Is Scandal's Jake Alive Or Dead?

He's aliiiiiive!

Just as we suspected, Jake Ballard is alive and not-exactly-well. Guess we owe Shonda Rhimes some lunch now.

Turns out Olivia's lovah didn't stab Jake quite enough in the right spots for him to fully die, so he was only mostly dead, and very blood-deficient. That meant OPA's newest mission was to go on a blood hunt, of course!

Unfortunately, they also had a case, because their shady Russian doctor refused to help Jake if OPA didn't also help him out, but whatevs. Jake's alive and that's all that matters.

The only real problem was that Liv and co. didn't yet know that it was Russell who was to blame for Jake's near-death. Not only was Russell stashed on a gurney next to Jake for a bit (and thus had the opportunity to nearly kill Jake with a scalpel), but he and Olivia were still, you know, together.

Fortunately, Olivia Pope is not an idiot, and she figured it out eventually. She revealed that she had figured it out by stripping down to a negligee, sitting on top of Russell, and then holding a gun to his forehead, which just felt like such a natural Olivia Pope scene that it took us a hot second to realize this was not just how she does foreplay.

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