Logan Roy's Children Attend His Funeral - Succession
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Shiv is dressing for the funeral while watching ATN election news. Roman follow suit, and he is also practicing his eulogy.

Kendall calls Roman, and Roman relays he’s excited about the eulogy. Kendall wants Mencken to dial down the volume a bit, especially since it’s the funeral.

They’re all meeting at Shiv’s.

Rava calls Kendall. She’s afraid of disturbances today, and they won’t be at the funeral. She doesn’t feel safe and will go upstate. Kendall wants to be at Rava’s in three minutes, fines be damned.

Lukas is hesitant to get the numbers out, and Shiv says there will never be a better time. He wonders if Mencken will really block the deal. She doesn’t think so. Lukas says, well, they’re barely a blip on the democracy scale, so who knows?

Kendall is angrier than he’s ever been. It’s his father’s funeral, and he wants the kids there. Rava is rambling about not feeling safe.

Tom and Greg are looking over the Mencken timeline, and Tom feels as if he’s been downplayed a bit, which makes him happy. Greg wants to attend the funeral. Tom will be there, too. Tom wants Mencken to know that he swung it for him. He made the call.

The sibs are together, making their way to the funeral. Shiv wonders if Mencken will attend the funeral. Roman wonders if Matsson will be there. They talk about the blocked deal where family remains in charge. Shiv doesn’t care. Roman and Shiv feel for Ken, not having the kids at the funeral.

Mom has sent invitations for a “Caribbean air clear. Hard no from Kendall and Shiv. Shiv shares the news that she’s pregnant with her brothers. Roman thought she was just eating her feeling away. But if he sees her breast feeding, he will have to jerk off because it will be hot. Shiv is like, ew.

Jess calls Kendall with a crowd update. Moments later, the limo is accosted by people with signs. They arrive at the location.

Kendall wants custody of the kids and asks Jess to find him some family lawyers. She has a meeting on the schedule with him. He wonders what it is, and she hesitates. She wants to talk about her situation, but she doesn’t want to do it today. But now that it’s out, Kendall needs to know what it is.

Kendall has been very supportive of her aims and goals, and she wants to move on to another position. He wants to know why, wondering if it’s about Mencken. She says she’s been thinking about it for a while.

He says if she feels sorry about it, maybe she should reconsider. He says he’s given her extraordinary access she will get nowhere else. He says she’s being dumb. She’s being fuckin’ dumb. Everybody’s being dumb.

Hugo gives Kendall the news that Lukas’s number were bogus.

Connor has decided he wants to give a eulogy. Shiv says it’s very long and will leave them open to legal action.

Roman sees Marcia and talks about having sex with her on Dad’s coffin.

Kendall thinks Roman’s eulogy is good. Shiv says he’s in his element. Roman, meanwhile, checks in with Frank to say if Kendall has lost his mojo after the Mencken stuff, he’ll be rounding up a posse.

Greg wants an intro to Mencken. He’s amongst the crowning committee, so.

The sibs see Mom coming and consider dissing her. Kendall says let’s be nice in case she dies of a broken heart. She’s a real creep to Shiv’s pregnancy news.

Lukas, Oliver, and Eba arrive, and Shiv greets them. She’s got an idea if Mencken comes through. It would be smart if he offered her a US CEO. That would be her, of course. Lukas calls her very inexperienced.

She says she could play it as Lukas Matsson’s total puppet. He has heard she’s pregnant. Is that true? She says she’s a hard bitch who will do 36 hours of maternity leave and leave the kid with the butler.

He’s here, Roman says. The headline act. Logan’s hearse pulls up outside.

Caroline asks Keri to sit with them. She’s got her brother and a lawyer with her in case she was denied entry. Caroline introduces Marcia to Sally Ann, who was her Keri. It’s all water under the bridge.

The three women sit together, and while Keri cries, Marcia reaches out for her hand.

Tom won’t be at the funeral because there are fires in Baltimore. Darwin might quit. Make sure they know he is on the team. Greg is all excited that they’re down a wheelman. Can he do it? Peter? No. Greg takes position next to his uncle, and they lead Logan down the aisle to lively Irish music.

When it’s time for the eulogy, Ewan heads to the pulpit. Greg wonders if they want him to take his legs out? He begins by saying it’s not for him to judge his brother. History will tell that story. He tells a story about being adrift on the water on their way to America.

They stayed quiet for four days and three nights to ensure the U-boats didn’t sense them. He tells another story about Logan thinking he brought the polio that killed their sister home from school, something their aunt and uncle did nothing to disavow.

Ewan says that although he loved Logan, Logan has wrought terrible things. He’s trashing his brother in front of the most important people in the world. He calls Logan mean, not generous. He was a meager man. When he’s finished, Kendall asks Roman if he can turn it around. That’s not all there is to their father, right?

But once on stage, Roman can’t do it. He falters. He needs his siblings. He begins crying, unable to calm himself. He wonders if Logan is in the coffin. Can we get him out? Everyone watches a boy break after the death of his father. Kendall takes the notes and heads to the pulpit.

Kendall tries to make sense of Roman’s words, wiping his own nose at the emotion of it. Kendall agrees that what Ewan said was true. His father was a brute. He was tough. But also, he built, and he acted, and there are many people out there who will always tell you no for thousands of reasons not to act, but he was never one of those.

He had a vitality, a force that could hurt, and it did. But my God, the sheer lives that were made and touched by Logan Roy. And the money, he laughs. The lifeblood, the oxygen of this wonderful civilization we have built from mud, the money, the corpuscles of life gushing around this world, filling men and women with desire, quickening them with the idea to make and trade and profit and build and improve.

Great geysers of life, he willed, of buildings he made stand. Of ships, steel hulls, amusements, newspapers, shows, and films. Life! Bloody, complicated life. He made life happen. He made me and my three siblings. Kendall is overcome with emotion.

Yes, he had a terrible force and a fierce ambition that could push you to the side, but it was only that human thing, the will to be, to be seen, and to do. Now, people might want to tend and prune the memory of him, to denigrate the force, that magnificent, awful force of him, but my god, he hopes it’s in him because they can’t match his vim, then god knows the future will be sluggish and gray.

There wasn’t a room from the grandest where his advice was sought to the lowest 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. Kendall says Amen to that. The church erupts with applause.

Shiv heads to the podium. She apologizes for the length of today. My father. My father. They used to play outside his office because they wanted him to hear, and he’d come out, so terrifying. What he was doing was so important, they couldn’t conceive of what it was. Presidents and kings and queens and world bankers.

Logan kept them outside, but they kept everyone outside. When the let him in, when the sun shone, it was warm in the light, but it was hard to be his daughter. He was hard on women. He couldn’t fit a whole woman in his head, but he did OK. You did OK, dad. We’re all here, and we’re doing OK. So, goodbye, my dear, dear world of a father.

After the funeral, Hugo tells Kendall that Eba floated a Shiv CEO to placate Mencken.

They arrive at the mausoleum. Kendall is like, ick. It’s really ugly. Connor says it was a dot.com pet supply guy who built it and decided against it. Logan got a great deal. He didn’t want to go into the ground and won it on a whim at an auction. He got it for five million, and Kendall says, “good deal.”

There seems to be plenty of room for the kids alongside their father. Kendall says he had trouble drinking scotch with him. Roman says he made him breathe funny.

Roman collapses under the pressure again, escaping to the limo. Shiv asks Frank and Karl how bad dad really was. He was a salty dog, but he was a good egg. What you saw was what you got.

Marcia says she loved him very much and misses him very much. Logan broke her heart and his kids’ too.

Kendall asks Hugo to leak background that Matsson’s deal doesn’t have the support of key family members. That it’s a bad deal. So, this is an explicit plan to rule the world. He says it won’t be a collaboration, but Hugo can come along. The scraps from the table will be millions. Woof, Hugo says.

The after party features photos of Logan with lots of dignitaries. Kendall checks in with Colin, asking how he is. He know he was seeing a shrink. Kendall asks if he’ll come work for him. A big, strong guy like him? Come work for Kendall. Talk to Kendall.

Kendall is the first to approach Mencken, who is standing alone across the room. He wants to talk, chat, give his thoughts. Mencken says he thought he was the sound system, and now he wants to choose the track? Now, Mencken says he’ll try to help, and that rubs Kendall the wrong way. Mencken calls Roman the grim weeper. Connor wants to know where he can go. Shiv comes in as the extraction team, taking him to talk to Matsson.

Kendall sends Hugo to find out where this goes. Matsson says he wants Waystar. He likes the deal. Shiv wants to talk about what might reassure him about Mattson’s ownership. Mencken says that no matter their frictions, there was a shared ideology with Logan.

Matsson talks aimlessly about a couple of small men or having someone of his caliber in his pocket. Mencken gets regulatory on Matsson, spitballing the American CEO. Mencken says, oh, thought you hated me. She respects the audience and what they want. Mencken loves the audience.

Shiv catches up with Tom, saying he would never have dared not to attend Logan’s funeral if he was alive. Tom says Logan’s lost quite a bit of influence over the last few days.

Tom wants to talk about the pregnancy. She didn’t know if she wanted to keep it or if it would be healthy. By all accounts, it is. Caroline butts in, they chitchat, and then Tom apologizes to Shiv for not being here. He’s still so tired, having been awake for so long. He felt he couldn’t leave.

He was the first one in there with Logan after he died, so he did say goodbye. Tom and Shiv both tear up. Shiv suggests Tom go back to the apartment for a few hours to sleep. He says people at the hotel know him and he hates it.

Matsson calls Shiv. It’s a yes. And he can make a US CEO work.

Kendall shares with Roman that they’re out of leverage and he needs Roman’s help. Roman says he doesn’t feel so great. Kendall says that’s because he fucked it.

Yeah, he fucked it with Mencken. Kendall says Mencken has their dicks in his hands, and they should have his dick in their hand. If they don’t want the deal, but Roy Boys got to shiv the Shiv with the board.

Roman leaves, deciding to walk. He walks into a melee that has others running away. Roman being heckling the revelers. He’s picking a fight because he wants to hurt. He’s on the ground in a fetal position as people walk over him.

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Succession
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9
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Succession Season 4 Episode 9 Quotes

Frank: This is it, huh? He’s gone. He’s really gone.
Gerri: How much of you is glad?
Karl: Well, we had our fights, but I miss him.
Gerri: Stockholm syndrome, crossed with a little bit of China syndrome.

Kendall: You’re not bringing the kids to their grandfather’s funeral? Are you insane?
Rava: I don’t consider it safe.
Kendall: You’re too online. OK? You’ve lost context. Everything is fine.