The last time we visited the establishment formerly known as the Original Beef of Chicagoland, in The Bear ’s Season 4 finale , its future appeared to be in doubt. Carmy Berzatto ( Jeremy Allen White ), the visionary chef and co-owner of what was now a fine-dining destination called The Bear, had just dropped a bombshell on its key staffers: He was leaving the restaurant. Syd ( Ayo Edebiri ) and Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) had acquired the skills to run the place on their own. And as he saw it, his exit would both force him to build a life outside the kitchen and save the co-workers he had come to care about from his dysfunction. By extension, it would presumably relegate Carmy, the show’s protagonist—and a man whose depressive brooding evidently fascinated the writers for far longer than it did most viewers —to a less prominent role in the series. Considering how much richer some of the supporting characters' storylines had turned out to be, it seemed like a promising direction.…