Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself (Scandal)

After her dismissal from the White House, Olivia serves as a guest lecturer at a local university. Annalise Keating, a defense attorney, asks for her help with her class action. At first, Olivia turns down the offer due to the questionable reputation of Annalise, but softens up shortly after. The duo get in touch with Fitz in order to gain mileage. Meanwhile, Mellie and Jake try their best to postpone if not sabotage the case through QPA, leaking the reason Olivia lost her post as Chief of Staff. With everything seeming to hit a dead end, Olivia and Annalise decide to work by themselves without any help from the White House. After watching a televised interview of Olivia and Annalise, Quinn has a change of heart, offering the "dirt" she has on Justice Spivey and prompting her to persuade (possibly blackmail) the judge into changing his vote. The class action suit is added to the court docket, much to Mellie's dismay.

On January 3, 2018, Kerry Washington tweeted a photo to How to Get Away with Murder star Viola Davis of herself in a "familiar" setting, that being a courthouse used for the set of How to Get Away with Murder.[1] Fans began to speculate a possible crossover episode being in the works, which was only heightened when Davis tweeted out a photo in response, that being her on the set of the fictitious Oval Office from Scandal.[2] Later that day, the crossover was officially confirmed through a tweet by Scandal creator and How to Get Away with Murder executive producer Shonda Rhimes.[3] How to Get Away with Murder creator Peter Nowalk later went on to share in an interview with Deadline:

At the beginning of the season, my writers and I were planning out Viola's entire arc and something in her story organically came up that was very appropriate for Scandal. When I went to Shonda, she heard it. I said, we don't have to do it, Viola's arc doesn't need this, but it's possible that their stories could cross really organically. She actually pulled up a clip of something from Scandal and their side of the story coalesced perfectly. So it was one of those serendipitous things where we both realized it was good for both characters, and it almost felt like we had been planning it since last season.[4]

"Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself" was written by Raamla Mohamed and directed by Tony Goldwyn.[5] It featured the songs "In My House" by Mary Jane Girls and "Hung Over" by the Martinis.[6] Liza Weil, who portrayed Amanda Tanner on the first season of Scandal, is also a series regular on How to Get Away with Murder, playing Bonnie Winterbottom. Nowalk said that he and Rhimes decided to ignore the continuity error and hoped that audiences wouldn't be confused and able to separate Weil's performances as both characters.[7] Winterbottom did not appear in the Scandal half of the crossover, and Weil did not appear as Bonnie with any Scandal characters on-screen during the How to Get Away with Murder half, ultimately not making any confusion moot.