As a result, she has some of the Secret Service agents bring up Francis's old rowing machine.įrancis wins the vote in Iowa, and afterwards, returns to Washington to confront his wife. Claire attempts to go for a run, but the leader of her security detail says that running will draw attention to the fact that she is not Iowa to support her husband.

She returns the next day to Washington and Frank remains in Iowa to secure the vote, hoping that his wife will return for either his concession or winning speech, but she refuses all his calls, saying that she is sleeping. Frank begins to choke her, but quickly stops, as Claire knew he would.

They continue campaigning during the day (as does Heather Dunbar), but at night, Claire demands that Frank 'fucks' her roughly. Meanwhile, after Claire brought up the point of how she and Francis were lying to each other on Air Force One, she quickly retracts it as they begin their descent into Iowa. Doug begins to drive off in the opposite direction, but ultimately decides against his choice, it is strongly intimated (but never shown) that he hits Rachel with his van, killing her, he is then shown burying her in the grave he dug. Seemingly dissuaded from his original grim objective, he gives her some water and food, and points her in the direction of a town 20 miles away. He digs a hole using a shovel he bought in Santa Fe, and returns to the van, this time to kill and bury Rachel, however, before Doug does anything further he stops to listen her kind words. Doug remains cold towards her until they arrive at a remote location in the New Mexico desert. As he is driving, Rachel wakes, and apologizes for hitting him in the head with the rock, and (potentially) leaving him for dead. Using chloroform, he incapacitates Rachel, ties her up, and puts her in his van. Doug then acquires a beat-up white van and tracks down Rachel. Doug finds Gavin in Caracas, assaults and interrogates him on his boat in search of Rachel's whereabouts, which he discovers to be Santa Fe. She pays for another fake identity, Cassie Lockhart. She works multiple jobs, and goes by the name Lisa. The episode begins with us seeing Rachel's new life.

In the midst of the Iowa caucuses, Frank and Claire must confront hard truths about each other. It aired on February 27, 2015, along with the rest of the third season. Chapter 39 is the thirteenth episode and the season finale of Season 3 of House of Cards.

House of cards season 4 episode 9