'The Morning Show' recap, Season 2, Episode 5: What happens in Vegas

Cory, latecomer to the crusade for decency

Cory starts this episode fighting on the phone with Fred, demanding that he stop trying to plant stories that smear Hannah. Fred is a man with little to lose, so he demands in response that Cory get the case settled already, threatening to reveal that Cory was part of negotiating Fred's departure and paying him off and claiming that "the woke mob" won't like it if they find out.

In a flashback, we see that Fred engineered his own departure, really, telling Cory to take the reins in his place and send him off scot-free, which he compares to Ford pardoning Nixon. ("In this situation, I am the Richard Nixon guy" is apparently something Fred thinks is a good thing.) Fred says he will reveal all if Cory doesn't get the case settled.

Of course, last week we were told that forced Fred's firing and Cory's hiring as