As Elon Musk's businesses reach unprecedented levels of success, his public profile grows - but his behaviour comes under ever greater scrutiny. The episode starts in 2016, when a new president came to power, whose support Elon would need in order to fulfill his multi-billion dollar government contracts. His marriage to wife Talulah Riley comes to an end and they divorce for a second time, and as well as a fractured private life, the pressure on Elon across his empire becomes enormous, with cracks beginning to show at Tesla, amid the threat of bankruptcy and whistleblowers going to the press