Barry: Why Noho Hank Chose The Raven Name
Warning: the following contains SPOILERS for Barry.
Barryseason 3, episode 1 “Forgiving Jeff” sees NoHo Hank getting interrogated by Detective Mae Dunn and being forced to identify Fuches in a photo, but instead of Monroe Fuches, Hank tells the cops that the man is called “The Raven.” Prior to this moment in the show, from Barry season 1 to season 2, no such name has been assigned to Fuches, and no one in the entire cast of HBO's Barry has been called the Raven either. That said, there's a reason for why Hank chose this seemingly random alias.
Hank's interrogation is a display of how calculating NoHo Hank can truly be. Detective Dunn corners Hank by showing him photo evidence that links both Hank and Fuches to the monastery shooting, forcing Hank to give up information lest the police think that he's hiding something. Hank successfully shifts the blame from himself by inventing the identity and backstory of the Raven off the cuff. Although this doesn't totally erase Hank's connection to the case, the Raven redirects the police's attention into following a long thread that ends in the mountains of Chechnya, where the Chechen mob keeps Fuches in a safe house. By using the archetypal story of an assassin with a dark/mysterious past to mislead the cops, Hank makes LA a safer place for not just the Chechen mob, but Barry as well.
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Barry's NoHo Hank, despite being cornered for information, puts on a convincing show, but his insistence on the detectives taking the name “The Raven” seriously, even suggesting that they look it up on Wikipedia, betrays Hank's true intentions. The symbolism behind the raven is complex, but it is commonly associated with ill omens and
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