Past = Present x Future Over Yesterday

Past = Present x Future Over Yesterday
Season	2
Episode	3
About
Written by	Jason Kim
Directed by	Minkie Spiro
Air date	April 14, 2019
Chronology
← Previous	"The Power of No"
Next →	"What?!"

"Past = Present x Future Over Yesterday" is the third episode of the second season of Barry. It was written by Jason Kim & directed by Minkie Spiro. It is the eleventh episode overall.

Plot

As part of a class project, Gene tasks Barry with revisiting his past, and Sally reflects on her own history. Barry offers to provide training to NoHo Hank's men. Fuches finds Barry in an unexpected location.

Summary

After having a dream where he debates with Thomas Friedman, Hank is woken up by his henchmen and is surprised to see Esther alive. Cristobal is mad about the assassination attempt and Hank's failed efforts to protect her, so he sends Hank and his men out of the warehouse to a storage unit. Hank concludes he must kill Barry.

Barry is preparing for a monologue about his war experiences in Korangal Valley. He decides to focus on the first time he saved a life, but the events prove to be even more traumatic, as it involved his partner Albert being gravely wounded. Sally is using the night she left her abusive ex-husband as monologue, but while investigating the events, she struggles with the fact that she never stood up to him.

While writing, Barry notices that someone is shooting at his apartment, missing him. He retrieves his gun and discovers Hank with a hitman, shooting the hitman. Barry confronts him and Hank asks him to just kill him, as he is afraid of being sent to Chechnya. Barry hesitates in shooting him and offers to train him and his men to kill the Burmese so their debt can be paid. Hank gleefully accepts the offer.

Barry's first day as an instructor to Hank's henchmen proves to be difficult, with most of them failing to hit a single bottle.

Fuches is pressured by Loach to get more evidence against Barry. He decides to visit Barry at his clothing store job, and this time, Barry actually welcomes him. Barry wants to talk about his war experience but Fuches advises him against it, warning him that his class would be against him if he details everything that happened, and the two have an emotional re-connection while an increasingly frustrated Loach looks on.

Meanwhile, Gene once again tries to reconnect with his son, Leo (Andrew Leeds) by giving him his lake house, but Leo refuses it due to the nature of Moss' "murder".

At the acting class, Barry starts his monologue but Gene quickly deduces that he plagiarized Braveheart in his monologue. He then has Barry act as Sally's abusive ex-husband for her monologue, stating she feels more comfortable with him. The monologue asks Barry to choke Sally and, despite Sally telling him to do it, Barry can't bring himself to perform the action. Sally then provokes him, even attacking him, prompting an angry Barry to storm out. As Sally and Barry talk outside, Sally is shocked to see her ex-husband, Sam, show up.

Cast

Main Cast

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

Supporting Cast

• John Pirruccello as Detective 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
• Michael Irby as Cristobal Sifuentes
• Patricia Fa'asua as Esther
• Andrew Leads as Leo Cousineau
• Joe Massingill as Sam
• James Hiroyuki Lao as Albert Nguyen

Media

Episode stills

Videos

Barry- Behind the Scenes of Season 2 Episode 3 with Bill Hader & Alec Berg - HBO