Scandal (TV Series) Any Questions? (2013) User Reviews

Lots of Questions Remain

[rejavanation · 9/10 · 9 May 2013]

As tensions build towards the truth behind Mellie's shocking revelations, a race against the clock to find the "mole" consumes OPA. "Any Questions" demonstrated that even when Scandal reveals truths, the truths always lead to so many more questions. In this episode we see Cyrus about to implode when he realizes that his man Fitz has gone off script and decided that he would rather have Olivia than a second crack at the presidency. The episode flashes back and forth from Cyrus adeptly dodging reporters questions and him frantically scrambling to fix the damage Mellie has done.

Back at OPA, the associates are still working hard to find the mole, with the assistance of the newest Gladiator, David Rosen, disgraced former district attorney. David is instrumental in assisting Huck with hacking into Sally Langston's daughter's email account thus giving him access to her home network. The working theory is that the VP is the mole.

Meanwhile, Gladiator Extraordinaire, Harrison realizes that Olivia is the "problem" that needs fixing because the worst kept secret is that she is the President's mistress. He demands to know her endgame so that he can know how to protect her from the fallout. But Olivia has other plans. She seems content in leaving OPA to Harrison in order to ride off into the sunset with Fitz. But of course, this is not to be.

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We discover that Fitz, for all his posturing about jeopardizing his presidency's second term by choosing Olivia, did not file the papers for his candidacy. In other words he never intended on running for a second term. When Cyrus tells this to Olivia, she cannot bear the thought of him not running for a second term because he feels that he cannot win on his own. She wants him to run, to exorcise the demons of Defiance and solidify his place in history as the rightful President of the US. This tension is built up by his impending press conference where many believe he will confess to an extra marital affair.

Mellie, on the other hand, has found her own fixer. He is determined to parlay the political firestorm she started into political clout if only she will name the President's mistress. But Mellie is too smart to throw down her "ace of spades" (no pun intended). She is going to hold out and wait until Fitz's press conference because deep down in her heart she knows that Fitz is going to chose the Presidency and by proxy, chose her over Olivia.

Back at OPA, Charlie, who has been rendered persona non Grata, by the mysterious Joe Morton character shows up at OPA looking for a deal. The exact same deal that Huck got which gave him his life and freedom back. He will give up the name of the mole for that deal, but Huck has another idea. Why not just torture the name of the mole out of Charlie and then kill him as the final act of revenge for putting him in the box and separating him from his family.

Charlie gives up the mole, Huck gives him a last meal, a donut, and is about to kill him, when "Baby Huck," Quinn, stops him and reminds him that gladiators don't do revenge. Charlie, who seems to be the cat with a thousand lives, gets away again.

However, Charlie's appearance was just a smokescreen. He entered the lion's den to steal the Cytron card from Olivia's safe. Harrison realizes too late that OPA has been played. And we finally discover who the mole is...

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The mole is Billy Chambers and David Rosen is working for him. Yes, the same Billy Chambers we all assumed Charlie killed, is alive and has been pulling strings behind the scene. Billy is now in position of the Cytron card, the President announces that he intends to run for re- election and OPA are compromised yet again by crafty deception.

Scandal: Any Questions?

[Scarecrow-88 · 9/10 · 1 July 2015]

HUGE episode of Scandal throws a major twist that throttles. It is the very definition of "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." The show sure knows how to play you like a fiddle. So the last several episodes, it appears as if David Rosen is now a part of Olivia's "gladiator team". The Cytron card which is the key to exposing Defiance has been in the possession of Olivia. Well, that card is stolen. It appears as if Charlie is working for the mole in the White House, but emerging at the end is an old enemy of Fitz: Billy Chambers, the one who worked for the man who ran against Fitz and lost. When Charlie realizes he's in trouble after his hand was "spotted" with Jake Ballard out to kill him, and Cy told by someone deep in the covert side of the government to separate himself from Charlie, Olivia and company should be wary of accepting him as a client: yes, Charlie is awaiting Olivia, with a gun pointed at David. He gives Huck the name of the mole, and when the Cytron card goes missing, it is assumed Charlie took it. Huck is set to kill Charlie, but Quinn speaks to his humanity, asking him to choose between revenge and being a gladiator. The majority of the episode deals with Fitz's possibly not seeking re-election, while Mellie seems hellbent on holding out Olivia's name, waiting to see if Fitz will give up on the presidency. Cy, bless his heart, endures questions about the affair, as the press want badly to know all the salacious details. Fitz's statement is a major hot button topic, as is his affair and the one he's sleeping with. Mellie has a handler who tries to get all the goods, and he's good at reading people, but she's not an easy client to crack. The final seconds of this one proves quite a shocker as a supposed ally of Liv's shows that he hasn't forgotten what happened to him because of her needing Defiance kept secret. So can the president be re-elected for a second term on his own, without help from any form of vote rigging, and will those with the Cytron card circumvent Fitz's efforts? People and what they plan or not plan, the secrets held away from the public, and if they will be revealed is always right there at the point of release on this show. Amazing is how the show continues to allow Fitz and company to escape the guillotine. At one point, it even seemed Cy might have Liv murdered in order for Mellie not to talk about the affair during the previous episode (!) so his desperation for holding onto the White House was already established.