'The Chair Company' Episode 6 Recap & Ending Explained: Has Tecca Invaded Delaware?

In episode 5 of The Chair Company, Ron and Mike found Oliver, the amateur actor who was made to pose as Ken (a member of the board of directors of RBMG), who lived in Dayton. Ron told Brenda that he’d be attending a demolition job at the site where the mall was being built and embarked on the nearly 3-hour-long drive with Mike. Since Natalie had put a tracker in Ron’s phone, she got worried about where he was going. Initially, Ron didn’t attend her calls, and when he did, he straight-up lied to her and then hung up because he’d rather focus on his crackpot theory than be truthful to his daughter. Speaking of the crackpot theory, Ron and Mike met Oliver at a bar, and he revealed that the person who had directed him, and several other people, during the photoshoot for the RBMG website was a woman named Maggie S. He claimed that her email address was in his iPad, which was at his home, and all they had to do was drive from the bar to his house and get the info. That was easier said than done because Ron accidentally started a bar fight, which spilled over to Oliver’s house, and then a guy who Oliver owed money to stole that tab, and he even knocked out Ron when he tried to chase him down. Ron was hospitalized, and when he was discharged, Mike took him home and promised that he’d help Ron get to the bottom of this mystery free of cost because he saw Ron as his family. However, it was heavily insinuated that Mike had some major secrets of his own, and maybe he was indulging Ron for some nefarious purpose. Well, was he? Let’s talk about episode 6 of The Chair Company to find out.

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Ron’s Friends Are Toxic

In episode 6 of The Chair Company, we get a glimpse of the type of life Jeff leads when he isn’t at Fisher Robay. All of his friends—Grego, Keith, Mason, Danny, and Marco—are extremely rich and, at the same time, very empty-headed. And although they claim that they love each other unequivocally, beneath the surface, there’s an undercurrent of animosity. This becomes apparent when one of Jeff’s friends describes the work that Fisher Robay does in a very crude fashion. Jeff tries to defend himself, but the insecurity has already set in, and it is that very insecurity that prompts him to overhaul the entire plan for the mall in Canton. I know that many will see this as a positive example of friendship because, at the end of the day, Jeff has been motivated to stop playing it safe and swinging for the fences. But, in my opinion, this is not a healthy relationship. True friends don’t demean or make you do something different, and if the results are positive, they go ahead and claim that they were the catalyst for your success. A friend who actually cares about you will always appreciate what you have done and then point out the spots where you can improve. There’ll be a dialogue, not this one-sided ragebaiting. Friendship shouldn’t be about tolerating one another; it should be mutual respect and understanding. And it’s wild that we, as a species, seem to fail to understand this basic concept despite knowing about several cases where such toxicity has had disastrous consequences.

Ron Infiltrates A Life Of The Party Class

Ron had learned about the Life of the Party class from Oliver, and he decided to attend a session in the hopes that he’d either run into another budding actor who was made to pose as a member of RBMG or maybe Maggie S. herself. Ron asks a woman present at the class, who I suppose is the teacher, if she is aware of someone named Maggie and the photoshoot she had conducted there. The woman says that she doesn’t know anyone called Maggie and that photo exercises don’t happen at the class he’s at currently. Apparently, Life of the Party is divided into tiers. The one that Ron has entered was initially aimed at salespersons, but now it caters to people who aren’t good at socializing. So, essentially, if you ace one tier, you’ll be moved to the next tier, and then eventually you’ll graduate and actually become the life of some party. But the teacher says that the whole thing is a scam because every tier is basically the same and the “getting better at socializing” part is merely an illusion. 

This kind of reminded me of the Narkina 5 Imperial prison complex in Andor, where the inmates were never released despite serving a full sentence; they were shifted from one level of the facility to another until they died. Anyway, going back to the plot of Chair Company, Ron asks the teacher if he can talk to someone in the other tiers. She says he can try, but before Ron can get any more info out of her about this whole program, her students arrive for their session, and Ron decides to focus on them instead of searching for these fabled teachers in other tiers. He immediately spots a woman who posed as “Ronda Scott” and asks her about the photoshoot and Maggie. “Ronda” says that she doesn’t remember anything about a photoshoot and then begins moping about not being able to make it past “Level Five.” She apparently can’t secure her passing marks because she has been deemed “too dumb.” If all the levels are the same, why is graduating such an uphill task? To maintain the ruse that this program is legitimate? Also, and I hope this doesn’t sound racist, is Life of the Party some kind of shady scheme to give green cards to undocumented immigrants? I mean, look at what happens when he turns away from ‘Ronda” and asks another student about the photography session; the guy just panics and tries to run away. When Ron tries to get a picture of him, he shields his face and then just bolts. It’s possible that he thought that Ron was a member of ICE or some other anti-immigrant institution. If that’s the case, that’ll add a layer of relevancy to this odd tale.

Ron’s Sexual Harassment Case Continues

Ron goes from that odd altercation at the Life of the Party class to an awkward HR session with Diane, Dr. Stevens, and Amanda, where Ron is being judged on the basis of how he behaves with Amanda whilst having a couple of muffins. Surprisingly enough, Amanda makes the whole situation very awkward by breaking apart her muffin and then licking the crumbs off her fingers while making eye contact with Ron. I don’t know about everyone else, but it seems like Amanda is milking this whole thing for some reason. I don’t want to say that she’s an attention-seeker, but, yeah, there’s a good chance that she has some issues, and instead of dealing with them, she is choosing to make this non-issue the highlight of life so that she can be the center of the office’s attention for a while. Even Diane thinks that she has seen enough and has come to the conclusion that Ron didn’t purposefully look up Amanda’s skirt. However, Stevens says that he isn’t satisfied with the investigation so far, and he can’t leave the office until he is absolutely sure that Fisher Robay has a safe working environment. 

Later on in the episode, we not only see that Stevens has turned his office into a leisure room, but he’s also giving his parents a tour of the office. So, it’s possible that he is being dishonest and he just wants to enjoy Fisher Robay’s catering services for a few more weeks. He doesn’t care that his greed comes at the cost of Ron’s mental health, which should be a priority for Stevens, given he’s a doctor and an HR professional. Well, maybe he’s just angry at Ron for trying to dismantle the chair in his office. Anyway, after the latest session with that trio comes to an end, Ron calls up Mike and asks him to get some info on the guy whose pictures he had taken at the Life of Party class. Mike says that that’ll be impossible because all the pictures are blurry and the man’s face isn’t even visible, but he’ll see what he can do. 

Jeff Drops A Bomb On Ron’s Head

Jamie interrupts Ron’s conversation with Mike to tell him that Brenda wants to have a chat with him in the Farnham room. When Ron walks in, he is shocked that Jeff is there too. And this is where we get to see the repercussions of Jeff’s vacation with his friends. Jeff is of the opinion that they need to start planning the Canton Marketplace from scratch because what they are doing with it currently isn’t dynamic or creative enough. Brenda and Ron obviously don’t understand what Jeff is going for. So, he starts showing these pictures of these adobe homes and the scenery of Sedona, thinking that that’s going to explain his point. However, when Ron goes off to talk to his team about this redesign idea, it’s apparent that he still doesn’t know what Jeff wants. Different parts of the project were assigned to different people, and all of them want to know if that aspect will continue to be a part of the redesign. Ron says that the questions that his team are asking him, he asked them to Jeff, and the only thing that the boss man kept saying is that “he’ll know when he’ll see it,” which is just so vague. 

If you have worked with a boss like this, you know exactly how it feels to try and function in an environment like this. They don’t know what they want, and they just want their employees to figure out what will satisfy them. But they won’t give those employees the freedom and time to think about what their boss wants because they want all that endless imagination to happen on a deadline. Of course that’s not how creativity is fostered, and when they don’t get the desired result, they get angry and chastise their employees for being incompetent. If only guys like these understood, they should focus on the project they have started, make it profitable, and use the money they earn to try those radical ideas on some other project. We don’t know a lot about Jeff’s background, but if you carefully analyze his behavior, you can sense that he isn’t a self-made man. He probably has generational wealth, and it’s possible that he has inherited Fisher Robay instead of making it from scratch. He is obviously insecure about that, which is exacerbated by his “friends,” but instead of curing that disease by collaborating with his obviously talented employees, he chooses to antagonize them in this passive-aggressive fashion. If you are a boss, don’t be like Jeff.

Jeff Continues to Antagonize Ron

Ron comes home to find a guy named Richard waltzing around in his house. Barb says that Ron has met Richard in the past and has probably forgotten about it. Richard is Tara’s friend, and he is seemingly helping Seth with a project that he is working on. What’s this project? It’s apparently a mystery. Seth joins Ron and Barb in the kitchen, and the conversation shifts to the topic of Seth’s birthday. Seth wants to talk about how excited he is that Toby Harlan will be attending his birthday party, but Ron keeps going on this tangent about how someone from Seth’s school tried to “touch” his own grandmother. And Seth corrects him by saying that it wasn’t Toby who did something to his grandma, but Todd Greys who trapped his grandmother in a bathtub with a mattress. What’s the point of this? I don’t think there’s any great mystery behind this. But the fact that Ron is focused on the guy that almost killed his grandmother instead of being excited with Seth about his birthday party shows that Ron doesn’t have his priorities straight. Ron further underscores this sentiment by telling Seth to focus on his baseball skills instead of staying up at 1 A.M. rather than asking him what that mystery project is that he’s working on with Richard. Ron is an expert conspiracy theorist, but nothing about Seth’s project sets off the alarm bells in his head? Well, I hope he doesn’t regret not looking into this matter later on. 

Speaking of regret, the following day, Ron and his team sit down with Jeff to show off all the new ideas that they have come up with, and Ron immediately starts regretting not saying “no” to the boss’ preposterous new plan because Jeff doesn’t like anything that he’s seeing before him for no particular reason. He just tells Ron and the team to keep slaving away until they hit that vague sweet spot in Jeff’s amygdala, I suppose. Of course, this uncertainty trickles down to the people who are actually in charge of the construction of the mall. He gets a call from someone called Bruce who is confused about what’s going to happen to the foundation of the establishment. Ron tells him to continue his work because the base of the mall needs to exist in order for Jeff’s wild, non-existent ideas to take shape. Monica interrupts that call to tell Ron that she needs to go to the doctor because she was playing with a magnet and felt something inside her stomach move. On top of all that, Mike rings up Ron on his burner phone and tells him to meet him in the parking lot. So, now Ron has to deal with Bruce, Mike, and Monica. As if that’s not chaotic enough, Ron seemingly sees the pile of paper clips moving towards Monica, like she is a human magnet. Ron supposedly hangs up on Bruce, allows Monica to leave, and then goes off to meet Mike.

Ron Discovers a Color Scheme

Ron joins Mike in his car, but he isn’t alone in there; the exterminator is in there too because he wants to talk about the bug that he found in his house. Ron isn’t paying attention and is browsing through his phone, which irks Mike a lot, and he shouts at Ron so that he focuses on what the exterminator is saying. Ron obliges and learns that the bug in question is not native to North America. As per the exterminator, the bug is from Eastern Europe. Mike points out that Hungary is an Eastern European country, which is where Brucell Pharma is located, and that company is working with RBMG and Tecca to smuggle something into the USA via chairs. Ron had assumed that RBMG was bringing in drugs, but Mike is of the opinion that they are introducing these new bugs into North America’s ecosystem. The exterminator also reveals that Delaware City is already on the brink of being infested with these foreign bugs, with the government buildings being the hub of said infestation. On that note, the exterminator leaves, and Mike says that they need to go to Delaware to look into this matter. But Ron says that he can’t because he has too much work. Mike proposes that they go for this trip for the weekend, but Ron shoots down that idea as well because he has to host Seth’s birthday party during the weekend. Instead of thinking about other alternatives, Mike becomes obsessed about attending that party because, in the last episode, he had announced that he sees Ron as a family member. Now, I suppose he expects Ron to reciprocate that sentiment. However, it’s obvious that Ron doesn’t want these two worlds to collide because then he has to explain the wild conspiracy that he is investigating to his family. Hence, he tells Mike to not show up at the party and returns to the office. 

Douglas tells him that the team’s morale is down, and Ron assures him that he’s working on improving that situation. Is he, though? No, because as soon as he goes into his chamber, he goes to the official website of Delaware City and starts searching for Maggie there. He hits a dead end, but before he can search for something else in there, Brenda barges into his chamber and requests that he put a stop to Jeff’s nonsense. Does he do that? Nope. In fact, he agrees to have a discussion with Jeff on this redesign at Seth’s birthday party. After that epic failure, he goes back to his office and tries to relax with the help of Barb’s eye massager. When that doesn’t work, as he starts seeing these distracting patterns in his vision, he goes back to Delaware City’s website and notices that its color scheme is similar to that of RBMG’s website. In addition to that, the colors used in these websites were also tattooed on the hand of the guy who he caught at the Life of the Party class. Ron starts to wonder what this can mean, but his train of thought is derailed by an anonymous call from someone who threatens to “do something” to him.

A Disastrous Birthday Party

While everyone is busy partying, Ron takes Natalie aside and shows him the color scheme thingy that he has figured out. Surprisingly enough, instead of pushing back against her dad’s conspiracy theory, Natalie actually encourages him to go to the Delaware City Hall on Sunday and see if he can find any important information that’ll serve as a key to unlocking the mystery that he is embroiled in. She even points out that there’s a 50’s Cop Hop Dance and Carnival that’s happening there on Sunday, which means that no one will be there to guard the office, thereby allowing Ron to go in, extract whatever he needs, and get out undetected. However, before going on this expedition, Ron has to overcome the birthday day, which turns out to be a rollercoaster ride. Barb announces that she has secured an investor. Then Jeff shows up and immediately starts looking down at the state of Ron’s house and his neighborhood. After that Mike shows up, and Ron acts very rudely with him in order to get him off his front yard. On top of that, Seth starts pushing Ron to do the Pee-wee dance, which causes him to lash out at Seth because Ron doesn’t want to look immature in front of Jeff. 

In retaliation, Seth starts drinking a lot of alcohol. When Jeff feels that that’s not the right environment for his creativity to flourish, he says that they’ll get together with the team on Sunday—which is the day Ron has planned to go to Delaware City—to talk about the adobe home redesign. During the cake-cutting ceremony, Seth pukes out his guts, and that’s what causes the party to come to an end. Barb reprimands Ron for not dealing with Seth’s alcoholism. Ron knows he has messed up, and he doesn’t have any excuse for his failure to keep Seth’s drinking problem in check. While he’s feeling bad about this, he checks the gift that Mike had brought for Seth and sees that it’s a Chocolate Kong. Mike had written a beautiful note as well, and as Ron reads it, he regrets his decision to send off his brother-from-another-mother like that. As if that’s not depressing enough, on Sunday, when Ron goes to the construction site, along with Jeff and his team, he spots a bunch of men who have hijacked a spot there to drive their radio-controlled toy cars. Ron is unable to control the rage that has been building inside him for a while, and he tries to get those old timers off the private property. Jeff tries to get Ron to cool down, but Ron absent-mindedly shoves Jeff aside. Jeff and the team are taken aback. Ron knows what he has done, and there’s no way to put this particular bullet back into the gun. Hence, he walks away from the scene, hoping to deal with this act some other day.

Tecca Has Invaded Delaware

In the ending of The Chair Company episode 6, Ron uses the physical altercation with Jeff as an opportunity to go to Delaware City. He even calls up the guy, supposedly a representative of Tecca who has been threatening to “do something” to Ron all this while, and invites him to a face-to-face fight. Hilariously enough, the caller gets spooked and tells Ron to calm down, which means that he is probably only trying to sound intimidating and isn’t actually all that intimidating. Does the caller show up at the Delaware City Hall when Ron gets there, though? Nope. Meanwhile, Ron goes into the records room of the government building and starts looking through the documents in the hopes of finding something that’ll connect that establishment to RBMG, Tecca, or the guy with the tattoos. However, before he can find anything, a government employee discovers him, and since he doesn’t recognize Ron, he asks him to identify himself. Backed into a corner, Ron panics, throws those documents at the employee’s face, and makes a run for it. While trying to get out of the City Hall, Ron runs into consecutive rooms full of Tecca’s chairs. That puts a smile on Ron’s face. But what does this discovery actually mean? Well, if we go by the exterminator’s theory, then Brucell Pharma is smuggling drugs into Delaware City through those chairs. For what? Probably to start a disease. What’ll that achieve? 

Well, Brucell Pharma is a pharmaceutical company. So, maybe they have the cure for the disease that’ll be caused by that bug. So, it’s possible that they are creating the demand for a cure that only they can supply. But why do all this? Well, it’s either world domination or some form of revenge. I mean, whenever America is attacked, it’s safe to assume that the American government must have done something and they are facing the consequences of their actions. Does this mean that this whole conspiracy is not in Ron’s head anymore and this is actually happening? I mean, look, I think there’s a good chance that this Tecca conspiracy can still be a figment of Ron’s exhausted and overactive mind. Remember the scene where Ron is trying to get Mike to leave and Jeff interrupts their conversation? Jeff doesn’t even address Mike’s presence. Sure, Jeff is a very self-obsessed and classist guy. Hence, it’s likely that Mike is figuratively invisible to him. But what if Mike actually doesn’t exist and Ron is just spiraling out because of the insane pressure that he is feeling because of Jeff’s redesign plans, Barb’s success, Natalie’s marriage, and Seth’s alcoholism? I’m just saying that I won’t be surprised if we eventually learn that most of what Ron is seeing isn’t real. Anyway, those are my thoughts on this episode. If you have any opinions on the same that you want to share with me, feel free to use the comments section.

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