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"Run" is the tenth episod, serving as a mid-season premiere of the fourth season of the American political thriller television series ''Scandal'', and is the 57th overall episode, which aired on ABC on January 29, 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Shows A-Z - scandal on abc )〕 The episode was written by showrunner Shonda Rhimes and directed by executive producer Tom Verica. The episode serves as a bottle episode, in which the episode focuses solely on Olivia's kidnapping and her captivity in a jail cell, which she shares with a cellmate named Ian McLeod. The episode features the fewest series regulars of any episode of the series, with only four regulars appearing: Olivia Pope, Jake Ballard, President Fitzgerald "Fitz" Grant lll and Abby Whelan. Shonda Rhimes praised the episode in an interview in which she named it the best episode of ''Scandal''. She praised the writing, saying, "It is probably my favorite episode that we’ve done, ever. It’s my favorite episode that I’ve written, of anything that I’ve written. But it’s probably our favorite episode that we’ve done ever.” ==Plot== Olivia (Kerry Washington) is kidnapped in her apartment by masked men, who take her across the hall to the neighbor apartment. Jake (Scott Foley), believing the kidnappers took Olivia out of the building, runs out at the streets where he runs after a car he believes Olivia is in. However, the kidnappers across the hall have been monitoring Olivia's apartment which they remove before Jake returns to the apartment. Jake calls Huck and Quinn and informs them of the situation. The kidnappers drive away with Olivia in an ambulance in which one of the kidnappers, Otto (Robert Baker), tells her to beg and negotiate for her release, however Olivia refuses and tells them that she will only talk with the leader of the kidnapping. She is then drugged. Olivia wakes up in a demolished cell and a cell mate, a man named Ian Woods (Jason Butler Harner), who claims to have been there a long time. He tells her that he is a writer and was kidnapped after finishing a story in Egypt. Olivia assures Ian that she will get them out of there. As time goes by, Olivia and Ian begin to form a friendship and start getting to know each other. He tells her about his family, where his wife was killed in a car bomb accident in Afghanistan. One day when she is in the bathroom, Olivia discovers a window and tries to escape through it. But she is caught by the kidnappers, and they punish her by taking Ian and shoot him. Olivia is distraught by the murder after which she begins to lay on the floor all day. She begins to have dreams about Jake coming and rescuing her, and about her living in Vermont with Fitz (Tony Goldwyn). In her dream, both Tom Larsen (Brian Letscher) and Abby (Darby Stanchfield) show up to tell her that she doesn't have anybody to rescue her and that she must rely only on herself. When she is taken to the bathroom, she tries to escape again out the window, but she discovers that they cemented it shut. Olivia is devastated and begins to cry. However, she manages to get a hold of a pipe iron and uses it to attack one of the kidnappers, and steals his keys and gun. She begins to run towards the red door leading out of the building, but is stopped by the other kidnapper, Otto. Olivia, after much hesitation, shoots and kills Otto. She manages to unlock the red door, but discovers that the small building she is being held in is within a warehouse and that there is no way out. She also discovers that Ian is actually the man holding her hostage and he wants to use her for a package deal with the president as he measure Olivia that Fitz will stop at nothing to rescue her because of his love towards her. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Run (Scandal)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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