Olivia takes a case which takes her away from Fitz and the White House just as the story of their affair breaks in the media. Fitz will no doubt take this as a sign of rejection while Olivia will see it as an act of self-preservation.
Fitz knows that someone close to him is disloyal and he's on a mission to find out the identity of his betrayer on Scandal Season 5 Episode 2. If he and Olivia are ever to have a chance to be together, he has to find a way to weather this political and personal storm.
Huck is a broken man. Can he handle getting back to work so soon after his encounter with Quinn? Has he silenced his inner demons? Could there BE any more questions about Huck? (Yes. Yes, there could be. He's an enigma.)
Huck gets back to work with help from Jake and Quinn on Scandal Season 5 Episode 2. Olivia's in the middle of a crisis and she needs her team. Is it any wonder he would return to the office to help?
Huck and Quinn come face to face on Scandal Season 5 Episode 2. These former BFFs and lovers have quite a lot to talk about since the Scandal Season 4 finale.
It's pretty clear from their body language that Quinn disagrees with whatever decision Jake has made regarding Huck. Maybe she thinks Huck can't be saved. Maybe she doesn't want to accept responsibility for her hand in helping him get this way.
Jake is back at OPA on Scandal Season 5 Episode 2. Is his grand plan to fix Huck just to throw the assassin back into the bullpen and put him back to work? That sounds...dangerous.
[to Fitz] You placed Olivia in a dangerous position. You outed her. You thought by throwing me out of the White House and moving her in you'd be making this grand gesture. Finally she wouldn't be just a mistress anymore. But the minute she stepped foot through these doors, the minute she moved in here, she became what we all become when we live here and what is that? Yes, a statue. Inhuman. Discussed from every angle, viewed, exposed. She's not just a mistress now. She's America's mistress.
