“We should all be ashamed, every one of us. For now, they’re tracking geolocation patterns through the phones of legal gun owners to find out where Second Amendment–loving Americans “live, eat, shop, everything.” This information is used to predict who wants a firearm but doesn’t have one yet it is the scary political version of how Target can know you’re pregnant before you do based on what coupons you clip.Ĭlaire records a heartfelt (or is it?) robocall to drum up support for the gun bill. Robot data-stealing scheme, Aiden is communicating with Leann like a Cold War spy, leaving coffee cups, subtly labeled “SHAME,” with USB drives inside, on park benches. Meanwhile, Claire invites Kate to the White House for an interview - and what do you know! Austin is in a meeting with Frank in the Roosevelt Room, and the door’s wide open.Īs for our little Mr. “Another middle-aged white guy, underwhelming, unimaginative,” Frank says, ticking off Austin’s flaws one by one until only his middle finger is left raised high. Meanwhile, Frank’s doing the running-mate dance, letting the leadership think he’s going along with their choice: Senator Dean Austin from Ohio, a longtime friend of the NRA. “That was a mistake, Tom,” Doug says, presumably imagining how he would suffocate Tom with a coffee cup if it weren’t for all the pesky witnesses.) He is horrified to learn that all he gets is an excerpt and that it’s the same one the Conways have. (Doug, dead-eyed henchman, meets Tom at a diner. The Conways promise him the cover of Vanity Fair, but even with their connections, I find it difficult to believe such a deal could be made: Has an author ever been on the cover of VF before? No matter, because the Conways are on the cover this month - they pose for professionally lit selfies - and Tom is playing everyone off each other by releasing a sample chapter to both the Conways and the Underwoods.

He stole the almost-done draft from his dead friend.) (Never forget: He did not write Scorpio, the novel that made him famous. Tom’s not convinced - “I’m on the Marxist side of Democrat” - and says he’s not a “political tool,” which is hilarious because that is literally all we’ve really seen him be. Hannah, it turns out, is a genuine fan of Tom’s writing. He’s in some surprising company, too: The Conways sense an opportunity in having this unflattering obviously-about-the-Underwoods novel come out before the election. Looks like he turned his Underwood intel into a novel, though he doesn’t anticipate the Underwoods will be “too happy with it.” Another ghost is back from the Underwoods’ past: Tom, the writer who lurked around the White House (and, every now and then, Kate Baldwin’s hotel room) taking notes for a nonfiction book about America Works that he never got to write.

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