Go on, lie to me. Lie to my face.
We're not sure about the deal.
Oh, thanks, fuck face. Excellent.
KENDALL ROY: This is-- What am I--
Yeah, I mean, no, great. Throw me under the fucking-- Great.
Shiv wants to believe she can trust her brothers.
But has always, in the back of her mind,
just that little voice saying, "Watch out."
KIERAN CULKIN:
But I think Roman genuinely thinks that's for her benefit.
He thinks that the three of them could run it together.
ROMAN ROY: Good to see you.
We'd all like to offer our sincere condolences.
Oh, thank you. That's-- That's very nice.
Uh, refused! I have all the condolences I need.
He hasn't had the time to grieve nor does he feel he needs to.
And now we're traveling to Los Angeles
to talk to the head of a studio.
JESSE ARMSTRONG:
so it was a chance to see that world.
It's a chance to see what they would be like as bosses,
Kendall and Roman.
I get it. You're thinking,
"What the fuck does this guy know about anything?"
He's not his dad.
I'm sure you are where you are for a very good reason.
CULKIN:
where we're in charge now and it's very fast.
A lot of pressure reaches a boiling point
and you're fired, get out.
(CHUCKLES)
-Roman? -ROMAN: Yeah.
-I want to talk to you. -ROMAN: Gerri? I want to-- Okay.
J. SMITH CAMERON:
but a low-status sort of brat.
He's really wanting to get from me
that I think he's important and manly and powerful.
ROMAN: I need you to believe that I am as good as my dad.
Can you do that?
Say it or believe it?
And I think after that, they've both been really hurt.
CULKIN: I don't think Roman walks away like
with some pep in his step thinking, "Yeah, I did it."
It's, "l, uh, I'm spiraling here."
Uh, I fired Gerri.
Fuck off. You fired Gerri?
-ROMAN: Yeah. -Shiv's godmother, Gerri?
Yeah, but we may need to roll back on that.
Fuck it, bro. Why not?
To get a little pat on the back from him is like,
"All right. Yeah. Let's fire Gerri."
I mean look at you. Who-- Who you gonna fire next?
I mean, fire Frank? Fire Karl?
-ROMAN: No. No. -Fuck it, eat Greg and fire me, man.
-ROMAN: Yeah, I don't know. It's big. -You're on fire.
ARMSTRONG:
violent he is with his firings.
Is that a disaster,
or is it a great strength to be able to do those things?
We'll sort of have to wait and see.
You want to play bitey?
Bitey?
We never played bitey?
I thought Jesse had just written it.
And then Lucy, one of the writers was like,
"No, that's a game that my brother and I used to play."
The first one to stop loses.
It was so much fun.
It's such a different route for them than we've seen,
in how they would solve problems previously,
where he would be more of a subordinate
to whatever Shiv sort of desired.
Is that all you got?
SARAH SNOOK:
but then, like, what's the physical intimacy?
So that took a little bit of choreography to work out.
Motherfucker.
Weirdly, it doesn't hurt so much.
Painful. Yeah.
-Wow. Yeah. -You okay?
Strangely could stand a lot more
pain of biting than I thought.
Tom Wambsgans finally made me feel something.
SNOOK:
part of her attraction to Tom in the first place,
was that she probably knew
that he was a bit of an asshole at work.
And being able to have someone like that
in her power is attractive.
Today, I want to share with you an extraordinary product.
ARMSTRONG:
is a product launch.
You think of those Apple product launches
and Microsoft ones.
It's a great precinct for the drama.
KARL MULLER: If you say anything that I don't like up there,
or make me look foolish, I'll fucking squeal.
ARMSTRONG:
I think that's always the interesting feeling
before a big event.
On dress rehearsal night,
it can feel like it's gonna be terrible,
but if you have a certain kind of confidence,
you can win through.
It's been so fun sharing this with you.
It's been so fun.
How am I supposed to follow this?
He's just promised them eternal life.
Thank you guys!