Chapter Six: Listen With Your Ears, React With Your Face

Chapter Six:Lister With Your Ears, React With Your Face
Season	1
Episode	6
About
Written by	Elizabeth Sarnoff
Directed by	Alec Berg
Cinematography by	Paula Huidobro
Editing by	Kyle Reiter
Air date	April 29, 2018
Chronology
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"You are not listening to your acting partner!"
"Thank you!"
"Stay out of this!"

―Cousineau and Sally

"Chapter Six: Listen With Your Ears, React With Your Face" is the sixth episode of Barry's first season, written by Elizabeth Sarnoff and directed by Alec Berg. It first aired on HBO on April 29, 2018.

The episode was viewed by an estimated 560,000 households and received critical acclaim, particularly for its writing, performances, tension, and cliffhanger ending.

Synopsis

Barry tries to distance himself from Taylor, while Moss looks to end her association with Gene.

Plot summmary

Barry Berkman and Monroe Fuches are surveying an airstrip in the desert that will be the landing site for Cristobal Sifuentes. Fuches states his current distrusting of Taylor Garrett, who is also at the airstrip, mentioning that it was a huge mistake to let him live after the stash house raid.

Moss wakes up in Gene Cousineau's home and tells him that they must end their relationship, as she feels it will interfere with her investigation.

Goran Pazar and NoHo Hank arrive and check out the raided stash house, praising the work Barry did. Vacha walks into the room and begins handing over his information on Sally Reed but Pazar shuts him down on the issue, noting that Barry is no longer a target. Vacha is against this due to Barry being responsible for the death of his brother.

Meanwhile, Barry hangs out with Taylor at his apartment. Barry suggests that Taylor could work for Fuches while he quits his hitman life, but Taylor refuses and even gets mad at the amount of money that Fuches gets from Barry, telling Barry he should kill Fuches. He also gives Barry part of the money he recovered from the stash house. Barry refuses to take the money as it is related to money laundering. While Barry goes to the bathroom, Taylor places the money in Barry's backpack.

At the acting class, Barry apologizes to the class for his outburst, but they assure him that they were at fault for being unaware of his feelings. As the class begins, Barry is surprised to find the money in his backpack and hurriedly hides it in the bathroom ceiling. He then performs a Macbeth scene with Sally, which is going poorly. To improve his delivery, Gene has Barry and Sally repeatedly say "I love you" to each other, making them change their tones. After the class ends, Barry is frustrated with the constant messages from Taylor. Barry personally calls him, telling him that he will do the airstrip job by himself. Taylor just says "okay". Meanwhile, Moss starts thinking about her relationship with Gene and decides to drop the case, much to the excitement of her partners.

That night, Sally asks Gene for a new role in the play, asking to be Macbeth which Gene eventually agrees to. During this, Vacha sneaks into the class to find Sally, running into Moss, who wanted to see Gene to rekindle their relationship. Moss notes Vacha's Russian accent, prompting him to flee the area and she gives chase. Vacha opens fire with a rifle, but Moss manages to kill him after a tense shootout. While securing and investigating the crime scene, Gene arrives and is confused, eventually being told by Moss to leave the scene. The police also discover the hidden money from the bathroom.

The next day, Barry bumps into Taylor, fully dressed in his military uniform. He is further shocked to see that Taylor has brought in Chris Lucado and Vaughn to help them in the airstrip attack, having felt inspired by Gene's acting book. A panicked Barry tries to get Chris out of the vehicle as he is unaware of the attack but Chris chooses to stay. Taylor ignores Barry's warnings to follow the safer route and drives straight toward the Bolivians, who are already in the scene. As they approach, their car is gunned down, with the bullets hitting Taylor and Vaughn and the car starting to spiral out of control.

Cast

Main

• Bill Hader as Barry Berkman
• Stephen Root as Monroe Fuches
• Sarah Goldberg as Sally Reed
• Glenn Fleshler as Goran Pazar
• Anthony Carrigan as NoHo Hank
• Henry Winkler as Gene Cousineau

Supporting

• Paula Newsome as Det. Janice Moss
• Chris Marquette as Chris Lucado
• John Pirruccello as Det. John Loach
• Darrell Britt-Gibson as Jermaine Jefrint
• D'Arcy Carden as Natalie Greer
• Andy Carey as Eric
• Rightor Doyle as Nick Nicholby
• Alejandro Furth as Antonio Manuel
• Kirby as Sasha Smith
• Mark Ivanir as Vacha
• Dale Pavinski as Taylor Garrett
• Marcus Brown as Vaughn

Gallery

Stills

Videos

Barry S01E06 Featurette - 'Inside Episode 6' - Rotten Tomatoes TV