Hello and welcome to the recapables. I am not Bill Simmons nor my Mallory Rubin. I am Sean

Fennesse, editor-in-chief of The Ringer. And I'm here to talk about Billions with Not Mallory

Rubin and Not Bill Simmons. It's Allison Herman Steffred. Earthringer, Allison, what's up?

Not Mallory Rubin. It's actually my official name. If only we could all have that. We're

talking today about the fifth episode of the third season of Billions.

Let's do this thing.

You got me.

I'm here with Dollar Bill.

He wants to short Mendem Pharmaceuticals.

They're about to draw the ire of the libtards for cruelty and the street for missing targets.

You use that word so I feel rage and then tell myself not to allow that to make me predisposed against your idea.

Smart.

And would work if I hadn't studied a grippa, which I have.

Regardless, I support this of compliance approves.

Fuck yeah.

Okay, Allison, we find ourselves nearly at the halfway mark of what has been, I would say, a very plot heavy, very fascinating, very pop culture-filled third season of billions.

Normally in this spot, we do the 42-second recap. I am incapable of doing that, so I'm going to throw it right to you.

42 seconds on the clock. Break down for me what happened in this episode.

Okay, I've been doing my vocal exercises.

Chuck and Axe, race to get their hands at a key piece of evidence in Axe's upcoming trial,

which is a sample slide of the toxin acts used to poison planted ice juice drinkers,

which is in the possession of an oncologist who may recognize from season one, Dr. Gilbert.

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