It’s a blessing from the beyond - one last present from Michael in the form of Uncle Jimmy’s $300,000 loan, and this in turn meant that Michael was telling the truth about wanting to franchise, and open a restaurant with Carmy, despite their strained relationship. Thinking quickly, he begins to realize that the small cans of tomato sauce all had wads of cash in them, so he closes down the shop, and spends the rest of the day going through each of the tomato cans.Īnd in each one, there is a wad of cash. In it, Carmy not only receives a small note from his deceased brother, but the recipe to his family’s spaghetti, saying that the cans of small tomato sauce taste better.Ĭarmy, intending on making the tomato sauce recipe, opens up a can of small tomato sauce, and in it, he finds a wad of cash. Richie ends up handing a letter to Carmy from Michael ( played by Jon Bernthal), which was his last words to his brother. (Image credit: Hulu) A Gift From The Beyond But there’s certainly a lot for them to sort out with one another still left.Įven so, at the end, they’re all sharing a meal together - and looking forward to the future of the shop, despite all the drama that has happened. Yes, they both have a shared passion for this thing. I also feel like you’ve still got this tension, with Carmy and Sydney, and this power balance that they’re still gonna be struggling with. In an interview with Collider, White said that things are still tense between them - and going into Season 2, their strained partnership will most likely be a big key storyline: However, that doesn't mean that everything between Carmy and Sydney is peachy keen.
Carmy apologizes to Marcus after snapping at him during Episode 7, and soon, Sydney returns at the end of the episode, as well. Marcus goes back to work after having a heart to heart with Sydney regarding their interests in the cooking world, while Sydney is a little more hesitant. They throw a bachelor party that turns bad after Richie punches someone very aggressively, but the person survives, and it’s after this that Carmy (after picking Richie up from the police) and Richie finally stop fighting and come to a truce, because, as Richie says, Carmy is “all he has.”
It’s after this, he returns - and seems to have a new attitude in mind. Now, it was like he was trying to prove him wrong, and while his cooking got better, his mental state had deteriorated, and Carmy comes to the realization that him trying to fix the restaurant, was him just trying to fix the strained relationship that he had with his brother. Carmy attends an Al-Anon meeting, where he reveals the reason he ended up going into the food industry in the first place was because his brother never let him cook in the shop.