OPA has a new client, Mary Nesbitt, who tells the gladiators that she has a "private family matter" then rushes off to a "meeting on the Hill." Turns out that Mary's son was killed in an FBI raid of a domestic terror cell fifteen months ago, and Liv finds Mary in a Congressman's office wearing a vest bomb, holding the congressman and a bunch of staffers hostage. She wants to read the sealed file on her son's killing. Olivia plays mediator and gets Mary to let everyone but her and the Congressman go. Eventually, Harrison, David Rosen, Cyrus and Fitz all get involved in the negotiations, as you knew they would.
Fitz finally tells Olivia via phone call that Mary's son was actually an undercover CIA agent who had infiltrated Al-Qaeda, and was then accidentally killed by the FBI, who didn't know about his cover. But Olivia can't tell Mary that because there are 57 other agents also undercover, and if Mary's son's true identity got out, their covers would be blown. Olivia tells Mary that her son was truly Al-Qaeda. Mary lets Liv and the Congressman go and then blows herself up.
How's Fitz and Mellie's war going, you ask? Great! They hate one another and can barely be in the same room. This leads to the best scene of the episode, where Mellie gets drunk on some moonshine that her daddy sent her and tells Fitz that she's psyched that Liv didn't die in the explosion, because then Fitz would martyr her. As long as Olivia is still alive, Mellie can use her as a tool to get back at her husband.
Meanwhile, a guy bum rushes the Oval Office and gets tackled by Secret Service, all the while yelling that he needs to talk to the President about Operation Remington. Cyrus sees the man's name on the post-incident report and says they can let him go, then calls Rowan. Huck has taken a personal day to track and probably kill Rowan. This all works out great for Rowan when he visits Oval Office Invader and pays him off for his continued silence about Operation Remington. Oval Office Invader says he needs to talk to the President, and Rowan is all, "Sure! We can do that!" Then Rowan somehow uses voodoo to get Huck to A) let him live and B) kill the Oval Office Invader instead.
A possibly-concussed Olivia is terrified that Huck might have killed Rowan, but Huck breaks down and tells her that Rowan can still control him. Olivia goes home (where super-healer Jake is hanging out) and demands to know how he got out, and why her father let him go. Jake doesn't know. Olivia tells him that her father controls everyone, so he still owns Jake and he still owns her too.
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