Episode 8: Sex With the Beach Featuring Keith Ryan

We are joined by our first guest Keith Ryan to discuss episode 8 of Lethal Weapon the TV Series. Nate has to pay $20 for every time he insults Drew. Keith Ryan will never appear on Clayne Cast again.

## Episode Summary

Nate is very nice to Drew, who masterfully hosts this episode and doesn't forget anything. Tom remembers stuff and is never gonna buy a motorcycle. Keith Ryan is a great Co-host and if the problem persists please wait a few moments, refresh and try again.

*Disclaimer: This Episode of ClayneCast is the first and last to feature Artificial Intelligence Co-Host **Keith Ryan**, a TTS bot with the brain of Keiths reviews of Lethal weapon.*

The Episode starts in a Casino, the best place to stage a flashy robbery in broad daylight. We see a waitress move around suspiciously when suddenly a gang of motorcycle burglars burst through the glass windows, scaring the gambling patrons.

They attach cables to a large triangular display case, and use their bikes to yank if down, revealing a huge pile of a million dollars. They steal the it and race away, oh no. oh no. oh no no no no no.

Clayne is sitting on the roof of his Trailer, drinking beer and firing his gun into the air. All this happens on a presumably public beach.

As he reaches for another brewski, he notices the Dog from last episode (his dog now) walking around, looking hungry - even though he got fed yesterday! The smart dog opens the fridge and grabs himself a Burrito (Not a Wrap as Keith says). Clayne finds the Check he got from the sale of his old house, almost 150 thousand dollars.

Murtaugh is in his beautiful home, telling RJ about what women like, to which RJ points out Rogers gut. Trish wants him to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to prove his love to her, like he told her he would on their 4th date. He tells her that climbing an african mountain sounds dangerous and that he likes to stay in his comfort zone which is, after all, so comfortable. They get interrupted when his phone rings - Armed Robbery, the casino. Bad guys, gotta go!

At the Casino they meet with the Owner, Sam Fisher, who wears girdles. Not weird. He tells them about a waitress that "saw something" - the waitress from the intro. She tells them about some Snake Plate on the bikes frame. Custom job.

They send Cruz and Bailey to watch the surveillance footage and head out through the casino. On the way, Riggs places his cheque on the 29 Black on the roulette table. Murtaugh flips out and says no no no oh no no no no you can't do that! And yanks the check away just before the last moment. Once the Ball lands, we see it was in fact 29 black. He just cost riggs a load of money! But he doesn't care since he's crazy!

Bailey gets greeted by one of the casino regulars and is forced to reveal to Cruz that she comes here sometimes to blow off steam. They notice that the Waitress who made the statement wasn't actually in the room at that time.

Riggs and Murtaugh go to see her since that's suspicious, but also, where there no other witnessess? In the entire Casino? Well maybe but our Heroes drive to the Waitresses house.

But one of the Bad guys (Billy) has already found her. He looks like Jason Lee He makes smalltalk but is actually there to kill her...

In the Hallway they hear screams and a gunshot, and instantly burst through the waitresses door. Too bad the hitman has somehow disappeared. She's lucky though that the hitman kind of missed her point blank and she's still alive!

However he also missed the Kid hiding in her Closet. Ethan. He has a toy gun and was gonna scare the bad guy with it for sure. Way too old for the role, a tween. But Clayne is so nice he saves him anyway.

They take the Mom (the Waitress) (Sarah) to the hospital. Since she'll be in a coma for the foreseeable future, they'll need to put the boy into foster care. They decide to let Riggs drive him there, not Murtaugh the family father. He also can't stay at Murtaughs house because of RJ and the rest of the freaky alien Murtaugh family. So he leaves with Riggs, the suicidal drunk who lives on the beach in his trailer. Also RJ's a loser.

Sonya and Murtaugh at bike shop. She tells him the owner includes the Snake Plate on all the motorcycles. She says the cameras picked up a clear shot of the snake/logo. So the whole Waitress/Sarah thing was unnecessary?

Murtaugh says he wants a motorcycle cause he loved CHiPS and totally isn't having a midlife crisis. Sonya doesn't buy it. She can't see him as a motorcycle guy. The owner shows up and also doesn't believe Roger. He tells them that he puts the Snake logo on all his bikes, which makes Murtaugh instantly give up.

Back to the station, where we find out Riggs hasn't fed this Kid anything all night. What? How can you do that Riggs!? Well he gives him something from the vending machine to eat and tries to talk to him about the whole his mom getting shot thing.

They head to Ethans "Aunts" house. Roger torments Ethan with a tale from ChiPs on the drive over, which Ethan finds very interesting.

His Aunt actually isn't his aunt. Just a friend of his mom, but she's acting very weird. She sends them away but Murtaugh notices a poker chip on the floor of the porch. He bends over to pick it up and just then a shotgun blasts through the door, nearly missing him.

Riggs hears this and tells the boy to stay in the car, and shoots through the windows to give Rog cover (of course he doesn't know how many innocent people are in the house). This gives Rog a chance to kick in the door and disarm the fat guy with the shotgun, and arrests him. Then the boy runs up to riggs and he shouts at him but then they hug and Riggs is just the best.

Roger interrogates the suspect who tells him he regrets nothing except for maybe missing that shiny dome of Murtaughs, to which Murtaugh reacts by slamming the guys head into the Table. The Captain comes in and tells him to cut it out and he leaves with no info.

Clayne and Captain Avery are talking to the boy and persuade him to look at a lineup of perps. Avery is such a square. The kid totally picks up on this and he and Riggs "click". They leave the room with Clayne saying "Lets see if we can find some donuts" and Ethan replying "Cops always have donuts."

Murtaugh tells Trish he wants to get a motorcycle. Trish is an Earth Angel and tells her dumbass husband that motorcycles are dangerous and he would look silly on one. Thank you Trish.

Back to the station, where Avery meets the perps defense attorney. Cruz walks past them and asks him how long he's gonna "need that kid for" and if he already did the lineup. He scares him off and looks really peeved and tells the lawyer that was about a different case. He looks back at Cruz in anger but it doesn't go anywhere.

Suddenly, Murtaugh is buying a motorcycle, even though he looks like guy who can't ride bike. He's at the very same place they were at before (bike shop) Why this place? Why not go to a place that isn't connected to a crime ring? Anyway while the owner goes to get Murtaugh his paperwork, he looks at a board of pictures featuring people and their "hogs". He freezes when he sees the Casino owner standing next to a bike! Connection!

Riggs has taken Ethan (the boy) to his Trailer on the beach. The trailer where firearms and liquour are strewn about but nevermind that. The kid sees a picture of Miranda and asks him if he's married, which leads into a very emotional scene between Riggs and Ethan discussing their individual losses - and how Ethan lied to the Cops to try and get a better chance at life through foster care by saying he saw his mothers almost killer. He only *heard* him. I don't think he mentioned his father but now Mr. Riggs is veeeery tired, so get some rest.

The next morning, the magnificent Dr. Cahill has of course followed up to see if Ethan made it to foster care and surprise, he didn't. Riggs is in her office to explain why he didn't bring it in. He says they have a bond. But she insists that however cruel the system may be, it's the way it is. Riggs offers to finally do his job and drive Ethan to foster care for real this time.

Sonya (Detective Bailey) finds out about a guy the casino owner (the one wearing the girdle) filed a restraining order against. Billy Gottlieb, a stepson from his first marriage. Sonya really is the most competent/intelligent of the bunch which must be why the writers hate her so much. Anyway she tells Roger and he asks her to run his license to see if the guy is a bike guy - which turns out, he is. He says it takes one to know one, to which Sonya rolls her eyes so hard it makes the whole room dizzy.

The Scumbag lowlife who tried to kill Murtaugh's defense attorney passes by Billy who tells him about Riggs taking the kid to Foster care, and that she believes the kid is actually the only witness.

At the "Foster Home", Riggs drops off Ethan, who is unhappy about this. But Riggs assures him he can contact him or the cops if he has any trouble. Riggs then goes to the Liquour store next door to the foster home. But as Ethan is sitting on his bead moping, Billy (his moms almost killer) shows up with a fake ass badge and says he's Riggs' partner, Detective Brandon. He wants to take Ethan away to "fill out some more paperwork", but when he checks Ethans room all he finds is an open window, and no kid. Oh no!

He sees Ethan run and jump into the back of a pickup truck and hide under a tarp. And then he sees Riggs get into that pickup. How lucky.

At the beach, Riggs is looking forward to getting shitfaced when he suddenly hears something in the back of his truck. Lucky for him it was only Ethan, who tells him about the scruffy man who tried to kill his mom (waitress Sarah).

Avery calls him and finds out he has Ethan, and that Murtaugh is on his way to collect him. They figure out that Billy Gottlieb (the almost killer of Ethans Mom) is a scruff lookin' hair slicked back kinda guy and well, speak of the devil Billy and his biker gang show up in helmets and up on the cliffs on their dirtbikes, revving their engines menacingly.

Riggs and Ethan hurry into the trailer where he hides the Kid in the fridge and tells him to not come out until he counts til 100 at least. Then he leaves and turns on CCR on full blast. He pulls out his fully pimped out Assault Rifle and guns down his would be assailants.

Mercilessly he takes out the last one of them and then gets Ethan out of the fridge. He lifts him out of the fridge and carries him to his truck, but uh oh Billy is still alive! He's finished having sex with the beach and creeps up on Riggs from behind his truck. Just as he's about to shoot him, Ethan sees his scruffy face and shouts "RIIIIIIIIIIGGS!". He doesn't have enough time to react, but Roger arrives just in time to shoot him dead in his tracks.

Murtaugh then is recounting the episode in the office and sums it up as "basically CHiPS starring me".

Luckily Ethans Mom has recovered from her Coma after like one or two days. It's fine. She's the sole survivor of this whole ordeal, and Riggs is such a good samaritan that he gives Sarah (Ethans Mom) his Check for his house - 150k baby! He says to just tell them it's a Crimestoppers reward for Ethans participation. Dr. Cahill sees this as a real breakthrough for Riggs, as do we all.

He becomes a better person and buys dog food for *his* dog. Thank you Riggs.

Roger and Trish are cruising along the scenic california coast on his motorcycle, and eventually wind up at a cliff being all romantic when RJ pulls up in a freakin' Jaguar, interrupting their "moment". He has a can of sweet sweet Gasoline because Murdoch is an idiot and underestimated how full his tank was or overestimated his Hogs fuel capacity. Roger being the Patriarch orders RJ to bring him the fuel and fuck off, which he does as the show ends with the iconic california sunset and Trish and Rog smooching.

Another great episode. Murtaugh had some actually good scenes. He continues to engage in extremely dangerous behaviours despite his heart attack (note how we never hear his smartwatch beep alarmingly), and Clayne actually ends up doing a nice thing despite everything we were lead to believe about him (he feeds the doggie).

8/10 at least

## AMPDate

AMP-Man, a new superhero will appear and turn small to save the day. Paul Rudd was originally cast for AMP I'll have you know!

Johnny Depp is not involved in any way with the AMP TV show. Drew says he stopped caring about AMP. Nate said AMP was in the garbage in Episode 6 or 7 but AMP is not in the trash at all.

## Notable Quotes

### Nate

* "I will pay Clayne Crawford hundreds of dollars, if you keep this up Drew."
* "I can't not think that this is just the best television show ever. And I get excited to talk about it, with my two friends."
* "Drew's got bars."

Potential Insults/20$ Donations:

* "You are such a bad host! You had two weeks to prepare for this!" (34:17)
* "What the fuck is wrong with you right now? You're hosting! You're hosting today, you had two weeks!" (56:45)
* "You don't know how to rap." (13:44)
* (mocking drew) "oh but I don't know Jason Lee's name so let's just make fun of me!" (28:15)

### Tom

* "Oh my god, I'm going to pull the plug on Keith via Ryan."
* "And TikTok - I know you don't know, Nate, because you're an idiot - but it's popular, right? The most popular app in the world probably."

### Drew

* "I make money! I make all sorts of money."
* "I believe in Johnny Depp!"
* "What's Arrow up to?"
* "I'm happy talking to you guys! Nate's laughing too!"
* "I know what a burrito is. I'm very worldly...but I don't know what a wrap is."

## Freaky Figures

* According to Twitter user @biggerkevin, Nate insulted Drew four times in this episode, topping the number of times Tom insulted Lethal Weapon. Meanwhile, @yomistawhitee counted eight insults from Nate. Either way, Nate lost the bet and had to donate to Clayne's charity (see details below).

## Trivia

The bad guy in this episode has the same name as the Lethal Weapon Sound supervisor, Billy Gottlieb.

Tom and Nate love it when their wives listen to TikToks and loud videos at 7 a.m. or 1 a.m.

Drew clarifies that laughing at him won't lead to Nate having to pay 20$. Nate ended up paying $80+ to some lucky soldier, who is about to receive a green smoker. Can't link proof cause Nate's twitter is private but believe me he did it. Hooyah. Don't tell Clayne.

Tom yet again has revealed that he does not listen to the podcast nor does he check the wiki or other ClayneCast related stats. So if anyone was to make fun of him on the Pod he would probably never know! But that would never happen because everyone loves Tom!

Nate seems to think Copying and Pasting something is akin to teleporting, where sometimes things go lost. Up for debate.

Several years ago Drew was working at Canadian Tire and a guy came in and asked if they sold any crash test dummies CDs.

## Clayne-foreCasting

Nate is gonna make a Clayne based comeback album which will help fund the Lethal Weapon TV Series reboot.