Poor Glackland almost got the pulp (do you get it!?
Because of the bag of oranges…never mind) beaten out of him.
This week, we pick up where we left off.
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Season 1 had us asking, “Who is Quinn Perkins?”
We pick up with the obvious: Quinn leaving QPA to, well, go to her wedding.
The elevator stops, she’s in her wedding dress, and someone appears and kidnaps her.
We knew Quinn never ran.
She seems to have been chloroformed.
Back at QPA, Charlie has given up.
He’s diving in on revenge plots, but Huck hasn’t given up hope.
And Olivia Pope is feeling super guilty.
She tells Jake that she wants #JusticeForQuinn.
She wants the monster who did thisfinished.
When she’s on her own though, Olivia can barely process it all.
(I have so much to say about this, which we’ll get to in a second.)
She meets with Rowan, who admits thathehas Quinn.
He wants his freedom.
Olivia calls his bluff; she’s convinced he won’t touch Quinn.
They call each other’s bluffs…even if Jake doesn’t think it’s a bluff.
SO LET’S DISCUSS THAT.
By taking Quinn (whom he has no interest in hurting), he’s saving Olivia.
He’s absorbing the burden of being Command from his daughter, whom he desperately hopes will find happiness.
Taking Quinn isn’t about his dinosaur (literally).
It’s about his dinosaur (figuratively).
She also meets with Marcus, who pitches that she work with Fitz’s foundation.
Mellie isn’t interested she has her own legacy to chisel out.
He goes to Rowan to threaten him with Olivia’s craziness because time is running out.
And that’s when it gets full-on crazy.
So let’s just start there.
Maya says, “But what am I getting out of helping you?”
and Olivia says, “you’re able to either be my mother or a bitch.”
And he doesn’t even know that nowPryceis missing.
Again, everyone who touches Olivia is at risk.
And that’s when Jake points out that Olivia doesn’t get to have it all.
It’s a soft pitch at the theory I proposed earlier.
Olivia heads off to meet with her father.
She walks into the house and he says, “Perkins' life or my freedom?”
before drawing a gun on his own daughter.
He says he won’t kill her, but Olivia can’t live with the blood on her hands.
She insists that the only way out is to kill her.
Rowan puts the gun to her head and she screams, “Pull it!”
But he can’t.
In the moment, Olivia calls B613 to kill her own father while he listens to the request.
If Quinn has to die for the republic, then she dies.
So Rowan goes off into a room and shoots.
Quinn screams out from that room, and he shoots again.
And that’s it.
