> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Fug the Show: Scandal recap, season 3, episode 8 - URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fug-the-show-scandal-episode-3-7/ - Published: 2013-11-26T17:00:35.000Z - Updated: 2014-02-17T03:34:11.000Z - Author: Heather - Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:35 ## This week's anagram: Khandi Alexander ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8242-1024x7681.xml) Well, look. It's not ideal to have been kept in prison for twenty years, presumed dead for Things That Will Not Be Spoken In This Hour, but at least she's been properly hydrated and allowed access to moisturizer. Eli Rowan Pope should add "benevolent captor" to his resume that also includes "torture delegator" and "owner and landlord of one-bedroom regret hole." ## Eli Had Dark Annex ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8241-1024x7681.xml) Look, she also has her own bathroom and a shower. That's more than some people have in the outside world. But it doesn't look like she has cable, so she'll be extremely confused by a lot of references in the outside world -- like, the first person who walks up and says the words "Don Draper" or "Miss Chanandler Bong" is going to get kicked in the teeth. ## Irk A Dean; Land Hex ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8243-1024x7681.xml) These two have taken the extremely subtle step of him chauffeuring her everywhere, even though nobody is supposed to know that she's working for B-MoreDiscreet. ## Relax! Handed A Kin ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8248-1024x7681.xml) And to hide the increasingly apparently pregnancy, the show has taken to putting her in blazers that have pleated backs -- I didn't get a good shot of it here, but this one and her other coats all have a fullness there so that they have enough give to close around her bump. Very sneaky, Scandal. ## And Exile Rad Khan ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8250-1024x7681.xml) While Liv resets the table for us -- someone killed their only lead in the case of Icelandic Air Flight DOOM, and they're going to find out who (Quinn) -- Abby and her new wardrobe wonder quietly if The Good Wife is accepting transfers. ## Redden Axial Hank ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8259-1024x7681.xml) Mellie is all soft colors this week in her scenes with Fitz, suggesting that now that he's defended her in public, she's going to be more permissive (submissive?) with him. Here, she's enjoying watching his moment of gallantry, even though it totally makes her look like less of a strong woman and that still needles at me, but to her dismay Fitz would rather beat himself about the face with a candle snuffer than engage in such pleasantries. ## Dial And Hanker, Ex. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2013/11/scanIMG_8260-1024x7681.jpg) Olivia's Fitz phone rings, but today's Wine Cardigan was hand-crafted from wool, cotton, and spinal cord, so she walks away from it. ## Hex: Drain and Leak ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8263-1024x7681.xml) Mama Pope could use a Wine Cardigan. Instead of blissing out in a sweater with some shiraz, though, she's EATING HER OWN WRIST. Yes, she goes full Vampire Diaries on herself in the hopes of getting shipped to a less secure medical room, where the doctor helpfully tells us she just chewed and chewed and chewed until she hit an artery. That is... really disgusting and I had a hard time watching this part. I am having a hard time WRITING about this part. I want to go hug my wrists and tell them they're doing a good job and make them wild promises of love. ## Lax In Rake? HANDLED. ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8278-1024x7681.xml) Fitz reaches Liv at her office, and she does the breathy shouty thing she likes to do with him, where she tells him they're done and everyone knows they don't mean it. She does, however, hang up her FitzPhone and then beat the crap out of it, which explains why it didn't appear to be a product-placed item. Nobody wants to be The Official Phone of Being Easy to Break When Illicit Lovers Need To Make A Point. ## Hard Alien; Dank Ex. ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8282-1024x7681.xml) Jake Ballard spends the entire episode watching Olivia and then saying things like, "He'll find you anyway," because his obsession with Olivia and Fitz is almost as deep as Olivia and Fitz's obsession with each other. Jake, you are wasting your ballards on that one. Park them someplace else. I recommend Mellie. ## Nix A Lank Redhead ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8268-1024x7681.xml) Oh, right, the other plot: Someone broke into Josie Marcus's house and stole her laptop, which had campaign materials on it. They trace it to her opponent's campaign HQ, and everyone is enraged, so much so that Abby puts on a coat that has poncho DNA and tries to make David file charges filed against Reston/Tom Amandes (the opponent), because I guess wearing a demi-poncho is as close to having Angel of Mercy wings as she will ever get. David does not buy what she's selling. ## Axle Dander. Ah, Kin! ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8283-1024x7681.xml) Josie's sister Candice goes against the papal edict and calls a press conference directly blaming Reston for the laptop theft. So Harrison, who clearly doesn't take this job seriously because he didn't even TRY to put together a snappy shirt and tie combo, is sent over to yell at her, then babysit her. ## Relax A Naked Hind ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8317-1024x7681.xml) These two are in bed when the call comes in that the laptop thief thoughtfully wiped it of all useful information the day before the theft -- which leads Abby to deduce, correctly, that Candice staged it to give them a final jump in the polls. But instead of firing her sister-daughter, Josie takes all responsibility for it, dropping her out of the race and possibly out of public life for good. I guess Lisa Kudrow is just that expensive. ## Nakeder, And Lax. Hi! ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8320-1024x7681.xml) Although, oops, Harrison decided "babysit" meant helping Candace out of her clothes. Well done, both of you. Two attractive people should not be forced to float around the periphery of the action without getting any SUPPLEMENTARY action. It's like storyline Aflac. ## And I Exhaled, Nark. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2013/11/scanIMG_8285-1024x7681.jpg) "Oh hey guys, so, found anything yet? No? Where are you looking? Can I...? No? Okay, well, don't mind me, I'll just be listening and then reporting back to my shithead bosses at B-Listening." ## A Danker Hind Axle ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8287-1024x7681.xml) Quinn got caught by Jake trying to get her mitts on security footage from surrounding buildings, so she has to continue to pretend to be a team player while Huck decodes things. Abby pops by long enough to walk to Quinn's desk chair while wearing that chain, and true to my worst suspicions, it whacks her in the crotch every single time. Is auto-erotic labia-thwacking a thing now? ## Adrenal Kinda Hex ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8308-1024x7681.xml) Quinn pulls a gun on Charlie, and he basically laughs her off, because it's never going to work. He does, however, note that he kind of likes her and suspects she still likes him, too, and there's some implication that he is not thrilled about Rowan/Eli's directive to kill her at the first necessary moment. Listen, I don't approve of blackmail, or even B-lackmail. But if she's stuck in this situation, she might as well get some steam out of it, no? ## A Drink, And Exhale ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2013/11/scanIMG_8296-1024x7681.jpg) Olivia also makes this face a lot this season, and here, it's because she sees Fitz's favorite Secret Service agent waiting at her door, and she's trying to refuse to get on Fitz's helicopter. That's not a euphemism. Although I know Fitz would like to spin her like a rotor, he actually did send a helicopter to pick her up and fly her to Parts Unknown, which is also not a euphemism, although it might as well be. ## Nail Dad; Hanker Ex. ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8298-1024x7681.xml) To convince Liv, the agent shows her this: a photo of her, Rowan/Eli, and her giant white purse coming out of a restaurant. FINALLY someon has a photograph of them. The question is, why didn't any pictures of their old Sunday Night Dinners come up when she was being vetted for ANYTHING? Are there no good vetters around anymore? Even a good veterinarian would probably have found something. ## Had A Nerd Nix Kale ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8301-1024x7681.xml) Either this is a terrible green-screen, or it's real but LOOKS like a terrible green-screen; either way, some people should be upset with themselves. ## Rankle A Hidden Ax ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8305-1024x7681.xml) But not these two. Olivia tries to be mad at Fitz, in her cute back-pleated coat, but she can't because this house in Vermont is one that he built for the two of them, back when he thought he'd left Mellie for her and they were going to start a family. Olivia is so touched that she pounces on him, and we proceed to get a steamy sex montage in which there are a lot of shots of Fitz appearing to claim her from behind. Which he apparently really likes to do, because I remember him doing it in one of the White House closets. I didn't really want to know that much about Fitz's proclivities, but it also seems -- even accidentally -- fairly telling that although they do also sometimes face each other, there is an element in their sex life of Olivia not being the one driving the bus. And I think that's actually true of a lot of their interactions. It always ends up that she's mad, and yet he strong-arms her into sleeping with her again, either through emotional play or just actually dragging her into said broom closet. She's never on top, even if she's on top. ## Naked Ex Handrail ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8314-1024x7681.xml) For those of you who care about such things. I don't judge. GFY is a safe place for people who crave shirtless-man screengrabs. Fitz promises Olivia that he will find out why he was asked to shoot down that plane, and Olivia promises she'll keep pushing, too, and they kiss. Then, right as she's leaving, she tells him not to sell the house just yet, then dashes out into a ray of early morning irrational hopeshine. ## Nix A Keen, Hard Lad ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8324-1024x7681.xml) Jake takes one look at Olivia and knows she's been with Fitz, and essentially says "I told you so." Nobody likes a gloater, Jake, and it's REALLY not going to get you into her sensible work trousers any faster. Especially now that she's slept with (presumably) both of you just in time for any potential pregnancy storyline to play out. There will be no time for nooky; only angst. ## Naiad Held Ex Rank ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8330-1024x7681.xml) Mellie has deduced that Fitz and Olivia were together when he was supposedly off campaigning in New Hampshire. So, in her most compliant peach coat, she quietly and without much life in her eyes tells Fitz that Josie Marcus is out of the race, and maybe now Olivia will come back to them, and that he should try again. He agrees. So their rapprochement is still in place, but she seems to be directly contravening the advice of Corey Hart about never surrendering. ## Ah, Id Annexed Lark ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8254-1024x7681.xml) Cyrus somehow gets James a job offer to write a puff piece on Daniel Douglas "Steven Carrington" Veep, and presents it as an opportunity to get his foot back in the door now that he's been fired. James is so naively grateful for this, but Cyrus is only doing it so that DD will hit on James and then they can blackmail him into canceling Sally's presidential bid. James is the dumbest mouse alive. He has never met a piece of Cyrus-related media cheese that he didn't try to devour, and it almost always gets his head sliced off. ## Drank An Ideal Hex ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8271-1024x7681.xml) At Cyrus's urging, Mellie -- in a red power suit that clearly points to her as the person driving the car that is this conversation -- starts dropping a ton of juicy tidbits to Daniel Douglas about how James and Cyrus are in an open marriage. It doesn't work, though; the interview is in Sally's office, so Daniel Douglas keeps his junk in the drawer, so to speak. ## Dank Ex-Hernia, Lad. ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2013/11/scanIMG_8291-1024x7681.jpg) James laments Daniel Douglas's boringness, so Cyrus tells him to make him feel more in his element: Put on a swanky v-neck, bring a bottle of whiskey to the house, and sit down and talk on Daniel's turf. James eats all this up, which means it's going to be very colorful when he eventually regurgitates it all over Cyrus's face. ## Dank Nadir. Exhale. ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8322-1024x7681.xml) Mellie begs Cyrus to reconsider his plan to use James as sexual bait, because "it's a marriage" at stake. Cyrus doesn't realize at first that she means HIS marriage, and when that is made clear, he shrugs and says very confidently that their marriage is not like Mellie's marriage. And THAT sound you hear is of someone's petard getting ready to hoist itself someplace else. ## Hailed Dark Annex ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8327-1024x7681.xml) Daniel Douglas, in his wood-bedecked man cave of symbolism, makes a swift pass at James, who rejects it just as quickly. DD sputters that he was led to believe by Mellie that James and Cyrus have an open marriage, and James -- bless him -- INSTANTLY puts together that he's been Cyrus's puppet in this whole thing, and the look of disillusionment and last-straw cold rage on his face is truly well done. I tried getting a screen grab of it though and it just looked like drunken lechery. I guess it needed to be seen in motion. ## A Kindred Anal Hex ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8334-1024x7681.xml) And so, James comes home terribly late to a worried Cyrus and acts like everything is fine and bolts for the shower, and then Cyrus gets emails from his investigator of pictures of HIS beloved petard being hoisted somewhere else altogether. It would SEEM that James decided to go through with it just to hurt Cyrus as much as he possibly could, because I can't imagine DD agreeing to stage incriminating photos just for that purpose. Cyrus is devastated and starts to tear up, while James is in the shower, wondering if there is an emoji for "feeling psychosexually manipulated." ## Hark! Deli An Ax Den. ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8336-1024x7681.xml) Meanwhile, across town, Quinn goes home and finds a grainy surveillance picture of her face under her front door -- the picture Huck supposedly wasn't able to render at work. Sure enough, he's inside her house, and he's brought all his torture tools with him, saying they need to talk about who she's working for now. Quinn's eyes get wide, and I suspect it's because she is simultaneously afraid and having six tiny torture pre-orgasms. ## Knead A Darn Helix ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8293-1024x7681.xml) Let's pause to appreciate awesome dummied-up newspaper clips of Olivia. All of them appear to have real text. Thank you, Scandal, for not half-assing this the way most shows do. ## Eli Dad? Rank Ax Hen. ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8310-1024x7681.xml) Eli brings the pictures to his wife, who is delighted to see how great Olivia turned out to be, but dismayed that there are no photographs -- only clippings. Too bad Rowan doesn't know that Fitz is in possession of a lovely family photo right that moment. Mama Pope lectures him on not being a great father, and he smartly points out that she's apparently no genius in the mothering department considering she's been living in the penthouse of torture holes for two decades. ## Nix A Naked Herald ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8335-1024x7681.xml) Ah, but this whole thing was probably a ploy to get Rowan/Eli to show her a photo of Olivia, so that she'll recognize her. Because when he returns later, the doctor who was supposed to sedate Mama Pope got himself hoisted on his own druggy petard. And now he's naked and knocked out, and his nipples are feeling terrible regret about it all. ## Exhaled Dank Rain ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8339-1024x7681.xml) And so, despite having no working knowledge of the Internet, Mama Pope immediately finds where Olivia lives and pops out of the shadows and says hello. I'm sorry, I know Irina Derevko was living in better circumstances all those years, but she NEVER would have hidden in a dark corner or sprang forth from a shrubbery. ## Darned Lax Hankie ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/scanimg_8340-1024x7681.xml) And Olivia makes her Agony Face again, because she can't BELIEVE her mother is secretly alive, because I guess she was too busy at law school to watch Alias. 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