Scandal Season 4 Episode 8 finds Olivia telling Fitz and Jake to focus: they must work together in order to bring down Command. When Jake wants to kill Rowan, Olivia talks him out of it.

After Jake turns over the files to Fitz and Olivia, they decide to bring David Rosen in to prosecute Rowan Pope. When he begins looking through the files, he discovers they're all blank.

Olivia is caught between her love for both men, and they have a hard time working together because they're too busy fighting over her. She uses herself as bait to lure Rowan to a location where he can be arrested but he is one step ahead of them.

Liz North comes to Olivia for help when she realizes her phone is bugged. She wants to know who might be after her. Huck traces the bug on the phone and finds out Cyrus is the one looking for information. Cyrus tells her about Michael and his suspicion that Michael is working for Liz and then asks Olivia for help.

Olivia finds the photos of Michael and Cyrus and tells Cyrus to stay away from Michael. Michael shows up at Cyrus' house. Olivia later discovers that Michael cares for Cyrus and didn't turn over intel which could have been seriously damaging to the Presidency or Cyrus.

Olivia comes in and finds Huck and Javi together and wonders what Kim would say if she knew Javi was visiting.

Quinn follows Kubiak to try and find out why he had photographs of Olivia and what about them means two teenage girls deserved to die. A stakeout goes south and Javi witnesses it.