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Succession

About to watch S01E06 · Which Side Are You On?

Spoiler-free to End of S01E05 "I Went to Market"

100% spoiler-free up to the final frame of S01E05. Continuity pack (season knowledge + staged narrative + relationship web). Nothing from S01E06 or later.

Months since last watch

14m

Long gap (passport-weighted): foundational who/where listed first.

Standard

Logan Roy: aging media-and-cruise titan; love is a weapon.

Children: Kendall (addict heir), Shiv (political operator), Roman (chaotic ironist), Connor (sidelined eldest).

Waystar Royco: board, shareholders, scandals, and succession as bloodsport.

You are still early in Season 1. Prior seasons (if any) are fully in force; this season's finale geometry is not.

Kendall is broken under Logan after the crash/cover leverage.

Shiv and Roman scramble; Connor cosplays politics.

Focus on who wants what, who is allied, and which institutions are pressuring the cast.

Mid-Season 1: conflicts have escalated past setup. Re-check alliances and locations on the relationship map.

Logan remains the sun.

If a fact only lands in the season finale, it is not in this pack yet.

Season 1 path through S01E05: E1 "Celebration" → E2 "Shit Show at the Fuck Factory" → E3 "Lifeboats" → E4 "Sad Sack Wasp Trap" → E5 "I Went to Market".

Cutoff discipline: every fact above ends at S01E05. Do not import anything from S01E06 ("Which Side Are You On?") or later.

Key events (pre-cutoff)

01Season 1 through E1: early markers only.
02S1E01: Context beat: Kendall is broken under Logan after the crash/cover leverage.
03S1E01: Context beat: Shiv and Roman scramble; Connor cosplays politics.
04Season 1 through E5: mid-run markers.
05Season beat: Kendall is broken under Logan after the crash/cover leverage.
06Season beat: Shiv and Roman scramble; Connor cosplays politics.
07Season beat: Logan remains the sun.
08S01E01: Celebration
09S01E02: Shit Show at the Fuck Factory
10S01E03: Lifeboats
11S01E04: Sad Sack Wasp Trap
12S01E05: I Went to Market

Character status cards

Snapshots as of graph ordinal ≤ 5 (S01E05).

Logan Roy

alive

CEO patriarch

Loc. NYC / empires

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Survives health scares; breaks Kendall

Allies

Gerri, Karl, Frank (revolving)

Threats

Kendall revolt, shareholders, health

Siobhan Roy

Shiv

alive

Operator

Loc. Political world / family

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Courted as heir then sidelined patterns

Allies

Tom

Threats

Logan, siblings

Greg Hirsch

alive

Cousin climber

Loc. Waystar

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Documents and leverage

Allies

Tom

Threats

everyone slightly

Roman Roy

alive

Chaotic exec

Loc. Waystar

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Humiliated and hungry for dad

Allies

Gerri (sexual power weird)

Threats

Logan, insecurity

Tom Wambsgans

alive

Shiv's husband

Loc. Waystar

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Social climber; cruises scandal exposure risk

Allies

Shiv, Greg

Threats

scandal, Logan

Kendall Roy

alive

Failed usurper

Loc. NYC

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Broken after crash/cover leverage

Allies

Stewy (deal)

Threats

Logan, addiction, guilt

Connor Roy

alive

Eldest

Loc. Ranch / politics cosplay

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Runs for president energy

Allies

Willa

Threats

irrelevance

Gerri Kellman

alive

General counsel

Loc. Waystar

Motivation: Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state: Hardened by recent events
Last known: Survivor operator

Allies

Logan

Threats

scandals

Continuity web

Relationship map

Ink diagram of who is bound, opposed, or entangled as of the cutoff (End of S01E05 "I Went to Market"). Click a name to pin. Edge labels appear on focus.

8 figures17/17 ties shownhub: Logan (7)

Hover or click any figure to open their tie dossier. Hostile and tense ties carry direction marks. Secret ties are dashed.

Open threads

Story continues from cutoff

high

All facts above end at S01E05. S01E06 is not included.

Who cares: you

Path to now

S1 through E5

Progress marker E5

Logan health crisis opens succession war.

S1 through E5

Current season path

Last episode watched: I Went to Market. Next: Which Side Are You On?.

World state

Status quo at season end is the baseline for the next stretch.
Treat later-season institutional collapses as unknown until you pass them.
World pressure at mid-Season 1 is the baseline for the remaining episodes.

Constrained desk chat

Temporal RAG over this pack only. No model calls. No post-cutoff index rows exist.

Desk · Cutoff desk open. I only know this show through End of S01E05 "I Went to Market". Ask about characters, threads, or events before that line. I will refuse anything later.

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