Gil Eavis quotes from Succession

Logan Roy

I don't like being outside the U.S. for too long.

Gil Eavis

Doesn't sit well.

Logan Roy

And there's a mercilessness I miss.

Gil Eavis

I'm not used to these squalid little deals.

Logan Roy

Yeah, living with the safety catch off, fuckin' without a rubber. Everywhere else feels so soft. I mean, look at this fuckin' place.

Gil Eavis

Yeah, well, it-- it's all quite refined.

Logan Roy

Refined? Ahh. Slaves. Cotton, and sugar. This country's nothing but an off-shore laundry for turning evil into hard currency.

Gil Eavis

[laughs] Is this where you tell me you're working for the communists?

Logan Roy

And now it just lies here, y'know, living off its capital, sucking in immigrants to turn it and stop it from getting bed sores.

Senator Eavis, you have five minutes for questions.

Gil Eavis

Mr. Wambsgans, I hope I'm saying that correctly.

Gil Eavis

Just some background. Mr. Lester McClintock. You accept he offered jobs to young women who would sleep with him?

Tom Wambsgans

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--

Gil Eavis

Uh-huh.

Tom Wambsgans

predecessor--

Gil Eavis

But within the upper echelons of the firm and the family, Lester was commonly known as "Mo," is that correct?

Tom Wambsgans

I... I don't... I don't... I-- I'm a relative n-- newcomer.

Gil Eavis

This email, you call Lester McClintock "Mo." Why?

Tom Wambsgans

I-- I guess I think it was just a nickname.

Gil Eavis

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?

Tom Wambsgans

Senator, I don't know.

Gil Eavis

You don't know? He was called Mo, but always behind his back.

Tom Wambsgans

Um... Uh... I'd-- I'd have to look at the, uh, emails, uh, I never thought about it.

Gil Eavis

Lester's nickname was Mo. Mo Lester. Molester. That never came up?

Tom Wambsgans

Senator, I think, uh... [chuckles] I guess maybe perhaps he was, uh, a little creepy-seeming perhaps.

Gil Eavis

Well, you were right there.

Tom Wambsgans

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?

Gil Eavis

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.

Tom Wambsgans

Yes, Senator, I can see that. I think he just seemed a bit like one, maybe. But we didn't know anything.

Gil Eavis

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 Roy

Oh, my...

Gil Eavis

...before you sent him out on ships full of young women and vulnerable old and young guests?

Gil Eavis

Do you know what is special about the hours between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. on the night of March 12th?

Tom Wambsgans

Uh... no, sir.

Gil Eavis

That was the only two-hour period in which you did not send an email to Mr. Hirsch with the title... "You Can't Make a Tomlette Without Breaking Some Greggs." You sent the same email to him 67 times in one evening.

Tom Wambsgans

I guess it was a joke. [giggles nervously]

Mr. Hirsch, please rise. Raise your right hand. Do you swear that the testimony you are about to give this committee is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you, God?

Greg

I do.

Please take a seat. Senator Eavis, it's your time.

Gregory Hirsch, executive assistant to Tom Wambsgans, is that correct?

Greg

Yes. Yes, if it is to be said.

Eavis

I'm sorry?

Greg

If it is to be said, so it be--so it is.

Eavis

Are you all right?

Greg

Uh, yes. I merely wish to answer in the affirmative fashion.

Eavis

You can speak to us normally.

Greg

Ok--no--thank you, sir. So I shall.