"Scandal" season 4 spoilers hint of a different location as creator Shonda Rhimes promised that future episodes would focus more on Abby's story.

Shonda Rhimes teased "Scandal" season 4 spoilers to TVGuide which asked her if there's going to be a time jump from the season 3 finale when Olivia Pope hopped off a plane to somewhere.

"When we leave, she's on a plane headed to God knows where. When we come back into the season, we find ourselves is a surprising place both time-wise and location-wise," she said.

She said that more focus will be given on the core cast of the show.

"One of the things that we did specifically when we created the show is slowly deploy people's stories. It was purposeful. Season 4 is Abby's season. That was by design," she said. "A lot of what we know about Abby happens this season. A lot of what we discover about her and see about her back story will happen as we tell Abby's story."

As to the romance between Olivia and Jake, with Fitz shadow looming over them, Shonda Rhimes has this "Scandal" season 4 spoilers:

"I always think about the finale when she says to him very clearly, 'I am in love with another man.' And he says, 'Let's go anyway.' He goes off with her knowing full well that she's very clear about her feelings for somebody else."

In another interview published in The Hollywood Reporter, Shonda Rhimes dished out more "Scandal" season 4 spoilers as she said that they would veer towards the "case of the week" format.

"In season two and season one, Kerry is in almost every scene, and that's not possible in season three. So it just necessitated a different mode of storytelling, and we're very excited to get back to Olivia-centric storytelling," she told the website.