Episode 16: Nate V Tom

This was easily the worst episode of Lethal Weapon and also Tom made Nate made earlier in the day for making him look like a creep. Then Nate made Tom made so mad in this episode. Plus a special guest returns!

## Episode Summary

The passions run high in this episode of ClayneCast! Luckily it all worked out in the end and everyone loves each other! A lot of housekeeping on this one...For the Lethal Weapon episode skip to like 30 or 40 minutes in. At about 28:00 there is a re-enactment of a group chat between the hosts and it's quite something.

Nate learns the concept of object permanence by means of a Twitter deactivation experiment, Tom learns not to mess with Nate and Drew learns what the other two really think of the tweets he shares with them.

### Lethal Weapon Episode Recap:

Episode 16: Unnecessary Roughness

The episode starts with a very sexual scenario. A promising young Footbal star, Jessie Raines (Chris Tavarez) gets hit on by some girl, but his manager Steven ushers him away cause she’s underage and had been posting pics of him drinking on her social media all night! bad PR!

On the way out the girls „boyfriend“ threatens Jesse with a gun in his boxers, but they are able to leave without any further incident. As they drive home however, a car drives up and shoots the manager and wounds Jesse.

Next morning Riggs wakes up to room service in a hotel, serving him a cheese whizz omelet. His “wife” ordered it for him. Palmer! She left a card that reads “WORST SEX EVER!” or as Keith says, a *thank you note*.

Murtaugh of course is having breakfast when Trish says she’s thinking about going back to work. Riana approves cause she is a greedy little brat and doesn't wanna share a room with RJ (totally understandable).

Eventually Riggs and Murtaugh arrive at the crime scene, Riggs looks to the ground and instantly finds a bullet shell, and notes a long scratch on the asphalt. They give the casing to Scorsese to analyze and then check on the Jesse, who survived the assassination. There’s video surveillance of the guy threatening him, on which they see some sort of brass knuckle graphic on his shirt. A Clue! Also Steven, Jesse's sort-of manager and cousin, and the only victim, also happened to have a bruise on his stomach which featured a distinct mark.

Jesse is in a hospital with his mom, and a bunch of flowers. As they’re talking another huge bouquet comes in, carried by Walter Hancock, President of the Coastal State Booster Club (whatever that is). Jesse was shot in the arm, his career is over. Hancock has bad vibes but Murtaugh and Riggs leave.

They check the school where Mike Ramos, the head of security rolls up in a golf cart. He happens to be Murtaughs old colleague. He says he gets triple the salary as on the LAPD, plus free tickets to the game and his kids get free tuition. And I think he offers him a job there. While Murtaugh mopes, Riggs races off in the Golf cart and brings back a young woman wearing a shirt with the same brass knuckle logo as the suspect. It’s a Fraternity, alpha phi something, she identifies the suspect as Carson Tate, a rich-kid frat guy who sells Adderall.

They drive to the Frat house, and Tate himself opens the door, but when he sees Riggs’ badge he bolts. But they catch him and interview him. Riggs is all *bad cop* until Scorsese informs him that the gun Tate had on him wasn’t the murder weapon. They kick him loose and check on Jesse at his apartment. They find out that Steven was "just" a friend of his, Benny Barns is the real playa who bought him his shoes and gear.

They follow up on Benny and find him in a Gym, coaching boxers in a ballin' suit. They accuse him of being an accessory to murder and Riggs gets him to punch him by talking shit about his left hook. But why? Because Riggs uses the imprint from Benny’s punch on his face to compare it to the marks on the victim. The distinct patterns match thanks to Benny's golden glove ring - but one of Riggs' teeth has been knocked out. He uses super glue to re-attach it. DENTISTRY IS A SCAM!

Anyway Roger tells Trish about the potential job at "state" and Riana butts in saying he should take it. Riggs is back in his trailer and gets all weird when Karen calls him. He is so nervous he takes a swig of whiskey and then smashes his head into the mirror. Woah!

Bailey has followed Benny and Riggs meets her, blood still running down his forehead. He met with none other than Hancock! They follow him to a restaurant where he meets with: Murtaugh?!

Roger is having Dinner with Hancock for the Job interview when Riggs barges in and scares Hancock away. He tells Roger about Hancock's meeting with Benny, but Roger is just mad at Riggs.

Next day Riggs meets Hancock at the School, and accuses him of ordering the Hit via Benny. He confesses to having benny rough up Steven (Jesse's manager) to “persuade” him to join the state team. He never had anything to do with murder though! And he also mentions that he sent Jesse's family money through Benny. Shady shit.

This makes Riggs curious and he checks out the Mom. Murtaugh is already there somehow and is asking the Mom about how she could pay off those thousand dollar bills. She’s not having any of it and kicks out Roger. Outside he meets Riggs and with the assistance of a local youth they deduce that a gangster by the name of Wendell drives a car that makes the same type of scratches on the asphalt as they found on the crime scene!

At some point during this Jesse confronts Wendell in an alley. He has his boys with him however, and they beat him up and throw him in the trunk. Riggs and Murtaugh track them down to the campus stadium.

There, Wendell and his gang have Jesse at gunpoint, about to throw him off the bleachers. Somehow he can wrestle free and runs, but the gangsters shoot at him (and miss), to which Roger and Riggs run in, guns drawn in the now familiar cool way.

They chase the gangsters and Riggs shoots and presumably kills 2 of them. Wendell chases Jesse onto the field and holds a gun up to his head, but Roger is ice cold and shoots him. Only in the shoulder though. They arrest him and save the day!

Avery is mad about the football season being ruined and Murtaugh convinced Jesse to pursue an academic career. Proud with himself he goes onto the middle of the football field and spins around, hands thrown up and cheering.

Keith scored this a 7/10 and that's pretty gracious even for him. It's sub 7 for sure. One of the worst episodes. Where's Leo Gettz? Wheren't they gonna sue him? Where's Cho? Does anything make sense anymore?

## The Leftist Angle

Academic careers should be valued just as highly as football.

## AMPDate

AMP is in jeopardy, as it has been since the day Drew was born. It's like a hot potato of brilliance.

Ozzy has been fired for hanging out with Johnny, causing all kinds of problems.

But we (excluding Nate?) will never give up on AMP. Even if it's been canceled for now, it's always in the works.

## Notable Quotes

### Nate

* "You got me feelin' like Deadpool, Tom."
* "LET'S JUST GO, ME VERSUS YOU TWO, LET'S GO! LET'S GO!" (shouting)
* "Self-sabotage is what I'm all about."

### Tom

* "I am fucking *destroying* you today! You are my bitch today Nate!"
* "I don't care, F U, middle finger emoji." (reading a text as part of the reenactment)
* "Well, yeah, I am a snitch."

### Drew

* "Nate - let's go back, first of all; who starts shit? You're calling Tim Burton Andy Dick. That's the first thing I wake up to, you insulting Johnny!"
* "This episode sucked, sooo bad man."
* "I admit it. Oh my god I admit it."

### Keith Ryan

* "If you would like to read my recap of the last episode, click here."
* "..."

## Trivia

* This is the first appearance of Keith Ryan since episode 9. Somehow he was risen from the dead. He may have learned from Tom.
* This is the first time in ClayneCast history that a portion of the audio was bleeped out. Thanks Drew for preventing a lawsuit.
* Nate's Watch monitors his sleep and tells him when he should go back to bed.
* Contrary to what this episode may have you believe, Nate has wanted to be canceled for his Twitter for at least two years now. Congrats Nate! Thanks to Tom and Drew for making it happen.

## Freaky Figures

This is currently (as of Feb 11th, 2022) the shortest ClayneCast episode ever, coming in at a hot 55:41! Maybe someone can count how much of it was actually about Lethal Weapon -- probably about 10-20 minutes.

Six hours of sleep are enough.

## Clayne-foreCasting

Gunna and Nate are gonna be rollin' up to the All Star game in a 'rari.

Nate's people will reach out to Johnny Depp.