Barry (2018) s02e06 Episode Script
The Truth Has a Ring to It
1 He's feeling my wife.
If you get rid of him, all of this goes away.
What?! [FUNK MUSIC PLAYS.]
BARRY BERKMAN: I've been sent here by Detective John Loach to kill you.
- I'm not gonna do that.
- Uh-huh.
[GRUNTING, GASPING.]
Dad? BARRY: That was Ronny's daughter.
I think he trains her 'cause she was like a feral mongoose.
- [FLESH SQUELCHING.]
- [SCREAMS.]
- [GASPS.]
- [FERAL SHRIEKS.]
- [WHISPERING.]
Ronny.
- RONNY PROXIN: Loach! [GRUNTS.]
[GUNSHOTS.]
OFFICER: Shots fired! Shots fired! OFFICER 2: He's dead.
Barry.
Buddy, we have to go! Detective John Loach was integral to a number of high-profile gang-related cases.
However, our investigation has concluded this was a domestic matter between Detective Loach and another man, - unrelated to police business.
- [OVERLAPPING QUESTIONS.]
NEWSMAN: Do you have an ID on the second man? Uh, yes, I believe we have a photo.
- WOMAN: Oh.
Oh.
- [MURMURING.]
NEWSWOMAN: Is that Ronny Proxin? Yes.
Mr.
Proxin was a two-time Olympic medalist in taekwondo.
Uh, apparently, Detective Loach's wife, Diana, had recently left him to date Ronny.
[REPORTERS MURMURING.]
So, you get it.
NEWSMAN: Yeah, I get it.
- [DRAWER ROLLS.]
- Huh.
His laptop? His files? There's nothing here.
Where would he have left it all? DIANA: I don't know.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Diana, uh You're going through a rough time, but you're gonna get through it.
I just know it.
And I'm sure there's a site for people whose ex and boyfriend murdered each other.
And if there isn't, there should be.
Well, thanks for letting me look around.
Um, I can run you home.
Or why don't we get a drink? - You want to get a drink? - No.
Okay.
No prob Hey, why don't you come to my softball practice? - [DOOR BELLS JANGLE.]
- DIANA: I'm not really in the mood.
[DOOR BELLS JANGLE.]
[SIGHS.]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING.]
[TOILET FLUSHES.]
Ah [CHUCKLING.]
Looks good, right? Thirty bucks.
Heh.
I am starving, man.
Why don't we go to, uh Why don't we go to Du-par's? Pancakes on me, yeah? Listen, uh, now that this Loach stuff's all done, um, I can't work with you anymore, man.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Not this thing again.
Why? Why? What have I done? Name me one thing I done.
You wore a wire.
I wore a what? Come on, man.
I mean, you know what you did, man.
Look, you know, your head's not in the right place.
[CHUCKLING.]
: We just got our asses handed to us by a 12-year-old.
But I'm fuckin' starving.
Can we go to Du-par's? Can we eat? We'll talk about it.
You sold me out, for your own interests.
I did what was best for us not me, us.
- Bullshit, man.
- Bullsh You're not thinking.
There is no way you can negotiate a piece of Hank's heroin without me.
Hank's heroin? I don't give a shit about that! See, this is what I'm talking about! You don't fuckin' know me! You don't fuckin' know me.
Mr.
Cous Mr.
Cousineau, he understands me, okay? He accepts me.
Mr.
Cousineau? You know, he gets you because you told him about Korengal.
Yeah.
[SIGHS.]
Did you tell him you killed his girlfriend? That-that never needs to come up.
Yeah, Barry, you're in denial.
Because that Korengal shit is fog of war.
You killed Moss out of your own self-interest.
You made a choice to kill her, because you're a violent guy, Barry.
But me, I built [CHUCKLES.]
I built a world where that's an asset.
I don't want to talk to you anymore.
Aah You're gonna choose that fucker over me? Uh, well, I guess everyone's a hero of their own story, right? Fine, I'll just work with Hank without you.
- Work with Hank without me? - Yeah.
Without me? What do you bring to the table without me? [STAMMERS.]
What? You got nothin' without me.
I am your fuckin' business, idiot! You're out of moves.
Don't you walk away from me, Barry.
We Fucker, we got too much on the line! Come on, man! Fuck you, Barry.
Fuck you, actor boy! [MACHINES HUMMING.]
Hank.
Akhmal, I'm getting to your stuff, okay? Thank you, but listen.
When you are done washing monks' robes, Cristobal wants you to fold them and take them out to car.
Okay.
Why? Esther and her men are moving back to monastery.
They want to be there when heroin shipment arrives.
They are leaving us? Oh, no.
Oh, yes, Barry.
I am washing Burmese right out of my hair.
[MEN GRUNTING.]
Good.
Good.
That's much improved.
That's good.
Uh, so, the heroin shipment is coming in two days, which means we have small window before monastery is fully fortified to take it, just like we took stash house.
Hey, what do you mean "we"? Well, we you, me.
Team Badass.
Come on.
Kickin' ass, makin' names.
No, the deal was, is that I train them, that's it.
Remember? That is true.
That is true.
You know, that was plan, and I'm man of my word.
Okay? I am honest Gabe.
So, what do you think, though? Are they ready? - [GUNSHOTS.]
- [POTS CLANGING.]
They're as ready as they're ever gonna be.
Shit, man.
They're gonna be pretty fuckin' broken up about it.
I mean, they're gonna want to say goodbye and thank you and [CHUCKLING.]
Oh.
Oh, Barry.
Oh, man, you don't even know.
It's about to go off.
- [ACCORDION PLAYING.]
- [CHECHENS SINGING.]
NOHO HANK [CHANTING.]
: Hey, hey, hey, hey [CHECHENS SINGING.]
- [MAN GRUNTING.]
- All right.
[WIND WHISTLING.]
[NOHO HANK SPEAKS CHECHEN.]
Oh, it means, um, "The debt has been paid.
" You owe me nothing.
And, uh, slate is clean, right? And just because we're not working together anymore [ACCORDION PLAYING.]
Are you fucking serious? Are you fucking kidding me right now? You just fucked this moment, this beautiful, tender moment with your accordion.
You just whipped out your accordion, and you fucked it, man.
God! Hey, I'm so sorry about that.
- It's all right.
- Um, where was I? Aah, it's gone.
It's gone.
Yeah.
Gone.
Where'd you park? Uh, Barry, do you still have special Chechen bullet I gave you? Because I think it would be a real gas for me to use it to kill Esther.
- I didn't bring it.
- Oh.
All right.
Well Normal bullet is cool, too.
I wanted to say thank you for pushing me.
Before you, I was small.
I had nothing.
You know, when they look at me, they they see nobody.
But now, I have a purpose.
You gave me that.
Take care of yourself, Barry.
Stay off the 405, man.
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING.]
[SIGHS.]
"So, this is an absolutely true story that happened to me.
"When I was six or seven, "I was at home, at my mum's flat in London, "and I looked out of the window, and I saw "a horse, right outside my block of flats.
" And? That's my story.
And you think that that moment is the moment that defines you? Gene, I didn't grow up around a lot of animals, like you lot.
Right? Like I'm I'm not from like a rural place.
This is in the middle of a city.
All right, thank you.
Thank you, Sasha.
No don't No, no, no! Don't clap.
You lot you lot should've applauded at the end.
If you clap now, it's like pitiful.
- NATALIE: We didn't know it was over.
- GENE: Okay, Sasha, there are people waiting.
SASHA: You know, maybe you didn't know it was over, but could you tell that horse was a big deal to me? Because it was.
I mean, I stood up here and told that story.
Hey.
We're up next.
What's going on? I rewrote my scene.
Yeah? Barry, look, I'm really sorry that I didn't tell you this before, but after we had dinner with Sam, he called me, and, um I went to his hotel.
What? Oh, God, no.
Nothing happened, I promise.
No, it wasn't like that at all.
No, it was awful, actually.
I just I couldn't stand up to him.
I don't know, I just felt fucking paralyzed, like I was fucking 19 years old again.
Like, I stood there like a fucking idiot, and I just I don't know what I thought.
I thought I thought it'd be different, or I thought I'd be different, or But I just He's got my number.
So, I wrote this.
- It's the truth.
- Yeah, no, I can see that.
SALLY: I don't know.
I I don't know if I can do this.
I mean, I can barely talk about this stuff with you.
How am I supposed to get up there and just and just like say all of this in front of them? I mean, what if they judge me? What if they don't fucking get it? No, no.
Hey, listen, Sally.
I think if you can tell the truth, you should.
Telling the truth's a good thing.
BARRY: "Everybody was staring at you.
I don't like it.
It was embarrassing.
You looked like a whore.
" SALLY: Sam, Ken is just a friend.
Don't be an idiot.
BARRY: "Don't call me a fucking idiot.
" "Sam grabs Sally by the throat, pins her against the wall.
"Sally stares at him wild-eyed, gasps for air.
None comes.
"He's going to kill her.
Finally, Sam lets go.
"Sally slumps to the floor, fighting for air.
Sam paces.
Then " "Uh, I'm I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I did that to you.
"I'm so sorry.
It's just, seeing you with someone else, "I got so jealous.
And you're right, I'm an idiot.
I'm such a fucking idiot.
" "No, you're not.
It's my fault.
"Look, I'm sorry that I called you that.
I love you.
" "I love you, too.
And I'm never gonna do this again, I promise.
" "I know.
No, I know.
" GENE: "They embrace.
Sally turns to the audience.
A spotlight returns to her.
" Yeah, so, this next bit would be sort of like a direct address.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
"He apologizes, like before.
"And I will never feel more loved than in that moment.
"I endure the wrath because I know what comes after.
"It's a cycle I can't break, "because I want to and I don't want to.
[SIGHS.]
I stay for the apology.
" Really, it wasn't that bad.
- It wasn't that bad? - No.
Are you fucking insane? Were you in there? I just took a giant fucking turd out there.
Look, they were expecting the old version, and this new one just threw them a little.
- That's all that happened.
- Yeah, well clearly I can't do this version, and now they know the other version is a lie, so now I have no story.
So, thanks.
Listen, once we rehearse it, and-and you perform it, they'll see that the honest version is really powerful.
- Once we rehearse this? - Yeah.
You? You and me? What, you and me are gonna do this and it's gonna be powerful? Yeah! [SIGHS.]
I teach pigs.
Hey, Mr.
Cousineau? [CHUCKLING.]
: Hey! How's Sally? Uh, she's pretty embarrassed.
Yeah, well, understandable.
But I am proud of her.
I mean, we were all shocked that she had the guts to get to the emotional place she went.
Yeah, I know.
Um Look, she doesn't want to do the scene anymore, and I think she should tell the truth.
So, um, I want to put my energy into playing Sam and not do my own piece.
- Is that okay? - Okay? It is more than okay.
Because I I don't know if you remember this or not, but you killed BOTH: somebody and got away with it.
Yeah, no, you keep reminding me of that.
Uh, look, I want to be good in her scene.
Um, can you help me? Of course I will.
I will always be there for you.
As long as I'm out of here in seven minutes.
[WATER TRICKLING.]
[BIRDS SINGING.]
- [WOODPECKER TAPPING TREE.]
- [FUCHES GROANS SOFTLY.]
FUCHES: Bingo.
[CHUCKLES.]
Here we go.
What is the essential emotion of this scene? Okay, Sam is enraged, because Sally is withholding.
He gets violent, he acts out, then he feels shame.
Sound familiar? - Korengal.
- Exactly.
You don't literally have to tell your story in order to use your story.
Yeah, but I I lost con control back then, and I don't want to do that with Sally onstage.
Barry, you're the actor.
You're not hurting anyone.
You're not attacking anybody.
You're just lending your emotional experience to the character of Sam.
- Okay.
- Look Sam is an inherently violent guy.
You are not.
He is a horrible person.
You are not.
So, in order to play him, you've got to use the worst thing you've ever done in your life.
Yeah, no, and that-that was the worst thing I'd ever done in my life.
Thank Christ.
Because, you know, you killed somebody and got away with it.
Okay, so, I want you to dig deep.
I want you to get in there.
I want you to paddle that canoe, there, soldier.
And, Barry thank you.
For what? For telling me your story.
I am very touched that I was able to gain your trust.
I am so late for my escape room.
[SIGHS.]
[PHONE CHIMING.]
Hello? Hi, Sally.
It's Tom from Gersh.
- I have Lindsay for you.
- Thank you.
[WHISPERS.]
: Oh, fuck.
LINDSAY: Hey, Madeleine's people said you hadn't confirmed for two o'clock today.
Are you on your way? Hi.
Hi, Lindsay.
Hi Hi.
Yeah, no, I'm really sorry.
I just I'm I'm working on this theater piece, and I got kind of wrapped up in it, and I just kind of forgot.
Um, I'm really sorry, but can we just cancel? Theater piece? Sally, look, I know it's one scene, and it is another wife, but this is Benicio Del Toro's wife, so I'm assuming she drinks.
So, how soon can you get there? Um Uh, yeah, I I can't today, Lindsay.
I'm really sorry.
I I really need to focus on this.
- Okay? Thanks.
Bye.
- Sal [SIGHS.]
Fuck.
[MUMBLING.]
[FUCHES GRUNTING.]
[CHUCKLING.]
Okay, here we go.
Here we go.
- Oh - [WOODPECKER TAPPING TREE.]
Wha ? Wait, wait.
Uh Fuck.
[THUNDER RUMBLING.]
- [ANIMAL HOWLING.]
- [FUCHES WHIMPERS.]
- [ANIMAL BARKS.]
- Aah! [WHIMPERING.]
[FUCHES SCREAMS.]
I don't know how to tell you this, but one of the twins smothered the other in the womb.
- [SASHA WEEPING.]
- ERIC: Why would God allow this to happen? I don't I don't know.
We gotta go.
We can do the stage combat.
- How do I do this? - Hand first.
Ready? One, two, three.
- [SALLY SIGHS.]
- What is wrong? [WHISPERING.]
: I don't want to do this! Look, the last time I did this, they all just stared at me.
It's gonna be good, all right? I've been working really hard with Gene, and it's gonna be great.
- One more time.
- [SIGHS.]
Okay, go ahead.
One, two, three.
Sell it.
- [FORCED COUGHING.]
- There you go! That was great! Ow! Okay.
Who's next? Um Hold on.
This is a bar.
Um Table, and, uh I'm grabbing dinner, uh Yeah.
Okay.
- [SALLY CLEARS THROAT.]
- Oh, shit.
Why were you dancing with that guy tonight? Ken? He's just a friend, Sam.
Everybody was staring at you.
I don't like it.
It was embarrassing.
You looked like a whore.
- [SIGHING.]
- Sam, Ken is just a friend.
Don't be an idiot.
Hey, can, can I reset? Is that all right? Can we just take it from Yeah.
Take it in your own time.
[DISTANT WIND BLOWING.]
MOSS: 'Cause I'm a cop, and you're a fuckin' murderer.
[DISTANT WIND BLOWING.]
It's done.
[SILENCED GUNSHOTS.]
[GASPS.]
[BODY THUDS.]
[DISTANT WIND BLOWING.]
Why were you dancing with that guy tonight? Ken? He's - He's just a friend, Sam.
- Everybody was looking at you.
It was embarrassing.
I didn't like it.
You looked like a whore.
Sam, don't worry about it.
Okay? Ken is just a friend.
Just a friend, since when? - Since when? Who the fuck's Ken? - You met him.
When did I meet Ken? I don't know, he's just a friend.
You're drunk.
- I'm what? - You're drunk.
If Ken's such a good friend, tell me when I met him.
Tell me the day, tell me the time, when I met Ken.
- Sam, just don't be an idiot.
- You - [CLATTERING.]
- Don't call me a fucking idiot! What are you calling me? You're calling me an idiot? [CHOKING.]
Huh?! Calling me an idiot? That's what you want? [COUGHING.]
Fuck! [SALLY CRYING, GASPING.]
[SALLY CRYING.]
[SOBBING SOFTLY.]
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I saw you dancing with someone else, and I got jealous.
You're right.
I'm a fucking idiot.
- [CRYING.]
No.
- I don't deserve you.
I'm sorry.
It's my fault.
- I shouldn't have called you that.
- No, I'm sorry.
[SALLY SNIFFLES.]
- SALLY: I love you.
- BARRY: I love you.
And I'm never gonna do that again, I promise.
I know.
I hold him, and I can feel his shame, burning.
I take care of him, so my shame grows.
I stay for the apology.
And scene.
- Are you okay? - Hey! That was great! - Yeah.
You are all right? - Oh, my God! You were great! Yeah, I'm fine! Oh, my God, I was bit thrown by the whole table thing.
I didn't Yeah, I didn't know if that was crazy or not.
It was good.
I think I'm gonna write that in.
Hey, Barry, can I see you over here for a minute? Yeah.
[CLASS MURMURING.]
I have a few new ideas.
Yeah.
Hey, was that all right? Really well done.
SASHA: Now that it's shorter, like, it's so much better.
Like, I feel like the shorter scene can be the bear it's gonna be.
- Right? - SALLY: Right.
- So, the cuts are good? - Yes, don't write any more.
Keep the cuts.
Never milk it.
Just like - Thanks.
- Live in what you've got.
Hi.
So, this is why you're turning down auditions? Yes.
Oh, my God.
I'm re I'm so sorry about that.
No, no, no, no.
Don't be.
This is good.
Really? Thanks.
So, this is your real story? - Yeah.
- Yeah.
Are you free tomorrow? Do you have time to come in and sit down with me and the Mikes? - Yes, totally.
- Sorry, um, who are you? This is a closed rehearsal.
You can't audit the class.
I'm so sorry.
Um, I I'm Lindsay Mandel.
I'm Sally's agent.
Gersh.
- Enchanté.
- [CHUCKLES.]
[GRUNTING.]
[GRUNTING.]
- [WOOD SNAPPING.]
- [YELLING, GRUNTING.]
[FUCHES YELLING, GRUNTING.]
[YELLING, GRUNTING.]
[GROANING.]
[SOBBING.]
[WIND WHISTLING.]
[PANTING, GRUNTING.]
Huh.
Yeah! I got you! I got you, Barry! You motherfucker! [CACKLING.]
Hank, it's go time.
- The vehicles are loaded? - Yes.
And you reminded the guys to double-knot their boots, yes? Because I cannot have people tripping.
It's dangerous, but, you know, it's also embarrassing.
- I told them.
- Great.
All right, so we have one shot at this.
We have to capture the monastery before the heroin arrives, or we are fucked.
Esther? Cristobal? [ACCORDION SQUEAKS.]
Khazam? The fucking accordion player sold us out? We are very disappointed in you, Hank.
NOHO HANK: Okay, in my defense - [DINERS MURMURING.]
- [PIANO PLAYING SLOW SOFT MELODY.]
Your chicken à la King.
- Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.
Jeffrey? Yeah.
Take that away.
Uh, sure, Gene.
Okay.
Have you decided on dinner, sir? Yeah, I think so.
I'll have what he's having.
Okay.
I found you at the window again Looking out, watching the leaves falling in And it was something like a dream Whoa, so perfect, couldn't talk to me Time moves slow When you're all alone And time moves slow When you're out on your own And time moves slow When you're missing a friend And the time moves slow When you get to the end Time moves slow Come on, my friend.
Cristobal? Maybe fresh start? You know? One-time do-over? Mulligan? Get out of free jail? [MUSIC PLAYS.]
We'd like to put you in a room with Aaron Ryan.
The TV producer? There's three women.
When we meet them, they're all in abusive relationships.
- They're lost.
- That's great.
I love that.
So they start a group where they kill their husbands.
Jesus.
- An audition? - Mm-hmm.
- GENE COUSINEAU: You? - Yeah.
- Have an audition? - Yeah.
What, are they reading extras now? Man, that's so weird.
Sally said the same thing.
[MUSIC CONCLUDES.]
I don't wanna talk to you anymore.
Well, I guess everyone's a hero of their own story, right? Fine, I'll just work with Hank without you.
- Work with Hank without me? - Yeah.
Without me? What do you bring to the table without me? [STAMMERS.]
This episode, we always wanted Barry breaking up with Fuches.
He finishes working with the Chechens.
NOHO HANK: It means, um, the debt has been paid.
You owe me nothing.
Now, he can just finally, like, "I'm free.
I can be an actor now.
" That was the initial idea, and then this thing with Sally came up.
She does it.
You know, she writes the truth.
It's a cycle I can't break because I want to when I don't want to.
BILL HADER: They're all stunned that she went that deep.
She doesn't feel like she can lie anymore, but she also doesn't know if she has the strength to tell the truth.
I want to put my energy into playing Sam, and not do my own piece.
It is more than okay because I I don't know if you remember this or not, but you killed somebody BOTH: and got away with it.
Yeah, no, you keep reminding me of that.
To help Sally tell her truth, he's gonna have to draw upon stuff that he doesn't want to look at.
You don't literally have to tell your story in order to use your story.
Barry uses things from his past to play this scene that he hasn't told Cousineau about, and Cousineau's reaction is to the performance.
Really well done.
So, you've got Cousineau, ironically, congratulating Barry for the courage to dig deep and draw on experiences, one of which may or may not have been the killing of Cousineau's own girlfriend.
Mr.
Cousineau, he understands me.
Okay? He accepts me.
Because you told him about Korengal.
Barry does this big confession about Korengal as the worst thing he's ever done.
He feels so much shame about it.
We would be in the writer's room and people would go, "But that's not the worst thing he's ever done.
I mean, - he fucking killed Chris.
- Right.
- You know, Moss.
- Yeah.
We've seen many worse things.
Yeah, what is going on here, man? You know? So we had Fuches say that.
Did you tell him you killed his girlfriend? Fuches, I think, has been spurned by Barry.
It's that thing of, like, if we can't be together, then I'm just gonna wreck your life.
HADER: The idea of him going out into the woods and trying to find the car was always something that we had played with or talked about.
Fuches has always fancied himself like this kind of military guy, - but he's just a poser.
- Yeah, and that Yeah.
He gets out there, and you think he's gonna find it, and you're kinda like, "Aw, man, he's gonna really figure this out," and then immediately he gets lost.
- [WATER SPLASHES.]
- [GRUNTS.]
So Hank finds out that Esther and them all left, so he's like, "Oh, great.
Now we can attack.
" It's about to go off.
It's one of these comedic conceits that I love, that that Hank picks a fight with this schmuck accordion player.
- [ACCORDION PLAYS.]
- Are you fucking serious? If you look at Bill, every time he's in a shot with Anthony, - he's either looking down - I'm looking down, or I'd have my eyes closed.
Are you fucking kidding me right now? He was making me laugh so hard.
And then that guy ends up being the reason that Hank is betrayed.
Kazan? The fucking accordion player sold us out? If he had never yelled at the accordion player - [LAUGHS.]
- everything would have gone great.
If you get rid of him, all of this goes away.
What?! [FUNK MUSIC PLAYS.]
BARRY BERKMAN: I've been sent here by Detective John Loach to kill you.
- I'm not gonna do that.
- Uh-huh.
[GRUNTING, GASPING.]
Dad? BARRY: That was Ronny's daughter.
I think he trains her 'cause she was like a feral mongoose.
- [FLESH SQUELCHING.]
- [SCREAMS.]
- [GASPS.]
- [FERAL SHRIEKS.]
- [WHISPERING.]
Ronny.
- RONNY PROXIN: Loach! [GRUNTS.]
[GUNSHOTS.]
OFFICER: Shots fired! Shots fired! OFFICER 2: He's dead.
Barry.
Buddy, we have to go! Detective John Loach was integral to a number of high-profile gang-related cases.
However, our investigation has concluded this was a domestic matter between Detective Loach and another man, - unrelated to police business.
- [OVERLAPPING QUESTIONS.]
NEWSMAN: Do you have an ID on the second man? Uh, yes, I believe we have a photo.
- WOMAN: Oh.
Oh.
- [MURMURING.]
NEWSWOMAN: Is that Ronny Proxin? Yes.
Mr.
Proxin was a two-time Olympic medalist in taekwondo.
Uh, apparently, Detective Loach's wife, Diana, had recently left him to date Ronny.
[REPORTERS MURMURING.]
So, you get it.
NEWSMAN: Yeah, I get it.
- [DRAWER ROLLS.]
- Huh.
His laptop? His files? There's nothing here.
Where would he have left it all? DIANA: I don't know.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Diana, uh You're going through a rough time, but you're gonna get through it.
I just know it.
And I'm sure there's a site for people whose ex and boyfriend murdered each other.
And if there isn't, there should be.
Well, thanks for letting me look around.
Um, I can run you home.
Or why don't we get a drink? - You want to get a drink? - No.
Okay.
No prob Hey, why don't you come to my softball practice? - [DOOR BELLS JANGLE.]
- DIANA: I'm not really in the mood.
[DOOR BELLS JANGLE.]
[SIGHS.]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING.]
[TOILET FLUSHES.]
Ah [CHUCKLING.]
Looks good, right? Thirty bucks.
Heh.
I am starving, man.
Why don't we go to, uh Why don't we go to Du-par's? Pancakes on me, yeah? Listen, uh, now that this Loach stuff's all done, um, I can't work with you anymore, man.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Not this thing again.
Why? Why? What have I done? Name me one thing I done.
You wore a wire.
I wore a what? Come on, man.
I mean, you know what you did, man.
Look, you know, your head's not in the right place.
[CHUCKLING.]
: We just got our asses handed to us by a 12-year-old.
But I'm fuckin' starving.
Can we go to Du-par's? Can we eat? We'll talk about it.
You sold me out, for your own interests.
I did what was best for us not me, us.
- Bullshit, man.
- Bullsh You're not thinking.
There is no way you can negotiate a piece of Hank's heroin without me.
Hank's heroin? I don't give a shit about that! See, this is what I'm talking about! You don't fuckin' know me! You don't fuckin' know me.
Mr.
Cous Mr.
Cousineau, he understands me, okay? He accepts me.
Mr.
Cousineau? You know, he gets you because you told him about Korengal.
Yeah.
[SIGHS.]
Did you tell him you killed his girlfriend? That-that never needs to come up.
Yeah, Barry, you're in denial.
Because that Korengal shit is fog of war.
You killed Moss out of your own self-interest.
You made a choice to kill her, because you're a violent guy, Barry.
But me, I built [CHUCKLES.]
I built a world where that's an asset.
I don't want to talk to you anymore.
Aah You're gonna choose that fucker over me? Uh, well, I guess everyone's a hero of their own story, right? Fine, I'll just work with Hank without you.
- Work with Hank without me? - Yeah.
Without me? What do you bring to the table without me? [STAMMERS.]
What? You got nothin' without me.
I am your fuckin' business, idiot! You're out of moves.
Don't you walk away from me, Barry.
We Fucker, we got too much on the line! Come on, man! Fuck you, Barry.
Fuck you, actor boy! [MACHINES HUMMING.]
Hank.
Akhmal, I'm getting to your stuff, okay? Thank you, but listen.
When you are done washing monks' robes, Cristobal wants you to fold them and take them out to car.
Okay.
Why? Esther and her men are moving back to monastery.
They want to be there when heroin shipment arrives.
They are leaving us? Oh, no.
Oh, yes, Barry.
I am washing Burmese right out of my hair.
[MEN GRUNTING.]
Good.
Good.
That's much improved.
That's good.
Uh, so, the heroin shipment is coming in two days, which means we have small window before monastery is fully fortified to take it, just like we took stash house.
Hey, what do you mean "we"? Well, we you, me.
Team Badass.
Come on.
Kickin' ass, makin' names.
No, the deal was, is that I train them, that's it.
Remember? That is true.
That is true.
You know, that was plan, and I'm man of my word.
Okay? I am honest Gabe.
So, what do you think, though? Are they ready? - [GUNSHOTS.]
- [POTS CLANGING.]
They're as ready as they're ever gonna be.
Shit, man.
They're gonna be pretty fuckin' broken up about it.
I mean, they're gonna want to say goodbye and thank you and [CHUCKLING.]
Oh.
Oh, Barry.
Oh, man, you don't even know.
It's about to go off.
- [ACCORDION PLAYING.]
- [CHECHENS SINGING.]
NOHO HANK [CHANTING.]
: Hey, hey, hey, hey [CHECHENS SINGING.]
- [MAN GRUNTING.]
- All right.
[WIND WHISTLING.]
[NOHO HANK SPEAKS CHECHEN.]
Oh, it means, um, "The debt has been paid.
" You owe me nothing.
And, uh, slate is clean, right? And just because we're not working together anymore [ACCORDION PLAYING.]
Are you fucking serious? Are you fucking kidding me right now? You just fucked this moment, this beautiful, tender moment with your accordion.
You just whipped out your accordion, and you fucked it, man.
God! Hey, I'm so sorry about that.
- It's all right.
- Um, where was I? Aah, it's gone.
It's gone.
Yeah.
Gone.
Where'd you park? Uh, Barry, do you still have special Chechen bullet I gave you? Because I think it would be a real gas for me to use it to kill Esther.
- I didn't bring it.
- Oh.
All right.
Well Normal bullet is cool, too.
I wanted to say thank you for pushing me.
Before you, I was small.
I had nothing.
You know, when they look at me, they they see nobody.
But now, I have a purpose.
You gave me that.
Take care of yourself, Barry.
Stay off the 405, man.
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING.]
[SIGHS.]
"So, this is an absolutely true story that happened to me.
"When I was six or seven, "I was at home, at my mum's flat in London, "and I looked out of the window, and I saw "a horse, right outside my block of flats.
" And? That's my story.
And you think that that moment is the moment that defines you? Gene, I didn't grow up around a lot of animals, like you lot.
Right? Like I'm I'm not from like a rural place.
This is in the middle of a city.
All right, thank you.
Thank you, Sasha.
No don't No, no, no! Don't clap.
You lot you lot should've applauded at the end.
If you clap now, it's like pitiful.
- NATALIE: We didn't know it was over.
- GENE: Okay, Sasha, there are people waiting.
SASHA: You know, maybe you didn't know it was over, but could you tell that horse was a big deal to me? Because it was.
I mean, I stood up here and told that story.
Hey.
We're up next.
What's going on? I rewrote my scene.
Yeah? Barry, look, I'm really sorry that I didn't tell you this before, but after we had dinner with Sam, he called me, and, um I went to his hotel.
What? Oh, God, no.
Nothing happened, I promise.
No, it wasn't like that at all.
No, it was awful, actually.
I just I couldn't stand up to him.
I don't know, I just felt fucking paralyzed, like I was fucking 19 years old again.
Like, I stood there like a fucking idiot, and I just I don't know what I thought.
I thought I thought it'd be different, or I thought I'd be different, or But I just He's got my number.
So, I wrote this.
- It's the truth.
- Yeah, no, I can see that.
SALLY: I don't know.
I I don't know if I can do this.
I mean, I can barely talk about this stuff with you.
How am I supposed to get up there and just and just like say all of this in front of them? I mean, what if they judge me? What if they don't fucking get it? No, no.
Hey, listen, Sally.
I think if you can tell the truth, you should.
Telling the truth's a good thing.
BARRY: "Everybody was staring at you.
I don't like it.
It was embarrassing.
You looked like a whore.
" SALLY: Sam, Ken is just a friend.
Don't be an idiot.
BARRY: "Don't call me a fucking idiot.
" "Sam grabs Sally by the throat, pins her against the wall.
"Sally stares at him wild-eyed, gasps for air.
None comes.
"He's going to kill her.
Finally, Sam lets go.
"Sally slumps to the floor, fighting for air.
Sam paces.
Then " "Uh, I'm I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I did that to you.
"I'm so sorry.
It's just, seeing you with someone else, "I got so jealous.
And you're right, I'm an idiot.
I'm such a fucking idiot.
" "No, you're not.
It's my fault.
"Look, I'm sorry that I called you that.
I love you.
" "I love you, too.
And I'm never gonna do this again, I promise.
" "I know.
No, I know.
" GENE: "They embrace.
Sally turns to the audience.
A spotlight returns to her.
" Yeah, so, this next bit would be sort of like a direct address.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
"He apologizes, like before.
"And I will never feel more loved than in that moment.
"I endure the wrath because I know what comes after.
"It's a cycle I can't break, "because I want to and I don't want to.
[SIGHS.]
I stay for the apology.
" Really, it wasn't that bad.
- It wasn't that bad? - No.
Are you fucking insane? Were you in there? I just took a giant fucking turd out there.
Look, they were expecting the old version, and this new one just threw them a little.
- That's all that happened.
- Yeah, well clearly I can't do this version, and now they know the other version is a lie, so now I have no story.
So, thanks.
Listen, once we rehearse it, and-and you perform it, they'll see that the honest version is really powerful.
- Once we rehearse this? - Yeah.
You? You and me? What, you and me are gonna do this and it's gonna be powerful? Yeah! [SIGHS.]
I teach pigs.
Hey, Mr.
Cousineau? [CHUCKLING.]
: Hey! How's Sally? Uh, she's pretty embarrassed.
Yeah, well, understandable.
But I am proud of her.
I mean, we were all shocked that she had the guts to get to the emotional place she went.
Yeah, I know.
Um Look, she doesn't want to do the scene anymore, and I think she should tell the truth.
So, um, I want to put my energy into playing Sam and not do my own piece.
- Is that okay? - Okay? It is more than okay.
Because I I don't know if you remember this or not, but you killed BOTH: somebody and got away with it.
Yeah, no, you keep reminding me of that.
Uh, look, I want to be good in her scene.
Um, can you help me? Of course I will.
I will always be there for you.
As long as I'm out of here in seven minutes.
[WATER TRICKLING.]
[BIRDS SINGING.]
- [WOODPECKER TAPPING TREE.]
- [FUCHES GROANS SOFTLY.]
FUCHES: Bingo.
[CHUCKLES.]
Here we go.
What is the essential emotion of this scene? Okay, Sam is enraged, because Sally is withholding.
He gets violent, he acts out, then he feels shame.
Sound familiar? - Korengal.
- Exactly.
You don't literally have to tell your story in order to use your story.
Yeah, but I I lost con control back then, and I don't want to do that with Sally onstage.
Barry, you're the actor.
You're not hurting anyone.
You're not attacking anybody.
You're just lending your emotional experience to the character of Sam.
- Okay.
- Look Sam is an inherently violent guy.
You are not.
He is a horrible person.
You are not.
So, in order to play him, you've got to use the worst thing you've ever done in your life.
Yeah, no, and that-that was the worst thing I'd ever done in my life.
Thank Christ.
Because, you know, you killed somebody and got away with it.
Okay, so, I want you to dig deep.
I want you to get in there.
I want you to paddle that canoe, there, soldier.
And, Barry thank you.
For what? For telling me your story.
I am very touched that I was able to gain your trust.
I am so late for my escape room.
[SIGHS.]
[PHONE CHIMING.]
Hello? Hi, Sally.
It's Tom from Gersh.
- I have Lindsay for you.
- Thank you.
[WHISPERS.]
: Oh, fuck.
LINDSAY: Hey, Madeleine's people said you hadn't confirmed for two o'clock today.
Are you on your way? Hi.
Hi, Lindsay.
Hi Hi.
Yeah, no, I'm really sorry.
I just I'm I'm working on this theater piece, and I got kind of wrapped up in it, and I just kind of forgot.
Um, I'm really sorry, but can we just cancel? Theater piece? Sally, look, I know it's one scene, and it is another wife, but this is Benicio Del Toro's wife, so I'm assuming she drinks.
So, how soon can you get there? Um Uh, yeah, I I can't today, Lindsay.
I'm really sorry.
I I really need to focus on this.
- Okay? Thanks.
Bye.
- Sal [SIGHS.]
Fuck.
[MUMBLING.]
[FUCHES GRUNTING.]
[CHUCKLING.]
Okay, here we go.
Here we go.
- Oh - [WOODPECKER TAPPING TREE.]
Wha ? Wait, wait.
Uh Fuck.
[THUNDER RUMBLING.]
- [ANIMAL HOWLING.]
- [FUCHES WHIMPERS.]
- [ANIMAL BARKS.]
- Aah! [WHIMPERING.]
[FUCHES SCREAMS.]
I don't know how to tell you this, but one of the twins smothered the other in the womb.
- [SASHA WEEPING.]
- ERIC: Why would God allow this to happen? I don't I don't know.
We gotta go.
We can do the stage combat.
- How do I do this? - Hand first.
Ready? One, two, three.
- [SALLY SIGHS.]
- What is wrong? [WHISPERING.]
: I don't want to do this! Look, the last time I did this, they all just stared at me.
It's gonna be good, all right? I've been working really hard with Gene, and it's gonna be great.
- One more time.
- [SIGHS.]
Okay, go ahead.
One, two, three.
Sell it.
- [FORCED COUGHING.]
- There you go! That was great! Ow! Okay.
Who's next? Um Hold on.
This is a bar.
Um Table, and, uh I'm grabbing dinner, uh Yeah.
Okay.
- [SALLY CLEARS THROAT.]
- Oh, shit.
Why were you dancing with that guy tonight? Ken? He's just a friend, Sam.
Everybody was staring at you.
I don't like it.
It was embarrassing.
You looked like a whore.
- [SIGHING.]
- Sam, Ken is just a friend.
Don't be an idiot.
Hey, can, can I reset? Is that all right? Can we just take it from Yeah.
Take it in your own time.
[DISTANT WIND BLOWING.]
MOSS: 'Cause I'm a cop, and you're a fuckin' murderer.
[DISTANT WIND BLOWING.]
It's done.
[SILENCED GUNSHOTS.]
[GASPS.]
[BODY THUDS.]
[DISTANT WIND BLOWING.]
Why were you dancing with that guy tonight? Ken? He's - He's just a friend, Sam.
- Everybody was looking at you.
It was embarrassing.
I didn't like it.
You looked like a whore.
Sam, don't worry about it.
Okay? Ken is just a friend.
Just a friend, since when? - Since when? Who the fuck's Ken? - You met him.
When did I meet Ken? I don't know, he's just a friend.
You're drunk.
- I'm what? - You're drunk.
If Ken's such a good friend, tell me when I met him.
Tell me the day, tell me the time, when I met Ken.
- Sam, just don't be an idiot.
- You - [CLATTERING.]
- Don't call me a fucking idiot! What are you calling me? You're calling me an idiot? [CHOKING.]
Huh?! Calling me an idiot? That's what you want? [COUGHING.]
Fuck! [SALLY CRYING, GASPING.]
[SALLY CRYING.]
[SOBBING SOFTLY.]
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I saw you dancing with someone else, and I got jealous.
You're right.
I'm a fucking idiot.
- [CRYING.]
No.
- I don't deserve you.
I'm sorry.
It's my fault.
- I shouldn't have called you that.
- No, I'm sorry.
[SALLY SNIFFLES.]
- SALLY: I love you.
- BARRY: I love you.
And I'm never gonna do that again, I promise.
I know.
I hold him, and I can feel his shame, burning.
I take care of him, so my shame grows.
I stay for the apology.
And scene.
- Are you okay? - Hey! That was great! - Yeah.
You are all right? - Oh, my God! You were great! Yeah, I'm fine! Oh, my God, I was bit thrown by the whole table thing.
I didn't Yeah, I didn't know if that was crazy or not.
It was good.
I think I'm gonna write that in.
Hey, Barry, can I see you over here for a minute? Yeah.
[CLASS MURMURING.]
I have a few new ideas.
Yeah.
Hey, was that all right? Really well done.
SASHA: Now that it's shorter, like, it's so much better.
Like, I feel like the shorter scene can be the bear it's gonna be.
- Right? - SALLY: Right.
- So, the cuts are good? - Yes, don't write any more.
Keep the cuts.
Never milk it.
Just like - Thanks.
- Live in what you've got.
Hi.
So, this is why you're turning down auditions? Yes.
Oh, my God.
I'm re I'm so sorry about that.
No, no, no, no.
Don't be.
This is good.
Really? Thanks.
So, this is your real story? - Yeah.
- Yeah.
Are you free tomorrow? Do you have time to come in and sit down with me and the Mikes? - Yes, totally.
- Sorry, um, who are you? This is a closed rehearsal.
You can't audit the class.
I'm so sorry.
Um, I I'm Lindsay Mandel.
I'm Sally's agent.
Gersh.
- Enchanté.
- [CHUCKLES.]
[GRUNTING.]
[GRUNTING.]
- [WOOD SNAPPING.]
- [YELLING, GRUNTING.]
[FUCHES YELLING, GRUNTING.]
[YELLING, GRUNTING.]
[GROANING.]
[SOBBING.]
[WIND WHISTLING.]
[PANTING, GRUNTING.]
Huh.
Yeah! I got you! I got you, Barry! You motherfucker! [CACKLING.]
Hank, it's go time.
- The vehicles are loaded? - Yes.
And you reminded the guys to double-knot their boots, yes? Because I cannot have people tripping.
It's dangerous, but, you know, it's also embarrassing.
- I told them.
- Great.
All right, so we have one shot at this.
We have to capture the monastery before the heroin arrives, or we are fucked.
Esther? Cristobal? [ACCORDION SQUEAKS.]
Khazam? The fucking accordion player sold us out? We are very disappointed in you, Hank.
NOHO HANK: Okay, in my defense - [DINERS MURMURING.]
- [PIANO PLAYING SLOW SOFT MELODY.]
Your chicken à la King.
- Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.
Jeffrey? Yeah.
Take that away.
Uh, sure, Gene.
Okay.
Have you decided on dinner, sir? Yeah, I think so.
I'll have what he's having.
Okay.
I found you at the window again Looking out, watching the leaves falling in And it was something like a dream Whoa, so perfect, couldn't talk to me Time moves slow When you're all alone And time moves slow When you're out on your own And time moves slow When you're missing a friend And the time moves slow When you get to the end Time moves slow Come on, my friend.
Cristobal? Maybe fresh start? You know? One-time do-over? Mulligan? Get out of free jail? [MUSIC PLAYS.]
We'd like to put you in a room with Aaron Ryan.
The TV producer? There's three women.
When we meet them, they're all in abusive relationships.
- They're lost.
- That's great.
I love that.
So they start a group where they kill their husbands.
Jesus.
- An audition? - Mm-hmm.
- GENE COUSINEAU: You? - Yeah.
- Have an audition? - Yeah.
What, are they reading extras now? Man, that's so weird.
Sally said the same thing.
[MUSIC CONCLUDES.]
I don't wanna talk to you anymore.
Well, I guess everyone's a hero of their own story, right? Fine, I'll just work with Hank without you.
- Work with Hank without me? - Yeah.
Without me? What do you bring to the table without me? [STAMMERS.]
This episode, we always wanted Barry breaking up with Fuches.
He finishes working with the Chechens.
NOHO HANK: It means, um, the debt has been paid.
You owe me nothing.
Now, he can just finally, like, "I'm free.
I can be an actor now.
" That was the initial idea, and then this thing with Sally came up.
She does it.
You know, she writes the truth.
It's a cycle I can't break because I want to when I don't want to.
BILL HADER: They're all stunned that she went that deep.
She doesn't feel like she can lie anymore, but she also doesn't know if she has the strength to tell the truth.
I want to put my energy into playing Sam, and not do my own piece.
It is more than okay because I I don't know if you remember this or not, but you killed somebody BOTH: and got away with it.
Yeah, no, you keep reminding me of that.
To help Sally tell her truth, he's gonna have to draw upon stuff that he doesn't want to look at.
You don't literally have to tell your story in order to use your story.
Barry uses things from his past to play this scene that he hasn't told Cousineau about, and Cousineau's reaction is to the performance.
Really well done.
So, you've got Cousineau, ironically, congratulating Barry for the courage to dig deep and draw on experiences, one of which may or may not have been the killing of Cousineau's own girlfriend.
Mr.
Cousineau, he understands me.
Okay? He accepts me.
Because you told him about Korengal.
Barry does this big confession about Korengal as the worst thing he's ever done.
He feels so much shame about it.
We would be in the writer's room and people would go, "But that's not the worst thing he's ever done.
I mean, - he fucking killed Chris.
- Right.
- You know, Moss.
- Yeah.
We've seen many worse things.
Yeah, what is going on here, man? You know? So we had Fuches say that.
Did you tell him you killed his girlfriend? Fuches, I think, has been spurned by Barry.
It's that thing of, like, if we can't be together, then I'm just gonna wreck your life.
HADER: The idea of him going out into the woods and trying to find the car was always something that we had played with or talked about.
Fuches has always fancied himself like this kind of military guy, - but he's just a poser.
- Yeah, and that Yeah.
He gets out there, and you think he's gonna find it, and you're kinda like, "Aw, man, he's gonna really figure this out," and then immediately he gets lost.
- [WATER SPLASHES.]
- [GRUNTS.]
So Hank finds out that Esther and them all left, so he's like, "Oh, great.
Now we can attack.
" It's about to go off.
It's one of these comedic conceits that I love, that that Hank picks a fight with this schmuck accordion player.
- [ACCORDION PLAYS.]
- Are you fucking serious? If you look at Bill, every time he's in a shot with Anthony, - he's either looking down - I'm looking down, or I'd have my eyes closed.
Are you fucking kidding me right now? He was making me laugh so hard.
And then that guy ends up being the reason that Hank is betrayed.
Kazan? The fucking accordion player sold us out? If he had never yelled at the accordion player - [LAUGHS.]
- everything would have gone great.