Succession

- Tom, where is she, huh? - She must be in transit or a tunnel.

Or... Roman.

- Where's Shiv? - "I don't know where she is, Dad."

What the fuck's going on? What's everyone saying?

I need to know where everyone is and what everyone's thinking.

"Where are you?"

You know, heading for a shit, shave, and a shower.

"No. No. I need Connor steadied."

I need Marcia. I need Shiv. I need Ray and Cyd and fucking...

I need you showing your face for me, son.

You want me to go talk to him, to Ken?

"No! Fuck that. No. No one talks to the snake, no."

Keep Gerri close. Hmm? Keep an eye on, huh? I trust you.

"It just had to be Gerri. For right now. For today. "

Uh, yeah. Uh, yeah. I get it, Dad.

Okay, Greg. Let's game a call with your Grandpa.

I'd like us to get Ewan squared off.

- Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think... - Yeah?

I guess... Maybe you ought to just do that, right?

- You okay, dude? - Yeah.

You wondering if you tied your dick to a runaway train here?

What? No, no, no. I mean...

- You aren't Judasing are you, Greg? - No. No.

Come here. Come on, buddy. Come here. Let's huddle.

- What's up? - Yeah.

- I don't know. I'm... - Talk to me.

I...

I don't know. I am, uh, just a bit scared.

Like, I don't...

You know, I don't really wanna go to Congress again.

I'm kind of too young to be in Congress so much, you know?

- Did my dad get to you? - Tom keeps calling.

He just wants to know where we got the papers and... or you got...

- Look... - And what's in the papers, and...

I'm not gonna burn you, kiddo.

I don't even have to tell the government where I got the papers.

- Well, you said you wouldn't tell them. - Yeah.

- And... and I'll stick by that. - Yeah.

- Hey, Ken. - So, don't... Yeah.

- Remi's here. - Hey. What up?

- Remi in the house. - What's up, bro?

Big things. Big things.

- You did the right thing, man. - I want to do the right thing.

Okay. Let's settle your stomach. Let's... let's set you up with a lawyer, okay?

- Hey. Ken? - Okay.

- Ken? - Yeah?

Oh, fuck yeah. Okay.

Can... can you figure this out?

Uh, hi, everyone. Sorry to interrupt. If... We... we just need the room for a little bit.

- So, um... Take a five, take a ten... - Thank you. Thank you, mental giants.

Can I... I'm gonna hop in that elevator while it's still... Thank you.

Very nice.

- Hello? - "Hello, Gregory."

Tom? Th... this... this isn't the Tom number.

I know. Aren't I clever? Hey, Gregory, is it true you have a saucy secret?

I... I actually don't know what you're talking... Are you...

Do you like to do your house chores in the nude?

- "Hello? What?" - What the fuck is going on, Greg?

I don't know, man. I'm just an observer. I'm not a part of this necessarily.

"Well, Logan is very interested what you're up to."

You don't come home to us, you're gonna end up in a work camp.

Logan is going to fire a million poisonous spiders down your dicky.

You better find an animal's corpse to crawl into and hide.

I... I'm not a part of this, necessarily, Tom.

Okay. What about the papers?

I don't... I maybe don't even know what they are or where they came from.

Fine. Okay. Well, we'll have to see if he buys that.

Well... I... I mean, I can say...

Did you know that Shiv's over there?

- Wait. At Kendall's? - "Yeah. Di... Did you know?"

Yeah. Obviously. But...

let's just keep that under the old Stetson for now, okay, cowboy?

Yeah. Yes, sir. Yessiree.

- Any Shiv news? - Um, what?

- Shiv. - Shiv? Uh, no, no, no. Not as yet. Nothing.

No... no luck there.

- Okay. - Okay?

Yeah. Oh, and I called Stewy and asked, and this came from him.

It's, um...

- Okay. Is that a joke? - It's...

Who... who's the Trojan horse here?

You want... you want me to look inside of it?

It's mind games. Send it back. And set something, I need to see him.

- We good? - Yeah. We're good.

There he is, the little man who started this big war.

- How you doing? - Can we get out of the sunlight please?

Who sold you the Thoroughbred?

"Safetime is backed by investment firm Granite Holdings Incorporated"

"who stood by Safetime throughout last year's technological issues."

- "Now at Safetime's..." - Oh, my God.

- Look at you photograph your tiny name. - Well, you know, for my daughters.

Oh, right. That is so cute. How are your daughters? You got pictures?

- Don't talk about my daughters. - Look at you, telling me the sensitive areas.

You know me, I'll be respectful.

So this is it, huh? It's actually happening.

The odor prevails. The gas also rises.

Well, you know, it's like when you see those lists of popes and emperors,

and some of them have asterisks by their names.

So couple of things I wanted to talk to you about.

I just wanna make sure...

Check that you're not concerned about all of this stuff.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

I hope that you're not anxious that you've, you know,

chained yourself to a fire hydrant that spews out cultural insensitivity and sperms.

Look, Roman, I'm not kidding myself about anything.

I need family support, so I'm very open to cooperation and input.

- Right. - And you have good instincts.

- Thank you. - You also have horrible instincts,

like the... not cooperating is a disaster.

But you also have a good finger on the pulse of, uh... in terms of...

You mean I sometimes surf the web?

Yeah. You know, news and culture, and whatnot. You're... you have an instinctive...

Thank you. I have a thought.

I think you should put together an executive committee to guide things in this interregnum.

Well, you know, I don't wanna dilute my potency.

Yeah. But on the big calls, you dip everyone's hands in blood.

But you and me, we run it to fuck.

See, I was thinking that first we'd start with, you know,

working you into the quarterly earnings calls as a signal.

- But, uh, you know... - Likey-likey. That's a good start.

Let me think about the executive committee thing. I mean...

- Yeah. - ...it has good angles.

You know, like he's irreplaceable. It takes six of us to replace one of him.

- Here we go. Your apprenticeship begins. - Okay.

- Yeah. - Okay.

So, Shivy, how we doing?

Look at you, all fucking merry. Is Lisa here?

I have an offer.

- Yeah, that's not why I'm here. - Well, I'm not gonna fuck around.

I want you to join me.

- I want you on my side. - I'm not here to cozy up.

No.

But I would say, what dad did to you... the sacrifice, that was cold.

Well, I don't know. From his point of view, it made sense.

I mean, who else was he gonna choose?

Unless, you know, he took responsibility himself.

- Well, yeah. - So...

So? I get it. You were angry.

- That was a fucking snake move. - Yeah. I... I know. I just, uh...

Look, the situation was the situation. I felt I had no choice.

Oh, come on, Ken. That was self- aggrandizing bullshit.

It was a peacock fuck-show.

That's fair. I get it, sis. You're angry with yourself.

- I'm sorry. What? - You know I did the right thing

and you're angry with yourself for never doing it.

- Come on. Fuck you. - That's just...

what I would say is going on here.

- But if you don't see it that way... - That is not it.

- Sure. - You fucked the family.

- Or I saved the family? - I think since this thing broke,

we've all been trying to navigate our way through...

conflicting loyalties, and that's difficult.

You tell yourself you're a good person. But you're not a good person.

Right now, I'm the real you.

What? Sure. You're the real me.

And I'm the real you.

Yeah? What-fucking-ever.

- Where is she, huh? - Yeah. Hold up. Let's see...

Have you spoken to Marcia? Is someone connecting?

She's available, we hear. You wanna reach out?

Yes, I wanna fucking reach out, Hugo. I'm stuck in quicksand.

My family have disappeared. The world is wobbling here.

Does no one understand what the fuck is happening?

I'm losing juice. I can't find the right fucking lawyer.

The sky is falling in.

So when I say something, it fucking happens. We have to act on the world.

The fucking world. We have to act.

- Yes, sir. - Get her up. Con, my brother.

And get me some options, some solid fucking options where we can fly.

I'm not gonna smuggle out of here in a fucking packing case, okay?

- You got her? - Still...

Connor.

- Con? - "Hey. Hey."

- How you doing? - "I'm great."

We flew back scheduled, so that was just delightful.

- I'm sorry, son. That's tough. - "It was fine."

They had movies and a selection of heavily refrigerated cheeses,

so, you know, it was really nice.

You know, I just wanted to say, uh, hello and, you know, thanks for holding the fort.

Sure. Operation: Thumb-Twiddle. You bet.

And now that we got a moment,

those words, maybe harsh words on that tin can on the boat, you know...

- Yes. So no harm done? - You're pretty rude, Pop.

I... I'd just like to say, it's good to know that...

with everything, I can rely on you, with Kenny going nut-nut.

"Yeah. Sure. You know... Yeah."

Now, no one speaks to him, right? You're number one, kiddo.

"You know that."

Number one.

So where are these famous papers?

Safe. Getting copied.

You know, lose those, all this goes away.

Burn them. Go say sorry to dad. Beg for mercy.

Right. Say I had some deli sushi... and everything went a little hazy.

- Shiv, come on. - Great idea.

No. I'm doing this, and I want you on my side.

- So show me the papers. - Well, I can't.

Unless you wanna come on board with me.

- But, you know, I gotta... - Um, Kendall, you have a visitor?

- Roman's downstairs. Okay. Now we're talking. - Shall I send him up?