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To prevent the certification of election results until all absentee

ballots are tallied...

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.

Crowds of angry protesters continue to make their way

towards ATN's headquarters.

With reports of a number of instances of street violence and intimidation,

the NYPD is urging the public...

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 am the man.

I am the man.

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

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?

End of the first marriage. Very sad, saddy, sad, 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 her rip. We love you.

Something, something, something, something.

- What's up? - Rome, hey, man. Are you okay?

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

Does that make me a sick fuck?

Mencken wins. He blocks the deal.

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?

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.

Sure, just, I mean, it is the funeral.

He'd fucking love it. Are you kidding me?

I don't know, just a little Queasy Gonzalez.

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

We'll see you at Shivski's, right?

Okay, hey, Rome, I'll see you there.

- Hey. - Hey, Ken.

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

Everybody's saying

that there's going to be major disturbances today.

It's just rumors.

I'm with Fikret. I'm going to go with the sibs,

but he'll pick you guys up.

Ken, listen, I think... I think we're going to head up state today,

and I'm really sorry, but that is my decision, okay?

We're going to go to Travis and Robert.

- What are you even talking about? - It does not feel safe today.

This is just what we need to do, all right?

Where are you now? 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.

What a shit show, huh? 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.

I don't know. Like, if you have a little dickey,

maybe you don't go to the nudist beach?

Lukas...

A tsunami just came and washed everything away.

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

Do it. Get 'em out.

You're so forceful.

Well, how do we get around Mencken? This is real, right?

That he's blocking the deal over regulatory?

I still don't see it.

He's out of tune with some deep sentiments in this country.

You've been a democracy for like 50 years, so...

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

Not unless you don't count black people,

which is kind of a bad habit.

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

I'm just saying, you are nearly as mature a democracy

as Botswana.

So, I should reach out. How did that go, by the way?

I still think cleanness is just activate.

Can you talk to your buddies and get the algo pushing that straight dope?

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.

What are you doing? What do you think you're doing?

- Ken... - What the fuck is going on?

We are just getting out of town.

That's hysterical bullshit. Okay?

You're not bringing the kids to their grandfather's funeral? Are you insane?

I don't consider it safe.

You're too online. Okay? 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.

Get out of my way. Do not fuck with me today.

Do not fuck with me today!

You need to stop. You need to calm down, Ken.

Hey guys. Soph. Open up.

Ken... It's okay. Ken, you've gotta stop this. You've gotta stop.

I do not consider it safe.

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.

He didn't want a memorial.

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

to stop you leaving the city. 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. Okay?

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

What are you gonna do?

So who gave them the timeline?

A lot of people don't want to go to The Hague for war crimes.

Look at you. Well there's not much of me. You know?

There's a great graphic of Darwin.

But this diminishes my role. I'm tarred with a Mencken brush

so I might as well get my goodies, right?

There's no point in joining the party unless you get your little dacha.

I said two minutes. I did say two minutes. Thank you.

What?

No. I just...

The funeral, right? I feel the need for closure.

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

I'm a wheel man. I'm a casket wheel man. I'm front right.

Fine. Fuck off. Fuck off. Go on.

Save me a place though. A good place. 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, because it's gridlock.

Okay, now come in. Thank you.

Hello. Party time.

There you are.

Is he going to come today, Mencken?

Is Matsson?

Doesn't know when he's beat. You should be pleased.

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

Yeah, you do.

Well, the idea is family, so... Big picture, yeah.

Yep. It's just a great fucking day.

You okay?

Yeah. Yeah, good.

I don't know.

Rava is taking the kids out of the city. She's concerned.

That's dumb and shitty.

I'm sorry, Ken.

Yeah. Well, it's fine. It is what it is, right?

You guys get Mom's invitation for "a Caribbean air clear"?

Mom just suddenly wants to mom now?

Yeah, I'm a hard no.

I should tell you because I'm telling Mom today, probably,

so I wanted to say for a while I'm actually pregnant.

There you go.

- Is it mine? - Yeah.

Really? Fuck, Shiv!

And...

Yeah, it's Tom's. Fuck's sake.

- Congratulations. - You're having a Wambsgland.

I thought you'd just been eating your feelings.

Yeah, thanks. Good stuff.

I'm not going to stop with the joke things.

If I see you breastfeeding, I am going to have to jerk off.

- Jesus fucking Christ, man. - I mean that because it will be hot.

- Do you know how disgusting you are? - Do you love it?

- Should we bone again? - Fuck off!

Guys, can we today, shall we,

for the funeral, just, yeah, cool it?

- Like a funeral truce? - Today is just about today.

- Hey, Jess, you're on speaker. - Hi. Yeah.

So they're saying that there's like a gathering or like a march

or something that's gathering from the park,

and FDR's like totally gridlocked,

so do you want me to just...

Wait, wait, wait. I dropped a pin. I can guide you.

- Hi. Morning. - Good morning.

- How you doing? - Fine. Great. Swell. Great day.

So, yeah, I think from uptown it's easier,

but there's just like a lot of confusion,

Glasses, that's smart.

Can cry in secret, hide all your emotions.

And thus emerge victorious as the winner of the funeral.

Hey, Jess, listen. Early next week,

I want to speak with some family lawyers.

Custody. I want custody.

Okay.

Monday, Tuesday. Let's do...

What's this? What's this meet with you?

Don't worry about that.

Okay. Well, let's bump that.

So what is it? What is this?

Shall we just do it when we do it?

Wait. What is it?

I just want to talk about my situation.

Okay. Sure. What about your situation?

Ken, this is a big day. I don't want to do this today.

Now I'm thinking like all kinds of things.

So, come on. What?

Well, you have always been so supportive of me and my aims

and ambitions, and I really appreciate that.

So, I'm sure that you can understand that it might be a good time

for me to move on to another position.

Okay. Wow. Okay. Fine.

Fine. Of course. Of course you can.

Great. And we can chat more about it when we...

Can I ask why?

It just feels like time. You know?

Is this about Mencken?

Well, I've been thinking about it for a while, so...

- Fine. - Sorry.

I just have to say, like, it's kind of ridiculous.

If you feel sorry about it, maybe you should reconsider.

- I just think that it's time... - I'm sorry.

But I've given you extraordinary access.

Where else are you going to get that?

Nowhere. I'm telling you, you're going to get that nowhere.

You have no idea how things will turn out, and it's very juvenile.

It's fucking dumb. You're being dumb. Everybody's being fucking dumb.

Okay. Sorry you feel that way, Kendall.

Nice timing, Jess. Lovely day to tell me. Really thoughtful.

Ken. GoJo. Matsson has slipped out,

they got deeply bullshit subscriber numbers all across South Asia.

But that's not for now.

Well, you are in fact telling me now, right?

Yeah, but it's not for you to engage.

It's just so you know. Weather could have been a lot worse for this, huh?

Okay, well, I thought that we were going to...

Roman was doing the eulogy, Con

But we said we could consider if we wanted to.

Yeah, sure, but this is long and it's hard to follow.

Right, well, it's formally inventive.

That's one of the things that we like most about it.

Okay, well, I think that this eulogy is going to leave us open to legal action.

Alright, so who have you hit?

- Who have I hit? - Yeah.

Well, just you know, because I think it's great that Mencken's a racist

and he won't let a dirty foreigner buy the company,

but I still think we need to get the board and brass

rallying around the old orphans here, don't you think?

Sure. Yeah, sure, dude.

Marcia's looking chic.

She's a sexy funeral lady.

If you're weirded up by that, wait till I have sex with her on Dad's coffin.

So fucking weird.

Eulogy is good, right? He did good?

Yeah, he's on top of the world.

Target rich environment, glad-handing the sad faces.

Oh, man. So many fucking money changers in the temple.

There he is. Frank, I know we've had our battles and such,

but this really puts it in perspective, don't it?

Sure. Life is short. We should all love one another.

- Right. - Go on.

Nothing. Just an observation.

Mencken going to block the deal.

And if Ken has lost his stomach for the fight,

which I really hope he hasn't,

there's going to be one cherry on the cake.

Well, I'll be, you know, rounding up a posse.

Okay. Well, lovely chatting.

Yeah, you are tied to two dirty little fuckers.

- Hey, Rome. - Gregory.

- Sad day. - Yeah.

So, Mencken's right there.

Yeah, I know. I'm aware.

- So can you get me an intro? - To Mencken?

Yeah. I'm amongst the crowning committee, so...

Yeah, maybe. Later.

You're on Ewan watch, okay? He wanted to speak,

but unfortunately there was no time.

So if he starts, like, unfurling a banner or singing union songs,

you have license to, you know?

If you promise me a link up with...

Sure. Yeah. Absolutely.

All right. Nice trade.

This is it, huh? He's gone. He's really gone.

How much of you is glad?

Well, I mean, we had our fights, but I miss him.

Stockholm Syndrome.

Crossed with a little bit of China Syndrome.

Well, here she comes. Thought I could hear the sound

of the Dalmatians howling.

Are we freezing her out or what's?

One down, maybe be nice in case she drops dead of a broken heart.

- Or not having a heart. - Sure. Well, it's her big day.

- Hi. - Hi, darling.

Are you okay?

Yep.

Yes?

- Yes. - Blimey!

I know.

Well, I never...

Well, then, you... Well, well...

- Thank you. - Exactly.

Well, we can go into this later, but you didn't think to let me know?

I have to be careful with the information that I give you

because you might use it against me.

- No? Am I wrong? - Hello, mum.

Sweet one. Peter.

Peter's incredibly excited. I think he's bought his autograph book.

Hello. So sad.

- Hi. Thanks. - Thank you.

- Daddy's here. - Thank you.

- Sorry for your loss. - Thanks, Peter.

Well, he spoke of you often. One of his favorites.

I'm just going to, darling...

Would you excuse me just one sec?

He's now going to roll around like a Labrador in a lovely pile of senators.

How respectful.

- Hey. - Hey.

So the numbers pieces are starting to come out.

- No significant blowback, right? - No. So far it's pretty good, right?

- Yes. - Gold star for the red devil.

Good job.

What are you thinking about the handsome Nazi over there?

Seriously, is he gonna win?

And if he does, like ironically,

would that be bad for a tall blonde white guy?

The whole thing is unimaginable. But I did have one idea.

If he does come through, Mencken...

I'm wondering if it would be smart, rather than just to walk away,

what about you offer him a US CEO?

Just for the US properties.

Let him have that win in the media sense. Yeah?

Well, if I offer him an American CEO...

Who would you have in mind?

I mean... I don't know. Anyone.

- Yeah. Anyone. - Anyone.

Actually, you know who would be good?

- I don't know who would be good. - Shiv Roy.

Shiv Roy? Okay. Very inexperienced though, right?

Well, political acumen, knows ATN, can control the narrative.

Is very, very fucking clear-sighted.

Besides, I also hear, apparently the chairman, that sad Swede?

Basically pulling her strings anyway.

They say she's Lukas Matsson's total puppet.

All right. Well...

You know what I've heard? That she's...

- Is that true? - Yeah. Well, you know...

She's one of those hard bitches, right?

Who's gonna do what? 36 hours of maternity leave?

E-mailing through her vanity cesarean? Poor kid will never see her.

- Hard ass. Okay. I get it. - Yeah. Not widely liked.

Well, what do you think? Would he buy it?

'Cause you two are very hatey-hatey with each other, I hear.

Think you can get him to like you?

- Yes. - Think?

- Yeah. - Okay. Can you intro?

I can do fucking anything. My dad just died.

Okay. He's here. The headline act. Shall we?

Showtime. Thanks for coming.

Of course.

Kerry. 'Tis Kerry, isn't it?

- Yeah. - Why don't you come and sit with us?

You're sure that's okay?

Absolutely. Who is this?

This is my brother and my friend.

Sorry. Just going to steal her away.

She'll be safe with me.

My friend. Who's a lawyer.

I thought that there might be an issue in terms of entry.

Or something.

- Are you all right? - Yeah.

- Sally-Anne. - Caroline.

- Hello. - This is Kerry.

- Sally-Anne. - Hi, Kerry.

- Hi. - Come and meet Marcia.

Marcia, this is Sally-Anne.

Marcia...

Sally-Anne was my Kerry, so to speak.

So, it's all water under the bridge now, isn't it?

Shall we go and pile in?

What is Kerry doing in the front row? She's in the front.

God, Logan would hate this.

At least he won't grind his teeth tonight.

Okay, dude. This is it. Final call.

Logan is boxed and ready to be delivered.

Greg, there are fires in Baltimore.

Darwin might resign. Online is peaking.

I'll get there as fast as I can. Tell them it was me.

Can I inquire about front right?

Tom?

- Hey, Lukas. - Hey, sexy.

Nice to see you. That's very kind.

Shiv, I just spoke to Tom and it looks like he's not going to make it.

What? Where's your Tommy boy?

He's at work. He has a lot of news today.

Yeah, he's in the grindhouse.

Sadly, that means that there's a wheel free on the casket.

You're down a wheel man.

- Peter could take a wheel. - Yes, certainly.

Do you need a spare pair of hands?

No, no, I was saying that Tom just kind of offered it to me.

I see. Tom did, I misunderstood.

Yes. No.

Please stand.

Into your hands, Father of mercies,

we commend our brother Logan in the sure and certain hope

that together with all who have died in Christ,

he will rise with him on the last day.

Please be seated for a word from those who knew and loved Logan best.

Greg! Greg!

- What are you doing, Grandpa? - What?

Don't do it. You're making a scene.

I'm not making a scene, Rick. You are.

Hi. I think maybe you're not on for today.

Thank you. I'm going to speak.

- Gramps... - The fuck, Greg?

What do you want me to do?

- Want me to take his legs out? - Thanks.

Good morning.

It's OK. Just so you know. It's not your fault.

What sort of people would stop a brother speaking

for the sake of a share price?

It is not for me to judge my brother.

History will tell that story.

I can just give you a couple of instances about him.

You probably all know

we came across the first time during the war for our safety.

But the engines of our ship let go,

and the rest of the convoy sailed on without us, leaving us adrift.

They told us children

that if we spoke or coughed or moved an inch,

that the U-boats would catch the vibrations through the hull,

and we would die in the drink, right there in the hold.

Three nights and two days, we stayed quiet.

A four-year-old and a five-and-a-half-year-old

speaking with our eyes.

So there's a little sob story.

And once we were over, our uncle, who was,

so to speak, a character... Well, they had a little money.

And they sent Logan away to a better school.

And he hated it. He just hated it.

He wasn't well. He was sick.

And he mewed and he cried, and in the end,

he got out and came home under his own steam.

But when he got back, our little sister,

she was a baby, but she was there by then...

She...

He always believed that he brought home the polio with him,

which took her.

I don't even know if that's true.

But our aunt and uncle certainly did nothing

to disabuse him of that notion. They let it lie with him.

I loved him, I suppose.

And I suppose some of you did too,

in whatever way he would let us, and we could manage.

But I can't help but say

he has wrought the most terrible things.

He was a man who has, here and there,

drawn in the edges of the world,

now and then darkened the skies a little, closed men's hearts,

fed that dark flame in men,

the hard, mean, hard-relenting flame that keeps their hearts warm

while another grows cold, their grain stashed while another grows hungry,

and even has the temerity to tell

that hard, funny, yes, funny, but hard joke,

about the man in the cold.

You can get a little high,

a little mighty when you're warm.

Yes, he gave away a few million of his billions,

but he was not a generous man.

He was mean, and he made but a mean estimation of the world.

And he fed a certain kind of meagerness in men.

Perhaps he had to, because he had a meagerness about him.

And maybe I do about me too.

I don't know.

I try.

I try.

I don't know when,

but sometime he decided not to try anymore.

And it was a terrible shame.

Godspeed, my brother,

and God bless.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You okay?

You're gonna say the other side.

That's not it. That's not everything, right?

Yeah, I'm good. I might hit on Marcia on the way up.

- You got this. - Thank you.

- You got this. - You okay, son?

Yeah, I pre-grieved. Not your son.

It was a good, hard take that you gave.

Hi.

One second.

My father, Logan Roy,

he was a great man

in the true sense of the word.

Just come here.

Yeah, no, I can't do it.

I actually can't do the thing. I tried and I just can't.

It's okay. Just take a breath.

It's okay.

Is he in there?

- Yeah. - Can we get him out?

It's okay.

I'm sorry.

It's okay. Just take a breath.

We got you.

Do you want to go?

- Yeah. - Yeah. Yeah.

You got to stay the other side.

I got him.

- Sorry. - It's okay.

- You guys have a pen? - No.

Here.

- Sorry. - No, it's okay.

I got you.

Thank you.

Just bear with me a second, please.

I'm gonna try to just stand in for my brother.

- I just need water or something. - Hugo, can you get some water?

I have some of his words, my sisters and my brothers, but...

I don't know how much I know,

but I knew my father.

You know, I've said it.

And it is true what I said, what my uncle said.

Yeah, my father was...

... a brute.

He was. He was tough.

But also, he built and he acted.

And there are many people out there who will always tell you "no".

And there are a thousand reasons.

There always are a thousand reason to not act.

But he was never one of those.

He had a...

... you know, he had a vitality, a force

that could hurt.

And it did.

But my God, the sheer...

I mean, look at it, the lives and the livings and the things that he made.

And the money. Yeah, the money.

The lifeblood, the oxygen of this,

this wonderful civilization that we have built from the mud.

The money, the corpuscles of life gushing around this nation,

this world, filling men and women all around with desire,

quickening the ambition to own and make

and trade and profit and build and improve.

I mean, great geysers of life he willed,

of buildings he made stand,

of ships, steel hulls,

amusements, newspapers, shows and films

and life, bloody, complicated life.

He made life happen.

He made me and my three siblings.

Sorry.

And yes, he had a terrible force to him.

and a fierce ambition that could push you to the side.

But it was only that human thing.

The will to be and to be seen and to do.

And now people might want to tend and prune the memory of him,

to denigrate that force,

that magnificent, awful force of him,

but my God, I hope it's in me.

Because if we can't match his vim,

then God knows the future will be sluggish and gray.

And there wasn't a room from the grandest state room

where his advice was sought to the lowest house where his news played,

where he couldn't walk and wasn't comfortable.

He was comfortable with this world and he knew it.

He knew it and he liked it.

And I say "amen" to that.

That was great.

Sorry about that. That was good.

So the way things have gone today, we haven't had a chance...

And it's okay, Rome, and thank you, Ken.

But we haven't said everything and so I'm just going to...

We'll be done soon, sorry.

My father...

My father...

We used to play outside his office,

and I think because we wanted him to hear, and he would come out,

and he was so terrifying.

God, he was so terrifying to us.

He'd come out and he'd yell at us to be quiet, in this "silence".

What he was doing in there was so important.

We couldn't conceive of what it was.

Presidents and kings and queens and diplomats

and prime ministers and world bankers.

And I don't know, yeah.

He kept us outside, but he kept everyone outside.

When he let you in, when the sun shone,

it was warm.

Yeah, it was warm in the light.

But it was hard to be his daughter.

He was hard on women.

You know, he couldn't fit a whole woman in his head.

But he did okay.

You did okay, Dad.

We're all here, and we're doing okay.

We're doing okay.

Goodbye, my dear, dear world of a father.

Please stand.

Thank you.

Thanks, Jess.

Thank you. Hey, good to see you.

Hey, thank you.

- That was perfect. - Thank you.

- Talk later? - Yes.

Thanks so much. Thank you.

Thank you.

We'll fill you in later, but very interesting conversation.

Ebba, Shiv floating a US CEO to placate Mencken.

Look at that thing. Jesus.

He never sent you pictures? You never saw this?

Did he? I never saw this. Did you guys?

- No. - Yeah. He got it on a deal.

- Oh, man. - He was really pleased.

It was a dot-com pet supply guy who built it, I believe.

But that guy decided against.

Really? Are you serious?

Was he in a bidding war with Stalin and Liberace?

Right?

Pops sort of... I think he didn't want to go in the ground.

And I think he didn't want to think about it too much.

So I think he just went in for it at auction and boom.

Cat food Ozymandias.

I think it was five mil all in, but that's forever.

Obviously.

Five mil? Good deal.

Come on, I'll show you around.

So it's also a tax write off, because it's technically a residence.

You interested?

Yeah. A chance to get to know him.

I have to talk to Willa.

I was crazy for cryogenics, but yeah.

I wouldn't say no to a top bunk. You?

Man, I don't know. Yeah...

I had trouble finishing a scotch with him.

It made me breathe funny.

And wipe away every tear from our eyes.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Go in the peace of Christ.

I'm intrigued to see how he gets out of this one.

Yeah, that's too much.

Hey. Dad wasn't really...

How bad was Dad?

He was a salty dog. He was.

But he was a good egg.

- What you saw was what you got. - Yeah?

Yeah.

Okay.

All right?

All right.

- You okay? - Yeah. You?

I loved him very much. I miss him very much.

He broke my heart.

And he broke your hearts too.

Big H. How you doing?

Little old me?

I'm fine, you know. Big day.

Yeah.

Come here. Listen.

I got something for you.

I want you to brief media on background.

Then I am the droid you are looking for.

That Matsson's acquisition doesn't have the support

of key members of the family.

But you don't say who.

Matsson's trying to steal the company for a song.

Board is souring on the deal.

The feeling is, you know, Living Plus, et cetera,

price soaring post-election, ATN pumped,

undervalues Waystar, premium's too low.

- Got it. - Got it?

Yeah.

You know, Hugo, life isn't nice. It's contingent.

People who say they love you also fuck you.

So this is an explicit plan to fuck the deal. Me rule the world.

And you can come, but it won't be a collaboration, okay?

You'll be my dog.

But the scraps from the table will be millions.

Millions. Happy?

There he is.

How you doing, big man?

- Yeah. - How you doing yourself?

You okay these days?

Sure.

'Cause I hear you were talking to a head shrinker.

- That's supposed to be confidential. - I'm sorry.

Sorry, but I'm afraid it's not.

I mean, that's cool. It's cool. It's just, people talk.

I got time on my hands, so...

Yeah. I tell you what I think.

I think you can work for me.

Big strong guy like you,

what are you fucking gabbling about, huh?

- I don't love it. - I know. Me neither.

Come work for me. Talk to me.

- Okay. - Talk to me. Yeah.

Good. Good man.

Ken? Mencken's here.

You wanna watch me scuba in his bullshit?

Hey, hey, hey!

I guess, what, sort of like congratulations pending

a grueling jurisdictional knife fight, you know?

- Yeah, confident. - Exciting, it's exciting.

I hear your harvesting names. Kenton?

Exactly, yes. Give them to Kenton, many thanks.

Yeah, no worries.

So, yeah, I guess, given what we have,

you know, on our side, you know,

how we've been pleased to cooperate in terms of shared vision,

I guess I wanted to touch base.

Wanted to talk, chat, get my thoughts to you.

Thought you were the sound system. Now you wanna choose the track.

Yeah, no, I mean, not one-way traffic.

Right.

Like, I don't know, when might you be dropping something publicly

about your regulatory concerns

vis-vis big bad foreign tech and great American corporations?

Well, I've said I'll try to help.

- Try to help? - Hello, sir. Greg Hirsch.

- Hi. - ATN with Tom.

This guy knows me well.

- Congratulations. - Thank you.

Tom and I were proud to be pulling for you last night

but yeah, Tom called it.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. Fuck off, okay?

Why don't you piss off?

It's the Grim Weeper, Tiny Tears. Kidding. You good?

- Easy today, yeah? - It's fine.

Hey, J-Man. Hey, how are you doing?

Just wanted to grab five just to...

No, no, it's copacetic, it's cool.

I just wanted to grab five, just to talk macro-Slovenia,

micro-travel budget.

I'm trying to talk with my colleague to bat some ideas.

Like, what if I said to you,

"Pan Habsburg, American-led, EU alternative",

what would you say to me?

Excuse me, Mr. President.

If you care to follow me, I'm your extraction team.

Excuse me.

Perhaps you'd like to chat with Mr. Matsson.

Sure. I guess so.

Good luck, Mr. President.

You know about Super Mom's plan?

No.

Maybe it's time to open up. Big tent this shit.

Some motherfuckers I don't want in the tent.

No, I know that. Well, here we go.

- Welcome! - Okay, perhaps we...

I need you to find out where this goes and how it lands, okay?

Got it.

Okay, well, look at us.

A blonde, a brunette, and a redhead walk into the bar.

Liberal, Conservative, and whatever. What is your philosophy exactly?

Privacy, pussy, pasta.

Anarcho-capitalist parmigiana.

- So, congratulations. - Thank you.

Very exciting stuff.

I'm gonna keep this brief, 'cause we're both quite busy.

But I want Waystar.

I want a piece of the news, so on, sports,

archive, library, IP, talent, all that good stuff.

And I really like the deal.

So what we would want to talk about

is what would make you, assuming you make it,

what would reassure you about his ownership?

Okay, I just want to be frank about how important it is for me

that you feel comfortable...

I guess, no, no, the thing was, whatever our frictions,

there was an ideological sympathy with your dad.

My dad had deep ocean currents swirling in his gut,

but I think on specifics,

he was about money, winning, and gossip.

Well, in terms of, across GoJo and GoJo socials

and all the kind of communication environment, whatever,

we're in this place where we are making the thing that everyone has,

but nobody knows how it works, okay?

And there's a very small number of people

that are thought leaders in that space,

and so I just think that maybe you might want to hear our take, you know?

It's also kind of fucking fun.

So it's either a couple of tiny men in your pocket

or a gateway to broad and growing cultural influence.

It's really all about regulatory framework,

CFIUS considerations, so yeah, they would be out of my hands.

National interest and domestic...

Of course, can I just say that with the stuff that I'm interested in,

there's no need for me to be deep inside it

on a day-to-day basis. You know?

So, for example, just spit balling air,

maybe an American CEO, would that help

make things feel a bit more culturally aligned, perhaps?

What, Kinder Kuche Kirche over here?

I thought you hated me.

My dad was flexible. I'm flexible. I know how things go.

And you would be very glad, right, to see him win.

My feelings are irrelevant.

Our audience loves Jeryd and so I respect our audience.

And I love your audience.

Ohio.

- Good talk. - Have fun with Ohio.

Hey.

Decided to turn up.

Yeah, I can only stay for 20.

Ballsy. Tom, you would never have dared not to come to his funeral

when he was alive.

Yeah, well, the thing about your dad is that

he's lost quite a lot of influence over the past few days.

Yeah.

Excuse me.

- Yeah, it's fine. - I know it's fine.

- So, what? - What?

Are you going to explain, ever, to me what happened?

Why you didn't? And how?

And how? I mean, I wasn't expecting it.

Yeah, I wasn't sure that I wanted to keep it.

Then I wasn't sure that it was okay.

But it turns out that by all accounts, it is.

So why didn't you tell me?

Because it seems so sad, Tom.

And then we were in a honeymoon phase and...

Yeah. Taking potential dad for a test drive.

Fuck you.

- Hello, the happy couple. - Hey.

- Congratulations, Tom. - Thank you.

- Thank you so much. - Well done, you.

Well, if it wasn't such a total fucking disaster,

it would be a dream come true.

I'm sure it'll be wonderful.

You're right about it. I mean, it's hard.

No, I'm not going to see it.

I'm just going to do the family way.

Right. No, that'll work fine.

If you don't see it, that's fine.

I mean, they don't grow up emotionally stunted, do they?

I shouldn't think so. What do you think?

- Caroline, darling. - Sorry.

Fuck me. Your mom...

You learn to disassociate fairly early.

I want to say sorry

for not being here.

Because I wanted to have been,

but I'm so, so tired. I've been awake for so, so long.

And I just felt like I couldn't leave. You know?

It's okay.

And you know, I was the first one in there with him.

After he died, I was.

So I did say goodbye to him.

- I did. - Okay. Good.

Well, you're exhausted.

Hey, why don't you

go back to the apartment for a couple hours?

Just, you know, sleep.

- Sure? - I don't care.

People at the hotel know me, and I hate it.

I don't like it.

Just hide out for a while.

Okay. Thank you.

- Hey. - It's a yes.

Yes?

Yes.

From, yeah?

Yeah.

Okay. Great move.

- Smart. - I think they're interested.

And, I think I can make a US CEO work.

Great. Let's make a meatball burger.

Yeah. Good night.

Okay.

Hey, bud. You okay?

Look at her. In her fucking pomp.

She's fucking glowing. All dope, one in the chamber.

Listen, I might need your help, bro.

Lukas and Shiv.

It's possible there might be an accommodation with Mencken.

- With your pal. - No.

- Yeah. - No, we have an agreement.

- He's gonna block the deal. - We don't have a lot of leverage.

Right?

So we might need to make some moves.

And I might need your help.

I don't really feel so great.

Yeah, I know. I know.

- Sorry. - That's because you fucked it.

- Jesus, man. - Yeah, it's okay, man.

It's okay. Look, it happens.

You thought you were dad. Tried to dad it.

Holy shit, dude. Jesus fucking Christ, man.

- Yeah, but listen... - Take it easy. Fuck.

- I didn't fuck it. - Yeah, you fucked it with Jeryd.

No, I didn't fuck it.

If he tries to, you know, welch on the deal or whatever to block,

then, you know, we got him. We can fucking hurt him.

We have ATN. You know?

- Well, yeah. - So I didn't fuck it.

He's got our dick in his hand. We should have his dick in our hand.

Okay. I think we do.

I should have stopped it so I blame myself, but it's on us, dude. Okay?

We don't want to say bye-bye to Waystar.

We have to get fucking real and fight Shiv at the board.

The Roy Boys versus Shiv the Shiv.

Okay?

It's okay. I mean, I've got it.

I have a plan, but I'm going to need you to just help me here.

We can do this, okay, dude? Okay?

You fucked it, but it's all right.

- Did you get this? - No.

- I'll send it to you. - Who recorded it?

I think it was Ray. Listen to this.

He sounds like a sow that's about to get the stun gun and knows it.

- No, but this is circulating. - Come on.

- A show of strength. It's circulating. - That's not right.

I'm walking. Thank you.

Jesus Christ.

I wouldn't go that way. It's a bull run over on Fifth.

Okay. Keep up the good work, okay?

Fuck you. Go home.

- Fuck you, dude. - Fuck me?

Fuck you. Fuck you, you piece of shit.

No fucking idea! No idea.

Morons!

Fucking morons. You're a stupid fucking idiot.

- You have no fucking idea. - Dude, move!

- Idiot. Moron. - Go fuck yourself.

- Stupid fuckers. - Fuck you.

Fuck you, you piece of shit.

- Shit! - Get the fuck out of here.

Don't you fucking touch me, you piece of shit!