Season 3 Episode 1: Lethal Is Back

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Clayne is out, SWS is in. Bees our out, Bats are in. We are back for the third and final season of Lethal Weapon! Will we enjoy the addition of SWS? Will Nate buy us Crytobatz? Find out in this episode of Clayne Cast.

## Episode Summary

This episode starts with our hosts getting over Keith. Drew is looking to fill the void with Ozzy's Cryptobatz NFTs, Nate is drowning his sorrows in Gatorade and T1 has returned to properly grieve the loss. But we're starting the season off on the right foot, so no one is gonna doubt Tom's driving capabilities, no one's gonna say the reason Nate can't sell his October red Yeezy's for 15k is because it's hard to find a toddler with that much money, or that Drew smashes his nuts in the toilet seat of his den of inceldom. No one's gonna say any of that - the slate is clean!

Our lovely hosts engage in a rebound of the episode with Den of Geek writer Daniel in search of a Keith replacement, but it ultimately proves to be unsatisfactory.

#### Recap: NOT from Keith. From DenofGeek.com

since Keith only reviewed the first two seasons of LW, the task of recounting the episodes for season three fell to none other than Daniel Kurland of Den of Geek fame. While he will never attain a Keith level of greatness, he seems to be quite the good writer himself.

### Lethal Weapon Episode Recap

Murtaugh grieves over the loss of Riggs, while his replacement Cole (Sean William Scott) tries to prove chaos doesn't follow him, but can he? The series 3 pilot starts off with a nice mix of explosions and comedy, everyone puts the work it even Damon. Let's hope they can continue this way for a while.

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“Shut up and pass the spray-cheese”

This episode starts off in Aleppo, Syria. Wesley Cole (Sean William Scott) is a badass CIA agent who is trying to get a hard drive full of sensitive data. He got the info from some 9-year-old who he seems to be friends with. He tells him to get out of the area then takes some old chewing gum and knocks on the door, giving us a nice glimpse of his awesome hand tattoos!

He clears the building killing everyone inside and secures the hard drive. Then he hears something in the hallway – Oh no! It’s the boy from before, but he’s dead! He had snuck into the building to be with Cole but died. Cole grabs his corpse and runs out of the building just in time before the cruise missile blows it up. No one else got hurt.

On the other side of the globe, Martin Riggs is being admitted to the emergency room after being shot last episode. He dies, Murtaugh cries.
6 Months pass. While many things have changed, the MMM remains a constant.

Murtaugh is still grieving, walking around in his bathrobe and sweatpants, and he’s bought a boat, that has become an eyesore for Neighbor of the year McNiele and also his secret base of operations – since he’s convinced of some conspiracy behind Riggs’ death. Also Garret (Riggs’ brother) was the one who killed him and then shot himself, but Murtaugh also doubts that. Son of Roger and Riana are also still here, all in the Kitchen of course.

Just as he’s boarding the boat parked in the driveway, Cahill comes by (off the clock, she’s just that great) and tries to set him straight. They talk about Riggs and both tear up.

Cole is now a meter-maid working as a cop in LA. Just as he’s writing some douchebag a ticket and haranguing a woman about her dog poop, he spots two suspicious looking guys in a jeep and runs after them. Atop a parking deck, he jumps into their car to find some bag full of socks and a tube, when a black BMW shows up. A very "bad guy" looking man gets out and when he sees SWS in his uniform, starts shooting.

Now Cole is a ex-CIA genius, so he jumps behind the jeeps wheel and rams the car off the parking deck, where it lands right behind Roger – it’s the very car he was looking for! But he can’t investigate just yet: he sees the bad guy hijack a car and has the urge to help. Him and Cole both try to commandeer a big water truck – out of all the cars around – to chase this bad guy in a mustang. They catch up while a bomb ass Vo Williams track plays.

Both of them begin to ride the roof but then the truck crashes and the bad guy gets away. The cops bring them in, and Santos is back! She wants Rog to retire and suspends Cole.

Cole has an ex-wife, Natalie, (Maggie Lawson) and a daughter, Maya. He ruins Maya's piano recital and Nat scolds him and says wherever he goes, chaos follows. They mention this *so* often in this episode.

Avery’s back! KRahm the GOAT. He’s planning campaign slogans with Trish, the city’s revamped the old LA Railway and he is giving a talk there. Murtaugh calls and pretends to be the mayor, it’s all good fun.

Avery gets Murtaugh the file, on a Zavra Uberov, ex-chechen mercenary. The bad guy. He meets with Cole (he just knows where he lives) and wants him to join him to arrest the guy – but Cole says no because he’s suspended! **What!?** Roger explains in this kind of situation, they go and save the day despite being suspended so it all works out in the end! Cole still won’t go along but has a bad feeling.

Rog checks out the address – still in the same raggedy ass sweatpants – and finds Riggs’ old Truck, and Garret’s jumpsuit inside, and a cell phone. But just then the bad guys find him and tie him up, preparing to torture him with a drill.

Luckily Cole does show up and saves Murtaugh, just in time too because right as they get out the building blows up. Oh yeah turns out the Chechens were making bombs and one of the stray bullets hit a gas pipe. At this point during the watch-a-long Drew mentions this scene to be similar to the one with Mr. Bell-Bottoms, what a callback!

Cole gets stitched up by his ex-wife who it turns out is a doctor! Meanwhile, Murtaugh gets cared for by Scorsese – much less gentle. Bailey comes and they all meet in the Morgue where she shows him a video she pulled form Garret's phone. It’s a confession video, where Garret explains he shot Riggs and he’s sorry for everyone he hurt. Ridiculous.

Rog is sad and goes home to burn all his things on the grill, including his metal badge, when Cole just shows up and tries to get him to investigate the Chechens and their Bomb stuff. He's mopy but the next morning Trish gives him a stern yet loving talk and hands him his burnt badge and basically tells him to get his shit together.

Cole sneaks into some storage facility or whatever who knows and steals a blueprint. Roger happens to show up on the outside and they both were after the same Blueprints: the same ones the Chechens where about to buy, that show the Central Savings Bank vault. This vault just happens to be right above the old LA Railway that Avery is reopening today. Uh oh.

They crash the ceremony, much to Avery’s dismay, and Cole finds the bomb and starts to defuse it because he saw something like it once overseas, but he accidentally starts the timer. Not knowing what to do, he LIFTS UP THE BOMB AND TAKES IT OUTSIDE TO MURTAUGH. They decide the least amount of harm will be caused if they put the bomb on the old rail train and let it ride out of the station. Somehow, they start the train and jump off just before it explodes. And even though the ground above shakes and smokes comes out of the building, they survived mostly unharmed don’t ask.

Cole arranged his daughter to have another audition and she nails it. Nat is thankful but cautious, but then they agree that he can take her to the dentist on Thursday.

Murtaugh’s going through Riggs’ old desk and finds a shitload of booze. He takes a swig of his flask, and when Dr. Cahill sees it she asks if there’s any in there for her! Jordana! They talk to some very odd Riggs replacement and get emotional.

The next day, Cole shows up at Roger's driveway drenched in sweat and tells him he’s been assigned to Robbery and Homicide, he’s now a detective and Rog’s partner! They talk about some Riggs stories, but then the boat gets towed because McNiele called the homeowners association!

## Notable Quotes

### Tom/Original Tom/T1

* "A lot of those porno guys are cool though"
* "These people are bleeding money, and we are MISSING OUT!"
* "Oh he gave it 4 out of 5, we got another Keith on our hands."
* "I gotta do all this fucking shit, huh?" (remembering what happened in the episode)

### Drew, the Throat-GOAT

* "We're Back! Back, better than ever? Maybe? I think so. Best podcast ever?"
* "Buckingheads, Babyyyy"
* "Well I don't forgive you, fuck you." (joking around)

### Nate

* "I was lookin' at Zuby pictures the other day..."
* "So I'm like Murtaugh, basically I'm like Murtaugh."
* "Season three's, no Bees!"
* "And theeeeeeeen???"

## AMPDates / CCUpdates

AMP is back. Somehow, it's back in season 3, thanks to Johnny. RIP Johnny btw. The Animatronic they got to replace him looks a bit bloated but I'm sure they'll get it right before season 4 / start of AMP season 1 or the movie.

### Captain Johnny's Rum

CCE presents a 59-year-old 6 rum blend, aged within a famous actor/rockstar. JD's body will be prepared to be punctured, and the blend of several different rums gets siphoned directly into the artisan crafted bottles. This highly potent concoction promises a dizzying experience and features a heavy ashtray aroma with soaked bits of cigarillos and ash floating around in it like pulp.

## Trivia

Todd MacFarlane was born in Calgary, Alberta.

## Freaky Figures

During the Lethal episode, they say Chaos like 13 times. It plays a big role in Cole's aka SWS's story.

## Clayne Fore-Casting

Nate will find a buyer for his Yeezys.

Zuby will work on a feature with Ye but it wil ultimately never be released due to creative differences.