Important talks, it seems, have to take place in restaurants. If not, they're are up to nothing.
After delivering the episode title's punch (at a private BBQ, not a restaurant), Axe sits with a reporter who is about to air the phone video on the physical exchange. The place is, of course, Axe's favorite Italian. First, they listen to a Mafia-like singer, and you may think Francis Ford Coppola co-wrote this scene. Then, Axe offers the reporter a job opportunity, and the video is gone.
First, the meeting with several guys from the FBI and the attorney's office is virtually useless to get an informant to deliver incriminating quotes from Axe. But later, the intimidation in a shady restaurant, which is a personal pick by Chuck for this kind of pep talk, proves to be effective. At least, the informant handing over data says so.
After an evening with befriended couple in, again, an Italian restaurant (but high-priced), the Rhoades learn a lot about love and togetherness, the takeaway insight being: Share your password. And, afterwards, Wendy is disgusted with Chuck and gets her mojo back.
Otherwise, the episode is in the typical 'retarding momentum' phase after the climax of Ep. 6. Some action is going back and forth, but there's only minor development as in the segment on the informant or when Chuck gets this sleazy SEC guy off his back.
Lying is at the centre of some of the relationships: whistle-blower to his boss, reporter to public, U.S. attorney to his deputy, and, of course, Chuck to Wendy.
Also, we learn some new things about the main characters:
After delivering the episode title's punch (at a private BBQ, not a restaurant), Axe sits with a reporter who is about to air the phone video on the physical exchange. The place is, of course, Axe's favorite Italian. First, they listen to a Mafia-like singer, and you may think Francis Ford Coppola co-wrote this scene. Then, Axe offers the reporter a job opportunity, and the video is gone.
First, the meeting with several guys from the FBI and the attorney's office is virtually useless to get an informant to deliver incriminating quotes from Axe. But later, the intimidation in a shady restaurant, which is a personal pick by Chuck for this kind of pep talk, proves to be effective. At least, the informant handing over data says so.
After an evening with befriended couple in, again, an Italian restaurant (but high-priced), the Rhoades learn a lot about love and togetherness, the takeaway insight being: Share your password. And, afterwards, Wendy is disgusted with Chuck and gets her mojo back.
Otherwise, the episode is in the typical 'retarding momentum' phase after the climax of Ep. 6. Some action is going back and forth, but there's only minor development as in the segment on the informant or when Chuck gets this sleazy SEC guy off his back.
Lying is at the centre of some of the relationships: whistle-blower to his boss, reporter to public, U.S. attorney to his deputy, and, of course, Chuck to Wendy.
Also, we learn some new things about the main characters:
- Axe can be subdued, despite all the efforts of his side-kick Wags and despite having been awarded the Oscar for best performance of a slap at a BBQ.
- Chuck is a motivational speaker of sorts. A variation of the Keating manoeuvre (http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0004782/? ref_=tt_cl_t1) does the trick (not on but at the desk).
- Wendy has moments in which she doesn't know all the answers.
- Lara used to soften up Axe, shies from intimidating a female friend and, as a consequence of this, tries to rough up her sons.
