![]() Mike and Scooter are determined to secure the artist-slash-activist’s endorsement, even though Mike’s campaign manager, Bradford, told them to steer clear of this thorny territory. Even after the formidable Victor somehow secures an extension of the investment window, it’s all a matter of sitting around, waiting for Mike and Scooter to answer their phones.Īnd where are those phones? In a secure bag at a remote church where the rapper Killer Mike is previewing his new album. ![]() The price of admission, however, exceeds that which Taylor and Philip are authorized to spend in the absence of their target - ahem, boss - Mike Prince, and his lieutenant, Scooter. It all looks innocent enough: Pivoting off a birthday balloon-inspired brainstorm by Dollar Bill, Taylor uncovers the opportunity to invest big in a helium processing start-up. It isn’t revealed until the closing moments of this week’s episode of “Billions,” but this is precisely the action driving most of this week’s financial activity on the Prince Cap side of the story. In the long term, you want to increase the power available to a member of your own inner circle to make mischief - enough power, you hope, to engineer the fatal mistake that will take your boss down for good. In the medium term, you’d like to generate doubt and dissension among his key employees, as well as elsewhere on the Street. In the short term, you need something that will cost your hated boss enough money to rattle his cage. So you generate some short-term, medium-term and long-term goals for this plan. It becomes clear that coming up with Plan C is up to you. You’re tired of waiting around for your performance-coach colleague, the ringleader of your band of mutineers, to generate a Plan B. Your Plan A, recruiting your even more dangerous old boss to stop him, has failed. Imagine, if you will, that you are a both a trader and a traitor - a high-powered executive at a major investment fund, looking to fatally undermine your own boss in order to stop him from becoming the president of the United States. Let’s do a little narrative reverse engineering, shall we? Season 7, Episode 5: ‘The Gulag Archipelago’
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