Episode 15: Vicious

We had a really hard time staying on topic! American Monty Python is on ice again, interest in the Jamie Sweaty biopic is heating up and we recapped an episode of Lethal Weapon.

## Vicious

### Previous episode:

Episode 14: You're An Emotional Terrorist Riggs

## Episode Summary

Nate, Tom and Drew do everything they can to avoid talking about Lethal Weapon S1E15, including plotting out the future of the Jamie Sweaty biopic, fanboying over The Hollywood Vampires and gazing up Baby Yoda's bussy. That said, the gang agrees that S1E15 is a fine episode. Our hosts are just capable of more than Lethal Weapon commentary. They're multifaceted.

### Lethal Weapon episode recap

Episode 15: "As Good As It Getz"

Another episode about the Cartel without Cruz. Karen Palmer is back. You don't need to be a genius like Scorsese to realize there's *something* there!

This episode starts in a donut shop. As *careless whisper* plays on the radio, attorney Leo Getz (Thomas Lennon!) sits in a booth with his client, a Mexican cartel member, across from a DEA Agent. Aside from them and the Shopkeeper sweeping the floor, the place is empty. It’s 5:00 AM!

They agree to a very bad deal for the client, and Getz goes to freshen up in the bathroom. Suddenly gunfire erupts and he cowers and winces until it ends. Tires squeal and when Getz comes out of the Bathroom, everyone’s been shot dead! He grabs his briefcase and tiptoes outside.

Naturally, the next scene is breakfast at the Murtaughs. Trish is up for a big promotion and wants to buy an expensive pool, but roger isn’t so sure. He would rather put it in their retirement fund.

Afterwards he shows up at the crime scene with Riggs. Scorsese, or *Scorsizzle* as Roger calls him, is there because he’s not only a mortician but also a CSI guy. He tells them it was a double motorcycle drive-by shooting, and – based on the bullet trajectories which he has already analyzed - the target seems to have been not Agent Zigman, but the Cartel guy, Flaco Ruiz!

Then none other than the beautiful DEA Agent Karen Palmer (Hilarie Burton) walks in! We all remember her from episode 7, in which Riggs crashed his car into hers to save her life. She notices that Riggs isn’t drunk for a change and says sobriety becomes him. She was supposed to be there to negotiate the deal with Ruiz instead of Zigman but got called away at the last minute. Lucky for her!

Then Scorsese mentions a series of footprints. There was a fourth person at the scene! As they follow them outside, Scorsese notes some “not unsexual tension” between Clayne and Karen. Good grief.

The footprints end in the parking lot, and they deduce their suspect left in a car. They shake down a homeless lady across the street and she points out their man: LEO GETZ - literally pointing to a huge advertisement of his on the side of a bus. It’s a giant picture of his weaselly visage, and in large letters next to it reads "Leo Getz you off!”

They convene in Avery’s office to discuss their next move, but Karen is being a Karen and refusing to give them any information about the victim. But in classic Lethal Weapon fashion, Riggs simply asks again, and she gives them the info.

Ruiz was gonna testify about a “major player” in the Flores Cartel (*THE* Cartel) and somehow, again, she’s the only DEA agent in L.A. and the only one who can stop them. Murtaugh then also says he can sense a “thing” between them, he can *smell* it! Karen reveals that she asked Riggs out, but he said no – so this is strictly professional!

Getz is an ambulance chasing lowlife lawyer, so they check recent accidents and go to a hospital, finding him (presumably at the first place they look). They try to interview him, but he tells them nothing and they’re forced to let him walk. Clayne decides to use him as bait for the Cartel, to which Mister goody-two-shoes Roger just agrees!

The plan works when Getz goes straight to a Taco stand where he demands a call with the Cartels boss - and a Taco. The clerk, Pablo, is a cartel member and knows Getz because he also was his lawyer, but tries to shoo him away. Riggs and Murtaugh are watching all this from their car, when suddenly Palmer shows up! She starts arresting Getz, and they’re forced to intervene. While the four of them argue about their next move, a group of cartel bikers show up and shoot at them with submachine guns before speeding off. Miraculously, no one on the busy sidewalk is killed or even injured.

They’re back in the Station, bickering about the chaos that just occurred - It almost feels like we’re in the middle of a ClayneCast episode! Eventually Karen tells them who this major player is that somehow only she can stop: a cartel member known only as “The Architect” who oversaw all the smuggling operations in L.A.

Riggs and Murtaugh interrogate Getz but again he doesn’t really give them anything. Then they check in on the Taco clerk, Pablo. Riggs comes in saying “*Pablo, Honey*!” and they pressure him for information. He doesn’t know who the architect is but *does* know that everyone in the Cartel is super pissed about the Donut shop screw up. The DEA Agent there wasn’t the target, it was Palmer!

Riggs calls to warn her but it’s too late. She’s just arrived outside the Station as two gunmen approach and begin to fire. These assassins have fully automatic weapons, a clear shot, at close range, and there’s TWO of them – yet Palmer somehow survives because she was wearing a bulletproof vest! Riggs and Murtaugh storm outside and they're able to catch one of the Shooters.

Riggs and Karen interrogate him to figure out more about the donut shop massacre and learn it had something to do with Palmers investigation - she was getting closer to the Architect. Roger then goes home to find out Trish quit her job because she didn’t get the promotion, which troubles him. He is worried about money, not Trish’s well-being. He has also brought Leo Getz to their house in lieu of witness protection, and Leo congratulates Trish for quitting her Job.

It's getting late and as Clayne and Karen are going through some files to narrow down who the Architect could be, the topic of dinner comes up. She says she doesn’t eat out of vending machines, so Clayne gets takeout. But by the time it gets there, she’s fallen asleep, and he covers her up with his disgusting jacket. Aww.

Next day, Roger comes in and they figure out which company the Architect was working for. Palmer urges them to wait for her to get a warrant before they kick the door in, so Roger and Riggs head there and wait. Except Riggs wants to go to the guys office on the 16th floor and kick the door in. Murtaugh objects but when the elevator comes, the man they were looking for is lying dead inside, with a huge bloody gash across his neck! Roger is not phased by this at all. Emotionless he holds up his phone showing a picture of the deceased and confirms: it’s the guy they were looking for. Man has no tact!

Karen is on the way when she gets abducted by two men dressed as EMTs. Getz sees this and chases after them. He calls Murtaugh and Riggs to inform them, and they just run off in pursuit of Getz/Palmer, leaving the bloody corpse in the elevator.

Getz has followed them to a rest stop, where a helicopter lands to take Palmer to her certain death. Just as he gets found by a cartel member and is about to be shot, Murtaugh shows up and saves him by killing the gunman with his car (a very common way to die in Lethal Weapon), and Riggs chases after Palmer. He rolls out of the moving car, grabs on to the bottom of the helicopter and somehow punches the guy holding Karen. As the guard falls to his death, Riggs shoots the pilot. The chopper barrels toward the ground, and Riggs and Palmer jump out and crash through the roof of a nearby motel, landing conveniently in a bed. As the helicopter explodes violently outside Karen quips “Well, I figured you’d end up in bed with me.”

Back at the station, Avery announces how cool they just were during a press conference and Palmer leaves, saying goodbye to everyone except Riggs, whom she can’t find. He’s hiding in the morgue because he’s scared of her. Eventually they do run into each other however, and he accompanies her to her car – and they make out in the elevator!

Roger finally accepts his wife’s unemployment and helps her clear out her desk in her office. On the way out, they notice an ad for Leo Getz on the back of a bus, but he’s photoshopped Trish into the picture as well and now the slogan reads “Leo *and Trish* Getz you off!”. Murtaugh says that man better have a good lawyer and we’re left laughing with a cliffhanger for next week.

Rating: it was fine. Helicopter explosions, bloody murders, beautiful DEA agents…all the ingredients for a good episode, but as Keith noted, the action took a backseat to the Palmer/Riggs love story and Leo Getz getting into precarious situations.

## The Leftist Angle

Rock 'n' roll is a drug and should be deregulated as such. Successful rocker Nate says he is ashamed of being addicted to it, evidencing the need for destigmatization.

Coffee, tea, sugar, exercise, driving, sex and wearing scarves are also drugs. Pop music isn't.

## AMPdate

Kevin Costner would be great for AMP. Johnny isn't involved but he's been hanging out with Ozzy.

## Notable Quotes

### Nate Vicious

* "I need to make some trades."
* "WHOSE NUMBER DID I GIVE OZZY OSBORNE TO!!!!"
* "If *I* have to use my memory, I close my eyes."

### Tom

* "I'm gonna slap ya. I'm gonna fuckin' slap ya if you mention it again." (Drew was talking about Johnny Depp or something)
* "At this point, if people are still listening, we're not wasting anybody's time. Way too late in the episode to be wasting time." (52:30)
* "I'm gonna post this on the ClayneCast account cause Jesus fuckin' Christ, how does *Ozzy Osbourne* look better than you?"

### Drew Rotten

* "Are you saying hit REcord or hit record?"
* "OOOiiii am annnn antichroistahhh, an' oiiiii am an anarchist-ah!" (singing Anarchy in the U.K.)
* "Woah, Duck! Duck's knockin' stuff over."

## The ClayneClandestine

* Though there was the perfect opportunity to do so (when Roger and Trish are in the kitchen saying "Big day, big breakfast"), the Lethal Weapon writers once again failed to payoff their previously established term BABS.

## Trivia

* Leo Getz, the cowardly weasel lawyer was portrayed by Thomas Lennon for the Show. This character was also seen in the Lethal Weapon movies, where he was played by Joe Pesci.
* Drew may be the Bailey of the pod.
* Nate has golfed with Joe Pesci and Adam Levine. (Nate won that tournament)
	+ In 2019, Joe Pesci recorded a jazz album that featured Adam Levine on several tracks.
	+ Adam Levine is six feet tall.
* Drew *allegedly* has a NSFW Baby Yoda screensaver.
* Near the end of this Episode, the hosts listen to the Hollywood Vampires cover of Heroes.

## Freaky Figures

Nate said “by the way” 5 times, including a double by the way at 35:38.

Contrary to popular belief, this is not the first episode of ClayneCast to clock in under 1 hour. The shortest episode currently is episode 16 at 55:41, and Episode 4 was also slightly under 57 minutes.

Drew has spent upwards of $10.000 on Johnny Depp NFTs.

## Clayne-foreCasting

Big names are looking forward financing SWEATY.

In this episode Nate coined the term "scrolling down". To be used when you're not interested in what someone is saying anymore, and want to scroll on down to the next paragraph of the proverbial discussion. Scrolling down will soon become a popular term in the English language.

ClayneCast will take an end of season 1 break.