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Season 1

  • Episode 1.08 has Bobby and Chuck encountering each other at a charity event, and Chuck has his son Kevin in tow. Instead of being rude or antagonistic, Bobby notices that Kevin loves baseball, and introduces him to his favorite player, Mark Teixeira.

Season 2

  • All of Axe Capital celebrating as Taylor takes down Todd Krakow in the Alpha Cup, accepting them as part of the team.
  • The scenes of Wags coming clean to Wendy over the downward spiral he's been on, and Wendy - despite having left Axe Cap and being forced by Bobby to treat Wags - supporting him and "putting him back together".
  • The scene of Chuck and his son Kevin, where Chuck explains his and Wendy's separation and defends Wendy to Kevin, refusing to place blame on Wendy when he's to blame as well.
  • The scenes in 2.10 where Wendy calls her estranged husband and asks him to spend time with her. Chuck and Wendy hang out, and Chuck encourages Wendy after what she believes was a poor decision. Later, they arrange for a BDSM session for the first time since their separation, and it's nice to see the Rhoadeses reuniting.
  • The season two finale has several:
    • Bobby coming clean with his sons about his impending arrest. He's honest with them for the first time we've ever seen - he's not a good man, they shouldn't be defending him because he did something wrong, it's going to take a long time to fix, but he loves them.
    • Wendy supporting Wags as they try to keep Axe Cap running in the face of Bobby's arrest. Wags is doubting if he's got the courage to lead, but Wendy gives him a pep talk and promises to stay right by his side throughout all of it.
    • The person that Bobby wants with him when he's arrested? Wendy. The place he wants to spend his last free hours? The 9/11 Memorial. Bobby apologizes to Wendy for all he's done: trying to blackmail her over her sex life, actually blackmailing her to come back to Axe Capital, and having Hall threaten her over Lara. He asks her to forgive him, and claims that everything he's done since they used to work in the Towers together has been wrong. Wendy promises to help him rebuild, and has been co-running Axe Cap in his absence.
    • Everyone accepting Taylor as the right person to run the company in Axe's absence. Dollar Bill's quiet, amused "good fucking call - tell me what I can do to help" is just perfect.

Season 3

  • Bobby flat out refusing to expose Wendy's Ice Juice short even though it would take the heat off him and expose Chuck. When Spyros does it without Bobby's knowledge, he is furious at him and sincerely apologizes to Wendy for getting her directly involved in the mess.
    • The whole fiasco is heartwarming for showing just how much Bobby and Chuck care about Wendy; Bobby, after doing what he can to reassure her (and with her immediately accepting his statement that, despite the advantage to him, it was done without his knowledge or consent,) the next thing he does is ask his lawyer whether him taking a plea would protect Wendy, which he's never even considered before. Chuck also pulls out all the stops to protect her, and despite each man previously promising the other that he would gladly go down if it meant he could take the other with him, they are completely unwilling to let Wendy go to jail, and they bury the hatchet and cooperate for her sake.
  • It's immediately undercut by Lara yanking her son out and refusing to let him anywhere near her, but Gordie Axelrod still calls Wendy "Aunt Wendy" and wants to open up to her about how difficult his parents' divorce has been.
    • It's then rebuilt in the next episode as Lara has realized Gordie really does need to speak someone and she apologizes to Wendy for her behavior. Wendy accepts it and gives her some recommendations for child therapists who are more suited than she is.
  • The last scene of the season three finale. With both men at low points, Chuck invites Bobby into his and Wendy's home to share a glass of wine and discuss the recent events. Now that there's no conflict between them, the two are beginning to rekindle their old friendship.

Season 4

  • Taylor reaching out to Wendy after Chuck publicly discloses, and goes into detail about, his sadomasochistic sex life with Wendy without her consent. Taylor empathizes with Wendy being singled out and ostracized this way, and tells Wendy that they are willing to talk to her despite the recent history between the two. Later, Wendy looks at the social media of Mase Cap employees and finds they traded demeaning memes about her, but Taylor stepped in and told them to stop. Which makes it all the more insidious that Wendy decides to betray Taylor's good will.
  • Team Axe (save Wendy) showing up for a meal at Bruno's pizzeria after he decides to retire and move to Florida.
  • Axe cutting short a holiday to be there for Wendy before her medical board review for malpractice (telling a story that may or may not be true about why he did it, just so that Wendy didn't feel bad about him not spending time with his kids), and ending the day by telling Wendy about the precise moment he knew they were going to be partners forever. Wendy herself didn't even remember the moment until he reminds her of it (in perfect detail from his eidetic memory), but is deeply moved. He also takes her advice about giving everyone else the rest of the day off.
  • "Lamster" has Wendy confessing her misdeeds to the medical board, coming clean about using her therapy notes to sabotage Taylor and Douglas's relationship. After pulling it together enough to try and coach Bobby through a decision that the rest of Axe Cap does not agree with, Wags takes Wendy out drinking to try and cheer her up.
    Wags: I am going to place a steady stream of prescribed medications before you, and you are going to quaff deeply and repeatedly, and a little flicker of the warm and giddy will grow and spread. And we will laugh about the days of yore, and we will toast the comrades who have fallen or who may still fall. And you will forget the vicissitudes of the last few days, because you will remember who you are.
    Wendy: And who is that?

Season 5

  • Taylor and Wendy burying the hatchet enough that they decide to start an impact fund together.
  • Dollar Bill and Mafee, two guys who have in the past been at odds with one another to the extent of trying to settle their differences in a boxing ring, are not only friendly towards each other, they decide to team up when they both quit Axe Cap after Prince takes over.

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