In the season 7 episode of Billions, Original Sin, political consultant Bradford Luke walks into (billionaire and possible presidential candidate) Mike Prince’s office:
Prince: How do you have Leo McGarry-like walk in privileges before you’ve even taken the job?
Luke: Walk with a true sense of purpose. No one ever stops you.
The Leo McGarry reference is, of course, to The West Wing—another fictional universe—where Leo McGarry was President Bartlett’s Chief of Staff, and often walked in with exactly the same demeanour:
I love the fiction-to-fiction reference; Billions is rife with pop culture references, to an often absurd extend, but this one I love.
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