Tonight on Showtime the show Billions airs with an all-new Sunday, May 3, 2020, season 5 episode 1 called “The New Decas” and we have your weekly Billions recap below. On tonight’s Billions season 5 episode 1 premiere as per the Showtime synopsis, “Bobby Axelrod reaches a major milestone. Chuck struggles to get his bearings and he and Wendy navigate a new normal.
Tensions are high at Axe Cap now that Taylor Mason is back. Axe faces off against new rival Mike Prince. Taylor wrestles with a decision.”
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Chuck is at Charles’ wedding. In the meantime, somewhere off the Alaska Canada Highway, Bobby is in a tent with Mike and other men, they are both high, they run out of the tent and both vomit. Mike tells Bobby to feel it, there are a lot of heads to chop, a beautiful mess. Mike tells him that they should see if they can make it back.
At the wedding, music is playing, people are dancing. Chuck gets a text message from Kate Sacker saying she is there, he excuses himself from the table and goes to find her. He finds his son drinking alcohol and tells him to take it east, they can have wine at dinner.
Chuck finds Ms. Sacker, she says she is sorry to crash but she has what she needs to take down the crypto mine takedown; once he gives the ok they will get in position and move first thing in the morning. Chuck says click, click, boom, go ahead.
Charles asks Wendy to dance, Chuck smiles and the guys at his table tease him about it. Charles tells Wendy he is going to miss her. Chuck walks up and asks if he can cut in. Chuck tells Wendy that he got up to save her.
Champagne is brought out for the guests, it is time for Chuck’s speech. He says, “I was speaking to his mother the other day about how hard it would be, to honestly and appropriately salute my father on this blessed union and she said, you do not have to stand in front of a group of people and say nice things about that man. You do not have to valorize him. Speak your truth son. As most people know I do not have a problem making a speech that goes against convention and breaks the tide of expected so that I may speak the unvarnished, and that is what I have decided to today, so, buckle up, because I am not going to say nice things about my dad, I don’t want to.
You all know what I would say, you all know the truth, instead I want to celebrate his magnificent bride Roxanne. She has done what I thought was impossible, turned my dad into a big pile of mush. She defanged the old wolf and made him into one of those build-a-bears, a red valentine for a heart and the fur to hold to for a hug, certainly got him going to build-a-bear for his little daughter. And Roxanne and her people have taken him in as their own as much as we consider her ours. That is the wonderful thing about family, it lives and breaths and contracts, it only expands as ours has. I can’t believe a man could get so lucky, I am talking about me not him because I have someone who loves him as much as I do. Someone to share him with, here is to you both.”
Mike and Bobby get on their motorcycles and leave the tent.
The next morning, Chuck looks at texts from the evening before and they are from a frantic Wendy, Kevin was drinking, he was in and out of consciousness and Wendy wanted to take him to the ER. Chuck runs to grab a cab. Chuck shows up at Wendy’s house, she tells him that he is sleeping it off, there is nothing for him to do. He says he doesn’t know how he missed her calls. She says she knows what he was doing, it is the only time he falls off the grid. He says he had no way to know how that travesty of a wedding was going to hit him.
He claims to have been totally alone and he didn’t know there would be an emergency. She tells him off and says he is a prisoner of his appetites. She tells him that it was a mistake to call him last night for help, it was her night with the kids, she should have taken care of it. Furthermore, the separation has convinced her that she wants a divorce and he has to make a public statement. He looks at her and tells her that he is on the brink of huge change, he is going to force himself to evolve. She says she believes that he believes that.
The warehouse is shut down, Chuck is interviewing two of the men that were arrested and he tells them that their little operation was running so much juice that the entire town ran clean out of electricity, and had to go on the open market to buy more from the grid, it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and drove the entire town’s rate up. Taxpayers eating that burden because of them. Chuck says they are there to find out who they are working for. Chuck mentions Axelrod, they say yes, but they didn’t deal with him directly. The guys end up telling Chuck it was the town’s supervisor that was the middleman.
Chuck is back in his office, he tells Kate that he knows he has to bring her in, he is working on it. She says he doesn’t need to trust her, but he has to trust her.
At Axe Cap, Wendy holds a townhall and nobody has an interest in it. She tells them that they are acting like world-class shmucks. Everyone starts arguing, Wendy can’t get a word in until she slams the phone down on the desk. She tells them all they have homework, find tree things that will make the place better. Taylor tells Wendy she should have this conversation with Axe.
Bobby and Mike stop on the side of the road for a rest. Mike tells him they took nature’s antidepressant. Bobby says he thought everything would make him feel good. Mike says he has an invitation to do a Vanity Fair issue, all the rare few who have hit the 10 billion dollar mark. Bobby says the cover is valuable real estate, but they are here, and they are going to see it through, 3400 miles to go. Mike says someone else might get the cover, Bobby thinks about it. We then see Bobby and Mike all shaved and dressed up for the Vanity Fair issue. Michael Prince and Scooter walk in.
Time for photos, both Prince and Axe didn’t know that each other would be there. They both smile along with the other billionaires for pictures. Bobby gets a call, he tells Mike that he has a problem upstate in the mining town, he can’t stay for the portrait or the interview – he tells him to schedule it for the next day.
Mike speaks to Bobby about the crypto mine action, it was done by Chuck Rhoades. Bobby says to minimize damage and make sure they get set up elsewhere. Bobby gives them orders for everyone to stand up. Bobby calls Chuck and says he needs to see him, now. Chuck says no and hangs upon him.
Chuck goes to see Taylor and tells her that he got a call from Axe, and he has him in a Peruvian necktie. He tells him what he did to cost Axe a lot of money. Chuck tells her that she does things to fight boredom, like him, and people like them have to destroy strong people like Axe.
Bobby is the office with Wendy, he tells her about his trip and what he saw was ugliness, there was no feeling that he won. He asks her if it is a game that can be won. She says it is up to him.
Bobby is with Mike, Bryan says they picked up the cryptos and are squeezing them. Bobby looks online at the Vanity Fair magazine, Mike Spence got himself on the cover. Bobby is furious, he tells Bryan and Mike they need to get close to him to take him down. Bobby calls Mike and tells him it is a good looking cover, but he doesn’t need that kind of press. Then he tells Mike that they should have that fireside chat.
A woman comes to the office to see Wendy, it’s Becky Lynch, a professional wrestler, and they both do a little pretend fight. Becky gives them some advice.
Taylor and Bobby speak, he tells her that she needs to be there, to feel alive. He tells her to fight off Rhoades.
Chuck is furious, Wendy posted the press release on the divorce and did it without his consent.
Bobby drops by Chuck’s house, he says he brought him something meaningful, books on the second world war. Bobby tells him it is an act of friendship. He asks him to drop the case on the crypto mine. Chuck says he can’t drop it, it is too far along. Best he can do, is making it a civil and not criminal action. It will cost money in fines.
Taylor is dressed up in safety gear, she is holding a sledgehammer and smashes the whole room she is in.
THE END!
