Mary proceeds to inform Olivia that the reason she is holding them all hostage is to find out the details behind her son's murder at the hands of F.B.I.
Meanwhile, a man named Peter Foster attempts to contact Fitz in the Oval Office but is stopped by the Secret Service.
When she was screaming for “Marta,” we were like, “We’ll just make it work.”[1] Young also admitted to being nervous about shooting the scene in which she appeared drunk "I got out of the table read and immediately called my acting coach like, “I have to see you.
Seriously, meet me in the alley and teach me how to be fake drunk.”[2] Bellamy Young’s performance as a drunk, heartbroken Mellie drew raves with Huffington Post naming her their Scene-Stealer Of The Week praising her for providing "a hilarious and heartbreaking punctuation point to an already riveting hour.
Club’s Sonia Saraiya offered similar praise saying that Mellie’s speech “shot right to the top of my list of the best Scandal rage-speeches of all time” but was lukewarm on the rest of the episode which she awarded a B−.