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Spoilers follow for the Industry<\/a> season-four finale, \u201cBoth, And,\u201d <\/a>which premiered on HBO on Sunday, March 1.<\/p>\n At the start of Industry\u2019s fourth season, Sir Henry Muck (Kit Harington) is at a low point. The baronet wanders around his castle numb on heroin, reeling from his spectacular flameout as CEO of Lumi and the recent loss of his seat in Parliament. He\u2019s haunted by the memory of discovering his father had killed himself on his 40th birthday, which intensifies as his own 40th birthday looms. He also tries and fails to bat away his shame about not being a present partner to his wife, Yasmin (Marisa Abela). It all culminates in a drug-fueled suicide attempt in episode two, \u201cThe Commander and the Grey Lady,\u201d<\/a> which he abandons at the very last gasp after hallucinating the sound of Yasmin\u2019s voice calling his name. It ends up being the push he needs to get sober and take charge of his life again. At Yasmin\u2019s urging, he meets with Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella<\/a>), founder of the democratized banking (or so it\u2019s marketed) app Tender, takes a new job as its CEO, and dedicates himself to being its public face.<\/p>\n But Henry\u2019s would-be rock bottom appears to have been outfitted with a trapdoor. Tender\u2019s finances, he learns only after investing his family fortune into its stock, are fraudulent, and he\u2019s been positioned to take the fall both publicly and legally for its financial crimes. The company, Whitney tells him, was operating in the interests of Russian state actors who could kill him at any moment to protect their secret. And even his supposed guardian angel, Yasmin, confirms that she conspired with his beloved uncle Alexander to engineer his public downfall in the press \u2014 and that she wants a divorce.<\/p>\n In the midst of all of this, Henry somehow finds a moment of defiance. When Whitney invites him to flee the country together, he hands Henry a passport with a new identity, and the sight of it sends Henry into a rage. \u201cEat my shit, you peasant,\u201d he sneers at Whitney. \u201cI\u2019d rather die as me than run as you.\u201d It might seem like a shallow lease on life to seize in that moment, but for a certain type of aristocrat, Harington explains, status is everything. \u201cHe could have no money left, he could have sold the house, but he\u2019s still got his title,\u201d he explains. \u201cHe\u2019s still Sir Henry Muck. It\u2019s that weird thing in the British class system where it\u2019s not about money, it\u2019s about class.\u201d<\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t exactly set up a blissful ending for his character, but Harington says he\u2019ll be happy to return to watching Industry \u201cpurely as a fan\u201d if it ends up being the last time we see him. Significantly more happy, he believes, than his character, who we last see taking mood stabilizers while fishing on a small boat with his uncle and godfather. \u201cThere\u2019ll always be that fish, and he\u2019ll always go for it,\u201d Harington says. \u201cThat\u2019s in his DNA.\u201d<\/p>\n The finale kicks off with a really intense scene in which Yasmin breaks up with Henry. What do you remember about filming that with Marisa?\u00a0 Henry really clings to Yasmin in that moment, despite her throwing him under the bus, and the fact that he wouldn\u2019t even be in this situation if she hadn\u2019t introduced him to Whitney. After all that, does he still see her as his salvation?\u00a0 The idea of Henry not being able to fully see Yasmin for who she is begs the question: Would Henry think she\u2019s capable of the evil turn she takes next, when she essentially turns herself into a pseudo\u2013Ghislaine Maxwell?\u00a0 Henry has this come-to-Jesus moment on the jet with Whitney when he sees the counterfeit passport Whitney has gotten made for him so they can flee the country together. It\u2019s like he finally remembers he\u2019s an aristocrat and that he never needed any of this to live a life of dignity. What is it about this moment that finally gives him that clarity? That \u201cpeasant\u201d line, specifically, is so contemptuous. Do you think, deep down, Henry has disdain for the idea of living without status? In Henry\u2019s final scene, we see that he\u2019s started to take lithium again after balking against it earlier in the season. Why does he come around on this?\u00a0 My editor pointed out something interesting about the symbolism of that scene: When he\u2019s catching that fish, he needs his godfather, Otto, to hold on to him so he doesn\u2019t fall out of the boat. It\u2019s as if to say that no matter what he does, he needs the privilege of his support system to stabilize him. Is that how you read it?
It was quite emotional. Obviously, we started this relationship in season three, and \u2014 I hope Marisa feels the same \u2014 I really enjoyed that working relationship. We spoke the same kind of language. I don\u2019t think it was written this way, but that\u00a0scene, because he\u2019s just been thrown under the bus by her, could have been another toxic, raging scene. But that was never the plan. The key to them was always, Where can we show their love for each other? Amazingly, even when she tenderly leans in and says, \u201cI don\u2019t love you anymore,\u201d it doesn\u2019t quite make sense, but there\u2019s still love there in a strange way.<\/p>\n
I think he deeply loves her. I think he\u2019s infatuated with her, and he\u2019s blinded by it. It\u2019s interesting you say that he wouldn\u2019t have been in the situation in the first place if not for her. I\u2019d never considered that, but of course. And I think it\u2019s the same in Henry\u2019s head. He wouldn\u2019t consider that. He just loves this woman. But he never listens to her. He doesn\u2019t see her for who she is. It\u2019s some image he\u2019s projected on to her. A clue in that final scene is when he says, \u201cWe were gonna have kids.\u201d And she\u2019s like, \u201cNo, we weren\u2019t!\u201d I use this word all the time with him, but he is so blinkered to things. I think, when he\u2019s on that boat at the very end, he\u2019s thinking about her. I think he misses her.<\/p>\n
As far as I know, he\u2019s not aware that that\u2019s the route she\u2019s taking. But I know that, from earlier in the season, when he\u2019s surrounded by a different level of poison with the Nazi sympathizers, there\u2019s a moral code that Henry does live by. He finds certain things beyond the pale. And I can only assume he would with that.<\/p>\n
Like you said, it\u2019s a moment of enlightenment for him. He even says it: \u201cI\u2019d rather die as me than run as you.\u201d That\u2019s kind of what I mean about how, in some ways, there\u2019s a moral code to him that goes beyond all of this. It\u2019s a weird, twisted, strange moral code where you call someone a \u201cpeasant,\u201d but there\u2019s a line there. And this passport where he\u2019s got to change his name sets him off: No, I\u2019m Henry Muck! That\u2019s everything to me. How dare you? And it\u2019s that that pulls him out of this strange stupor he\u2019s been in.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think he\u2019s ever considered it. He\u2019s not commonfolk, and he never will be. He could have no money left, he could have sold the house, but he\u2019s still got his title. You can\u2019t get rid of that. He\u2019s still Sir Henry Muck. It\u2019s that weird thing in the British class system where it\u2019s not about money, it\u2019s about class. And his class is more important than anything to him at the end of the day. Privately, on a jet plane, he will yell that to some guy when push comes to shove.<\/p>\n
I think he\u2019s left with no choice. Yasmin has told his uncle how addicted to stuff he is. So when\u00a0he comes into the door and falls into the arms of his uncle, and he\u2019s a wreck of a human being again, I think the conversation after that is, \u201cRight, you\u2019re going on lithium. You\u2019re going to stop the drugs. We\u2019re going to hole you up and keep a bodyguard looking over you.\u201d He\u2019s in a padded cell. Also, I think he\u2019s done. I think he\u2019s ready to throw in the towel. I think the important bit in that scene, for me \u2014 I don\u2019t know what happens after, but it was written in a certain way where that is the end\u00a0\u2014 was that it should end with him catching a fish.<\/p>\n
No, to be honest. For me, it was to tell the story that there\u2019ll always be that fish, and he\u2019ll always go for it. That\u2019s in his DNA.<\/p>\n