There are spoilers to be found here, so tread attentive ly and don't fall afoul of Frank Underwood's tactics.###This episode found Frank still hovering between life and death (that sound you hear? Satan gearing up in/with regard to’concerning’regarding his arrival, but not counting on it) and Claire essentially running the country's plan to outwit the Russians and solve the oil crisis. She couldn't possess’own’nurse more control over Vice-Acting-Whatever President Don "nervous guy in a Simpsons episode" Blythe if she was working him like a muppet.###TUSK! Ah-aaaah! Saviour of the universe! Well, just outlining the plan he's a part of that will make a deal between the Chinese, Russians and the US possible. There are worries with regards to’concerning’with respect to drilling tech (that's what the kids are calling it these days) and discussion of who should go to the G7 Summit, especially with the president's health in such a fragile state. And Bob Birch brings up the uncomin/with regard to’concerning’regarding table subject of paying in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Frank's potential funeral. Appropriation? Wouldn't most of his enemies just cough up the cash if they knew it would also be a party?###We check in briefly with Frank, but he's mostly still deep in vision-world, stumbling through that in/with regard to’concerning’regarding est, this time reaching a road whereupon a presidential limo sits.###Stamper is meeting with Meredith Lee (Cindy Cheung), the Secretary in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Health and Human Services. He wants her to pull rank on the organ donor network to bump his boss to the top spot of the liver transplant list. Meredith refuses, eliminate’remove ly both great at her job (initially not giving in to illegal demands) and terrible at it (crossing Stamper is wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile in/with regard to’concerning’regarding anyone's health and/or human services). But he piles on the pressure, saying he'll burn through her deputies until someone approve’ consent’endorse’applaud s. She sighs and makes a call.###LeAnn's on the phone with eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone's favorite data scientist, Aidan! Well… the data scientist we possess’own’nurse right now, at least. He's figured out that Frank's republican campaign rival Jim Conway (Joel Kinnaman, AKA sir-merely’barely -appearing-in-news-footage-thus-far) might be fiddling the search results on Pollyhop, which is a search engine and not, as you might claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate , one of the My Little Pony characters. LeAnn wants him to help her prove it, but he's far too smart to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure involved in that. Still, he cautions, the Underwood team may possess’own’nurse already lost the election on the digital front.###Claire is meeting with Cathy Durant, and there is a BIG disapprove’ consent’endorse’applaud ment on how to proceed with the G7 Summit. Cathy just wants to do her job, and Claire just wants to do Cathy's job. And Don's. And Frank's. And God's, if it's available. Cathy threatens to possess’own’nurse Jackie Sharp acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure involved and Claire just inwardly snickers bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e scrolling through her internal rolodex of blackmail notes and calling Remy.###Talking of, he's in a car with… guess who? Jackie! They're on their way to what she hopes will be a different date. Maybe skinny dipping? But the flirty fun grinds to a halt when Remy reveals that Claire has the dirt on them. A downcast, betrayed Jackie demands to be propel n home.###A still comatose Frank is suffering from something called asterixis, which means he's constantly fighting Romans in ancient Gaul… No, wait, it's something to do with an ammonia establish up in the body. From there, we re-enter his mind to take another vision quest with him. This time in a hallway that is full of individual , but sounds like and then resembles (thanks to some nifty lighting effects) a train carriage. And who do we claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate of when trains are involved? That's right! Zoe freakin' Barnes! Kate Mara is back, ladies and gents. She beckons in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Frank to follow her.###In the real world, Blythe says he won't go to the summit, just in case Frank snuffs it. But who cares what he's saying when we can dip right back into the visions and see Zoe acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure all scarily sexy with Frank in the Oval Office. There's straddling, and kissing, but then a sharp rap on the desk… It's Peter Russo (Corey Stoll), eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone! Frank's nightmare scenario is turning into an episode of This Is Your Life. Who will reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue up next? The dog he killed in the first episode? But bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e Frank and Zoe can acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure to really heavy petting, the scene convert’transform es to Peter and Zoe acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ting all smoochy on the couch instead. Poor Frank. Maybe try to imagine a cold reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue er in your vision?###Outside his hospital room, Claire meets with LeAnn, who brings up the Pollyhop issue. Both of them contrive to possess’own’nurse that word out there and maintain a straight face, which is commendable. But Claire can't focus on campaign concerns when Frank could be dead in a day.###Heather Dunbar, meanwhile, is in conference with her lawyer (Yvonne Ericson) and deciding whether to tell the truth with regards to’concerning’with respect to her meeting with Lucas Goodwin. Lying is not why she got into politics. Silly rabbit… They acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure into dangerous abundant’ample’plentiful water that the lawyer hightails it out of the room.###Claire, looking in/with regard to’concerning’regarding all the world like a Terminator on a mission, marches through the Capitol Building to find Bob Birch and Jackie meeting with regards to’concerning’with respect to the Russia plan. It seems Jackie has decided to come around and help. As Jackie cover’budge s Claire out of her office, she asks whether she's safe around Claire when she has such juicy blackmail material on her. Claire tells her she's fine as long as she works with them. Loosely translated: you're my chew toy, Jackie.###Cathy's meeting with Blythe to voice her concerns with regards to’concerning’with respect to the plan and Petrov when Claire sweeps in and convinces Blythe that she should go to the summit in Germany. Cathy, unsurprisingly, is against the idea. But with Claire in the room, she has all the authority of a night manager at a Tesco Express.###As Frank is subtly menaced by Zoe and Pete in vision-world, we cut to an unknown house, where a teenager locks himself in a room, retrieves a gun from a cabinet and unceremoniously shoots himself. We're not going to joke with regards to’concerning’with respect to this bit. It's sorrowful’distressing’woeful’heartbroken’mirthless’dejected’dismal’lugubrious and dark. But it does open the way in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Frank to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure a new liver.###Montage-mode returns as Seth briefs with regards to’concerning’with respect to the prez going into surgery to receive his shiny replacement organ, Claire is asked whether she wants to turn Air Force One (or maybe it's Air Force Two, since AF1 is usually merely’barely called that when the president's aboard and is anyone still reading this while managing to stay awake?) around, but insists she has to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure to Brandenburg and the Summit. Plus, she really wants to try their strudel, we bet.###Claire and the gang reach the summit, and we see the early stages of meetings with the Chinese and Petrov, who asks after Frank's surgery. Subtext: "I possess’own’nurse a bet on whether he's going to die and I don't want to lose my 20 rubles."###Heather's meeting with the DOJ officials and FBI to offer her testimony and say whether she talked to Lucas. At first, she denies it, but then turns things around and essentially launches into a campaign statement that includes how Frank has been taracquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ing his political rival’adversary’antagonist s. So much in/with regard to’concerning’regarding not taking a whack at the man while he's seriously injured, eh, Heather?###More time with the machine that goes ping and in Frank's head, where a weird, head-rubbing slow-motion three-way is unfolding. As the new liver goes in, the scene transform’alter s again to just Frank and Claire sitting in the Oval. Frank's probably trying to hide a really weird erection.###Heather's testimony is being broadcast, and Stamper, watching on a hospital TV, proclaims her done. Seth, in his office, calls Cynthia and tells him he won't be helping her and the campaign any more. bu-bye!###As Stamper and Blythe wait to see whether Frank's body accepts the new liver (or if it, in turn tries to tunnel its way out of him, screaming as it goes), we cut back to the G7 summit, where Petrov is holding things up. Claire says she'll talk to him and they possess’own’nurse a meeting where the power dynamic subtly shifts. He's all creepy smart, talking with regards to’concerning’with respect to her lips and face and she looks ready to beat his face to mush with one of the heavy reserve s in the room.###Frank's awake! And looking pretty dreadful, but at least Peter Russo isn't rubbing his cheek on him anymore like a twisted kitty. He wants out of the hospital and he wants to talk to Claire. Who won't talk to him on the phone until she's finished verbally smacking Petrov down. She cover’budge s out triumphant, having gotten what they need.###The deal is announced on TV and soon after, we skip ahead to Claire returning to the White House, where a hospital bed is being set up in the residence. She turns in in/with regard to’concerning’regarding some much needed rest on a sofa, and when she wakes up, Frank is talking with Stamper, Blythe and some of the staff from his bed in the next room. As the others leave, she asks Frank if he's in pain. Not abundant’ample’plentiful in/with regard to’concerning’regarding her wishes, it seems. For a man who has been shot, needed a transplant and had major surgery, Frank is surprisingly sprightly, acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ting out of bed and asking her to help him to the couch, where he tells her that he will back her plan. And he wants her to come back. But she says she won't be First Lady any more. "Not that", says Frank. He needs her around, and approve’ consent’endorse’applaud s things possess’own’nurse to be different now. But still evil? Probably. We close on Frank taking back command of the country from Captain No-Spine (Blythe) and taking a quick look to camera. He's back, individual . He's back.###Yes, Frank is back, in what seems to be such a fast recointensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully that he's practically Michael Palin's old ex-leper from Life Of Brian. But bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e that, it's fun to see ghosts from the past haunt Underwood, even if Kate Mara and Corey Stoll don't acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure much more to do than that, which is a shame. Still, the episode once again belongs to Robin Wright, whether she's sending Claire scheming through the halls or putting comrade Petrov in his place. These last couple of episodes, and indeed most of this early chunk of the season possess’own’nurse been a true tour de in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ce in/with regard to’concerning’regarding her, and she grabs the opportunity to take the centre stage again.###Elsewhere, it's really more of a case of the plot ticking along – looks like we can say rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent bye to Dunbar in preparation in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the proper arrival of Joel Kinnaman's Conway. Hopefully LeAnn will continue to develop into the Stamper to Claire's Frank, and Stamper himself will acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure more to do than mope around at his boss's beside. More threatening individual like Meredith! It's what he does best. And please, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the love of all things can we skip the "Stamper falls apart" arc this season? It's gotten tired.