EPISODE

2. Dirty Little Secrets

When Pope & Associates' newest client, DC Madam Sharon Marquette, is under investigation, the team needs to do everything possible to keep her client list under wraps. The list is literally a Who's Who of DC influentials - and while it's Olivia's job to protect her client, she finds herself protecting a lot more than just the madam. Meanwhile, Quinn runs into some trouble with the President's former intern, Amanda Tanner.

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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 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 Fitz's 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, and 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. The madame is put out of business and her clients endorse Keating so that their secrets are never revealed to the public, per Olivia's orders.

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