The following contains spoilers for Barry Season 3, Episode 6, “710N,” which aired Sunday, May 29 on HBO.
With just two episodes left, Barry‘s third installment seems to be hurtling toward a dark and explosive season finale. In a recent interview with The Wrap, Bill Hader stated that the last two episodes of the season are “very intense” and that “everything after this starts to get really dark.” Considering that Barry‘s third season is already the darkest of the series yet, it’s hard to predict just what will come in the next two episodes. It now seems very likely that viewers will see the death of a major character by the season’s end — that is, if it hasn’t already happened.
Monroe Fuches started the season hiding out on a goat farm in Chechnya with a woman named Ana, but he’s now back in L.A. in the hopes of getting revenge on Barry. Fuches’ revenge plan even seems to be working, as the most recent episode, Episode 6, “710N,” ends with Barry getting poisoned by Chris’ widow, Sharon. However, it’s unlikely that Barry is really dead, as the show has already been renewed for another season, and he is both the main character and the villain. If Fuches’ arc is mirroring Ana’s cautionary tale from Episode 3, “ben mendelsohn,” then it will probably be Fuches who dies in the next two episodes.
After Fuches spoke with Barry on the phone in “ben mendelsohn,” he was ready to give up his new life in order to destroy Barry’s. Ana cautioned him against this, citing the story of the Bolam-Deela. So far, the story seems to work as an exact parallel to the events of this season. In the fable, a group of farmers is killed for their land and after death wants to get revenge on the man who killed them. In this case, Fuches is the group of farmers and Barry is their killer.
The Bolam-Deela, a strange mythical creature, offers the farmers a choice between forgiving the man and going to Heaven or seeking vengeance. Fuches also finds a sort of Heaven first on the goat farm in Chechnya in the beginning of Season 3 and then again on a similar-looking farm 20 miles out of Los Angeles in “710N.” Both times he gets the chance to stay in paradise with a woman who’s interested in him, and both times he gives it up for the sake of revenge. In the story, the souls also choose vengeance, so the Bolam-Deela turns them into panthers, and they kill the man.
Fuches was very intrigued by the idea of the panthers when he first heard Ana’s story. He then went back to L.A. and assembled his own metaphorical pack of panthers, made up of the family members and loved ones of people who Barry had killed in the past. In the process of using all of these people to get revenge on Barry, Fuches was shot and almost died in “710N.” He seemed to briefly take this as a wake-up call when he ended up on yet another farm after a near-death experience, but then he once again decided to choose vengeance.
In the story of the Bolam-Deela, all the farmers’ souls get banished to the bottom of the ocean after they get their revenge. Only a little boy who chooses to forgive the killer is granted entrance into Heaven. Fuches may have gotten his vengeance if Barry is really dead after being poisoned. Even if he has, though, he’s likely to pay for it. Like the souls who get revenge in exchange for their chance at Heaven, Fuches may get revenge in exchange for his life.
Barry airs Sundays at 10 p.m. on HBO.