Season 3: Episode #3 "Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington"

What the Huck?!?

 Episode 3 only left me semi-slain.  Like, I was able to breathe and live during this episode.  Not what we're used to from Ms. Rhimes but good programming nonetheless.  Shall we review? 

Episode 3 opens with Jake still laid up in Liv's apartment while Huck has taken a personal day.  He has revenge on his mind and all he wants to do is kill Papa Pope dead.
Next we head on over to the White House where Mellie and President Mush are getting coached by Cy on how to make nice with each other in the public eye.  Both of them are gagging at the very sight of the other and Mellie can't figure out how to feed poor baby Teddy. I guess when you're busy being a wretched hag, parental skills are secondary.  

At Pope and Associates, the gladiators have a new client (thank ya black Jesus!) cuz the first of the month is upon us and they need to pay their rent to stay in that fly office space.  They take on Mary Nesbit, the mother of Chris Lawrence who was killed by the FBI, allegedly his apartment was the headquarters for some terrorist activity *shall i insert my side eye here or later?*  Baby Huck took it upon herself to hack into Mary's bank account, because she can, and the gladiators started putting pieces together.  Liv heads over to Capitol Hill as that is where Mary is about have a meeting. 

This is where it gets interesting... as Liv is going in to investigate this Mary Nesbit, there's a group of people on a white house tour and one of the tourists breaks away from the the group and hauls ass towards the presients office but he's tackled right before he bursts into the oval office.  He has information about operation Remington!   Uhmm sidebar, YOUR SECRET SERVICE SUCKS!!! How was he able to get that far? But they got secret service killing unarmed mothers in front of their babies for making the wrong turn at the Capitol?  yeaaaa ok.   
So Olivia bursts into the room where Mary is having her meeting and this is when every heart in America collectively dropped to its stomach because when she turned around, she revealed that she was strapped with explosives.  Liv is a good one because BREE??  Oh Bree would have been through that office wall like the Kool Aid man.  Turns out that Mary is demanding to know the truth about her sons murder. She doesn't believe he was a terrorist and the FBI won't tell her anything. Liv turns into a hostage negotiator in Prada and tries to defuse the situation.  She gets on the phone with the Commander from the FBI explaining to him that Mary wants to know the truth.

In another scene, the dude who was seconds away from bursting into the Oval office was released at Cyrus' command.  Clearly Cy is trying to keep whatever information ole' boy has about Remington TIP TOP SECRET.  The story is formulated that this intruder is not related to the hostage situation also going on at the same damn time.  They say this dude was a "lone wolf"... sound familiar?  mmmkay? 

WHAT THE HUCK?! Still stalking Papa Pope, Huck has a perfect opportunity to bust a cap in his ass but he chickened out at the last second!  Don't be going all Drake on us Huck!

Back at the White House, the President is being debriefed while being taken to the bunker.  Liv has gotten Mary to release some of the hostages and Harrison is out on the street reporting back all he's seeing.  The FBI commander is tired of the shenanigans and is ready to just put a bullet in June Cleaver, I mean Mary Nesbit's head.  Liv rushes her away from the window and places herself confidently in the crossfire knowing that President Mush will get one look at that quivering lip and Malaysian hair and halt this whole operation. And she was right. Liv pulled the shade down(literally) and demanded the Commander to patch her through to Fitzy.  So she rings up Jake because she knows he can get thru to President Mush on her behalf.  After checking himself in the mirror and calming his butterflies, he takes his call in private cuz he can't let his staff hear him swoon when talking to his Boo.  Exxxcept, when he picks up the phone and says "Olivia?", Jake is all like "uhmm no."

Jake and President Mush go back and forth in a little pissing contest that left both of them sour. Cut back to Huck who has followed Eli Pope out to West Bumblefuck to follow up with the dude from the White House breach earlier that day.  Of course they had some sort of deal worked out, Eli Pope has his hands in everything but a hearse. Dude wants to blow the lid off Remington and Papa is like HELLL TO THE NAWL! He is now a liability so it's serendipity that Huck is standing outside the trailer as Papa Pope goes to leave.  He has the gun to Pope's head and everything and just cannot pull the trigger.  Since Papa know's that Huck ain't gonna bust a grape in a fruit fight, he throws him a bone and tells him that he can have his way with the old drunk in the trailer.  Needing to kill SOMEBODY this week, Huck takes what he can get and goes into the trailer to kill ole boy.

Baby Huck learns her place this week because the Gladiators need her to hack into the FBI database and she can't.  Bow down little Quinn, bow down and SADDOWN somewhere!  She needs Huck's skills to do it.  Abbey, not able to waste anymore time goes to David Rosen for a favor. Good thing shes been wearing a little mascara and some lipstick lately as she was able to schmooze him to get the information she needs. 

David then heads over to Cy's office to get to the bottom of this Chris Lawrence situation.
President Mush gets the full scope of the Chris Lawrence murder and calls up Liv to tell her everything but also to order her that she CAN NOT under any circumstances tell Mary Nesbit the truth (that her son actually WASN'T a part of a terrorist cell but that he was CIA and had infiltrated a high level terror group.  Many lives are in the balance based on this secret).  Olivia's morals are tested as she wants to tell Mary the truth but she follows Fitzy's command in the end and confirms to Mary that her son was indeed a terrorist.  Heartbreaking.  She pulls Mary in her tiny bosom while she sobs onto Liv's silk Elie Tahari blouse. The SWAT teams, SEAL teams and every other team is at the office door, trying to get Liv and the remaining hostage out alive but as the Liv goes to walk out, Mary pushes her out the door and slams it, locking herself in the office alone...wearing her suicide vest.  Cut to Explosion. Damn.. I guess June Cleaver was about that suicide life after all! 

Liv was a hero!  She got all the hostages out.  **Insert Jersey Shore fist pump**  But it's not time for wine and Dorothy Zbornack cardigans in Liv's apartment yet!  Baby Huck lets Olivia know that Huck is trying to kill him some Eli/Rowan. 

At the White House, Mellie is getting shitfaced off some hooch and pours up a glass for Fitz.  They talk for a bit and Mellie's jealousy is palpable.She told Fitzy that she's glad Olivia didn't get blown up because as long as she's alive she can use her to pull all presidential strings.
Liv makes her way back to P&A where Huck is sulking all alone. He tells her how he couldn't pull the trigger on her dad and how after all this time, he still controls Huck.  Damn, I told ya'll Papa Pope is the most powerful man in the country.  He ends up breaking down and for the second time that day, somebody's salty tears get spilled on Liv's fine silk. 

Liv finally gets to go home and Jake is waiting for her talmbout "you wanna order take out boo?" but Olivia wants to know why and how is it that Jake is finally free in the first place?  All the while, Papa Pope is ringing Liv's phones off the hook.  She wants to know if Jake has been sent back to spy on her. Jake thinks love brought him back to Liv's door but Liv is like no boo, "You're alive because you're an asset to my dad, otherwise you would have been pushing up daisies by now". Still not answering any of her phones, they cut to Eli/Rowan sitting in the back of a Towncar, pissed that he can't get through to Liv. 
Aaaaand Scene!

Written by Bree Maria
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