HBO’s dramedy period piece covering the burglaries that led to the Watergate scandal during the Nixon presidency, “White House Plumbers,” starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux, continues, and the laughs you’ll have from such incredible real-life events will make you keep coming back every week for more. Last week, we were introduced to the main plotline, Woody Harrelson plays a CIA agent, and Theroux plays a Federal agent that gets called upon by the White House to perform some shady covert operations.
While the two seem at odds at first, they find common ground and execute a shady operation against a reporter and his psychiatrist. But things, as we’ll see in the recap, go spectacularly wrong, but somehow, given the circumstances, they manage to keep the covert ops going. But now it will be on a different scale as the two are reassigned for a much bigger enterprise, one that went down in history as one of the most scandalous political events of the twentieth century.
White House Plumbers Episode 2 Recap
We begin our episode with a secretary doing some typing, and it’s a secret memo that tells us what’s ahead. Show cuts to the Nixon Campaign Headquarters, there’s the office where Liddy and Hunt work now, the Committee to Re-Elect the President. He’s obstructed and pestered by James McCord, and Jeb Magruder welcomes Liddy, Magruder warns Liddy not to tell McCord anything about what Liddy and Hunt are supposed to do.
At the Lakewood Country Club, Hunt, Liddy, and their wives go for a fancy dinner, Hunt brags that Liddy and his wife would never get a membership to that club, and later on, Hunt introduces their kids to the Liddys. They embarrass Hunt by mentioning that his daughter dropped out of college. During the meal, Hunt mentions in front of the wives the plan to infiltrate the yacht with the hookers, and Hunt’s wife, a CIA agent, says it’s a bad idea.
The Pitch
Hunt and Liddy present to their superiors at the Committee to Reelect the President their hookers-and-yacht plan and their handlers are hesitant because of its grandiloquence. Out of many pitches, the last one, which is to infiltrate the Democratic National Committee headquarters and plant some bugs is the one that gets more comments and eventually is discarded. Hunt and Liddy feel defeated because they failed. Hunt has a lot of financial problems and needs a gig to pay his debts.
Hunt goes back to work at his underpaying job at an advertising agency, and then a scandal breaks out in the press, as it turns out the secretary that we saw at the beginning leaked a secret memo to the press that sheds light on a shady deal, this stirs things up in the committee, and Liddy gets some scolding from his superiors. He contacts Hunt and tries to devise a strategy, they want to talk to Attorney General John Mitchell, but their superiors say no. Meanwhile, Hunt has a family crisis and gets a call from White House counsel Charles Colson, he leaves the crisis management to his wife.
Crisis Management
Hunt and Liddy receive information from White House counsel that the political scandal concerning an antitrust case has bad repercussions for the Nixon administration. While Liddy wants to kill the whistleblower, Hunt thinks it’s a bad idea, so they come up with a hefty sum of cash. Liddy goes to the whistleblower’s house in disguise and finds a way to move the whistleblower to a hospital in a remote location to prevent her from testifying.
Hunt visits the woman and cajoles her into recusing herself from the incriminating evidence that the Senate will use against Nixon. The woman changes her mind, and back in Washington DC, Hunt and Liddy’s handlers ok the project to bug the Watergate building, but they’ll work with McCord.
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White House Plumbers Episode 3 Release Date
White House Plumbers Episode 3, titled “Don’t Drink the Whiskey at the Watergate” will air on HBO on 15 May 2023 at 03:00 hrs Eastern Time United States. Below, you’ll find the time releases for other regions.
- Pacific USA Time (PT): May 5, 2023, at 00:00 hrs
- United Kingdom time (BST): May 5, 2023, at 08:00 hrs
- Philippines standard time (PST): May 5, 2023, at 15:00 hrs
- Japan standard time (JST): May 5, 2023, at 16:00 hrs
- Korea standard time (KST): May 5, 2023, at 16:00 hrs
- Singapore standard time (SGT): May 5, 2023, at 08:00 hrs
- India Standard Time (IST): May 5, 2023, at 12:30 hrs
- New Zealand standard time (NZST): May 5, 2023, at 22:00 hrs
- European standard time (CEST): May 5, 2023, at 09:00 hrs
- Hawaii-Aleutian time (HAT): May 4, 2023, at 21:00 hrs
- Central European Time (CET): May 5, 2023, at 09:00 hrs
- Mountain time (MT): May 5, 2023, at 02:00 hrs
- Korea standard time (KST): May 5, 2023, at 16:00 hrs
- Australia standard time (AEST): May 5, 2023, at 12:00 hrs
White House Plumbers Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuKM2sTTmHg&pp=ygUcd2hpdGUgaG91c2UgcGx1bWJlcnMgdHJhaWxlcg%3D%3D
Where To Watch White House Plumbers?
Catch new episodes of this miniseries on HBO during its air time on Mondays, or stream it exclusively on HBO Max. You can subscribe to HBO Max for $9,99 a month, bundle it on top of your Prime Video or Hulu subscriptions, or enjoy it as a standalone platform.
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