Tonight the Scandal season 3 finale graces our television screens, and all signs point towards an explosive finale.
Scandal season 3, episode 18, titled “The Price of Free and Fair Elections,” will see the bomb at the congressman’s eulogy go off, but that’s all we know for sure. There’s a good chance that someone will die during the finale given that there are lots of people in a confined area at this event.
The question is, will anyone be able to escape in time? Cyrus’ plan was to not tell anyone at the scene so that he could eliminate Sally, but at the end of last week’s episode we saw that Maya’s bomb had roughly a hour to go until it exploded. That’s plenty of time for Jake to warn some people to get out.
Watch the trailer for tonight’s episode:
It’s presumed that the Scandal season 3 finale will have some sort of twist or shocker that’ll leave people hanging until season 4. Last year the big twist was that B613 head Rowan is Olivia’s father.
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What will it be this year? Yesterday, Jake actor Scott Foley said the thing that happens will send Twitter into a tailspin. “This final moment will be divisive,” he said. “Some people will think, ‘Thank God, yes, that’s exactly what we wanted to see happen.’ Other people will be up in arms. Twitter will explode. Explode! Last season it was the ‘dad’ moment. This season, it’s not so much an, ‘Oh my God!’ — you’re either going to love it, or you’re going to be up in arms. And I have a feeling there’s going to be more people up in arms.”
Kerry Washington adds that she did not see the twist at the end coming. “The final shot of the episode is not anything I could have imagined weeks before — or the episode before,” she says.
Speaking of the Olivia Pope actress, her real life pregnancy is the reason that Scandal season 3 was reduced from 22 to 18 episodes. Showrunners decided that they wanted to finish filming before she was due. As viewers have noticed, her lower torso area has been covered up more and more often as her baby bump grows.
While we were disappointed that there would be less episodes of Scandal than planned, the back half of this season has wrapped up nicely in the more confined space.
Watch ‘Scandal’ season 3 online
Need to watch Scandal online? New episodes of Scandal season 3 are available online for free streaming via Hulu and ABC’s website beginning Friday morning.
If you need to be reminded on where things stand in the Scandal world, check out our recap of last week’s episode.
We’ll have up a recap of tonight’s finale shortly after it airs on the east coast.
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