<Li> Aja Naomi King as Michaela Pratt </Li> <P> The number in the "No. overall" column refers to the episode's number within the overall series, whereas the number in the "No. in season" column refers to the episode's number within this particular season . "U.S. viewers in millions" refers to the number of Americans in millions who watched the episodes live . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> No . overall </Th> <Th> No. in season </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> <Th> Prod . code </Th> <Th> U.S. viewers (millions) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 107 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Watch Me" </Td> <Td> Jann Turner </Td> <Td> Shonda Rhimes </Td> <Td> October 5, 2017 (2017 - 10 - 05) </Td> <Td> 701 </Td> <Td> 5.52 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> The episode begins with a montage depicting Luna's death and Cyrus's rise to the vice-presidency . Jake still has a cabinet position, and is still with Olivia . Olivia works with Cyrus and Mellie to get passed a bill that offers free college education to American citizens while QPA staff battle to find their first client . Olivia's and Jake's uncommitted relationship turns flamboyant when power rises to Olivia's head and she begins to treat him as an employee . Cyrus thinks about becoming the next president, but his ideas fade after Mellie declares how grateful she is for all he has done . Olivia is interviewed by Curtis Pryce and the two end up in an affair . Mellie deals with a situation where a U.S. CIA agent is being held by terrorists in Bashran . Grant can't convice Ambassador Marachi, and Olivia threatens him in exchange of the citizen's return to American soil . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 108 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Pressing the Flesh" </Td> <Td> Tony Goldwyn </Td> <Td> Matt Byrne </Td> <Td> October 12, 2017 (2017 - 10 - 12) </Td> <Td> 702 </Td> <Td> 5.00 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> The White House prepares a dinner to welcome the President of Bashran, during which Mellie talks to him to try to reach an agreement on the possession of nuclear weapons in his country through a treaty . Olivia asks Jake to investigate President Rashad and he finds out that Rashad sent his niece to study at a university in the United States, which sounds completely different from what he advocates in his country, which is filled with people who are anti-American . Olivia threatens him with the information, but the President claims to have expected something like that, saying that his ambassador had warned him that Olivia was "the devil ." Cyrus takes the millionaire Fenton Glackland on a tour of the White House; Glackland mockingly reveals he will use his money to become President, and Cyrus screams with him, defending the White House . QPA staff get an invitation to the dinner, where they try to socialize with high - profile people and hopefully gather possible scandals . Huck discovers that one of the military men at dinner is actually a killer . This man takes President Rashad to a White House room to assassinate him, but is stopped by agents, quickly advised by Olivia, Huck, and Abby . After, Rashad reveals to Mellie that radicals of his country may be responsible . They talk about the threats they receive as presidents, and Mellie eventually convinces him to accept the treaty . Curtis Pryce also attends the dinner, and he follows Olivia until she asks him to go to her loft . Arriving there, they run into Fitz, who is expecting Olivia . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 109 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Day 101" </Td> <Td> Scott Foley </Td> <Td> Zahir McGhee </Td> <Td> October 19, 2017 (2017 - 10 - 19) </Td> <Td> 703 </Td> <Td> 4.70 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Marcus asks Fitz how he would like to have Olivia featured in his Presidential library . Fitz cannot believe his Presidency is being reduced to him just being a man who loved a woman . After spending time with Fitz, Marcus finds him entitled and intolerable . Marcus states Fitz's accomplishments are actually Olivia's . He is close to quitting when Mellie assures him he is just going through the stages of Fitz and the best part is yet to come . Meanwhile, Fitz gets a startling visit from Rowan who needs help trying to handle Olivia . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 110 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Lost Girls" </Td> <Td> Nicole Rubio </Td> <Td> Ameni Rozsa & Austin Guzman </Td> <Td> October 26, 2017 (2017 - 10 - 26) </Td> <Td> 704 </Td> <Td> 4.88 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Fitz is at Olivia's door, and he asks her to help him with a project to find missing girls . She tells him to ask Quinn . Mellie and Rashad are talking about how to solve nuclear problems when Olivia interrupts their meeting . Cyrus debates what to do with the painting from Fenton Glackland . QPA and Fitz look to find the poster girl for missing girls . Rowan tells Fitz that a missing girls case isn't enough to get Olivia back to the good side . Cyrus goes to Glackland's house to return the painting, and they play with virtual reality . Marcus goes to the White House to see Mellie but Olivia won't let him . Olivia goes to QPA and tells them that the way to get attention . On the way out Olivia runs into Fitz who suggests they get a drink sometime . At the summit, the prime minister of Dacal isn't willing to work with Mellie or Rashad . Olivia tells Mellie that she noticed her flirting with Rashad . QPA and Fitz have one of the missing girls' mother start making public statements . Mellie and Rashad have a drink together in the oval and have a romantic connection . Cyrus complains to Mellie that he deserves better than Glackland . Olivia visits Rowan and he tells her that she can't have both B613 and Fitz . Bashran is taken in coup, making Rashad not the president . Jake tells Olivia that she needs to choose whether or not she is Command . Mellie wants to send in troops to Bashran to help Rashad, but Olivia is against it . Olivia goes home and Fitz shows up . He tells her that he was a terrible president when he wasn't with her, and that they are better together . Jake gives Olivia information on what Rowan has been up to . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 111 </Th> <Td> 5 </Td> <Td> "Adventures in Babysitting" </Td> <Td> Oliver Bokelberg </Td> <Td> Serveriano Canales & Tia Napolitano </Td> <Td> November 2, 2017 (2017 - 11 - 02) </Td> <Td> 705 </Td> <Td> 4.89 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Olivia and Mellie pushes their power like never before, while Cyrus works on a congressional approval to declare war in Bashran as the QPA keeps a close watch on President Rashad's niece . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 112 </Th> <Td> 6 </Td> <Td> "Vampires and Bloodsuckers" </Td> <Td> Jann Turner </Td> <Td> Chris Van Dusen & Tia Napolitano </Td> <Td> November 9, 2017 (2017 - 11 - 09) </Td> <Td> 706 </Td> <Td> 5.00 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Olivia tells Mellie of Rashad's death, and she immediately wants to send troops into Bashran . Olivia and Jake worked together to kill Rashad and Yasmin . Glackland and Cyrus have brunch while Glackland pressures Cyrus for information on what's going on in the White House . Quinn gets ready for her wedding and then meets with Olivia and accuses her of being behind Rashad's death . Mellie shows up at Andrews Air Force Base to say goodbye to Rashad . Huck fusses over Quinn and Charlie's wedding as he is both best man and maid of honor . The ambassador meets with Mellie to try to negotiate peace, but she warns him that the rebels should run . Meanwhile, Quinn is missing and Olivia is worried that Quinn is going to tell that Olivia is behind Rashad's death . Charlie insists that Quinn didn't get cold feet so QPA starts looking for her . Curtis visits QPA looking for Quinn because she called him about Rashad's death . Olivia and Jake work to throw off QPA's search for Quinn by planning to blame it on Glackland . Mellie asks Jake if he could do her a favor, but he says no so she calls Marcus for advice . Charlie, convinced that Glackland has Quinn, captures and tortures him, but Huck stops him before he can cut off Glackland's arm . Mellie calls the new regime in Bashran and tells them that America will work with them for peace, under Mellie's terms . Quinn is still missing, David and Abby reunite . Jake and Olivia look at footage of Quinn arriving to her wedding, meaning that she didn't bail to build a case against Olivia, but that she was kidnapped . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 113 </Th> <Td> 7 </Td> <Td> "Something Borrowed" </Td> <Td> Sharat Raju </Td> <Td> Mark Fish </Td> <Td> November 16, 2017 (2017 - 11 - 16) </Td> <Td> 707 </Td> <Td> 4.97 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> At dinner Rowan reveals to Olivia that he has Quinn, and wants to exchange Quinn's life for his freedom and dinosaur bones . Marcus tries to convince Mellie to work with Fitz's foundation on mass incarceration . During a dispute with his daughter, Rowan leaves his living room and gun shots are heard, leaving Olivia to believe Quinn is dead . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 114 </Th> <Td> 8 </Td> <Td> "Robin" </Td> <Td> Daryn Okada </Td> <Td> Juan Carlos Fernandez </Td> <Td> January 18, 2018 (2018 - 01 - 18) </Td> <Td> 709 </Td> <Td> 5.17 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Rowan has a body in a car which he burns . He calls the police to report a fire . QPA and Olivia gets word of Quinn's death . Her DNA was found in a tooth from the car fire, along with a burned piece of her wedding dress . Mellie comes to QPA to offer her condolences . Charlie wants to have Quinn cremated and packed into bullet cases . Huck reads through the coroner's report and finds out about the hairpin from the Smithsonian Olivia gave Quinn . Fitz comes to Olivia's apartment to offer his condolences, but Olivia pushes him off, telling him that they aren't friends . Fenton Glackland breaks up with Cyrus because he knows that Charlie was Cyrus' hitman . Huck goes to Fitz to ask for help in fixing Olivia . Huck then goes to an AA meeting . Abby and David talk at the crematory . Drunk and trying to write Quinn's eulogy, Olivia goes to Quinn's office and tries on the white hat . Meanwhile, Rowan is enjoying putting his bones back together . The gladiators say goodbye to Quinn as each of them says something about Quinn and then fires one of her bullets into the ground . Abby, Huck, Charlie, and Marcus get drunk and tell stories about Quinn . Emotional and still drunk, Olivia goes to Fitz's apartment and they have sex . David and Abby rid Charlie's apartment of baby stuff where they find a hidden flashdrive . Charlie arrives at Rowan's door to ask to be reinstated as a B613 agent when he hears a baby crying . He runs up to the second floor of Rowan's house to find a baby girl, he then starts choking Rowan . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 115 </Th> <Td> 9 </Td> <Td> "Good People" </Td> <Td> Nzingha Stewart </Td> <Td> Shonda Rhimes, Jess Brownell & Nicholas Nardini </Td> <Td> January 25, 2018 (2018 - 01 - 25) </Td> <Td> 708 </Td> <Td> 5.19 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> This episode is a flashback to the events that occurred from Quinn's point of view from her abduction to the end of episode 8 where Charlie discovers the baby girl in Rowan's home . Rowan goes to a store to buy a suitcase and makes a friend in one of the employees, Marvin . He kidnaps Quinn from the QPA elevator and puts her in his basement . He goes to dinner with Olivia and says he will trade Quinn for his dinosaur bones, but she declines . Rowan heads to the store and buys a crib, again making conversation with Marvin . They meet in a pub where they have dinner, and Marvin offers Rowan his employee discount . Meanwhile, down in the basement Quinn hallucinates that her colleagues are talking to her . Rowan uses Marvin's employee discount to buy a gun, making it registered in Marvin's name . Olivia arrives at Rowan's home and he barters Quinn for his bones again; overhearing the dispute, Quinn also hears Olivia choose her power over saving Quinn . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 116 </Th> <Td> 10 </Td> <Td> "The People v. Olivia Pope" </Td> <Td> Kerry Washington </Td> <Td> Ameni Rozsa </Td> <Td> February 1, 2018 (2018 - 02 - 01) </Td> <Td> 710 </Td> <Td> 5.62 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> A distraught Olivia spends the night with Fitz and leads to her agreeing to go with him to Vermont . Once there, she discovers her closest friends are there as well . Olivia is confronted on her role in Quinn and Rashad's deaths . She locks herself in a bedroom as her friends each provide evidence and reasoning why she should step down from her role, offering her an out if she agrees to give up B613 . Olivia provides a single - paged statement of resignation from her Chief of Staff role in the White House and alludes to Jake being placed in control of shutting down B613 . The crew fly back to Washington and watch the evening's televised press brief for Olivia's formal resignation statement . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 117 </Th> <Td> 11 </Td> <Td> "Army of One" </Td> <Td> Allison Liddi - Brown </Td> <Td> Austin Guzman </Td> <Td> February 8, 2018 (2018 - 02 - 08) </Td> <Td> 711 </Td> <Td> 4.63 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Olivia confronts Mellie on her decision to name Jake as her new Chief of Staff; Mellie tells Olivia that she must step down and resign, or be publicly terminated . QPA gains a new client, a government employee being accused of treason with Russian entities . The crew discovers he is in an affair with Jake's wife upon Olivia leaking the news to the media . With rumors of the resignation in the media, Quinn encourages Rowan to see this as their time to step in and get revenge . However, Rowan disagrees and refuses to harm his own child . Cyrus gives Mellie and Jake a way to frame Olivia and spin her media story, but backstabs them when he provides Olivia with the documents proving the President's media coverup . Cyrus offers Olivia to use the papers to bring down the Mellie presidency when she is scheduled to announce her resignation, but instead brings this information to light with Mellie as she is preparing for the first Presidential Mammogram . Quinn bargains with Rowan for her freedom in exchange for not going after Olivia . Olivia returns home and hears Robin's cries; Quinn shows herself and holds Olivia at gunpoint . Olivia warns Quinn of snipers and continuing to not believe the threat, Olivia is shot in the arm attempting to protect Quinn . Olivia gives her speech at a press conference, initially planning to use the files from Cyrus but instead giving her resignation . Charlie, Quinn, and Robin greet Huck and Abby at QPA . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 118 </Th> <Td> 12 </Td> <Td> "Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself" </Td> <Td> Tony Goldwyn </Td> <Td> Raamla Mohamed </Td> <Td> March 1, 2018 (2018 - 03 - 01) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBD </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> This episode begins a crossover event that concludes on How to Get Away with Murder season 4 episode 13 . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 119 </Th> <Td> 13 </Td> <Td> "Air Force Two" </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> March 8, 2018 (2018 - 03 - 08) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBD </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 120 </Th> <Td> 14 </Td> <Td> "The List" </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> March 15, 2018 (2018 - 03 - 15) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBD </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 121 </Th> <Td> 15 </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> Darby Stanchfield </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> March 29, 2018 (2018 - 03 - 29) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBD </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 122 </Th> <Td> 16 </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> Joe Morton </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> April 5, 2018 (2018 - 04 - 05) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBD </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> No . overall </Th> <Th> No. in season </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> <Th> Prod . code </Th> <Th> U.S. viewers (millions) </Th> </Tr>

When does scandal season 7 episode 8 come out