There’s always one question, above all else, that Chuck and Axe have to be asking themselves: who are they comfortable getting into bed with? It’s a question with a literal and figurative meaning. “Arousal Template,” perhaps more than any other episode, explores the way sex and power are intertwined, especially in this world of high finance and dirty politics. So, this episode isn’t just about Axe deciding whether to invest in a robotics company, or Chuck thinking about who he needs by his side for his next move on his way back to prominence, but also the ways that sexual relationships are all part of the cost-benefit analysis.
We’ll get to all the sex in a bit, but there are other things to cover first. Now that Axe has been warned by Grigor to lay off Taylor, he’s looking for ways to bleed the company dry in subtler ways. Or, so he says. Axe isn’t the most subtle guy, and when Taylor meets with a number of banks looking for money to use for the Quant program and is stonewalled by every single one, they all suspect that Axe is behind it. Sure enough, this is just the first stage of Axe’s plan. When he meets a very rich woman and fellow capitalist vulture named Rebecca at a robotics pitch, he begins to see another plan.
He’s in awe of Rebecca, and the surefire way she pokes holes in the investment pitch. He likes her ambition and her no-nonsense behavior, but he also likes that she represents an opportunity. So, after Wendy and Wags tell him that he can’t just be buying stakes in crappy companies simply to spite Taylor, he decides to pivot. He needs a true partnership with someone who can help him take Taylor down. He gets his employees to dig into Rebecca’s portfolio. We don’t know exactly what he wants, but he seems intrigued by a janitorial company called Eureka that’s skimming the wages of its immigrant workers.
With that knowledge in his back pocket, he sets up a dinner with Rebecca. The two instantly have chemistry; they’re basically the same person. They talk money and power and rooms full of people that don’t see how brilliant they are, and then Axe pitches his partnership. He wants in on some of what she’s got just to be a team. When she lists a few ideas, offhandedly, Axe jumps on Eureka. She seems suspicious that he wants that one so bad, but can’t quite figure out his motivations. One thing is clear though: she’ll let him in on Eureka, and she’ll sleep with him. There was just no way this meeting was ending without them going back to a penthouse and having sex. (Recap continues on next page)
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