EP 05 — Theme Stated
Ten thousand square feet, two people, one dead star.
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TLDR
Cope drives home to Buckhead, that beautiful mausoleum where he and Margaux sleep behind separate doors and call it a marriage. He does a quiet little bump of cocaine before his daughter shows up, because nothing says loving father like chemical courage.
Viv comes to fight about his speech trashing the AURELIUS AI, and she nails him to the wall: he doesn't hate the machine running his company, he just wants the chair for himself. Margaux confirms the diagnosis, Cope charms his way sideways out of it, and Viv leaves with that specific kind of disappointment that only your own kid can hand you.
He can't stomach the house after that, so he ends up at the Waffle House on Ponce where Darlene brings his usual and a little grace he didn't earn. He sits in the fluorescent hum scribbling campaign notes, and somehow that greasy booth is the closest thing to home he's got.
The moral of the story: You can't outrun a machine when the thing you're really fighting for is the throne, kid.
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