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Thursday 29 August 2013

Scandal 2.9 "Blown Away" Review

                                                 
So Huck  (Guillermo Diaz) comes in and tells Harrison (Columbus Short) the man they're looking for on the news is him, so inevitably he would be caught.  Not by his own volition or shortcomings, but rather by betrayal.  Which is the name of the game in Washington right now.  Everything is becoming undone and as Verna Thornton (Debra Mooney) puts it, "karma for what we did."  But in her case she just betrayed Huck to keep her Supreme Court seat! Hollis (Gregg Henry) is betraying everyone left, right and centre by getting on side with Madam President (Kate Burton).  Why do you always need a Madam there, a woman's supposed to be as equal as a man, right?  Anyhoo,  Quinn (Katie Lowes) asks Huck if he knew who brought her to Washington and he says he didn't ask cos yeah, he'd do anything for Olivia (Kerry Washington).  Quinn's timing was off with everything going on around them, she thinks of herself.

Cyrus (Jeff Perry) finds out Jack (Dan Bucatinsky) wasn't at his parent's cos his mother calls and Cyrus sets Charlie (George Newbern) up to surveil him, thinking he's got a lover which he tells Olivia about, who is sure Fitz will die.  Thus the Whitehouse sets in  motion a plan for the funeral, which Langston approves with Olivia having to explain the empty horse without a rider is for and the inverted boots in the stirrup, a leader saying farewell to his troops.

Seems Huck was seen in the lift security footage at the hotel and he also picks up a woman's phone when she drops it, ridiculous really, he's just giving away fingerprints like that, though the FBI only gets a partial. Then there's that entire Becky (Susan Pourfar) fiasco, cos we all know she's the one who killed the President but we don't know for whom?  Also she leaves clues behind so Huck will think she's been kidnapped when she was the one who pulled the trigger.  SO obvious there was more to her, cos she just wouldn't want to meet and talk to Huck out of the blue at AA!  Not to mention Huck telling her all about himself and showing off his 'family' to her.  Would you really take someone to such personal places and I don't care if he tells them he can read liars and she didn't lie.  Cos she can do the opposite and act all innocent!

Charlie tells Cyrus Jack was in Defiance, Ohio and Cyrus puts two and two together, getting hold of a baby girl for them to adopt so Jack will leave his job, yeah and the rest of the time what exactly will he be doing at home, he's not going to give up the biggest story of the decade like that.  Jack gives David (Josh Malina) the memory card from the voting machine and together they're going to bring down the Administration.   Abby (Darby Stanchfield)  pays David a visit just for sex!  After he hands her the surveillance footage of the hotel which shows Becky checking in alone.  No one forced her to do anything.

Huck has the gun and Olivia can't really bring herself to look at it.  Huck has a last minute sex thang too with Becky before he calls Harrison to plant the gun at her apartment and turn her in.  Well no surprises there, she was listening to and so in revenge or a lesson or whatever, psycho Becky had in mind, she kills Huck's family! So Verna having turned in Huck to save her own neck, I mean the woman's dying and she still wants to cling onto that Supreme Court Justice seat, makes Langston choose if she wants her resignation or the name of the man who shot Fitz.  Naturally she's hungry for power, so Langston chooses the name of the shooter.  BUT it could have been anyone and I didn't know Verna knew Huck so well to have been able to recognize him from that sketch!  Yeah she's Olivia's client but she shouldn't have been so familiar with Huck.
Don't know about Abby but her scene with David was well, weird if not violent, she slaps him over and then pulls her skirt up, really?  Since when does she want to be the 'dominant' one.  Just as soon as Harrison said they'll get Huck's prints if they come clean about Becky, then up they pop and arrest him under the Patriot Act and we all know what that means!  No rights, no trial, straight off to Git'mo.

True to form or as the title suggests, everyone was blown away.

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