Plot summary
Kendall has cut off communications with the rest of his family and is suing Logan for firing him from Waystar. Tabloids falsely suggest that Kendall, a recovering drug addict, has relapsed, and Kendall struggles to convince Rava that he has not. Meanwhile, in an effort to fix his public image after the failed no-confidence vote, Logan agrees to a weekend-long family therapy session at Austerlitz, Connor's ranch in New Mexico, which Kendall chooses not to attend.
The first therapy session, conducted by celebrity psychologist Dr. Alon Parfit, proves fruitless. Shiv leaves Austerlitz to meet U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Gil Eavis, a staunch leftist who vehemently opposes Logan and his company. Nate has been attempting to persuade Shiv to work alongside him for Eavis's campaign. Shiv considers the idea more seriously after meeting Eavis, and has a sexual encounter with Nate in his car.
Kendall eventually does arrive in New Mexico and joins some locals on a cocaine and methamphetamine binge. Meanwhile, the rest of the therapy session also proves ineffectual, and Parfit is hospitalized after diving headfirst into a shallow pool and breaking several front teeth. Logan decides to give Roman more responsibilities by placing him in charge of overseeing a company satellite launch out of Japan. Roman, concerned for his brother's well-being, picks Kendall up from his relapse that night and takes him back to the ranch.
Kendall returns to find the rest of the family in a heated argument. Logan demeans Tom and berates Shiv for meeting with his rival Eavis, and insinuates that she married Tom because she is afraid of being betrayed, causing her to leave crying. Logan also admits to planting stories in the tabloids of Kendall's drug use prior to his actual relapse. Connor admits that he feels "used" by his father turning Austerlitz into merely another stage for waging his business-related conflicts. Still heavily intoxicated, Kendall accuses his father of resenting his children for the privilege in which he raised them, and nearly provokes a physical altercation when he flippantly dismisses the abuse Logan suffered at the hands of his uncle Noah.
The next morning, the rest of the Roy children leave Austerlitz, and Connor expresses his hope that Willa will grow to love him. Logan goes for a private swim with only Marcia present, revealing visible scars across his back, seemingly from his childhood abuse.
Credits
Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Austerlitz (Succession). Paragraphs and formatting adjusted; illustrations, reference markers, block quotations and non-story material omitted.