History Recap / SuccessionS04E04

** Marcia absolutely eviscerates Kerry, then orders to call a taxi to take the younger woman ... to a metro station, from which she can go back to her apartment. Her ''tiny'' apartment.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech : When Tom not so subtlly asks the old guard if he should be considered for CEO, Karl tells him what the board (and most likely themselves) think:
-->'''Karl''': You're a clumsy interloper and no one trusts you. The only guy pulling for you is dead. And now you're just married to the ex-boss's daughter and she doesn't even like you.
-->'''Tom''': ...Jesus, Karl.

* BrutalHonesty: When Tom not so subtlly asks the old guard if he should be considered for CEO, Karl tells him what the board would likely respond:
-->'''Karl''': You're a clumsy interloper and no one trusts you. The only guy pulling for you is dead. And now you're just married to the ex-boss's daughter and she doesn't even like you.
-->'''Tom''': ...Jesus, Karl.

** The "watch for Colin" is a rare Rolex Daytona Lapis, potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions.

* HumiliationConga: Shiv is already furious and upset and that Roman and Kendall were chosen to take over as interim [=CEOs=] and that she's been excluded ''again'', then on her way to the living room she trips and falls in front of everyone.

* HumiliationConga: Shiv is already furious and upset and that Roman and Kendall were chosen to take over as interim CEOs and that she's been excluded once again, then she trips and falls on her way to the living room in front of everyone.

* SpeakIllOfTheDead: The PR/communications heads, Karolina and Hugo, offer the Roy boys two ways to spin Logan's death: the kinder one is to portray it as Roman and Kendall naturally taking over the reigns from their beloved father; the harsher one is to portray Logan as infirm and incompetent towards the end of his life and say the children had unofficially taken over at the time of his death. Roman is reluctant to go with the latter, but Kendall goes behind his back and tells Hugo to trash Logan in the press.

* UndignifiedDeath: The full details of Logan's death are revealed (by Tom, to Greg) to be ''even more'' humiliating than they already were: he suffered a pulmonary embolism while trying to pick up his cellphone after accidentally dropping it in the airplane toilet. A toilet which Karl previously clogged.

* AmbiguousSituation: InUniverse. In his private belongings Logan had typed out a document saying he wanted Kendall to take over. But then there's a line under/over Kendall's name, and nobody's sure if it was underlined (meaning Logan privately reaffirmed it) or crossed out (meaning Logan changed his mind) -- and since Logan's dead, they're never going to know what he thought in the end. Kendall spins it in his favor, though it nags at him.

* DroppedInTheToilet: Tom claims that Logan Roy, the show's patriarch, [[UndignifiedDeath died from an embolism after trying to retrieve his phone from a clogged airplane toilet]].

* SpeakIllOfTheDead: The PR/communications heads, Karolina and Hugo, offer the Roy brothers two ways to spin Logan's death: the kinder one is to portray it as Roman and Kendall naturally taking over the reigns from their beloved father; the harsher one is to portray Logan as infirm and incompetent towards the end of his life and say the children had unofficially taken over at the time of his death. Roman is reluctant to go with the latter, but Kendall goes behind his back and tells Hugo to trash Logan in the press.

* UndignifiedDeath: The full details of Logan's death are revealed (by Tom, to Greg) to be even ''more'' humiliating than they already were: he suffered a pulmonary embolism while trying to pick up his cellphone after accidentally dropping it in the airplane toilet. A toilet which Karl previously clogged.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Pausing on Logan's unofficial musings on what his inner circle should do in the advent of his death reveals some details:

* DroppedInTheToilet: Tom claims that [[spoiler:Logan Roy, the show's patriarch]], [[UndignifiedDeath died from an embolism after trying to retrieve his phone from a clogged airplane toilet]].

* BeardOfSorrow: More like "Stubble of Sorrow", but the first shot of the episode shows the normally clean-faced Kendall with a face full of stubble, clearly having not taken care of himself for at least a few days.

* SpitShake: Connor and Marcia seal the sale of Logan's apartment with one.

* TitleDrop: Connor and Willa's honeymoon will be traveling to a few states in Middle America for Connor's campaign which Willa [[FlyoverCountry derisively]] refer to as "the '''honeymoon states'''".

* TheDogBitesBack: Greg, who was threatening with ruination by Kerry after he told her that her newsreader try-out was no good, is quick to join Marcia in mocking Kerry now that she does not have Logan to protect her.

** The "watch for Colin" is a rare Rolex Daytona Lapis, potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions.

** Karl gives an uncharacteristically discerning TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about Tom is it now that Logan is no longer here. True to this, Tom spends the entire episode trying to suck up to different parties and is rejected by all of them.

** A straight example occurs with Kerry, who completely breaks down in hysterical tears when trying to collect her things from Logan's residence. Both Marcia and Greg are completely unsympathetic; the former because she was in a romantic relationship with Logan, and the latter because she had previously threatened to tear him apart before Logan's death shook things up.

* LawOfInverseFertility: Shiv who definitely doesn't want to have a child at this point, is revealed to be expecting.

* UndignifiedDeath: The full details of Logan's death are revealed to be even ''more'' humiliating than they already were: he suffered a pulmonary embolism while trying to pick up his cellphone after accidentally dropping it in the airplane toilet. A toilet which Karl previously clogged.