The real twist was what that person would decide to do in the final minutes before the axe officially came down. But it turned out that the identity of the person offed for the sake of corporate optics wasn’t the Succession finale’s big reveal after all. Succession fans spent the past week debating which member of the Roy family would become the so-called “blood sacrifice” that patriarch Logan Roy said would be necessary in order for Waystar Royco to survive its current crisis.