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My worst moment: 'Scandal's' Scott Foley gets hot under the collar

In the upcoming fact-based psychological thriller "Final Vision" (Dec. 10 on Investigation Discovery), Scott Foley goes dark - very dark - as Jeffrey MacDonald, the Army doctor convicted in 1979 of murdering his pregnant wife and two children. The film centers on both the crime and the trial, as well as writer Joe McGinniss, who started work on his book "Final Vision" at the request of MacDonald himself.

Foley's familiar with military types. Over on "Scandal," he's been playing one with plenty of issues of his own. Things are never what they seem on the ABC drama, and everyone has his or her own agenda, and this season his character Jake Ballard has been Olivia Pope's sounding board, moral compass and part-time love interest.

"I know that people expect

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