‘Black Rabbit’ Episode 6 Recap: “Attafuckinboy”

With Black Rabbit, proper from the bounce we had suspicions about who perpetrated the brazen theft within the VIP. And we have been type of proper. However how Episode 6 reveals us, the way it reaches the second the place Jake’s acquired a gun in his face, Wes is getting shot, and 1,000,000 {dollars}’ value of bejeweled wristwear is strolling out the restaurant’s door, is busier than a Saturday evening service. We’ll break down all 5 views in play. However first, a flashback. 

We’re within the Friedkin home, the one which simply acquired arson’d, and little boy variations of Jake and Vince are sneaking appears to be like at Playboys by flashlight when their dad (Walker Hare) enters the bed room. He has gold watches for each of them, and as they dangle loosely on the boys’ skinny wrists, Younger Jake asks in the event that they’re the true factor. “Large Dick” fixes them a stare and delivers a line that feels formative for what we’ve realized concerning the Friedken brothers. “They’re as actual as you inform folks they’re.”   

Now it’s the day after he was virtually executed, and Jake begins the more-or-less official portion of his romance with Estelle by mendacity to her about the place he’s been all evening. He additionally meets with Junior and Babbitt to make his wild play to save lots of himself actually official: the timing for his or her theft of his restaurant, and the mixture to his protected. (Junior: “Man thinks he’s Danny Ocean all the sudden.”) On the identical time, Jake receives a customer. It’s one other succinct, crisp look from Morgan Spector as Cambpell the fixer, who delivers an NDA for Jake to signal and one thing extra: “500,000 causes” why he ought to really feel compelled to honor the nondisclosure and delete any footage of Jules Zablonski dosing Anna Dixon’s drink.   

The fats examine allows Jake to make a bolder play on high of his already determined one. He drops the whole quantity on Mancuso – Vince’s authentic debt plus a load of fine religion curiosity – in a tense assembly filled with the mortgage shark’s anger over his son Junior taking over the theft concept with out authorization. “Are we carried out? Is it over?” Are the Friedkens freed from Mancuso? The shark gestures within the affirmative, so long as there’s no extra bullshit. And he’ll have a phrase with Junior. 

Elsewhere, we observe Wes, who’s following Estelle and Jake, who’re entertaining Naveen and a few traders on the Pool Room. Wes is possessive, jealous, and vindictive, and he applies these traits to destroying his buddy and former music enterprise supervisor. He has his personal cash folks lap Jake’s within the race for the Pool Room lease, after which gives thousands and thousands in payouts to Naveen and the others for his or her 33% share within the Black Rabbit. That is carried out within the VIP on the Rabbit, in accordance with Roxie, his new chef-partner. “My meals, Wes’s orbit,” Rox says. Patrons will observe them wherever. And whereas Naveen throws down just a few WTFs, he reads the writing on the wall and agrees. Wes smiles coldly. “We’re taking up right here, and on the Pool Room. Jake’s out.”

Even additional elsewhere, Ep 6 of Black Rabbit units up what Tony the sous chef was doing within the days earlier than the theft. An indignant Rox tells him how Anna was raped by Jules at their office, didn’t discover assist among the many high-level workers, after which died in a horrible accident. (“How merciless is the world the place that’s anyone’s story?”) However Tony says he doesn’t purchase it, and it’s time they do one thing about it. 

When Tony and Roxie go to Detective Seung and clarify what occurred from Anna’s perspective, she stops them. “Maintain on, Jake Friedken knew about Anna’s assault?” Later, she is going to query Jake on the Rabbit throughout Anna’s memorial service. She asks to see any related footage from the Rabbit’s safety cams. And whereas he actively deleted it, he says the restaurant didn’t even reserve it. Mendacity to the cops, similar to Campbell’s 500,000 causes impressed him to do.

However we aren’t carried out with the attitude shifts. We additionally go to Junior’s life. It’s the morning of the heist, and he’s practising being a robber within the mirror like a low-rent Travis Bickle. Till his dad Mancuso reveals up, calls his son an “fool shitbomb,” and banishes him to their mortgage shark operation in Florida for even contemplating the “cascade of stupidity” that may’ve been the theft.

Discover we haven’t talked about Vince but? After the near-execution and newest blowout along with his brother, Vin was set to bounce from NYC on the Megabus. He even mentioned his goodbyes to Gen throughout a rambling tattoo session. Blood will not be thicker than water. “Fuck blood.” Vince, set to re-enter his hustler’s life, couldn’t see his estranged daughter tearing up as she accomplished the tat on the again of his neck. Be Again Quickly.       

Vince, drunk once more, ended up lacking his bus. And that’s the fateful second the place all of those views coalesce. As a substitute of leaving city himself, Junior swore revenge on Jake for embarrassing him along with his father. And when Babbitt wouldn’t assist him, he intercepted Vince for heist assist whereas his lowest and most indignant. Vince, who nonetheless has keys to the Black Rabbit’s service entrance. “I’m in, Junior. Fuck Jake. Jake’s acquired it coming to him.” 

We’re again on the Black Rabbit, contained in the very second of the theft. Junior collects all the jewellery within the room whereas his compelled (however keen) confederate holds a gun on Jake, who out of the blue understands it’s his personal brother behind the ski masks. “Vince?” And perhaps it will’ve gone totally different proper from there if hothead Junior hadn’t shot Wes, which set off a series response of violence. The jeweler’s safety guard fired at Junior, however hit his hostage, Tony, within the neck. Junior shot that man. After which he stood over Jake and made him kneel in submission. Junior was about to homicide him when his “Attafuckinboy” catchphrase acquired lower off by Vince’s bullet going by way of his cranium. 

As a masked Vince flees the scene with the sack of VIP loot and customized jeweled watches, nobody however Jake appears to know his brother simply helped orchestrate a bloody theft of the bar he co-founded. After Episode 6, with Wes and Tony critically wounded, Junior useless, a significant theft on the spot, and the police already focusing on Jake’s lies about Anna, what occurs to the Black Rabbit – and on Black Rabbit – will probably be from a wholly new perspective.

DJ Sales space for Black Rabbit Episode 6 (“Attaf**ckinboy”):

• Black Rabbit slickly executes a music cue as narrative peg on this extraordinarily non-linear episode, becoming a member of Jake’s previous timeline with the present’s current within the minutes earlier than the theft by returning to The Walkmen’s “We’ve Been Had,” the primary music we heard in Episode 1.

• Episode 6 additionally contains the music of Belgian, French-language rapper Shay along with her 2022 single “DA,” Run the Jewels with “Blockbuster Evening, Pt. 1,” from Killer Mike and El-P’s 2014 document Run the Jewels 2, and “Pj” from Jesse Woods.   

Johnny Loftus (@johnnyloftus.bsky.social) is a Chicago-based author. A veteran of the choice weekly trenches, his work has additionally appeared in Leisure Weekly, Pitchfork, The All Music Information, and The Village Voice.