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# Fug the Show: Scandal recap, season 3, episode 7
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-the-show-scandal-episode-3-6-2/
- Published: 2013-11-20T18:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-02-17T03:34:06.000Z
- Author: Heather
- Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:35

## This week's anagram: Barry Bostwick

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It's so trippy to see Fitz and Mellie making out like horny teenagers. Horny, bronzed, giddy, naked, thrusting people who actually LIKE each other, and aren't drunk, blackmailing each other, nor fueled by erotic hatred. WHO ARE YOU.

## Tricky Raw Bobs

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Apparently, back in The Day, Mellie was a librarian from 1972 who was kidnapped and brought into Whatever Year so that Cyrus would have someone to talk to that made him feel less stranded in time. Because, yes, that is Cyrus in the foreground. THAT IS CYRUS.

## Brickbat So Wry

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This whole scene is about Barry "Fitzgerald Grant II" Bostwick bringing in a strategist to evaluate Fitz and Mellie and a California gubernatorial candidacy. And said strategist is, of course. Bearded Cyrus Beene -- on several levels, because it's revealed he has a wife, and also because they stuck him in hair and face-fuzz that make him look like a washed-up '70s rocker who has no idea he is washed up.

## Wok Rabbits Cry

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This coat exists. It's magnificent on Liv -- nipped at the waist, then flared so that when she whirls around it whirls with her. And of course she wears it while she's trying to ignore Fitz's phone call, and failing, and there is a giant white X marking the spot over her heart and over the dark-colored Coat of her Love Sins.

## Brr, It's Back! Yow.

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It also looks great with her purse, which is important. The phone call, by the way, is a reset-the-stage conversation wherein Fitz can't tell Olivia anything about Operation Icelandic Doom and Olivia feels like they're strangers to each other; Fitz points out that there is nothing he hasn't forgiven her, including the voter fraud, and there are a lot of full hearts but no clear eyes and so they lose.

## Crowbars By Kit

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Underneath Olivia's black-and-white armor of conflicted emotions, there is some royal blue. She is all business: She is making the Gladiators work a weekend to figure out what happened on Operation I'm So Sure.

## Warty Bib Corks

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They are startled, to say the least, especially when they find out that Fitz is the one who allegedly shot down the plane carrying her mother. Abby is smug because she's wearing comfortable work-all-weekend-on-weird-stuff clothes, Quinn is like, "MY SHIRT IS WHAT MY BRAIN FEELS LIKE," and Harrison is mad he didn't wear a more complicated outfit for optimal symbolism.

## Bob Rack? Tis Wry!

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And Khandi Alexander's head shot says, "You didn't think they'd pay me for one scene in the last episode, and just this headshot, did you? Come on now. I was on *Caruso Scene Investigation*. You don't co-star with those sunglasses for all those years and come cheap enough for a quickie."

## Ow, Crabby Skirt

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In present-day, Mellie is doing a very demeaning -- to her -- video walk-and-talk with a reporter, designed to repair her image, because voters hate her for blowing the whistle on Fitz's affair and then taking him back. She has to walk around pretending to be fulfilled by picking out china patterns, and a piece of her slowly dies every time she has to smile about something that actually bores her hair into submission.

## Wok? Try Bicarbs.

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Flashback: Mellie is in sensible clothing, Fitz doesn't loathe her, and Cyrus is giving them bracing honesty on how to run for governor of California. Fitz has a tantrum about campaigning on his military service record, because of Secrets. I don't know why they had to make Mellie kind of frumpy even here -- I wish she'd grown into Political Hair and Power Wardrobe and had at one time been a little funkier. FItz likes funk, I think. Who needs the funk? Fitz needs the funk.

## Bark It, Cybrows!

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FUN FACT FOR THE WEEK: Jeff Perry was married to Laurie Metcalf for nine years. Does this make him the mysterious missing dad of Andy in "Toy Story"? You decide.

Also: Y'all, Cyrus Beene never looked like this. He just didn't. I don't even care if Jeff Perry has a personal photo in which he looks exactly like this. NEVER HAPPENED. Cyrus Beene came out of the womb looking exactly the way he does now, snapping into immediate action to help manage the crisis of his mother giving birth to a 58-year old man with a bum ticker and a spittle cannon for a mouth. Well, that last part is not unlike a lot of infants, at least.

## Swab Tricky Orb

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Present Day: From the wide-eyed idealism of earlier, to Mellie helping Cyrus shop for a hooker to use to set up the veep's husband. She knows all about the virgin/whore dichotomy and selects a girl named Amber that they can throw in front of him -- while Sally is in Iowa, at an event they KNEW she'd go to because they know about her secret campaign and Iowa is important -- to try and trick him into getting handsy. Don't worry, though. Steven Carrington has one more trick up his pants-sleeve.

## I Bark; Brow Cyst.

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James is in a tizzy about not getting the Mellie walk-and-talk. Cyrus doesn't have time for James's career drama, and James's veins are accordingly exploding. This marriage is FULL of throbbing things, in a way that might kill either of them at a moment's notice.

## It's WORK, Crabby.

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"No. James and I are NOT wearing the same shirt. LOOK CLOSER. I DO THIS FOR YOU, YOU KNOW."

## Brow City Barks

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Fitz and his father have a massive fight about how Fitz II, who I guess goes by Jerry or Gerry or whatever, is angry that Fitz flew secret missions and bothered with the military at all and now won't use it to his electoral advantage. Basically, it's open contempt from Gerry -- why didn't Fitz just lie quiet and ride his coattails? -- and teeming resentment from Fitz about not being supported and yada yada yada hatred. Mellie freaks out. Her hair in these flashbacks reminds me of Olivia's, very vaguely - just a little bounce, a touch of a flip. Fitz may have a hair type.

## Writ: Abby Rocks.

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When Abby learns that Olivia is dealing with an evil father who may have ordered the now-love of her life to shoot down her mother's plane, she is understandably tempted to give Olivia a hug. It's sort of sweet because she has to prep Olivia for the gesture, and makes Olivia stand there and take it, and Olivia clearly appreciates it even though she's not accustomed to showing emotion in front of her employees unless said emotion is Irritated or Brusque.

## Swab Tricky Orb

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These two. So, Quinn is still getting turned on by their shooting-range meet-ups, and when Charlie talks about his upcoming jobs, she ends up stalking him to one of them. Because she's moronic. And, again because of said Hypermoronic Behavioral Syndrome, he catches her hiding in a bush. I have to think she wanted to get caught. Because she had to figure it would go like this: He pulls her out of her shrubbery hiding place, throws her against a wall, and plants a kiss on her. Then he walks away while she trembles with unfinished ecstasy. I've decided Quinn is going to die of auto-erotic asphyxiation someday.

## R Scabby. Work It.

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Mellie pretends that Fitz says goodnight to their baby every night in the Oval Office, but when she takes the crew in there, Fitz has blown off the shoot. She is enraged and embarrassed, but the sad part is that the baby who plays Teddy chose that moment to make cryface and act like he was about to start wailing, which is amazing timing and I hope they didn't prime the kid by ripping off the head of his favorite toy before the director called "action."

## Wot?!? Cy Barb Irks.

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Flashback: In this scene it's revealed that Cyrus wanted to quit because of all the Grant family drama; Mellie didn't realize she'd have to quit her lawyering life and give herself wholly to the campaign; and Early Machiamellie promised she'd get Fitz and Gerry to behave; and Cyrus is revealed to be wanted in six states for stalking and impersonating [Paul Rodgers](https://www.hardrocklivehollywoodfl.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Paul-Rodgers-35L.jpg?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io).

## Sick, Wry Art, Bob!

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So, the gladiators have figured out that a dude was taken off Oceanic Flight 816 right before it left, and they are tracking an airport employee who was on the tarmac at the time. Harrison cannot figure out why he goes to so much trouble to dress snazzily for a twenty-second scene in which he mostly breathes through his mouth, although perhaps he is simply bating his breath for his eventual storyline.

## Cork Wrist, Baby.

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Sally, before leaving for Iowa, gives Steven Carrington a barbed reminder that he needs to watch his behavior. Steven gets it. Steven is Alexis Carrington's son. Steven KNOWS THINGS. Steven married the woman on Dynasty who infamously lit the hate candles that burned down La Mirage. What if Sally lights hate candles and burns down the West Wing?

## Icky, Barb. WORST.

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Let's get right to it: Mellie and Gerry are talking about Fitz, late at night, and he tells her that Fitz shot down Air Iceland because 300 lives lost was less important than the flight detonating a dirty bomb in a major city. And then, while she's shocked and vulnerable, he forces himself on her. It's terribly sad and awful for Mellie, and gross and reprehensible and abhorrent of Gerry. Story-wise, I can't decide if it's as interesting that there are Tragic Roots to Mellie's core of steel, or whether it would have been somehow more empowering and interesting if she'd developed it on her own. I guess nothing is ever truly developed in a vacuum; it would've had to come from somewhere, even if it was just from being dissatisfied in the First Lady job and Fitz's absentee everything. But... I mean, there's nothing funny to say about this. It sucks for her. It is a SCANDAL. After the rape, she creeps upstairs and tries to sneak into the shower, but Fitz wakes up and makes her come spoon with him, and she silently cries in agony as he whispers sweet nothings and kisses her cheek.

## Raw Stick, Bobby

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In present day, Mellie is drinking scotch in the Oval and wandering around in bare feet, mumbling about needing feminine energy in there, and then Bellamy Young delivers another really nice monologue -- this is her Emmy episode, I imagine -- about how Fitz is never there for her. Even when he's there, he's not *there*. This is true. This has very much been Fitz this season, for sure. And she's enraged that she's doing this pandering, demeaning puff piece borne of America hating HER for the affair HE had, and he won't even show up for the bits he's agreed to do. She concedes that they're not lovers anymore, but asks him to be her friend at the very least, because they're partners in this and he has no idea what she gave up to help get him there. And she delivers the whole thing in a bangin' red dress that signifies that she has all the emotional power in this exchange. Suck on that, Fitz.

## Brisk, Warty Cob

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The next day, Mellie is, sadly, back in frumpy non-sexual clothes that were probably deemed Safer by someone on her press team, ready for a sit-down with Fitz. And as she's making terrible excuses for his absence, he shows up, and saves her as she flouders during barbed questions about why she blabbed about the affair. It irritates me because there is NO WAY Mellie would not have been prepared to answer those. She just would not have been thrown by it. But in this scene, she is, and Fitz swoops in and tells America to be mad at him, and not at her, etc., and Mellie clearly appreciates having her partner back. But what I would have liked to see: Fitz starting to step in and be gallant, and Mellie being so revitalized by his allegiance that she spoke up again and freaking NAILED IT and was her own voice, and had a real skill moment wherein Fitz got to see her as an equal partner and not as someone who needed to be rescued.

## Kabobs Writ: "Cry!"

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Olivia's wardrobe is very boring and, naturally, innocent white, as she's the wronged party in this whole nasty Operation Shitshow scheme.

## Wry Kit, Cab Bros!

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Abby is doing all this off-hours work in an awesome Sleuthing Cardigan. I need one of those. For all my sleuthing. You don't know.

## Stab? Brr, Icky. Ow.

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Quinn and Charlie meet up at his next job, which is to put a security guard to sleep and steal a file from upstairs for Zzz. He teases Quinn with the syringes and then says Huck would kill him if he let her, and she drools that Huck let her torture someone once and she got what he wanted, so the two of them get hot and heavy in his car before Quinn snatches the syringe with sexual heat. I'm glad we knew already that Charlie was not on her side, because it makes me more able to enjoy what a dope she is.

## Trick Bobs Awry

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And sure enough, she actually injects the dude with Clorox or whatever, and he froths like Heather Chandler in a four-poster bed. He is really, most sincerely dead. And Quinn runs and tries to call Huck, but Charlie stops her, shows her video of her kill, and announces that she belongs to B-eyonce now. And guess what? The dude she killed is the airport worker that the Gladiators were trying to find. Hi, Square One, it's so nice to see you again. Have you lost weight?

## Sorry -- Bit Wack, B.

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Flashback: As Gerry bumblingly suggests that "things got a little heated," Mellie smilingly hisses that he will sit down with Fitz, and grovel, and apologize for being wrong, and tell him everything that he needs to hear, OR ELSE. And when Fitz comes downstairs Mellie presses the issue, all, "Oh, hey, your father wants to tell you how sorry he is," and Fitz looks shocked. And with that, Machiamellie is in the womb no more. She is born unto the world.

## Ow, Cy Brisk Brat.

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James wants to talk; Cyrus cuts him off and tells him that he didn't get the Mellie interview because he was so freaking awful with Josie Marcus, and Cyrus doesn't have time for career counseling right now. James huffs that, well, he was fired, so BAM. I really feel like his bow tie is what's keeping people from taking him seriously. It's HUGE and it makes him look like a dying clown who lost his makeup.

## Try Absorb Wick

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Worse, Steven Carrington isn't taking the hooker bait at ALL. Why? Because Sally tamed him? No, because he's busy fawning all over a drunk, depressed James. Mellie and Cyrus realize this, and really, they'd have saved themselves some time if they just looked at his IMDb page and realized he played both Steven Carrington AND a closeted senator on "The Office," and ergo, Jack Coleman is Hollywood's go-to for creatures of nebulous sexuality.

## Ski, Barb. TRY, COW.

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Meanwhile, Fitz has been having Olivia tailed to make sure she's safe, and his PI uncovers that Rowan (well, HE doesn't know it's Rowan) is actually Eli Pope. Fitz's mind is totally blown, because this mission just got a little bit more impossible.

## I Track By Brows

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However, it does afford us a nice view of Joe Morton's mustache again. I missed you, bushy friend. But can we discuss something? If you are the shadowy man known only as Command at the terrifying black-ops off-books world-beating organization B-SD6, and you have been trying to cover your identity in a way that includes scrubbing your Smithsonian employee badge photo, it should not be this easy for Fitz's PI to spent five minutes on the Internet and find you. Ergo: Would not Olivia's family have been vetted when she worked for the election campaign -- at the very least, as part of her security clearance -- and would it not have come up then? Would not Cyrus have turned up this information when he did the Olivia Pope Kill Folder? APPARENTLY NOT.

## Wry Back Bistro

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And then Arvin Eli Rowan Pope Sloane walks down a long hallway through a million hyper-secure doors, and ends in a cell where Khandi "Mama 'Irina Derevko' Pope" Alexander is slumming it under some crusty blankets. If the implication is indeed that she's a terrorist, and SHE was the reason the plane was shot down because of the dirty bomb on board, HOW DID THIS NOT COME UP ANYWHERE. I know, I know, B-arbra is a shadowy organization of SECRETS, but if she was that much of a threat would she not have been on a watch list? Was she on The Blacklist? Is James Spader going to come calling?

## Baby Tricks Row

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And, the final indignity: Mellie is pregnant, and as Fitz celebrates, she gets a look on her face that suggests their firstborn, whom we never see and who didn't show up during his parents' marital scandals, might be Fitz's SONBROTHER. Oh, Scandal. You have to twist the knife just that little bit deeper.

[Fug the Show: Scandal recap, season 3, episode 7This week, on Diet Homeland with Alias: One unsurprising plot twist, and one really tough one. After watching this Mellie episode, I started to wish I could reshuffle the deck somehow and put her flashbacks BEFORE the episode -- or maybe even in the same episode -- as the correspondents' dinner, when Mellie prostrated herself to Olivia to save the re-election bid. Just to see. Because I wonder if the naked desperation and begging from that scene would have been more heartbreaking when juxtaposed with these flashbacks. I'm very curious for Fug Nation to sound off on the whole thing.![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/simg_7965-1024x768.xml)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-the-show-scandal-episode-3-6-2-11-2013/)