Scandal Post Mortem: Shonda Rhimes Defends Killer Twist, Weighs In On Fitz's Shocking Decision

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Someone grabs Amanda Tanner!

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Worse, someone killed Amanda Tanner.

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And now Gideon is dead, via the always-painful "Scissors to the Neck" method.

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The woman on the Presidential sex tape? It's Olivia!

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Remember how Amanda Tanner was grabbed and killed a few captions ago? Yep, chief of staff Cyrus was behind it.

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The "Who is Quinn?" mystery gets even more bananas when we learn Huck and Olivia were behind the identity swap.

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Olivia, Cyrus, Mellie, Verna and slithery Hollis Doyle hold super-secret cabal meetings. Tap water is served.

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Olivia breaks up Abby/David by paying David's ex-girlfriend to claim abuse.

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Newly minted President Fitzgerald Grant christens the Oval Office desk with illicit lovin'. Or as you may know the scene: Desk sex!

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What the Huck? He shot the president!....?

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"Becky" brutally murders Huck's "family."

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Abby. David. Fingers. Mouth. Hate sex. WTF?!

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The sitting President of the United States asks Mellie, his First Lady, for a divorce.

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Hollis hires Becky to bomb Cytron after Lindsay Dwyer's beau threatens to blab about the Defiance scheme.

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"I'm in." -- Olivia, signing off on the conspiracy to "steal" the election.

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It was Verna (or "The old lady?!" as Abby put it) who ordered the hit on Fitz.

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Cyrus came thisclose to letting Charlie kill (or at least really, really hurt) husband James.

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No presidential pardon here: Fitz kills Verna.