When it comes to epic love stories, Olivia (Kerry Washington) and Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) are one for the ages.
The storied “Scandal” couple have broken up and mended their relationship more times than Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton — but is Olitz officially over for good? A trailer for Thursday night’s episode shows President Fitzgerald Grant getting down a dirty with a brunette, who is neither Mellie (Bellamy Young) nor Liv.
Relive some of Liv and Fit’z most memorable relationship moments:
♥ After months of flirting on the campaign trail, Fitz and Olivia — who is running his presidential election campaign — have sex. (Season 1, Episode 16)
♥ Olivia dumps Fitz in the White House garden, and Fitz tells Olivia he loves her for the first time. Fitz: “You control me, I belong to you.” (Season 2, Episode 8)
♥ Fitz takes Olivia to see the original Constitution; he gets the case opened so that she can be the seventh person to ever touch it. They agree that they’re in this relationship together. (Season 2, Episode 8)
♥ Olivia resigns as Director of Communications after Fitz gives his first State of the Union address. (Season 2, Episode 8)
♥ Billy Chambers releases Fitz and Olivia’s sex tape, they momentarily consider being honest and embracing their relationship. (Season 1, Episode 7)
♥ Olivia convinces Mellie to say that she’s the woman on the sex tape. Fitz calls Olivia late at night after he and Mellie reveal the sex of their unborn child on national TV. Fitz: “You hang up.” Olivia: “No, you hang up.” (Season 2, Episode 1)
♥ Fitz summons Olivia to Camp David to confront her for going out with her ex-fiancee, Edison Davis. They makeout briefly. Olivia: “I am not yours. This is over.” (Season 2, Episode 3)
♥ Fitz gets shot; Olivia crawls into his hospital bed with him. After many flashbacks, Fitz wakes up and Olivia is the first person he calls (Season 2, Episodes 7-10)
♥ Olivia tells Fitz that Edison proposed (again). Fitz tells Olivia that he asked Mellie for a divorce, inspired by his near death experience (Season 2, Episode 12)
♥ Mellie induces labor; Fitz tells Olivia he will wait for her to make her decision regarding Edison’s proposal. Fitz: “This isn’t theatrical anymore. This is real.” (Season 2, Episode 13)
♥ Supreme Court Justice Verna Thornton confesses to Fitz how she and the others rigged the election to win him the presidency. Fitz kills her. At the funeral, Olivia tells Fitz she turned down Edison and that she’ll wait for him to no longer be President, when Fitz tells her not to bother waiting. Fitz: “Screwing your mistress is one thing, but marrying her? It’s political suicide, really.” (Season 2, Episode 13)
♥ After a six month break, Olivia and Fitz see each other again at the baptism of Cyrus & James’ baby, to whom they are godparents. They rendezvous in an electronics closet, and Fitz tells Olivia it doesn’t mean anything. Fitz: “I may not be able to control my erections around you, but that does not mean I want you.” (Season 2, Episode 14)
♥ Fitz visits Olivia in the hospital after she is attacked and they make out, but Olivia tells Fitz that she can’t give him another chance. Olivia: “I do [love you], but I can’t do this anymore.” (Season 2, Episode 19)
♥ Fitz goes to Olivia’s place and they wait out Mellie’s deadline for when she would expose their affair. As the time expires, they have sex in the shower. Fitz: “I love you more than I love being president.” (Season 2, Episode 20)
♥ Olivia finds out that Fitz killed Verna, now she hates him again. Fitz tells Olivia he knows she’s been sleeping with Jake Ballard. Fitz: “I was going to tell you that I don’t care about Jake, that I forgive you … I’m guessing you don’t feel the same way about murder.” (Season 2, Episode 22)
♥ Olivia is outed as Fitz’s mistress (Season 2, Episode 23)
♥ Fitz flies Olivia to Vermont to show her the home he created for them; they make love. Fitz: “This house is yours. Ours. I had it built for us…I can’t really be mayor, but you can make jam.” (Season 3, Episode 8)
♥ Olivia tells Fitz that Mellie was raped by his father, prompting him to stay with Mellie. Olivia and Jake board a plane for a remote desert island (Season 3, Episode 18)
♥ Olivia is furious that Fitz would go to war with West Angola over her kidnapping, tells Fitz that she is on her own. (Season 4, Episode 13)
♥ Fitz finds out that Mellie sold out the jurors to Rowan and files for divorce. With her father in prison, Olivia and Fitz reunite on the White House balcony. Fitz: “What happens now?” Olivia: “Whatever we want.” (Season 4, Episode 22)
♥ Fitz and Olivia nearly wed so that she won’t have to testify against him regarding the leaked Jeanine Locke videos from Season 3. (Season 5, Episode 6)
♥ Olivia aborts Fitz’s baby, leaves the White House. Fitz: “We tried.” Olivia: “We did.” (Season 5, Episode 9)