Is it easier to explain a gay husband… or a dead one? VP Sally is about to find out. Fighting between them, they blame each other for their sham marriage and failed children. VP Sally couldn't find a husband who would play second fiddle to Jesus and her… Daniel needed a beard. Daniel tells VP Sally that you need a pair of balls to run for President, and the ones she borrowed from him are leaving. So Sally stabs him.
Cyrus replays his part in fiasco as VP Sally shows him the body and asks him to take care of it… and pukes. Finally. Guess who Cyrus calls to clean it up?
Quinn's plot doesn't happen at the last second. Charlie is unsympathetic that she couldn't get the video back, tells her she's still alive. She runs to bathroom, flushes the tracker and syringe down the toilet. She decides to ditch B-613 when Charlie finds her and tells her they have a job to do.
Huck put a tracking device into Quinn's new gap. He tells Olivia she's at B-613, that he needed to track her so she wouldn't run. He's admitted to Olivia what he's been done. Olivia is angry that Quinn will definitely betray them now that Huck has tortured her. Huck insists that he had to for what she did to them all. Olivia wants "Maria" Pope re-arrested when she lands in Hong Kong, needs to know what her mother did and was about to do.
Fitz has Rowan blocked by SUVs, doesn't this happen in DC enough by accident? Rowan ends up handcuffed to a chair for a change, Fitz's prisoner for the night. Fitz decides this is quality time, takes a seat across Rowan. Fitz gets same treatment he gave Olivia from Rowan.
Charlie and Rowan get called to VP Sally's are cleaning up the mess (how depressing is it when your new job is just like your old job?) while Cyrus gives VP Sally her talking points and talks her into getting Jesus to forgive her, and letting him clean the blood off. Abby and Harrison go to boyfriend David, wheedling "Maria's" file from him. Olivia is angry at Huck, who has lost Quinn, and now has lost Rowan. Jake tries to talk her down, reminds her how damaged Huck is, by her own father. So cut him some slack, lady.
Daniel is placed back in his bed, in pajamas he probably never actually wore, with VP Sally in her big ol' bathrobe, being coached by Cyrus. VP Sally is not to let the doctor, who is coming, examine Daniel. The pajamas must stay on. The doctor walks in as Cyrus is trying to shake VP Sally in coherence, so he fake hugs her, and sweet talks the doctor as VP Sally realizes the doctor could ruin her life as he steps closer to examine her murder victim's body. She leaps into action, declaring that no one will touch him, hugging him in the bed. So, Cyrus, completely unrealistically, convinces the good doctor to leave Daniel's body alone and just report that his heart stopped.
Mellie interrupts Cyrus' drinking to gloat over Daniel's death, which she thinks is the best of luck. So Cyrus has to tell her the truth, and wallows in guilt over the line they have finally crossed, the bridge they burned. Mellie calls him the right hand of the President. Her only concern is whether Olivia Pope was called in. Mellie breaks half the news to Fitz, tells him she's going to handle all the namby pamby business.
Fitz, back in a cell with Rowan, tells him how awful a father he is, reminds Rowan that he's been fucking Olivia, he's still fucking her. Rowan recites lyrics from Porgy and Bess, throws Fitz's coddled life back at Fitz, calls him a boy, says he's never had to work for anything. Rowan came from nothing, and his daughter went to school with children of royalty. Rowan accuses Fitz of a serious case of affluenza, theorizes that Fitz's affair is the acting out of a spoiled brat. Rowan accuses Fitz of self-sabotage so he can break free of his hang ups over Big Jerry. Rowan tells Fitz that Olivia won't make Fitz his own man. He officially withholds consent. Fitz was given every privilege a human being could have; but it's Rowan, a man born poor, who will end up ordering Fitz around.
David's files on Maya's whole past, every name, every photo, go to Olivia through Abby. Maya's whole marriage is a sham so she could steal highly classified stuff from Rowan. She was going to London to betray him. Abby points out that Maya hasn't killed anyone, and has served 22 years in prison without trial. Has Maya paid enough? Maybe for what she did to Rowan.
Cyrus and James have a spat. Cyrus tries to hurt James over Daniel Douglas' death, telling him Daniel will never get to fuck James again, and storming out after hurting James as much as he could.
Mellie comes over, making sure she is photographed while Leo Bergen sits in VP Sally's office, trying to salvage the best job he's ever had. Mellie walks in, reminding Sally in coded language who covered this all up for her. VP Sally is concerned when Mellie tells her they're handling everything… and the coroner. Mellie is all sugar and sweetness as she reminds VP Sally they're all stuck together, that Sally has nothing to worry about, because she's in the family now.
Quinn is back at Charlie's place, almost naked, in self-pity for the fact that she's no longer normal. Charlie tells her that's a good thing. He offers her her freedom, at least from him. They snuggle.
Shit. James is confessing his affair with Daniel to a certain US Attorney. He comes as clean as he knows, and his suspicions are laid open. David throws the fact that James betrayed him in the past and left him to high school students obsessed with drawing penises. David isn't going to launch an entire investigation on James' word.
Huck and Jake are cruising, realize Rowan is in the Pentagon. Olivia confronts Fitz, wanting to speak to her dad. Olivia wants to know just what was so terrible on the plane that all those other people had to die. Olivia reminds Rowan that Maya didn't believe in anything, so was not willing to die herself, and therefore, wasn't on a suicide mission. So what was Maya doing? Why did Fitz have to shoot that plane down? Oh, Maya lied about a bomb on the plane to Rowan, so Rowan would order the plane shot down. Oh, Maya played Rowan like a fiddle. So who did Maya really want killed? Who? For now, Olivia just wants Rowan to admit Maya played him. Olivia angrily demands she's arrested when she lands to Fitz. Who must be legitimately confused by now. Rowan was right. This was all above his pay grade. Poor Fitz, now he'll have to apologize the guy who's daughter he's fucking.
Rowan just wants his coat and tie back? At least get a new shirt, dude. Charlie wakes up to find Quinn gone. She's back at the Coliseum, and she's chirpy enough to think Huck will apologize, who tells her she's not a Gladiator anymore. Huck tells Quinn she'd be dead if she was anyone else. Quinn eventually returns to a grateful, touched Charlie. Why wouldn't he be grateful? All he has besides her is TV and take out.
Cyrus is undressing for the night, never looking more like an old man, when James confronts him, all coated up, ready to leave. Their options: James would never win custody of their daughter in court, there's nothing left to fight about. Cyrus points out that now there can be no illusions anymore about who he is and how bad he is. Is love enough? Cyrus will give James the time he needs to decide.
Olivia gets home as her phone rings. It's Fitz. The plane was found in Mongolia? Crew is dead. Maya is gone. Wow, that is one violent woman. Jake shows up, to tell her not to underestimate Fitz, to kiss her, tell her that he loved her, loves her, and to say goodbye.
Daniel Douglas' funeral goes picture perfect, but afterwards, Leo Bergen demands to know why she is giving up her ambition and her run for the Presidency. He launches into a bitter story about the death of his father, and reminds her that the White House team is just putting her back in a cage. Oh, but then Leo launches into a tirade about Daniel Douglas is in Heaven urging VP Sally to run. VP Sally screams at Leo that Daniel is in hell, and that he died for being a disgusting Sodomite. Leo puts it together right away. He isn't angry about VP Sally killing Daniel Douglas; he's fucking furious because VP Sally called Cyrus instead of Leo.
I can't help feeling sorry for VP Sally. Her ambitions in a political and religious community kind of forced her to marry a man who would accept being her second, among men who see that as a bad thing. Her sex hang ups led her to hate the man she married for political convenience. Now he's dead, and she has no one, but code-language Mellie.
Olivia has a heartfelt call with Rowan. Was Rowan trying to protect his own job as spymaster by hiding his spying wife, or was he trying to protect Olivia from his sham marriage? Rowan tells her to come by tomorrow, he'll have a pot roast. Stevie Wonder starts playing as Rowan enters his office to find Jake giving orders. Jake enjoys telling Rowan he's no longer Command of B-613. Jake is. Jake's first call is to Fitz, who is happy to have his wingman back. Olivia doesn't know. Hmmm.
James and Cyrus are having the most awkward night of their lives. James has decided love is not enough. A huge promotion is enough. James will be White House Press Secretary, and James won't leave Cyrus. Will James still love Cyrus? Why would he? Cyrus' real husband is in the White House, not his bed.
It's late at the U.S. District Attorney's office. David wants to finish up so he can go put something inside Abby. But an unknown woman barges in, glad he's finally available. While David mumbles excuses for why he can't see her right now, she quickly introduces herself. Shelby Moss, engineer peon of an NSA Contractor, who immediately takes the battery out of David's phone, and places a small MP3 player on David's desk. That plot, involving VP Sally's husband that James was ranting about? Sounds like David should have listened, because out comes VP Sally's call to Cyrus from the end of the last episode. Too bad Cyrus just got James' mouth shut.
It's late. Olivia is in casual clothes when her phone rings and she hears her mother cooing at her as only killer spies for hire can. Olivia only demands to know where Maya is. Maya has no answers, except to tell Olivia they'll see each other soon. As Maya trashes the cell phone and walks away, we see the White House. I wonder wear she got the return airfare?
Side note: Shelby Moss, she of the recording of VP Sally, is played by Julia Cho. ANYONE who even likes Jane Austen a little needs to check her out in the Lizzy Bennet Diaries on Youtube.
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