Season 2 Episode 20: This Is Chaos We Don’t Need Order

The brothers are discussing the controversial directorial debut of Clayne Crawford! We read all of Damon Wayan's tweets about the incident. Also an Arrow health update.

## Episode Summary

This week is the episode Clayne directed, aka the one where Murtaugh gets hit by shrapnel. We get a sneak peek into some of the tweets and behind the scenes moments that occurred at the time of this episode’s airing.

Potential 4th Cohosts are discussed. Keith comes for Clayne!

Drugs are discussed (NOT MEDICAL ADVICE!!!). Arrow is allergic to everything and makes friend with a Golden retriever.

The hosts talk about whom they’d like to dissect.

Nate’s basement is again established as a cool and safe place to hang out.

The Lethal episode itself was fine, one of the better ones even, but it’s clear now everyone has had enough and Riggs’ days are numbered.

### Lethal Weapon Episode Recap

**Watch-a-long:** click here!

**Keith link:** click here!

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**Recap:**

Riggs has a lot of things going on; the case of the week, Ben’s little league failings, and more flashbacks to his dad beating him. Murtaugh is no help, again breaking the law by tampering with evidence. His daughter is directly involved with the suspects but never has to deal with any cops other than Roger. At some point Riggs arrests the little league coach and shoots Ben in the face with a baseball. He also saves the day by killing Nico, a very cool bad guy who unfortunately is only on screen for a total of maybe 1 minute. It’s another flashback episode so you know what that means...

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This episode begins with another flashback. Young Riggs and young Molly are talking about their future then suddenly we’re in the present. Ben, Molly’s son is getting ready for a little league baseball game. Riggs helps him tuck his shirt in and microwaves the glove to make it look less brand new. Contrary to the previous season, there is much more of a recurring cast this time. Sadly this episode doesn't feature JB or KR!

Then suddenly it’s nighttime, and we get a MMM but with a twist: it’s in a bowling alley and only features Riana. She’s hanging out with a bunch of friends smiling at some boy (Daniel DiVenere), when suddenly that very boy’s sister Phoebe (Priscilla Quintana) shows up and says she should date him. Then Riana lets her try on the jacket she’s wearing – Murtaughs old College Football jacket.

It's all strange but then Phoebe’s bad boy boyfriend Tyler (James Morosini) shows up and they bolt, unfortunately Phoebe kept on Rogers jacket! Oh no, Riana will have some explaining to do! Zzz.

But before we see that, Phoebe and Tyler have broken into an empty house. They raid the medicine cabinet where Phoebe finds a little container with something super special inside, and they go outside to skinny dip in the whirlpool. But suddenly the house’s owner, Randy, shows up! He was supposed to be out of town! Tyler tells Phoebe to run and pulls out a gun. Well that escalated quickly!

Instead of any action we get shown how Riana comes home and gets threatened to get grounded by Trish and Murtaugh, both wearing bathrobes. It’s very my wife and kids.

Next morning, Riggs and Murtaugh arrive at the crime scene. The very scene where Phoebe and Tyler were last night! Randy (the house owner) is dead. Shot through the head point blank and fished out of the pool. Bowman’s back, but they mention he hasn’t brought them soup in forever (in fact it was in episode 4 of season 2, when he gets introduced). Bowman finds a ledger belonging to the victim and is tasked with investigating it since Bailey is on vacation. They even say ‘give it to Bailey’, acknowledging she’s the only one to do any work. MM the GOAT.

Then they open the pool filter and find...Murtaughs jacket stuffed inside!

The intro plays and we’re back to the Murtaugh house, where Roger has tampered with evidence by bringing his jacket home to confront Riana. She tells him what happened and he gets scolded by him but that's it! She lied and confesses that she wasn't actually at the library - all the cool kids hang out at the bowling alley. So he drives to the bowling alley picking up Riggs along the way somehow.

There, Tyler is selling medication from the victim out in the open. While Murtaugh questions Phoebe, Riggs chases Tyler around the bowling alley, behind the lanes at some point he pulls a gun on Riggs but they just keep running. Really surprised Riggs didn’t blow him away right on the spot.

Anyway, Tyler tries to escape through a bowling pin machine but gets stuck, then Riggs shoots at the machine’s cogwheels to stop it and free Tyler. Nate described this as an example of 'reverse tomming'. They take him in and question him, but then Scorsese shows up and says the ballistics don’t match up. They kick Tyler loose even though he pulled a gun on a cop, did a B&E, but it's fine.

Phoebes Mom is there and accuses Riana of being a bad influence on Phoebe and smoking MARIJUANA. Riggs stops and harasses the little league coach since Ben didn’t get to play in the game, but he tells him Ben specifically asked *not* to play. This kid has issues. But honestly who can blame him.

Then Riggs zips over to the place Randy worked at, Dr. Wrights Optometry shop, but 2 bad guys are robbing the place! He pops one of them, Yuri (Chris Palermo) in the chest and chases the second one through the shop into a back alley, and then into some movie theatre where they have a scuffle behind the screen and then eventually break through it shocking the viewers – who happen to be Riana and Jesse, phoebe’s nerdy brother! But Riana is supposed to be grounded, uh-oh!

Roger interrogates Jesse zzz Riggs talks to Stanley Wright (Joe Marinelli), the Optometrist, who tells him a Nico Vicente (Jesus Ruiz) is the guy pulling the strings. He must have killed his stepson (Randy) because he thought he stole diamonds from him.

Riggs tries to push Stan’s buttons by criticizing him as a step father but Stanley shouts **“GOD, WHAT THE HELL DID I KNOW ABOUT BEIN’ A FATHER?!”** and this triggers another flashback to Riggs past.

Young Riggs and his dad come home from a little league game, looking defeated. His dad berates him for losing or playing poorly, eventually getting so heated up that he starts smashing the countless liquor bottles in the house with Riggs’ bat. A small shard of glass hits young Riggs in the forehead (foreshadowing an event that would take place near the end of the episode) and Riggs Senior carefully pulls it out but calls him 'soft'.

Then back in the present, Riggs tries to be a father figure and teaches Ben how to play baseball. Americas pastime. They throw the ball back and forth a in the yard a few times, but when Molly comes home and gives Riggs shit for arresting/assaulting the coach, he throws the ball too hard and it smacks Ben in the face. He starts crying and Molly runs over to take him inside.

Now it’s finally evening, Trish and Murtaugh are having a meeting on how to deal with Riana. She’s been grounded since yesterday so they go check on her only to discover her window wide open and her not inside the room. Murtaugh asks “Where’s your Daughter?”.

Well now we get to an interesting scene, in that it’s one big OnStar ad. (Promotional Consideration Paid for by Buick, Microsoft and OnStar for this one)

Riana is driving around with Phoebe in Murtaughs car, which she has stolen. Suddenly Phoebe puts on some diamond jewelry, the very diamonds Nico is after. Speak of the devil, Nico kidnaps Tyler at gunpoint and forces him to tell him where the Diamonds are.

But unbeknownst to them, Bowman contacted OnStar and they were able to locate the car and shut it down remotely. Murtaugh also says he wants “every uni out there looking for her”. So, in the city of Los Angeles every officer is looking for this one girl. Sure. The whole thing harkens back to episode 7 of season 1, where they track the killer’s minivan because it has LoJack on it. Deus ex machina.

She spends the night at Phoebe’s and then turns herself in the next morning, Riggs picks her up and he brings her to Murtaugh, where she tells them she thinks Phoebe has the diamonds. She's free to go and do whatever.

Nico forces Tyler to call Phoebe after beating him bloody, and they all drive over to her place. Riggs and Murtaugh show up first and find the diamonds, but Phoebe tries to escape out of the window. Then Nico shows up with a submachine gun and starts firing. This is the scene where Damon got hit by shrapnel, and Clayne (directing) showed no sympathy or decorum.

Anyway Riggs is hanging out of the window trying to get Phoebe back inside while Murtaugh battles off the bad guys. Eventually Nico runs out of bullets, and whips out an assassins creed blade and attacks Murtaugh in melee. Just then, Riggs uses his pinpoint precision aim to shoot Nico in the head, saving Murtaugh and getting Phoebe back inside. This all happens very fast, the camera doesn't linger on the individual parts, so it seems like Clayne was trying to convey how hectic this gunfight is and how he has to juggle not only directing and acting in the show but also the character of Riggs balancing getting Phoebe back inside from off the ledge and killing the bad guy who's about to gut his partner.

Anyway, day saved!

But unfortunately it continues, as Riggs has a heart to heart with Ben. He tells him about his dad hitting him and that he doesn’t wanna hurt him. Again. He doesn’t force him to play baseball but Ben says he’ll give it another shot. Oh great. Hope nothing bad happens in about 2 episodes that will traumatize Ben even further.

Trish and Roger are scolding Riana but then leave for a movie. Then Jesse comes over after Murtaugh invited him, and he scares him by turning off the lights and going “meow”. At least son of Roger wasn’t in this one.

But it’s still not over yet! Riggs drives Ben home from his little league game. They lost 12-1 but Ben caught some ball so he’s all happy. Riggs sits in his Truck (which is still riddled with bullet holes from when those Aryan brotherhood gangsters shot it up) looking at Molly and has another flashback to his childhood, where he seems to have run away from home and is moving in with her. They both go into her house but this time in the present. The end.

Score: a very quickly passing 8.5/10

## Notable Quotes

### Drew

* “Your dog’s a sherlock.”
* “I’m thirsty!” (Needs to wash down the Monster with water)
* “We pulled you out of the gutter.” (CC made Nate and Young Thug possible)

### Nate, the ultimate time respecter

* “Arrow’s...he’s on a sherlock level of inbredcy.”
* "Tom remembers things, and I'm the superstar."
* “You know, there was a time...probably like six years ago, where all of Charlotte’s friends - any of them who were cool and known - were like ‘Oh man. Wow! How cool that you’re dating *that* guy.’ You know? And now here we are. I’m in my basement talking to you two fuckin’ idiots.”
* “Don’t you know who I am?”
* “I’m great, I’m actually great. I’m filled with so much fucking rage. So much rage. There is a rage inside of me…”
* "I know what I'm about, I'm about 6' 2""

### Tom

* "That's why we have the number one podcast in America!"
* “We are not worse than the real housewives. I know that for a fact. We love each other, and we say that we love each other, all the time!”
* “God he’s so LOUD! It’s Disgusting.” (about Drew drinking water)
* “Lucifer’s the GOAT.”
* “I just found out right now: I don’t give a fuck.”

## AMPDates / CCUpdates

The AMP Draft is mentioned again this episode but no clues as to who will be involved come to light.

## Trivia

Arrow is allergic to Grass, Cats, Palm Trees, Oak Trees, every weed, every mite, everything. Nate should just fucking take good care of him. He's a good dog. He came from Romania.

Nate talks to Arrow as if he understands English. Maybe Nate needs to learn Romanian and/or Dog.

Tom doesn’t drink coffee; he hates the taste. (so weird) Lucifer Morningstar on Twitter hates coffee too. He never shows his face. @tom\_on\_here often shows his face. These two factoids may or may not be 100% connected but connect the dots.

During this episode, our lovely hosts watch this interview ~~friend of the Show~~ friend of Nate and Tom Jordana Brewster does with Clayne Crawford in which she takes on a role not unlike that of Dr. Cahill in Lethal Weapon and the two of them talk. It’s a total recommended watch. In this interview he has a Miles Davis album propped up on his record player, Tom was right.

We all believed Zammis Artoo to have died of an unfortunate vehicular incident, way back in episode 4, but it turns out he went overseas to join ISIS. He was subsequentially arrested on suspicion of being a Spy, captured by ISIS and gruesomely executed (Cause of Death: Beheading). Any investigations into his demise have proved futile as he received an ‘at sea burial’, not unlike Osama Bin Laden.

## Freaky Figures

Nate has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to find out why Arrow is so itchy all the time.

Koalas sleep 22 hours a day.

The password to the ClayneCast twitter account is **Claynecasthawk1998!#** you should try logging in!

At 18:08 Nate pops out until 20:23 to take his kids to a swim lesson or something.

## Clayne Clandestine

Nate recommends all fellow arborists check out Santa Barbara Daisies, but arborists are people that deal with Trees. He likely meant botanists or horticulturalists.

## Clayne Fore-Casting

On the Set of Lethal: Impossible no actors will get hit by shrapnel.

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Riggs is coming back in Season 4 and so is his dad.