And his continued desire to humiliate his family triggers a blowback that strikes him at the very worst time.

Especially when he responds to a document subpoena with an abrupt “F— off!”

Kendall has already made a fool of himself by yelling “F— the patriarchy!”

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Shiv tries to turn the temperature down as well by reminding him that they have the same aim.

Sophie eviscerates him with precision, but Kendall equates any attention with love.

“She loves me.

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This is love,” he murmurs to his aghast party guests.

“Do you trust me?”

he asks bluntly to which she replies “Yes, of course.”

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but her long pause before she clarifies, “Uh, on what?”

gives away the game.

I don’t read my emails.

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I get the action points.”

And people is politics.

And I can handle the people."

But can he really?

Tom goes ahead and makes the offer to Logan without any strings attached.

Logan is honestly both surprised and moved by this show of loyalty from his son-in-law.

and spits in his appointment book.

Oh, she does indeed.

But for how long?