Is Robbie dead? Where is the money? Tom Pelfrey explains

a task Episode 6 “Beyond the Ideas of Right and Wrong, There’s a River” features the deaths of some people HBO The most likable character on the show. The tense confrontation that ended last week’s episode immediately erupted into violence. Characters are shot, stabbed, and run. But after all this pain and sadness a task Episode 6 ends on a strangely hopeful note. One suggests perhaps Robbie Prendergrast (Tom Belfrey) He won?

**Spoilers for a task Episode 6, “Far Beyond Ideas of Right and Wrong, There’s a River,” now streaming on HBO MAX**

early in a task Episode 6 Robbie and Tom Brandis (Mark Ruffalo(They find themselves fighting the likes of Jason)Sam Kelly), Perry (Jimmy McShane) And the rest of the dark hearts.

While Tom fights with Perry at the cabin, Jason chases Robbie and his bag full of drug money through the woods. After exchanging several shots, Robbie called Jason: “Jason! Do you want this? Is this what you came for?” Then he throws the bag into the fast-flowing river.

Jason and Ruby begin fighting to the death. The hostility between men fuels their punches. In the end, Robbie has Jason in a stranglehold. It looks like he might win. He might finally avenge his brother’s death. But then Ruby’s entire body retreats. He rolls over and Jason holds a bloody knife. Jason had stabbed Robbie.

Jason stands over Ruby and flexes his hand with the knife as if preparing to deliver a final blow. That’s when Tom shows up, who beats Perry into submission in the cabin. Jason runs away and Tom runs to Ruby. Although Tom manages to help Ruby get to the car, the thief with a heart of gold – the Robin Hood of Delco County – dies bleeding in the back seat. His final moments are marked by memories of jumping into the quarry on a sunlit day with his brother Billy (Jack Kesey).

So Robbie dies. Perry and Jason eventually track the bag of money down the river. Elsewhere, Grasso (Fabian Frankel) does everything he can to save Lizzie (Alison Oliver) when his secret allies, the Dark Hearts, descend, but the gang’s getaway car runs her over anyway. So how does Episode 6 end the mission on a positive note?

Because it turns out the money wasn’t in the bag that Robbie threw into the river. The money was on its way to Maeve (Emilia Jones). So what’s up with this development? How early did Robbie plan this? And how did you do it? a task Convert episode 6 with a glorious final shot?

a task Episode 6 ending explained: Was it Ruby’s plan to die? How does Maeve get money?

So it turns out that Robbie intentionally lured the Dark Hearts to the cabin in the woods as a diversion to confront Jason and make sure the money gets to Maeve and the kids. He teamed up with Shelley (Mickey Sumner) who sold drugs to her contact and split that money into two suitcases. One was for her to distance herself and her children from her abusive husband, Ray. The other was supposed to be delivered to Maeve on Robbie’s orders.

a task Episode 6 ends with Jason and Peri realizing they’ve been tricked, Maeve rolling in dough, and a one-shot of happy Robbie swimming in the quarry. Robbie won.

Of course, Robbie’s plan will only succeed if he can convince everyone around him that he is doing the opposite. So, at what point did this major hit for Robbie happen? When in the story does he realize that he may have to sacrifice himself to improve the lives of Maeve and his children?

“For me, I started to get this feeling — that I keep to myself — when he goes to the truck depot to talk to Bartosz,” Tom Pelphrey told DECIDER, referring to the scene in which Robbie tries to arrange a secret transfer to Canada.

“Sam got out of the car and put the fish back in the lake, and then the guy saw him and Robbie lost his temper,” Belfrey said. “I think up until that point, he’d been able to tell himself that things were sort of under control. And I think losing control like that and coming so close to ruining the whole thing, makes him start to realize that this plan is shaky at best… and I might need a backup plan.”

While it’s entirely possible that Robbie survived Plan B – I mean, he almost killed Jason – it’s the only version of events that protects the kids even if Robbie falls.

“And by the end of this, we love him so much we feel like he’s left some sort of legacy for his kids. And that’s not all bad.” a task said Episode 6 director Sally Richardson-Whitfield. “But what (show creator) Brad (Ingelsby) had done up to that point in the writing, was he had set everything up so well with the characters that you earned it all and you gained your eventual love for Robbie, and that’s why it was so heartbreaking.”

“I know I’m biased, but I love Ruby a lot“I liked very much what he was trying to do and how he was trying to do it,” Pelfrey said.

That’s why Belfry was so happy that Brad Inglesby added that final shot of the episode as a “moment of completion.”

“The way (Episode 6) ended was created in post. That wasn’t in the script,” Pelfrey revealed. “We’re all so lucky to be in Brad’s hands. You know, Brad is on set all day, every day. Brad wrote this thing. Brad knows this thing. While you’re there, he’s very calm and very respectful, and he loves everyone else who brings their ideas, who brings the truth. He hires everyone for a reason and he encourages them to do what they want. But always, always, always, he knows the story and tries to take care of it.”

Pelfrey said that Ingelsby revealed to him that the episode as written needed something “just to put a button on it.” So he went through that footage a taskAnother director, Jeremiah Zagar, took the flashbacks to add that bittersweet button to the episode.

“I think that’s it,” Pelfrey said of the final shot. “I mean, I think that’s why Brad knew he needed him.”

How many rings are there? a task?

There are seven episodes in a taskWhich means there’s still next weekend to worry about. Although it may look like Robbie has won, the Dark Hearts are still out for their money, Brandis is now implicated in Grasso’s betrayal, and there are more loose ends to tie up.

a task Episode 7 will premiere next Sunday, October 19 on HBO and HBO MAX.