The Sympathizer
WARNING : SPOILERS ahead for The Sympathizer sequence 3 .
Summary
The Sympathizerepisode 3 titled " fuck It or Leave It " was free solely on HBO and MAX on April 28 , 2024 . The third episode of the seven - part miniseries , The Sympathizerepisode 3 feature the union of allfour of Robert Downey Jr. ’s charactersin the same scene . Since discharge on April 14 , 2024,The Sympthzierhas realize an 88 % Rotten Tomatoes scoreand is wide considered one of the good unexampled miniseries on television . The acclaimed serial publication stars Downey Jr. in his first major playing role since 2023’sOppenheimeras well as Hoa Xuande , Toan Le , Fred Nguyen Khan , and Sandra Oh .
Although The Captain appear to be quite charismatic over the form of the first few episodes ofThe Sympathizer , he is faced with an tremendously difficult challenge stress to trade with The Major , who is more or less completely innocuous . The Captain implicated The Major as the sympathizing spy within The General ’s ranksin society to lay aside his own cutis , and as a result , was instructed to take him out by The General and Claude . Much ofThe Sympathizerepisode 3 sees The Captain struggling to build up the courage to take The Major out , although the previously traumatize Bon make his interesting past know and becomes of nifty divine service to The Captain .
8Bon Reveals To The Captain That He Was An F-6 Secret Agent
Bon , who has become much more garrulous since losing his married woman and young child at the end ofThe Sympathizerepisode 1 , comes clean to The Captain about his true role in the Viet Cong army back in Vietnam . Bon reveal that he was secretly an F-6 federal agent , someone who was very highly train and severe among the Viet Cong . Like other F-6 agent , Bon was assigned to take out other member of the Viet Cong , but was authorized to do so , sort of like a " steel ball carrier " type of agentive role whose purpose was to take out penis of their own kind . The Captain is quite stunned to acquire this of Bon , who up until that spot seemed like he had lost all purpose and direction in his life , but now proves to be useful in helping The Captain game The Major ’s assassination .
At the end ofThe Sympathizerepisode 2 , it come along that The Captain was not willing to look around for Man ’s official orders back in Vietnam to take out The Major , burning a napkin with his transcribed code outside a Los Angeles burger joint . As it turns out , The Captain did end up asking Man for authorisation but did not hear back with the next coded message , creating an unusual ambiguity between them . Since Man is well cognisant of The Captain ’s condition as a mole and double broker , it ’s strange that he did not address the issue of taking out The Major , whichended up forcing The Captain to take matters into his own handwriting . Bon , however , was very on table with the commission to take out The Major and proved to be a fast ally and accomplice to The Captain without any immunity or hesitancy .
6The Major Throws A Longevity Party For His Mother
lamentably , The Major hold his female parent a " longevity " political party to lionize her biography just a few days before The Captain and Bon kill him . The party is a schematic event that check the appeal of many supporting characters , include Sandra Oh ’s Sofia Mori , who The Captain has been have a amatory social function with and just recently ask to become his particular date and prescribed lady friend . The General ’s girl also blab out and perform at the function , which evidence that she terminate up liking the United States just very well after they were force to take flight from Vietnam . The Captain ’s old classroom rival Sonny is also there as well asa new Robert Downey Jr. lineament , " Napalm " Ned Godwin , who makes a muscular manner of speaking about America , exemption , and the alliance between the U.S. and the effort of Southern Vietnam to queer the spread of communism .
5"Napalm" Ned Godwin Makes A Speech About America At The Party
" Napalm " Ned is introduced inThe Sympathizerepisode 3 as a secure - willed yet antiblack United States war veteran who became a celebrated Congressman in Southern California . " Napalm " Ned gets on stage and name a somewhat irrelevant address about America , freedom , and the share scars that The General ’s army has with the American soldier who campaign in Vietnam . Ned inadvertently starts up a chant as many of the Southern Vietnamese army phallus resist up and salute , which The Captain takes note of but hesitates to participate in . " Napalm " Ned steals the show at The Major ’s female parent ’s company and accidentally scandalise her by present her a military combat tongue , which is apparently a sign of big fortune in Vietnamese culture . “Napalm " Ned meets The Captain at the political party after his speechand does n’t seem very proud of to learn that The Captain is both Vietnamese and French , implying some racist undercurrent of his fictional character .
4The Captain Shoots & Kills The Major With Bon’s Help
After come up with a scheme with Bon and secondly - infer it a few times , The Captain finally gets around to killing The Major . He hold back until the planned fireworks video display fit off in Los Angeles before he makes his move , get with a large fruit as a gift that would before long turn into a weapon . The Captain nervously takes out a humble side arm out of a newspaper bag from that local hamburger joint , realize that it ’s too former to go back on it now . He fights with The Major for a moment , who does n’t understand why he is being targeted , since he ’s not actually the gram molecule . Eventually , Bon do out to aid The Captain end up the line of work , who almost becomes too afraid to go through with it . Tragically , The Captain places the smiley face paper purse over The Major ’s faceso he does n’t have to look at what he ’s done after shooting him several times , killing him instantly .
318 Months Earlier, The Captain Interrogates The Watchman At CIA Safe House
The Sympathizeroften uses flashback and time stick out to help move its account along , and the one in episode 3 reveals the origin of the hard - seethe egg melodic theme that has been suggest at in the late two episode . A year and a half before the event ofThe Sympathizerepisode 3,The Captain was brought into a CIA safe house with Claude in Vietnam to take a feeling at one of their fresh prisoner . The prisoner had been psychologically excruciate by Claude , who played the same country song over and over on repetition for an lengthy menstruum of time . For some understanding , the captive , dub the Watchman , actually enjoy the music . The Captain walks into the interrogation room and arranges to have the Watchman be serve three firmly - boiled eggs , the third of which he chokes on and strain to take his own animation with . The view evince a glimpse of how The Captain was stress to assist the Watchman from revealing any secret information that would expose the Viet Cong .
2Claude Found The Captain’s Coded Message To Man But Believes It Was From The Major
After The Major was killed , a funeral was held in his laurels , during which the General makes a formal speech but really believe that the mole he was await for has been take in care of . afterward , Claude usher The Captain a coded message that he tap , believing that its grounds that The Major was the undercover agent even though it was really the coded content that the Captain has sent to Man . This proves that Man never got the message asking whether The Captain should kill The Major , which is why Man never answered his question . Claude says that the Major was on to the Captain , recall that the message was stand for to ask for authorization for The Major to kill The Captain . Although Claude has it backwards , The Captain avert being exposed .
1Claude Introduces The Captain To Nikos At A Steakhouse Dinner With Ned Godwin & Professor Hammer
The final scene ofThe Sympathizerepisode 3 take in the long - awaited unification of all four of Robert Downey Jr. ’s graphic symbol in the same view . RDJ ’s fourth character , a legendary movie maker key out Nikos , meets with Claude and The Captain at a steakhouseto discus the details of a Vietnam War picture show he has in the whole works . It ’s been speculated that the Nikos character inThe Sympathizeris based on Frances Ford Coppola , the renowned director ofApocalypse Now , which is arguably the good Vietnam War film ever made . The Captain and Nikos itch each other the wrong way when they first meet each other , but the mathematical group ends up indulging in alcohol and other pleasure in a secret way , create one of the most interesting scenes of the series thus far . Professor Hammer and " Napalm " Ned Godwin are at the dinner party as well , setting the stage for more RDJ quality crossovers in future instalment ofThe Sympathizer .
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establish on the novel by Viet Thanh Nuyen , The Sympathizer explores the last day of the Vietnam War through the eyes of a half - Vietnamese , half - Gallic undercover agent serving for the communistic regime . The television set series adaption is set - up as a mini - series and will belike still be framed as a confession from the supporter as they make their way through the war . Photo is of the original novel back .
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Based on the novel by Viet Thanh Nuyen, The Sympathizer explores the last days of the Vietnam War through the eyes of a half-Vietnamese, half-French spy serving for the communist regime. The TV series adaptation is set-up as a mini-series and will likely still be framed as a confession from the protagonist as they make their way through the war. Photo is of the original novel cover.
