Tom is being investigated for his role in the cruise ship scandal cover-up, so he’s not looking great for the time, either. When she confronts Logan about his runaround tactics, he goes off on her, saying her expressing interest in the Pierce job is “fucking him about.” That’s one potential successor, at least temporarily, out of the running. He’s read it-and made sure the rest of the plane did as well. Shiv flies to London to track her father down for a response on a corporate memo she’d made. She suggests this under the guise of helping Shiv, a fellow woman in a tough industry, when, unbeknownst to her, Rhea is acting on Logan’s orders to remove Shiv from the field. Rhea, while not at all tiptoeing around the fact that she and Logan may have a sexual relationship, implores Shiv to throw her name in the ring for Rhea’s old job as the head of PMG. It’s this symbiosis that leads Rhea to offer help getting Shiv out of the picture. They need each other Rhea, to get back on her feet, and Logan, to find someone with genuine acumen who can help his sort out his company’s-and his family’s-future. The duo form a bond, in more ways than one. He has all the shots, but he doesn’t know when to play them.” It’s like you put him in a big diaper and now he can shit himself whenever he likes.
“Roman could actually be good, but not right now. “Shiv thinks she’s smarter than she is,” she tells him. He asks her for an honest assessment of each of his children and their potential should they take his chair. Logan actually values her input, as opposed to how he views his children’s.
Just two episodes ago, she was juicing Logan out of an extra billion dollars at Tern Haven, and just last Sunday, she was kicked to the curb after failing to close the acquisition for Pierce.
Unconvinced, Kendall and Roman believe they may be hooking up (more on that later). She was already on her way there to take in some theater, she tells them, and Logan offered her a ride in return for the chance to pick her brain. After being fired by Nan Pierce at Argestes, Rhea appears on Logan’s plane as he and his younger sons are being shuttled to London. There’s a new contender for the Waystar throne: erstwhile PMG CEO Rhea Jarrell. Let’s continue with the seventh episode of Season 2, “Return.” Every week, The Ringer will break down the biggest developments, track who’s leading the literal line of succession, and catalog each episode’s most savage burns, Cousin Greg–isms, and more. The Roys and their slimy subordinates are back, and rest assured they’re still the same bunch of power-hungry, incandescent messes we love to hate and hate to love.