7. Everything's Coming Up Mellie

Mellie is filmed for an in-depth interview to make a good publicity image of her and Fitz's relationship. Through flashbacks, it's revealed how Big Jerry (Fitz’s father) introduced Cyrus to the Grant family and how Cyrus tried to help Fitz to become the Governor of California by exploiting Fitz' war history. Mellie tried to fix Fitz and Big Jerry relationship, but it ended with Big Jerry raping Mellie. She used this to force Big Jerry to support Fitz. It is also revealed what really happened (and Jerry covered up): Fitz flew for Black Ops, and he was given the order to shoot down the airplane as they had evidence that there was a dirty bomb inside of it.

So Jerry arranged that Fitz officially participated in Operation Remington during that time, far away from Iceland, where he actually shot down the airplane. In the present, Cyrus and Mellie try to find a way for Daniel Douglas to cheat on Sally so they can blackmail her. Meanwhile, Olivia is angry at Fitz because of him not telling her the truth about operation Remington. Therefore, OPA tries to find out what really happened to her mother. Quinn goes on a mission with Charlie, after they made out, but ends up killing a security guard who knew something about Remington. Charlie tells her she belongs to B613 now. Rowan finds out Olivia is trying to find the truth, and goes to visit Maya, Olivia's mother in jail; revealing that she is alive after all.