Fellow Travelers
WARNING : spoiler ahead for Fellow Travelers installment 5 .
Summary
Fellow Travelersepisode 5 coif a new flight for the course of study of the historical fiction Showtime series , featuring an inventive retelling of the 1954 Army – McCarthy hearings . Through five episodes of the eight - part miniseries based on Thomas Mallon ’s 2007 novel of the same name , Fellow Travelershas rapidly emerge as one of the most rich and complex serial publication on televisionwith a abrupt and considerate oculus for the historical truth regarding the Lavender Scare of the 1950s .
After narrowly escaping detection from the excruciating M - Unit inFellow Travelersepisode 4,Hawk ( Matt Bomer ) continues to quietly chip off away at Senator McCarthy ’s seemingly monumental statuswith the help of his associate Marcus Gaines ( Jelani Alladin ) and mystic devotee Tim Laughlin ( Jonathan Bailey ) . An unexpected setting , however , places his wise man and father frame Senator Smith ( Linus Roache ) in the line of fire , squeeze Hawk to swiftly cover up the collateral equipment casualty before Smith ’s reputation is entirely demolish .
12Hawk Rushes To See Tim After Seizure At San Francisco Hospital
The reality of Tim’s condition leaves Hawk frozen in fear
In 1986 , Hawk race to San Franciso General Hospital to witness Tim having a trigger-happy seizure . peddle view unable to help as a nurse closes a drapery on him , telling him he should n’t be there . Tim had fallen and savagely spite his subdivision inFellow Travelersepisode 3and had a capture in his flat at the end of episode 4 , indicating to Hawk that Tim likely does not have much time left . Hawk is stunned with fear as the world sinks in when Marcus arrives on the vista to facilitate .
11The Cozy Corner Is Raided By Police & Marcus Abandons Frankie
Marcus escapes the scene without getting arrested
The Cozy Corner receives an unfriendly sojourn from several police officeholder with batons looking to cop and rape patrons . Marcus is capable to escape along with Frankie and Stormé DeLarverie but does not expect for them to retreat to safety . As their relationship started to form , Marcus had previously demonstrated to Frankie that he would not risk his career and reputation for their love story , a sentiment that was clearly feel as he fly the setting with no esteem for Frankie ’s condition .
10Hawk Discovers Leonard Smith Is Gay After He Gets Arrested
Leonard Smith was caught with a man during a police raid
Leonard Smith ( Mike Taylor ) , the son of Senator Smith , is arrested for being caught perform homosexual activeness in a public toilet facility . Using his political connections , Hawk successfully bribes a D.C. police police officer to annul detection by the press . To Leonard , Hawk is the heterosexual man who is courting his sister Lucy ( Allison Williams ) and is , in a room , the brother he never wanted . Hawk is secretly much like Leonard but can not give to divulge the true statement to the Smith home for the sake of his professional vocation . Hawk tries his expert to keep Leonard ’s arrest under wraps so that information wo n’t be used against Senator Smith .
9Roy Cohn Intimidates & Interrogates Tim In The Bathroom At Work
Cohn suspects that Tim knows much more than he appears to
During the Army - McCarthy hearing , Tim is still working for Senator McCarthy and Roy Cohn . Tim unremarkably skate by at study by seeming quiet and free but has get the attention of Cohn , who perceives that Tim is not take on for his and McCarthy ’s team . Cohn accuses Tim of maintaining loyalty to Senator Smith , since Hawk , who has a confining kinship with Smith , got Tim the business work for McCarthy . Cohn also raises intuition about the envelope that Tim give Schine . Fortunately for Tim , he is capable to wait out Cohn ’s burst of deterrence , although Cohn starts to mistrust him .
8Hawk Tells Tim What Was In The Envelope He Had Him Give To Schine
Hawk took advantage of Tim professionally by keeping him in the dark
Tim makes a characteristically hazardous and passion - fuel move by walk into Hawk ’s office during a workday . Hawk is capable to make it seem fooling to his novel secretarial assistant , who has manifestly replaced Miss Addison who had reported Hawk to the M Unit inFellow Travelersepisode 4 . mortarboard confesses to Tim that the envelope he handed to Schine contained hard evidence in the form of written testimonial thatMcCarthy had courted and sodomized a Lieutenant in the Army as his superior . Tim dead realizes why McCarthy has held onto Cohn and protect Schine for so long .
7Leonard Smith Is Sent To A Rehabilitation Center As Rumors Spread In D.C.
Leonard recalls an interesting memory of him & Hawk as boys
Hawk institute Leonard Smith out to a distant reclamation center where he sustain with a MD that Leonard wo n’t be have much admission to the outside world . This is one of the grim thing the audience sees Hawk do inFellow traveler , knowing the verity about Hawk ’s tangible intimate identity and the hypocrisy of his unfavorable judgment of Leonard . Before Leonard is use up away , he cite a account of him and Hawk masturbating next to each other as male child . Hawk brush the comment off and get down Leonard , cue him that his Church Father would n’t consider a parole he had to say .
6Roy Cohn Uses A Doctored Photograph To Protect Schine During Army-McCarthy Hearing
Tim realizes that Cohn changed the photograph that was hanging in Schine’s office
During the Army - McCarthy hearings , Roy Cohn represent a cropped exposure as grounds that David Schine was faithful with Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens . Based on a real - life occurrence , Cohn had the photograph altered to make it appear that Schine was more important than he really was . This would justify the excessive exclusive right that Schine received in the shape of custom boot and accession to a penthouse in Manhattan . Tim is depicted as the only someone out of doors of Cohn , Schine , and McCarthy who knows that the pic is doctored inFellow Travelers .
5Tim Quits His Job Working For McCarthy & Provides Evidence To Army’s Lawyer
Tim is threatened by Senator McCarthy after bringing up the photograph
Tim earnestly conceive that Senator McCarthy would like to make love about the doctored photograph , considering that he does n’t already know as Marcus had intimate . Tim ’s unacquainted approaching is met with a frightening response from McCarthy , who sharply lodge his thumb into Tim ’s throat . Tim quietly decide to give up and hand over the noesis to the Army ’s lawyer , who then reveal the fraudulence to Cohn and McCarthy during the Army - McCarthy earshot .
4Hawk Tells Tim That He Is Planning To Propose To Lucy Smith
Tim is devastated by Hawk’s inability to embrace their love
feel a sudden sense of release , Tim festinate over to Hawk ’s apartment to tell him he has throw in working for McCarthy . Hawk understands Tim ’s excitement but still stands on the other side of his ideals as he always does , revealing to Tim that he contrive to offer to Lucy Smith . Tim is deep hurt by the word despite have a go at it all along that it was only a matter of time before Hawk ’s wrecking clod would tear him down .
3Marcus Quits His Job At The Washington Post & Reunites With Frankie
Unlike Hawk, Marcus understands what’s most important in his life
After receive continued racist treatment while work for The Washington Post , Marcus settle to quit his problem altogether . He meets up with Frankie and tells him that he has decided what ’s most important in his life , and Frankie is at the top of it . Marcus explains that he can continue spell for another publishing where he hopes to not be likewise discriminated against . Frankie and Marcus plan to move in togetheronce Frankie returns from her tour as part of the Jewel Box Revue with Stormé .
