Because of the greediness of its architects, the Watergate heist was always destined to be doomed.
The first night that Gordon and Howard and their band of Cuban brothers attempt a Watergate break-in, the posse divides and doesn’t conquer. After a kick-off dinner, one team is dispatched to George McGovern’s presidential campaign office, where Gordon’s “man on the inside” gets cold feet, denies them entry, and nary a remote listening device is planted. Why did these men need to visit the Watergate at all on the evening in question? There’s no way to be sure.
On the third attempt — attempt 2.1 if you’re feeling generous — Villo brings the right tools to handle a double-sided deadbolt, and the saboteurs make it through the doors. They plant the bugs, photograph all of the files , and take an early victory lap by conspicuously toasting themselves on the veranda of the nearby Kennedy Center, which I guess does not have a security detail to rival McGovern’s.
Remarkably, this would all transpire over the course of about a month. In fact, it was the same historic month in which Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT treaty, a nuclear arms control agreement that meant American voters could stop practicing hiding under the dining room table. The same week Howard spent a long night in a small closet?was already hovering above 60 percent.
This episode isn’t as funny as episode two, mostly because we’re hearing the same jokes and seeing the same scenes. It’s no longer freshly ironic to me when Gordon and Howard relive the Bay of Pigs invasion like high school quarterbacks who never made it. Each man has been allowed one or two personality traits, which don’t get developed so much as reiterated.
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