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TV<\/a>TV<\/a>The season finale of HBO\u2019s money-minded saga is all about connections\u2014and isolation\"\"HBO\/Ringer illustration\"\"<\/a>By Katie Baker<\/a>March 2, 2:06 am UTC \u2022 17 min\"\"<\/p>\n

For Marisa Abela, who plays high-society schemer Yasmin in HBO\u2019s money-minded saga Industry, it\u2019s not unusual to sputter a little bit at a new script. Even when Abela knows the broad strokes of her character\u2019s journey in advance. \u201cInevitably, when I read a scene, I\u2019m always like: \u2018Oh my God, what?!\u2019\u201d Abela told me earlier this winter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This season, for example, Abela knew that \u201cthere was a sort of, like, Ghislaine Maxwell\u2013type story line coming in\u201d for her character. (This wasn\u2019t exactly a mystery: The convicted felon and Jeffrey Epstein companion is a posh publishing heiress whose father died in 1991 after falling from a yacht named the Lady Ghislaine, while Yasmin is a posh publishing heiress whose father died in Season 3 of Industry after jumping from a yacht named the Lady Yasmin.) \u201cBut I had no idea\u2014we were at Episode 7,\u201d Abela recalled, \u201cand I was like: When is this going to happen, and how does this happen?\u201d<\/p>\n

As we see in \u201cBoth, And,\u201d the eighth and final episode of Industry\u2019s fourth season, it all happens in Paris, near the end of an eventful episode for Yasmin. She initiates a divorce from her husband, Henry, the disgraced CEO of now multiple failed companies. She begins working with a suave authoritarian political candidate who pals around with Peter Thiel. She hosts a dinner party with evolutionary biologists and Nazis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And then she organizes a cadre of young women\u2014ranging from her ex-husband\u2019s former household servant to a girl we\u2019ve been told is all of 15\u2014to dress up and entertain the male guests afterward, in ways that we thankfully don\u2019t see on-screen but are nevertheless hard to stomach. It\u2019s a vicious plot development for Yasmin\u2014she\u2019s trying to make connections while losing her own sense of self. \u201cThe image that I have,\u201d Abela told me about Yasmin in the season finale, \u201cis like, those little fish that swim next to big sharks so the shark doesn’t eat them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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It seems so very long ago that Yasmin was throwing a far more normal party. In the Season 4 premiere, corrupt Tender CFO Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella) had sidled up to contrarian investor Harper Stern (Myha\u2019la) to ask: \u201cHave you ever felt alone in a group?\u201d As a pickup line, it worked: Those two lone wolves shacked up for a night. But more broadly, it also works as a through line across Industry\u2019s four seasons. (Last week, a fifth and final season of the show was ordered by HBO.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Back in Season 1, Harper mused to a colleague that \u201csometimes the loneliest place can be in a room with the people who are supposed to love you.\u201d In Season 3, Harper called Yasmin \u201cthe loneliest girl to ever have a boat named after her.\u201d In multiple drunken heart-to-hearts this season, Harper and Yasmin bonded over their shared isolation. And in \u201cBoth, And,\u201d just about every character in Industry winds up on their own. Whitney, scorned by Henry, is effectively sentenced to life on the lam, hiding in a crowd for survival. Henry, divorced by Yasmin, faces reporters outside a courthouse, about as \u201calone in a group\u201d as it gets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And in an interview with the reporter Patrick Radden Keefe (poor Jim Dycker from FinDigest was right again<\/a>!) in the final scene of the episode, Harper is asked: \u201cDoes being so uniquely right when everyone was so totally wrong feel like vindication, or does it ultimately make you feel very alone?\u201d and she doesn\u2019t really have a definitive answer. \u201cBoth\/and,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

The Bottom Line<\/p>\n

So what happened in this episode?<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth, And\u201d begins with a montage. There\u2019s our girl Jennifer Bevan squaring off on Politics Hour with the handsome neofascist Sebastian Stefanowicz, telling the crowd that \u201cTender is not an anomaly\u201d and \u201cwe must start acknowledging capitalism is as extractive as it is creative.\u201d There\u2019s Ferdinand in the Tender offices, monitoring the situation as investigators clear out everyone\u2019s desks. There\u2019s Harper, still buzzing from her night out with Yasmin last episode, ripping cigs and typing an investor letter about Tender that begins: \u201cI write with a fierce sense of bloody vindication in the face of institutional denial.\u201d (Same!) There\u2019s Whitney, alive and gluing a wig onto his face, and Tony Day, being perp walked out of his office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s Henry and Yasmin, having yet another disagreement in their bedroom. Except that this time it\u2019s not the screaming-crying-threatening kind\u2014which is how you know it\u2019s bad bad. Back in Episode 2 of this season, during one of those fights that was the screaming-crying-threatening kind, Yasmin told Henry that if he didn\u2019t take Whitney\u2019s Tender offer, \u201cwe are going to have a serious conversation. And it won’t be emotional like this. It will be fucking practical.\u201d And practical is exactly the tone of their end-of-relationship conversation. (Although that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s dull: I sputter laughed at the way Yasmin haughtily responds, \u201c… of course I can!\u201d when Henry pleads that she can\u2019t leave him like this.)<\/p>\n

There are other aspects of their breakup that hearken back to Episode 2. When Henry sobs that \u201cwe had a whole future \u2026 life … and the \u2026 kids \u2026,\u201d I thought: Uh-oh, pal, NOT the best thing to say, remembering when Henry last mentioned children and Yasmin started getting the ick:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe turns around after this, like, hellish night,\u201d Abela told me about that Episode 2 scene earlier this season, \u201cand says, We should try for a baby. And [Yasmin] realizes he’s completely delusional and is not doing all of this from a place of clarity, but doing all of this from a place of, like, extreme mania. And I think from that moment, she thinks, OK, I’m never going to be safe with this man. I can’t trust him. He’s not, like, a sick man getting better. He is a sick man who I’ve just given, like, more power to.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Anyway, the other thing that reminds me of Episode 2 is what Yasmin says to her future ex-husband next: \u201cWhatever it is that you\u2019re feeling, it\u2019ll fade.\u201d She sounds just like his uncle Lord Norton when he told Henry to buck up: \u201cIgnore it, numb it, drown it out, or integrate it into your life step by step, day by day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moving on! At SternExTao HQ, our intrepid investors order Champagne and cigars and Casamigos and McDonald\u2019s fries to celebrate the fact that Tender stock is down 78 percent, which means that they\u2019ve made something like $110 million in back-of-the-envelope profit on the trade. Harper tries calling Eric, but all she gets is voicemail. (It\u2019s such a grim touch that when Eric jumped ship, he forgot the framed school pictures of his daughters on the bedside table.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

We return to Henry, who is looking at derogatory magazine covers about himself (\u201cHe failed once \u2026 why did they let him try again?\u201d) when he gets a phone call from Whitney, who sounds like a pull-toy version of himself. (Our only power is in retreat! I don\u2019t think you can afford not to believe me! No one\u2019s ever died in suspicious circumstances in police custody! Sell us out, you damn us both!) As it turns out, there are fat stacks of cash hidden in the bureau of Henry\u2019s bedroom. And also, as it turns out, Whitney kinda needs those funds for his getaway plane.<\/p>\n

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The gamble pays off, sort of, when Henry boards Whit\u2019s exfil flight with the money and a lot of questions. Unfortunately, Henry does not like the answers. He may be a fuckup, but he\u2019s no Lithuanian. \u201cThey\u2019re unbelievably self-absorbed and sort of narcissistic people,\u201d Max Minghella, who plays Whitney, told me about the two characters earlier this month. Kit Harington, who plays Henry, echoed the same: \u201cHenry being so wrapped up in himself, you’re watching these two kind of completely self-absorbed people somehow have this strange relationship where they see something in each other,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not anymore, though. Throughout Whit and Henry\u2019s twisted relationship, Henry has always staunchly enforced one boundary. Anytime Whitney presumes to be on any sort of equal ground with Lord Muck, Henry sets him straight. \u201cMen like us?\u201d says Henry in Episode 2. \u201cI have plenty of middle-class friends,\u201d he says in Episode 6. And now, he lobs a barrage of insults at Whitney like, \u201cYou will die a disgusting fucking mooch\u201d and \u201cPoor-boy civilian document\u201d (that\u2019s definitely how I\u2019m referring to my passport at TSA checkpoints from now on) and \u201cIf you have to reach for something, then you’ve already fucking missed it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

And with that, Henry leaves the snake on the plane, all alone. When he gets home, he tells Yasmin that he\u2019ll do whatever it takes to keep her. Neither Yasmin nor the dozen law enforcement officers from the \u201cserious fraud office\u201d who are waiting one room over seem interested in that option.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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When we next see Yasmin, she\u2019s doing what she does best: ushering a politician into Rainmaker Norton\u2019s office and then saying things like, \u201cYes, we can polish the aesthetic without neutering the appeal\u201d to refer to Stefanowicz\u2019s image. Elsewhere in the political realm, Bevan tells Ricky Martyn that she suspects Russian involvement in the Tender situation. \u201cDon\u2019t poke this particular bear,\u201d he warns. And at a lunch with Otto Mostyn, Henry is told much the same thing. \u201cDon’t draw these types of people into your existence,\u201d Otto says. Henry takes this warning to heart, to Jenny\u2019s ultimate disappointment.<\/p>\n

Harper shows Kwabena and Sweetpea their new office space. On the downside, there\u2019s no room service, but on the upside, there is blazing-speed internet and zero pictures of Eric\u2019s twin girls. She gives each a $2 million bonus; Sweetpea cracks that she could\u2019ve made that much selling pictures of her feet online. Harper invites Kwabena to be her plus-one at some event in Paris that Yasmin is orchestrating. When they arrive, they run into Yasmin and Hayley in the lobby, laden with expensive shopping bags. \u201cIt\u2019s Paris! Anything could happen!\u201d chirps Yasmin (in a very \u201cC\u2019mon! It\u2019s L.A.<\/a>!\u201d kinda way).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what does happen: Harper goes to a terrible dinner populated by \u201ctitans of industry, academics, [and] evolutionary biologists,\u201d as well as Moritz and Johanna Bauer and Stefanowicz. There is race-science banter and toasts to \u201cfamily, tradition, proud nations.\u201d We learn that Yasmin is now sober\u2014\u201cNot in an annoying way; I just enjoy clarity,\u201d she says. Hmm! Stefanowicz tells Harper that \u201cI want your mind.\u201d Eek!<\/p>\n

Earlier this season, I told Myha\u2019la that Industry showrunners Mickey Down and Konrad Kay had both described Harper and Yasmin as the show\u2019s \u201ccentral relationship\u201d (especially given the absence of Rob<\/a> in Season 4). \u201cThere’s something about these two that feels very much like siblings,\u201d Myha\u2019la replied. \u201cI have never heard anything nastier come out of anyone’s mouth than siblings fighting.\u201d At the same time, she said, \u201cNobody understands them like they do each other. So regardless of how badly they try to hurt each other, they’re desperate for the comfort of someone who knows them as well as they do.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on \u2018Industry\u2019 Season 4 <\/p>\n

More on \u2018Industry\u2019 Season 4 <\/p>\n

As the two talk in \u201cBoth, And,\u201d though, it dawns on Harper that maybe she doesn\u2019t know Yasmin as well as she thinks. Their conversation unfolds a lot like a horror film. The too placid Yasmin sounds possessed, while Harper grows increasingly panicked. Vivacious young (and young) ladies, all of them under Yasmin\u2019s thrall, seem to emerge out of the woodwork, beaming. All-too-real<\/a> pervy old dudes look on. And an actual horror film comes in the form of the kompromat footage of young Dolly calling Eric daddy, to Harper\u2019s shock.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Harper has a dawning realization that, indeed, she\u2019s not like all the others. Later, when Kwabena compares her to an \u201cNPC or AI\u201d and hints at breaking up, Harper says numbly: \u201cI feel like all the people who I thought were constants in my life have all become something I didn’t know they were, or disappeared altogether.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

As the episode and the season end, there is another montage of sorts. Yasmin preps Hayley for an appointment at Herm\u00e8s and \u201cdinner with the Qataris\u201d before listening to the final voicemail her father left her, over and over, while lying on the floor in a bathrobe. (As he has before<\/a>, Charles Hanani refers to her as \u201cMina\u201d on the tape in a really unsettling way.) Henry, a house arrest bracelet around his ankle and a Panama hat on his head, gets sunlight in his eyes and takes his lithium and goes fishing with some hands-on help from his uncle and Otto\u2014three big fish on a small pond.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And Harper tells her interviewer, Keefe: \u201cPeople change.\u201d As Season 4 ends, it\u2019s hard to know whether that\u2019s actually true.<\/p>\n

\"\"Turns of Leverage<\/p>\n

On Industry, characters love borrowing trouble\u2014and are always up to double down. Whose bets are paying off this week, and who is in the midst of a downward spiral?<\/p>\n

Leveling up: Well, this Sebastian Stefanowicz character sure seems to be up to no good\u2014and to be good at it! (When even Lord Norton is rattled by your ruthlessness, you\u2019re in an elite tranche, indeed.) Never have I seen a tasteful quarter zip with this much sinister energy, and I\u2019ve spent a lot of time in Fairfield County, Connecticut! I won\u2019t be surprised if this beady-eyed buddy of Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel winds up running the show next season\u2014while politely running society into the ground.<\/p>\n

Credit crunched? Back in Episode 6, when Whitney intercepted Tony Day at breakfast to convince him not to whistleblow, he issued his colleague a warning: that if he cooperated with reporters, there\u2019d eventually be \u201cthat single moment when you wake up in a year or so, in a three-star shithole on a quiet Tuesday morning, when the phone stopped ringing, and you realize just how far you fell from grace.\u201d Welp, now it\u2019s Whitney who\u2019s been reduced to life in a dusty Best Western and getting passports thrown in his eye. And it\u2019s Tony Day who will be wishing he had three-star accommodations. So much for that $80 million in stock. (I\u2019m going to choose to imagine that Jonah, meanwhile, sold all his Tender stock at the top because he needed the liquidity for all those cold-as-space vodka martinis and lap dances. That rude lech deserves only the best.)<\/p>\n

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On the watch list: This episode\u2014this season! this show!\u2014is a real study in volatility for Harper. Her trade makes nine figures \u2026 but Eric won\u2019t take her call. She brings a strapping lad with her to Paris \u2026 and he tells her that she kinda sucks. She goes to a fancy dinner \u2026 and gets seated next to lobotomized Nazis. She sits down next to \u201cthe only person in the world I don\u2019t feel alone around,\u201d Yasmin \u2026 only to realize, with mounting horror, that her friend isn\u2019t who she thought she was. I guess this category should have been called \u201cboth\/and.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tender Offers<\/p>\n

Is that a \u201cprivate banker in your pocket,\u201d or are you just happy to see me? Here\u2019s the latest haps at Tender, the most ambitious \u201cbank killer\u201d in Canary Wharf.<\/p>\n

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Something tells me it\u2019s not a good sign for an enterprise when the stock is down 87 percent and even the short sellers can\u2019t believe their eyes. I mostly just hope that the one Zoomer Tender employee with the bussin\u2019 cut from the season premiere who didn\u2019t know what boba was lands on his feet quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mergers and Acquisitions<\/p>\n

Activist investor? I hardly know\u2019r! This is a judgment-free zone to discuss emerging corporate synergies in Industry and do our due diligence on who\u2019s doin\u2019 it.<\/p>\n

For all the graphic contortions that have long defined Industry, it\u2019s the encounters we don\u2019t see in \u201cBoth, And\u201d that feel the most fucked up. \u201cIl est agit\u00e9 par les vagues, mais ne sombre pas,\u201d Yasmin says too brightly to Molly when the girl emerges unsteadily from behind closed doors in the morning, quoting the motto of Paris: She is tossed by the waves, but she does not sink. In many ways, we leave Yasmin at the end of Season 4 the very same way we left her in Season 3: in a grandly appointed sitting room, unmoored and alone, forever traumatized by her fucked-up father, Charles, while also turning into him. But that old version of Yasmin was a mean girl. This version feels more like a monster.<\/p>\n

It hadn\u2019t come as that much of a surprise earlier in \u201cBoth, And\u201d to see Yasmin leave Henry. \u201cHe underestimates her massively from the word \u2018go,\u2019 like back in Season 3,\u201d Harington told me earlier this season, adding that Henry had envisioned a marriage in which \u201cshe\u2019s going to go and be wifey at home, and he\u2019s going to go off to work.\u201d But \u201cthat\u2019s not Yasmin,\u201d Harington said. \u201cThat\u2019s not this person and never will be.\u201d What\u2019s far more striking and upsetting in \u201cBoth, And\u201d is the way that Yasmin flatly rejects Harper\u2019s offer to go down a different path.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that Yasmin has decided that if she puts herself right next to the thing that terrifies her the most, she will be safe,\u201d Abela said. \u201cAnd she doesn’t want anyone to take her away from that place.\u201d What is the thing that terrifies her the most? \u201cPredatory men,\u201d Abela said. \u201cShe will never be good enough for powerful men unless she is exactly what they want. And in her experience, what they want is, you know, vulnerable young women.\u201d Onward she swims, in the shadows of the sharks.<\/p>\n

Watch Watch<\/p>\n

Time is a flat circle, ideally powered by quartz. Here, we examine Industry\u2019s tick-tocking timepiece(s) of the week.<\/p>\n

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Toheeb Jimoh, who plays Kwabena, told me last month that his character \u201chad a watch, and then had a different watch when he got a million pounds.\u201d A \u201clevel-up watch,\u201d Jimoh called it. Unfortunately, Jimoh also admitted to knowing absolutely nothing about horology, so I emailed costume designer extraordinaire Laura Smith about his wristwear this season. The watch above is an Omega Seamaster, and he\u2019s also sported an Oris Aquis Date. As a bonus for the timeheads, Smith clued me in on the accessories worn by the politicos on the program: Bevan wears an Aquis Upscycle, while Stefanowicz opts for a Tudor Back Bay.<\/p>\n

Get Me the Comps!<\/p>\n

On the one hand, past performance neither guarantees nor predicts future results, as the SEC requires investment firms to remind clients. On the other hand, plus \u00e7a change! Here are some of the real-world stories that might be relevant to Industry\u2019s fictional realm.<\/p>\n

On Industry: Lord Norton tells Stefanowicz: \u201cYou won the Orwell scholarship, then became everything he warned us about.\u201d<\/p>\n

IRL: I like how much information we get about Stefanowicz from this one little line. The Orwell Award<\/a> is a \u201cprogramme that offers fully funded places to talented boys whose life opportunities have been limited,\u201d allowing them to attend the prestigious Eton\u2014where Princes William and Harry went\u2014for the final years of high school. (And here\u2019s a glimpse<\/a> into what George Orwell warned us about.)<\/p>\n

On Industry: Otto Mostyn dissuades Henry from trying to make a fuss about Russian involvement in Tender by telling him a story about an old pal, Clovis Wodehouse, who got a little too mixed up in the Russian real estate world and was found impaled on the \u201cbeautiful Georgian railings\u201d beneath a window of his London home. \u201cHe’d had psychotic episodes, elliptical phone calls,\u201d Mostyn says. \u201cThere was no evidence of any third-party involvement. So officially, it was unexplained.\u201d<\/p>\n

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IRL: In December 2014, a wealthy Scotsman named Scot Young, whose business affairs included Russian real estate (and whose American girlfriend was on the reality TV show Ladies of London, which is neither here nor there, just a fun fact), was found impaled<\/a> on the spiked railings beneath a window of their London home. Due to previous mental health struggles and an ongoing divorce, police initially ruled his death \u201cnon-suspicious.\u201d Everyone\u2019s \u201cthis isn\u2019t part of \u2018the Russian Ring of Death<\/a>\u2019\u201d shirts, however, raised a lot of questions that were already answered<\/a> by their shirts, and investigations by BuzzFeed<\/a> and Tatler<\/a> several years later suggested that foreign assassins actually may have been involved.<\/p>\n

On Industry: One of the newspapers laid out at Yasmin and Henry\u2019s house has a headline that says: \u201cPeacock invasion of our villages.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

IRL: This is a real problem<\/a>! (At least they aren\u2019t feral hogs<\/a>.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Industry: Kwabena tells Harper that \u201cI had a mate at Francis Holland with Yasmin. Said she was a pretty nasty piece of work \u2026 she was like, Chick\u2019s a sadist.\u201d<\/p>\n

IRL: Francis Holland is a girls\u2019 day school in London whose alumnae include Jackie Collins (!) and \u201cbright young thing<\/a>\u201d Nancy Mitford.<\/p>\n

On Industry: Near the end of the episode, as Henry fishes with his old boys, we hear a song that features the following lyrics: \u201cFor he himself ascended \/ and it\u2019s greatly to his credit \/ that he is an Englishman \u2026\u201d (As opposed to a Lithuanian man, sadly for Whitney.)<\/p>\n

IRL: This song is called \u201cFor He Is an Englishman\u201d from the Rodgers & Hammerstein play H.M.S. Pinafore, and it has been in Industry before. Earlier this season, this \u201cbitingly satirical piece of faux-patriotism<\/a>\u201d is what Henry was singing in the shower when Whitney was creeping on him, and in Season 3 it was bellowed out by Charles Hanani aboard the Lady Yasmin. They all wish they could be more like Sideshow Bob!<\/p>\n

Open Interest<\/p>\n

What are we left wondering?<\/p>\n

So does Hayley actually have any \u201cgame tape\u201d of her, Yasmin, and Henry\u2019s wild night in Austria? The case for NO: It would be really fitting, with respect to an overarching theme of the show, for Hayley to have leveraged a made-up narrative to spook the Mucks and achieve her goals. Also, note that neither Hayley nor Whitney ever confirmed the existence of a video when asked: Hayley demurred by saying she\u2019d been told to \u201cbe in their lives,\u201d while Whit answered Henry’s question with a question on the plane. The case for YES: Hayley scares me, and I wouldn\u2019t put anything past her.I asked this question last week, but now I\u2019m wondering even harder: Why is Lord Norton still at Yasmin\u2019s beck and call???Recently, I saw a tweet suggesting<\/a> that Harper\u2019s mother\u2019s death was no accident\u2014but that the shadowy forces who enabled her \u201cfall down the stairs\u201d didn\u2019t account for the fact that her daughter hated her guts. Thoughts? I do like the idea<\/a> that Harper is so emotionally avoidant that she\u2019s impervious to mob tactics \u2026Why wouldn\u2019t Whitney just keep the fake beard on for his flight after going to all that trouble with the glue?\u00a0Are Harper and Kwabena on a plane or a train in the final scene? It seems cramped and empty enough to suggest a plane \u2026 so is Harper already becoming a private-plane person after one good trade?Finally, what\u2019s the meaning of this blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-it glimpse of Whit just before the closing credits?! Is this taken from, like, the POV of a Russian sniper? A red-light district security camera? Either way, I\u2019m gonna be seeing this image in my sleep paralysis night terrors real soon.\"\"<\/p>\n

And with that, the second-to-last season of Industry rings its closing bell. Minghella told me a couple of weeks ago that the final scene he shot for \u201cBoth, And\u201d was Whitney\u2019s desperate departure on the airplane, and on that day he was filled with a sort of preemptive nostalgia for the whole production. \u201cSometimes there’s this beautiful thing that happens when you’re shooting,\u201d he said, \u201cwhere lines blur in this quite fantastical way.\u201d At one point, Minghella said, he was alone on the plane, \u201cpulling onto the runway, and thinking: This is Whitney leaving, and this is Max leaving. It was deeply melancholic to me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

And it was all a fitting end to a weird and wonderful experience. \u201cSomething I recognized the whole time I was doing Industry,\u201d Minghella said, was \u201cthat there wouldn\u2019t be anything else like it.\u201d Hey, you never know! Maybe Whitney can use some of that newfound alone time to mastermind his way back into Season 5. As the character himself put it this season, \u201cYour story begins when you start telling it,\u201d and \u201cThe story ends where we say it ends.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Katie Baker<\/p>\n

<\/a>Katie Baker is a senior features writer at The Ringer who has reported live from NFL training camps, a federal fraud trial, and Mike Francesa\u2019s basement. Her children remain unimpressed.