Travis Harding is the son of a millionaire businesswoman charged with rape. Olivia Pope takes him on as a client trying to prove that the rape allegation is false. But Harrison Wright learns that he had raped someone in the past and had paid her off. The woman he paid off committed suicide not long after receiving money from Travis. As it turns out the woman who is currently alleging Travis raped her is his first - and only - victim's best friend. She stalked Travis, changed her hair color just to get his attention and to set him up for rape when in fact he did not rape her. After a push from Olivia his mother, Sandra Harding, ends up doing the right thing, turning him into the police.