Scandal Finale Spoilers - Read at Your Own Risk
As promised, here is a summary of all of the spoilers or potential spoilers I have pieced together. Sorry this is long, but hopefully it has some useful tidbits. I don't work on the set, which is why I am allowed to disclose whatever I can find. All of this is out there if you really know what you're looking for. That said, read at your own risk, as some of these things could be big spoilers, including the potential fate of the Vermont house.
Spoiler 1: David is the Law, and the Law is David
This might be old news, but I deciphered most of the lines from the clip Darby posted of the last take on the last night of filming. This is a scene at QPA with Liv, Quinn, Huck, Abby and David. Here's what I was able to make out. They filmed some of the lines multiple times so it may be out of order.
QUINN: [Something inaudible]
DAVID: In theory, yes.
LIV: David is the law, and the law is David. He wears the white hat. We can't ask him to take it off, not again. We didn't come this far just to escape. If we go to jail, we go to jail. So if anyone wants out, speak now, and speak up.
SPOILER 2: Quinn's Wedding Bouquet
On wrap night, Kathryn Coulliard, who is one of the second team members and also plays Sally Langston's production assistant (and Fitz's in the AU), posted an Instagram Story with a prop that was labeled "Quinn's wedding bouquet." The flowers do not appear to be the same as the ones used in the attempted wedding in 706, so this probably means Charlie gets out of prison and they get married.
I don’t have the screenshot of her post here, but I noticed after writing this that the flowers match the flowers Abby was carrying into what looks like a prison in one of the #peepingtom tweets. This is probably wild speculation, but now I am wondering if Charlie and Quinn get married while Charlie is still in prison so one of them doesn’t have the testify against the other. Parallel to 506 maybe?
SPOILER 3: Jake’s Grave?
Some people reported that Scott Foley briefly posted, then took down, a picture of a grave with Jake’s name on it. Take that for what it’s worth. I can’t believe Scott would have posted it even for a second if Jake actually dies, so I’m not getting my hopes up. (Sorry, I know some people on here like Jake but this is just my perspective).
Below is the biggest potential spoiler I have, which may break your heart, depending on where you stand. You’ve been warned.
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SPOILER 4: Why Vermont is (Probably) Not Happening
For the record, I am an olitz shipper who has never quite bought into the idea that Olivia would be happy living in Vermont making jam all day (although 710 made me reconsider a little), so this is written from that perspective.
The “Vermont” house is actually located in Ventura County, at 1350 W. Potrero Road. Fortunately for us spoiler hungry fans, Ventura County provides citizen access to real time records of applications for film permits. I am sad to report that the producers of Scandal did not apply for a permit to film there for the finale. The last time they filmed there was for 710.
This would seem to suggest that Olivia and Fitz will not end up in Vermont and that we won’t see the house again, but it’s a bit more complicated than that. In preparation to shoot 710, they applied for a traffic encroachment permit, which allowed them to block the road to film a FOR SALE sign in front of the house, according to the scene map they submitted with the application.
Obviously, we have not seen a for sale sign in front of the house in 710 or any other episode, so there are two possibilities:
They cut this scene from 710 (more likely); or
This scene was filmed for the finale, and they did it that way so they wouldn’t have to rent the house again and bring the crew there just to shoot one scene.
Just to add yet another wrinkle to the saga, right around the time Scandal wrapped, Tim Ballou from ABC, the same locations manager who applied for Scandal’s permit for 710, applied for a permit to film a pilot called “The Fix” at 1350 Potrero Road. At first, I got excited, knowing the British name for Scandal is The Fixer. I thought perhaps he used a code name in case any fans thought to check Ventura County permit records. But then I found out The Fix is a real show that began filming about a week before Scandal wrapped, and based on the synopsis for the pilot episode the Vermont house would be a logical place to film. So most likely it was just a coincidence, but there is a remote possibility that they used it as a cover to avoid spoiling Scandal. Probably sounds crazy, but I know they took crazy security measures to fly Kerry and Scott to the island for 401 and avoid spoiling it, even though that wasn’t even really a spoiler since we saw them leave for the island in 318.
This was the application for Scandal for 710:
And here is the payment receipt for the permit for The Fix, which Tim Ballou (the same guy who applied for the Scandal permit) applied for two days before the official wrap date for Scandal:
Probably a coincidence, but I wouldn’t completely rule out them filming after the official wrap date (and using another ABC pilot as a cover) in order to avoid spoiling it.
SPOILER 5: No Georgetown Either?
Yesterday, the scandal makeup account on Instagram posted a shot of Georgetown, which got many of our hopes up, but then clarified that they didn’t film there, but were just staying there. It’s possible that they were lying because they realized it was a spoiler, or that they posted it not realizing people would get the wrong impression because they didn’t remember that part of the AU and didn’t realize Georgetown has significance to Olitz shippers.
Of course, they may have filmed Georgetown scenes back in LA, before the trip to DC, or they could still have that ending without actually filming a house in Georgetown. So I’m not losing hope yet (and people who hate Fitz shouldn't rejoice just yet).
