I thought you wanted to watch him suffer.
CCharles
I know, but, um... he's asked for my forgiveness. Y-- Y'know, he made some valid points! So, uh... I'm forgiving Jeff.
...you're forgiving Jeff.
JJeff
I'm sorry I fucked your wife.
CCharles
He's sorry he fucked my wife! [He laughs.] Y'know, and she's no saint either! Okay? There's a whole history we don't need to get into! I- I... I think I just overreacted.
[Barry shoots Charles and Jeff before walking off to his car. He shouts to the corpses behind him:]
There's no forgiving Jeff!
I can't make anything happen until I rebuild. Your little boyfriend Barry killed all my buddies. You know this.
Well, you know that he killed most of my buddies, too.
I don't want to talk about Barry! When I do, I can't sleep. Plus... He killed all my buddies.
We both had buddies killed.
You have some buddies. I have no buddies.
Downstairs looks like a lot of work.
Must be hard, uh, closing up this place. So, if you're not teaching anymore, are you gonna go back to performing, or...?
My career is shit, Barry. You know that.
Well, are you, uh... doing well otherwise?
Remember that day in the woods? I've been thinking about that a lot. Remember the guy that took me into the woods? What was his name? Like the singer... Goulet. Kenneth Goulet.
After he popped the trunk... and I saw what I saw... He whispered into my ear. He said "Barry Berkman did this." I know you killed Janice.
[Gene reaches under his desk, pointing something at Barry.]
So, you have two choices: Come with me to the station, turn yourself in. Or fuckin' die.
[about Cousineau] If you actually felt that way, you do something about it, but you're not doing anything about it, so now I have to do something about it. I came here for your help and you're not giving it to me.
Are you okay? Because you seem a little manic.
So am I. Which is why I tried to get him on my show. We're saying the same thing.
[slaps his face] WE ARE NOT SAYING THE SAME THING! WE ARE NOT SAYING THE SAME THING! IF I DON'T DO THIS, I DON'T LIVE! I HAVE TO DO THIS TO FUCKING LIVE!
Don't fucking laugh at me! My whole life! My whole...fucking life!
I need you to do this for me now! NOW! Do it! DO IT!
Okay, I see...you're very upset right now...look, I, I, I'm sorry...I tried...and I, I, I can't.
So you're going to hold me hostage until you book me a part? That's not the way it works. We're talking about me here. That could take years. Look what I'm saying to you is that your plan sucks. Look, I swear on Janice's soul I will not say a word to anyone-
It's either this or I kill you.
You're one of the good guys Barry. You did a horrible thing. But I see your pain. It is the same pain you came to me with, fresh out of the army. A lost soul. No one to tell you your worth. I took you in. Not only did I teach you to be a good actor, I taught you to be a good human being. And this is how you repay me? By killing me?
I love you, Mr. Cousineau.
I told that casting director our story and he was so moved...that he gave us both parts. So you're going to enjoy everything that comes with being given a second chance...because if you don't...this one [gestures to Gene's grandson]...and that one [gestures to Leo]...go away. Do you understand?
[Gene nods]
[emotionally] I love you, Mr. Cousineau. Do you love me?
[Gene nods again]
[contemptuously] I love you, Barry.
[Cousineau sits in his trailer, alone. From somewhere offscreen, Barry enters.]
They let me keep my beard! Yeah, they said some Pharma guys actually have a beard like this.
[Barry pats Cousineau on the shoulder. Cousineau flinches and rolls both his shoulders. Barry groans and sits across from him.]
Wanna run lines? Yeah, alright. "What I did was terrible, and I'm truly sorry."
That was great! Ah, man. This trailer is nice! I might go over to the Wheel of Fortune building, take some pictures--
[A prolonged beat as Barry's smile slides off his face. He shakes his head "no".]
But she figured out that it was you she was looking for. And I invited you to my cabin...
[Barry sighs.]
Who was that guy that took me into the woods?
He's nobody. Actually, y'know what? That's not true; I wanna be honest with you because I think we have a good thing going here, um... He's a family friend. He's actually kinda like a--
An uncle? He got you into this line of work? So that monologue... that you gave me when I first met you, that was fuckin' true! And then I said it again at the dinner table... And she knew it was you.
Hey, we don't need to rehash all this--
If I didn't say anything... She'd be alive today.
Aw, no, don't put that on yourself, Mr. Cousineau. No, she was good at her job. The whole thing's just really unfortunate, y'know? Look, I believe -- a-and some of this, I got from your teachings -- that... That, that you can be the version of yourself that you wanna be.
I never said that to you.
What I'm saying is... is that I never would've learned that if it wasn't for you.
So I'm responsible for who you are?
The positive side, yeah! I mean, meeting you changed my life for the better, you know?
[Beat]
Look, we've both done terrible things in our lives, but we're helping each other... make up for it! Ya know? I mean, you got a line! [Barry chuckles sardonically.] You're welcome.
[Fuches and Barry are on a phone call.]
I wanna say... I'm sorry, for whatever it is you think I did to hurt your relationship with Mr. Cousineau.
Okay, good! Good. Uh, now in the spirit of that comment, is there something you'd like to say to me?
[Beat.]
I'm dying, Barry. I'm in the hostpital. Doctors are being cagey -- not a lot of eye contact. So if there ever was a time you did wanna say something to me, now would be that time.
Are those goats in the background?
I can give you some apology options off the top of my head, Barry -- "I'm sorry I shot at you! I'm sorry I ruined your heroin deal with the Burmese!"
Alright, I don't have time for this, okay? Me and Mr. Cousineau are fine, please don't call me again. Alright?
[Barry hangs up his phone. It buzzes again.]
The fuck do you mean, you and Cousineau are fine?
I mean we're fine. We worked our shit out together. Actually, we're working together today.
Yeah! On a show called Laws of Humanity.
And I know you told him I killed Janice, but we hashed it out. Like adults. So there's no need to apologize, because your old fuckin' plan didn't work.
Ah, you're good, are ya? You're never gonna move past that! You destroyed that guy's life!
Yeah, well now I'm making it up to him. By acting.
How the fuck do you do that?!
Well you obviously fuckin' care, you called me!
You are fuckin nuts, man! Also, I know you're on a farm or something because I can hear goats in the background.
Maybe I'm at the zoo, with my new best friend!
Thought you said you were at a hospital.
[Fuches screams into the receiver and throws his phone on the ground.]
[Barry and Cousineau are filming their scene together. Gene (playing a widower) sits in a chair while Barry (a Pharmaceutical head) stands behind him.]
Sir, my, uh... company knowingly hiked the prices of a drug that would've saved your wife's life. What I did was terrible, and I'm truly sorry.
[A beat. Gene slowly stands and turns to face Barry. They stare each other down for a few seconds before Gene takes a wild swing, striking Barry across the jaw.]
I want you to stay away from my family! Fuck you and don't talk to me anymore you piece of shit!
[Gene storms off the set.]
[Barry stands outside Sally's show premiere. Sally approaches him.]
Ah, fuck. I'm sorry. You look great.
Honestly? It was... the greatest night of my life.
That's great! Hey, I'm sorry...
What, because I missed the premiere?
The way you yelled at me the other day, at the office? I-- It sent me to a place I never wanna go again. This relationship isn't good for me.
Wait, are you serious? I had a bad day! Wha-- I can't have a bad day?!
I'm gonna stay at Natalie's, so I need you to go to the apartment and pack up your stuff and move out.
[Sally walks to her car.]
No, no, no, no, hey-- Sally! Sally!
I'm just gonna freak her out a little bit
Oh, there's a lot of ways. It's, you know... nothing bad. No, it's just... like, for instance, I could... send her a picture of herself sleeping. You know, just as a way of being like, "Hey, not cool what you did to Sally, you know?"
...so you'd break into her house?
Oh, she'd never know I was there. The whole point is to isolate her and make her feel like she's going insane. So, I would just do little things, like replace her dog with a slightly different dog, or, you know, change the furniture in her house so she thinks she's shrinking. You know, basic stuff. Most of it I learned in the military. Some of it on a subreddit. You know? Basically, just plant a seed, and then they just kinda hang themselves, so it's super nonviolent. But by the end of it, like, her brain will have essentially eaten itself, you know? But that's on the table if you want it. Okay?
JMJim Moss
I was in 'Nam. I was a fighter pilot.
Yeah, got shot down. Captured.
Candy asses. They make you talk?
I got in my interrogator's head and he ended up committing suicide. Me and some of the other guys escaped.
...you convinced your interrogator to kill himself?
Yeah! Some of the other guys said I had an aptitude for it. But, uh, I thought I was just being nice, but when I got to SERE school, they pulled me out of class and made me an instructor.
And the guy killed himself? Hm. Was he depressed?
I wanted my daughter, Janice, to get into it, but she resisted. She said "Daddy, what you do is fucked up."
Did you get any sense of his home life?
Yeah, and then she went and did her homicide thing. I was proud of her.
