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Usually,Industryis a show where the business particulars dont matter all that much.
But this time, I guess its essential we know what Harper is dealing with.
So, without further ado, here are the basics of where were at.
(Did I ever imagine the month I spent interning in a Japanese securities firm would come in handy?
No, but life is a rich tapestry.)
In the last episode, Eric and Harper were stressing about a block trade.
In this case, the block trade is for shares of a health-care company called Rican.
Reminder: Jesses buying was contingent on the involvement of a socially conscious fund manager named Anna.
(Whether funds canreallybe socially conscious under capitalism is a different question.)
Originally, Pierpoint organized the shoot to celebrate Felim buying the Rican shares.
Wales turns out to be a high-stakes comedy of errors, some less funny than others.
Jesse spends the entire time ripping into Felim and all the classist Britishisms surrounding the hunt.
Harper is excluded from the Pierpoint pitch deck and put into a tiny room facing the trash cans.
Jesse and Harper are bad at shooting.
At a later social gathering, Harper confronts Eric and asks what hes keeping from her.
Harper returns to Jesse and tells him that the short-term strategy here would be to sell to Felim.
Hed make a profit, and everyone at the firm would be happy.
But Harper has a different, dicier long-term strategy.
Remember that socially conscious fund manager Anna?
If it cant do that, it wont get approval in the U.K. market.
Instead, Harper returns to London early and is back in the office.
With Rishis help, she executes a sale.
Jesses followed through on her suggestion and bought the controlling share in Rican from Anna.
In Yasmin-land, things arent going so well.
But her father makes it clear that he never took Yasmins proposal seriously and wasted Celeste and Yasmins time.
They hit it off as Yasmin awkwardly drinks from a very full glass of red wine.
She doesnt believe the talk about breaking down silos and Pierpoint being one happy family.
Her clients are her clients, and she doesnt appreciate Yasmin bringing Kenny into the equation with Rocco.
The two stare at each other and the music swells.
Instead, the two end up bursting into laughter.
Whats the show trying to say about substances, if anything?
Are we heading toward a Yasmin has a coke problem plotline?
c’mon no.
Gus again is peripherally involved in this episode.
This time, hes taken along to Wales by Jesse to tutor Jesses pouty son Leo.
I think the show is not doing enough with Gus.
No pogsboy911 this episode.
DVD + Harper = cute?
What do we think?
On that note, is Harper trying to replace Eric with Bloom?
But is Bloom really up to that task?
Honestly, Im just waiting for Bloom to screw Harper over.
Because some commenters brought this up in theepisode-one recap we got a Greg cameo!!
In this episode, Rishi and Harper do coke off of a novel that Greg wrote.
Apparently, Greg left banking for book writing!
Good for you, Greg!
