Hi. Hello.
Good morning, Siobhan. Sorry to bother you today.
Oh, hey, Sharon.
Hi. No problem.
I wanted to discuss your results and I didn't know
but I thought you would want the chance to be aware
if you're up to it.
Yeah. Sure. Okay.
I won't draw it out. It's a good result.
The journey we went on with the amniocentesis
after what the blood test showed us
everything looks healthy.
Okay. Good.
Great. And you're still well? No spotting, no bleeding?
Nope. No.
Okay.
Well, in terms of all the results I have for you
there's nothing I think we should be concerned about.
Okay. Great.
So, Davina will reach out
to make an appointment for your 20-week scan.
But I'm thinking of you at this time.
If there's anything I can do...
Okay. Great. Thank you. Thanks, Sharon.
You know you fucked me.
You fucked me right in the ass here.
What you've done, Juliette, is you've taken a strap-on
and you've fucked me right in the ass, yeah?
Call me. Please.
Thank you.
- Hello, Marcia. - Hi, Kendall. Hi.
Mes condoléances.
Sorry for your loss.
Thank you.
- Likewise. - Yes.
It's a terrible shock.
Right.
And where have you...
When did you get in?
We spoke every morning and afternoon
so I came as soon as I heard.
Okay.
Yeah, I mean...
I honestly...
I didn't think you guys were... you know.
We were very close.
It was complicated.
But we spoke intimately every evening.
Right. Okay. Well...
Graham. Janet.
We're so sorry.
Thank you so, so much.
- Praying for you, Ken. - Oh, thank you.
- Hey, brother. - Sorry, kid.
Thank you. Thanks, Cyd.
- Sorry for your loss. - So sorry, Kendall.
Thank you, Penny. Thanks. Thanks, Mark.
- Hey. - Hey.
How you doin'?
- Hey. - Hey.
What's up with Marcia?
Oh, the belle of the ball?
Death becomes her.
And, like, where... where's, you know, where's Kerry?
Oh, in Marcia's trunk.
Inside an anaconda. Inside a sarcophagus.
You know that Marcia hasn't seen Dad in, like, seven weeks.
It says in his calendar.
"Intimate calls every night," did you get that one?
No. I think I might sue her
for making me think of Dad doing phone sex.
No?
Oh, yeah, no, I could do a phone sex bit if you want.
I just thought you wouldn't be in the mood.
Yeah, I'm actually... I'm fine.
Like, I'm sure it'll crush me eventually.
Freight train a-comin', but today I'm...
Yeah, I'm okay.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
- I feel knocked out. - Yeah.
I didn't sleep.
I wonder if maybe I've just thought about it so much
one way or another that, I don't know, I've...
maybe pre-grieved?
Well, good for you.
I mean...
I don't believe you, but...
No.
Well, either way, we should...
- you know, huddle, 'cause... - Yeah, yeah.
For some of us, it's a sad day
but for others, it's coronation demolition derby.
What's the schedule?
Board call is 11.00, I think.
Hey. How we doing?
Oh, you know.
- It's so strange being here. - Yeah.
- Without him. - Indeed, indeed.
So, what have I missed?
- Lot of incoming, lot of incoming. - Yeah.
Presidents, Prime Ministers...
Yep. Just trying to keep everything stable.
Board on the line in, what, an hour to pick a new top dog.
And what's your sense, Frank?
What are the CEO vibes?
Would anyone care for...
a look at the china?
He was gonna fire half that room.
Do people know that? Should we get that out there?
No. We don't want this to look like a shit show.
It's chaos narratives.
Fratricide narratives, bad narratives.
- Hey. Hey, guys. - Hi.
Oh, man.
I'm... I'm sorry... I'm sorry for your loss.
- Thanks, man. - Thank you.
It's just great that we can all...
the family can support each other and stay strong through this.
- Yeah. - Thanks, Greg.
My guys. My lovely guys.
Okay. Hey, hey, you know, we're not, like, playing
- Chutes and Ladders, okay? - Sorry.
Our dad just died, and...
No, I'm sorry.
I'm sad.
And just thinking about how things will shake down, right?
There's the board meeting coming up any minute
and I talked to Ewan, and he'll have a say, so...
Yeah, you need to get a new mommy, okay?
We're not your mommy.
I'm... I'm getting a call here. Could you maybe...
- Thanks, Greg. - No, I mean it. Seriously.
Fuck right on off.
- Thank you. - Sorry, guys.
Matsson? Do I?
- Yeah. - So, let's just, let's...
- just do five. - Yeah.
And get our ducks in a row. Yeah?
Or we... we fucking blurt and he puts it on his socials
and suddenly, we sold Manhattan for glass beads, right?
Okay. I'll let it ring out.
So, the aim is we'd like to make an announcement today
stating who we think will take over in the interim, ready for Monday.
Right. And here's my position.
I wonder if we don't wanna take control of the plane here?
Yeah, well, the... I guess the first thing is the GoJo deal.
The board, the shareholders, everyone is very keen.
No, exactly, and I tell you...
I worry about the kids' commitment to the deal.
If we called around the board, Frank
you'd hold a lot of sway on the interim appointment.
They'd like senior management input, yeah.
Right, and if the message we gave was to be, you know
but that the kids are... are...
Screw-ups and dipshits.
Maybe not constitutionally well-equipped at this point
- to take on the role. - Yeah.
I guess the question then would just be who might we favor?
Gerri, obviously, is a safe pair of hands.
- She's done it recently. - Yeah.
Although, obviously, generally speaking
the CFO might be considered the natural interim.
Yeah.
I guess you've already had your tilt at the windmill, huh, Ger?
Exactly. I've already done it and quite successfully.
And it's an interim role to do the deal.
I'd get it done.
Buckle you into your golden parachute, Karl.
Well...
don't push me out the plane so fast there, Ger.
Well, with the old man gone, I can't help but wonder
if I don't have a little left to give.
Look, I think you're corporate legend.
What you did in the '90s with cable?
Huge.
Logan was souring on you.
Well, Logan's not around anymore.
I would just like to say...
to this senior group of very respected gray beards
that all I have ever personally asked
is the chance to serve.
I mean, I'm sick with grief...
- Oh, you're sick with grief? - but I...
You might wanna put down that fish taco.
You're getting your melancholy everywhere.
Very funny, but were the opportunity to arise
all I would say is that if there's a ring, my hat's in.
Respectfully.
Well, I would just say...
if we were to recommend you to the board
the question they might ask would...
Can... Can I frame the question for you, but as a friend?
- Sure, sure. - Just so you'd be... be prepared.
The negative case would go...
You're a clumsy interloper and no one trusts you.
The only guy pulling for you is dead
and now you're just married to the ex-boss's daughter
and she doesn't even like you.
And you are fair and squarely fucked.
Jesus, Karl.
Frank, can I grab you for a second?
Oh, sure. Yeah.
Oh, hi, this is Oskar on Lukas's phone.
Oh, hey, Oskar.
This is Roman Roy.
Lukas called, but I was just rounding up my chimpanzee friends
'cause they wanted to say hi, too.
Is he there?
Oh, no. He... He went now, he says.
Okay, right. So, can you get him, please?
Yeah, well, he was... he was calling last chance, unfortunately.
Because you know, we... we have this...
a company strategy session this week.
Hey, this is Kendall.
Come on, man.
We dropped a call because we wanted to all be on out of respect.
Can you grab him? It wasn't a power play.
Oh, sure, man. No, that's cool. No, we know.
It... This isn't from him.
He's just on a super tight schedule now.
Okay, well, does he not just wanna say hi?
You know, is he still buying the company?
Oh, sure, man, maybe if you don't squeeze too tight.
No, no, he's... he's excited to speak to you guys.
Who will be leading?
We're just huddling on that now.
We're a pretty fluid group.
Yeah.
But listen, it seems like maybe...
your retreat has come at a good time.
Yeah? You guys get your ducks in a row
we do our board, pick our captain.
We can reconfigure in a week or whatever.
Yeah, well, we don't... we don't wanna lose momentum.
Okay. No, nor us.
You obviously know what happened here yesterday, right?
Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah. We really feel for you guys.
Bad one.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, bad one. Thank you for that. Thanks.
Yeah, yeah.
But, you know, could you guys or whoever
one of the old guys you have, like
be here in 24 hours to do this?
You... Sorry, our dad just died and we have the election coming up.
How would you feel about doing a meet in the US?
Ah, this is... this is the annual retreat.
We can't just drop it.
No, I totally see that. Fine.
- Marcia. - Yeah.
I am so sorry for your loss.
Thank you.
See how they run.
Yes. Scurrying like little rats.
- Hi. - Hi, Marcia.
- Hi. - I'm so sorry for your loss.
Thank you.
To you, too, Connor.
- Hi. - Thank you.
Marcia, we'll catch up later.
- Yeah. Of course. - Okay.
Okay.
- Congratulation. - Thank you.
Look how far you've come.
Yep.
Well, look at us both, right?
I'm sorry about everything.
I mean, after your wedding, to have to do this.
Oh, we're gonna head off next week.
You know, we've got a little trip planned out.
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania.
The honeymoon states.
- I'm just gonna... Yeah. - Okay.
I wanted to say
because these things can happen in a flash
but if and when the time comes
for you to consider selling this place
I would be...
I'm wary to even say the words
- but I... I would be... I... - No need to be ashamed.
We're family.
I will be looking for...
between 60 and 70 millions.
All right. Okay.
- Yeah. - So, like...
63 or...
- Done. - Done?
Yeah. Done.
Okay.
Yeah.
- Done. - Great.
Karl, hey.
Come here a second. I wanna talk to you about something.
In my role as executor...
I've... I've had passed to me a rather worrying piece of paper.
Okay.
And...
- Who else knows? - As of now, as far as I know
just you and me.
So, what are you thinking?
Well, I honestly didn't even wanna start thinking 'til you were here.
I mean, could it...
might it just go away?
I mean, it might get lost.
I hope it doesn't.
But what if your hand goes a little wobbly...
and a draft takes it away
and it gets flushed down a toilet by mistake?
- I'm kidding, of course. - No, sure. You're...
You're speculating in a comic mode.
Yeah. In a humorous vein.
We're not gonna let the little princes
screw things up, right, Frank?
If Gerri's going to block me, I want out.
I want my fuckin' package.
I am halfway in on a Greek island with my brother-in-law.
- Hey, what's up, boys? - Hi.
Okay, fine.
Well, I've just been handed a piece of paper, Gerri.
It's...
It has a list of wishes in the event of Logan's death.
Funeral arrangements, so on.
May I?
Paragraph three.
And where was this found?
In his private safe.
And this penciled addendum is what?
We haven't touched it. The underlining, the pencil, is his.
Undated, apparently.
Not even shared with his lawyer or myself, so...
So, what are you thinking?
Well, legally, since the family doesn't have full control
legally, it... it wouldn't mean...
Legally, it's up to the board to decide who's next
so this is not germane.
Right, it's not germane. Not germane.
We were joking that it could fall in the toilet.
Yes, well, that is a very funny joke.
You know, they say it's a bad idea to make big decisions right after...
Sure, but they also say
it's pretty smart not to pay realtor's fees.
And it's such a bitch to get into these good buildings.
All right, well...
- Hey, guys. - Hey.
- Hey, Con. - Hey.
How are we farin'?
- Yeah... - Oh, you know.
- Seen the obits? - Sure.
You like the Globe photo?
Did any of you guys ever see him laugh like that?
Only if a hobo was on fire.
Yeah, I mean, to be honest, Dad sounds amazing.
I'd like to have met Dad.
But you guys are okay really?
- Yeah. - Yeah, Roman is pre-grieved.
Already gave at the office.
They don't fuckin' believe me.
You know, from where I'm sittin', you're the ones that look naive.
Okay? I've been worried that this was gonna happen for ages.
How you doin'?
I have no clue.
- I'm okay. - Yeah?
Yeah, I'm okay.
- You, Ken? - Me?
You're gonna laugh, but in the middle of the night
I did a talk, like, a session.
My therapist recommended someone
and I got to him and he's... he's kinda good.
I have his number, if you want.
Like, it's dumb, but there's actually things you can do.
I mean, it sounds like you've got the best grief guy.
I have a great grief guy. Fuck you.
You're gonna destroy this.
Hi, guys. Some more hard copies.
- Obituaries. - Ah, the reviews are in.
Great.
Yeah, they're mostly five stars.
And I think the board will assemble now at noon.
Okay. Thanks, Hugo.
- Okay. Ken? - Yeah.
Can I... Can I ask you something?
Just for one second?
- Sorry, just something quickly. - Yes.
This'll take a second.
Private.
Ken...
I may have...
caught myself up in a little bit of something.
It's probably nothing, but...
I'm... I'm sorry to bother you with this.
Okay. What?
I just found out that my daughter...
She happened to sell a bunch of Waystar stock
just before the news about your father went...
went public.
A total coincidence.
But I...
I don't want it to come up as an issue.
Did you speak to her on the day?
What are the phone records gonna say?
I can't recollect.
Oh, Hugo.
I don't even have a relationship with Juliette, that's the sad fact.
The irony is we hardly talk, and...
Thanks, Ken.
Anything good?
The Courier. You need a...
codebook for this one.
- You ready? - Yeah.
"A complicated man."
- Threw phones at staff. - That's good.
"A sharp reader of the national mood."
He's a bit racist.
Well, then, "He was very much a man of his era"?
Again, racist.
Also relaxed about sexual assault.
"Business genius"?
Never paid a penny in US tax.
- Oh, that's... Yeah. - Boom.
"Well-connected."
Now, that's not fair.
I feel like well-connected is generally accepted
to be a euphemism for pedophile
and no one ever suggested that he would, you know...
- Fuck a child? - Yeah.
Yeah.
He wouldn't even hug his grandkids.
Hey, guys. Sorry.
I think they want to see you up in the library.
All right, let's go.
Thanks.
- Hey, Ken. - Hey, Tom.
Ken, I just wanted to say, you know
I know there's a lot of water under the bridge
a lot of history, but as far as I am concerned
the... the big man passing cleaned the slate.
So, yeah, I just...
Yeah.
I just wanna say that, and, you know
I wish maybe there's some things I could maybe take back, some words.
And I'm sorry for your loss
but I want you to know that I'm... that I'm here to serve.
Right here.
I like you, Tom.
Good luck.
Hey. Hi. Hello.
- Hello. - Yeah. Come on in.
- Have a seat. - Yeah, I know. We're in.
- Okay? - How are you doing?
Yeah, hanging in.
So, look, I'm one of the executors of your dad's affairs.
This is not a legal matter
but certain wishes have been discovered
and it appears at a certain point, undated
it was suggested that it was your dad's wish that...
Kendall take over as CEO.
And it's from when?
Well, it was in the safe
between pieces on the Raymade acquisition
and the first US Virgin Islands reorganization
- so it's old. - It's old.
As far as we can tell, from four years ago or so.
Yeah, then it looks like there are pencil addendums from another time.
We don't know its status
and, I mean, it doesn't hold any legal value
but we wanted you to know.
But we wouldn't want it to feel more significant than it should.
Because the family no longer has majority control of Waystar.
So, any such suggestions are non-binding.
Dad was the founder.
- So... - Of... Of course.
It is from some time ago.
And things changed.
And Logan was a man of different moods.
Yeah, yeah.
There are some additions in pencil that he put in about artifacts.
And I think... we think, from context
they were added maybe in the last 18 months.
Oh, so he underlined recently?
Underlined or crossed out?
Shiv?
Oh, no... I'm not saying for or against.
I'm just, as a matter of fact, it's...
Are you serious?
- I mean, it's kind of... - Okay. Let me see the thing.
It's underlined or crossed out.
It doesn't... It doesn't really matter
because it's, legally, it's the board, yeah?
- Who will choose. - Exactly.
The market, the shareholders, the board
we all want the sale to go through.
So, it's an interim position, really.
Sure. I mean, anyone could do that.
And since he said, I mean, he has said...
I mean, Ken. Sure, man, I get it.
But, like, this... this thing is old
and you've tried to put him in jail, like, 12 times since then, so...
I wonder what with the, you know, the underlining or the crossing out
and the unknown age, the document is essentially moot.
You know, it's impossible to decipher?
Well, it sure as fuckin' shit doesn't say Shiv.
- Okay. - So, what else is in the fuckin'...
- Can you? I don't wanna... - Music, burial in the city.
Catholic. You can see.
Should I get Greg now? Just to clear this up.
Excuse me.
There's a mix of business and personal.
A watch for Colin.
Honestly, it looks like he drafted it himself
never sent it to his lawyer, and just put it in the safe.
I mean, more... more of a selection of musings, really.
Some thoughts on the tax position, of some artwork in storage...
What... What does he have?
He's got, like, a shit ton of investment impressionisms, right?
Like, he's got three Gauguins no one's seen for tax reasons.
I think his suggestion was it might be smart tax-wise
to just leave 'em in the Geneva vault.
Oh, fuck it, why not just burn them for the insurance, no?
Yeah, that would be the dream, financially speaking.
- Hey, everyone. - Yes, Greg.
Hey.
In case it comes out
we wanted you to be aware that you're on a piece of paper.
A side letter left by Logan with...
some wishes and disbursements.
Okay. In... Yeah.
In... In what capacity? In... In what fashion?
You're an addendum of miscellaneous matters in pencil
- with a question mark. - Nevertheless.
Dad may have said he wanted me to take over.
And so then, maybe the natural conclusion
might perhaps be I'd be his number two.
Nice try, kid.
He... He probably wrote it down so he could remember your name.
We had a good rapport.
You had a good rapport?
I feel I heard he wanted to see less of you.
That's probably, like, 50-50 "fire Greg" or "kill Greg."
I think that it's not that kind of question mark.
I think it's...
- Possibly, it's a wondering. - It's a doodle.
We just wanted you to be aware.
Oh, hey. Sorry, Marcia wanted me to let you know
that there's some words down...
- Some informal... - Okay.
Well, there's a lot to consider.
Should we reconvene before the board meeting
- to pool thoughts? - Yeah.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Is it real, Frank?
I don't know.
My dad wanted me to take over.
Well, sometimes.
You know that. He did. Sometimes.
He made me hate him, and he died.
I feel like he didn't like me.
- Who? - I disappointed him.
No. No, come on.
We think these...
grand horror things at times like these.
These ice shelves are gonna
come at us in the night and take our heads off.
It's not true.
He was an old bastard, and he loved you.
He loved you.
You think?
I think so.
If I get them in behind me, will you follow?
Ken, you've got stuff cookin'.
You seem so well.
You really want back in?
Part of me is just like
"Well, let's just give the poor orphan what he wants."
Sorry, I don't know what's wrong with me.
- That's not kind. - No... I get it. Yeah.
I mean, it is interim.
Well, so long as it is.
Wait, why? What are you thinkin'?
It felt good.
- Us, right? - Yeah.
And now does this? Feel good?
Like, does that feel good? It's...
- Hey. How you doing? - Hey.
You know.
You?
Well, he wasn't my dad, but, you know, he's...
- It's sad. - Yeah.
I guess you're worried you picked the wrong horse.
Yeah, you might've picked the dead horse.
Don't. You'll regret it.
Let me show you some kindness.
Well, my thing, you know, honestly...
I guess I'm just...
slowly coming to accept that...
we killed him.
- Shiv... - No, we did.
He died on the plane
and he wouldn't have been on the plane
except that we made him get on there.
So, that's just very cool.
Anything could have happened.
A million things could have happened.
I just don't wanna fake myself out.
If we had said yes to GoJo, then...
he might've been around for 20 more years
so he could rock his grandkids to sleep.
As he was evidently so keen to do.
Yeah.
Well, that's fucked now, isn't it?
So...
Don't. Just...
I'm angry.
My dad died
and my mom is a fucking disaster
and my husband is...
And Kerry and Marcia, and...
It... it feels like...
I'm the only one who lost something
that they actually fucking wanted here
and it's not coming back, so...
Yeah.
Siobhan, do you remember when...
we first knew one another?
The first time, in France, when I flew to you.
And it was that very difficult time for you
and I'd sent you all those handwritten notes.
And then the first time...
and you were wearing that very fine silk shirt
and I put my arm around you.
I said, I kept asking, "Do you like this? Do you like this?"
And you said, eventually, "I like it all"?
Yeah, well...
That was a while ago, wasn't it?
Not that long.
It was a while back.
- Colin does jeans? - Yeah.
He doesn't know what the fuck to do with himself.
Look at his arms.
Weird, like a dog without its person.
What's up?
Colin has a kid?
Oh, shit. Didn't even notice.
- Oh, what the fuck now? - What? Who is it?
There's a dog. There's a dog in the house.
Hi. Did... Marcia?
Marcia, so, what's with the... the ruff-ruff?
The Secret Service are conducting a sweep.
Jeryd Mencken is en route.
I'm not sure that I want that today, actually.
- I don't wanna see him. - Yeah, he asked.
He was a friend of your father's, no?
Well, they spoke, but no. It was transactional.
Oh, yeah, not like all his real friends
- from his men's group and choir. - Oh, come on, Rome.
- His two best friends. - He didn't know him.
Whatshisface and...
- Get-That-Fucker-Away-From-Me. - He called him "the spooky embryo."
Yeah, okay, look
it's just, there's all these fuckin' ghouls here, so come on.
I just don't wanna see his smirky little autocratic face.
He's probably gonna be president this time next week.
Okay, well, I think I have a veto. My dad just died.
Oh, I think I have a counter veto
'cause, weirdly, my dad just died, too.
Guys, I think, on a business level, we need to have a relationship.
Yeah? You do? Now you do, huh?
All right.
- Friends. - God...
- Good friends all. - This fucking day.
When a great man passes, the angels of heaven weep.
But when a giant of the conservative movement passes...
Oh, god, I didn't know we were having a kids entertainer.
Who the fuck made him king of the day?
Logan Roy was such a giant.
He was a man of humility, grace, dignity.
Who died fishing his iPhone from a clogged toilet.
Really? Oh, man.
So they say. Karl blocked it.
No.
The man lives on Wonder Bread and steak frites.
He hadn't had a shit for 20 years.
He was a man of wisdom
a man of humility, a man without vanity.
He was a man who wasn't wearing his compression socks
so he could look hot for Kerry.
To make the world a better place.
He molded the country like clay in his hands
and made it into something beautiful.
Into the shape of a dick.
Come on.
He made it stronger, more coherent.
When I think of LR, I think of a great lion of freedom.
Do you believe this shit?
He's trying to make Pop into a neo-conservative.
He wasn't a neo-con, he was a paleolibertarian.
He was practically an anarcho-capitalist.
Yeah, sure, I mean, if you like Benny Hill and Sinatra
does that make you one of those things?
They're trying to bodysnatch him.
History's being written.
The next 48 hours are crucial.
Godspeed, for surely soon
Logan Roy will be running rolling news in heaven.
- How's it going? - Hey.
- Shiv, I'm so sorry. - Thank you.
- Hey. I'm so sorry, Shiv. Hey. - Thanks.
- Thank you for coming. - Hey.
Good of you to be here.
- I am so sorry. - Thank you.
- Hey, bro. - My dad was very affected.
Yeah? And, so, why is he doing that with his face, can I ask?
That's just how his face looks these days.
Oh, yeah? Frozen into a smile?
Please, he's... he's sad.
He knew your dad for a long time.
I'm pretty sure he just fucking winked at me.
Sandy, it's Kendall.
Hey.
What's he doing?
I mean, I guess...
they were close, Dad and him, so...
Yeah, plus he still has a board vote.
But, you know, I guess, who would you prefer?
One of us or one of the old guard?
- Everything all right? - Yep.
Oh, dear. Yes.
Look who's crawled out of the woodwork.
I told her not to do this. I don't understand.
Oh, god. Oh, she's coming over.
Oh, it's so distasteful.
- Hi. - Hello.
I got your message, but I just want to go...
I just have some things of mine upstairs that I need.
They're in a bag.
Kevin, Melanie.
Yeah, I just need to go up, so...
- Please. No. - Thank you.
Not upstairs.
- I don't want her up. - Okay.
- Come on. Easy, easy. - I only...
Don't look, Marcia. It's too unpleasant.
All right, what's... What is going on?
You okay? Is this yours? Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm good... - Are you cool?
You're good?
Do you need me to help you...
Sorry, I don't know if I have your private number.
Can you send that to me?
I got it, I got it.
God damn it.
We were talking...
We were talking about getting married
and he was making arrangements about us, so could you check?
Yeah, I don't think...
He was gonna... He was gonna make a note...
Or he was gonna write his lawyer or something, he said.
So, can you check?
- Could you check on it? - I'm gonna check on it. I got it.
Do I have your private number?
- Wait a sec. One second. - Billy, take her out the back, yeah?
I can get it, I can get that.
Yeah.
Oh, god.
Here come the waterworks.
Out the back, Billy.
"Take her out the back, Billy." That's always nice to hear, huh?
Marcia, that wasn't necessary, right?
We're calling her a taxi to the subway
so that she can go home to her little apartment.
Nice.
Jesus.
How's your friend, Sandy?
Yeah.
"Who are you?"
"Why is this sex party so sad?"
Shiv, should we talk?
Yeah, we... we don't need to... Nothing needs to change too much.
Like, whatever you're thinking, you can... you can say.
Fine, we should... we should definitely talk.
Okay.
Hey. Hey, Rome.
- How are you doing? - Hi.
- Great. How are you? - Yeah. I'm good.
I'm okay, I'm okay.
I just wanna say...
Tell me to... Tell me to fuck off, if you like, really
but, you know the...
the piece of paper situation?
- Yeah... - Yeah, I heard about it.
And I... I don't wanna... I don't wanna talk out of turn.
But we both know that Logan only wanted one person to take over
and he just asked you back in.
Yo, Tommy Wamby. Tightrope Tommy.
Riding his little subtle cycle across Niagara Falls, huh?
- Tiptoe Tommy. - I'm here to serve.
I'm... I'm here to serve.
Lipbalm TomWalm.
Lubin' up his lips to kiss my butt.
- Hey. - Hey, dude.
- That old fuckin' bastard. - Yeah.
Yeah.
I thought he'd be like my dad.
Ninety-five and just started suing the neighbor.
- What was it? - Embolism. Pulmonary.
Because I heard he saw your Pierce business plan
and choked laughing.
You fucking prick.
Hey.
Come on.
It's all right.
Hey.
So... listen.
You gonna do the board call from here?
Here or car.
Because there's a...
there's a piece of paper with me on it
that Dad said it should be me.
Okay.
Can you swing in for me?
You know me. You know my flaws.
It's short-term.
I mean, you're really selling me right now.
I mean...
I guess, you know
my pubes got a little singed the last time I went with you.
- Yeah. - Remember? Yeah.
- Yeah. - Well, yeah.
That was a... that was a different... different thing.
For my family, I had to back down.
There was no card he wouldn't play against me.
Do you even fucking like the deal?
Yes. Yes, I do.
Look, the deal has to happen.
We can't live in a haunted house. I have plans with the sibs.
We'll... we'll take news and maybe fuse with Pierce.
But, you know, it'll be a feather in my cap to bring in the deal.
And you can bring it home?
Dude, Ken.
Is your fucking head on straight?
I'm twin track. I'm dead, but I'm alive.
Yeah? Dive into work?
Dude, what are we gonna do, sit in the dark and drink Laphroaig?
And...
what's in it for me, Ken?
I don't know, man. Maybe...
do a solid for your oldest pal the day after his dad died?
How about that?
What do you think of the apartment, Mom?
It's very pleasant.
We need to check all the walls and see if they're structural.
I'd actually like to make this, you know, bigger.
Willa's mom?
God love her. Her plate is groaning.
Hey, so listen, I think Stewy would swing behind one of us.
Oh, okay. Does she know she can go back?
And she dropped the grapes.
Yeah, her boat really came in, didn't it?
This has turned into the grand tour for her.
I guess the agenda for me is do we...
You know, do we agree to flying to Matsson?
You know that Connor's moving in, yeah?
Okay. What?
Well, Marcia gets it, but she kinda, she... she sorta sold it to me.
She did? Let's all move in. Grow old together.
Share a bed like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
We've got, like, ten 'til board time.
Yeah. Have you spoken to Mom yet?
No. Swapped messages.
- Shiv... Can we... can we... talk? - Peter Munion was flying to Spain
and he tried to reroute to come directly here
because he wanted to be with us at this difficult time.
He sent me a message saying it's a "rum situation"
and "one in the eye for all of us" and also...
Can you stop ignoring me, please? For fuck's sake. Come on, please.
Let's talk about it.
We got somewhere. Us. We got somewhere.
Yeah? Let's talk about it.
I don't even care what happens
but let's not just give it to the fucking Keystone fucks
because we didn't talk.
Con?
- Oh, really? - Do you mind?
Sorry, man.
Mi casa es su casa.
So, what do you think?
Do you have an issue with me?
Because...
Yeah.
That's fine.
But I'd like it to be one of us.
And yeah, Dad... Dad said so.
Okay, well, let's discuss
but can you please just stop jonesing?
You're walking around the wake with a fucking hard-on.
I'm not. I'm...
All I am suggesting is that I swing it for us
and then we move ahead.
Us three, Pierce, ATN, everything.
Okay, good. Great. Well, I have some thoughts.
Yeah... I guess I have some thoughts, too.
You're not pulling for Ger-Bear?
What, me? Hell no.
No, I'm... I'm done helpin' old ladies across the street.
But I do wonder about...
- About me? - Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
I think it needs to be me, too.
- Okay. - Yeah.
We're doing what we do, together.
Well, ultimately, that's how I want it.
Man, come on, you're jerking over a piece of paper
that he scribbled your fucking name on.
Just... There is an argument that you're the worst of both worlds.
Different, but the same.
That plays, Shiv. It does. With the board.
Same old, but with a vibey new banner.
The COO is on the draft plan, right?
- Like, right? - Yeah.
I'm a COO, and I know Matsson.
And I was very close with Dad.
We had a number of communications that you were aware of
and some that, honestly, now is not the time
but you were not.
And, yeah, I just think we were close
and, honestly, Ken, it doesn't feel good, right?
For it to be just you.
Yeah.
So, them's my words.
I see that.
Yeah. I see that, bro.
- You do? - Yeah.
I mean, Rome, it doesn't have to be just me.
I'm down. It makes sense.
'Kay.
And what about me?
Honestly, I just worry...
It looks like special pleading.
Like, it's the COO's, it's in the draft plan.
I'm on the piece of paper.
It... It needs to look fuckin' dry and clean and tough.
And I don't?
Yeah? I look too teary-eyed and mascara-streaked
and like I might fuckin' faint?
- It's clean enough. - Shiv, it's not... it's not...
Really, I don't think it works.
You actually don't have experience, it starts to look flaky.
I did the strategic review.
That was Daddy make-work.
And besides, I think two is cool
but three is...
- Like, three is... - Three is a bit wonky.
I mean, two is fucking
and three is like some weird orgy for hippies.
I can't see the board going for three.
Well, I need to wet my beak.
We'd only be fronting it.
I don't need to be front facing, and it's not about ego.
Really, it's the threeby. It's the team.
Yeah. You're inside everything.
Okay? This is like... I'm not trying to fuck anyone, okay?
This is just to sell, and yesterday was...
Come on. Like, yesterday was fuckin'...
That was real, and I think we're...
I feel really good about this.
This is... I think this is good.
- I need to be across everything. - Everything.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
It's a holding position. It's holding.
We'll do the deal. Spin ATN, fold in Pierce.
Six months? Eight months?
And that's all equal?
- Yeah. - Equal as fuck.
To the gram.
'Cause you guys fuck me on this, and it's...
No.
This is a Dad promise. On yesterday.
- Yeah. On yesterday. - On yesterday.
Not gonna fuck you.
You guys wanna talk?
- Ready? - Yeah.
Okay.
Okay?
Yeah?
I think...
Pre-board, we were just hoping would be just us?
Oh, no, this is a good group.
I'm just not sure it's appropriate for this discussion.
Well, if you're uncomfortable, Frank, you can fuck off.
This is a lovely gang of pals having a chat, okay?
Look, it's simple.
COOs are on the draft emergency plan.
It looks perverse not to honor that
and it looks pointed for it not to be us.
Me and Roman step up.
Well, when was the last time you spoke with your dad?
Like, 48 hours ago.
And how'd that go?
It went well.
Well, Ken, the DOJ is all wrapped up
and everything you said about Logan amounted to nothing.
You're damaged goods.
Whereas I shepherded in a lot of cultural change.
I think we all know that Dad had soured on Gerri.
I don't think there's anything on paper to that effect.
But I'm not gonna push it.
We're obviously the people to take over for Dad.
We were closest to him.
I think the board could have concerns.
Well, Kendall's name is on a piece of paper.
- Logan said it should be Kendall. - But when?
A few times.
You've lost Logan.
And for his faults, he was the founder.
Ken and Roman.
I think a Roy at Royco works.
It's not for long.
So you can puppet master them?
- Who, me, Frank? - Get the fuck outta here.
Come on.
There will be the renegotiation with Matsson.
I wanna do the deal and get out.
We've got our own ideas with ATN refreshed
there's a shape for things for us, we have things cooking.
Yeah, I mean, we know that the board is very excited about the deal.
So are we. It's a good deal.
- It is a good deal. - Yeah.
History is happening.
- Can you smell it? - Sure.
Roses and rotting corpses.
Okay.
Okay, it's done. It's done, they voted it through.
Ken and Rome?
Ken and Rome step up from COO.
Let's draft it, Hugo. Right now.
All right!
Long live the kings!
Long live the king!
And the other king.
Hi.
Everything well?
Yep, all great. All good.
Great.
Yeah.
Shut the fuck up and stop laughing. It's not a comedy night.
Oh, shit.
Hey. Hey, honey.
I'm fine...
Don't fucking touch me.
Stop... Stop smiling.
No one comes in here.
So, you're running the company. Congratulations.
Yeah, yeah. Thank you. A great day. Great week.
Did you know he did Sudoku?
Yeah. Yeah, I guess he did them.
I think I... I think I knew that.
Jesus...
You guys okay?
- Yeah... - Yeah.
Okay. Yeah, I'm sorry that we have to... you know.
But we are putting together the statement announcing you, and...
we'll go through all the biographical details
with your offices and yeah.
Just wanted to check in on comms and PR.
There's also a lot of quite difficult decisions, so...
Yes, I guess what we wanted to say from a comms point of view
and listen, this is strictly comms
but the markets are gonna open on Monday
and there are a number of ways
to solidify your guys' position, okay?
When Logan was with us
we did everything we could to burnish his reputation.
Now you're taking over
so we wanna do everything we can to burnish your reputations.
Yeah, I guess there are two ways to go.
There's sort of Operation Embalm Lenin
or there's another way.
Yeah, for the first option we, you know, just put together
a nice package of photos with you and your dad.
You're a safe pair of hands.
We mention the piece of paper.
And you're gonna follow what Logan Roy did to the letter.
Or there's a more complex, more fresh start.
- Go on. - And this is, again
just a PR perspective.
Yeah?
There's gonna be an issue about your competence.
And so, maybe, if we stress, for example
how involved you've already been, previously.
So, toughest version...
we say that he was losing his focus towards the end.
Okay. So, it's Operation Shit On Dad.
- No, no. - Yeah. Yes, it is.
I think the piece of paper is strong.
Okay.
You really think the people are gonna buy
that Dad was a fuckin' puppet?
It's just an option, Roman.
Logan Roy was a great man.
However, lately
the people around him have been making the big decisions.
His kids have been pulling the strings.
I mean, we could go as far as you like.
I wouldn't, but it is our job to say
that we could go to Connor's mom.
Physical and verbal abuse. The Kerry situation.
Okay, whoa. That's all right, okay? Yeah.
I... I do have certain feelings of queasiness
about, I guess, shitting on our dad
while he's still up at Frank E. Campbell's.
Yeah, right now, I would say, considering our dad has just died
we should maybe not shit on Dad.
Yes. Thanks, Karolina.
You, too, fuckface, but...
maybe don't bring us this disgusting shit ever again, okay?
- Sure. - Thanks anyway.
- Understood, understood. - Sorry.
- Thanks, everyone. - Thanks, Hugo.
Yep. Apologies.
Hey, Hugo.
You know the stuff?
What stuff?
The Bad Dad stuff.
- Yeah. - It's what he would do.
He'd want this for the firm.
Right. Okay.
So, action that. But soft. No prints.
Right. I mean, I don't wanna...
I'm a little concerned to freelance.
Can I get a sign-off from Karolina and Roman?
Nah, pal. No. Down low.
Just get on it.
Unless you want me to pull out the strap-on.