The winter finale of Scandal is supposed to lead us to an explosive second part of the third season. Vice President Sally Langston has just “committed a sin.” She killed her cheating, gay husband when she found that he slept with Cyrus’s husband, James. When her husband told her that he’s tired of being her prop and he wants to leave her, she loses her mind and she stabs with him a letter opener. She calls Cyrus to help her clean up the crime scene and they decided to tell everyone that he died from a heart attack.

Meanwhile, Olivia and her team are looking for her father, who is in the Pentagon being interrogated by Fitz himself. Olivia finds out that her mother lied to his father about a bomb being on the plane that Fitz shot down. Her father had the plane shot down because he thought there was a bomb on it. Her mother was running away so she can sell government secrets that she got from her husband. Olivia is furious that she let her mother get away with a crime and she yells at Fitz to have her mother arrested as soon as the plane lands.
Later that night, Fitz calls Olivia and tells her that the plane never landed in Hong Kong, and that Mama Pope killed the pilots and the plane landed in Mongolia.

Mama Pope calls Olivia and when the episode ends, her mother is standing in front of the White House. This spells trouble for them because they have no idea where she is but her being back in DC can’t be good.

Here are the top quotes from “A Dark Marked Exit.”

[new page= Demon Father]
6.”Your father , he is not our hero, he is our demon. “ Olivia is in a bad mood and she’s taking it out on Huck. She found out that Huck hurt Quinn and he doesn’t know where her father is. She’s frustrated that Huck hasn’t been able to track him down. Jake tells Olivia that she needs to lay off Huck and all of their lives have been affected by her father.

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5.”You may not have noticed the 666 on my forehead before, but now you see it. I’m hoping you’ll love me anyway.” Cyrus is begging James to forgive him. He doesn’t want James to leave him even though he set him up to have sex with Sally Langston’s husband.

[new page= Huck fires Quinn]
4.“You want me to say that I’m sorry? Sorry for hurting you? Sorry for making you talk? I’m not. If it wasn’t for Olivia, I would have pulled out all of your teeth. If it wasn’t for Olivia, I would have peeled off all your skin. If it wasn’t for Olivia, I would kill you right now, right here. Olivia saves us, and you betray her? You’re not a gladiator anymore.” Quinn comes back to Pope and Associates but Huck is not having it. He basically tells her to go to hell and don’t come back.

[new page= Jake is now Command]
3.“Sorry, you didn’t get the memo. I’m command now, effective immediately.” Jake has kicked Rowan Pope out of his office and he is now in charge of B613.

[new page= Welcome back, Maya]
2.“Don’t worry sweetheart. I’ll see you real soon.” Olivia’s killed two pilots, escaped from the plane and found her way back to DC somehow. No telling what she is doing back in DC, but it doesn’t look too good.

[new page= Rowan Pope lets Fitz know how he really feels.]

1.“You’re a boy! You’ve been coddled and cared for and pampered and hugged. For you, it’s always summertime and living is easy and daddy’s rich and your mama’s good looking. You’re a Grant! You’ve got money in your blood. But you are a boy! I’m a man! I’ve worked for every single thing I have ever received. I have fought and scraped and bled for every inch of ground I walk on. I’m the first in my family to go to college. My daughter went to boarding school with the children of kings. I made that happen! You cried yourself to sleep because daddy hurt your feelings, because papa banged his secretary. Because it hurt to have so much money. You spoiled, entitled, ungrateful, little brat! You have everything handed to you on a silver platter and you squander it. You’re given the world and you can’t appreciate it because you haven’t had to work for anything! So now you’ve decided that the one thing that you want is my daughter. You love that she is a door marked exit. You love that she is your way out. Because if you are with Olivia Pope, you don’t have to fulfill your father’s dream of being president. You are always going to be Senator Grant’s disappointing boy, Fitz. She is always going to be the formidable Olivia Pope! Don’t use the person that I made to make you into a man. You are a boy.” Rowan Pope basically summarized the type of person Fitz is, while being tied down to a chair and being at the president’s mercy. Rowan does not approve of Fitz and his daughter's relationship because he feels that Fitz is not a real man.

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