History TearJerker / Barry

* Sally crying in her car after not only not being allowed to audition for a potentially lucrative role, but finding out it's because she's been dropped from her representation [[spoiler: after she rebuffed her agent's sexual advances]].

** Barry trying to defend himself while the drama class trashes Macbeth and his Lady for being murderers. Forgetting or not knowing that Barry was a marine (and of course, none of them knowing he's a hitman) they declare that taking a life irrevocably marks your soul and changes you for ever into a monster. Barry, an actual combat veteran who has taken lives in the line of duty, (plus, you know, for money) sheepishly argues that Shakespeare was never a soldier and that he doesn't understand what he's talking about. The class gets snippy until Barry quietly snaps that he's killed people, before asking if that means he's doomed forever and should he just kill himself. Only then does Gene remember Barry was a Marine and informs the class about it who back down a little. Of course, Gene goes on to say that if you leave the army and keep killing people, then you're an irredeemable psycho, but Barry's eyes-cast-down defence of his own service is pretty heartrending.

* Though it doubles as sort of funny, Fuches reaction to the news of [[spoiler: Barry's apparent death at the airfield is moving. His first reaction is a literal collapse of grief over his dining table. When we next see him, he and Hank are on the same call and Fuches is fondly talking about how he met Barry as a child, calls him 'the sweetest kid you've ever seen'. While a lot of what Fuches does can be viewed as performative, since he is so manipulative, he appears in that moment to be genuinely moved and depressed by his belief Barry has perished. Of course, he IMMEDIATELY ruins it by complaining that Barry never got the chance to apologise to him. But for a second there, just a second, he might have been able to pretend to look as if he sort of cared.]]
* [[spoiler: Barry killing his friend Chris to keep him quiet about the botched ambush.]]
** He then leaves his pistol behind with Chris' corpse (with it being gripped in his hand) to frame it as a suicide.
** [[spoiler: When Chris starts nervously rambling and briefly mentions his wife, you can see the ''exact'' moment Barry realizes what he "has" to do. He fights back tears from that moment until Chris' last and he seems like he's desperately trying to talk himself out of it in his head, but Chris is too upstanding of a citizen to keep what he's seen to himself forever and they both know it.]]

** [[spoiler: On the same coin, ''Chris himself'' realizes the decision Barry has made at about the same time and resorts to all but outright begging for his life. His last words are ''WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT--'']]
*** [[spoiler:Chris's pleading is itself heart-rending to listen to. Just like how Barry, anguished, has to psychologically prepare himself for murder by "blaming" his own friend, Chris, in desperation and terror at his imminent death, can only attempt to lie, bargain, and cajole his way out of the situation. They both know what's coming, and they both understand that it can't be stopped, but Chris still desperately struggles in his helplessness, and Barry, hearing every word, still kills him.]]

** "My lord, the Queen is dead." (Shown in the page image above)

* Barry finally seems to have everything he wanted: a loving girlfriend, a social life, a career path he's actually passionate about (and ''doesn't'' involve murdering people), and has cut all ties to the criminal underworld. Too bad [[spoiler: Cousineau has to recount the tale of [[CallBack Barry's "monologue]]" in front of Detective Moss.]]
* [[spoiler: Barry desperately pleading with Moss to just let him go and forget she ever saw him. She refuses. Then we see the gun hidden behind the tree...]]

* Barry screaming, crying and beating himself up in his car, ashamed at himself after he nearly [[spoiler: murdered Sally]].

* Barry's reaction on realizing out that he killed his pupil Mayrbek during his rampage at the Burmese monastery.

* [[DespairEventHorizon Gene has completely given up hope]], locking himself in his room while reading news articles about him being the prime suspect in Barry's crimes while Tom tries to help and reach out to him. He takes out Creator/RipTorn's gun from his vault, likely considering suicide only to hear Barry's voice as he comes to Gene's house looking for Sally and John. Shortly after, right as Barry decides to turn himself in to the police and take responsibility, Gene suddenly appears and shoots him, killing Barry with a shot to the head and sits down on the couch in utter silence with no emotion near Barry's corpse as he waits for the police to come and arrest him.

* [[DespairEventHorizon Gene has completely given up hope]], locking himself in his room while reading news articles about him being the prime suspect in Barry's crimes while Tom tries to help and reach out to him. He takes out a gun from his vault, likely considering suicide only to hear Barry's voice as he comes to Gene's house looking for Sally and John. Shortly after, right as Barry decides to turn himself in to the police and take responsibility, Gene suddenly appears and shoots him, killing Barry with a shot to the head and sits down on the couch in utter silence with no emotion near Barry's corpse as he waits for the police to come and arrest him.

* NoHo Hank's death, as well. All alone and surrounded by the dead bodies of his and Fuches's men, Hank lies dying next to the statue of Cristobal and [[TogetherInDeath holds the statue's hand in his last moments.]]

* HoHo Hank's death, as well. He lies dying next to the statue of Cristobal and [[TogetherInDeath holds the statue's hand in his last moments.]]

* In a way, [[HeelFaceDoorSlam Barry's death]]. He's shot by Gene just as he had finally decided to turn himself in and do the right thing. Instead, Gene perpetuates the circle of violence and everything goes down the drain. You get the feeling that it was AllForNothing.

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* Hank murders his own men and the Chechens in a bid to save himself and Cristobal, which absolutely horrifies the latter. With his trust completely shattered, Cristobal calls it quits on their relationship while Hank begs him to stay, clearly knowing what comes next. After letting him go, a hitman escorts a broken Hank outside to show him a squad of Chechens standing over Cristobal's corpse.

It's considered a tragicomedy for a reason.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"''My lord, the Queen is dead.''"]]

!! Season One

!! Season Two

!!Season Three

!! Season Four

* Everything to do with [[spoiler:Sally's return to Joplin and her interactions with her family.]] This scene will hit very close to home for any child of narcissistic parents. [[spoiler:Her father means well, but isn't able to communicate with her effectively, is overly passive, and an enabler. Meanwhile, her mother is cold, dismissive, and emotionally abusive. She sees Sally's presence as an imposition and doesn't take what she's been through with Barry seriously at all. When her daughter has a nervous breakdown while in her car, she's more preoccupied with her drive-thru order than anything else. Even when the topic of Sam comes up, she is more disappointed in Sally for using Sam's name on her show than she is empathetic to her daughter for being a victim of domestic abuse.]]

* The phone call between Barry and Hank. [[spoiler: When Barry calls him and asks for his help in keeping Gene quiet, Hank refuses and confronts him on talking to the FBI. Things devolve into an enraged Barry exchanging insults with a calm, morose Hank before he hangs up on Barry, cutting him out of his life for good. While Hank is a gangster who has used him for his own purposes and even had tried to kill him before, he still genuinely liked Barry in the past and it's obvious that he's deeply upset and betrayed by Barry talking to the feds.]]

* The phone call between Barry and Hank. [[spoiler: When Barry calls him and asks for his help in keeping Gene quiet, Hank refuses and confronts him on talking to the FBI. Things devolve into an enraged Barry exchanging insults with a calm, morose Hank before he hangs up on Barry, cutting him out of his life for good. While Hank is a gangster who has used him for his own purposes, he still genuinely liked Barry in the past and it's obvious that he's deeply upset and betrayed by Barry talking to the feds.

* Everything to do with [[spoiler:Sally's return to Joplin and her interactions with her family.]] This scene will hit very close to home for any child of narcissistic parents. [[spoiler:Her father means well, but isn't able to communicate with her effectively, is overly passive, and an enabler. Meanwhile, her mother is cold, dismissive, and emotionally abusive. She sees Sally's presence as an imposition and doesn't take what she's been through with Barry seriously at all. When her daughter has a nervous breakdown while in her car, she's more preoccupied with her drive-thru order than anything else. Even when the topic of Sam comes up, she is more disappointed in Sally for using Sam's name on her show than she is empathetic to her daughter for being a victim of domestic abuse.]]

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** Also the fact that some time before his death Chris reluctantly saved Barry from being killed by a Bolivian by killing the man himself only to freak out completely afterwards since he never killed a man during his time as a veteran. Ultimately, saving Barry turned out to be pointless since Barry reluctantly kills Chris anyway which makes it even worse.

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** Barry trying to defend himself while the drama class trashes Macbeth and his Lady for being murderers. Forgetting or not knowing that Barry was a marine (and of course, none of them knowing he's a hitman) they declare that taking a life irrevocably marks your soul and changes you for ever into a monster. Barry, an actual combat veteran who has taken lives in the line of duty, (plus, you know, for money) sheepishly argues that Shakespeare was never a soldier and that he doesn't understand what he's talking about. The class gets snippy until Barry quietly snaps that he's killed people, before asking if that means he's doomed forever and should he just kill himself. Only then does Gene remember Barry was a Marine and informs the class about it who back down a little. Of course, Gene goes on to say that if you leave the army and keep killing people, then you're an irredeemable psycho, but Barry's eyes-cast-down defence of his own service is pretty heartrending.
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* Looking at the episode from Lilly's point of view, she comes home to find her father apparently dead (and he does [[spoiler: die for real at the end of the episode]]) and she has no idea why or how this weird man has seemingly targeted her family. When Fuches approaches her on the sideway, she looks like she is about to cry.

* Fuches' ''utterly'' [[KickTheDog cruel decision]] to show [[spoiler: Moss' decaying body to Cousineau,]] who's spent all season holding out hope [[spoiler: that she was alive]] and proceeds to lapse into an HeroicBSOD ''that lasts all the way through the next episode''. What's worse is that [[spoiler: Cousineau]] is a complete innocent and this was nothing more than a petty way to get back at Barry.

* Gene Cousineau [[spoiler: getting arrested for Janice's murder after Fuches framed him.]]

* Continuing her abusive behaviour towards Barry from episode 3 here she outright ''slaps'' him before they perform their scene while ignoring the fact that Barry was clearly not in the right headspace at that time. Sally dodged a bullet there considering he could've killed her for doing that.

* After Barry misses the premiere of Sally's new show she dumps him. Largely because of his outburst from two episodes prior. While she's not wrong, he still looks crushed. Between this and his continued falling out with Gene, Barry has ''nothing''.

* The entire sequence in Bolivia: Hank can only listen helplessly as a panther mauls two of his closest friends to death, which, along with the threat of death, drives him so over the edge he breaks free from his handcuffs and personally kills the panther and his captors himself. The fun-loving Chechen gangster comic-relief from Season 1 is long-gone by the end of Hank's tearful reunion with Cristobal.

* The sequence where Sally is forced to fight off the Taylor gang member by herself. The scene has worrying intentional parallels to the physical abuse she sustained from Sam, particularly in how he tries to choke her to death. However, special notice needs to be given to her not only incapacitating him with the knife but proceeding to grab a baseball bat and beat him to death. Barry's horrified reaction upon waking up sells it: Sally has reached her breaking point and is now fully capable of the same violence as Barry.

* Barry’s last phone call with Sally, where he tells her he loves her, but she can only respond with, “Oh, you do?” before hanging up and boarding a flight back to Joplin.

* The look of shock on Barry's face when he realizes Gene tricked him into getting arrested. It's absolutely comeuppance to Barry, but Barry has absolutely worshipped Gene up to this point, and the shock of the betrayal is really sold by Bill Hader's acting.

* Barry's poison-induced fever dream. He passes through a large crowd of people, everyone he's ever killed, on a desolate beach to reach the shore, and stands in front of them looking unsure and lost. He notices Mayrbek, who seems to make eye contact briefly... then turns away, nonchalant, as if he was just looking in Barry's direction. There's a darkly funny bit when Barry notices Chris beside him -- he tries to get his attention by awkwardly smiling and waving, while Chris reacts with confusion and a glance behind himself, like how anyone would react to a total stranger greeting them -- but even it doesn't distract from the crushing moment of his realization. While Barry has delusional and psychopathic tendencies, he has never forgotten a single one of his victims' faces, and even though he carries them everywhere he goes, even ''they'' don't recognize him -- he is utterly alone in this world, and his legacy is murder and pain.

* Ryan’s father George picks up a barely alive Barry with the intent to finish him off after Fuches gave George Barry’s info. However, George simply parks for what seems like hours (it’s light out when he finds Barry and dark when he starts talking) and tells Barry how much he loved his son and wants to be with him. A few scenes later, Barry is being wheeled into the hospital while we see that George shot himself in the head.