Season Three Episode Four: The Dads Who Stepped Up

We regret to inform you that Yo has replaced Boo Boo with white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Nate, Drew and Tom have adopted some grown men. Are Drew and his new son Di Di moving into Brie Larson's house? Plus, we review the first bad episode of Season 3.

## Episode Summary

Our hosts are on better terms with one another than they have been at any other point in CC(E) history.

After being adopted in season 2, the boys have now adopted sons of their own! This truly is the Podcast that's done-it-all!

Tom's son eats a very regulated diet of smooth food, hush. He's also got a mouth like a shark. Drew's son will die if he eats a single piece of lettuce. Despite this fear of plants, he's got quite the appetite. He drinks gallons of syrup which has made him shredded, and his body actually gives off heat. Nate's son is very inquisitive and godly, but may have some issues when it comes to interacting with others.

Fatherhood (and in Drew’s case, boyfriendhood) has really mellowed the trio out. They’ve grown so complacent that they’ve even resorted to bothsidsing the Damon/Clayne split. How far we’ve come in just three seasons!

### Lethal Weapon episode recap

Hanni's brother Rafi is in LA and the CIA is paying for everything. Cole is really sad for causing Hanni's death and mopes the entire episode while stalking Rafi. RJ wants to go to Costa Rica to learn how to make coffee. Leo is back and he has a true-crime podcast, and gets heavily involved in the case, which is about several potential murderers, and a serial killer pulling strings from behind bars - where Murtaugh put him! Turns out the killer was a guy who the original serial killer groomed! Lots of ins and outs on this case, in the end it was a big conspiracy by the DA but thanks to KRahm's help they solve it all and save the day, and everyone is happy. Even Cole and Rafi are watching a Rock movie together, their favorite actor.

Some guy gets done hooking up with a lady who looks not pleased at all. He leaves and instantly starts looking at women on a dating app. On the way out, he shows a girls picture to a stranger in the elevator, who then kills him using a double bladed garnish knife without saying a word.
Cut to Cole (SWS) watching Central Intelligence. Not only is this the movie Hani was selling back in Iraq, it’s also the movie Marcus, RJ’s friend and gang prospect was selling in the barber shop way back in episode 4 of season 1! What a throwback. Anyway Cole is watching it and taking notes, when he gets reminded of his first run in with Hani.
Back in Iraq, Cole was scopin’ out some bad guys when a 9 year old boy came into the internet café he was in to sell bootleg DVDs, among them Central Intelligence. He does this all in English. He has bad-ass action movies, if they’re not bad-ass, you get your money back! Then Hani’s brother Rafi comes in and tells him not to interact with the American, but he does anyway. Hani says he can offer him information, like that the bad guys he’s been watching planted a bomb on his car!
Turns out it was correct, and Cole survives.
Back in present day L.A., Cole awakens to his car all smashed up. But instead of stealing something, the perpetrator left a check inside – made out to Rafi from Cole.
Then we get some boring RJ subplot (MMM), he wants to go to Costa Rica to get trained in the coffee trade as an apprentice. Murtaugh shoots him down like a dummy. He signed the paperwork though and is determined to go.
At the crime scene Roger is in a foul mood and throws away Scorsese’s coffee. Cole arrives and plays down his bashed-up car.
The victim was killed in the same way several others were 10 years ago, by a serial killer who targeted womanizers. Even the murder weapon was the same, even though that info never was released to the public. Murtaugh put away this Dan Harrison back then, but just then fan favorite Leo Getz (Thomas Lennon) shows up. He cozies up to Cole who isn’t having any of it. Leo also whips out a pocket recorder as he’s apparently got a true crime podcast now.
They head back to the station, where Cole sees Rafi being booked! He tries to intervene, but Rafi says he’s just trying to pay him off to clear his conscience because he caused Hani’s death. He tells Cole to leave him alone and insists on being arrested.
In Avery’s office, KRahm Murtaugh and Leo are listening to the episode of Leo's podcast that covers the killer. Avery is still the captain even though everyone thought he was gonna become the mayor. Oh well. Then ADA Turner (Jason Manuel Olazabal), who worked with Murtaugh to put away the killer 10 years ago, storms in and complains that Murtaugh may have given him the wrong guy. Avery suggests a “grooming theory”. Even Cole says copycat killer once but they keep referring to it as grooming.
Leo asks Trish for help to look at the case files of the Dan Harrison case, which she reluctantly does. Then he goes to interview Jacob Porter (William Mapother), a prison guard who worked Harrison’s cell block for 9 years, where Leo promptly gets held hostage. But luckily Cole and Murtaugh also decide to go see Porter, so they show up in time to save Leo. Porter has dun dun DUNNN a *double bladed garnish knife* to Leo’s throat. Cole lowers his gun, only then to throw a knife through the Porters hand, and he screams in agony as the blade pierces through his hand, giving them a chance to apprehend him. Sadly, Leo wasn’t recording this whole time so he asks them if they would do another take. Great stuff.
And that’s the last we see or hear of Porter. Leo even found a bloody glove in the trash, but this guy is never mentioned again. Anyway, back at the station they never even interview him, Murtaugh just watches some old interrogation videos of Harrison and whines to Cole. It's not explicitly mentioned but we're led to believe Porter was the killer from the opening scene.
At some point, RJ makes Trish coffee and she is super supportive of his dream of going to Costa Rica, so she asks if he needs any help. But the only thing he can think of asking her for is his fathers approval. This is suddenly like a Shakespearean or Greek Play. Damn RJ you’re so cool.
Then Leo shows up - unannounced, on Saturday, in a Hawaiian shirt. Trish has found some glaring holes in the Harris case, and they head to the station to let everyone know. Cole has narrowed down the suspects to two brothers who own a cleaning company. The very same company’s van was seen speeding away from a crime scene during the Harrison murders. Bingo!
They speed over to Northern Valley Sanitation, the Orasco brothers’ company, and Cole using his expert CIA detective skills and jelly donuts deduces that there’s a safe with something hidden related to the murders, where they find out ADA Turner’s name was all over the notes.
Murtaugh happens to be in Turner’s office just that moment, where he confesses that he made a mistake and may have arrested the wrong guy. Turner then says Murtaugh’s problem is he’s “just too good of a cop”. Wonder who wrote that line. The Orasco brothers show up with guns and Murtaugh realizes Turner was behind at least one of the murders Harrison was charged with. Then they all head to the roof of this skyscraper.
The plan is to push Murtaugh to his death, but luckily Cole and Avery show up to rescue them. One guy falls off the roof, and Roger almost falls but holds on to a Rope, which Cole quickly grabs ahold of. Despite his hands bleeding from the friction, he holds on as long as he can. In the background, the other brother gets shot and Turner surrenders. Unfortunately, the hook holding the rope Roger is dangling from breaks, making you think what it was even there for in the first place and sending Roger and Cole hurtling towards their death.
Luckily, the fire department arrived by now and placed a large air mattress thing on the ground below, and they survive mostly unscathed. Cole even asks if he can do it again! Presumably right after that, the very same day, they wrap everything up in the station. Cole has both his hands bandaged and bonds with Roger in the break room over a bag of potato chips.
RJ is all packed up and ready to go to Costa Rica, but just when the cab arrives, he realizes he can’t go – because his passport expired last week. God RJ you fucking idiot. We almost got rid of him!
The episode ends with Cole walking out of a movie theatre playing Rampage featuring Dwayne THE ROCK Johnson. Rafi also happens to walk out, and they talk about how Hani would have loved this movie and liked it in L.A. Then Cole mentions he understands why Rafi smashed up his car, and how he sometimes also feels like doing the same. They walk to his new car, which he then proceeds to smash up with a crowbar, laughing about it because “he has the insurance”.
When he unlocks the doors with his keychain however, the car 2 spaces over beeps. Oh no, he smashed up the wrong car!
Har har the end.

## The Leftist Angle

FBI is the rightest, CIA is the leftest.

They have litterboxes in the schools in America so the kids have somewhere to do their business when they are locked in their classrooms during school shootings. Canadians wouldn't understand.

## AMPDate/CCEUpdate

Untitled Drew Powell x Josh Gad project coming soon.

Drew and DP are going to collaborate to make some kind of crazy music. Their first show will be a River Phoenix Tribute at the Viper Room. It's gonna be a 50 Gallon Show!

## Notable Quotes

### Drew aka Big Stinger

* "I **am** speaking into the mic, dumbass."
* "Sit him in front of the TV he's gonna be fine."
* "Leave Tommy Tupperman out of this."

### Nate

* "Do you need a singer?"
* "I gotta say...we're glowin' up these days, boys."
* "We love RJ though!"

### Tom aka TommyTopG31

* "We're not the stepfathers, we're the fathers that stepped in. Or stepped up. Whichever one it is."
* "Don't call me Papa."
* "My son will destroy both of your sons."

## Trivia

Drew and Bri-Bri have been coined "Brew" by the Hollywood press. Wow, they sure are moving fast!

## Freaky Figures

This is the fifth episode that came out during season 3, but last week was Alpha D and Alpha N's Alpha Podcast, so it didn't count and this is episode 4.

## Clayne-foreCasting

AlphaDNA will review *Jakers* for the Patreon.

The Pod will pivot into a parenting podcast.