![]() Doug can hear his heartbeat thudding in his ears. He’ll resign! He’ll make a statement! Claire is the one who finally says: “We need you to implicate yourself in the death of Zoe Barnes.” The cover Frank weaves is practically the truth: Doug was drinking, he was unstable, he did do everything for Frank, he was too loyal. Instead of murdering him, to my surprise, the Underwoods level with Doug: The conversation escalates, one line at a time, as Doug keeps underestimating what Frank and Claire are telling him to do. (I write: Sounds like someone is trying to find out if anybody is going to miss Doug, and if Frank won’t miss Doug, NO ONE WILL, for Doug has alienated everyone and also murdered that one girl he really liked, and it turns out the Moretti widow was just hate-fucking him that whole time.) Then, in the guise of light banter, Claire asks if Doug and his brother are in touch. Claire almost smiles: “Always has been.”Ĭlaire invites Doug to a dinner at the residence to “take a breath” and I write in my notes, MORE LIKE YOUR LAST BREATH, BUDDY, IT’S BEEN REAL, HELL IS LIKE A SADNESS CAVE YOU NEVER CAN ESCAPE. “Poor Doug.” “Yes,” Claire replies slowly, a scheme manifesting in the air between them. “Oh, Doug,” Frank says, with a sad shake of the head. (Later we find out that some of the evidence was a plant by Tom and Angela, put in the email on purpose so Sean would see it and tattle on the Herald to Frank.) But as far as Frank knows, the Herald has everything it needs to prove Doug and Frank killed Zoe Barnes. Or maybe it’s because Sean, Employee of the Month, shares the intel he stole from his sleeping girlfriend’s phone (not cool, Sean) about the Herald’s investigation. these days, but maybe he’s just feeling edgy because reporters keep asking him questions like, “Hey, you’re about to get impeached, is now really the best time for this super-involved military operation in Syria?” ![]() Frank loses his cool, as is his standard m.o. Ugh, on top of everything else, now she has to read his shitty first drafts? Tom has redacted large sections of the text - the parts that Claire told him and him alone - but naturally, the existence of this novel is bad news bears. ![]() Tom leaves Claire the worst gift any man can leave an ex: his manuscript. By episode’s end, both Claire and Frank’s truest loves will be hit, hard, by ruthless life-ruiner machine that is the Underwood marriage. It’s not just Cathy who gets kicked to the proverbial curb/bottom of the staircase. Now, was I expecting Frank to shove her down the stairs like Petra’s mom pushing Abuela in that episode of Jane the Virgin? I was not! Straight out of a telenovela, right? Frank can barely hide his non-panic as he yells out, “Help! Help! The Secretary has fallen!” I don’t know that we’ve seen Frank put those timely shove skills to use since he pushed Zoe onto the Metro tracks. ![]() So it was almost a comfort - nay, a joy - to watch Frank get back to doing what Frank does best: killing, maiming, and/or otherwise sidelining people who get in his way.Ĭathy is a formidable, intelligent woman who knows right from wrong and has never been the sycophant Frank wants her to be, so it was only a matter of time before the Underwoods got rid of her. He hates all of these things, and he isn’t particularly good at them. He even made room for awful-poet Tom in the residence. ![]() He participated in a rich-man reenactment of Into the Woods or whatever. We’ve spent most of this season watching Frank Underwood do so many things that he has no interest in, sucks at, or both. Michael Kelly as Doug, Neve Campbell as LeAnn. ![]()
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