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~ Barry after killing Janice and realizing he has to start escaping his life of crime all over again.
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Oh, she'd never know I was there. The point is to isolate her and make her feel like she's going insane, so I'd little things, like replace her dog with a slightly different dog or, you know, change some furniture in her house, so she thinks she's shrinking. You know, basic stuff, most of it I learned in the military, some of it on a Subreddit, you know. Basically, you plant a seed and then they just kind of hang themselves, so it's super non-violent, but at the end of it, her brain would've essentially eaten itself.
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~ Barry discussing getting revenge on his ex-girlfriend Sally's boss through psychological torture, further revealing his true nature to her.
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Hah, oh wow.
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~ Barry's last words before Gene shoots him.
Barry Berkman, also known by his stage name Barry Block, is the titular villainous protagonist of the HBO tragicomedy crime series Barry.
He is a former marine turned hitman for Monroe Fuches, a friend of Barry's deceased father. Barry eventually wanted to leave on his own terms and found a father figure in acting class teacher, inspiring him to be an actor himself. Unfortunately, he continuously gets dragged into doing more hit jobs, putting his morality and conscience to the test. He initially starts off as an anti-hero but continuously does more villainous acts for his own self-interest which damages everyone closest to him.
Not much is known about Barry Berkman's past, but he was born in 1978 to John Berkman and an unnamed woman. Around the age of seven, Barry met his father's close friend Monroe Fuches, whom became a father-figure for him during his youth.
Military Service[]
In adulthood, Berkman joined the United States Marine Corps and served in Afghanistan, where he earned praise for killing individuals from a lookout point. While serving in Korengal, Barry and his unit were ambushed while investigating the death of a donkey, which resulted in Berkamn killing an innocent man in a fit of rage. He was then taken to a hospital and was discharged from the military, leaving him depressed and feeling that he had no purpose. However, Fuches convinced him to become a hitman, thus starting Monroe's manipulations of his son-like figure.
Personality[]
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I should just go blow my brains out 'cause there no hope for me, right? My soul's f-cked because I was ordered to kill someone and I did it? You know, it doesn't make me a psycho.
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~ Barry to Sally.
Barry presents himself to be a meek, socially awkward young man, the type of person you wouldn't expect to be a professional killer. While his past is childhood is for the most part unknown, we learn he suffers from PTSD during his time as a marine in Afghanistan. He's also the person who's always looking for orders to follow, not truly believing in himself to make his life's decisions. This also makes him very naïve, buying Fuches's lies for years on how he only is hired to kill "bad people". He is also shown to be very neurotic too, constantly nervous of others finding out about his past as a hitman. Barry is also shown to deal with depression; he's miserable with how all he has to show for his life is his ability to kill, his boss is being very manipulative and abusive who doesn't even let him reap the contract money he gets, and is constantly longing to have a normal life.
As the series progresses, we see him growing more unhinged, nihilistic and violent, desperate to cling on to this new life he's made for himself. He is willing to resort to murder more, despite his reluctance to, but will do so anyways for his own selfishness. We learn from his marine flashbacks that a part of Barry was always very mentally disturbed which was only exacerbated during his service. He also prone to blind fits of homicidal rage, killing others who dare cross paths with him, even those who are innocent, In the first half of the final season Barry is suicidal he gets a prison guard to beat him half to death.
Quotes[]
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You wanna know what I'm good at? I'm good at killing people. You know, when I got back from Afghanistan I, ah, was really depressed. You know, like I didn't leave my house for months, and, ah, this friend of my dad's, he's, uh, he's like an uncle to me. He, uh, he helped me out and he gave me a purpose. He told me that, that what I was good at over there could be useful here and, uh, it's a job. You know. All right the money's good, and, uh, these people I take out, like they're, they're bad people, you know, like they're pieces of shit. Um... But lately, you know I've like, I'm not sleeping and, ah, that depressed feeling's back, you know. Like like I know there's more to me than that. Maybe, I don't know. Maybe there's not. Maybe this is all I'm good at.
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~ Barry in the first episode.
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Fuches! I'm not doing it! Any of it, okay? I know it's what you want, but f-ck you! Okay? There's a lot of things I wanna do, but you don't care about any of that! Take out a stash house all by myself? "Oh yeah, let's have Barry do it. He's f-cking Jason Bourne!" Yeah! No! F-ck it! I'm out! So you're going back to Ohio, and I'm staying here, and that's it! Fuck you! Ow!
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~ Barry to Fuches.
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Why did you say that. WHY DID YOU SAY THAT?!
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~ Barry to Chris as the latter wants to go to the police.
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Can we please not do this? Please?
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~ Barry to Janice.
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There's no forgiving Jeff!
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~ Barry after killing Charles and Jeff.
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WE ARE NOT SAYING THE SAME THING! WE ARE NOT SAYING THE SAME THING! IF I DON'T DO THIS, I DON'T LIVE! I HAVE TO DO THIS TO F-CKING LIVE! Don't f-cking laugh at me! My whole life! My whole...f-cking life! {...} I need you to do this for me now! NOW! Do it! DO IT!
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~ Barry's outburst to Sally.
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I told that casting director our story and he was so moved...that he gave us both parts. So you're going to enjoy everything that comes with being given a second chance...because if you don't...this one ...and that one ...go away. Do you understand? I love you, Mr. Cousineau. Do you love me?
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~ Barry to Gene, threatening his family if he doesn't cooperate.
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I'm a cop killer. I'm a f-ckin' cop killer. If I saw you walking down the street, I'd f-cking kill you, I'd kill your f-cking kids, I'd kill your f-cking wife... and I'd kill your f-cking mom.
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~ Barry to the prison guard.
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I didn't lie to you, I just-- I didn't tell you the part I didn't want to be true. Sally, I'm a piece of s-it. You gave me a life I don't f-ckin' deserve. You were so loving to me. And you made me feel... Like a f-cking human. And that was just you being you -- just you being Sally. Why aren't you leaving?
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~ Barry to Sally.
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...I'm gonna have to kill Cousineau.
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~ Barry to Sally.
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Yeah... I don't think that's what God wants for me. I went in there tonight, prepared to die, and for some reason, He spared me. Honey... I've been redeemed.
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~ Barry to Sally following NoHo Hank's death.
Gallery[]
Barry's corpse.
Trivia[]
He is the only character in the series to appear in every episode.
