Jake Ballard is playing with fire. On Scandal Season 4 Episode 3, he confronted Rowan Pope with information he acquired from none other than Charlie, who sold his secrets for one night with Quinn.
If you watch Scandal online, you’ll probably be as scared for Jake’s life as I am. Jake, however, doesn’t seem scared at all. He seems more annoyed than anything.
An old friend from college turned to Olivia for help this week. While Olivia tried to help her friend, her personal life grew more complicated when Jake reminded her, rudely, that he is not her boyfriend and will not be at her beck and call.
It’s kind of hot that he shuts her down when she tries to act like a girlfriend while not desiring the trappings of a real relationship because she’s secretly hoping Fitz will walk out of the White House.
He hasn’t walked out yet (because you haven’t let him) so chances are not good that you’re having that relationship with him for another three years. Stop waiting. Start living. At least for now.
And living doesn’t mean endless booty calls, no matter how good the sex is, Olivia.
Jake’s playing with fire, though, and someone is going to get burned. Hopefully that someone will be Rowan Pope and not Jake or Olivia, but anything’s possible. It wouldn’t be beyond Shonda Rhimes and co to build Jake up and then kill him off just as Olivia decided she loved him only to make her go running back to Fitz.
This IS a drama we’re talking about.
Elsewhere, Abby is finding that life inside the White House isn’t as powerful and awesome as she once thought it might be, but that’s because she’s not “inside the bubble” like David is.
He’s blackmailing whomever he has to in order to get his job done, which is going to bite him in the ass before all is said and done.
And so is the fact that Huck and Olivia don’t notice when their people are missing. Quinn called them out on that, amazingly well, so hopefully Huck will make good on his word to look for Quinn if she goes missing again.
But if he doesn’t? We might have another dead gladiator on our hands.