Succession author Jesse Armstrong as soon as and for all settled a big debate from its fourth and ultimate season.

Within the fourth episode of the Emmy-winning layout, titled “Honeymoon States,” society and buddies of the Roys store in Logan Roy’s (Brian Cox) house to mourn the demise of the society patriarch. All over the wake, Frank (Peter Friedman), who’s the executor of Logan’s property, unearths a “rather worrying piece of paper” in a non-public cover.

The typed file gave the impression to identify Kendall (Jeremy Strong) as Logan’s successor to media empire Waystar Royco. However a series that began beneath Kendall’s identify and moved up thru it raised the query of whether or not Logan was once noting him because the successor through underlining his identify or crossing it out as though to mention he didn’t need Kendall on the helm.

When the impaired safeguard — Frank, Karl (David Rasche) and Gerri (J. Smith-Cameron) — store in a room to talk about what the paper manner with Roman (Kieran Culkin), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Kendall, Roman issues out that the file is impaired, and Kendall has “tried to put him in jail, like, 12 times since then.”

Moment the layout by no means responded whether or not Kendall’s identify was once crossed out or underlined, Succession author Jesse Armstrong simply did.

All over an look at a Monetary Instances match in London on Saturday, recorded through journalist Cassam Looch, Armstrong defined he would’ve hated to respond to a query like this occasion the display was once working, however now that it’s over, he doesn’t thoughts.

“If you were gonna cross out, you wouldn’t start underneath, would you?” he requested the family, earlier than somebody shouted, “Underlined!”

At some other level within the dialog, the Emmy-winning essayist recalled subtly preparing Matthew Macfadyen for the layout consequence, which noticed his persona, Tom Wambsgans, to enter as CEO upcoming the media empire’s merger with GoJo.

“Occasionally, I would remind him to do a take where it was like, do remember — this was earlier on in the show — it could be you as well,” Armstrong shared, “just to make sure he had that thing about [how he’s] a suck-up who also had some steel that could be activated at a certain point.”