Notas del episodio
Shiv begins shadowing Logan at Waystar while Kendall courts Pierce Global Media CEO Rhea Jarrell on Logan's behalf, and Tom is tasked with vetting ATN anchor Mark Ravenhead over Nazi-sympathizer accusations. A gunshot triggers a building lockdown that sorts the family hierarchy instantly: Logan, Shiv, and Rhea retreat to the secure safe room to reset the deal at twenty-four billion, while Tom and Greg are shoved into a random office where Greg reveals he kept the cruise-line cover-up documents and blackmails Tom for a promotion. Outside, Connor and Willa navigate a board member's funeral and an ambush from Logan's unauthorized biographer, and Roman discovers an unexpected dynamic with Gerri over the phone.
The episode crystallizes how Waystar treats people as deal-currency: Ravenhead is defensible until he's an obstacle to PGM, and the actual lockdown casualty turns out to be an ATN employee who killed himself citing workplace bullying — a fact Logan barely registers. You'll see the Tom-Greg power channel flip for the first time, watch Willa emerge as the political brain protecting Connor, and hear Kendall articulate the bargain underneath his hollowness: his loyalty to Logan is all he has left after the accident at Shiv's wedding. The closing image of freshly installed rooftop suicide barriers names the cost.
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