It’s handled. Kind of.

Scandal‘s fourth season, which aired on Sept. 25, will begin a break following the winter finale on Thursday, Nov. 20.

Scandal is a political thriller that centers on Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), a former White House Communications Director who starts “Olivia Pope and Associates,” a crisis management firm in Washington, D.C. However, it is made evident that Pope’s clients are not the only ones that lead troubled lives, as Pope and her associates gets into many messes themselves. Between Pope’s off and on affair with the President of the United States and the baggage that Pope’s colleagues carry around, the show lives up to its name.

The past season and a half of Scandal has been focused on the downfall of Pope. Viewers have watched as the once willfully strong, mentally capable woman has unraveled into helpless and hopeless. After the media discovers her affair with the Commander-in-Chief, and her mother, who was believed to be dead, is outed as a terrorist and is blamed for the murder of the President’s son, Pope flees the United States on a permanent vacation.

This season, Pope returned, of course, from her island hiding spot after finding word that one of her associates was murdered. Pope decides that she must stay in D.C. and begins stepping back up, rekindling broken relationships and managing the crises just as well as she once could.

Scandal‘s fourth season is set to continue in 2015.