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T10 WHATS UP! May 3 - 9, 2020 Axe's focus now more clearly aimed at the destruction of Taylor (Asia Kate Dillon, "Or- ange Is the New Black") and her company — Chuck and Axe are once again pitted against each other as Season 5 will feature a new player, Mi- chael Prince (Corey Stoll, "House of Cards"), who joins their high-stakes — and, quite honestly, exhausting — game. At the end of Season 4, "Bil- lions" co-creator David Levien told Entertainment Weekly a bit about the fate of Chuck and Axe: "When we thought of bring- ing them together, we didn't know exactly when they would start to be at odds again," Levien said. "We just knew two men with these qualities, this alpha dog men- tality, that a peace and alliance could never last forever." With the arrival of this new threat to Axe and his company, Axe Capital (AxeCap for short), Chuck appears to have a plan in the works — because when does he not? — but all the alliances that have been crafted over the past four years are likely to fall apart as companies lose money, em- ployees and power. Now, a newcomer to the feud (and the series), Chuck's friend, Prof. Catherine "Cat" Brant (Julian- na Margulies, "The Good Wife"), expresses her concern that his quest for dominance has gotten out of hand. Amid triple crosses, double agents and a single common goal, things begin to get "tribal," and every player involved in this corporate chess game will quickly begin to realize who is the king and who is a pawn. It's not just the kings at play in the business game, either. Taylor, who has been fighting to keep her firm together and pull away from Axe, will have to make some serious adjust- ments as she is forced back to work at AxeCap, while Wendy (Maggie Siff, "Sons of Anar- chy"), who had just spent the day at a closed-course recre- ational demolition site with Rebecca (Nina Arianda, "Goli- ath") venting her frustrations and "moving earth," can't avoid her problems forever as she anxiously awaits the medi- cal board's decision on her case. Throughout all of this, Re- becca finds herself a pawn in Axe's game as she is blindsid- ed in the boardroom and real- izes that he purposefully or- chestrated her demolition day with Wendy to suit his needs so that he could broker a deal and liquidate Saler's Depart- ment Stores — a company Re- becca was very fond of — be- hind her back. As Rebecca shares her feelings with Axe and leaves the office, she has Axe (and viewers) wondering whether she will be back for another round. To top off all of the excite- ment, with rumors of Wendy branching out on her own, creating new connections and inciting some tension between her and Chuck, some fans of the show are wondering if Axe will finally make a romantic move on Wendy — did anyone else catch that slow rise in sexual tension? And, although Chuck always seems to have a plan in motion, could Season 5 find him finally losing steam? Will this new billionaire, Prince, overshadow one of the leading men for good? So many questions, and the only way to find out what really happens is to tune in. After all, things on Wall Street really can change in a New York minute. The first seven episodes of "Billions" Season 5 kick off Sunday, May 3, on Showtime. Julianna Margulies as seen in "Billions" continued from page T2 A few billion more: Wall Street gets a new Prince in Season 5 of 'Billions' TV FEATURE