Episode 18: The Secrets of Johnny Puff

Its the season finale of Lethal Weapon! We have AMP updates, Andy Dick is getting involved in an AMP related project and we begin to unravel the mystery of Puffins. "Our best episode yet"-Nate Ruess

## The Secrets of Johnny Puff

### Next episode:

Episode 19: Season 1 Finale with Andy Cohen

## Episode Summary

This time, everything is back, just in time for the season one finale! In the end, as impressive as it is that Lethal Weapon made it to this many episodes (plus more than thirty more!) without being cancelled, it's even more impressive that Claynecast has lasted this long. Thank you Keith Loves Movies for your help, no matter which host discovered you (happy birthday Nate).

For the episode recap, skip to 23:39.

### Lethal Weapon Episode Recap:

Episode 18: Commencement

Miranda and Riggs are lying in bed, smoochin’ - it’s a flashback.

Ronnie (her dad) calls, He says it’s important, he has to talk to her, but Riggs grabs the phone and says not to worry! He’s making her blueberry pancakes and hangs up.

Back to current day Riggs, he’s drinking, smoking, using his gun to flip through Gideon Lyon's file in his shitbox trailer. He holds the gun up to his temple and pulls the trigger – RIGGS! Luckily it wasn’t loaded.

Back to the Murtaughs, Roger embarrasses himself trying to set up a tent when one of the tent poles shoots through the living room and breaks a light (Riana calls him snapchat gold and films it all on her phone). Roger is gonna take RJ camping to teach him what it means to be a “Murtaugh Man”, since RJ is graduating tomorrow. RJ is a complete idiot, how is he graduating? Anyway, Trish realizes this trip can only go wrong, so she rented them a cabin with a fully stocked fridge on luxurious Lake Arrowhead.

Gideon (the bad guy from last episode) gets moved to a federal jail facility. Riggs is mad because he can’t interrogate him about his wife’s death, but Captain Avery says he’ll have enough time to interview him in jail where he’ll stew for the rest of his life. On the way to said Jail however, the transport is ambushed! A masked gunman stops the car with a spike-trap, then unloads multiple rounds into the truck, presumably killing the two guards/drivers inside and then uses sticky explosives to blow up the door and free Gideon!

They speed off and Gideon says *Muchas gracias*, expecting a cartel guy – but when the driver pulls of his mask it’s revealed it's: RIGGS! *Dun dun dunnnn!*

Back at the station Avery, Bailey and Murtaugh are watching the video of the heist (the dashcam caught this all). It appears to be an Assassin with a heart of gold – since both guards survived unharmed. The gunman shot at just the right angles to not injure them. Riggs shows up and plays it cool (not really) but they get a call that the getaway car was found in Elysian Park.

They drive there, but the car is torched. Scorsese says they have what in the forensic sciences is called “doodely squat”. Classic Scorsese. Murtaugh however with his large brain notices that the license plate was screwed on *after* the car was torched. Odd. He also notices a shoeprint, and then heads towards the beach.

Clayne has Gideon tied up in his trailer and “interrogates” him. Did you kill my wife? He claims not to remember “a hot piece like that” to which Riggs says he doesn’t deserve to look at her (a picture of her) and pours a single serving packet of salt into Gideon's eyes. Just as he’s getting aroused, Murtaugh shows up.

Riggs plays coy but Murtaugh notices a shoeprint that looks just like the one at the crime scene of the burnt-out car. He eventually gets a peek inside the trailer when he says he has to use the bathroom and yanks open the door to Riggs’ trailer - but it’s empty! Riggs stowed Gideon away in his bathroom – he tells Roger he can’t use it because the toilet is broken, and he’s been doing his business in the ocean – it’s very liberating.

Riggs finds out about the Cabin Trish rented for Roger and takes Gideon there. Inside, he continues to threaten him, but Lyon isn’t scared. He actually sees right through Riggs, telling him he’s not “ready” but then Riggs uses a battle axe to smash Gideon's left hand (with the blunt side).

Back at the office, Murtaugh is distressed. He tells Bailey to track Riggs’ phone. She types away on her keyboard and finds out he’s in: Lake Arrowhead! He must have used the cabin roger was supposed to stay at.

Riggs is beats Gideon up a little and his starts to think Gideon wasn’t actually there until he mentions blueberry pancakes. Riggs then beats him up more and holds a gun to his head but suddenly Roger shows up. They squabble but during this, Gideon escapes!

They chase after him but when he refuses to freeze for Roger, he shoots him in the hip and Gideon falls off a cliff into a river. Nobody could have survived that.

Back at the station, Avery says he doesn’t care what they’ve done – he can get them off. He just needs to know what they did. Classic Avery. Murtaugh covers for Riggs, but after he leaves, Roger asks for a new partner.  **(we will see how long that lasts)**

In his trailer, drinking whisky from the bottle, Riggs figures out Gideon was lying. He never actually had pancakes the day Miranda died, because he spilled the batter! A clue!

Naturally, he wants to tell his partner immediately (since they get along so well). He drives drunk to the Murtaugh mansion, but Roger is fed up. He tells him he asked to be reassigned, and Clayne is very upset. He’s about to leave when Trish suddenly comes and says he’s part of the family. But Riggs storms off almost crying.

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Next day, Roger shows up in a blue virgin suede suit. Bailey says he cleans up good (100% Damon wrote in that line) and tells him Riggs asked her to find files from El Paso.

Riggs meanwhile is already meeting with Ronnie Delgado (Tony Plana) (Mirandas dad and the City Attorney). He tells him it was a hit, but Ronnie tells him to let it go.

As he leaves, he tells him to forget this nonsense about Gideon – but Riggs never mentioned Gideon. Huh?

Wait…Uh oh!

Ronnie confesses that he works for the cartel. He couldn’t say no to them after what they did to his daughter – and Riggs’ wife, Miranda. Riggs presses him to know who ordered the hit when he comes out with a name: Tito Flores! It’s been him all along.

Anyway, Roger heads to the graduation, but suddenly gets kidnapped! Someone throws a bag over his head but he’s able to pop his assailant in the head - but quickly  gets abducted by a very multi-cultural cartel hit-squad.

His worldview shattered, Riggs leaves Ronnie's house when suddenly a SUV pulls up and guess who gets out? Gideon fucking Lyon!! He’s still alive. Yuuup. They take Clayne hostage and drive off, as Ronnie cries alligator tears.

Now, Riggs and Murtaugh are tied up in some warehouse, Roger is complaining about missing his sons most important day of his life. They start arguing and Gideon begins to torture them. Gideon is gonna torture Riggs, but not by actually doing anything to him. He is going to torture Riggs by making him watch **his Partner** die! They reveal a rented defibulator, and shock Roger to kill him with his own pacemaker - but Roger doesn’t reveal anything despite the pain.

All this time, Riggs has been sawing away at his binds with a little piece of scrap metal he found on the back of the chair, conveniently. He starts laughing to cause a distraction, and then in a split second frees himself, disarms a guard and with Murtaugh’s help takes out the bad guys. Somehow Murtaugh (after being tortured to the brink of death) got wise to what was going on and helped Clayne take down like 6 bad guys. Anyway, Gideon flees. Roger’s fine, American made pacemaker and all, and just wanders off, while Riggs chases after Gideon.

They hunt him down and Roger shoots at the guy who shocked him, dislodging a cable that falls to the wet ground – electrocuting him! Murtaugh quips: Payback’s a bitch!

Somehow, they’ve arrived at some sort of Subway tunnel, as Riggs wrestles Gideon on the tracks, and then just barely escapes the oncoming CGI-train. Gideon is dead *for reals* and Riggs just disappears like Batman. A still barefoot Murtaugh sees RJ graduate. Trish says “we did good”.  Fucking hell.

Sometime later, Roger goes to see Riggs – but his trailer is empty!

Ronnie Delgado is being arrested at the station, when Roger asks him where Clayne is. Ronnie tells him he’s gone to Mexico, to hunt Tito.

Riggs is already in Mexico and calls Tito on his cell to threaten him (sure, he has his number!).

Tito tells him he won’t leave Mexico alive, and Riggs says “that’s the idea!”

Roger then drives to Mexico. Maybe?

What a cliffhanger for Season 2! What will happen?!

Rating 18/18. A fitting finale. Can’t wait for the season 1 recap and to find out what happens with Riggs in the next season.

## AMPDate

Johnny was not living in Ozzy’s trailer on the AMP set after the latter was let go from the project.

Drew is going to move down to the USA so that Andy Dick can move in with him and study his Drewish ways. Mister Dick is doing this to prepare for the role of Drew in the AMP-Biopic/Mockumentary.

That said, it's been revealed that AMP is American in the pan-American sense.

AMP is not dead; Tom is a hater. (He doesn't listen to the episodes, so he won't hear Drew and Nate conniving against him at about 40 minutes into the episode.)

The Junkettes are still looking for a drummer!

### Cast members put forward this episode:

* Andy Dick as Drew
* Patton Oswalt as Nate
	+ Alternatives: Selena Gomez, Stuart Little (the very small mouse)
* Johnny Depp as Tom (both have long hair)

## Notable Quotes

### Nate

* "*I’m* a Rock-Dog."
* "An audio-montage?"
* “Can I get a little fucking credit for being right for fucking once!?”
* “This show’s the G.O.A.T!”

### Tom

* “Arrow bit your duck off.“
* “I’m just fuckin’ mixing my words up.”
* "We’re 18 episodes in, and I guess it just sort of dawned on me: Why did a Canadian create *American* Monty Python?”
* "I chop wood in my house!”  (his own wood, with a battle axe)

### Drew

* “I’m starting to think…that *Puffins* is not a real thing.”
* “Welcome to the Keith-love-cast.”
* “Rakin’ in the Crash.”
* “Nate, you are a mess.”
* “Fuck Tom. I’m sayin’ it.”

## The ClayneClandestine

Gideon completely undermines his bit about not technically having to answer Riggs' questions about whether he killed his wife because he only put in the orders when he admits to strangling her with his own hand in the subway scene.

## Trivia

* Drew **is** allowed to cross the border into the USA. He has done this many times in fact. However, when and where exactly, as well as *what* he did is classified information.
* Nate correctly identified Doc Walrus as the bad guy from Arctic Dogs (a.k.a. Arctic Justice) and Puffins.

### Votes

Since “this is a democracy”, contentious issues are put up to a vote. The following votes were conducted during this episode.

#### Vote 1

Should Andy Dick play Drew in the AMP Biopic directed by Joe Gord.

Aye: Nate, Tom

Nay: Drew

Result: Ayes have it. Andy Dick will play Drew in the AMP Biopic/Mockumentary

#### Vote 2

Fire Patton Oswalt as Nate in the AMP Biopic

Aye: Nate

Nay: Drew

Abstain: Tom

Results: Draw/split – Vote must be repeated. For now, Patton Oswalt will still play Nate.

#### Vote 3

Are the Hosts a lot more professional than “this” (= talking over each other, arguing/squabbling) and able to pull off the show.

Aye: Tom

Nay: Nate

Abstain: Drew

Results: Split/Draw. Vote must be repeated.

#### Vote 4

Drew does Audio montages (aka audio collages)

Results: Vote not conducted due to uncertainty about the questions details.

#### Vote 5

Nate as Andy Dick?

Yay: Drew

Nay:

Results: Still open! Let the hosts know in the comment section of this episode.

## Clayne-foreCasting

Nate will assume an Andy Cohen-esque persona for the season 1 recap next week.

All of our hosts will take to Twitch to stream some Lethal Weapon-adjacent content soon.