Early on in Industry Season 3 Episode 2 “Smoke and Mirrors” on HBO, new grad Sweetpea Golightly (Miriam Petche) shares a lurid bit of gossip with Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela). Namely, that Lumi CEO Sir Henry Muck (Kit Harington) might look totally normal, but his sexual appetites lean towards the kinky. It’s intel masquerading as gossip that comes in handy not once, but twice in the episode. First, when Yasmin alone can coax Henry out of his downward spiral, and then later she toys with the aristocrat after he attempts to seduce her.
**Spoilers for Industry Season 3 Episode 2 “Smoke and Mirrors,” now streaming on Max**
After Henry Muck makes it abundantly clear that he wants to seduce Yasmin — going so far as to pull his powerful family’s strings to delete the tabloid article that’s been haunting her since the Season 3 premiere — she returns the flirtation in kind. She leads him to a high end restaurant bathroom where she doesn’t kiss him, fuck him, or even touch him. She forces him to listen to her pee.
“You know, she’s playing with him,” Industry star Marisa Abela told Decider of the scene. “The most intimate thing she could do in that moment is give him enough of herself that she’s able to play with him, rather than just do something else in the bathroom.”
Of course, the reason Yasmin knows that this hyper specific restroom rendezvous might work on Henry is thanks to what Sweetpea told her earlier.
“I don’t want to kink-shame him,” Sweetpea says, “but he’s like into urine.”
The Gen Z grad tells Yasmin that her best friend Treacle — who has a “body too dangerous for social media” — had two great dates with Henry Muck before he asked her to piss on him.
Initially, learning that Henry likes dominant behavior in his lovers is helpful when Yasmin shames him into leaving the bathroom stall he’s inconveniently locked himself in when the Lumi IPO goes south. Then, she use her own tabloid celebrity and connections with old world aristocratic clubs to stage a photograph of Henry with some major energy power players. Essentially, Yasmin has come to Henry’s rescue…and now he wants to woo her.
Henry’s big romantic gesture is arranging for Yasmin’s tabloid article and associated pics to be permanently deleted. Yasmin briefly tears up and then invites Henry to follow her. As soon as he enters the bathroom, she is posed powerfully by the sinks, gazing at herself in the mirror. She taunts him and then goes into a cubicle. With a smirk, she begins to urinate.
“I think she’s giving him what she thinks he wants. Yasmin knows men like this. She’s dealt with men like this her whole life,” Abela said. “You know, men who wield a lot of power, because of their social status.”
“I think she understands that giving them what they want romantically and intimately immediately is never going to work out in your favor. The way to really get to a man like that’s heart is to let him know that you understand power dynamics.”
Yasmin’s seduction works. We see Henry smile before he leaves. He’s not only taken care of the bill, but left Yasmin an ultra-expensive bottle of wine that she savagely drinks to the sommelier’s horror.
Abela went on to explain that Yasmin’s pee play might have even been romantic in a way. “I think it’s actually her way of being loving towards him,” she said.
“At the end of the day, a lot of this stuff in Industry comes down to power, money and sex. And I think that Yasmin really understands how to wield power and sex,” Abela said. “I think if [Myha’la’s character] Harper’s power lies in power and money, then they kind of have all bases covered between the two of them.”