Scandal Season 4 Episode 3 Spoilers and Preview: Olivia and her Gladiators Go Inside the Bubble
Scandal Season 4 episode 3 which airs Thursday, October 9, at the 9 PM time slot on ABC is entitled "Inside the Bubble." Written by Matt Byrne and directed by Randy Zisk, the show will have an old friend (to be played by Sonya Walger) of Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) returning to ask for OPA's help after she finds her daughter missing. Meanwhile, as Olivia and her team look deeper into the new mysterious case her friend brought, Jake Ballard (Scott Foley), who is no longer a part of B613, will also be investigating on his own Harrison Wright's (Columbus Short) apparent murder. Using his connections, he will find that Olivia's father Rowan "Eli" Pope (Joe Morton) and B613 may have something to do with the hit not only on Harrison but also on the President's young son, Jerry.
Elsewhere, the President's Chief of Staff Cyrus Beene (Jeff Perry) has an awkward run in during a business breakfast. RNC Chairwoman Elizabeth (Portia de Rossi), as seen in last week's episode, has been plotting to bring him down. Part of her scheme involves hiring Michael (played by Matthew Del Negro), a professional gigolo, to flirt with Cyrus who is still mourning the death if his journalist husband James Novak (Dan Bucatinsky) from what he thought was a car accident, but was really an assassination carried out by Jake for B613.
Meanwhile, First Lady Mellie Grant (Bellamy Young) will become obsessed with a national news story. And elsewhere, David Rosen (Joshua Malina) will go to great lengths to prove he can keep his nomination for Attorney General even after he is accused of domestic violence.
The Scandal Season 4 cast also have Guillermo Diaz as Huck, Darby Stanchfield as Abby Whelan, Katie Lowes as Quinn Perkins, and Tony Goldwyn as President Fitzgerald Grant. In addition to Joe Morton, Portia De Rossi and Sonya Walger, another guest star for episode 3 is George Newbern who will play the B613 hit man Charlie who may have been the one who was ordered last season to take out Harrison.
