'Scandal' [RECAP]: Who Killed Liv's Mom?

Every episode of “Scandal” is intense but last night was absolutely CRAZY! The episode started off calm with Liv and her father doing their usual Sunday dinners, hoping that things would return to normal between the two of them. But normal clearly doesn’t exist within the Pope family and somehow the conversation switched to Papa Pope, aka Eli, “forcing” Huck to kill again against his will. Eli assured Liv that Huck’s decision to kill was his own choice and that if Huck and Jake left him alone, he would leave them alone too, but we all know that wasn’t really going to happen. Across town Huck and Jake was sneaking around stealing files trying to take Papa Pope down. *Sigh*

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Meanwhile, the Presidential race was heating up and Liv was representing Fitz’s opponent – until she was fired and then rehired by someone completely unexpected! But that’s not all! Perhaps the biggest twist of the night was when Jake and Huck found out the key piece in the whole “Operation Remington” scandal – something that would change Liv’s life forever!

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Liv Is Fired & Rehired

Josephine Marcus (Lisa Kudrow) has hired Olivia Pope & Associates to help her with her Presidential campaign. After Liv told Josephine that she seemed very inexperienced to be President but offered to help clean up her image, Josephine was sold and put all of her trust into Liv and her team. The twist: Liv wasn’t hired as Josephine’s campaign manager but rather to “fix” the fact that she had a baby when she was 15. She didn’t want her secret daughter’s privacy to be invaded, especially since only 5 people knew the truth (6 including Cyrus since he dug up the dirt on Josephine on last week’s episode). The gladiators went to work – digging up information from Josie’s hometown and anything that could help her case.

Over at the White House, Cyrus needed help with Fitz’s campaign and offered Olivia the job to help dig up dirt on Josephine. Liv declined, after all Josie was her client now and Fitz was just going to have to deal with it! The Gladiators were able to find everybody who knew anything about Josie’s secret baby, including the nurse who delivered the child and Josie’s baby daddy. They paid off everyone to keep their mouth’s shut and voilà – Josie’s past was nonexistent!

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When it was time for the Democratic Debate, Josie was confident that she would walk away with a nomination. Liv warned Josie that she was going to be asked about the secret baby before hand especially when Josie’s “little sister” a.k.a her secret daughter Candice showed up in time to get forced into revealing the truth about giving birth as a teenager. Josie revealed to everyone that she got pregnant at 15 and gave her child up for adoption and single-handedly won the hearts over of the American public – except for Candice who was devastated to hear the truth. Josie then fired Liv for “destroying” the most important relationship she had with Candice.

Later in the episode in an awkward twist of events, Mellie asked Liv to join Fitz’s campaign again and help them win the next election. Mellie told Liv that Fitz’ couldn’t breathe without her let alone win this race and they all needed her on their team! The wife asking the mistress for help? Crazy!

Fitz didn’t know about Mellie’s proposal to Liv but she gave Liv no choice when she brought up Defiance and told Liv that they both owed this to Fitz. Mellie is GOOD!

Who Killed Liv’s Mother?

We’ve never gotten the full story on what happened to Liv’s mother but from the looks of Liv’s father, we knew it had to be something crazy. We also haven’t gotten the full story on “Operation Remington” so it was fate that whatever happened to Liv’s mom would have ties to it. Since Jake and Huck were on a mission to stop Eli the “Command,” they were watching his every move. Huck eavesdropped on a conversation that Command and Fitz were having and overheard them discussing the inappropriate disposal of Pete Foster. Fitz also was disappointed in Command’s decision to kill Foster to cover up Operation Remington especially since no one was looking into it. I guess Command didn’t want any traces left behind of whatever happened in Operation Remington!

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Later in the episode, Jake and Huck discovered that Fitz was in Iceland during Operation Remington and was listed as flying the rescue mission – but they were just not sure as to why.

Jake and Huck later figured out why Fitz was in Iceland. Turns out, when Fitz was listed as flying the plane in Operation Remington, he was actually shooting down a plane on behalf of the US Government. But get this, Huck had the passenger list and a woman by the name of Maya Lewis was a passenger on the plane. *Get ready for it* Maya Lewis never took on her married name and her married name was Pope!!!

In case you weren’t following this huge twist: Fitz shot down the plane that Olivia’s mother was on! Lawd!

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