Young lawyer Quinn Perkins is in awe when she becomes part of Olivia Pope and Associates, a crisis management designed to protect and defend the public images of the nation's elite by keeping their secrets safe, and works alongside her idol Olivia Pope – a woman who is willing to help her clients whatever the cost may be. But when decorated war veteran Sullivan St. James is accused of murder and White House intern Amanda Tanner accuses President Fitzgerald Grant of having an affair, Quinn discovers that nothing is as it seems.