Long live Jake Ballard! During Thursday night's brand new episode of Scandal, fans got a shocking surprise when they learned that the beloved character was still alive despite multiple stab wounds to the abdomen after last week's episode.

'Scandal' Fans React After Learning That Jake Ballard May Still Be Alive

In the new episode First Lady Sings The Blues, things got fifty shades of crazy after fans learned that Jake was still alive, but the episode got extremely heated when Liv learned that her new beau Russell has been working for her father.

The episode started when Quinn walked into the office and immediately learned that Liv's dad had someone attack Jake but luckily Huck got there just in time to bring him back to life.

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Because the team didn't want to attract unwanted attention from Liv's father, they decided not to take Jake to the hospital and instead they had Charlie call a Russian doctor to perform surgery on Liv's boyfriend number two but of course Liv had to pay up for the man's talents.

Instead of charging money, the doctor wanted Liv to help his friend Mary Peterson, a former KGB agent, escape from the Russian militants who continued to control her.

While the gladiators focused on helping Mary, Papa Pope shot Russell after his failed attempt at killing Jake, so he decided to take matters into his own hands. After pretending that he was attacked Russell reached out to Liv and of course being the fixer that she is, Liv she bought him to the safe house where Jake was being kept.

After waking up and seeing his attacker lying inches away from him, Jake tried to get the attention of the others around him to inform them that Russell was the bad guy. Sadly Liv was too late to help Mary because Russell had already told Rowan about Liv's plan to have him killed, but in the last 30 seconds of the episode, the D.C. crisis manager learned what Russell was really up to, and just as the episode ended, Liv pulled out a gun and it looked like she was ready to teach her dad a lesson.

With only one episode left until the season 4 finale, things are about to get real, and it's only a matter of time before fans get a shocking surprise.

Scandal airs every Thursday night at 9 p.m. o ABC. Viewers can watch a sneak peek of the brand new episode A Few Good Women in the video below.

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