12. When the Truth Is Your Only Chance

“It will come out. I can’t actually, in this nation yet, sadly, halt the publication of a book.”

—Gerri Kellman, Season 2, episode 3

Gerri, Waystar’s general counsel, doesn’t mince words. Of all of the executives at Waystar, Gerri is usually the only one operating under the assumption that the truth will, yes, eventually come out. If Logan needs to be told something he doesn’t want to hear—for example, that the company can’t stop the publication of a book about him—more often than not, she’s the one who has to do it. But that’s not to say, in the world of Succession, that the truth can’t sometimes be delayed a little bit or come out at a more opportune time. (“Well, we can threaten and harass,” she ...

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