In reality, however, Prince uses Chuck’s move to take credit for paying for the program without looking like a glory hog - after all, it was Chuck who disclosed how it was financed, not Prince. Chuck hoped that it would make Prince’s investors feel he had become distracted from their primary goal of making money. He has already accidentally burned himself and burnished Prince’s political fortunes by disclosing that Prince is the sole funder of his “Mike Money” universal basic income program. This is the kind of skulduggery Chuck has been searching for. After a little digging, Chuck discovers that the fleet has been used only a dozen times, to ferry black plastic cases to various Prince-owned businesses that happen to have vaults on the premises. Kate tells Chuck that while Mike has spun off his predecessor Bobby Axelrod’s bank from his holdings, he has, for some reason, maintained ownership of the armored-car company associated with the bank.
In exchange for his continued silence, he demands intel that will help him in his quest to thwart Prince’s political ambitions.Īnd at first, it seems she delivers. He goes so far as to dredge up in old case that makes her look soft on the Big Pharma authors of the opioid crisis, a case that will sink her political career the moment he makes it public. As Chuck’s former mentee turned Prince’s new legal eagle, she’s a prime target for Rhoades in his continuing drive to take Prince down. The place to start, I think, is with Kate Sacker.
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After bouncing back and forth to a series of flashbacks, it ends as Prince loses $3.5 billion but salvages his political career and Chuck is sprung from jail for the express purpose of ending that career. It begins with Chuck Rhoades and Mike Prince, along with their attorneys Ira Schirmer and Kate Sacker, dragged in for questioning by Chuck’s successor, Dave Mahar. I’ve been staring at my laptop screen for a long, long time, trying to figure out how best to explain this episode. Not because it’s a “Lost”-style mystery-box series, constantly introducing new known unknowns to be theorized about, but because its plotting is so dense and meticulous that if you miss a beat, you miss the point. There are times, and this is one of them, when “Billions” feels less like a show to recap than like a show to be decoded.