The Truth Has a Ring to It

The Truth Has a Ring to It
Season	2
Episode	6
About
Written by	Emily Heller
Directed by	Alec Berg
Air date	May 5, 2019
Chronology
← Previous	"ronny/lily"
Next →	"The Audition"

"The Truth Has a Ring to It" is the sixth episode of the second season of Barry. It was written by Emily Heller & directed by Alec Berg. It is the fourteenth episode overall.

Plot

Gene helps Barry get into character as he prepares for his big scene with Sally; Sally resolves to embrace her truth; NoHo Hank prepares for a big night with his newly trained men; Fuches goes on a mission.

Summary

The LAPD holds a press conference regarding the deaths of Loach and Ronny, deeming them the result of Ronny's relationship with Loach's ex-wife. At Loach's base of operations, his ex-partner Mae Dunn consoles Loach's widow. After they leave, Barry is revealed to have hidden in the store to recover any incriminating evidence against him.

After getting rid of the evidence, Barry tells Fuches that he is cutting ties with him, citing his collaboration with Loach. When Barry mentions that Gene knows him better, Fuches calls him out for not telling him about killing Moss. Fuches then states his intentions to collaborate with Hank, but Barry mocks him, telling him he is nothing without him. Barry goes with Hank to check on his henchmen's training, which has improved drastically. After their training is over, Hank tells Barry that their debt has been settled, handing him a pin as a gift. One of his men, Mayrbeck, thanks Barry for giving him purpose and showing him how to be useful as a soldier.

At the acting class, Barry is told by Sally that after her visit to Sam's hotel room, she rewrote her scene to tell a more truthful version of what happened. When they rehearse it in class, Sally struggles when performing it and leaves ashamed. Barry then asks Gene to help him perform the role of Sam in Sally's scene instead of performing his war scene. Gene instructs him to think of the worst thing he ever did, telling him to use his own story to find the emotion in Sally's scene. Meanwhile, Fuches has gone to Gene's lake house, intending to find any incriminating evidence of Moss' murder, staying in the woods through the night.

Sally puts even more pressure on her performance after she misses an appointment with her agent, Lindsay. As they perform the scene, Barry uses his trauma over Moss' murder for inspiration, managing to deliver a terrifying and frightening performance, which is met with applause. Lindsay is revealed to have witnessed the performance and offers Sally a chance to use this for their own benefit in a performance for multiple industry personnel.

Meanwhile, after struggling to find a lead, Fuches finally finds something crucial: Moss' car.

Hank prepares to make his next move, when he finds that Esther and Cristobal have already discovered their plot, as one of Hank's men snitched on them after Hank insulted him. In the final scene, Gene dines at a restaurant. Unbeknownst to him, he is being watched by Fuches, who is seated across the room.

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
• Jessy Hodges as Lindsay Mandel
• Nikita Bogolyubov as Mayrbek
• Nick Gracer as Yandar
• Troy Caylak as Akhmal

Media

Episode stills

Videos

Barry- Behind the Scenes of Season 2 Episode 6 with Bill Hader & Alec Berg - HBO