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Episode at a Glance

Put on your detective hats and crank the water pressure—Episode 7 of The Residence, “The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb,” flips the White House upside down with heart, hilarity, and a crisis-level scalding shower!

Here’s What’s Sizzling:

• 👩👧👦 Elsyie’s Spotlight: From sweet mom making breakfast to catching a bus to the White House, we finally see the real Elsyie—a beloved staffer with secrets deeper than the pantry. Her “Hi, Mr. Jackman!” moment? Chef’s kiss! But her past is catching up with her and she’s fighting for her future after a showdown with A.B. Wynter. And what’s up with the candlestick?
• 🚿 Shower Saga: Bruce’s marathon fight to deliver Perry Morgan’s lava-hot shower brings NASA, the Army Corps, and a mountain of complaints. The presidential bathroom turns into a pressure cooker for staff and suspects alike—especially for Bruce, the determined engineer with a soft spot for Elsyie.
• 💔 Lovers & Liars: A covert romance unfolds between Elsyie and Bruce, revealed through matching Pantheon pendants and macaroons stashed like love notes. Is their connection salvation or suspicion? Cordelia’s detective instincts, “When I say, 'I remember,’ I mean I remember every word you said,” lay bare the lies AND the heartstrings.
• 🕵️♀️ A Real Life Game of Clue: Was it Elsyie or Bruce with the candlestick in the Yellow Oval Room? Each tells a different tale: “I’m going to kill him!”—but who did Elsyie mean? With Cordelia invoking mountain chickadees, memory, and seeds in the fall, everyone’s a suspect and no one’s story adds up.
• 🪞 Makeover Mayhem: The White House turns into a mood-board battleground as Lilly Schumacher brings influencer energy to jury-rigged renovations and Pinterest wars in the kitchen. Is her story leaking like Tripp’s salted sink—or a misdirect in the greatest Clue game ever played?
• 🔑 The Key to the Case: Throw in Wynter’s missing journals, mysterious keys in wrong pockets, and a staff ready to combust, and you’ve got pure Shondaland intrigue.

Totty Takeaways

Episode 7 is a layered, laugh-out-loud stew of memory, love, and loyalty bubbling beneath a saucy murder mystery. Elsyie and Bruce’s forbidden romance melts the icy halls while Cordelia’s snark, bird metaphors (“mountain chickadees, memory, seeds in the fall”) and relentless pursuit fire up the plot hotter than Morgan’s infamous White House shower.

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