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'''Logan:''' My eyes and ears, Shiv. And the heart of everything through this shitstorm, but wearing a full chemical and biological suit, going by the name... of Gerri Kellman.
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'''Logan:''' [[MouthOfSauron My eyes and ears, ears]]
Shiv. And the heart of everything through this shitstorm, but wearing a full chemical and biological suit, going by the name... of Gerri Kellman.
Shiv. And the heart of everything through this shitstorm, but wearing a full chemical and biological suit, going by the name... of Gerri Kellman.
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* BitterAlmonds: Logan gets wind of his scheming brood's meeting with Kendall and sends doughnuts to enrich their "tea party." [[DeadPanSnarker Roman]] [[LampshadedTrope can't entirely discount this trope being in play]].
* DramaticIrony: Kendall and Shiv both consider Gerri's regency a slight against Roman. Roman, [[SmarterThanYouLook who engineered his ally and mentor's promotion in the first place]], seems genuinely offended at Shiv's sneering in particular, perhaps due to her [[TraumaButton uncomfortable verbiage]].
* DramaticIrony: Kendall and Shiv both consider Gerri's regency a slight against Roman. Roman, [[SmarterThanYouLook who engineered his ally and mentor's promotion in the first place]], seems genuinely offended at Shiv's sneering in particular, perhaps due to her [[TraumaButton uncomfortable verbiage]].
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* SiblingTeam: Kendall tries to form one with his brothers and sister. Of course, the biggest point of contention is who would succeed their hypothetically ousted father as CEO.
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* AGoodNameForARockBand: Roman points out how ''Rotten Cabal'' sounds like a good band name when Kendall uses it as a metaphor for their father.
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* AGoodNameForARockBand: Roman points out how ''Rotten Cabal'' sounds like a good band name when Kendall uses it as a metaphor for their father.father and his cronies.
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Quote from the show was "Cabal" not "Kebab" smh
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* AGoodNameForARockBand: Roman points out how ''Rotten Kebab'' sounds like a good band name when Kendall uses it as a metaphor for their father.
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* AGoodNameForARockBand: Roman points out how ''Rotten Kebab'' Cabal'' sounds like a good band name when Kendall uses it as a metaphor for their father.
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* AGoodNameForARockBand: Roman points out how ''Rotten Kebab'' sounds like a good band name when Kendall uses it as a metaphor for their father.
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* MirrorCharacter: Shiv bitterly denies being like Kendall, but she anxiously calls herself nothing in a similar way that Logan has called him plenty of times, and he'd rather put on a Teflon coat like she does and babble about social justice instead of admitting how badly Logan hurt him when his siblings ask.
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* TitledAfterTheSong: Titled after the classical music piece. The episode takes its name from Music/JosephHaydn's ''Missa in tempore belli'' (translated as "Mass in Time of War"), which was written as [[UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars Austria prepared to face Napoleon]]. Thematically, Kendall is trying to rally his siblings against their powerful father.
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!!"Mass in Time of War"
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->''"Here we go. Your apprenticeship begins."''
-->-- '''Gerri'''
Curious about the possibility of joining up with him, Shiv, Roman, and Connor arrive at Rava's home to meet with Kendall. Kendall offers for his siblings to join him and make a statement about their father being unfit to lead the company. However, the conversation devolves into sniping and bickering, as well as squabbling for who actually gets to lead the company, and the others leave Kendall on bitter terms.
Meanwhile, Marcia returns to Logan following their split, and drives a high amount of money out of his lawyers so Logan does not have to go through a bitter divorce in this difficult time. An overwhelmed Greg meets with Ewan, who gets him a lawyer of his choosing for a scheme of his own.
Roman and Shiv return to Logan's side; Logan offers Shiv a high-ranking position behind Gerri.
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!!Tropes:
* TheManBehindTheMan: Invoked by Logan, who offers Shiv the a high position. Shiv is skeptical, because she's well aware Logan needs the optics of women in power, but then Logan tells her she'll basically be running the show behind Gerri, whom he has inoffensively named interim CEO.
-->'''Logan:''' Someone at the top, with credibility.\\
'''Shiv:''' A mascot?\\
'''Logan:''' My eyes and ears, Shiv. And the heart of everything through this shitstorm, but wearing a full chemical and biological suit, going by the name... of Gerri Kellman.
* MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial: Lampshaded by Kendall, who viciously tells Shiv that Logan's interest in her is only because she's the only daughter, and a woman taking the reins would look good in the wake of a controversial scandal. While he's not entirely ''wrong'', the way he says it is cruel enough to completely turn Shiv off from backing him.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Shiv lambasts Kendall for his pride, but Kendall remarks that he's actually doing what she ''pretends'' to be doing (taking a progressive stance and going against their "old guard" father). Her expression implies there is some truth to his statement.
* ShinyNewAustralia: Kendall unveils his plan to take their media conglomerate ATN global and put the family members in charge of various divisions, comparing it to [[UsefulNotes/MacedonianSuccessionWars what happened]] after UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat's death.
-->'''Kendall:''' Alexander's dead. I take Asia, you take Egypt, Shiv takes Europe, Con... the rest of the world.
* TrojanHorse: Invoked. Kendall gets in touch with Stewy following his break from Logan. Instead of joining up with him Stewy instead sends him a Trojan horse replica as a symbol.
-->'''Kendall:''' Who's the Trojan horse here?\\
'''Jess:''' You want... you want me to look inside of it?\\
'''Kendall:''' It's mind games. Send it back.
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->''"Here we go. Your apprenticeship begins."''
-->-- '''Gerri'''
Curious about the possibility of joining up with him, Shiv, Roman, and Connor arrive at Rava's home to meet with Kendall. Kendall offers for his siblings to join him and make a statement about their father being unfit to lead the company. However, the conversation devolves into sniping and bickering, as well as squabbling for who actually gets to lead the company, and the others leave Kendall on bitter terms.
Meanwhile, Marcia returns to Logan following their split, and drives a high amount of money out of his lawyers so Logan does not have to go through a bitter divorce in this difficult time. An overwhelmed Greg meets with Ewan, who gets him a lawyer of his choosing for a scheme of his own.
Roman and Shiv return to Logan's side; Logan offers Shiv a high-ranking position behind Gerri.
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!!Tropes:
* TheManBehindTheMan: Invoked by Logan, who offers Shiv the a high position. Shiv is skeptical, because she's well aware Logan needs the optics of women in power, but then Logan tells her she'll basically be running the show behind Gerri, whom he has inoffensively named interim CEO.
-->'''Logan:''' Someone at the top, with credibility.\\
'''Shiv:''' A mascot?\\
'''Logan:''' My eyes and ears, Shiv. And the heart of everything through this shitstorm, but wearing a full chemical and biological suit, going by the name... of Gerri Kellman.
* MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial: Lampshaded by Kendall, who viciously tells Shiv that Logan's interest in her is only because she's the only daughter, and a woman taking the reins would look good in the wake of a controversial scandal. While he's not entirely ''wrong'', the way he says it is cruel enough to completely turn Shiv off from backing him.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: Shiv lambasts Kendall for his pride, but Kendall remarks that he's actually doing what she ''pretends'' to be doing (taking a progressive stance and going against their "old guard" father). Her expression implies there is some truth to his statement.
* ShinyNewAustralia: Kendall unveils his plan to take their media conglomerate ATN global and put the family members in charge of various divisions, comparing it to [[UsefulNotes/MacedonianSuccessionWars what happened]] after UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat's death.
-->'''Kendall:''' Alexander's dead. I take Asia, you take Egypt, Shiv takes Europe, Con... the rest of the world.
* TrojanHorse: Invoked. Kendall gets in touch with Stewy following his break from Logan. Instead of joining up with him Stewy instead sends him a Trojan horse replica as a symbol.
-->'''Kendall:''' Who's the Trojan horse here?\\
'''Jess:''' You want... you want me to look inside of it?\\
'''Kendall:''' It's mind games. Send it back.
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