Details on Next Mellie Grant vs. Olivia Pope Showdown and More Scandal Season 3 Spoilers

When Scandal fans last saw Mellie Grant (Bellamy Young) with Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), the former was asking the latter to run President Fitzgerald Grant's reelection campaign despite the facts that Olivia had been sleeping with the President and the two were in love. Olivia declined for numerous reasons, but Mellie may not give up so easily.

The "Spoiler Chat" column at E! Online reports the following from Young, who said another Mellie vs. Olivia confrontation could occur later in Season 3:

"Tamara: I love Scandal scenes involving Mellie and Olivia! Will we get to see any more scenes like that any time soon?
According to our chat with Bellamy Young, that doesn't seem to be out of the question, 'I don't know that she's a person to draw lines in the sand like that, because she's playing the long game, so any sort of short-term casualties are like pawns, right, they can be sacrificed within her tribe. She sacrifices her tribe constantly to get to her ultimate goal of this identity that she has of being in the White House, so you know, I wouldn't put anything past her.' As a little bonus - Young says that there's some stuff involving Quinn in episodes 3x09 and 3x10 that she 'doesn't even know how to prepare [us] for.'"

Mellie was willing to let the woman who slept with her husband and with whom her husband is in love run his campaign simply to help him win, so anything is possible with regard to the complicated Mellie-Olivia relationship. Our guess is that Olivia will eventually take over the campaign, which would make things even more murky in the White House.