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Black Monday S3 Ep 3: Eight!
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'Black Monday' Season 3 Episode 3: Did Corky shoot Blair? Roger Harris' widow has motive

Who shot Blair in the Season 3 premiere of 'Black Monday'? Was it someone he trusts or was it someone who has the most obvious vendetta?
By Alakananda Bandyopadhyay
Updated On : 22:14 PST, Jun 6, 2021

Blair Pfaff was having an affair with Corky Harris' congressman husband Roger (Showtime)

The one thing that has occupied the minds of fans of Showtime's hit comedy 'Black Monday' has been the harrowing shooting of Blair Pfaff (Andrew Rannells) planted right at the beginning of Season 3. The show sure does love pulling at people's heartstrings but it's nothing serious enough to lose sleep over. Unless one is way too obsessed with who shot Blair, leaving him in a giant pool of blood at the end of the Season 3 premiere.

Of course, Blair survived and the latest Episode 3 of this season sees him put on quite the show to appease the RNC. But are threats to Blair's life over or should he still lay low because the murderer could be lurking around? This subsequently brings us to the bigger question of who shot Blair after that epic Season 2 finale. Was it someone he trusts? Or was it someone who has the most obvious vendetta against the young trading prodigy?


Andrew Rannells as Blair Pfaff, Tuc Watkins as Roger Harris (Showtime)

According to the official synopsis of Black Monday's Season 3 Episode 3, titled 'EIGHT!', "Dawn (Regina Hall) puts on a show at her new “job” for her parole officer, while Blair puts on a show for the RNC. Mo makes a big personal announcement, and Keith tries to please Larry. Blair shoots for political points and his electroshock therapist gets a shock of his own." Nothing seems out of the ordinary for our gang of trading geniuses, but fans of the show still cannot help but wonder if the threats to Blair's life are really over.

Taking it to Twitter, one fan suggested: "Hear me out what if the murd3rer is corkie bc she loved roger n is framing blair ... she's the only one who has access to the plane yaknow." Not that anybody needs a reminder of the devastating tragedy that was Blair's romance with the heavily closeted politician, Roger (Tuc Watkins), but some fans consider Roger's wife Corky (June Diane Raphael) might have been the reason behind Blair getting shot. As the particular user notes, Corky loved Roger despite his infidelity and sexuality. Both Roger and Blair have been married to women on the show's arc and were skillful enough to not let their spouses have the faintest idea about the affair. Or even their sexuality, for that matter.

But one master plan from Blair's end turned out to have devastating effects on his relationship with Roger, as he tried to use a sex tape of the two of them to blackmail Roger's father-in-law, Pastor Newell (Jay Romero), all for a big bank rollout. The plan backfires as the pastor ends up releasing the tape to the media, and Roger kills himself almost immediately afterward. To make things even more tragic, Blair was the one to have found his body, and that was the end of Season 2. Next arrives the Season 3 premiere and Blair is shot. It makes sense for Corky to shoot Blair considering the heartbreak, devastation and humiliating his and her husband's affair caused. Especially in the wake of losing the love of her life, it seems just right for the curious Corky to take out the man behind the expose.

Actor Paul Scheer, who plays Keith on the show, also gave some interesting insights into who could have fired the shot. “This season is a big murder mystery,” Scheer had told TV Line ahead of the premiere of Season 3. The actor had further added, "It starts off in our first episode, and then it starts tracking throughout the season. Hopefully, people are going to try to figure out who it is, because it is a person that has been on the show at one point in the last three years.” Corky, although not regularly appearing in every episode, has been a steady presence for quite some time in the show's trajectory. Is the fan who speculated she was the murderer, right?

Find out on the next episode of 'Black Monday' Season 3, airing on Sundays at 10pm only on Showtime.If you have an entertainment scoop or a story for us, please reach out to us on (323) 421-7515