ronny/lily

ronny/lily
Season	2
Episode	5
About
Written by	Alec Berg & Bill Hader
Directed by	Bill Hader
Air date	28 April 2019
Chronology
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"ronny/lily" is the fifth episode of the second season of Barry. It was written by Alec Berg and Bill Hader & directed by Hader. It is the thirteenth episode overall.

Plot

An encounter that Barry never could have predicted has surprising effects.

Summary

Loach's ex-wife's lover, Ronny Proxin, arrives at his house. Inside his bedroom, he encounters Barry, who disguises himself by wearing an orange ski mask and goggles. Barry tells him that Loach sent him to kill him, but he doesn't want to do it, instead offering him a car to return to Chicago, where Barry will send him money.

A seemingly unaffected Ronny accepts the offer and starts packing his belongings. During this, Barry feels uneasy when he finds that Ronny is a Taekwondo master, keeping many trophies. When he is distracted, Ronny kicks Barry, apparently knocking him out. Ronny then starts dialing his phone when Barry attacks him, starting a brutal fight in the bedroom, with Barry hitting Ronny in the windpipe. Ronny then prepares to attack Barry with nunchucks when he passes out. Barry prepares to leave, when Ronny's daughter, Lily, appears. He tries to calm her, but she viciously attacks Barry, as she is also proficient in Taekwondo. She stabs him in the back, and then leaves by climbing her fence.

A wounded Barry leaves the house to meet with Fuches at the car, confident that Ronny died. He wants Fuches to get him to the hospital, but Fuches takes him to a drug store as he fears that the hospital will ask questions about the wound. While Fuches leaves to get thread and needle, Barry is called by Loach, who asks him about the job but he declines to answer.

As a result of the blood loss, Barry starts dreaming about soldiers meeting relatives, where he meets the only person that waited for him: Fuches. Back in reality, as Fuches tends the wound, Barry says the wound was caused by Lily. Once he discovers that Lily is alive, Fuches says they need to find her and kill her, as she could identify Barry. As they argue in the car, they miss Lily, who passed by the car.

After driving through the neighborhood, they find Lily seated in the street. Barry hesitates to kill her, so Fuches decides to do it himself. As he approaches her, she climbs a tree and sits perched for hours on top of a roof, with Fuches concluding that she can't be human. As night falls, Barry rips his wounds and Fuches tends its with superglue. Fuches offers to call Hank's henchmen to kill her, but Barry states they are useless, revealing that he is training them. They then hear a noise on the car's rooftop and Fuches drives quickly, thinking Lily is hanging on. As they debate what to do, Lily sneaks into the car and bites Fuches' cheek. As he can't fight her off because he's glued his hands to the steering wheel, Fuches is forced to let her take a chunk out of his cheek and runs off, roaring to them before disappearing.

Fuches then drives to the drug store, telling Barry to get stuff to get the superglue out of his hands. While there, Barry discovers Ronny is alive, who is now wearing a neck brace. Despite his injury, Ronny still manages to attack Barry and even assaults one of the store's employees. Fuches notes the crowd leaving and decides to leave too, accidentally hitting a police cruiser with his car. Back in the store, the attack continues until Loach appears, shooting Ronny. Loach then claims that Barry is holding a gun and starts shooting at him, when Ronny stands up and kicks Loach, killing him. As he stares at Barry, police officers enter and shoot Ronny multiple times, killing him while Barry escapes through the back door. He finds Fuches' car outside and as he approaches it, he sees Fuches as the same person from his dreams before flashing back to reality, where Fuches pressures Barry to get in the car.

Cast

Main Cast

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

Supporting Cast

• John Pirruccello as Detective John Loach
• Daniel Bernhardt as Ronny Proxin
• Jessie Giacomazzi as Lily Proxin

Media

Episode stills

Videos

Barry- Behind the Scenes of Season 2 Episode 5 with Bill Hader & Alec Berg - HBO

Trivia

• This episode is the first and so far only episode in which Henry Winkler (Gene Cousineau) does not appear. It also features the least amount of characters.