“The Bear” aims to present the positive power of institutions to catalyze personal change. And in light of what has come immediately before, the outburst raises the question of whether those values Richie has taken as his own are merely masks for disvalue. “The Bear” gives no indication that Richie is a regularly practicing Catholic, although we do see him pray in Season 4. He brings that fruit to the Bear (Carmy’s restaurant), where his very presence is a ballast in the face of Carmy’s volatility. But Richie, and “The Bear,” remind us that the persons we most need and most inspire us exist in and through imperfect institutions, and that grace sees fit to abide in them even in their weakness.