This article contains significant spoilers for Episode Three, Season Four of “Succession.”

The cold, calculating, and domineering media tycoon and manipulative father of four in HBO’s “Succession” is no more.

Logan Roy is dead.

On a private jet en route to Sweden, while his children attended their brother Connor’s wedding, Roy died unceremoniously after collapsing in the bathroom.

His last moments on earth were spent on the floor receiving chest compressions from a stewardess with his shirt stripped off and three of his children frantically murmuring their potential final goodbyes to their father, unsure at the time if he had already passed on.

The unexpected death of the fictional media mogul had been looming in the shadows since the series pilot began with Roy suffering a stroke. 

Actor Brian Cox, who plays Roy, explained how he was first broken the news his character wouldn’t make it out of the final season alive.

“He called me, and he said, ‘Logan’s going to die,’” Cox said in an interview with the New York Times about receiving the news from the show’s creator, Jesse Armstrong.

Ultimately, Cox was not bothered with his character being killed off since the show was entering its final season but was somewhat surprised by the timing.

“I thought, ‘Oh, that’s fine.’ I thought he would die in about Episode 7 or 8, but Episode 3, I thought … ‘Well that’s a bit early.’”

The 76-year-old actor praised Armstrong, and the writers of the HBO hit for understanding when the curtains must close on a character, even one so beloved and feared by fans as Roy was.

“The problem with a lot of television, particularly American television, is it goes past its sell-by date. And the great thing about Jesse and the writers is they wouldn’t do that,” he said in the interview.

Armstrong’s choice to kill off Roy so earlier in the final season was seen as “courageous” by Cox, saying the creator understands how to “leave the party when it’s at its height, not when it’s going down.”

With the main protagonist gone, the remaining seven episodes of the series set the stage between Roy’s children and the future of Waystar Royco in a dramatic fashion.

“I think it’s going to be hard next week for a lot of the audience because they’re going to miss Logan. And I don’t think that’s a bad thing — I think that’s actually quite a good thing,” said Cox.

“The audience [for “Succession”] might be furious; they might miss Logan and say, ‘Oh, what are you doing killing off one of the most interesting characters?’ But it’s fine by me,” Cox said, reveling he has plans to make his directorial debut and is heading back to the theatre to star in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” in London.

No longer portraying the power-driven, charming, and intimidating Roy, Cox is more than okay with moving on but will always cherish his time playing the now legendary, fictional media mogul.

“Somebody like Logan, he has become a cultural icon. But it’s a bit of a thing where you go: I’ve been an actor for 60-odd years. I’ve done a lot of great work. [Succession] is a very special work that I’ve done, and it’s given me so much, and I’m really eternally grateful for it. But it’s only a stop on the way. It is not the destination, as far as I’m concerned,” he said