Which you do, even though she tells you that her dad has had a reprieve and implies (with a very eloquent glance) that she thinks you're less of a man for bending the knee to these two power-mad nutjobs. (You're an Englishman in an American series, remember?) But, ultimately, you go along with the loony scheme because the Underwoods have leverage: your new Colombian fiancee's dad is a human rights journalist in Bogota who will be killed unless you corroborate the lie. 'Strewth! This is a fine 'ow d'you do, ain't it right an' proper?' you tell yourself. Moreover, it doesn't depict Claire at all. Claire and Frank insist you must change your story and tell the press that, in fact, you leaked this second photo because your career is on the skids and you needed the publicity. The very idea!īut days later a second photo appears on the front page of some other rag featuring Claire in the shower, purportedly taken by you after some jolly old Bob's your uncle. You go along with the lie, for the sake of a quiet life, and tell the hacks that the photo didn't depict Claire in post-coital slumber after some adulterous slap-and-tickle with you. Only that way will the sex scandal be defused.

That photo, you must tell the press, was taken by invitation in the conjugal bed in Washington at the invitation of Frank Underwood who, so the story goes, thinks his wife looks adorable when she's asleep and wants you to memorialise that scene in a photograph. What is important is that Claire wants you to lie. Worse, it's your picture that the enemies of Claire's husband have procured, and by such disgusting means that, if you thought about it for a second, it would make you despair for the future of the self-styled world's greatest democracy.īut that's not important now. The papers have just splashed a picture of her in bed in your New York loft-style apartment. A year ago you had a thing with Claire Underwood, who is now the second lady of the United States. You're a not unattractive, craggy English photojournalist called Adam Galloway, who's made a terrible error in growing that moustache. Stuart Jeffries' episode eight blogpost is here Please do not leave spoilers for future episodes if you have seen further ahead. Spoiler alert: we are recapping House of Cards on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

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