Season 2 Episode 12: Full Frontal

would you rather get tickled or be tickled?

We have signed our first superstar to Clayne Cast Entertainment! We are building a tri house for our tickle parties! Nate got measured again! He's getting so big and strong.

## Episode Summary

ClayneCast is War! Get your Mountain Dew Zeros and crunchy ice cubes ready, because It’s one of *those* episodes. The LW episode was sub par but somehow still better than last week. Luckily this means our dear Hosts had a chance to touch on AMP!

### Lethal Weapon episode recap

Riggs gets confronted with his past yet again in the form of RDG. Murtaugh is jealous of Trish, who’s back hanging out with Leo Getz again. They witness a political assassination with ties all the way to the top!

**Season 2 Episode 12:** Diggin' up Dirt

**Keith read-a-long:** click here.

Miranda is alive again! But it’s only a flashback. They’re talking about something boring who cares. Trish is having lunch with a friend of hers, who is running for Mayor, Gene Nakahara (C.S. Lee). Leo Getz shows up too suddenly and makes everyone uncomfortable.

Avery is running for city council and Murtaugh is upset that he didn’t ask him to take his place, despite Murtaugh never saying anything to that effect.

Just as Trish and Gene are leaving, Leo pops out from behind the Valet stand and bugs them, everything seems fine, until Gene gets in his car and BOOM! It explodes.

Soon after, Rog and Riggs show up to investigate the crime scene. Again, Trish is involved. She tells them he was working a “cartel case”, which is always the worst thing you can be involved with in the Lethal Weapon universe.

Then Roger and Avery interrogate Leo, since after all he did flee the scene of a crime. They are suspicious of him because he’s been calling Gene (the victim) every day for three weeks. Avery (KR) is in the booth with Murtaugh instead of Riggs, this episode is a good example of our two heroes not being able to be within striking distance of each other. Anyway they figure out he is just annoying and obsessive and let him off the hook.

Bailey’s back! She found out the inmate the victim was about to go see was…*Ronnie Delgado* (Tony Plana)! Riggs’ Father-in-law, cartel conspirator, and ex-district attorney now in prison. Riggs of course finds out and wants to go too against everyone’s objection.

At the prison, Rog and Riggs are about to meet Ronnie, but a seemingly orchestrated riot breaks out, and Ronnie eventually gets shanked! The assailant is shot from a guard in the watchtower just in time for them to get Ronnie to a hospital.

He survives and once conscious, Riggs tells him Gene wanted to talk about the “Ojai house”, whatever that means. Somehow Ronnie knows everything about Riggs, including the fact his father is alive and in jail. The Ojai house was where Riggs and Miranda got married, and Ronnie keeps bringing it up.

At Gene Nakahara’s funeral, Leo tries to “network”, and Rog meets a few of the higher ups in the police. Suddenly an Asian man shows up and they freak out. We find out this guy was at the restaurant yesterday and Trish takes a pic of his license plate as he drives off. Less than a day ago, she witnessed her longtime friend die in a car explosion, but she’s all good now, and can join the LAPD on their investigation. Her job as a restaurant lawyer offers her great flexibility.

Murtaugh made a PowerPoint on this mysterious Asian man presentation, and they find out it’s a Mike Serrano, he visited the prison a day before Ronnie’s murder – and Avery says it’s a guy who “cleans up messes” for the higher ups in city hall. So he pleads with them to tread lightly, which they always do!

Riggs and Roger go to a restaurant where Serrano (Tim Kang) is known to hang out, and he recommends the egg rolls. He denies any involvement, says he’s a P.I. (Personal investigator), and when Riggs alludes that he was working for Ronnie, he says it wasn’t Ronnie but Miranda that hired him! She wanted to find out if Riggs was hiding anything – and he was, as we all know now. This pisses Riggs off, and he slams Serrano’s head into the table. Serrano makes an off-hand remark about Miranda and Riggs pulls his gun on him! This is a civilian! Murtaugh soothingly says “*no no no*”, which makes Riggs change his mind and he spins around and shoots the big aquarium inside the restaurant, causing a big mess.

Later that day Riggs is passed out in his trailer, dreaming of Miranda again. Roger shows up and Riggs pulls his gun on him. He finds half a bottle of Whiskey in the sink and confronts Riggs about his lies. Riggs is sitting on the couch, with a gun holster around his chest, Snapback Cap on backwards and drinking from a different bottle of Jim Beam (Whisky). We hear waves crashing against the beach – but wasn’t the trailer in Murtaughs garage? When did he move it back? This is episode is so stupid.

This trailer scene is a good example of how Damon and Clayne wouldn’t film scenes together, it’s shot so that we never see them both in the same frame. As we can tell it’s absolutely not Wayans in the wider shots.

Meanwhile, Trish and Leo are going over files related to Gene’s past. They find out some bigwig called O’Brien, the other person running for Mayor, may have had an affair with a staffer and Gene was about to expose them. So, they decide to go to O’Brien’s office vigilante style.

Riggs and Murtaugh are already at O'Brien's campaign hq at night, steaking it out.

Serrano arrives, and it looks like they’re gonna meet, when suddenly a car rear-ends them! The perps scramble, and it turns out to be Leo Getz and Trish, in his Porsche!

Back in Avery office, he’s scolding them in his usual way, and tells everyone to go home.

Then all four of them go to Murtaughs house, because Riggs still is living in his garage? Leo shows up right before bedtime and shows them some papers he scribbled on a flipchart and they crack the case.

He tells them O’brien wasn’t trying to cover up an affair with Monica Jones, he was covering up her Murder!

Roger tries to call Riggs, but he doesn’t hear the vibration of the phone because he’s busy digging up the dirt beneath the tree he got married at, at the “Ojai house”.

He actually unearths skeletal remains (may also just be like a plastic Halloween skeleton), but unfortunately for him, Serrano and two goons show up behind him. They stage his own hanging (in broad daylight), but then Murtaugh shows up and saves him. They shoot the henchmen but somehow only incapacitate Serrano.

Back at the office, O’Brien is getting arrested, yaaay! Because of this somehow Avery says he’s now got no chance at the Mayor’s office? But he just arrested his main opponent? Guess he just can’t quit Riggs and Murtaugh like all of us.

Roger and Trish are brushing their teeth, again, same scene as before, and he apologizes to her for being so upset about Leo and she says she became a lawyer to get justice for those who can’t get it themselves. She’s a great person. Way too good for Murtaugh.

Riggs is back in Dr. Cahills office WEARING THAT FUCKING CAP ON BACKWARDS, and mopes about Miranda. She sets him straight like always, JB the G.O.A.T., and he goes to talk to Ronnie – only to find out he died during his surgery, oops! The end.

Kind of weird episode. Fluff/Filler? It could have been shown at any time in season 2. At least Molly and Ben don’t show up, nor does Riggs' dad! 8.5/10

## Quotes

### Drew

* “Let’s talk about AMP.”
* “We also have a lot of tickle fights.”
* “I stood up and I said *Fuck…you…*”

### Nate

* “How the fuck is AMP back?”
* “I would never attack you.” (to Drew)
* "No, dumbass, come on, a dog bit my dick off." (excuse for not being into "sounding" yet knowing suspiciously lots about it)
* "Well, a lot of 'Would you rather' leads into tickle-fights (...) a lof of like 'Would you rather *get* tickled a ton or would you rather *be* tickled a ton."

### Tom

* "It's not your job to ever question me. So don't you ever fucking do it again."
* "Shut up Keith. Sorry Keith."
* "What do you stick up there, Drew?"

## AMPDate

AMP is back! Thanks to JD's win and the very cool and very legal business dealings of the Serbian government, work on AMP has allegedly resumed!

Arcade Matt may be involved.

## The Leftist Angle

Moving a schedule up even 15 minutes is time theft.

Being upset because your wife is around another man is political -- in fact, it's a Mike Pence thing. ~~F\*ck him, right?~~ Winning's done at the polls, not on leftist podcasts (nor their wikis). Get out and vote, or if you're not American, just radicalize others who can using TikTok, YouTube and Gravel Institute tweets. It's effectively the same thing.

## Fun.2 in.format.ion

Fun.2 is going to be a low-blood sugar band. This may cause shows to be canceled at very short notice or even during the gigs themselves! All three of them.

Nate will perform Alice Coopers Job like in Hollywood Vampires, not really doing much other than occasionally introducing other band members.

## Trivia

This episode introduced the concept of *Tomming*, which is when you shoot your gun and hit everything *but* the guy you’re aiming at. But somehow this causes environmental damage to your foes and weakens them. It also means being things in the environment that cause mayhem, like in the Mayhem commercials. It's like a puzzle.

Vote Nate 4 SB City Council

Tom yet again plugs his other stuff, the WFYM podcast. I think they talk about the latest episode but maybe it was about the one Drew and Nate were guests on?

## Freaky Figures

Nate has shrunk a fourth of an inch since last week, and measured 5’9½ (no shoes) at his monthly physical.

## Clayne Fore-Casting

Drew's Idea of the Tri House – 3 big mansions that intersect, with one central area and 3 separate ones - will become an award winning novel architectural style.

Keith will review Season 4 before it comes out. Hopefully he will have reviewed season 3 before then.

## Sources & Citations

1. ↑ (Urethral Sounding, don't look it up)