Hi I'm Katie Lowe's and I'm Giermo Diaz and we're the hosts of unpacking the

toolbox the scandal rewatch podcast where we're talking about all the best

moments of the show mesmerizing but also we get to hang out with all of our old scandal friends like Belmy Young, Scott Foley,

Tony Goldwyn, Debbie Allen, Carrie Washington.

Well suit up, gladiators, grab your big old glass of wine and prepare yourselves for even more

behind the scenes stories with unpacking the toolbox.

Listen to unpacking the toolbox on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast.

Or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky,

listener discretion advised.

The late afternoon sun was beating down on Admiral Sir Harry Rawson's back as he ambled through the African city of Edo on February 18th,

18th, 1897.

Even though he carefully scanned each street and clocked every window he walked past, he was almost relaxed.

The tension he had been holding in his body mere hours before had largely dissipated.

After five days of moving through dense forest and facing guerrilla attacks from Edo's soldiers, it was a relief, no a triumph, to be strolling the streets.

The Kingdom of Benin's King or Oba, and everyone else in the King of Benin's King or Oba and everyone else in the Kingdom of Benin's capital city

had fled. That was an unfortunate outcome of the attack as Admiral Rosson and his British forces had hoped to capture the Oba.

The campaign was known as the, quote, punitive expedition after all.

In the minds of the British people, the Edo people,

especially their Oba, needed to pay for killing British soldiers earlier that year. But regardless the British

had the city now. The British forces hadn't even known the exact location of Edo, and yet here they were.

Admiral Rosson chalked that up to British superiority.

As the British force of 1,200 people continued to explore the abandoned city, they took it upon

...