A Curtain Call

Kenny, The Bucks and Cody discuss what to do with Adam Cole.

**A Curtain Call** is episode 54 (Season One) of of the YouTube series Being The Elite, which was produced and edited by professional wrestlers The Young Bucks. The episode concludes the Adam Cole must die! storyline as Cole is written out of the series. It is the debut of referee Rick Knox as a character.

## Characters

### Featured

* Nick Jackson
* Matt Jackson
* Marty Scurll
* Kenny Omega
* Adam Cole
* Cody

### Also shown

* Dalton Castle
* The Boys
* Rick Knox

## Locations

* Philadelphia
* Long Beach, California
* Reseda, California

## YouTube Description

*"Matt & Nick have second thoughts about what they've done to Adam."*

## Story

Matt and Nick are in the car driving to Long Beach, California to do some filming for New Japan Pro Wrestling. Matt says it is less stressful now that they don't haave a camera crew filming them all the time. (Rolling stone magazine had been following The Young Bucks during the last episode.) Cut to footage from the previous week - Nick says that he has been chatting to two people online for two years and is now heading to meet them, despite them never showing him their faces. The Bucks show the camera crew that are in the car with them. Latr Matt and Nick are backstage at a show ready to meet Nick's online dates. They head into the dressing room and there are two figures with their backs to Matt and Nick, combing their long hair. The pair turn around and it is Dalton Castle's followers The Boys who grin mischeviously. Matt and Nick ar shocked. Matt says they made a mistake and tries to back out of the room as Dalton enters through the opposite door. He see The Bucks and sends them off with The Boys for their date and says they will have a great time.

Back in the present, Matt rings his contact in the US consulate to thank them for fixing Kenny Omega's visa issues. At the hotel they spot Kenny and Cody arriving. Later Kenny approaches Matt, Nick and Cody who are in meeting room. cody looks uninterested and continues reading his phone as Kenny congrtulates The Bucks on what they did to Adam Cole. Matt says that he and Nick are feeling bad about it. Kenny inisits that the point was to humiliate Cole in front of his fmily and friends. They admit that Cole had it coming but they are still feeling bad. Matt says they are due to go to Pro Wrestling Guerrilla in a few days and Cole will be there and suggests they could do a curain call with Cole. Kenny is upset and says that Matt is always talking about curtain calls, and that Cole is out of their lives now. Kenny says he has an idea of how to finish things...

Over in Japan Marty shows off his new Bullet Club and Tekken merchandise. He says that he is going to wrestle Jushin Thunder Liger at a New Japan Pro Wrestling show. Footage of Scurll backstage before his bout follows. After the bout Scurll says that Liger was a hero of his growing up but now he has beaten his hero, and deidcates the victory to Kenny and The Bucks.

Back in Long Beach, Kenny and Matt are watching Cody shoot a promo. Cody turns to the camera and says "Fuck The Revival!". The film crew cut and explain those aren't his lines as Kenny looks shocked. Cody says he knows his lines now and tries again. Once more he says "Fuck The Revival", then says he needs a minute to prepare as Kenny tries to tell him to let his issues with The Revival go.

The Bucks are at the headquarters of the store Hot Topic to do some promotional activity after signing a merchandise deal. Later Nick is filming and says one of the Hot Topic employees wants to lear how to superkick. Nick says the only way to learn is to take one yourself and kicks the employee. Afterwards Matt and Nick shop at a Hot Topic store.

Later the duo are arriving for their Pro Wrestling Guerilla show in Reseda and show the fans queuing outside as the que stretches around the car park. Later they are backstage after their match and bump into Adam Cole who redies to fight them. The Bucks explain that after everything Cole did, that they had to do what they had to do. Matt points out that they are on the spot where the original wrestling Mount Rushmore was coined. Matt says that "KO" had messaged him and convinced Matt to make up with Cole. Adam wonders which KO it was but realises it was Kevin Owens. Nick says that Owens told them to make up with Cole, and Matt points out it is 21 years since the original curtain call (in the WWF.) The Bucks say they want one final farewell to put everything behind them and Cole agrees. They Too Sweet and hug before handing Cole a gift. It is Cole's favourite energy drink and The Bucks have already opened it for Cole as his arm is tired after signing so many autographs. They raise a toast...

Cut back to the earlier meeting with Kenny who asks if they saw *Breaking Bad* where they made ricin poison. He demonstrates tipping ricin into Cole's favourite energy drink and Matt thinks Kenny is talking about playing a rib on Cole. Annoyed, Cody tells them that Kenny is talking about killing Adam Cole and walks off. The Bucks are shocked but Kenny says it is the only way to write Cole out of the series. He hands Matt the drin and says that Adam Cole must die!

Back in Reseda Matt, Nick and Adam toast and The Bucks say farewell and head off. Cole finishes his drink but begins wretching and collapses. Cut to Cole laying on the floor dead as a caption says "RIP to Adam Cole's character on Being The Elite." Referee Rick Knox walks past and thinks Cole is asleep. He finds Adam's drink and decides to drink it himself, but he too collapses. A caption says "RIP to Rick Knox character on Being The Elite" (sic).

## Notes

* The title of the episode refers to an infamous incident in the WWE where wrestlers broke character to hug each other as Scott Hall and Kevin Nash left to go to WCW. The incident is opten cited as being one of the major influences on fans perception of wrestling as staged.
* The *Mount Rushmore* referred to at the end of the episode was a phot of Adam Cole, The Young Bucks and now WWE wrestler Kevin Owens who had declared themselves the greatest in wrestling, likening themselves to the great American presidents carved into Mount Rushmore.
* Cole was written out oF Being The Elite as he was signing with the WWE and would contractually no longer be able to appear. Ironically both he and Rick Knox would reappear in later seasons of BTE despite being "dead".
* It is not specified where in Japan that Marty Scurll is when doing his piece.
* At over sixteen minutes long this episode is once again the longest on the series to date.

* Episode 31
* Episode 32
* Episode 33
* Episode 34
* Episode 35
* Episode 36
* Episode 37
* Episode 38
* Episode 39
* Episode 40
* Episode 41
* Episode 42
* Episode 43
* Episode 44
* Episode 45
* Episode 46
* Episode 47
* Episode 48
* Episode 49
* *Fifty*
* *Moving Forward*
* *Bullet Club Gets A Villain*
* *One Condition*
* ***A Curtain Call***
* *All By Myself*
* *A Harmless Rib*
* *A Harmful Rib*
* *Dominion Fallout*
* *Ass Man*
* *From Prince To King*
* *Line In The Sand*
* *Hot Topic*
* *We're Back!*
* *Missed Connections*
* *Someone Will Die!*
* *Someone Does Die!*
* *Cease And Desist*
* *Mind Games*
* *Where's Hangman?*
* *Torture*
* *The Escape*
* *Bullet Club Invades RAW*
* *A Hand Gesture*
* *Debriefing*
* *Where Do You Think You're Going?*
* *Prisoner Of War*
* *Ten Boots*
* *Get It?*
* *I Just Want To Go Home*
* *Highspots*
* *Autograph*
* *Flipping Out*
* *All I Want For Christmas*
* *My First Gig*
* *2017*
 Extras
* *Tokyo Dome Fallout*
* *Response To The Hardy's Challenge!*
* *Young Bucks Fired From The Bullet Club?*
* *Santa Meets The Young Bucks Again*
 Storylines
* Who poisoned Nick?
* Nick's Stolen Bag
* Marty's dream
 Regular characters
* Cody
* Adam Cole
* Nick Jackson
* Matt Jackson
* Kenny Omega
* Adam Page
* Marty Scurll