Succession

...to prevent the certification of election results

until all absentee ballots are tallied.

Meanwhile, Jimenez supporters are making their voices heard

at a number of demonstrations around the country,

including outside the Manhattan offices of ATN,

who first called the election for Jeryd Mencken.

- (ROMAN ROY HUMMING) - Crowds of angry protestors

continue to make their way towards ATN's headquarters.

And with reports of a number of instances of street violence

and intimidation, the NYPD is urging the public,

- for their own safety... - Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

...to only join officially arranged and marshalled protests...

My father, Logan Roy, was a great man,

in the true sense of the word.

Born the middle child of three,

he was sent away during the Second World War

to bing, bang, bong. Sad, sad, sad.

I look good. I look good. I am the man. I am the man.

As you can see, here I am. Talking loudly about my father.

And don't I, perhaps, remind you of him just a little?

A little dry.

Chicago Daily, '81. Launches The Correspondent.

"A passion for human communication."

I am King Dong. I am the King of Dong.

Bow down to me.

I selected the president.

Do you see his pecker in my pocket?

Uh, end of the first marriage,

it's very sad, saddy, saddy, sad.

Look out. See Shivy cry, see Kenny lie.

See Roman the Showman light up the sky!

Last days. New adventures. Was he, maybe,

tiny nice voice, losing it a little?

Who knows? But a great man.

His demise was carried, written in fire.

Pulsed electric, in a flash, over seven continents,

into newspapers that he started, networks he launched

through fiber he laid, satellites we built.

A great man indeed. A great, great man.

Father, with your permission?

Applause all around. Come on! Let it rip!

- We love you. - (CELL PHONE VIBRATES)

Something, something, something, something, something.

What's up?

Rome. Hey, man. Uh, you okay?

Yeah. I'm okay. I'm good. I'm actually, like...

Honestly, I'm excited.

- (CAR HORNS BLARING) Does that make me a sick fuck?

Mencken wins, he blocks the deal.

It's, you know, it's exciting times.

Interesting times!

Do you think, you know, for business, for everything,

can we maybe get Jeryd to turn the volume down a little?

Oh, come on. Don't be a pussy, dude.

What, you don't like these fucking ratings?

It's discord, man. Discord makes my dick hard.

- (GIGGLES) Sure. Just...

I mean, it is the funeral.

Oh, he'd fucking love it. Are you kidding me?

You know, I don't know. Just a little...

Queasy Gonzales?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're all busy. Okay.

Well, see you at, uh, Shivsky's, right?

Okay. Hey, Rome, uh, I'll-- I'll see you there.

- Okay. Roll deep.

- Hey. Hey. Hey, Ken, um...

Listen, I-- I just want to say that I am concerned, okay?

Everybody's saying that there's gonna be

major disturbances today, and-- Thank you.

No, yeah. Rav, it's-- it's rumors. - (SCOFFS)

Okay. I'm with Fikret. Uh, I'm gonna go with the sibs,

but he'll pick you guys up, and then...

Okay. Yeah, no, Ken. Listen. I think we may, uh...

I think we're gonna head upstate today,

- and I'm-- I'm really sorry... - What?

...but that is... (SIGHS) That is my decision. Okay?

Um, we're gonna go to Travis and Robert's--

What are you even talking about?

Ken, it-- it just... It does not feel safe today.

Okay? This is just what we need to do.

- All right? - Where are you now?

Are you-- are you on the road? Have you left yet?

No, we haven't left. But we're--

Fikret, I want to be at Rava's in three minutes.

Okay? I'll figure out fines and violations.

Just get us there now.

(OVER PHONE) What a shit show, huh?

Uh-huh. Yeah. Are you watching?

Yeah. I reckon you should get your bad numbers out,

because it's just become an amazing day to bury bad news.

- Yeah? Mm, I don't know.

Like, if you have a little dicky,

maybe you don't go to the nudist beach?

Lukas. - Yeah?

A tsunami just came and washed everything away.

No one is checking the dicks. Just... Seriously, I know this.

Do it. Get 'em out.

(CHUCKLES) You're so forceful.

Yeah.

Well, how do we get around Mencken?

'Cause this... This is real, right?

That he's blocking the deal over regulatory?

Well, I don't-- I still don't see it.

You know, he's...

He's out of tune with some...

some deep sentiments in this country.

Yeah, well, you've been a democracy for like 50 years,

- so... - What? No. I mean-- Well, okay.

Oh, not unless you don't count Black people?

Which is kind of a bad habit, so you--

Okay, yes, but it's a little more complicated than that.

I'm just-- I'm just saying.

You-- you are nearly as mature a democracy as Botswana.

So I should reach out.

How-- how did that go by the way?

I still think cleanest is just activate.

Can you talk to your buddies and-- and get the algo,

you know, pushing that straight dope?

- Mm-hmm. Yeah?

Okay, well, I gotta go.

But he's gonna be there today. Yeah?

So get Ebba to bury those numbers.

It's just so golden.

- (SIRENS WAILING) - (RAVA TALKING INDISTINCTLY)

- What are you doing? What do you think you're doing? - Okay, okay. Ken. Ken.

- Ken, what are you doing? The fuck is going on?

We are just getting out of town.

- Okay? Yes. - You're getting-- Well, that's hysterical bullshit.

- Ken... - Okay? You're not bringing the kids

to their grandfather's funeral? Are you insane?

I don't consider it safe.

You're-- you're-- you're too online, okay?

- (RAVA SIGHS) - You've lost context.

Everything is fine.

Nothing is fine. You said things would be okay.

You said that Daniel would win. Our daughter is not fine.

- Nothing is fine. - No, you can't go. You can't go. Get out of my way.

- Ken, stop it. - Do not fuck with me today!

- Ken. - Do not fuck with me today!

You need to stop.

You need to calm down. Ken...

- Hey, guys? Soph? Open up. - Ken. Ken. It's okay.

Ken, you've gotta stop this.

You've gotta stop. I do not consider it safe. Okay?

That's bullshit. Pretext. You're trying to hurt me.

It's my fucking father's funeral.

I'm really sorry, okay? But we are gonna go.

And there will be a memorial,

and we will go to that.

- He didn't want a memorial. - I'm sorry.

I'm gonna go to court to get an emergency court order

- to stop you leaving the city. - (SCOFFS)

- That's what I'm gonna do. - Okay. Go do that. Okay?

I'm gonna block your car.

I'm gonna lie in front of your fucking car.

'Kay? You're gonna have to run me over if you wanna go.

What are you gonna do?

Who-- So, who gave them the timeline?

Well, a lot of people know. A lot of people don't wanna go

- to the Hague for war crimes. - Ooh! Look at you.

Well, there's not much of me. You know?

There's a great, big graphic of Darwin.

Mm-hmm.

But they can-- This diminishes my role.

I'm tarred with the Mencken brush,

so I may as well get my goodies, right?

There's no point joining the party

- unless you get your little dacha. Mm-hmm.

I said two minutes.

I did say two minutes. Thank you.

What? - No. No. I just...

The funeral, right? I mean...

I... feel the need for closure.

I would like to grieve.

- I would like to-- Well, I do-- I do, too.

I do, too. I'm a wheelman.

I'm a casket wheelman. I'm front right.

- It's... (SIGHS) Fine, fine. Fuck off.

- Fuck off. Go on. Thank you.

Save me a place, though. A good place.

- Uh-huh. Okay? Second row.

And tell the Mencken team that I made the call. Okay?

Tell Mencken that I swung it for him.

And you may as well walk, 'cause it's gridlock!

Okay, now come in. Thank you.

Hello.

Party time.

There you are.

Is he gonna come today, Mencken?

Is Matsson?

Hmm. Doesn't know when he's beat.

You should be pleased.

Mencken wins, blocks the deal, we stay in charge.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. You do.

Well, the idea

- is family. So... Mm-hmm.

Big picture, yeah. - (CAR HORNS BEEPING)

Yup. It's just a great fucking day.

You okay?

Yeah. Yeah, good.