is bleak and unsparing in the way it portrays how our current economic system works and how those doing the wheeling and dealing are caught being the worst versions of themselves in order to survive . And what better figure with which to test that theory in this episode than Rishi Ramdani , the ever-blustering associate and market maker who’s just as likely to yell out obscenities at his colleagues as to make obscenely tone-deaf comments about, well, anything really.
Playing like a tense, edge-of-your-seat thriller , “White Mischief” follows Rishi as he tries to keep his trading and his gambling in check. The former has forced him to strong-arm Anraj to go over his limit , prompting the risk desk to come a calling; but Rishi is banking on the government budget to go his way, which—spoiler alert—it does not. It may well cost Pierpoint a pretty penny and leaves the paranoid workaholic with an endless sense of dread and foreboding.
But Rishi won’t let such petty issues affect his work, even as they almost got him slinging punches at Ali . He does what he knows how to do best. A call from Harper is enough to tee him up to knowledge of what the government is about to do and say with regards to the budget. Ever the betting man, he bets big and even as Eric almost pushes security on him to get him off the floor as he becomes riskier and riskier of a trader, he wins. He makes enough money to again hush all criticisms.