The Screen Actors Guild national board of directors voted 53.38% to 46.62% to approve and recommend to members a new two-year agreement which would give film and TV actors a 3.5% annual increase in year one – a 3% wage increase and a 0.5% pension and health contribution increase – and a 3.5% wage increase in year two.

And then Cain showed up. A group of SAG members against the new pact have already held one anti-ratification rally, and are promising to do everything in their power to vote the deal down. As of press time, a second rally was planned for May 3, headed up by SAG president Alan Rosenberg and former president and Hollywood mainstay Ed Asner. (If you think the plot’s been complicated so far, just wait until season three.)