Bobby has an axe to grind
Rockefeller.
Some of New Yorks finest institutions are inseparable from the rich-white-dude names attached to them.
Who is this Eads, anyway?
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Why do stiffs like him get a building?
Bobby Axelrod, hedge-fund magnate and local-pizzeria investor, is abillionaire.
Is that not good enough for you snobs?
And so Axe begins his quest to rename Eads Hall.
Thats the fun, splashy, Page Six-friendly diversion of tonights episode.
That is, until they get an call from the offices communications chief, Tara.
Axelrod spontaneously decides to donate a cool $1 million to whatever the galas cause is (…reading?
), earning the attention of everyone in the room including Steven Birch himself.
Then the phones start buzzing.
Everyone looks at their push notifications and sees the sameFinancial Journalnews alert.
Theres a criminal in the room, and amazingly its not Penn Jillette.
All eyes are on Birch while Axelrod has to hide his grin.
The next day at work, Axe Capital begins with business as usual.
One insecure analyst named Donnie Caan, though, is less cocksure.
I think Apple still has room to move north, he offers.
The room goes silent in awe of Donnies incompetence.
Everyones portfolios and trades are getting inspected!
Some respond with nonchalance along the lines of I got a tip.
Others are less cooperative and some downright hostile.
Dollar Bill keeps repeating lawyer, while Victor asks the auditors how muchtheymake.
Or as Wags says, We have to be more pure than the Virgin Mary before her first period.
It falls upon her to ensure that Victor doesnt raise a stink on his way out.
He knows things, after all.
You know who else knows things?
Hall, the Thomas Cromwell-ian fixer to to Axelrods Henry VIII.
NEXT: Axes revenge
So what is Rhodes up to?
Thats right, making a deal on the slam-dunk Birch case something Rhoades never does.
Hesthatintent on taking Axelrod down.
As he tells Connerty, its likeButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
So, Axelrod has Tara on the inside of Rhoades office, and Rhoades has Birchs cooperation against Axelrod.
The pawns are moving.
Now, back to Eads Hall.
Or at least thats the offer Axelrod makes to get the Eads family into the room.
Bobby, you see, has anaxeto grind (sorry).
The Eadses, desperate for a cash infusion, take the money with their tails between the legs.
Which, come to think of it, should be an issue, right?
Maybe, maybe not.
Guess well have to wait til next week to find out.
