Besides, we should always’ve recognized that in one of many best-written reveals on tv, issues won’t ever stay unsaid for lengthy. So this week, when Tom tried to make a quiet exit from his personal pre-election social gathering, citing exhaustion, it was no shock that the pair ended up in a knock-down, drag-out verbal combat. Out on their house balcony, with a crowd of influential folks simply on the opposite aspect of the door, the 2 have the kind of argument you solely have as soon as — and the kind of argument that serves as the best hits assortment of each different argument you’ve got ever had earlier than. 

Tom brings up Shiv’s affair, her unwillingness to have youngsters, and that point she was a bit too desirous to throw him to the wolves in the course of the cruises scandal. Shiv brings up Tom’s poorly timed engagement, his strategic causes for marrying her, and that fateful betrayal in Italy that left her with out a dad to show to for the final months of his life. Then issues actually begin to get ugly.

The elephant within the room on this scene is Shiv’s being pregnant, which remains to be within the early levels (she had a cellphone name a few 20-week appointment a couple of days earlier). Tom, satisfied that Shiv is as chilly because the scorpion paperweight he gave her earlier within the episode, tells her he thinks she’s incapable of affection and should not have youngsters. Shiv begins to cry and tells him that is not good to say, however by the dialog’s finish, she appears to have gotten in simply as many digs as her husband. “I’ve given you infinite approval and it does not fill you up since you’re damaged,” he says. “I do not such as you,” she solutions. “I do not even care about you. I do not care.” They go away the dialog with Shiv’s secret nonetheless intact.