Roman Roy’s spiral out of regulate just received so significantly worse, and it is all because of a seconds-long Apple iphone video clip. Soon after certainly getting rid of it on a Norwegian mountaintop and likely on a firing spree at Waystar Royco, Roman’s in no way been in a even worse spot, and a movie of his late father insulting him might have pushed him even additional more than the edge. But… how did he get that video clip in the initial location? Here’s who sent Roman the video of Logan, and what the enthusiasm guiding it most likely was.

Spoiler inform: This article is made up of spoilers from Succession Season 4, Episode 6. After Kendall’s shock results pitching Living+ to the buyers, Roman’s self-confidence seemed to just take a dive. He had no self confidence in his brother/co-CEO’s techniques at all, but was entirely tested mistaken by Kendall’s charisma. Just when he thought he couldn’t get any reduced, Roman opened his telephone and push perform on a video clip. An individual experienced edited his father insulting him and sent it to him. “I want to make what I imagine is a relatively historic announcement,” Logan reported in the clip. “I’m confident that Roman Roy has a micro-d*ck and often gets it incorrect.”

Roman’s response is a complex a single. He does not throw his mobile phone in anger, or change it off and get psychological. As an alternative, he lets the audio replay over and over all over again as he retains his telephone upcoming to his ear. It is a combine of masochism, grief, and longing, as he savors acquiring to listen to Logan’s voice once again, even if it is cruelly demeaning him.

A nearer glimpse at Roman’s cellular phone when he initially gets the online video reveals who despatched it to him: Kendall.

Why would Kendall mail his brother such a twisted thing? The episode’s director Lorene Scafaria suggested to The Hollywood Reporter that it was very likely sent as a joke between two (really messed-up) brothers. “[Roman] is familiar with it’s humorous, at 1st, since he’s funny. But then the soreness of it just seeps in,” Scafaria explained. The interpretation would make feeling, specified how brutally the Roy siblings “joke” with each individual other, and Roman’s distinct penchant for usually heading for an not comfortable sexual remark.

But, it’s difficult to dismiss how the motion could also be a electrical power perform. Kendall is riding a massive large soon after his earn with the buyers. He may perhaps have despatched the video in jest, but it also serves as a reminder of who the real “number just one boy” is.

The Roy drama is only receiving much more heated as new episodes of Succession’s last period fall Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.