KGKatherine Gilliard
Senator Eavis, you have five minutes for questions.
Mr. Wambsgans, I hope I'm saying that correctly.
[Tom gives a thumbs-up and mouths a "Yeah"]
Just some background. Mr. Lester McClintock. You accept he offered jobs to young women who would sleep with him?
Uh... That does seem to be the case. Um... But the-- the company, uh, wasn't aware, and obviously, that was some time before my time, um... However, Bill... uh, Lockheart, my--
But within the upper echelons of the firm and the family, Lester was commonly known as "Mo," is that correct?
I... I don't... I don't... I-- I'm a relative n-- newcomer.
This email, you call Lester McClintock "Mo." Why?
I-- I guess I think it was just a nickname.
Mm-hm. You call him "Mo" over 30 times in emails to family and colleagues, but you never use it in the items of correspondence sent to him privately, for instance, during his illness. Why not?
You don't know? He was called Mo, but always behind his back.
Um... Uh... I'd-- I'd have to look at the, uh, emails, uh, I never thought about it.
Lester's nickname was Mo. Mo Lester. Molester. That never came up?
Senator, I think, uh... [chuckles] I guess maybe perhaps he was, uh, a little creepy-seeming perhaps.
Well, you were right there.
But just because we-- he was called, um, Mo Lester, doesn't-- didn't mean... It was just a-- [chuckles] It's just an off-color joke. You know?
That was 100 percent based on truth. But of all the many, many people who called this molester... "Mo Lester," not one of them had the slightest idea that he was actually a molester. I mean, you could see how that stretches out our credulity.
Yes, Senator, I can see that. I think he just seemed a bit like one, maybe. But we didn't know anything.
Well, if he seemed a little bit like one, don't you think it behooved the people in charge to find out if he was one...
Logan RoyOh, my...
...before you sent him out on ships full of young women and vulnerable old and young guests?
Logan Roy
You know, uh... Marcia and I used to read to each other. I'd read her history. You know, Spengler, Gibbon, the big boys. Uh-huh.
Logan Roy
The Incas... in times of terrible crisis... would sacrifice a child to the sun. I said to her they were a bunch of fucking savages.
Logan Roy
Her thing was... what could you possibly kill that you love so much... it would make the sun rise again?
Hey, Dad, I--... just out of interest, um... Did you ever think I could do it?
Logan Roy
Do what? The top job? Oh, I don't know, maybe. Eh...
Logan Roy
I-- Well, you know, I just... You know, you're smart, you're good, but I... I just don't know.
Logan Roy
You're not a killer. You have to be a killer. But... nowadays... maybe you don't. I don't know.
Who do you think I am? You think I want you dead? I’ll be broken when you die.
Logan Roy
Hmm. How’s the boy doing? Is he getting better?
He’s…He’s fine. So, look… my thing is… I want out. I think I thought I was a knight on horseback, but, yet, that isn’t-
Logan Roy
Life’s not knights on horseback. It’s a number on a piece of paper. It’s a fight for a knife in the mud.
Like, I don’t really know… where my life goes from here. Uhh, maybe, I…could… I don’t know, but I can’t do jack shit. So, here it is, I want a premium payout from the holding. Two-bill, and a chunky asset. Something you can realize without shareholder input. Maybe... outdoor advertising, podcasts. I keep Fikret, Jess, and I'm gone. I'm a ghost, divested, off the board, complete disinheritance. I won't even speak at your memorial. We're done.
Logan Roy
Well, I need to think about it.
Well, you... you already... you offered at my birthday.
Logan Roy
That was, uh, for fun.
Dad... we can't do this bullshit forever.
Logan Roy
Maybe I want you close. You can do the mail, keep you rattling around.
I can't. I tried, but I... I thought that I could change things. But I'm not as... There are things you're able to do that I can't. Maybe.
Logan Roy
Maybe.
You've won... because you're corrupt and so is the world.
Logan Roy
Hmm. Well...
I'm better than you. You're... You know, I... I... I hate to say this, 'cause I love you, but you're kind of... evil.
Logan Roy
Don't talk about things you don't understand.
Well, you're smart, but what you've done is you... you've... you've... monetized all the fսcking... the... the... American resentments of class and race...
Logan Roy
And I thought I was just telling folks the weather.
You've turned black bile into silver dollars.
Logan Roy
Oh, you just noticed, did you?
Logan Roy
Oh, fսck off.
Fine, you know what? (Scoffs) I don't give a fսck.
Logan Roy
Not everyone can live this life. I'm a great revolutionary. A bit of fսcking spice. Bit of fun.
Logan Roy
A bit of truth.
Logan Roy
I fսcking know things about the world, or I wouldn't turn a buck.
Logan Roy
Not necessarily nice things.
Look, whatever. Let me out. Okay? Pay up and let me out. I don't wanna be you. I'm a good guy.
Logan Roy
How long was that kid alive... before he started sucking in water? Couple of minutes? Three, four, five? Long time? Two minutes? What were you even doing, huh? Chasing a bit of tail? Hey, are you queer? Did you try to fսck him? Or was it just the drսgs?
Logan Roy
Sure. You're my son. I did my best... and whenever you fսckеd up... I cleaned up your shit. And I'm a bad person? Fսck off, kiddo. Good night. We're out of here.
Logan Roy
Nobody tells jokes anymore do they? Karl, do you have any jokes?
Logan Roy
I'm saying, Karl... it's a bit dry in here.
Logan Roy
Do you have any jokes?
Um, uh, well, let me think, um... [stammering]
Logan Roy
Oh, dry as fucking dust. Come on! Roast me! Hmm? Give me a drubbing! Frank, start. Be funny.
Uh, it's not really my thing, Chief.
Logan Roy
Oh, so, what? You don't think I can take it?
No, it's just not my style. I mean, I can. Uh, the thing about Logan Roy is... T-- uh, the thing about Logan is he's a tough old nut. [laughs]
Logan Roy
Oh, Christ. Sid fucking Caesar. Greggy.
You're mean. [clears throat] You're mean. You're a mean, old man. You're-- you're a mean, old bastard. Uh, and you scare the life out of folks. That's your thing. You're scaring me right now. And-- and that's why I don't even know how-- what to do.
Logan Roy
Who wants to smell Greg's finger. Hey? Guess the scent, win a buck.
[Greg chuckles softly]
Logan Roy
Come on, roast me!
Where are your kids? Where's all your kids, Uncle Logan? On your big birthday?
Logan Roy
Well, where's your old man, huh? Where's your old man? Still sucking cock at the county fair?
[Greg exhales sharply and smirks]
Logan Roy
Gerri, been sent anything funny lately?
All a bit horrible for me. Thanks, Logan.
Logan Roy
I'm not being horrible. I'm being fun. Fucking Munsters.
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