• David - NO! No, I'm saying something less controversial and less likely to get me stoned to death by my feminist sisters.

• Olivia - Some people have bark, some people have bite. I have both.

• Abby - Sir, don't you think... a man would be better? I know, I hate myself for saying that. I threw up in my mouth a little bit for saying that.

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