But religion, tradition, for most of my people, it’s in their bones. It’s funny that Frank is always playing someone, but right now, he really does mean everything he says to Petrov yet this is the time Petrov suspects foul play.Īnd I wonder what Michael would think if he knew Petrov does not believe in the very law that got Michael arrested: “Is the gay propaganda law barbaric? Yes, of course it is. This latest development - that Claire won’t abandon Michael - gives him one more reason to distrust the Underwoods’ motives. Petrov is wary from the start, and Claire having the bug from the prison cell removed does little calm him. Michael has been asking himself: Is he truly willing to die for this?Ĭlaire doubles down: She will not leave the cell without Michael. Another prisoner persevered, was to be force-fed, but died. He confides that he attempted a hunger strike and failed after six days, caving to his need for food. But, as Michael points out, Petrov’s law is “just words,” too. “You just have to say it.” She tells him they’re just words. “You don’t have to mean it,” she tells him. Gee, probably because they aren’t American citizens and Claire has no jurisdiction here? Just a wild guess.Ĭlaire thinks Michael is being childish, naïve, and impractical. He is being kind of a punk about it, wanting to know why Claire can’t liberate 27 Russians from their cells who were arrested alongside him.
Claire stresses to him that this is prerequisite for his release. It requires that he apologize, admit regret, the usual boilerplate.
The trouble with Michael begins almost immediately: He will not read the statement that has been crafted for him by state officials in both the U.S. There’s this ticking clock in the background, or maybe it’s a bomb: If Claire and Frank don’t make deadline, everything is going to explode. “Chapter 32” isn’t quite a true bottle episode, but it’s something close to it: We’re away from Washington, on someone else’s turf, for a limited period of time. (Even Lisa’s apartment and the doctor’s office feel cramped.) Everyone feels trapped, backed into a corner, even when they’re not, even when there’s an emergency exit they could take if they were willing, or able, to see it. Nearly every scene in this episode takes place in a small, enclosed space: Air Force One, a prison cell, Petrov’s office. Who would’ve thought Michael wouldn’t want to be released from prison? But it is Claire, it turns out, who has the uphill struggle. Surely they anticipated it would be Frank with the harder task of getting Petrov on his side. Upon arriving in Russia, we watch Claire and Frank enter their respective arenas: Claire goes into Michael Corrigan’s prison cell, Frank into Petrov’s office. In Scorpio, the character based on this friend died of AIDS.
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Left to right: Petrov, Claire, and Frank.ĭoes foreshadowing count as clunky if it seems inelegant in hindsight? I don’t know how to feel about what - looking back on this episode - reads like a forced conversation about the novelist’s friend who committed suicide.
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