Note sull'episodio
With Logan unconscious after a hemorrhagic stroke, the Roy siblings converge on a Manhattan hospital to find their succession architecture already broken: the board's contingency plan names Frank Vernon as COO, but Logan fired him the night before. Kendall claims acting CEO, Roman insists on a verbal COO promise, Shiv countermands everyone, and Marcia — as legal next-of-kin and medical proxy — shuts down any moves she doesn't sanction. Yee publishes before the family has a plan in place, Greg makes the episode's only clean decision by siding with Shiv over Roman, and the night ends with Kendall and Roman shaking hands on a structure nobody has signed.
This episode establishes the actual stakes of inheriting Waystar: Gerri reveals roughly three billion dollars in loans secured against company stock, with a price trigger that would force immediate repayment and collapse the company. Logan never disclosed any of it to his children. What looked like a fight for control of an empire turns out to be a fight for the keys to a leveraged liability — and Logan begins to wake just as every decision his family made without him is already locked in.
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