

Over at Kendall’s, the negotiations began. You better find an animal’s corpse to crawl into and hide” – Tom Wambsgans

“Logan is going to fire a million poisonous spiders down your dicky. Sensing an opportunity to take some power, Roman suggested she start an executive committee to help run the company in the interim. While there he checked Gerri was going to play ball with the family, to which she assured him that she needed the support of the Roy siblings if her tenure as CEO was to run smoothly. Meanwhile, on his dad’s orders, Roman (Kieran Culkin) arrived at Gerri’s office to “keep an eye on her”. Right on cue, Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) called Greg (not on the “Tom number”) to grill him about the other team’s plans and to threaten him, of course: “You better find an animal’s corpse to crawl into and hide.” Recognising Greg’s hesitancy in getting behind his campaign, Kendall pulled his cousin aside and convinced him that he wouldn’t even tell the government where he got the papers proving his father knew about the cruise scandal.Īs Greg left the building, Shiv arrived alongside a not-very-subtle gift in the form of an actual Trojan horse from Stewy (Arian Moayed), the investor who attempted to stage a hostile takeover of Waystar Royco in season two. Over at Kendall’s headquarters (his ex-wife’s apartment), the usurper was ordering Greg (Nicholas Braun) to ring his grandpa, Logan’s brother and anti-capitalist Ewan Roy (James Cromwell), to get him on side. Ignoring phone calls from her father (whose contact details are saved under a picture of Saddam Hussein in her phone) and anxiously watching rolling news, it looked as though Shiv was considering switching sides. Perhaps Gerri’s instalment as CEO is why we opened episode two of season three with Shiv (Sarah Snook) zooming across Manhattan and over enemy lines towards her turncoat brother. Forced to choose a temporary successor in the wake of Kendall’s (Jeremy Strong) atom bomb of a press conference, the Roy patriarch chose not to instate one of his children, but picked Gerri (J Smith-Cameron), his trustworthy business counsel.

In last week’s Succession premiere, we watched as Logan Roy’s ( Brian Cox) life fell apart around him.
