[This story contains spoilers for Succession season four episode four, “Honeymoon States.”]

The king is dead. Long live the king, and the other king.

After killing Logan Roy (Brian Cox) in the third episode of its final season, Succession closed its fourth week by addressing a different series-defining matter: Who will lead Waystar Royco in the wake of Logan’s death?

The answer is not one individual, but two: Kendall (Jeremy Strong) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) are the new CEOs, leaving sister Shiv (Sarah Snook) on the outside.

Of course, it’s just an interim position, right? The goal is still to sell Waystar to GoJo, isn’t it? That’s what the Roy brothers are telling everyone,. But with six episodes remaining before the curtain call, there is plenty of time, not to mention plenty of paths, for everything to go horribly wrong.

Here’s how Kendall and Roman’s ascension played out on screen,...