The House of Wolves

Jenny watches the next Wolves game from Thomas’s suite. When Ted is injured, Money McGee takes over as quarterback. Despite a rough start, McGee leads the Wolves to tie the game, and he then wins it outright by going for two points after a touchdown in the final minutes.

Detective Cantor follows Jack home after the Wolves game, now convinced that he is most likely of the siblings to have killed Joe. Cantor is shocked to see Rachel Wolf, Joe’s second wife, waiting half-naked for Jack in his secret apartment. Cantor sees Rachel and Jack kiss.

Jenny, Thomas, and Morrissey go out for drinks to celebrate the Wolves’ win. Jenny feels secure in her position as the team’s owner and happy to be out with the two men. However, Thomas interrupts their celebration by announcing that TMZ has just published an article about them.

Jenny releases a statement denying TMZ’s allegations that she and Morrissey are an item. When Tribune managing editor Megan Callahan reveals that Jack plans to release an article tying Thomas to the death of DeLavarious Harmon, Jenny decides to fire Jack and make Megan the newspaper’s new publisher.

Jenny remembers her father’s belief that the boss should always be the one doing the firing, so she calls Jack directly to tell him he’s fired. He seems unsurprised that Megan betrayed him or that Jenny is firing him. He sarcastically asks Jenny why she waited so long to fire him.

A few days later, Jack and Seth Dowd (the sports reporter) create a rogue news website called Wolf.com that publishes the sexual assault accusations against Morrissey and implicates Thomas in DeLavarious Harmon’s death. Thomas feels like he and Jenny should give in to their brothers’ demands.

Detective Cantor waits on the rowing docks for Jack to finish his workout, hoping to question Jack about his affair with Rachel, his former stepmother. He feels confident the mystery is close to being solved. Suddenly, he sees Jenny arrive, clearly angry and looking for a fight with her brother.

Jenny confronts Jack about publishing lies on his new website. Jack claims that his site is for readers who don’t trust the mainstream media and that the comment sections have already decided her guilt. When he threatens her, Jenny punches him in the face, delighting reporter Seth Dowd, who is filming her.

Jenny fields calls from Megan Callahan, who says she has to publish the fight footage, and Thomas, who again encourages her to give up the football team. Morrissey offers to meet her for a drink, but she declines. Finally, her mysterious uncle calls, telling her to take the fight seriously; he outlines her next steps.

Thomas and Jenny meet with crisis management consultant Bobby Erlich, who agrees to take their case at their uncle’s request. Erlich helps Jenny to draft an apology and advises her to use social media to help the public get to know her. Erlich also makes a mysterious suggestion to Jenny and Thomas that will help them improve their image, naming an as-yet undisclosed woman who has agreed to help; they are shocked by his suggestion. The novel later reveals that this mysterious woman is Oprah Winfrey, and she has agreed to interview Jenny.

Jenny is celebrating a Wolves win at home and feeling confident that Bobby Erlich’s services will help her. She receives a call from Thomas that hints that Jack and Danny may be interested in more than the team. He says he will come and explain in person, and Jenny waits for him a long time. Finally, late at night, Cantor arrives and says he has some news about Thomas.

Cantor says that Thomas’s body was found at Wolves Stadium: The presence of heroin and alcohol in his body leads investigators to believe that he relapsed and then died by suicide. Jenny insists that Thomas was clean and not experiencing suicidal thoughts; she says he was killed. Cantor agrees.

At Thomas’s funeral, Jack delivers an emotional eulogy in which he expresses regret for fighting with his father and brother. Jenny feels confident that he is acting. In her eulogy, Jenny says the best way to honor her brother is to tell the truth, and she shares her theory that he did not die by suicide.

Jenny finds comfort in the Hunters Point High football team. During one game, while debating which play to run, Jenny hears her brother Thomas’s voice telling her what to do. The play is successful, and the team wins. Jenny thanks her brother for his advice.

In a private meeting, Jack asks Gallo if he had anything to do with Thomas’s murder and expresses regret for releasing the story about Thomas and DeLavarious Harmon. Gallo denies the accusation, but he then threatens harm against Danny and their mother, Joe’s first wife Elisa Wolf.

Over dinner, Cantor tells Jenny that no prints were found on the rail Thomas is believed to have jumped from or from the bottle of vodka found near him. He believes this suggests that someone tried to clean up the crime scene. Jenny wonders about the nature of her relationship with Cantor and Morrissey.

Cantor is astonished that Jenny agreed to go out with him. He struggles to hide his attraction to her, but he feels he isn’t crossing any boundaries. After dinner, the two walk back to Cantor’s house, and Jenny asks him to find the person who killed her brother. He asks her to come inside.

After the Wolves encounter an embarrassing loss, Ted picks a fight with Jenny about his role on the team. He calls Money McGee and Thomas addicts, and he threatens to leak secrets about Jenny to the press if she doesn’t play him more often. Jenny orders Morrissey to cut Ted from the team.

Jenny’s decision to fire Ted—a longtime veteran and hometown hero—receives significant negative press on Wolf.com and the Tribune. In interviews, Ted frames the firing as a hasty decision by a scorned woman. Jenny then flies to see Bobby Erlich, who takes her for a personal interview with Oprah.