Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) celebrates his 40th birthday with an all-out bash in the seventh episode of Succession Season 3.
The proverbial black sheep of the Roy family is seen holding a mic in the promo for Sunday night's episode, entitled Too Much Birthday, which began with a hint that he might deliver another iconic rap performance, like he did in Season 2 at a celebration of his father, Logan Roy (Brian Cox).
Sunday night's episode also marks the debut of a new character, Lukas Matsson, played by Alexander Skarsgard, who both Kendall and his siblings Roman (Kieran Culkin), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Connor (Alan Ruck) were courting for their father, who also had quite the surprise gift for his son: a buyout.
Black sheep: The proverbial black sheep of the Roy family is seen holding a mic in the promo for Sunday night's episode, entitled Too Much Birthday, which may hint that he may deliver another iconic rapping performance, like he did in Season 2 at a celebration of his father, Logan Roy (Brian Cox)
Debut: Sunday night's episode also marks the debut of a new character, Lukas Matsson, played by Alexander Skarsgard
The episode begins with Kendall on stage with a mic, rehearsing his song for the party, a cover version of Billy Joel’s Honesty.
He looks to his new girlfriend Naomi Pierce (Annabelle Dexter-Jones) as she says the rehearsal sounds good.
Kendall says it’s going to be a ‘full f**ing thing’ and exclaims it’s going to be ‘epic.
The episode continues with Roman (Kieran Culkin), Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Tom (Matthew McFadyen) all talking business, acquiring a company called GoJo, before they talk about their brother's birthday party.
Roman says he might have to go to see how 'bad' it's going to be, but Shiv doesn't think she will go.
They go into the conference room where they're handing out champagne, but they aren't exactly celebrating.
The Department of Justice is happy but they think Kendall 'overpromised' and they just think they'll get a fine.
Tom is relieved when it seems he won't be going to jail, as they all toast to their success.
Logan walks by Tom and says, 'I'll remember,' meaning he'll remember his offer to be the proverbial 'fall guy' and go to prison for this whole scenario.
Tom goes into Greg's office and is visibly relieved, before he freaks out and flips over Greg's desk, screaming in celebration.
Greg is terrified, wondering what is going on, as Tom says, 'Apologies, Greg, I seem to have gotten carried away.'
He tells Greg that they're home free, as Greg asks if it's real, and Tom kisses his forehead.
Tom leaves the office as Greg says 'Good news,' before trying to pick up his desk and clean up his office.
Kendall is talking to his team, where he's told that 80% of his A-list guests are yes, but his father Logan is a no.
When asked about his siblings, she doesn't answer, but Kendall wants everyone to have a good time and there are 'no boundaries if you're cool,' adding he wants the staff to 'get their drink on' too.
Tom walks back into Logan's office, and Logan is pissed that an executive sent some subordinates, and he's pissed that he's going to Kendall's party.
Logan tells them that they're going after Pierce again, who won't let the deal happen.
Shiv thinks this deal gets them into sports, betting, social media and more, but Logan doesn't want to talk to Matsson.
They agree to go to the party to court Matsson, and Logan gives Roman a card to give to Kendall while he's there.
That night at the party, Tom and Shiv arrive, as Tom is feeling great, telling Shiv he wants to get 'f**ed up.'
One of Kendall's staffers wants everyone to turn in their phones, because he wants everyone to be 'present' but Shiv, Roman and Connor (Alan Ruck) don't do it.
Tom runs into Greg who are both happy they aren't going to jail, as Greg asks him about one of Kendall's team members, Comfry (Dasha Nekrasova), but Tom says Greg is out of her league.
Greg is not happy and says Shiv is out of his league, asking how he got her, as Tom responds that he has a 'd**k the size of a sequoia.'
Shiv and Roman ask where Kendall is and they go see him in the VIP section.
Roman says he's only there because he thinks it will be an epic catastrophe.
Shiv asks who is there, but Kendall says, 'Who isn't there?' as they say his wife, kids and mother aren't there.
Kendall takes them into the bowels of the VIP section including a room filled with fake news headlines about the family.
Connor isn't happy about the fake headline about him 's****ing his bag' but Kendall agrees to take it down.
Kendall leaves to go 'circulate' but says he's happy they're all there and leaves.
He opens the card from his dad , which only reads 'Cash out and f**k off,' along with an offer sheet inside the card.
Kendall seems to be mildly amused, just saying 'Wow' before walking away, as Greg finds the PR woman he has a crush on.
She says she's targeting him for the press but she'll be fair, but he tries poorly to flirt with her and she walks away.
Kendall tells Naomi that his dad offered to buy him out, saying it would be about $2 billion if he takes the payout.
He thinks it's a 'mindf**k,' but she thinks maybe he should take it, and he says maybe he could buy a bunch of newspapers running pictures of his dad eating dog d**k.'
The PR woman tells Kendall that Shiv and Roman that they're setting up a meeting with Matsson, but Kendall won't let his siblings into an area of the
