The top 10 ‘Scandal’ shockers from season finale

A breathless hour of blood, explosions and premature deaths were some of the highlights of Thursday night’s thrilling “Scandal” season finale.

Thursday night’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” was devoted to the “Scandal” season finale with an episode called “Behind the Scandalabra.”

Here are some clips of Kimmel interviewing “Scandal” creator Shonda Rhimes:

Here are 10 of the main jolts.

  1. 1. Campaign switcheroo

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    Sally Langston (Kate Burton) survives the church explosion and uses it to her political advantage, tending to the wounded — effectively wiping President Fitzgerald “Fitz” Grant (Tony Goldwyn) off the news cycle.

  2. 2. Dirty White House secret

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    Olivia (Kerry Washington) reveals to Fitz that Mellie (Bellamy Young) came to her for a paternity test and confessed that she was raped by her father-in-law when Fitz was running for governor.

  3. 3. Teen drops dead

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    During a campaign speech, Fitz and Mellie’s 15-year-old son, Jerry Jr. (Dylan Minnette), starts bleeding from his nose and mouth. He collapses on stage and dies at the hospital.

  4. 4. Who killed my son?

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    Fitz learns that the cause of death was a strain of bacterial meningitis, a vial of which was stolen from Fort Detrick. At this point, the White House and Fitz believe Marie Wallace (Khandi Alexander), a k a Maya Lewis, Olivia’s mom, is responsible.

  5. 5. Mama Pope's vendetta

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    Olivia visits her father, Rowan (Joe Morton), in the hospital where he is recovering from being stabbed. Maya is there, and she tells Olivia she could have killed the president if she wanted to — and that she took out the kid because the president robbed her daughter of her life.

  6. 6. It takes two

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    Rowan asks Harrison (Columbus Short) to help him avenge the death of Adnan Salif (Nazanin Boniadi), whom we assume was killed by Maya.

  7. 7. Take this job and shove it

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    Realizing she will never marry the president and that everything scandalous in Washington can be traced back to her, Olivia resigns from Olivia Pope Associates.

  8. 8. The real killer

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    Rowan admits to Harrison that it was he, and not Maya, who killed the president’s son. A corrupt Secret Service agent injected the kid with the meningitis. The same henchman killed Adnan Salif. Rowan then has the henchman turn a gun on Harrison.

  9. 9. Rowan's revenge

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    Rowan has told Fitz that Maya is dead, but it was a lie. He actually has her in captivity again via a reinstated B613. Rowan is head of black ops once more.

  10. 10. Straight to voice mail

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    Seated on a private jet with Jake Ballard (Scott Foley), Olivia receives a phone call from the White House, where Fitz has been reelected. She doesn’t answer it.