Stovka was a minor character who appeared in episode three of Season 1 of Barry. He was known as the best assassin in all of Chechnya.[1] Despite his appearence of an elderly man, he was in fact 45-years-old.
Biography[]
Background[]
Stovka was well-known as the best assassin in all of Chechnya, being regarded as a legend amongst many Chechnyan criminals. When NoHo Hank was a kid, he recalled Stovka walking out the discotheque and flicked a cigarette at a bird and knocked it out of sky.
He once had a wife and child who abadoned him due to his life as an assassin and believing that he was a broken man, this left Stovka extremely depressed and realized that he was never really free from the life as an assassin due to his profession pulling him back into his work by killing people.
Arrival In Los Angeles[]
Stovka would be hired by the Chechen mafia and brought all the way to L.A. where he was met with warm welcome by the Chechen mafia with many of them taking selfies with Stovka. He would remain in the garage of Goran's home where he would stand guard in the garage and was instructed by Goran to kill both Barry and Fuches when Barry returns.
Fuches try to convince Stovka to not kill him, offering him good deals about meeting some wonderful American women or explore Los Angeles for himself. When Fuches asks him about his age, he is shocked to learn that Stovka is 45-years-old despite looking like he is in his 70s. Stovka would talk about how his entire he has known nothing but death and up until that point, he had become a broken man whom his wife left. Depressed and realizing that there is no way for him to escape his life as an assassin, Stovka takes his own life by fatally shooting himself with the gun that Goran handed him.