Succession

That looks good.

Yeah, I think we're good. That's good.

-Yeah? -Yeah.

-Yeah? -Yeah. I mean, yeah.

Pretty good, man.

That means funny, right?

I think good.

And then you're gonna do the--

-Your whole, like, thing? -Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

I mean fuck it, right? Just fucking go nut-nut.

Pure excess, full bore, yeah?

Yeah.

-What? No? -No-- Yeah, I th-- I think.

No, it's like I've gone anti-fragile.

I can-- I can accommodate anything.

If I start second guessing, it collapses.

Right. I think that is right.

This is the full fucking thing. It's gonna be epic.

This is the full fucking thing!

We're good, right? All makes sense?

Mm. Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, this is great work, Rome.

Well, obviously, the main thing is the...

organizational cultural thing.

Mm. Mm-hmm.

I think, you know, everyone agrees that GoJo makes sense.

No one needs persuading of that.

Ah, well, kind of regret staying up all night

with my assholes then.

No. It's just about, you know, us here who get it,

oiling the wheels and making sure there's no friction.

Well, of course. I mean, I would say

we can handle the human stuff without too much issue.

That needn't concern us.

That actually comes naturally to some of us.

Which is why I focused

on integration benefits and deal detail.

Great. Yeah. I'm just saying, big picture.

Well, big picture is made from small details, so...

Guys, guys, honestly. -Business lesson.

It's just nerves. You've done really great work.

Let's go and help your dad make the deal.

Yeah. All right.

-Nice rally call, Braveheart. -I try, I try.

-And you're going tonight? -Ken Fest?

-Yeah. -I wouldn't think so.

Uh, if Matsson does, maybe for follow up?

Gonna be pretty horrific. Your brother in a porta-potty rolling down a hill.

-(CHUCKLES) -I might have to go just to see how bad it is.

Aww, brudders.

Fuck you. It's pure rubbernecking.

Okay. What's this?

Uh, maybe Mattson's here early?

Or she's gonna give birth

to Dad's baby while we chant a Satanic mass.

It's like he's having a midlife crisis, aged 80.

-It's fine. -No, it's not, Rome.

He's fucking an assistant who's 50 years younger than him.

It's not a crisis. That's normal.

It's the opposite of a crisis.

We should all be so fucking lucky.

-Hiya. (LAUGHING) That's so funny.

Oh. Okay. Champagne?

Uh, did you do it already? Did you land GoJo already without us, Dad?

We're not celebrating.

Long road ahead.

Lovely long open road. Wind in our hair.

Wind in your hair?

We've had a vibration.

I've been speaking to a contact

-with connections at DOJ. -Laurie?

Well, we have a number of friends.

And the word is, on the down-low,

that they've seen everything now.

They've reviewed,

and they're happy with how we're engaging,

and they're coming to the view that Kendall overpromised.

And perhaps some men were terribly naughty back in the day,

but nothing systemic, nothing sanctioned.

It's going to be a number.

-Just a number? -Nothing custodial.

-For anyone. -Uh, no prison?

Nuh-uh. Nope, we don't think so.

Here's to us! To us!

And... to justice!

To justice. Yeah.

I'll remember.

Well, congratulations, Dad. You've done it again.

It's great. (CHUCKLES)

Let's just hope you don't do it again, right?

No. Lessons learned.

And here's to Tom!

Uh, long road ahead. No premature celebrations.

Mm-hmm, absolutely. Amen to that!

Top me up, why don't ya?

Take me home, country roads!

Just gonna run to the little boy's room.

Okay. Okay. Enough, enough. No more mooning.

No more backslapping. GoJo! GoJo! GoJo!

-(KNOCKING ON DOOR) -Hello. Oh-oh-oh-oh.

Hello.

Hey, scooch over a little bit, buddy.

Mm-hmm.

Thank you, Greg.

Yes!

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

-Yes! Yes! Yes! -Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Yeah, fuck yeah!

-What? What? (PANTS) -(TOM YELLS)

What is going on? Wh-- Are you okay?

Apologies, Greg, I may have gotten a little carried away.

But I just popped around to say...

that no one is going to jail.

Gerri spoke to the DOJ...

and the Waystar Two... ...are free.

Okay. Is it real?

It was good news.

What are we looking at in terms of, uh,

what are the responses looking like?

Uh, I think about 80 percent of your A-list is yeses

and 15 percent are maybes.

Okay. Well, maybes are nos, let's not live in a dream world.

But, uh, who's in?

Off the top of my head, it's great.

-Um, Dion, Barry, JP, David... Nice.

...Anna, Tom, Tory, Jeff, Elon, Lukas,

Jennifer and Emma, yeses. Chloe is still a maybe.

And, uh... (CLICKS TONGUE) ...and the sibs?

Um, yeah, uh...

Okay. No. Whatever. Fine. Fine.

This is fucking cool, Comfry. Hey, hey, listen,

you have a good time, too, yeah? Like everyone,

servers, fucking... the imagineers, the DJ crew,

you know, this is highly egalitarian,

like, do your job, but fucking get your drink on

get your buzz on.

There's no boundaries if you're cool.

Mission Control out! Shit is about to pop off!

-Party! -(GUESTS LAUGH)

It's my birthday! Fuck you!

-(NAOMI PIERCE LAUGHS) Whoo!

Hey, hey.

There might be a problem with GoJo.

Okay. Where's Matsson?

He's sent Sherpas. He's not coming.

Okay.

It's off. Tell these kids to fuck off. Meeting cancelled.

Okay, well, what's the downside, Dad?

You know, meet these guys, could read petulant not to?

If he wants to send a nobody--

Well, his CFO and a whole team of, uh, people...

He's going to this fucking party, isn't he? Huh?

Where is he? Getting his nails done,

asshole whitened?

I think we might have to court him

-a little, is the thing. -Ah. Nah, nah, nah, nah.

It's bad fucking juju to start like this.

Can we not at least talk

-to the nobodies a little... -No! No. We have other options.

Do we, though? This could be our last chance

to avoid the legacy media graveyard.

Frank's reached out to Nan about Pierce.

What? Seriously? We're going after Pierce again?

It's exciting.

Okay. That's it. Everyone back to work.

The deal makes sense. It's a great deal.

but he won't make the deal because he's an arrogant prick.

Fine. Matsson's an asshole. Fucking of course he is.

But do we burn our only parachute because of that?

It's just smart business, Shiv.

I don't wanna pay over the odds. And eventually,

the market will make him make the deal.

-Unless someone makes a better offer first. -(CHUCKLES)

Yeah, Dad, this is it. We have a scale issue.

Our streaming platform is for shit.

And-- and we have nothing that looks like growth.

This gets us consequentially into streaming,

it gets us into sports betting, it gets us into social media.

We have a little window.

Miss this, and we end up being a pilot fish

nibbling leftovers from Bezos's fucking teeth.

Kerry? What was it, that thing you said about Matsson?

He thinks he's a genius.

He's made one good piece of tech. Fuck him.

We appreciate your input, Kerry, but "fuck him"

-is not good tactics. -It is good tactics.

Dad, please, if you don't wanna talk to Matsson,

fine, but let me.

Or let me. Or we can both do it.

He's gonna be at the party, right?

-You're going? -Mm-hmm.

Can't hurt.

Fine. But don't go in too strong.