His interest in Wendy is proving to be self-destructive in a way we haven’t seen with him before.
Let’s start with Chuck.
Some students revolt, upset about the morality of looking for a crime with no real cause.
The ones who stay don’t find anything useable anyway.
Luckily for Chuck, Krakow is very susceptible to persuasion.
So, Chuck and Kate set him up.
They meet with him and insinuate that there’s a probe into alleged corruption amongst cabinet members.
It’s a small win for Chuck, but it hasn’t totally killed Axe’s ambitions.
Chuck spends much of the rest of the episode conflicted about helping his father get a kidney.
Even that’s too far for Chuck, and too far forBillions.
Moving over to Axe Cap, Axe is spiraling out of control.
He’s impossibly excited about the potential here, as is everyone else.
It’s a truly terrible move, no matter how it’s sliced.
Axe thanks Taylor for the stability and clarity, but his goodwill doesn’t last long.
He doesn’t care to hear about the potential long term growth and profitability.
Again, the show seems to be pushing Axe into new territory.
He can’t conceive of Prince having any good intentions because he can’t imaginehimselfever having good intentions.
He views everyone as an enemy operating on the same vengeful wavelength that he does.
But Prince might be different.
Wendy and Taylor seem to think so.
It looks like Axe is finally coming unhinged and letting his ego get the best of him.
He’s always been able to rein himself in when his behavior threatened to damage his business.
Or rather, Wendy has always been there to help him do that.
The war between Axe and Prince, and Axe and himself, is just heating up.
