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Why give away 5 millions for nothing?


This show is getting more and more stupid.

Why would Axe give Wendy 5 million dollars for being sloppy with her computer and treating security like a seven year old? Or was it because she didn't understand the damage she's done? Or was it because she never seems to be working with anything? Or was it just because the writers have no brains? Or is Axe the most stupid man ever lived?

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apology for not trusting her and the way for writers to return her in the future in some role.
I don't believe she is out from the show.

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apology for not trusting her and the way for writers to return her in the future in some role.


No doubt they will show her in her new job and axe/chuck trying to get her back.



Humankind cannot bear very much reality. ~T.S. Eliot

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apology for not trusting her


this is it in a nutshell

imagine being bobby's loyal employee and he tosses those s&m pics up on the wall in front of her and she didn't do a single thing to deserve it

he was also hoping to keep her as an employee

something tells me that recording on Wendy's cell isn't deleted forever

nothing is deleted forever. especially from those antiquated "smart" phones

if the recording isn't on the phone itself it's sitting on some apple server somewhere

i know i'm all over the place here but there's also a possibility that Bobby was recording that little conversation he had with Chuck

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i think it is deleted.
The way they ended season 1 i think writers will come up with a new "game" in season 2 and not revive old plot items.

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Totally deleted

No way the revive that for season 2

We need new plots

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Don't know but if you find him or her hook a sister up!

I can't hear you over the volume of my hair.

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5 millions is like 5 T for a normal person for Axe..

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More like 50¢.



"When all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done."

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To be fair more like $25 for a regular person

It still cost him something

Likr a tiny nudge

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Money like Axe's is hard for folks to really understand.

Assume Axe is worth $2,000,000,000 since the show is called Billions with an S (We know he is worth MUCH MUCH more but let's use this to illustrate).

For him to give away $5,000,000 would cut into his worth by .0025%.

That would be like someone worth $100,000 giving away $250.

It sounds strange to say but $5,000,000 is nothing.

Take Bill Gates' net worth of $85,000,000,000 for example.

A measly 1% interest yearly on that net worth is $850,000,000/year.

$2,328,767/day

$97,032/hour

$1,617/minute

$27/second

How much do you make per second?

My point is that all is relative. Even money.

You asked why? Why not? Chump change.







"When all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done."

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I was surprised by this question...👻
Main reason was clearly to convince her (and saying sorry in a pathetic way but this doesn't matter at all). He adores her, depending on her and losing her was not really a part of his plan.
On the other hand, 5 mills for a character like Axe is like giving away a box of matches. Or less. So why not?

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It was apology money for Acelrod thinking she was disloyal and somehow purposely went behind his back to leak the private info he shared to her..............she proved she was loyal, and that her husband stole the info from her.

In case you forgot, she was well-established as very valuable to the company as performance improvement specialist (head fixer).

The 5 million is not substantial to him, but to her it sort of is.

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