Episode 17: Andy Dick's Many Crimes

Drew fucked up his audio so bad this week that he's barely audible. Haha an improvement ;). The boys discuss Gideion Lyon, the final nails in the coffin of AMP are nailed in (or are they ;)) and we learn about Andy Dick.

## Episode Summary

Lethal is back, and so are Claynecast’s audio issues. This time, Drew is the culprit. Meanwhile, at age 39, Nate is still working on his counting skills. He's practicing by counting the number of cop villains in Lethal Weapon the TV series. It seems that last week’s lesson in object permanence went to waste. As proven by his Jetta/stick shift anecdote, he's at least already matured past the point of whining. Oh yeah and Tom has been possessed by a demon.

### Lethal Weapon episode recap

A woman with a child almost gets abducted by a scruffy lookin’ guy (who has an ‘abduct a mother with her baby’-face), but just as he’s about to shoot her, she whips a gun out of her baby bag and pops him in the face! She grabs the baby and is about to escape but a van pulls up and presumably kidnaps her.

Sex Sells so we cut to Martin Riggs who wakes up yet again in a sexual entanglement with beautiful DEA Agent Karen Palmer (aka that lady), but she gets a call on her secret second cell phone about a meeting with an informant – a meeting she can’t miss. This means that their sultry weekend plans are cancelled. On the way out, Riggs sees Palmer talking to the informant (Yet another scruffy looking man, played by Frank Trigg aka a big bald guy).

Trish gets a job offer from a some incredibly wealthy guy, a certain Guillermo Azoulay, who sends the Murtaughs a massive gift basket and also has a private Jet!

Jim McNeil (Andrew Patrick Ralston, APR) makes a comeback as the dentist-neighbor, and flaunts his newly restored **1966 cherry red Ford mustang convertible (limited edition)** – but complains about the Murtaughs palm tree dropping fruit on the car. Roger doesn’t care and drives off. He’s pissed. He has that exact car as his phone background. It's his dream car! How the fuck does APR know??

   Anyway, Roger and Riggs arrive at a crime scene, it’s a busy highway, with a dead guy hanging from an overpass with a trash bag covering his head. They cut the corpse down and when Bailey pulls the bag off its head, Riggs recognizes the victim as the same informant Palmer met with earlier!

Meanwhile, Trish is having a job interview at 30.000 feet! In Guillermo’s private jet! Played by Carlo Rota, he's an ex client of hers and the rich guy who offered her the job. She tries to decline, but he slides her a blank piece of paper as a job offer. *Huhhhh*? He says she can name her conditions, salary, schedule, whatever - because: she’s worth it. He is 100% right!! Keesha Sharp (Trish) is an award winning actress and we should all feel graced by her presence.

At the morgue, Roger tells Riggs that the fingerprints came back for a CARLOS GONZALEZ. Mucho original. He was a low-level foot soldier in the Flores cartel (that is *THE* Cartel). They decide to check on Palmer but nobody can reach her. They check her office, but the security guard/front desk guy at the DEA office won’t let them in because they’re not *in the system*! Riggs manages to sneak in anyway and finds some receipts – for a locksmith. The locks got changed at Karen’s house, which gives them her address! By now the door guard has caught on to Riggs’ ploy and kicks them out.

They drive to her address, but since Riggs is a huge POS, he knows nothing about her, he doesn’t realize the place they’re at isn’t her place, it’s a DEA safehouse! It’s empty, but Riggs just happens to finds her phone under the oven and Roger discovers some bloody handcuffs, which shock them. It appears Palmer and Maria (and the child) have been kidnapped, so they storm back to Police HQ.

There, the DEA security guard from before turns out to be *agent* Larry Chappel (Ned Vaughn). He's also in charge of the whole investigation, apparently (we all know the DEA is stretched thin, so they just have Palmer and this one guy doing everything). He's no David Caruso. He's also not a Jan-Michael Vincent. But Nate calls him an all-time-cast member. In the meeting room the entire cast has gathered, and Chappel briefs them on the person who likely kidnapped Maria and Karen. It's some ex-CIA guy named **Gideon Lyon** (Matt Passmore), who now works for the Cartel and just *loves* to torture people. Like really brutally. Oh, and he’s been in town for a few days. When Riggs learns this he totally flips out, and when Chappel tells him to calm down because his "girlfriend" is already likely dead, he punches him! Ronnie Delgado (Riggs’ father-in-law, and the city attorney) has all the time in the world and has also joined the meeting. He yells “*MARTIN*!” and later suspends Riggs.

A freshly suspended Riggs stomps into Cahills’s office and wants to use her credentials to access the police database, but she denies him of course, but says to meet her in the parking garage, maybe level *D*. Weird, but he goes to level D, only to find *dun dun dunnnn* *Murtaugh*! He tells Riggs that he is allowed to talk to him, but then proceeds to tell him all about the case and gives him a gun! Great work Roger. Putting that Princeton education to good use!

Bailey hacked Palmer’s phone and found all the information they need. Roger didn’t know until today that Ronnie was Miranda's dad aka the City Attorney. Riggs never told him. Miranda was his dead wife who was killed by a huge truck in case anybody has forgotten. They just happen to drive past a random motel where the same van from evidence photos just happens to be parked. They check the Motel find the right room immediately and barge in to find…Palmer! …and the Woman from before, Maria, with the baby. But not just any baby…*Tito Flores*’ baby! We all remember him from episode 9 where Captain Avery referred to his nephew as *Eddie freakin' Flores,* who was shot by Tito at the end of that episode! She tried to escape from the cartel which is why they're out to kill her.

Just as they realize what’s going on, Gideon shows up with a rocket launcher and demands the baby back. A shootout ensues, and Gideon is bored and waits for the initial gunfire to die down, then as our heroes escape out the back window (with the baby) he shoots a Rocket straight into their room!

But sure, they escaped all that unharmed. They figure someone must have informed the cartel about her whereabouts - a mole!

Riggs lures Palmer into his trailer somehow to compare gun sizes or whatever. He has a stockpile of guns and ammo, so Ronnie taking away his one little pistol is kind of cute. Before they do the horizontal polka, she sees picture of Miranda and asks if that's his wife. He says u-huh and hands her a gun and changes the subject, like the emotional terrorist he is.

Maria has doubts but Murtaugh brings her to his mansion and assures her that hims and Palmer have a great plan. The plan of course is not great. They use Roger as bait while Clayne lies in wait with the big ass sniper rifle he always has handy.

The Cartel guys show up, but immediately see it's a trap and leave. Somehow they knew Murtaugh didn’t have the baby. Turns out, Maria called Tito and double crossed them! She knocks out Palmer and escapes!

I’d like to nominate Bailey for an Emmy, because she and Avery find out Agent Chappel has been the mole! Oh wow, that’s *craaaazy*! Never saw that coming! Him? Riggs and Murtaugh head to some immigration office where Maria has arranged to meet Tito to hand over the baby. Gideon’s there, perched up high in the buildings ceiling structure with a sniper rifle, scopin’ the scene. Some henchmen meet Maria and try to take her baby, and a scuffle breaks out.

Roger says he feels bulletproof, the stroller starts rolling and Gideon starts firing, but misses all shots. Eventually he has Murtaugh in his crosshairs, but Riggs shoots a cable holding up a billboard which snaps and the billboard swings down, preventing the Murtaugh headshot. Then Murtaugh shoots a henchman and Riggs slides on his stomach to save the stroller with Tito’s Son from falling down the escalator.

Gideon escapes but on the street, Palmer shows up in APR’s 'stang and runs him over using the good old *vehicle as a weapon* trope. Riggs cuffs him and the good guys won and somehow Maria is not punished?

APR mopes about his dented car.

The Murtaughs are a happy family, Trish took Riana to Vegas in the private jet. She goes to “insta her loot” and Roger and Trish talk about their relationship and put us all to sleep. Hey at least RJ didn't show up.

Back in the station, Ronnie gives Riggs his badge and gun back and tells him he approves of him dating Karen lol.

Riggs loads his gun and leaves. Then he asks Palmer out for dinner. It’s a date!

Back at her desk however, she gets a file that has a picture of Miranda in it. She recognized her in Riggs’ trailer. The case file had to do with Gideon. At dinner, she tells Riggs Miranda’s death wasn’t an accident. **Dun dun *dunnnn*!** Then she just leaves him in the restaurant and the episode ends.

Overall, this episode steered the show back in the right direction after some of the worst episodes ever. The show is back, Claynecast is back, AMP is back. We're going! What’s with the Bluetooth headsets? More Microsoft sponsorships/product placements? Gideon and Murtaugh both use them. Cruz has been MIA since the church episode, presumably he was cancelled after not recording the Cameo for Nate.

A roaring 8/10. Let’s see Riggs take on the Cartel!!!

## The Leftist Angle

A woman who has a kid with someone else can stay with a male savior/kidnapper she's not married to if he's keeping her out of harm's way. The savior/kidnapper can still love his wife in this case too.

Given their repeated portrayal of cops as bad guys, it seems that Lethal Weapon recognizes ACAB.

## AMPdate

AMP = $$$

AMP is not dead.

The Sweaty biopic is also still being worked on, with Johnny.

Nate, Ozzy and Johnny have formed a jam-band called **The Junkettes**. Drew Powell might join. They're still looking for at least one drummer.

## Notable Quotes

### Tom

* "Hola. Cómo estás, Nate?"
* "Don't mention Keith Ryan."

### Drew

* "We are creating our own Keithlovesmovies."
* "I'm a sexual guy." (proudly)

### Nate

* "We all get it, I'm a little bean, whose dog bit his dick off."
* "Pick a part, any part, I'll grope it."
* "Like the guy on the YouTube."
* "There's got to be a better way to fucking write this shit!"

## The ClayneClandestine

Captain Avery is Gay. We found this out briefly in an early episode already but it's good they reiterate it. Inclusive show!

## Trivia

* At 26:45 we hear a windows error sound, it's not you don't worry!
* ADHD is a drug.
* Nate has a smart water bottle that reminds him to drink and gives him motivational messages.
* We haven't seen Cruz for 4 episodes (Nate is correct, Tom wasn't sure).

## Freaky Figures

This is the first episode to breach the 1 hour mark since episode 14, but only the second longest episode of all. The longest is currently episode 9: DP in the Drewniverse!

Jan-Michael Vincent died February 10th, 2019.

We need to get the person tracking Nate's birthday to add a countdown here or something.

## Clayne-foreCasting

Dickheads, an Andy Dick inspired NFT/podcast is gonna take off, to the moon!

This wiki will become the most comprehensive and detailed lethal weapon site and/or Tom can do a 10 minute dictation, an Andy Dicktation, after the hosts finish watching the show and quickly recap the episode for the other two hosts.