![]() ![]() He took photos of Claire while she was sleeping - that is not romantic, you guys! It’s like Angelus leaving Buffy that sketch that time, which was ominous and threatening! - and his only excuse for this act of creepery is “the light was perfect, I had no choice.” The one good thing about this little jaunt is learning about Claire’s mom, who always told Claire to smile more: “Just so long as I looked beautiful and happy, that’s all she cared about.” Pretty hurts, ya’ll. How much of a screw-up must Linda’s kid be to not even be able to get into school even after his mom, POTUS’s chief of staff, makes an in-person visit to campus? Sorry, one well-deserving, high-achieving Stanford applicant! Have fun at UC Somewhere.Ĭlaire goes to Adam and his ludicrously gigantic loft space. “Rebellion on all fronts.” He does sneak in a win by having Gillian, Stanford valedictorian, make a call to get Linda’s kid into college. Yet again, Frank fumbles by underestimating the women in his life. I admire Zoe’s ability to turn a loss into a victory with five little words: “Tell Claire I said hi.” What’s so fascinating to me about this sequence, and the one right after it, is how quickly Zoe rebounds from being made to feel weak, childish, and threatened with Claire to acting confident, victorious, and calm with Frank, who shows up shortly after Claire leaves. Zoe is standing there in her blue pajama shorts and see-through sweater like a teenager as she learns that Claire has known about this fling from the start. In walks Claire! I love the look on Zoe’s face when Claire arrives, as if she is seeing for the first time how disgusting her apartment really is, realizing how it must look to someone like Claire. His pitch is that it’s mutually assured destruction. (On power! Not on alcohol, at the moment.) He threatens to go public with the Kern editorial. ![]() Peter Russo is also angry and a little too drunk. Even if you’re right ( … obviously, he’s not), this is always the wrong thing to say. Then he says perhaps the dumbest thing of all: “Is it the hot flashes?” ![]() Frank says the too-true thing he never should have said: It’s not as important for Claire to get what she wants for CWI as it is for Frank to get to the White House. Frank’s temper is long gone: “You encouraged them to defy me!” Claire, ever-consistent, insists that “I can’t operate based on plans you haven’t shared with me,” an echo of her claim in Chapter 1 that every time Frank shuts her out, the Underwoods are “in free fall.” She is so right about everything here: They haven’t made decisions together for a while, Frank has been using her like he uses everybody else, and how dare Frank storm into her office to point fingers when he is the one who exposed them. I think crossing Claire is an even bigger mistake than crossing Frank she just has this cool way about her, this unshakeable demeanor. As if we needed him to clarify, Frank tells us that he has “zero tolerance for betrayal.” Zoe, whose Slugline access apparently means she’s allowed to lurk in the halls of the Capitol so she can jump out and startle her Congressional fuck buddy, corners Frank to out Claire as the reason Frank lost the watershed bill vote.įrank silences the rogue Congressmen (no action figures required) and then lays into Claire. ![]()
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