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Speaker 1: full faith that Mary Howard, our line producer, could have
Speaker 1: made the show go post COVID world. But like you know,
Speaker 1: we used to show up sick to work tidless. Yes,
Speaker 1: like oh yeah, I mean Carrie could not fall down
Speaker 1: and she had two little ones. In the later seasons
Speaker 1: of Scandal, who like, as soon as your kids start
Speaker 1: going to nursery school. You're fucked. Like it's just like
Speaker 1: every other day is diarrhea, vomiting worlds like whatever. And
Speaker 1: I remember her getting like either the flu or close
Speaker 1: to the flu, like a million times over, and I
Speaker 1: just was running around set passing out. Yeah, every homeopathic
Speaker 1: and they used to once they sent the doctor to
Speaker 1: my house to do like a house called because I
Speaker 1: had like a fever and I was in the middle
Speaker 1: of shooting when oh yeah, and she gave me like
Speaker 1: that Z pack and some like shots or some shit.
Speaker 1: Because like you said, we just couldn't get sick. That
Speaker 1: you know, not showing up was in an option. We
Speaker 1: couldn't be like can't comment today like I'm you know
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Speaker 1: was everybody else's responsibility to do. So you could just
Speaker 1: like Mary Howard to be like I think you have
Speaker 1: to send a doctor to my house to pack. It's
Speaker 1: like now that we're regular mortals walking around the planet,
Speaker 1: we have to figure out how to get our own
Speaker 1: damn prescriptions. So when you hear me and Gee in
Speaker 1: this episode just clearing our throats a lot and sucking
Speaker 1: on our own snot Oh my god, that's so funny.
Speaker 1: This is one of the most chock full episodes I
Speaker 1: think we have ever done to date. Yes, yes, but
Speaker 1: it's such a fun episode. Like I remember having so
Speaker 1: much fun shooting this particular episode. This episode two oh
Speaker 1: three is what we're talking about today, people. It is
Speaker 1: called Hunting Season. It aired on October eighteenth in twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: It was written by Matt Byrne, again one of the
Speaker 1: go to scale writers who also wrote on Inventing Anna.
Speaker 1: It was directed by Ron Underwood. Do you remember up? Yes,
Speaker 1: he did a great job, he really did You remember Katie?
Speaker 1: At one point, I think when we wrapped her in
Speaker 1: the of shooting, Columbus picked him up and like jostled
Speaker 1: him around because Ron is he's a little guy. I
Speaker 1: love I'm a little guy too, But I remember Columbus
Speaker 1: just grabbing him and lifting him up in the air,
Speaker 1: and Ron was like, boy, what's happening. He was so uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: I feel like Ron was like five six Yeah. Probably,
Speaker 1: he's adorable. He's like adorable looking, so he gives off
Speaker 1: the vibe of like someone you just sort of want
Speaker 1: to pick up and carry around in your pocket. And
Speaker 1: Ron also directed Tremors, which is a really old school
Speaker 1: famous horror film. You know, me and my horror Yo, Guillermo.
Speaker 1: We got to start a drinking game that involves the
Speaker 1: scandal Rewatch podcast and like horror backstory. Okay, guest stars
Speaker 1: on this episode are incredible. We've got Norm Lewis as
Speaker 1: Senator Edison Davis, Greg Henry's Hollis Doyle, Brenda Song as Alyssa,
Speaker 1: Brian Letcher as Tom, Tony Westmorland is how Wendy Davis is,
Speaker 1: Kimberly Mitchell, Stephen W. Bailey is Noah Elliott, Patrick Fishler
Speaker 1: is already hor Rnbacher Hello, and an Q Sack. Holy shit?
Speaker 1: Do they look alike? Yeah? Sah as one of the three.
Speaker 1: I think there's three of them. We're going to get
Speaker 1: into that leader as NSA director Krinn Stark. Yes, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll start synopsis. Tensions are running high Olivia, Pope and
Speaker 1: associates due to questions about Quinn's background, and when an
Speaker 1: NSA analyst, Artie Hornbacker drops a bombshell claiming that the
Speaker 1: government is using a new technology called thorn Gate to
Speaker 1: spy on its citizens, Olivia's caught off guard with how
Speaker 1: far up this scandal goes and distracted by her problems
Speaker 1: with Fits. At the White House, Cyrus has to try
Speaker 1: and keep Fits calm and collected. When Olivia's former Flames,
Speaker 1: Senator Edison Davis shows up, Mellie is happy that things
Speaker 1: are going good with her and Fits now until she
Speaker 1: learns that he had Olivia brought to him, so she
Speaker 1: threatens Fits. Meanwhile, David Rosen, with the help of his
Speaker 1: former assistant, dig deeper into his conspiracy theory about how
Speaker 1: he locked his case against Quinn and what Olivia's involvement
Speaker 1: might be. Oh, yeah, that's what's up. That was good.
Speaker 1: Dwayne noses miammies Bosom, my boyfriend. What you don't mean again?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you that from now on. I should
Speaker 1: know what is wrong with me. Okay yo, let's get
Speaker 1: into this episode. So much happens. God, it's solid. It's
Speaker 1: just so solid. And we've got the introduction of the
Speaker 1: one and only Norm Lewis, Yes as Senator Edison Davis,
Speaker 1: like you are your you have your horror stuff, and
Speaker 1: every single guest star and director that come on that
Speaker 1: that was a horror person. But when Norm Lewis, King
Speaker 1: of musical theater on is Olivia Pope's ex boyfriend. I
Speaker 1: shit myself. Then I called Adam, who was also my husband,
Speaker 1: a big musical theater nerd. I have watched Norm Lewis,
Speaker 1: I mean Normalis was the first black Phantom of the opera.
Speaker 1: He was in the twenty fifth anniversary concert of Les Misa.
Speaker 1: You're welcome, everybody. Um. I saw in Porgy in best
Speaker 1: Are shondaland Family. Audra McDonald, Yeah, he is incredible. He
Speaker 1: was in Miss Sigonion Chicago dream Girls. Yeah, yeah, yeah, guy.
Speaker 1: This guy is a musical theater icon. His voice is
Speaker 1: that of a gift from Angels. I think he even
Speaker 1: sank to us, Katie. I remember being on set and
Speaker 1: he sang to us. Do you remember that? Yeah? What
Speaker 1: did he sing? I don't remember. I just remember it's
Speaker 1: sort of happening. I don't even remember who was there
Speaker 1: at them hear you. I think he said, did he
Speaker 1: sing God on High? Did he sing a song from me?
Speaker 1: I do remember every Wow, Thank god you have a
Speaker 1: good memory of Gamma, because I do remember the entire
Speaker 1: cast and crew all coming into Olivia Pope and associates
Speaker 1: around the conference table. Because Norm was like yeah, I
Speaker 1: sing you guys a little something. Oh, he's so good,
Speaker 1: and I feel like in the beginning of this top
Speaker 1: part of Scandal work. The episode opens and he's like
Speaker 1: on our fake news channel, which is called BNC yea
Speaker 1: our fake news network station on Scandal was called BNC
Speaker 1: and Edison is on and he's talking about how the
Speaker 1: president's fucking up and he's doing a bad job, and
Speaker 1: this is all the things Edison things he should do
Speaker 1: because he's a powerful senator. Olivia calls him and is like, dude,
Speaker 1: you're wearing pinstripes. No one can even hear what you're
Speaker 1: saying when your shirt is doing a weird jumpy thing.
Speaker 1: The cap is moving back and forth, which is a
Speaker 1: real thing. Oh yeah, I watch I Love Lucy And
Speaker 1: back in the day they used to wear pin stripes.
Speaker 1: I remember those episodes and being so annoyed because I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, their clothing is moving, it's so distracting. Wow.
Speaker 1: So it's funny that they you know, that he wore that,
Speaker 1: like in modern times now and then we kind of
Speaker 1: learned that they've like they're We're like, wait, what is
Speaker 1: this relationship? Who is this new guy? There's obviously history
Speaker 1: there up there. Yeah, so we get the case of
Speaker 1: the week, which is this ringer of an actor playing
Speaker 1: Alreadie Horn by Hatrick Fishler, and holy shit, if this
Speaker 1: one hell of a guest star and one hell of
Speaker 1: a performance, and if someone's going to get an Emmy
Speaker 1: for a guest start performance. The fact that this dude
Speaker 1: was not nominated as a cry yo, talk about fitting
Speaker 1: in right away, this little fucker. I remember walking in
Speaker 1: seeing him standing on that on our conference table at
Speaker 1: OPA and being just being like, this dude is so
Speaker 1: freaking good. He just fit right in and had that
Speaker 1: scandal pace down and was just stakes were so yeah,
Speaker 1: now gee I was. I wrote it in my notes
Speaker 1: when I was rewatching this episode. So, like, you know,
Speaker 1: we're all back in OPA. Quinn's out of living at
Speaker 1: Olivia's apartment, she's at of jail. Everyone's being a bitch
Speaker 1: to her, mostly fucking abby. Like Quinn walks in, She's
Speaker 1: back with like, hey, guys, I'm back at work, Like,
Speaker 1: will you take me back. I've totally let go with
Speaker 1: the Lindsay Dwyer identity and I am Quinn Perkinson. Here's
Speaker 1: your coffee. And Harrison is like, hey, welcome back and
Speaker 1: gives me like a lovely Harrison kiss on the cheek,
Speaker 1: and Abby's like, yeah, welcome back, Lindsay. And and then
Speaker 1: we walked into the office and it heart already, Like
Speaker 1: you said, is standing on the table? Was that his
Speaker 1: choice or was that written in the script? I don't remember.
Speaker 1: Whatever it was, it was brilliant, just that image of
Speaker 1: him just standing on the table, fidgeting with the like
Speaker 1: fixture above, you know, because he's freaking out about ship
Speaker 1: being bugged. Um. Yeah, I don't remember whose idea that
Speaker 1: was so good though, so good. Maybe it was Ron's
Speaker 1: idea under a little little baby bubby Ron he said,
Speaker 1: get up on that table. Um, But I love his performance.
Speaker 1: We all walk in and he starts talking about this
Speaker 1: thing called thorn Gate, which is some insane intelligence shit.
Speaker 1: How would you even describe this, shack or Giarmo. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're spying on citizens. It's not even like you know,
Speaker 1: like world leaders or potential like terrorists or people that
Speaker 1: you feel like the government would be spying on just
Speaker 1: to you know, watch their backs wornate. They're literally spying
Speaker 1: on just your common man or woman. They're spying on them.
Speaker 1: And this this dude. Yeah. He brings in this external
Speaker 1: drive right and plugs it in, and then we see
Speaker 1: I think the first person that we see Thornate like
Speaker 1: alive and working was with Cyrus. Right. We see Cyrus
Speaker 1: in the White House and he's chatting about the President.
Speaker 1: He's talking to Hollis Doyle. I think this is when
Speaker 1: we first learned that Cyrus's middle name is Cyrus Rutherford Bean,
Speaker 1: because it's up on your computer. Yeah, and this is
Speaker 1: a fun fact, like you know already's like, okay, pick anybody,
Speaker 1: pick anybody. I swear it, like right now, like Thornate
Speaker 1: is alive and well, right now, say anybody's name. We
Speaker 1: can fucking que into them right now and see where
Speaker 1: they're at. And she's like fine, Cyrus Rutherford Bean, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Rutherford, I don't. I did not do a
Speaker 1: deep dive on where that could possibly come from. But
Speaker 1: I did not either. I did not either. Maybe someday,
Speaker 1: but throwing it to Cyrus Rutherford Bean as we bring
Speaker 1: as Opa breaks in to the case to figure out
Speaker 1: about Thornate and what we do about it, the song
Speaker 1: on the background is at the car wash yeah gosh, yeah,
Speaker 1: which I know for a fucking fact that that is
Speaker 1: Jeff Perry's favorite song of all times. You gotta be
Speaker 1: kidding me. Oh my god, just the fact that that's
Speaker 1: Jeff Perry's favorite song has made my freaking day, My rainy, rainy,
Speaker 1: gloomy day is brightened it up? What to be that
Speaker 1: once and he was like, I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was while watching this episode and like writing down scandal tweets,
Speaker 1: but in my memory, car wash is Jeff Perry's favorite
Speaker 1: song of all fucking time. Picture him driving around the
Speaker 1: shuffle of song. Oh my god, Oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: it's a great it's a great background song for all
Speaker 1: of us. And we're doing all our due diligence to
Speaker 1: figure out about Thornate and who knows about it and
Speaker 1: all this crap, and Olivia screams at all of us
Speaker 1: to get already out. And the reason why Olivia freaks
Speaker 1: out and orders us all to get already to a
Speaker 1: safe place is because she has a meeting with Corinda
Speaker 1: and essay director, and Corinna doesn't blink an eye when
Speaker 1: Olivia brings up Thorngate, and that sort of puts up
Speaker 1: a rep flag for for Olivia, and she's like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: something's up. This woman is trying to cover something up
Speaker 1: and can we just talk really quickly. The woman that
Speaker 1: plays um corin Corinne star freaking Q Sack and Q
Speaker 1: Sack who is I don't know what sibling line she's
Speaker 1: in with? Uh John and Joan and Joan there are
Speaker 1: another one wait let me go, I don't there might
Speaker 1: be they might not be an actor though, Um okay.
Speaker 1: There's Joan Cusack obviously, so fucking famous, so amazing. There's
Speaker 1: John Cusack. Oh so they both get names that start
Speaker 1: with Jay, and poor ass. Anne gets like, what the hell?
Speaker 1: They're only Anne and Joan and John and John Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're from Evanston, Illinois really quickly and Cusack so
Speaker 1: wonderful in this role. But also she's been in movies
Speaker 1: like Stigmata, which is another amazing horror film with Patricia Arquette.
Speaker 1: She was in The Birdcage. But the one film that
Speaker 1: she's in which she is just heartbreaking and stellar in
Speaker 1: it is A League of their Own. She's in a
Speaker 1: League of their Own. She plays Shirley Baker, the one
Speaker 1: baseball player, the left fielder who in the beginning of
Speaker 1: the film when they put up, you know, the lists
Speaker 1: of the women that made it on the team, and
Speaker 1: she makes it, but she can't read, so she can't
Speaker 1: find her name. And it's the most heart wrenching scene
Speaker 1: in that movie. It's so beautiful and she's so lovely
Speaker 1: in that scene and so emotional, and and and Gina Davis.
Speaker 1: Davis takes an Cusack to the side and is like, honey,
Speaker 1: can you like not read it? Yeah? I know, And
Speaker 1: then she goes, let's go find your name together. They
Speaker 1: take her little finger and they like scroll it down
Speaker 1: the list that's been put up on the wall, and
Speaker 1: then she tells her you made it. You made it.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, me too, me too. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Ank Cusack, We love Shout out to an Cusack, we
Speaker 1: love it. Fucking Superstar okay um I Brenda's song is
Speaker 1: another guest star who's incredible. She plays Alyssa, David Rosen's assistant.
Speaker 1: But she comes into David's apartment and sort of sees
Speaker 1: that he's in his underwear, which I seen Josh Lena
Speaker 1: and his underwear is like hilarious. I wish they were
Speaker 1: like tidy whities, though you know, they were like boxers.
Speaker 1: So it looks like shorts. I kind of wish they
Speaker 1: were like tidy whities. It would have been so funny
Speaker 1: with like a little stinging on the front and the back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like like cartoons like tweety birds or something stupid
Speaker 1: like remember under Yes, like underreoth Um. But she comes
Speaker 1: in and she sees that David Ross in his entire
Speaker 1: like beautiful mind, asked wall of crazy, and the two
Speaker 1: of them spend the whole episode sort of really getting
Speaker 1: to the bottom of how Quinn Perkins got off so
Speaker 1: easily from the case that like ruined his entire life.
Speaker 1: She's a black belt in taekwondo. Who knew? Can you
Speaker 1: believe that? Yeah? And then of course she was like
Speaker 1: most people know her because she was in the Sweet
Speaker 1: Life of Zack and Cody. Yeah, And I remember sitting
Speaker 1: next to her in the hair and makeup trailer when
Speaker 1: she would come to work. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: actors when they start off as like kid actors on
Speaker 1: the Disney Show, they're all sort of like panicked about
Speaker 1: you know, how am I gonna transition out of this?
Speaker 1: I'm a real actor, Like I want to work in
Speaker 1: other ways. And then some even like kind of can
Speaker 1: rebel and be like, look, how not Disney I am. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Brenda has a shit load of tattoos. I'm talking
Speaker 1: like in between every oh yeah, in between every single
Speaker 1: finger she has a tattoo, Like in between each finger
Speaker 1: on her fingers, she has tattoos. And I remember sitting
Speaker 1: next to her in the Hair and Nago trailer and
Speaker 1: she had to get them all covered up, covered up,
Speaker 1: like every day because they're on her hands. Like it's
Speaker 1: one thing if you have a lot of tattoos on
Speaker 1: your body, but you wear clothes on the show, like
Speaker 1: what are But they were on her actual fucking hands.
Speaker 1: And I remember her saying something to the extent of like,
Speaker 1: you know, I was on a Disney show. And then
Speaker 1: I like did my phase of like I'm not a
Speaker 1: goody two shoe, like I'm not a Disney kid. I'm
Speaker 1: not that she got tatted up. She was like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get tatted up. Okay. So Brenda's song and McCully
Speaker 1: culkin are getting married after four years of dating. Now,
Speaker 1: so she's getting married to McCauley culkin. Well, how like
Speaker 1: now as we speak, like this is present day, they're
Speaker 1: they're about to get married. Yeah, what I really wait. Oh.
Speaker 1: On January twenty sixth, people reported that mculey, Culkin and
Speaker 1: Brenda's Song are engaged the adorable couple who welcome their
Speaker 1: first child no back in April twenty twenty one. Most
Speaker 1: of their relationship pretty private since they started dating in
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. Teen. Wow, that's so really good. Like, oh,
Speaker 1: who they kept their ship incognito? Yeap, like nobody knew.
Speaker 1: I didn't know about that. Yeah, those are two and
Speaker 1: those are some child stars. Man. Oh yeah, Brenda, you
Speaker 1: were the best on our freaking show. Brenda's one of
Speaker 1: the guest stars that did come back a few times
Speaker 1: on our show. Right yeah, yeah, yeah, so good, Go
Speaker 1: get a snack and we'll be right back. Okay, what
Speaker 1: is your next sections of this episode? G that you
Speaker 1: were like, this is the ship. Yeah, well, I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk really quickly about the safe house where we
Speaker 1: shot the fake. In the safe house where we take
Speaker 1: Artie Hornbocker, it's like Hucks, like the first time we
Speaker 1: see like Hucks, like you know, super like private, out
Speaker 1: of the way like safe house where we take our
Speaker 1: clients sometimes, And it was so much fun shooting there.
Speaker 1: It was always so much fun going and shooting on
Speaker 1: location because it felt like we just all had so
Speaker 1: much fun. We were like little kids when we got
Speaker 1: to leave the OPA set. Right, that safe house was
Speaker 1: not on a stage. No, it might have been on
Speaker 1: It might have been on a stage, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: at Sante Gower, right, It was somewhere else. Is my
Speaker 1: mind that that's what I remember. But god, I do
Speaker 1: remember shooting it. It was so cool, Like so basically
Speaker 1: this is an underground, sub level fucking thing that Olivia
Speaker 1: Pope and associates owns that you sort of it's Huck's
Speaker 1: place or something. Yeah, but I think it's Huck's place.
Speaker 1: I think it's I feel like Huck's had this spot
Speaker 1: for a minute, you know what I mean, But he
Speaker 1: was homeless for a while, so possibly Opa Olivia paid
Speaker 1: for for it and you know, to create it and
Speaker 1: to have it. But I do remember it being so cool,
Speaker 1: and like they would always like add smoke to it,
Speaker 1: maybe like just so that the lighting always looked like
Speaker 1: kind of eerie and sort of like underground, and and
Speaker 1: like it's not so clear and it's really dark and dingy.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was very cool. It was very very cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was super fun shooting down there. So ladies at
Speaker 1: the safe house, Quinn and Huck are there watching him.
Speaker 1: Huk is under like nd stress to like break into
Speaker 1: Thornate and like copy it or some shit. I don't
Speaker 1: know what hacking crap you're doing. You're doing something, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Well they when they first um pop in that external
Speaker 1: drive that already brings to OPA, it sort of fizzles
Speaker 1: out and a firewall goes up, and now Huck has
Speaker 1: to break into that firewall so we have evidence to
Speaker 1: be able then to go to the authorities and be like, look,
Speaker 1: this Thornate is happening and it's fucked up. Here's the evidence.
Speaker 1: So that's what Huck is trying to do. And you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: like you said, he's super stressed because it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's extremely difficult to look at you firewall with that
Speaker 1: fucking terminology big words fire firewall, so into it. I
Speaker 1: haven't said firewall since we shot Scandal, that's for damn sure.
Speaker 1: And my favorite scene of this episode, skipping a little ahead,
Speaker 1: is Fits is so pissed because they've gotten picks. He's
Speaker 1: gotten picks that Edison and Olivia are talking again. He
Speaker 1: is not happy about it, and so he summons Olivia.
Speaker 1: At five o'clock in the morning, the Secret Service shows
Speaker 1: up and they say, get in the fucking car and
Speaker 1: they take him her all the way out to the
Speaker 1: woods somewhere where Fits is hunting the scene, you know,
Speaker 1: which is for the title the episode Hunting Season is
Speaker 1: the Hottest, best, angriest, most amazing, where like fits like
Speaker 1: puts her on a rock and takes off her high heels,
Speaker 1: puts her in boots, is like lacing him up all aggressively,
Speaker 1: and they're looking at each other with like longing and
Speaker 1: sadness and anger, and it's so complicated, and the two
Speaker 1: of them are so good. And he's got a gun
Speaker 1: and she's like, give me a gun and he's like, no,
Speaker 1: I have a gun. And they're marching through the woods
Speaker 1: and she's following him and they're yelling at each other
Speaker 1: and it's just so cold. It's so good. And before
Speaker 1: she gets out of the car, she's sitting in the
Speaker 1: car like, I'm not getting out. Who do you think
Speaker 1: you are summoned to me to wherever you are? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And he says get out of the yeah, yea so loud,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, But it was so sexy, like you said,
Speaker 1: it was so hot, And I think the reason I
Speaker 1: was thinking about it, I was like, Olivia wouldn't put
Speaker 1: up with that shit. But I think the reason she
Speaker 1: finds it's so hot because she's like, oh, look if
Speaker 1: fits being all tough and shit, She's like, I will
Speaker 1: fuck you up, motherfucker. You go ahead and be dominant
Speaker 1: all you want, and it's hot and I'm gonna kiss
Speaker 1: you later and make out, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fuck you up if you go if you overstep,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? Like I feel that
Speaker 1: vibe from her, like she's the ball. She's like, okay, God,
Speaker 1: she like go ahead and yell bim. She's also like, fuck,
Speaker 1: I have to like figure out this Thornate ship. Oh absolutely, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's so many don't And he's like, don't you dare
Speaker 1: fucking look into fucking thorn Gate, Like you are fucking
Speaker 1: with national fucking security and you're being a traitor to
Speaker 1: your country. And she's like, you're fucking spying on people
Speaker 1: and you're a dick. And he's like, and you're going
Speaker 1: to your ex boyfriend and she's like, you know about
Speaker 1: my fuck ex boyfriend and then without waiting too long
Speaker 1: praiseby they're making up against a fucking trade. Next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, on the Quickness they're just making out on
Speaker 1: the track and like Tom and Hal and the Service
Speaker 1: just like turn their back. Yes, it's so awkward and
Speaker 1: uncomfortable and hot and one it made me think, like
Speaker 1: you imagine all the shit that goes down like with presidents, right,
Speaker 1: Like the shit like there's there's got to be moments
Speaker 1: where presidents are like, I don't give a fuck, this
Speaker 1: is what I'm doing, Like that scene when Fitz wants
Speaker 1: to leave the White House. I forget what episode it
Speaker 1: was in, and he's just like I need to get
Speaker 1: out and do what I want to do, just for
Speaker 1: you know, an hour or two. But it makes you think, Matt,
Speaker 1: all the shit that those Secret Service guys must see
Speaker 1: and women, right, yeah, I just wrote crazy Walk and
Speaker 1: Talk in the damn Woods. But also this is where
Speaker 1: Olivia reveals to Fits that they know about the late
Speaker 1: night phone calls to the White House, right, and that's
Speaker 1: sort of what stops him too, and he's like, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, Like I knew about Thorngate, but I didn't
Speaker 1: know these motherfucker's wispine I'm me too, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, which we later find out that it's Cyrus
Speaker 1: right who sort of is using that shit fucking Rutherford. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, so he stops when he finds out, like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, they know about my personal shit boyfriend with
Speaker 1: all the details from Fits. Fits is so jealous, so
Speaker 1: so so so so jealous. That's what this is about,
Speaker 1: I think. And they make out against a tree and
Speaker 1: they're going so hard, and the Secret Service turned their
Speaker 1: back and Olivia says, I am not yours. I don't
Speaker 1: show up places because you want me. I am not yours.
Speaker 1: This is over. Yeah, so good? How many times has
Speaker 1: it been over? Olivia? Goddamn? Oh well, this is just
Speaker 1: the beginning of this podcast, and were about to be
Speaker 1: Fits and Liver on. They're off, They're on, They're off,
Speaker 1: they're on, They're off. Another one of the scenes that
Speaker 1: happens a little bit earlier before this, um this hunting
Speaker 1: scene with Fits and Olivia is a scene with Abby
Speaker 1: and Harrison when they're going to check in on Monica,
Speaker 1: who was the supposed to the other woman, who knows
Speaker 1: that Artie knows about Thorngate and took Thorngate. They're back
Speaker 1: and forth is just so good. I wrote down it's
Speaker 1: so classic buddy cop vibes. I love them together. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I wrote it's so satisfying to the ear into the eyes.
Speaker 1: It's also very when Harry met Sally. It's just that
Speaker 1: back and forth. They just mesh and meld so well together,
Speaker 1: those two characters. And of course Darby and Columbus like
Speaker 1: had the best chemistry. Ah, where is that spin off? Right?
Speaker 1: Want that procedural and Abby Harrison spin off? Good Cop,
Speaker 1: Bad Cop? I love watching them handlecases. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And so we find her dead. We find Monica dead.
Speaker 1: She's dead? Yeah, he dead? She good? She did. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what the fucking body count is by
Speaker 1: episode two h three that we're at it scandal like,
Speaker 1: how many people have done it? That would be kind
Speaker 1: of a cool, like little side thing that we figure
Speaker 1: out is the body count. But I also gotta say
Speaker 1: I love the scene Fitz comes back from the hunting
Speaker 1: scene with live and he's a dick to Mellie. And
Speaker 1: this whole episode he's been like nice to Mellie and
Speaker 1: they've sort of been reconnecting over like designing the nursery
Speaker 1: because the baby's coming, and Mellie is folding baby clothes
Speaker 1: that have been gifted to them from Queen Elizabeth, which,
Speaker 1: like Queen Elizabeth was alive at the time, Like right,
Speaker 1: I know, yeah, yeah, yeah. To me, it's just so weird,
Speaker 1: I know, and fits it is, like, you know, you
Speaker 1: could get somebody to fold those clothes, and that's when
Speaker 1: she's like, no, these were gifted by the Queen. I'll
Speaker 1: fold these baby clothes. It also made me think like, oh, god, kids,
Speaker 1: I don't know how y'all do it. I was like
Speaker 1: I've said this before and I'll say it again. Listen.
Speaker 1: I got four goldfish and sometimes I'm like I kind
Speaker 1: of feed them today again, like I'm stressed, like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's fucking fish. I gotta clean this tank. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine having like live human beings running around. You got
Speaker 1: to keep them alive. You had a goldfish die yet
Speaker 1: oh all the time. Yeah, but these have lasted. These
Speaker 1: have lasted over over a year. They're goldfish. I sometimes
Speaker 1: I buried. I buried a couple in my backyard, but
Speaker 1: usually just flush. But yes, Bellamy is folding baby clothes
Speaker 1: from Queen Elizabeth and they're in a great place her
Speaker 1: and fits and then he goes to this hunting thing
Speaker 1: and when he comes back, he had dick. He's to
Speaker 1: Mellie and Melly goes right up to Hall and Tom
Speaker 1: the Secret Service. She's like, what the hell happened while
Speaker 1: they were hunting? And they are quiet and this scene,
Speaker 1: that scene is one of my favorite scenes in this
Speaker 1: episode too. Oh well, she's trying to get out of them. Why.
Speaker 1: She's like, why is my husband being a dick? Yes,
Speaker 1: can tell me, blink, just blink a few times. I'm
Speaker 1: going to list a bunch of names, and you can
Speaker 1: tell me who he saw out there and why, what's
Speaker 1: affected him? And she names all these people like Cyrus,
Speaker 1: his mother, all these people, and then she goes to
Speaker 1: Olivia Hope and and how is like how winks and
Speaker 1: whole face changes and the only way that Belle Young
Speaker 1: can do. And she's like, thank you, Jim. Yeah. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's such a great, fun, fun scene. And the way
Speaker 1: Mellie says, floody, your eyelashes for a girl, Bellamy is
Speaker 1: just so good eyelashes for a girl. There are some
Speaker 1: moments where Bellamy is a Southern bell. I don't know
Speaker 1: very many Southern women, do you. I don't either know.
Speaker 1: And Bellamy, like you said, she was like the first
Speaker 1: like southern bell if you will that I've met. But
Speaker 1: to that that level of the most loving, kind lovely
Speaker 1: person like that you can meet, Oh I know, And
Speaker 1: they write to that yes, yes, yes, And then I
Speaker 1: wrote down Olivia Show's network head thorn Gate, his wife
Speaker 1: at home. Oh oh oh right. So then she calls
Speaker 1: in all the the big dogs and to prove, like
Speaker 1: Thorngate is a real thing, isn't it the network people?
Speaker 1: Doesn't she call? Is it the network people? Yes? Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: because they're like, we're not going to show this ship.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, it's the people who are going to tell
Speaker 1: the American people, essentially on primetime news, yes, that this
Speaker 1: ship is going down. And then so Olivia tells Huck
Speaker 1: Show the footage and it's footage like you were saying,
Speaker 1: of this this head of the network's wife with their
Speaker 1: baby and talking to her friend. And he's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, that's like my bedroom and my wife. You know,
Speaker 1: this is a real him. And she's like, you know,
Speaker 1: he could he could maybe go to the gym once
Speaker 1: in a while. He's like shut it down, turn it off.
Speaker 1: If I get it in my head, She's like, my
Speaker 1: husband's dick is flaccid, like no viagra's working. I'm so
Speaker 1: not satisfied in the bedroom. Maybe it was just it's
Speaker 1: something in that are noting down. Yes, yes, I know
Speaker 1: it's real. And then, um, I just wrote we find
Speaker 1: out that wait, I have to pee. I'm gonna pee
Speaker 1: my pants. Yeah, we'll be right back after I go peepee.
Speaker 1: And we're back from that quick peek. So now, so
Speaker 1: now what happens? Okay, Artie, Oh, we find out that
Speaker 1: already killed Monica. Oh, this is when this whole fucking
Speaker 1: We find out that ship goes down. Hawk has been had, Yes,
Speaker 1: he sure has, all by grilled cheese. It was the
Speaker 1: grilled cheese, old grilled cheese demise. So what happens You're
Speaker 1: like making lunch or something. Yeah, well, um, Lartie, he's
Speaker 1: making grilled cheese and Hawk is sort of you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's hacked into the firewall and he's he's happy
Speaker 1: that he was able to do any didn't take twenty
Speaker 1: two days, as he stated earlier in the episode. And
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you know, a smoke alarm
Speaker 1: starts going off, and Huck gets up from away from
Speaker 1: his computer and goes to open the window, and then
Speaker 1: we see that already goes to Huck's computer and pulls
Speaker 1: out the external drive and puts it in his pocket
Speaker 1: and leaves, and Huck was hoody winked, well huts. Hud
Speaker 1: thinks at first that already going to the bathroom, so
Speaker 1: already goes to the bathroom, closes the door, and then
Speaker 1: he gets a call from Olivia, and Olivia is like,
Speaker 1: where's already he And Huck is like, oh, he's in
Speaker 1: the bathroom again, and Olivia's like, break down the door,
Speaker 1: break down the door. Yeah, yo, Can I just say
Speaker 1: really fast? I low key like thought I had dislocated
Speaker 1: my shoulder in this scene because I had to keep
Speaker 1: banging into that door. I'm not even kidding. And my
Speaker 1: ship was like look, and you know, I was trying
Speaker 1: to keep it together because I was like, I can't
Speaker 1: stop like shooting and be like you guys, I think
Speaker 1: I dislocated my shoulder. It was so freaking bad. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Guermo, You've poor fucking thing. Actors are so
Speaker 1: fucking stupid, Like, of course, like the first couple takes,
Speaker 1: you're like so like you're so into it and you're
Speaker 1: you're like acting the shit out of scenes, so like
Speaker 1: you're gonna, like I'm gonna fucking break down the door,
Speaker 1: and like Olivia's yelling at you, and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but bust. How it was for me, it was like
Speaker 1: the second take, I was like, oh my shoulder, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, and Ron was like one more time and
Speaker 1: I was anyway, I was spopping. It wasn't dislocated, but
Speaker 1: it felt like still, you really committed. Yeah, So now
Speaker 1: Artie's on the lamb. Artie's gone, right, Artie's gone. He's
Speaker 1: got all the information. He's literally the most powerful person
Speaker 1: in the universe. He can spy on anybody at any time.
Speaker 1: And all I wrote after that is Abby says her,
Speaker 1: how did this happen? Abby's talking to Olivia like, no,
Speaker 1: You've made two mistakes. This mistake on Altie fucking Hornbocker,
Speaker 1: just fucking Hoody winked us and Lindsay fucking Dwyer. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, get over at av get over? Can we can't?
Speaker 1: Can we talk about have we talked about this scene yet?
Speaker 1: That scene where where Mellie says that memorable line get yes,
Speaker 1: that's coming, that's the next one. But wait, wait, wait
Speaker 1: really quick. Right before that, they come to get us
Speaker 1: and I'll be a Pope and Associates and all I
Speaker 1: wrote down was that we are standing in key formation
Speaker 1: people like they open up the doors to get us,
Speaker 1: and like it's the office. We're essentially making like a diamond. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I don't remember if it was this episode or
Speaker 1: another episode, but when whenever we were like standing in
Speaker 1: that formation and had to stand in it forever because
Speaker 1: shooting takes so long, I feel like we were trying
Speaker 1: to make like dance routines happen, because it felt like
Speaker 1: we were in a music video formation. I think that's
Speaker 1: in the Blooper reel too, where we're in that formation
Speaker 1: and we're all like busting out dancing. Yeah. We have
Speaker 1: to post that when this episode comes out and watch
Speaker 1: it because whenever I see Olivia, Pope and Associates in
Speaker 1: a shot where we're in like standing formation, we always
Speaker 1: were like and this is when we do rhythm nation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then we get into we switch back over to
Speaker 1: the White House and Mellie has the best fucking scene
Speaker 1: ever she's been stewing and brewing because Fitz has been
Speaker 1: a dick since he got back from hunting season with Olivia.
Speaker 1: And she says, get over her, and Fitz says something like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know what, get over her. I am so
Speaker 1: fucking impressed by your impression of that, Like I just
Speaker 1: did it once and I was like, oh, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to talk for a week. And then
Speaker 1: she says, you see her again, I'll blow you away,
Speaker 1: and I'm an excellent shot. The way she delivers that
Speaker 1: line too, she does it with like sort of with
Speaker 1: a relish, right and sort of with a smile and
Speaker 1: a smirch. I'll blow you away. She's like, samee excellent shot.
Speaker 1: Don't forget so good. She's so like, um, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously the whole episode is about hunting and all these
Speaker 1: metaphors for hunting season and shooting. Um. And we get
Speaker 1: to Huck finds Artie and rout row Gottish toolbox or
Speaker 1: however you say toolbox, and yeah, very good. But it's
Speaker 1: one of the one of the one of the first
Speaker 1: times on the show, right that we see the toolbox.
Speaker 1: We see it in season one. But I think this
Speaker 1: is this might be the second time where we see
Speaker 1: that infamous red toolbox yep, and then the bitch baby
Speaker 1: starts to fucking run away and Gi is like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna dart your ass. I'm gonna doctor ass with his
Speaker 1: fucking poison as shit sleepy dart. Yeah. But but first
Speaker 1: we find it. We we realize that Huck has tracked
Speaker 1: Ardie because already stole one of Huck's watches, which a
Speaker 1: little side note, a little fun fun fact, Huck would
Speaker 1: keep the watches of the people that he would torture
Speaker 1: and murder, so he has like boxes full of these watches.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember that case. I do not,
Speaker 1: Artie FARTI still one of Huck's watches, which have radium,
Speaker 1: which is really easy to track. And that's how Huck
Speaker 1: found Artie Party. You fucking moron. Wait where I did
Speaker 1: it say in the script that Huck takes the watches
Speaker 1: of his No, that's from seven fifty two. We don't
Speaker 1: find that Outstie two. Yeah, but but the writers and
Speaker 1: the you know, they already knew about that. I'm assuming
Speaker 1: because in this in this episode, he has that box
Speaker 1: full of watches that already pulls out and Huck is like,
Speaker 1: don't fuck with that. Yeah, I love it. Then we
Speaker 1: get we cut to the bar and we've got the
Speaker 1: line that the best. We're standing at the bar, me
Speaker 1: Darby in the middle, Harrison on the end, and Quinn
Speaker 1: is like, god, man already fucking had us. Man, he
Speaker 1: fucking it was perfect and we he fucked us, like,
Speaker 1: holy shit, that was unbelievable how he did it. And
Speaker 1: then Addie says, yeah, it takes when to no one,
Speaker 1: and I might you know what, screw you, fucking screw you,
Speaker 1: screw your fucking mother's mother, screw your father and everybody.
Speaker 1: Screw yourself straight to hell. Go to hell, and then
Speaker 1: screw yourself there again. Yeah, go to hell and screw
Speaker 1: yourself too. Because I'm fucking done with this. I am
Speaker 1: not lindsay, I am Quinn, and I am here to stay.
Speaker 1: And then Harrison so beautifully says, I'm Quinn, which is
Speaker 1: so good tag on Twitter my experience, like any single
Speaker 1: time for the next seven seasons, eight years of my life,
Speaker 1: anytime Quinn fucking kicked ass, it was a hashtag I'm
Speaker 1: Quinn bench and I'm grateful to Maddie Byrne and the
Speaker 1: scandal writers for that gift, Yes, because it was the
Speaker 1: best well and it was also a little you know,
Speaker 1: a little nod, a little salute to Britney Spears because
Speaker 1: in Britain, Spear says, I'm Brittany bitch, I'm Quinn. Bench happens.
Speaker 1: It's the best um And Edison says he's just the
Speaker 1: client now because they've kicked him off the intelligence team.
Speaker 1: Huck says that he didn't hurt already and that he's
Speaker 1: handling it much. Yeah, he says, I didn't hurt him
Speaker 1: too much, so you know, he did something a little
Speaker 1: bit of damage, but yeah, and Olivia's a little bit
Speaker 1: concerned that she sort of opened this door, this torturing door,
Speaker 1: but Huck is like, no, no, I'm good, I got this,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. And the episode fucking ends, yeah,
Speaker 1: with Rosen and Abby going to Bonetown, going to Bonetown. Everybody,
Speaker 1: and that's where Abbey and Rosen went. They're going to
Speaker 1: Bonetown and it seems like it's pretty good. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: feel like the like the Gladiators lost their shit in
Speaker 1: this scene right at the end of this episode, because
Speaker 1: it was like what I don't think anyone expected that.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean for these things? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. When we read it at the table read
Speaker 1: we were like, yeah, like it was a total total
Speaker 1: left field shocker shock shock shock. Yeah. And it's the
Speaker 1: beginning of their amazing, interesting, exciting relationship. I know. Oh shit,
Speaker 1: oh shit, oh shit. Twetete twetweetwee tweet toe tweet at
Speaker 1: the time. All right, yo, let's get into our favorite
Speaker 1: The tweets of the time are getting good, guys, they
Speaker 1: are getting good. They're getting better. I'm really happy with these.
Speaker 1: There's a couple that I'm like, this shit is so good.
Speaker 1: Katie tweeted, my besties are coming over for popcorn and
Speaker 1: wine with their Grays ABC and Scandal ABC. How will
Speaker 1: you be watching? Oh god, somebody beat me up? Gross
Speaker 1: that's such a goody two shoe tweet. Like I was
Speaker 1: like you, that's so gross. It's like, okay, everybody, My
Speaker 1: bessies are coming over at Jess Florence writes, it's been weird,
Speaker 1: like seeing a grandma in bikini or a Democrat with
Speaker 1: a bible hashtag scandal, hashtag hil and then at Sharif
Speaker 1: Jackson wrote longest shoelacing scene ever hashtag scandal. I bet
Speaker 1: that's drue. I think if we went in the Guinness
Speaker 1: Book of World Records for any scene on television that
Speaker 1: had shoelacing going on, that that was probably the longest one,
Speaker 1: but also so like sexual, so sexy, and it was
Speaker 1: merely the act of you know, tying her shoelaces, but
Speaker 1: it was still filled with so much sexual tension. Listen
Speaker 1: to this one. Why are they so surprised they know
Speaker 1: about the Olivia presy horny night calls? Hashtag scandal. Olivia
Speaker 1: and President both scream at each other and her unstable
Speaker 1: just get a room again hashtag scandal. Peachy Jay said,
Speaker 1: but how does the president kiss Olivia Pope in front
Speaker 1: of his secret service? Hashtag scandal? How else is he
Speaker 1: going to do it? His secret service is around him?
Speaker 1: Twenty four seven My gig kiss. He don't care, He
Speaker 1: just wants, He just wants that them beautiful Olivia Pope
Speaker 1: lips on his lips and he doesn't care who wants
Speaker 1: to watch it? Like he is like down to clown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's down to clown. Episode two oh four is next week.
Speaker 1: Episode two oh four is titled belt Way Unbuckled, and
Speaker 1: I remember this episode, and it's amazing to come back.
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Speaker 1: you for listening. Um, how do we wrap out? Oh? Hope, hope.
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