This episode should be titled #ThrowbackThursday. In a series of flashbacks, you get more backstory on
Olivia and Fitz, and most importantly, Cyrus.
Staring with
Cyrus. After a bunch of phones start ringing at 4 a.m., you realize there is
some shizzle going down! OH SHIT. Cryus’ boy toy Michael is caught licking the
neck of another boy toy at a club. Of course, Olivia has to come in and handle
it. Shut. It. Down. Shotgun wedding, and Cryus is the pregnant bride. Mellie is
the host of the wedding, buying into it as it’s her new senate platform!
As the wedding
planning is underway, Michael is freaking out because his parents, whom he hasn’t
spoken with in years, are invited to the wedding. At their reunion dinner, his
parents spew their disgust over his lifestyle and the impending wedding, and Michael’s anguish over it is heartbreaking. Still playing in on the charade, his
parents tell him a lady from the white house is paying them more than they’ve
earned in a year. When they return to their home, Michael breaks down and Cyrus
can’t help but feel.
Flashbacks of Cyrus’
past life, first marriage to a woman, from the beginning of their marriage
until the sad, lonely end. As Janet, his ex-wife, is slumped on the floor
discussing their divorce, he begs her not to leave him. She says “At least let’s
be honest with each other. I will admit I am not having an affair if you will
admit you aren’t gay.” Next, Cyrus is looking at his bed with his former
husband James asking if he’s okay. His thoughts are interrupted by Michael
coming out of his closet (heehee) saying there was a dry-cleaning mix-up and he
was just getting his shirts. Flashbacks continue with the marriage of Cyrus and
James and you realize that with James, he was truly happy.
Then there’s
Liv. You ever have one of those dreams where someone is chasing you and you can’t
get away? That’s Liv. Right now. She’s
having nightmares about her past with Fitz – the passion, the fighting, all
intermixed with her capture and trying to escape.
Olivia and Fitz, Liv and Fitz and their past affairs. As Olivia is getting the Cyrus/James
wedding chamber ready, Fitz walks in and asks her why she left the White House.
She confesses that she couldn’t stand to be there and see him. Fitz lays down
his great grandmother’s ring, called Dubebe (or something like that), that he
has never given to his wife. He said it never felt right, and he knows that’s
because he was supposed to give it to her. Dubebe = Sweetbaby. He tells her “I just want
you to be happy .”
This is the ring that she’s always wearing, and that she
swept under the rug before her kidnapping. After another nightmare, in the
middle of the night, Olivia gets up and is frantically searching for the ring.
She finds it in a vase. When she goes back
to Fitz to talk make arrangements for Cyrus, Fitz notices her ring isn’t on her
finger.
Abby goes home
and finds that Leo has taken their pillow talks to Sally Langston. When Abby
tries to claim ‘church and state’, you know – keep our bedtime secrets out of
your work, Leo strikes: “you poked the hole in the condom. I kept it all
wrapped up.” Ouch. Harsh Leo. That’s harsh. She snoops through his phone for secrets that she
can use.
Crazy ex-VP Sally
Langston is back! She’s the host of a political talk show and is taking Leo’s
pillow talk to the air. She calls out Michael and Cyrus and calls their
marriage a sham, and throws down a 10K challenge for proof of fraud. Her first
guest is Michael’s secret boyfriend. Olivia goes to Sally to see what she can
do to stop it. She offers Sally the Secretary of State position. Sally rejects
the offer, and says it’s her television show where her voice can be heard, and
she feels more power on the stage than on the hill.
Later, when Olivia is back
at the White House and everyone is freaking about the wedding, she sees Cyrus
and knows that she has to save him. As Sally is ready to go to air, Liv shuts
her down by showing her Michael’s client list that has Sally’s dead husband on
it as a repeat customer. Sally backs down and says her guest had to unexpectedly
cancel and his claims could not be validated.
On their wedding
day, Michael is not the blushing bride. He says he believed that someone would love
him and care about him, that it’s the day he’s been dreaming of and he has nothing.
He wanted someone to love him, to make him happy, and he doesn’t. He’s alone. He
knows that Cyrus would murder him if he
could. Trying to lighten the mood, Cyrus tells him he wouldn’t murder him, that’s
a rookie move. He’d hire someone to do it. Cyrus doesn’t lie to him – he bares
his soul and tells him he’s evil and corrupted, but since Michael already knows
that he can’t disappoint him. Makes him a promise: I may not do it well, but I
will do my best to be your ‘someone’ so you’re not alone.
The wedding is
beautiful, Cyrus and Michael wed, and might actually be able to pull off the
happy. Abby and Leo are at the wedding
where Leo asks if he was really on the list, and Abby laughs while saying “church
and state.” Olivia is seen wearing the ring.
Again, this
episode didn’t really address much, expect give more background to the
characters. We finally see what we’ve all been waiting for – Olivia having
serious issues with her catch and release.
Next week proves
to be waaaay more exciting. Jake going cray-cray? What’s that all about?!
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