Young lawyer Quinn Perkins is offered a job at Olivia Pope and Associates, an organisation that defends and protects the public image of the nation's elite by keeping their secrets under wraps.
Olivia Pope and Associates take on DC's finest madam when her list of clientele threatens to send shockwaves through Washington's elite.
When a millionaire's son is accused of rape, even Olivia Pope and Associates might not be able to save him.
Former friends Olivia and Cyrus take opposing viewpoints when the Amanda Tanner case takes a surprise turn. Cyrus tries to help by investigating the personal lives of Olivia and her associates.
Huck quickly determines that Amanda Tanner was kidnapped; when a plane crashes in suspicious circumstances, killing all the passengers, including a US senator, Olivia is tasked with representing the pilots.
As Gideon investigates Amanda Tanner's history in the present day, scenes from two years earlier reveal the contentious primary race between President Fitzgerald Grant and Sally Langston.
Kerry Washington
Olivia Pope
Darby Stanchfield
Abby Whelan
Katie Lowes
Quinn Perkins
Guillermo Díaz
Huck
Joshua Malina
David Rosen