Cut them at your own risk.Ĭhuck sends a similar message at the end of the episode when he arrives at Black Jack’s funeral: Fear him.
Axe’s message is clear: There are always strings. By the time John is back on land, his phone is blowing up, and not in a good way. Meanwhile, an elite team at Axe Cap moves most of John’s money out of his firm. He fakes engine trouble and arms Ari Spyros (Stephen Kunken) with a two-way radio so he can play an indifferent rescue-boat operator with a bad accent. Once I heard Lou Reed’s “ Vicious,” I was like, “OMG, Axe is going to kill this guy on their spontaneous fishing trip!” (There’s even a Natalie Wood reference, for crying out loud.) No, worse. Axe doesn’t buy John’s story of wanting to remain a modest firm, so he concocts yet another ridiculously elaborate ruse to both drain the guy of his money and get him to admit he doesn’t want Axe’s ill-gotten billions funding his business. Remember how Axe paid for the schooling of his dead colleagues’ children? The colleagues who perished on 9/11 while he profited off the day’s tragedy? Well, one of those kids, John Rice (Seth Gabel), now has his own shop, and he’s suddenly cashing Axe - one of his initial investors - out. So Axe keeps himself occupied by throwing a billionaire’s tantrum over the latest bruise to his ego. It’s standard Billions fare: Jock Jeffcoat threatened to strip the new governor, “Buffalo Bob” Sweeney (Matt Servitto), of his own authority unless he did the same to Chuck. It’s also at Tense Pizza Dinner that Axe tasks Chuck with the Taylor investigation, although he’s forced to sit tight, because Chuck has committed a mother of a political double cross in order to have his AG powers reinstated. It is not fair that Wendy lost jurisdiction over her narrative just so Chuck could take control of his. However, I stand by my argument that disregarding his wife’s wishes to serve his own needs was inexcusable. I know what a mental release it was for Chuck, whose sexual preferences stem from decades of emotional abuse, to give America’s puritanical attitudes the finger. Wendy is still pissed at Chuck for going public with their BDSM lifestyle. “A Proper Sendoff” begins with the double date of Lara Axelrod’s nightmares: Chuck, Wendy, Axe, and Rebecca Cantu noshing on pies at Una Pizza Napoletana (guess Axe and Bruno remain on the outs). Oh, and Kate Sacker and the FBI are investigating the shady underpinnings of Charles Senior’s planned real-estate monstrosity, a project intended to rebuild Chuck’s trust fund. Next on his agenda is having the New York State attorney general prosecute Taylor for financial crimes. Speaking of Axe, he is so not done calling in those favors from Chuck. Wendy, having hit her vulnerability limit, has accepted Taylor’s offer to talk - which could have huge consequences for her relationship with her boss.
Billions does not have time for you to read between the lines: As soon as the James Brown tune “ The Payback” plays over the opening images of flames cremating the body of “Black Jack” Foley - nicely juxtaposed with the flames of Anthony Mangieri’s pizza oven - it’s firmly established that this episode will be about revenge, and there will be no room for subtlety.Īfter last week’s game changer, “A Proper Sendoff” returns to business as usual while still leaving us with several big teases.
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