We’ve established that she only feels safe with Barry, and this feels like something she manifested from that belief. It’s a stand-in for the threats that could show up at any moment when Barry isn’t there, leaving Sally powerless and ill-prepared. It’s not a hallucination, but the logic isn’t necessarily meant to be puzzled over. No, this scene operates more on nightmare logic, like the giggling kids who disappeared into the darkness after knocking on the door in the last episode. As far as we know, the intruder(s) have nothing to do with any of the main parties we know who want Barry dead, like Hank, Fuches, or Jim Moss. Bill Hader and the other writers tend to plot this show within an inch of its life, but this particular attack has no real plot purpose besides maybe denying Sally the choice of simply waiting for Barry to return. But what most interests me about this sequence is that there’s really no in-universe explanation for it. Lest we think this was all a dream, the episode eventually returns to the living room, with John waking to a wrecked house. Only a few seconds later, he has driven away. When Sally makes it back to her bedroom, the man slams and locks the door behind her, only for her to hear a disembodied sound from her own memories: the biker she stabbed back in “Starting Now” repeatedly asking, “What did you put in my eye?” She also hears him apparently inspecting her unconscious son, but she has no time to process it all: Just as she tries to shoot her unloaded gun through the door, the bedroom wall is rammed hard by a pickup truck, tilting the whole house sideways and overturning everything inside. We can only imagine what he’s getting ready to do off-screen. That’s a scary image to begin with, almost akin to Rubber Man from the first season of American Horror Story, but it’s the sound editing and Hader’s direction that makes it almost unbearably tense, especially when the camera pans to a spot where the figure isn’t visible. First, a tall man in a black morph suit appears, closely following Sally around the room. When Sally hears faint yelling about coming for her and her son and slowly steps into the living room, we’re primed for action.Īnd yet I still never could have predicted the actual threats that would show up here and how they would show up. John is asleep and vulnerable on the couch, with the door and windows accessible to intruders. It’s terrifying in a number of ways, starting from the circumstances. “I’m going to shoot your with one of these.”Īrenas went on to call Butler a snitch after that.Ĭrittenton is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for voluntary manslaughter with a weapon.One of the most bone-chilling sequences in the entire run of Barry begins 20 minutes through tonight’s episode: an attack on Barry and Sally’s remote home that leaves the latter calling her husband in a panic, pleading with him to come home. “Hey, MF, come pick one,” Gilbert told Javaris while pointing to the weapons. Javaris was standing in front of his own stall, his back to Gilbert. Gilbert was standing in front of his two locker stalls, the ones previously used by Michael Jordan, with four guns on display. When I entered the locker room, I thought I had somehow been transported back to my days on the streets of Racine. We had the next day off, but on the following day, December 21, practice started at ten o’clock at the Verizon Center so we all wandered in a little earlier. Arenas’ teammate at the time, Caron Butler, detailed the account differently in a chilling excerpt: He believed a one-or-three-game suspension would have gone his way if it was only about the guns.Īrenas described the incident with Crittenton as more sarcastic than it was made out to be, claiming he was baiting Crittenton to act on his threats. He was suspended for the remainder of the 2009-10 season but claimed that it wasn’t about the guns - but rather for conduct detrimental to the team. Full interview: /0iQJ4KP1PuĪrenas was a guest on Open Run where he discussed the discipline handed down by the league. Gilbert Arenas joins & on to talk about the locker room incident.
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