There was never going to be a happy ending, but damn.
Legacy is all that matters to Arthur Sackler. It’s so important to him and so embedded in Richard’s psyche that we get a whole flashback scene to one Christmas in the 1950s dedicated to it. No wonder Richard doesn’t take his father’s advice seriously in the era of Oxy — Arthur’s tirade against gifts from Tiffany & Co.
Glen’s rock-bottom moment comes as he betrays the people and things that mean the most to him, pawning his garage’s tools and equipmenthis wedding ring, all for pennies on the dollar, then loses his cash in a mugging at the clinic parking lot. The worst of it comes as he chases a lovely and seemingly heartfelt speech about how much he loves Ty with a plea for money or a connection to a dealer. Ty’s howls of incensed, wounded grief chase Glen out the door and back to his pickup.
What destroys the last vestiges of Shannon’s commitment to the cause is the next big bacchanal of clueless greed and inhumanity that Richard is insisting the company provide at their sales conference in Miami. He’s been taking a lot of heat from Arthur’s ghost lately, getting an earful from the Great Beyond about how his anti-lawsuit responses are insufficiently tough, how he needs to focus on the family legacy, and how the big Miami party is a bad look.
Britt’s unraveling leads smoothly to my favorite, most telling line of the series, as a shaken Mortimer screams at Richard about Brownlee’s lawsuit: “You didn’t take them seriously, and now these hillbillies are going to try to disembowel us!” It’s an elegantly economical distillation of the Sackler family’s arrogance and deeply offended realization that they’re being treated — gasp!!! — as though they’re not above the law.
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