Entertainment TV Scripted TV Shows How 'Scandal' 's Darby Stanchfield Thought the Show Would End Scandal airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on ABC By Christina Butan Christina Butan Christina Butan is a Senior Commerce Editor at InStyle where she edits and writes newsy shopping stories that cover everything from celebrity style to beauty trends to editor's picks. People Editorial Guidelines Published on March 28, 2018 03:06PM EDT Everyone has their theories on how Scandal will end, including the cast. Darby Stanchfield, who plays fixer-turned-White-House-aide Abby Whelan on the show, thought the same thing we were all pretty much thinking. “I, like many other people who watch Scandal, thought that the show was going to end with Olivia and Fitz together,” she says in PEOPLE’s All Seven Seasons of Scandal special edition. Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic PEOPLE’s special issue All Seven Seasons of Scandal is available now on Amazon and wherever magazines are sold There’s only one problem with that speculation — it already happened! “So much of what I thought would be the end of the show, they’ve already blown through all those doors,” Stanchfield says. RELATED VIDEO: The One Surprising Thing Kerry Washington Does After Shooting a ‘Scandal’ Scene The cast recently held their final table read earlier this month and will reunite for a live table read of the series finale on April 19, the same day the episode airs. “Deciding how to end a show is easy,” Scandal creator Shonda Rhimes said in a statement last year. “But actually going through with it? Actually standing up to say: ‘This is it?’ Not so much.” Scandal airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.