Wow! It's like they read my posts about how predictable the show is at times and decided to prove me wrong!
This episode is so full of surprises I am going to have to type as I watch to make sure I don't miss anything.
Shocking moments:
1. Abby is just now realizing Liv is missing? And now that she's in the White House she's completely shut out of all the information. She gets nothing from the White House and nothing from the Gladiators
2. Andrew, VP, actually planned on having Liv returned alive! O well...
3. Huck has over $2 billion, because he took it from B613 after they were dismantled
4. Gus, the kidnapper that Liv hit with a pipe across his head, killed the head kidnapper (Ian) right before the bidding started. So much for the deal she was making to choose between the final two bidders. Yikes!
5. Andrew refuses to resign, even against the threat of prison...then throws out his own threat about a President going to war for his "sidepiece"...prison for Fitz and Cyrus?
6. The bidding site requires an invite to even find the page, and you must be an "all-star terrorist" known for having tons of money...where do Jake and the Gladiators turn...MAMA POPE. But of course saving her daughter is not enough, she wants to be free (Nope), low security prison (Nope), flat screen tv w/ cable (that'll work).
7. Huck thinks he is meeting with Gustavo (Mama Pope's connection to get to bid), but actually it turns out the guy stole from Gustavo and Gustavo wants Huck to kill him and his two guards as payment. And he goes a bit too far...eww!! Then he tells Jake Gustavo will want proof by seeing their heads. And after asking him what Liv would think if she saw him, Jake gets Huck to leave but then begins to cut off their heads himself.
8. Andrew threatens to tell the world about him and Mellie if he goes down, after finding out Cyrus is going to get Lizzie Bear to testify against him.
9. Olivia tries to convince the two techie kidnappers to stop working with Gus and give her to the U.S. Where she messed up was trying to tell them they didn't dream of kidnapping people, but dreamed of working in corporate America (or something like that). Womp, womp! One of them says he dreamed of making money and would play his odds on whether Gus will try to kill him or not. So yea, that didn't work. They are getting me with this plethora of twists and unexpected actions! Love it!
10. Fitz tells Abby about Liv's situation, and she goes off on Rosen...but Rosen defends not telling her by saying he knew as AG and she did not have a right to know
11. This whole open relationship thing Fitz and Mellie have going on kinda irks me a little. But anywho...Mellie poses the question, what does he want more than anything, surprisingly he says he wants his son to be alive...so she says what do you want that seems possiblem and he says Liv. She asks him to ask her, and she says she wants to be President of the United States...so Fitz decides to allow Andrew to walk (to keep him from telling the world about his affair with Mellie).
12. Jake tells Quinn Huck may be too far gone off the deep end. And just when Huck gets in to bid the auction ends.
13. Turns out Iran came directly with cash...Gus adds, Liv smashed his head open and killed his best friend...and follows that with..."Who did you think I was going to sell you to?" O...Liv...why didn't you just stay put.
14. Whoa! The intelligence advisers are advising the President to neutralize (kill?) the asset (Olivia??), because she knows so much White House intelligence. Of course, Fitz and Cyrus insist on extraction of the "asset."
15. Huck makes it real...whoever bought her does not see her as a human, since they bought someone to get power over a country,,he then goes into how they'll send her pieces to Fitz, until Quinn goes off on him for being so sick. He finishes by saying Liv's dead.
16. Fitz goes into a speech about how they have to save Liv, not b/c he loves her or b/c she knows U.S. intelligence, but b/c of the soldiers who died in West Angola due to him trying to save her.
Good job on this episode...but I'm guessing it was Abby who bought Liv. But that would be PREDICTABLE Scandal!
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