Season Two Recap
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Contains spoilers of current season up to and including 2x13, 'Nobody Likes Babies') - Quinn is revealed to be Lindsay Dwyer, the Molotov Mistress and the suspected murderer of her boyfriend and several of his colleagues in a homemade bomb attack. Quinn insists her innocence and Olivia successfully gets the case dropped to the fury of Rosen. However, it's later revealed that Olivia put in a word with Supreme Court Judge Verna Thornton, as she knows Quinn is innocent. Flashbacks reveal that Olivia and Huck were the ones to kidnap Lindsay from her hotel room, giving her the new life and identity of Quinn Perkins as Olivia couldn't let an innocent woman be punished for such a severe crime. - The big conspiracy at the heart of the second season is revealed - a consortium of interested parties such as Olivia, Verna Thornton, energy tycoon Hollis Doyle, Cyrus Beene and Fitz's wife Mellie organised a vote rigging that ensured that Fitz became President. The conspiracy begins to unravel with Verna's conscience getting the better of her as she is diagnosed with liver cancer and attempts to 'save the soul' of the American people. - It is revealed that covering up the vote rigging involved killing Quinn's boyfriend Jesse and that an assassin named Becky organised the whole thing, setting Quinn up to cover up not only the true motive behind the explosion but also the entire scandal. - Verna hires Becky to assassinate the President during his birthday celebrations and she nearly succeeds, although Grant barely survives and young Press Secretary Britta Kagen is killed in the melee. - Cyrus' husband James, a journalist, begins to looking into the vote rigging, unaware that his husband was involved. James begins working with Rosen who has a brief but passionate relationship with Abby. - Huck meets Becky at an AA sponsor group (he attends in lieu of admitting his addiction to killing people) and they form a relationship. Huck is framed for the murder and assassination attempt by Becky, eventually acquiting himself after tracking down Becky to Grant's hospital. - Hollis Doyle is framed for the assassination but the truth is uncovered, preventing Cyrus from getting Charlie to kill him when Huck intervenes. Cyrus also almost kills husband James when he prepares to testify about the conspiracy. Cyrus calls it off and James recants his work with Rosen, saving his husband's career and Olivia's too. Abby steals back a memory card of incriminating evidence, burning her bridges with Rosen - a man whom truly loved her - and proving her loyalty to Olivia. - Recovering from his head trauma, Grant comforts Verna on her deathbed where she confesses to trying to kill him. He learns of the vote rigging and euthanises the dying Verna, killing her. His confidence broken, he breaks off any relationship with Olivia and resumes an alliance with his wife, he admiring her for never lying to him about who she is. So that's you guys up to speed on the most important things you need to know about
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