Succession Page #5

Season #1 Episode #1

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Everybody, this is...

Craig, by the way.

Cousin Craig.

"Craig"? It's Greg. N-No?

Yeah. Greg.

People sometimes, like,

mistakenly call me Craig, too,

so I'll answer to both.

Here. This is just a token of my

very real and enduring admiration,

- in the hope...

- Kendall?

You came?

Yeah, of course.

- Happy birthday, Dad.

- Uh-huh.

- Hey, Marcy.

- Hi.

- How are you?

- Big day.

Congratulations... you bastard.

- Congratulations. Good luck.

- Thanks.

Hey. Hey, Kendall.

- How's it goin'?

- So! What's the news?

Yeah, good, good.

We're at the one-yard line.

I'm just gonna... This is important.

Uh, sorry, guys, I'll be right back.

Excuse me. Hello.

I hear you went down? Did you go down?

Oh, yeah, I did.

Not so good.

It's a shitshow.

Just gotta get somewhere quiet.

Yeah, I got news.

Hey, talk to me.

Yeah, PPG Bank have got their nose in,

might be rustling up another bid.

Word's out. We gotta move.

What do you wanna do?

I'm gonna call you back in five.

- I'm not losing this deal.

- All right.

We call PPG, we offer

to cut them in on the financing

if they make the other bid f*** off.

Great idea, Ken, great idea.

Boom. Kendall takes over.

Boom. Acquisition.

That's how it's done.

Hey, you know, I wanted

to talk to you about Tom.

He thinks he might

be ready for the parks,

- you know, globally and...

- look, Dad,

we should get this somewhere ambient.

- You want to?

- Connor. How are you?

- How's the ranch?

- Oh, perfect.

The light pollution is practically zero,

so, you know, that's nice.

- Hey.

- Oh, wonderful.

What is it?

- Well...

- Oh, yes, yes.

It's a... It's a goo.

It's a f***ing goo?

It's perfect.

It's sourdough starter.

Amazing.

I thought that you might

like to make something.

Ah, great.

Yeah, okay, you shouldn't

have opened it. okay?

Never mind, forget it.

It was an idea.

I thought you might like it.

I do. I do.

I just don't know what the f*** it is.

It's sourdough starter

to make bread without yeast...

The old way.

Oh. Oh, okay.

Old bread. Thank you.

- It's very kind. Thank you very much.

- You bet.

Be nice.

How's it lookin'?

Looking good.

I'll keep you posted.

I just checked with Frank,

and the holidays mean

the board might be

kinda hard to get together,

so if it's cool

I've scheduled a call at 4:00?

Then we can issue the release?

Uh-huh. You did?

Yeah. Is that okay?

Hey.

You go on.

I'm not going.

- Hey. Give Daddy a hug.

- Hi, Daddy.

- Sorry we're late.

- No, no, you're not even. Don't worry.

Twenty's the margin of error.

Hey, sorry I haven't Skyped

with you guys in a couple days.

I've been super busy. You feel good?

- I'm good.

- Okay.

You see Isla up there? Your friend Isla?

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