Scandal is an American political thriller television series starring Kerry Washington. Bush administration press aide Judy Smith , who served as a co-executive producer. The show takes place in Washington, D. The first season introduced Olivia Pope Kerry Washington and the various members at her firm. The season focuses on the lives of the team members, the relationship between Olivia and the President her former employer , and the mystery surrounding Amanda Tanner's Liza Weil involvement with the White House , among other cases the team had solved.
An assassination attempt is made on Fitz's life, which almost kills him. Fitz finds out that Verna Debra Mooney was behind the assassination and kills her. At the funeral, he reveals to Olivia that he does not want a divorce as he is devastated after learning about the rigging from Verna.
The second arc focuses on finding the mole who is leaking classified information from the White House. Olivia and the team investigate the case after figuring out that the CIA Director's suicide was actually a murder. At the end of the season, Mellie gives Fitz an ultimatum: either he becomes loyal to her, or she goes on national television and reveals Fitz's affair with Olivia. Fitz chooses Olivia, which makes Mellie reveal the affair. Fitz announces his re-election campaign. As Olivia and the team continue to investigate who the mole is, Huck manages to capture Charlie George Newbern , who reveals the mole's identity: Billy Chambers Matt Letscher.
They figure out that Billy is working with David, who steals the Cytron card, but frames Billy and gives Cyrus the card in exchange for being reinstated as US Attorney. At the end, Olivia's name is leaked to the press as being Fitz's mistress, and it is revealed that Rowan is Olivia's father. The firm accepts "new" clients in order to pay the bills. Rowan becomes more involved with Olivia's life, which begins to affect her, and leads Huck and Jake to investigate B They discover during a military action code named "Operation Remington", Fitz shot down a civilian aircraft over Iceland and Olivia's mother was one of over casualties.
Determined to find out the truth about Operation Remington, the firm investigates Rowan and learns that a passenger was removed from the flight by a Federal Marshal just prior to take off. Quinn Katie Lowes starts to hang out with Charlie, who sets her up to kill a security guard who was an eye-witness to the Federal Marshal's removal of the passenger.
