Clayne Cast Episode 1

Episode 1 of the Clayne Cast with Nate, Tom and Drew. We will watch every episode of Lethal Weapon the TV Series and Nate is famous.

## Clayne Cast Episode 1

### Next Episode

Episode 2: Loose Gunpowder (Title By Nate)

## Episode Summary

What's happened to singer-songwriter Nate Ruess? How did 18-year-old Drew acquire a $10,000 guitar for just $40,000? What does conception mean? Is The Joker really a bad guy? Does it matter how Riggs and Murtaugh ended up at the warehouse? Has Nate ever listened to The Daily? All of these questions and more are answered in the debut episode of ClayneCast.

### Lethal Weapon Episode Recap

Episode title: "New in town"

The first episode of this glorious TV Show starts with Martin Riggs (played by Clayne Crawford) and his unnamed Partner in hot pursuit of criminals in the desert. The criminals fire automatic weapons at them, but Riggs doesn’t mind. His wife calls him to tell him she’s in labor, their baby is coming out! With no time to waste, he decides to use a large caliber sniper rifle to, against all odds, blow out one of the wheels on the criminal’s van. This causes it to instantly flip over and roll to a halt near the edge of a cliff.

Riggs lets his Partner take care of the bad guys and heads to the hospital. He’s in a great mood, but that changes once he hears there’s been an accident involving his wife, Miranda. She was hit by a big Truck and both her and the unborn child are dead. One of the nurses hands him Mirandas necklace, and he breaks down crying in slow motion.

In a different part of town, in a very luxurious house, Roger Mayfield Murtaugh (played by Damon Wayans) is in bed with his wife, Trish (Keesha Sharp). He recently had a heart attack in the delivery room during his third childs birth. Due to this, he always wears a fitness-tracker on his wrist to monitor his heart rate. We also see a large scar on his chest – a pacemaker. He asks his wife for a blowjob since it’s his birthday, but just before she can slide under the covers their baby monitor goes off – Harper, their infant daughter is crying. Roger tells her to ignore it and motions towards his groin, but she laughs it off and of course takes care of their baby.

It’s a new day and Martin Riggs wakes up in his Trailer. This is presumably some time after his wife and child were killed. As the hosts have been trying to establish, it appears to be a few months, but certainly not more than a year. Anyway, Riggs gets blinded by the sun and awakes. He takes a swig of beer and eats some leftover fast food (in the saddest way possible) and then spins a pistol on the table dramatically, when suddenly the LAPD calls his cell phone.

Breakfast at the Murtaughs is much different. The whole family is gathered in their white marble kitchen. This is a common pattern in the show, and many of these scenes appear copied straight from Damon Wayans previous show, My Wife and Kids. We are introduced to his two other children, Riana (Chandler Kinney) and Roger Junior (Dante Brown) a.k.a. RJ.

Trish is concerned for Rogers health but he's determined to act like a tough guy. He returns to the Station where everyone cheers because he’s back. The Captain, Brooks Avery (Kevin Rahm, not James Spader) asks him in his office. They’re good friends, as they used to be partners, but now Avery is dressed in fancy suits and has a corner office. He tells Murtaugh he’s assigned him a new partner, a certain Martin Riggs. This guy is an ex-Marine war-hero with PTSD, and Roger isn’t happy. He wants to take it easy! But Avery tells him the state’s attorney personally put in the request, so his hands are tied.

Their reunion is cut short though when a fellow officer tells them there’s a bank robbery in progress, with hostages! Roger zips over and is getting briefed by a cop when Riggs walks up and starts giving him tips. Murtaugh doesn’t know him yet, so he just thinks it’s a civilian and is having none of it. Riggs takes a few boxes of pizzas that just happened to be there and heads straight into the bank. Also at this robbery is Dr. Maureen Cahill (Jordana Brewster, friend of ~~the Pod~~ Tom and Nate), the LAPD’s Psychologist/Shrink. Why she is there no-one knows.

In a very *Dark Knight*-esque scene, Riggs waltzes into the Bank and offers the robbers Pizzas. One of them smacks them out of his hand and makes him kneel at gunpoint. He tells the robbers they’ll need to show the cops they’re serious by killing a hostage, otherwise they won’t get their escape helicopter. Then it’s revealed one of them Is wearing Bomb-vest, which is set to blow if the guy wearing it releases a dead mans switch.

Before we proceed, something you need to know is; Riggs is suicidal. He *wants* to die. This is something that we are reminded of often. He’s reckless and wild! He grabs the barrel of the bank robbers’ gun and pulls it to his forehead, then starts counting to three, but suddenly uses the gun to butt the guy in the face, shoots the two other robbers and then spins around to execute the final one. The bombs timer starts and the hostages flee, even Clayne eventually strolls out nonchalantly eating a slice of pizza. He introduces himself to Roger and the building blows up. Lethal Weapon!

What we later find out to be the same day, Riggs is in Cahill’s office discussing the bank robbery/bombin. She has to clear him for duty again after he killed those 3 guys and endangered others. She’s tells him he has to hand in his gun and badge until Internal Affairs can clear him fit for duty again.

In Avery’s office, Roger *Mayfield* Murtaugh is shouting about how terrible Clayne is. He wants him gone but Avery reiterates how the order came from the top! Just then, Riggs himself pops in and says they got a homicide, and the unlikely partners head to a crime scene.

There’s a dead body, Ramon Alvarez, on a mountain. He shot himself (in his right temple). Here, the Coroner/Scientist Scorsese (Jonathan Fernandez) He has no relation to Martin Scorsese, he just wrote a script once so everyone at the Station calls him that. The Murder seems open and shut. But then Riggs asks how this guy got here. Did he drive a bike, did he Uber? They find Dog-Tags and Riggs decides to give a fellow soldier a proper investigation and do him justice.

They show up at his family’s house, where his wife and kids are upset – they were just about to head to Arizona for a “fresh start” next week! Now Dad is dead. She tells them everything was going well, no reason for a suicide, and that he was working for the Port Authority. On the way out, Roger notices the Alvarez’s kid playing with a baseball mitt. With his giant brain he realizes it’s for a left handed thrower – so Alvarez used his non dominant hand to shoot himself? It all stinks.

They head to the port authority to ask about Alvarez, only to find a huge warehouse with nothing but 4 Lamborghinis inside, one of which is spinning donuts.Riggs instantly spots a guy with a neck tattoo which he says is from the Juarez Cartel, and just starts chasing him. There’s a scuffle and the bad guy gets away in a mustang. Riggs and Murtaugh chase after him, only to crash into a part of the Grand Prix racetrack, which happens to currently be taking place in L.A.. They chase the bad guy who at one point even shoots at them, but eventually Riggs jumps out and rides the roof, punching the driver. At no point does the driver shoot at Riggs again, but just gets punched and crashes his car, knocking Riggs off. Before they can arrest him however, a bus runs him over. Oops.

Riggs and Murtaugh tell Avery about their little mishap and he shouts a lot but only ends up granting Roger his wish: reassigning both of them new partners. Riggs acts likes he’s not hurt, and Roger says he just doesn’t want to be the cowboy anymore. Riggs basically calls Roger a chickenshit and says he shouldn’t be a cop.

Later that night Riggs is feeling bad and shows up at the Murtaughs Place to apologize, but when Trish notices him, she instantly invites him in for dinner, to Roger’s dismay. He inhales the food, probably the first warm meal he’s had in a while, and they quiz him about his past. Trish notices his Wedding Ring, and when he tells her he’s not married anymore, Roger jokes it’s probably because he had an affair with his gun! Riggs sighs and tells them she died, everyone is sad but lucky for Roger, the baby monitor goes off and he runs to take care of it.

Sometime later, they’re in the Morgue. Scorsese tells them it doesn’t look like a suicide, all of this seems like it was staged.

Riggs heads to Mrs. Alvarez again to ask her some more questions, but she asks him to leave. He closes the door, but of course does not leave and simply sneaks around back to break in, then grabs her from behind and takes her to the floor. It’s totally dark and he only later identifies himself, that’s so scary Riggs! She eventually tells him her son got kidnapped by the cartel and they want the Drugs her husband stole. Riggs says he’ll bring her boy home and heads to his trailer, to arm himself to the teeth.

Murtaugh shows up at the trailer and tells Riggs he found out the victim’s boss at the port was also his squad leader in Iraq. They had history. Riggs decides he has to “do this” alone and handcuffs Roger to his Kitchen and steals his car. Not cool!

Riggs shows up at the Warehouse, and demands the kid back, but the bad guys outnumber him and force him to put his rifle down. But just before he gets shot Murtaugh crashes through a window in Riggs’ truck, squashing a few gunmen! In the heat of the moment, Riggs shoots the Boss in the chest and Murtaugh finishes off the rest of them with his pistol, while still sliding in the truck.

They have the kid in safety and walk outside, when suddenly Riggs gets shot in the shoulder. It's Ramons Boss from Iraq, the other Marine sniper! He's on an adjacent building, but they can't really see him due to blindingly bright floodlights on the buildings roof. They duck behind some conveniently placed crates, but roger only has one bullet left. So, Riggs comes up with a plan: he’s gonna stand up and distract the sniper, who will shoot Clayne and thus reveal his position, for Roger to shoot him. He tells Roger he just *wants to see his girl again*, and he reluctantly accepts the plan.

Riggs gets up and talks to the sniper about releasing the kid, but the sniper only reloads and takes aim. Rigg’s is staring dreamy eyed into the bright lights on top of the building, thinking about being back with his dead wife soon. Roger peeks around the crate and aims at the sniper, but then he notices Riggs’ rifle on the ground next to him, so he hatches a plan which sets in motion a series of events that can only be described as one of the best scenes of this show. Roger decides to shoot Riggs in the top of the foot, causing Riggs to fall to the ground, the sniper to miss his shot, and then Riggs somehow realizing what’s going on, grabbing his rifle from the ground and oneshotting the sniper against the bright lights. The bad guy falls to his death and they rescue the kid. Yay!

Back at the Station, Ronnie Delgado, the city attorney and Mirandas (Riggs’ dead wife) Dad, “fixed” things with internal affairs for Riggs, so he can have his gun and badge back. So nice to see corruption alive and well.

Riggs drops off a bottle of Whiskey at Murtaughs, to thank him for saving his life. But Murtaugh wants him to buzz off since Trish is about to finally give him that birthday-BJ. Trish however hears the commotion and of course invites him in. The episode ends ends with Riggs asking if they have anything to eat.

A small taste of how amazing this show was and why it needs to be renewed for season 4.

## Notable Quotes

### Nate

* "I lost to the racist Lorde song, and eight years later, I'm making a podcast with you guys"
* "I think we should pivot to a Fast and Furious pod"
* "Baby's got a fivehead."
* "I DON'T REMEMBER THIS FOR A REASON"
* "Oh, this is the action, this is the stuff I'm into, right Drew?"

### Tom

* "That's why I was brought on this podcast -- for the great ideas"
* "People ask me if I've watched Ted Lasso, and I tell them 'No, but I can tell you Joey's World Tour has gotten a lot bigger or Blond Boy's doing better'"
* "I'm gonna become like a reddit atheist guy. I'm gonna start showing up to masses, and trying to refute during the homily."
* "I wouldn't feel comfortable, but I feel like we would get the job done, if that job was killing an indiscriminate amount of people in the greater LA region"

### Drew

* "You know what? I'm already rich, man. I'm ready to be famous"
* "They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but inside this briefcase was a picture worth $10,000"
* "I've dazzled audiences"
* "Welcome everyone, to the Lethal Weapon Podcast, everybody's so excited. Nate, you've got the Wikipedia open. Tom, I think you got the Wikipedia open. I'm gonna get the Wikipedia open, cause I don't remember what happens in this episode..."

## Trivia

* "Tom's Attention to Detail" was voted as Nate's twitter followers' favorite part of this episode.
* Drew has read The God Delusion.

## Clayne-foreCasting

Drew is going to collab with Vo Williams for the upcoming ClayneCast theme song.