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You want a man to take charge when it suits you? Without me, youĪre nothing, he says. He behaves appallingly, throwing the kind of tantrum we’ve seem him pitch a few times before this season. When he gets back at the White House later on, she is sitting in his chair in the Oval Office. Knowing that people have noticed he is flying solo, he makes up an excuse about her being under the weather. With Claire holed up in the White House, Frank is forced to give his victory speech alone. “We haven’t lost we are just getting started,” she says. Signaling what could be in store for next season, we see Dunbar vowing to fight on in the primary. The last we will ever see of Rachel is her head being covered in dirt as Doug fills in her grave.īack in Iowa, Frank beats Dunbar. It doesn’t take long for him to turn the van around and finish the deed. So when he drives off leaving Rachel behind and alive, We weren’t really supposed to believe he would go through all that and just let her go, right? This new, supposedly softened Doug with a burst of conscience. Standing there in that hole meant for Rachel, he stops But Doug pulls the van off the highway and takes it down a long dirt road into the middle of the desert where he starts digging her grave. Just let me go, and you’ll never see meĪgain, she says. She was so relieved to find out she hadn’t killed him. She tells him she knows he doesn’t have it in him. She even has a new name: Cassie Lockhart. We’re supposed to believe that she was just about He puts a rag over her mouth, throws her in the back of his van and ties her up. In New Mexico, Doug snatches Rachel as she’s leaving work late one night. He expects her to fly back to Iowa to join him, but she never Without Claire by his side, Frank seems lost too. The episode cuts between scenes of Doug stalking his prey, Frank, in Iowa, campaigning just before caucus day and Claire in Washington, stewing in her unhappiness. Once he gets to New Mexico, he pays cash for a beat up van and buys some bleach and a shovel at the local hardware store. And he’s going to finally go through with killing her. He forces Gavin to hand over Rachel’s whereabouts.
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He’s smashed up Gavin, who was in hiding in Venezuela, pretty good.