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Episode 14: You're An Emotional Terrorist Riggs

## Episode Summary

The seal is broken on Episode 13. Like its corresponding Lethal Weapon episode, it is dominated by themes of big news and bad decisions. Freak is further documented and normalized as a term of endearment.

### Lethal Weapon Episode Recap:

Episode Title: The seal is broken

This episode starts with an erotic entanglement. A married man is fooling around with a scantily clad woman (who is not his wife). When they’re done he pays her and she leaves, but shortly after someone knocks on the hotel room’s door. He thinks she forgot something but when he opens the door suddenly gets pulled off screen by an unknown assailant.

Cut to Murtaugh making himself a midnight snack, a turkey sandwich with high-fat mayo. He’s so happy he’s singing a song about it, but gets caught off guard when a young woman walks in and finishes his song. He thinks it’s one of Rianas friends but RJ comes running in (to everyones dismay) we find out he was “doing something” with this girl, called Feather. Roger tells RJ he’s grounded and sends him to his room, but then smirks at his sons romantic conquests.

Riggs on the other hand regains consciousness on the floor of his trailer when a woman greets him. He is shocked by this, tells her not to drink the Orange juice in his fridge and then **absolutely storms out of there** (in his boxers).

Shortly after, Roger meets Riggs at the crime scene. Roger comes in and says something about *his boy gettin’ some last night*, so Riggs thinks he’s talking about him. Roger tells him about “Feather” and how RJ inherited his charm with the ladies (my god). When he sees that Riggs isn’t wearing pants, he says “oh so it’s gonna be that kind of a day.” And we realize it’s gonna be that kind of an episode.

Unsurprisingly, Sonya has information about the victim, Dale Reynolds. He appears to have died from an accidental heroin Overdose, but Scorsese is also here and says it looks suspicious, staged even. Riggs finds a ring tucked away in the victims coat, and they conclude he was having an affair. This triggers flashbacks for Riggs, who remembers bits and pieces of his own adultery last night. He drinks a little bottle of clear liquor and storms into the bathroom to puke. When he comes back out it’s revealed that the victim had the word “Sinner” carved into his back.

Back at the station, Ronnie Delgado is waiting for Avery in his office. That can’t be good. He wants to talk about Riggs. Ronnie is after all Riggs’ father-in-law and the city attorney. So he definitely has time to check up on Riggs. Avery lies and says everything is fine with Riggs, who at that point walks in with Roger (still in his boxers/swim trunks). He hides from Ronnie and Roger ends up telling Ronnie that Riggs is probably doing paperwork, because he *loves* to do paperwork.

Riggs is hiding in the break room eating chips from under the vending machine, when Cahill comes in and shows concern. Is this a cry for help? He asks her for some money to buy lunch and yoinks 10 bucks out of her hand.

Later that day they’re interviewing the dead guys wife. She says he had no enemies, but one time someone threw a brick through their window. Her husband got a restraining order, against a construction worker named Ben Garvey as we find out.

They show up at a construction site (which might actually just be the rave-set from the Owlsly episode being turned into a set for the next episode) but when they confront the Garvey he runs. These last few episodes have really been cranking up the slapstick and this one is no different. A chase ensues, and the Suspect bumps into seemingly every other person on the construction site, knocking over ladders and tools. Finally Riggs leaps at him and Murtaugh and the three of them crash through a tarp, out of the building and fall several stories into a crate of nails.

Miraculously, they survived unharmed, aside from some the Nails in their asses. They interrogate Garvey but he has an alibi for the murder night: Church! They go there to find out more. ***Note***: Any scenes inside the church featuring Damon Wayans were actually shot on a sound stage because he’s a Jehovah's Witness so he can’t enter another place of worship. As we’ll find out eventually on the Drama episodes of ClayneCast, Clayne Crawford revealed that Damon didn’t bother to read the script sometimes. So he didn’t even know there was a church scene. On some days he would just go home (presumably to arrange his fedora collection), so they had to shoot his scenes with a stunt double/stand in - which can clearly be seen in the big wide shots, due to their size difference.

Anyway, Roger goes to call Bailey or something and Riggs talks to the Pastor, Father Patterson (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine), who says Garvey was there and there’s a livestream VOD from mass where he can be seen. So Garvey didn’t do it. But then Riggs gets a text message from Murtaugh, who he has saved in his phone as **“Murt-dawg**”, saying they found the killers van.

They drive to the location, instantly shoot out the van's tires, and find “Sinner” scrawled in blood on the inside. Somehow Riggs notices a pile of loose dirt in front of the van and begins to dig. Roger helps and they discover a makeshift coffin, which Clayne just punches through. Inside a woman lies seemingly deceased - but then suddenly gasps for air.

Riggs goes home to his trailer and has another flashback to last night. He met the woman in a bar, in fact, she was a bartender. She gave him free liquor and they wound up going home together. Drunk Riggs, what a catch.

The Murtaughs have a much different dinner, arguing with RJ as he wants to ditch his plans for Princeton and go WOOFing instead (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms). Suddenly Riggs shoes up and joins them for dinner. He starts unloading several big and small bottles of liquor. He ends up on the couch, with Roger tucking him in. Just before he passes out, Riggs confesses about cheating on his dead wife, but won’t talk about it any further with Roger.

The next day the woman they dug up, Valerie Rausch, is doing better. She was a social coordinator at an old folks home, where Cruz and Bailey drive to check. Suddenly a “Sweet-faced old lady” (and that’s what IMDB says) (Judy Jean Berns) pulls Cruz aside and asks if he’s a Mexican. She then whispers something about Valerie being an “angel of death”, who smothered people in the home to death for their life insurance. They not only find out Valerie herself was smothered, but that she went to the same church Garvey went to. Bingo.

They’re back at the church, but father Patterson still won’t tell them anything. They decide to investigate the confessional and while Murtaugh is basically confessing to being a big nerd, Clayne discovers a microphone! Someone was spying on the confessions! He follows the cable to a back room, where father Patterson unlocks a maintenance room for them. It’s where Reuben, the Gardener/Volunteer keeps tools and stuff, but once inside they see a spooky collection of pictures of the victims, candles and newspaper clippings. Tom describes it accurately as a teenagers idea of a scary serial killer room.

They go back to the station where finally Ronnie traps Riggs in the break room. He asks him where he was on Friday, the one year anniversary of Mirandas death (Riggs’ wife)(who he cheated on, on Friday). Ronnie tells him very emotionally that he can keep being a drunk fuckup – that’s his choice – but he mustn’t blame it on his wife’s death.

Sonya has put a BOLO out on Reubens van, and in Avery's office she and Murtaugh go over his rap sheet. He was an orphan who grew up in the church, his father was an alcoholic who beat his mom. Father Patterson *forgave* his father though and in doing so enabled his mothers abuse. Suddenly, Sonya gets a call: father Patterson is missing.

Reuben has the priest tied up in the apartment where his mother died and is beating him with a belt. Riggs and Murtaugh, no one else, head over there to confront this serial killer who has a hostage. That’s probably protocol?

They arrive to find father Patterson still alive but Reuben is gone. Riggs chases after him to the roof, where Reuben is standing on the edge. He wants to “go with god” and jump to his death, but Riggs for some reason tells him not to. He lunges forward to grasp him, but Reuben is faster and jumps to his death. Riggs breaks through the railing and is now dangling from a thin piece of metal railing. Luckily, Roger shoes up to save him but Riggs tells him to let him fall, even goes so far as punching Roger. Murtaugh’s trying his best to pull him up but eventually they both slide off the edge and appear to fall to their death. Oh no!

Luckily, they land in a Tree! And it’s played for laughs as Reubens blood and guts spill out onto the sidewalk.

Roger confesses to Avery what happened and Riggs meets with Ronnie in a bar but drinks only club soda! Ronnie for some reason wants to keep Riggs in his family but Riggs tells him to forget about him and leaves.

The Murtaughs are browsing their Microsoft Surface, the perfect 2-in-1-PC, when RJ comes in and says Feather broke up with him to study glacier melt in Greenland. She’s so flighty...

Riggs suddenly shows up and delivers an UNOPENED bottle of whiskey for Roger. Wow!

The episode ends with a family dinner presumably.

Rating: Se7en / Ten.

## The Leftist Angle

This is a socialist podcast/money-making machine about cops. Therefore, don't tell anyone Nate has been recording from the moon. Note that ClayneCast is not leftist enough to attempt sustained silent podcasting a la Globe Hell Warning -- only enough to regularly include dead air.

All prostitution--nay, all sex work--should be legalized. As long as its consensual, drunken affairs are okay.

The criminal in this Lethal Weapon is anti-safe supply. If he was in Knoxville, he would've found some Narcan.

Drew says strawpeople rights.

## AMPDate

This week, you could say Nate had his very own AMPDate (as he does once a week) with JGL and Bobby Bullets (AKA Logic AKA Bobby Tarantino AKA Young Sinatra). JGL, who's very into the script, had the most brilliant idea of all time while on his phone the whole entire time: that is, a meta, mocumentary-style movie about the making of the AMP movie. It would depict our hosts as they are now, with all their scriptworthy dialogue, dead air and audio issues. BB suggested our hosts should recast themselves with a little more color. For example, Steve Urkel could play Drew. JGL may direct in addition to starring in it.

There will be an AMP TV episode where Ozzy Osborne is in the Brad Pitt role.

## Notable Quotes

### Nate

* "I am what they call enlightened in life."
* "What what what whatwhatwhatwhatwhat?"
* "I love drinking probably more than anyone in the whole world. Ever. But I know when to stop, okay?"
* "You have one of my favorite speaking voices of all time." (to Drew)
* "Sometimes you gotta go down to go up."
* "*Shaaronnn! Shaaaaron....what's in the Boooox!?*" (as Ozzy Osborne as Brad Pitt in se7en)
* "Dry January makes you do crazy things, boys."

### Tom

* "If Starbucks sold Heroin at the counter and coffee at the bathroom, he would've been fine."
* "I'm glad we are introduced to these characters and then they go away immediately."
* "I'm the Clayne."
* "Nate just has Kevin Spacey vibes."

### Drew

* "First of all, I am white, Nate."
* "If we wanna play behind the beat, we'll play behind the beat."
* "Steve Urkel's a badass."
* "Popsters always have the best road stories."

## Freaky Figures

* If you click on the previous/next episode link on Keith's Lethal Weapon reviews, it will indeed open that page, but the URL will (for some miraculous reason) include 297 backslashes (as calculated by Tom).
* In this episode, Nate says he has "big news" a total of four times.
* Drew estimates that Nate has brought up Dry January about 300 times.

## Trivia

* The title of this episode of ClayneCast was **///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////**, a homage to Keiths way of linking to the previous episode on his site. The URL for some reason has 297 backslashes in it. It doesn't really matter as long as the link works! The original title was released with 297 / (backslash) symbols, but due to certain internet constraints, it may appear as "///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////" in certain URLs or links (Disregard the quotation marks).
* Some listeners care about Nate's upcoming gaming PC.
* 50 Cent does, in fact, have nothing on Nate.

## Clayne-foreCasting

McG will give the pod $300,000 for the custom Clayne Funko.