TEXT: OLIVIA POPE AND ASSOCIATES TV: Tomorrow is expected to be a defining moment for the Grant administration, as tenth Circuit Chief Justice Patrick Keating is considered the front-runner to be named as the president's first Supreme Court judicial nominee. Keating's nomination would not come without controversy, as the more conservative members of President Grant's own party have voiced concerns over Keating's past rulings on right-toprivacy statutes. Sharon: You did a nice job with him, the president getting him elected, I mean. Olivia: The American people did that. Sharon: Oh, honey. I followed that election. He was a diamond in the rough before you started working for him. You were responsible for that photo op with the little girl with cancer, where he played the piano. Olivia: The guitar. Sharon: You made him. Why did you leave the White House? No one leaves a job in the west wing without a good reason. Harrison: Liv, we're ready. Line two. Olivia: Stephen, you in? Stephen: We're in. Quinn: Ohh. I'm sorry. I'm here. Where is everybody? Harrison: On the job. We have a client. Quinn: What's going on? Harrison: We're fixers. We're fixing. [SCENE_BREAK] INTERIOR SHARON MARQUETTE'S HOUSE / OLIVIA POPE AND ASSOCIATES Abby: I am open-minded. I'm an open-minded person. I don't judge. I just want to say that I think you're being a pig. You're engaged. You have a fiancée! Stephen: You almost done or not? Abby: I'm almost done. People have standards, Stephen, morals. I'm disappointed is all I'm saying. You think you know someone. Stephen: You can lecture me later. Now we're working. Abby: You work. Stephen: They're almost out. Sharon: Did they get the photo albums? Olivia: Stephen, the photo albums. Stephen: Did you get the photo albums? Abby: No. No, not yet. Sharon: Please get the
SUMMARY:
Pope & Associates' new client is one of the biggest madams in all of D.C., Sharon Marquette, who is about to go to jail for the rest of her life since one of her girls got caught and ratted her out. David shows up at OPA to arrest Sharon Marquette who refuses to give up her client list to the feds. Olivia gets all of her clients into one room and gets them to use their political power to get Sharon out of jail. Olivia finds that Cyrus took away her access to the White House. Olivia sets Quinn up to look after Amanda, only to find that she walked away from the hospital; Abby finds herself jealous when she sees that Stephen was on the list of people that slept with one of the madam's call-girls. Olivia goes to Amanda only to find that Amanda doesn't want anything to do with her; Quinn meets a reporter named Gideon ( Brendan Hines ) and finds that he is looking to make a story out of Amanda trying to kill herself. One of the names on the 'client list' is Fitzs' candidate to be on the Supreme Court, Patrick Keating, but when they question him they find that he doesn't know anything about it; Olivia finds that his wife that he slept with years ago is actually the call girl Stacy- linking him to the list of Sharon's clients, convinces her to tell him the truth. Fitz and Olivia watch Patrick and his wife argue, and Fitz tries to make amends with Olivia. Fitz gives back Olivia's access to the White House, while Amanda comes to Olivia saying that she wants help. Gideon finds that he has a story; As the madame is put out of business and her clients are never revealed to the public if they endorse President Grant's candidate, per Olivia's orders. [3]