Review: Industry, “1000 Yoots, 1 Marilyn” | Season 4, Episode 4

“Just remember, not a single one of us gets out of this alive.”

It’s handy to think about the first four episodes of this season of Industry in matters of life and death. That could be perceived as an overreach or as particularly dramatic, but given Dycker’s fate in this episode and the above quote from Hayley, it’s not that far-fetched. The introduction of the pair at the start of the season works as a handy way to literalize how Mickey & Konrad are thinking about the lifespan of the season. Here, at the start of a fresh era, are two unfamiliar faces for the audience to invest in rather than our more established characters. In with the old, out with the new. Or, to put it another way, their arrivals represent rebirth.

Now, four weeks later, the pair have come to logical conclusions of their introductory arcs. For Dycker (more on him in a moment), that means his literal end. For Hayley, it’s the evolution out of this unsuspecting or naive-seeming character into someone far, far more calculating. The meeting between the two of them in that club set them on parallel paths towards these inevitable conclusions, intersecting with our preexisting leads to intersperse the old with the new in exciting ways.