'Scandal' Season 3 Spoilers: Cast Shares Hopes for Next Season, Quinn Redefines Herself, Rowan and Olivia's Future

The season 3 premiere of "Scandal" is still months away, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to chew on in the meantime. Amidst other spoilers, the cast and crew recently sat down and expressed their own hopes and aspirations for the new season at the ATX Television Festival.

For the most part, the actors are content with Shonda Rhimes' decision making as the show moves forward, however they do have several hopes of their own. "Whenever there's a flashback episodes, I'm not in it, so I would like a past," said Joshua Malina, who plays David Rosen. "Or some evidence that David Rosen was alive [before the series started]."

Dan Bucatinsky, who plays James Novak, would like to see "the balance between work and home more, the baby and maybe getting a sibling, and a spin-off series."

Others, like Katie Lowes, who plays Quinn Perkins, have been in complete agreement with Rhimes since the beginning. "I really just have loved everything so far and there's been so many things that I've never done like drilling and whatever," Lowes said. "I trust Shonda in all of her ideas and everyone in that writers room is so brilliant... and I also just want to be alive."

Lowes also revealed to TV Fanatic that her character would be looking for a new identity next season. "I definitely think she's looking for an identity," she said. "I think that she likes being good at things."

There are plenty of questions that need to be answered in the wake of season 2's cliffhanger, and Rhimes confirmed that season 3 will pick up right where it left off.

"It's not fair to drop that kind of bomb and then be like, 'Now we're going to jump ahead of time," she said. "We actually are talking about starting next time with no time jump at all. Starting maybe 25 minutes after we leave the last season."

And what about Rowan and Olivia? "We had to have a solution to that and we had to own that story," Rhimes said. "We're not going to put that away and just tidy that up and move on. We're going to have to live in that."

"Scandal" will return to ABC this fall.