Yara Shahidi | Scandal

• Genre: Drama, Political thriller
• Created by: Shonda Rhimes
• Starring: Kerry Washington, Henry Ian Cusick, Columbus Short, Darby Stanchfield, Katie Lowes, Guillermo Díaz, Jeff Perry, Tony Goldwyn, Bellamy Young, Joshua Malina, Scott Foley, Portia de Rossi, Cornelius Smith Jr., Joe Morton, George Newbern
• Theme music composer: Chad Fischer
• No. of seasons: 7
• No. of episodes: 124
• Executive producers: Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Mark Wilding, Tom Verica, Mark Fish
• Producers: Merri D. Howard, Scott Collins, Matt Byrne, Heather Mitchell, Paul William Davies, Raamla Mohamed, Kerry Washington
• Cinematography: Oliver Bokelberg, Michael Wojciechowski
• Editors: Karen Castaneda, Matthew Ramsey, Gregory T. Evans, Julia Grove, Christal Khatib, Matthew Pevic
• Running time: 43 minutes
• Production companies: ABC Studios, Shondaland
• Network: ABC
• Release: April 5, 2012 – April 19, 2018

When you get into trouble there's only one person to call, Olivia Pope. Olivia is a professional 'fixer' who makes problems go away before anyone even knows they exist. For the moneyed, the powerful and even the President, Olivia is a legend in her field. Her spectacular success is mostly due to her unbreakable rule of always trust your gut. No matter how careful you are, when you do damage control for a living, you're bound to cause some damage to your own life. She and her crew eat, sleep, live and breathe crisis. Each week, as the team races against the clock to defuse intriguing new problems before they become full-blown disasters, they also have to deal with their own personal issues. They may call themselves 'gladiators in suits', but little by little, Olivia and her crew begin to reveal the chinks in their armor.

"Icarus"

Liv questions the President about his role in the downed aircraft, but he refuses to confirm or deny his involvement, prompting Liv to work for Josie Marcus, which shocks Mellie and Cy. Rowan, realizing Jake is the one looking into Remington, plots to have him killed while pushing Cy to take down Marcus. Marcus’ campaign desperately needs money and endorsements, but she prefers to play nice, prompting Liv’s team to use a fake ad to toughen her image in front of the national media. Cy tries to turn Harrison against Liv by threatening to give a visa to Adnan Salif, a person by which Harrison fears to be killed, but it fails. Cy orders to give him a visa. Jake meets with his contact whom he asked to look for evidence on Remington, but it turns out to be Rowan’s trap to kill Jake, who is saved by a man sent by the President. Cy learns of Sally Langston’s treachery while Rowan is slowly turning a deranged Quinn into an assassin through Charlie.

"YOLO"

Huck tortures Quinn for betraying Olivia, but while pulling her teeth out, Olivia calls him and informs him that her mother is in her apartment. Olivia takes her mother to a safe house where the rest of OPA discusses the situation. They realize Rowan is tracking Maya, so they cut out her tracker and go to a motel. OPA tries to get Maya out of the country, but Rowan has put her on the FBI's most wanted list. Olivia asks Fitz to help her. Meanwhile, Daniel Douglas tries to convince James that their little affair was a mistake. James confronts Cyrus about him using James to sleep with Daniel, and demands a divorce. Sally informs Fitz that she is planning to run as an Independent against him. Cyrus tries to blackmail Sally by showing the pictures of Daniel and James, but to no avail. Quinn joins Charlie at B613, after having slept with him, however she's planning to take out Command. Maya boards the plane to Hong Kong, and Olivia realizes her mother actually was a terrorist, named Marie Wallace. Sally calls Cyrus to tell him that she just killed her husband, Daniel Douglas.