Barry

Instead of burning another small town hood in some

snowed in, Rust Belt shit hole,

what do you say to a little trip out to sunny Los Angeles?

Hey, man! You must be Barry! I'm NoHo Hank.

This is Ryan Madison.

-You guys want him gone? Yes!

He went to this theater to take an acting class.

You know how you and I talk all the time about my purpose?

You think acting could be your purpose?

-My class is not cheap. -Well, that's not a problem.

Stop thinking. Kill Ryan.

These Chechens are talking about taking you off this job.

No, no, no, no, no!

-(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE) -Don't pull a gun at me.

-(GUNSHOTS) -(GLASS BREAKING)

How does this make us better actors?

It loosens you up, prepares you

for the unexpected in a scene, gets you out of your head.

Oh. Okay. Yeah.

Sally: Glad you got accepted to the class.

Barry: Me too.

Gene doesn't let just anyone in.

You must've really impressed him with your mono.

Thanks.

Gene: Folks.

Ryan Madison...

is dead.

Oh!

I...

I... What?

Gene: All right, everyone. Everyone. (claps)

Focus.

Focus.

Now, I wish I could say that this was the first time

that one of my students was gunned down in the street, but it's not.

And as much as it pains me to say it...

it is most likely not the last.

So, where do we go from here?

I say... we do what Ryan would've wanted us to do, and we use it.

I'm sorry. Mr. Cousineau, what-- what's that mean? "Use it"?

Use Ryan's death, the way that you are feeling right this second--

the sorrow, the rage, the...

the terror.

You know, I use my past all the time in my work.

If I want pure sorrow,

I call up Princess Diana's death.

Or the day that my dad fell off the roof when I was a kid.

Kerplunk.

Or the next day when he went right back up on that roof.

Hi, Dad.

I-I just-- I just thought since everyone was so...

bummed out, maybe we could cheer ourselves up by...

playing characters and putting on some wigs.

Wigs?

Well... This is not playtime, Barry.

No, I, um-- This is not Cheers.

I am not Sam Malone.

You want to blow off steam? You do it after class.

No, no, I-I-- I know that. No.

I'm-- I'm actually quitting my job so I can, um, focus on this more.

That is great. Total commitment.

I'm next! (sobbing) Like I know-- I know I'm next!

You probably are next.

Look, we're all still very raw, so I say class dismissed.

Go home, and I encourage you to journal

all of your emotion, all of your feelings.

But... even though we're not acting,

we're still learning to act.

This class counts.

Gene: Stepping away from the class

is in itself a lesson.

So there are no rain checks is my point.

Okay, everyone pays full boat for today.

Okay, so we got two DBs in the BMW, still waiting on IDs,

but they look Russian or Chechen.

Someone from Gang Unit joining us on this? Cemenko's on his way.

Okay. Now, there was this third guy in the passenger seat,

but he was luckier than his buddies,

'cause it looks like he got away.

And in the Ford, there's this poor Ryan Madison--

Wait. Is Detective Loach-- is he crying?

Look, look, look, look.

He is definitely crying.

Wait. He's crying in all of these.

You didn't hear? Uh-uh.

He and Diana broke up.

They did? Yeah.

Inside a year?

Shit. I just won 300 bucks.

That's cold. Oh please!

He's a homicide detective, and she's a human being. That shit don't last.

Plus, if the department had wanted him to have a wife, they'd have issued him one.

Any neighbors with security cameras? No, but...

there was a tiny camera in the car.

"The car." What's that mean? Which car?

The BMW.

So, you find a camera in the vics' BMW,

and you're just now telling me about it?

I mean, it took 20 minutes to even figure out it was a camera.

I mean, like, I thought it was a crazy marijuana pipe.

Man: I thought it was a laser.

Yeah, Rob thought it was a laser.

Everyone listen.

I think we need to do something for Ryan.

We should have a memorial tonight.

Great idea. We can have it at my apartment--

We'll have it at Jake's. My friend Juan's bartending tonight.

We'll get a deal. That's great. I love that, actually.

Speak, sing,

perform a scene that Ryan did in class,

whatever you think Ryan would've liked.

I'll put a sign up on the class Facebook page,

so check it for details. Thank you.

I'm not on Facebook.

I'm not even there. That's the whole point.

You know what? I'm gonna do something else. It's unifying.

I'm gonna do it.

These subtitles fucking suck.

Why are they in a forest?

Technician 2: I wanna know what that kid's gonna do.

I've never seen someone be happy and angry at the same time.

Technician 2: Brought to you by wolf attacking a horse.

Hey. Do you have my video?

Yeah, it's on the camera.

Yeah, I-- I know it's on the camera.

You're supposed to get it off the camera.

We need to order an adapter.

No, go buy an adapter.

There's like 50 Russian electronic stores in Glendale.

Also, Loach and his wife split up,

so you owe me 50 bucks each, remember?

Moss, guys, how we doing?

No, Loach. How you doing?

What?

Fuches, it's me.

Hey. Oh.

Oh. Hold on. Hold on. Shh.

Fuches, what are you still doing here? You gotta go.

No, no, no, I'm not going-- I'm not going anywhere, bud. I told you to go.

This is war. Those Chechens double-crossed us.

I mean, they hired you to do a job, and then they try to kill you?

No. No. No. I-- I told 'em you have a process.

Listen, Fuches, I talked to Pazar...

and he told me that if you leave town,

he'll sweep this whole thing under the rug.

Really?

No. No, he didn't say that. I don't know why I just said that.

You said it because you're trying to protect me,

and I appreciate that, buddy. But you know what?

I've been going through some combat scenarios on this video game here

and I don't know-- I think, based on my research, God, we can take 'em!

You know, I-I-- I'll be here in the command center,

and you'll be-- you'll be out there in the field,

you know, killing all of Pazar's guys, and together, man--

together we will fuck them back.

Listen, Fuches, it's not about the guys in that house, all right?

There's a whole organization out there, okay?

And plus, there's probably still more back in Chechnya.

Ah.

You're right. You're right.

We can't-- we can't outgun these dudes. We...

We leave. Yes. Well, actually, no.

You'll leave... and I'll stay

and face the music.

You want me to get out of here for my own safety

and leave you here with the Chechens? No. Uh-uh. No.

I-I-- I googled Chechnya, and, bro... they're crazy.

Fuches...

It's my mess. Let me deal with it.

Okay, but then you get on a plane,

you come back to Cleveland, and we'll go back to work.

Just like before.

Yes.

What the fuck are you guys doing?

Uh, hey, Moss. Moss: Where's my video?

You need a code to unlock it.

Yeah, everything was going smoothly until we got to this screen.

Moss: So, you just stopped when you saw this?

Well, we were researching possible ways to unlock it

and ended up going down a little K-hole--

Okay, how many possible codes could there be?

Four digits, so a lot.

We're trying to get in contact with the manufacturer to--

Get out of the way. Come on. Move, move, move.

That could take months. All right, first, first,

you try 0-0-0-1.

All right, so we know it's not 0-0-0-1.

Next, you do, uh...

Right? Not 0-0-0-2.

Okay, you go on to...

What the hell? I think you just locked it.