He is told by his doctor that because of the nature of his injuries - the technical term, I believe, is a “Hollywood fracture,” wherein a person’s arms and legs may be damaged but the face, that all-important face, remains unscathed - he can look forward to the fact that “motor skills will be a struggle and your emotions will be unpredictable.”Įverything that happens with Doug in this sequence, and in fact for the rest of the episode, can be prefaced with an exaggerated, say-it-with-a-heavy-sigh-and-an-eye-roll of course. And so we are treated to, I kid you not, 27 uninterrupted minutes of Doug Stamper, recovering like the tortoise ran that race (slowly, steadily). This is what we get from the rest of this episode of House of Cards: Doug Stamper.ĭid you spend the HoC off-season wondering about this gent’s whereabouts? Did you assume, as I did, that he was dead in the ditch where Rachel left him, yet another supporting character to be tossed aside when his usefulness ran out? A recapper can hope, but nope: Stamper lives. Ruthlessness and ridiculousness in equal measure. Symbolic acts of destruction foreshadowing real acts of destruction. This is what we want from House of Cards. And you have to be a little human when you’re the president.” “But I have to do these sorts of things now. “Oh, I wouldn’t be here if I had a choice,” he tells us, waiting approximately 30 seconds before breaking that fourth wall. And by “pay respects,” I mean literally piss on his dead dad’s tombstone. He’s in town to pay respects to his dearly departed father. President Frank Underwood steps out of the car with flowers in his arms. Fade in on a peaceful country lane in Gaffney.
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