Oppenheimer’s illicit love becomes one of the atom bomb’s first casualties.
Ill die if you leave.
You murdered me dozens of times.
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Her appeal is more than physical.
She intrigues his imagination with this Freudian gobbledygook and indulges his intellectual side with poetry.
She tells Oppenheimer to hold her down under the water.
More foreshadowing, people.
Fritz (Michael Chernus) informs him that theres a complication about the test-site property.
We need to buy this ladys farm so we can blow it up.
A judge has her support and wont sign off on the eminent domain takeover.
Isaacs tells Fritz to tell the judge to wipe his ass with the declaration of ownership.
But all Charlie wants to do is focus on the science.
By phone, Oppenheimer tells him: If it helps to pretend youre me, pretend.
Its what I do.
She wanted that job, too.
So Crosley scores misery points on both Hogarth and her by getting reassigned.
They have a moment after Abby kills a terrifyingly large spider on her bed.
Kitty is all alone and going through false contractions.
She confesses that Oppenheimer is leaving her.
Abby takes this message and immediately launches into Lady Macbeth mode.
This is your chance.
Its not just his family hes abandoning.
Hes leaving the project.
Hes dropping the reins in your lap.
The fate of the war.
Youre already doing Oppenheimers job, its time you had the title.
In Texas, a prison door opens.
Frank Winter (John Benjamin Hickey) finally gets to walk free.
You got some pretty fancy friends, says the warden.
Clean yourself up for Chrissakes.
Liza (Olivia Williams) is waiting for him.
Is the war over?
Its the only reason he can imagine for his release.
Yours is, she says.
(Those are some fancy friends.)
On the radio, D-Day is unfolding.
Its June 6, 1944
Hitler will dig in, probably for months.
V-2s over New York.
Theyll say anything to build that thing faster.
Ever wondered why youre the only man for the job?
But after a feat of stubbornness, Liza caves.
Okay shell take him back, and drop him off.
It sets the schedule back.
He wants to get Oppenheimer on the phone and discovers hes back, touring potential test sites.
Isaacs finds him out in the desert and scolds him for being an absentee landlord.
I cant do my job when Im doing yours.
Dont you want my job?
Thats what everyone think, including my wife, but theyre wrong.
I want you to want your job.
Oppenheimer stares out into the mountain horizon.
This is where it will happen.
Where the caldera opens up and swallows the world.
Its your test, Robert.
Ill be alerting General Groves that youll be my successor.
He doesnt care if it sets the project back.
Charlie suggests his mistress, the communist, is planting Stalinist flowers in his head.
He tells both his wife and Col. Darrow about Oppenheimers plan.
Abby is the only one willing to take action.
Tatlock is no fool.
And she figures out fast this is no survey.
I know what you are, Abby says.
Seducing him with pornographic sonnets and Freudian nonsense.
Hes about to have another child and you want to break him away from his family.
What do you mean another child?
He lies to his wife.
Why shouldnt he lie to you?
He doesnt love you.
Youre just a rag.
And you will never see my husband again, Abby says and disconnects the line.
NEXT: Jeans fate
But then…maybe Col. Darrow did take action.
Its hard to know for sure.
Charlie told him if Oppenheimer leaves, it will slow the schedule three months.
By next summer, Washington, D.C.s a crater and Heisenbergs on the cover ofTimemagazine, Isaacs says.
Does Darrow make a call?
Do some black ops G-men pay a visit to Tatlock.
Put Jean on the phone, Oppenheimer snaps.
Outside The Hill, Liza drops Frank off.
He walks toward the gate, then turns around and comes back.
Now its your choice.
If you think we should go to Princeton, well go.
Well go right now.
Were not sure what shes going to choose.
At night, Oppenheimer is distraught and silently closes his door on Charlie when he approaches.
Meanwhile, he has a newborn across The Hill in the hospital.
Kitty has given birth.
Back at Isaacs home, a door opens as he pours a drink.
Frank Winter walks in.
I thought you were dead, Charlie says.
