RIP Johnny Depp

After a week of healing Nate has returned with a brand new attitude. Johnny Depp has passed on so there is a bunch of AMP news. Will the Paver be the end of the Clayne Cast friendship?

## RIP Johnny Depp

### Previous episode:

Episode 1: Floor Level Stain Glassed Window

### Next episode:

Seasone 2 Episode 3: Business Doggies and Nate

## Episode Summary

Nate's thing is cancelling, Tom’s thing Is vacationing, Drew’s thing is NSFW 8AM baby Yoda fights. Nate goes NPR, Tom goes Travel Channel, Drew never ever goes Food Network, and AMP (spoiler alert!) goes BBC as Johnny Depp goes night-night. ClayneCast goes Metaverse? Everything is chill and Ringo and it’s still all love.

### Lethal Weapon Season 2 Episode 2 Recap:

Episode Title: "Dancing in September"

> “There’s no Eric.”
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A Cosmetic surgeon is murdered in a fancy hillside home, but it goes much deeper than that, as our detectives discover a “drug” ring tied to the Russian Mob!

RJ (Roger Junior) is moving out FINALLY YES but Murtaugh throws out his back and falls to the ground when he tries to lift one of the boxes. Trish comes in and lies down next to him flirtatiously, not concerned at all by her husbands health emergency.

Riggs is back in LA after a tumultuous hunting trip in Mexico, which ended with Riggs blowing up a bunch of bad guys in a church with a rocket launcher. They had arrested that one Cartel guy who promised to give up a bunch of names but (big surprise) he never shows up again and it’s as if all the past episodes never happened.

Anyway, Riggs is *back*!

He’s early for his appointment with Dr. Cahill, a first! She is very understanding of course, so she lets him rant about how “he’s fixed now”, now that Tito is dead, and Miranda’s death has been resolved, right? Sort of. She doubts him. Something about “he’s so good now” and tells her about Karen and he doesn’t know how to be normal. He found a business card of Karen Palmers while cleaning guns and thinks it’s a sign.

He suggests maybe he’s *too* normal, which Cahill laughs off.

Over in the Hollywood hills, Sonya is walking Murtaugh around the crime scene, when Riggs suddenly jumps up from behind a bush, with a syringe in an evidence bag. He noted a bunch of bikinis too. He says since there are so many wild drugs involved, they need to call the DEA. But then he notices Murtaughs sore back and uses a Navy seal first aid technique to yank it back into place. You’re welcome! Normal Riggs!

Back in Avery office they tell him that, much to Avery’s amazement, they neither blew anything up nor ran over any pedestrians. But we can see Avery is troubled because he does the classic move of looking out the window longingly, and when pushed by Roger he comes clean: there’s a department audit happening after the IA investigation last episode. Oh and it's happening today! Deputy chief Gina Santos (Michelle Hurd) is the one to do it, and SHE is Murtaughs ex-partner. Another one of his old partners. He says they once had a moment with a finger lingering and it’s totally useless just ignore it.

Bailey saves us by bringing info on the victim. Some doctor. He had a bunch of pheromones. And hands them new bodycams as part of the audit. Good to see police being held accountable. Well, in theory anyway.

Riggs and Murtaugh head to the clinic where the doctor worked and question another doctor there. While in the hallway they bump into some lady in shades who acts shifty, but nothing comes of it, or does it?

They investigate further and come upon a huge door that says “authorized personnel only”. Riggs wants to burst in, but Roger reminds him of the Bodycams. Riggs doesn’t care and does indeed burst in, the way he always does. They find 2 shady lookin’ dudes rifling through files. Naturally, a chase ensues! After some roughhousing however, Riggs’ Camera breaks and one of the bad guys escapes. Oh and the other one dies brutally.

This takes us back to the station, where Santos says she’s a fan of inter-agency cooperation, so she backs Riggs in his plan to involve the DEA. AKA Palmer.

He zips over to the DEA HQ and surprises Karen at her desk. She’s been benched, down to transcribing phone conversations with weed dealers. This is punishment for last episode, where she gave Riggs a file on Miranda's death that led to a series of events which snowballed into an international incident and created a huge power vacuum in the criminal underworld. He tells her about the case and plugs a thumb drive into her screen, and the video from his bodycam instantly starts playing.

She is ice cold though and shoots him down since it’s “only” steroids. What is she, the FDA? She scoffs and Riggs leaves, but then she notices a familiar face on the video!

RJ is still moving out, suddenly Roger has a sore back again. Trish thinks he needs to leave “the nest” though, even if Roger is enticed by the thought of RJ staying at home. Fuck off RJ.

Riggs spent all night looking through files of Russians until Avery shows up and just then he happens to find the guy’s who they caught, a certain Sergeyi Kryev or whatever and they’re tied to the Russian Mob. Avery wants to come with Riggs to investigate, since he will use any excuse to leave the station, and thus escape deputy inspector Santos’ judgmental gaze.

Oh yeah, Trish (because she is so perfect) bought Murtaugh a spa day at a clinic for his back. But it turns out, it’s the SAME CLINIC the victim worked at.

This is insane. This is a conflict of interest.

Murtaugh is at the clinic, we’ll just ignore the murder and everything else. He is about to enjoy a nice spa day when he hears Clayne and Avery talking about their Jobs.

But before he can say hello to his friend, they check in on Dr. Weller and notice “objects shattering” – probable cause! Riggs kicks in the door and they find Weller tortured and killed, by Sergey. Riggs chases him, but dun dun dunnnn Palmer jumps out from behind a SUV and clotheslines him. SHE arrests him, to which Riggs and Avery object, but she disregards the whole taskforce thing, and then suddenly Murtaugh shows up. He’s fully dressed again and says a bunch of misogynistic things about Karen.

As they tell Santos, they lost the same suspect twice, L.A.’s finest, and she scolds them accordingly.

At the Morgue, Scorsese is very unprofessional, as per usual. Murtaugh, Avery and Riggs are all gathered around the dead body of Dr. Weller, when Karen calls. They’re all giving Riggs tips on how to chat to her like it’s a high school romance. They both don’t know what really is going on, but sort of find out what the other one knows through a playful phone call, and she eventually reveals the guy they have is working for renowned Russian mobster Christian Orloff. (Subtitled Riggs says *Orlov*, but IMDB says Orloff).

Now we get to Bailey and the true highlight of this episode. They tell her to find the names of all the patients of one doctor in LA, Dr. Harris (the first victim). She does this, **instantly**. The person they’re looking for is on the run from the Mob, so they must have paid in cash to avoid a paper trail. They tell Bailey to filter the patients based on who paid cash, which again **she does within seconds**. During this the three of them chant “Bailey! Bailey! Bailey!”, it rocks.

Bailey is the GOAT.

She finds ONE name, Sara Burns, who paid in cash. Boom.

They head to the pharmacy where her pain meds were sent, something Avery suggests. Good call!

At the pharmacy, Karen suddenly appears and big surprise they bump into Sara. How freakin’ convenient. They take her in and interview her.

The dead Doctor gave her a whole new face (face off joke here), so she could escape the clutches of the evil Mafia.

She’s just a CPA, she thought this was a dream job! But she got lured into criminal activities somehow. She stole a shipping manifest or something to somehow blackmail the Mobster? Something like that. This whole time, Karen is very judgmental of her. “Stole his money, bought some boobs!” she says condescendingly.

Clayne winks at Sara, tells her she’s free to go but then she reveals that *she* killed Dr. Harris! (The victim from the beginning). He knew she had stolen those documents and was extorting her.

Murder solved.

The End.

Or is it?

NOPE!

They all realize that Orloff, the Russian Mobster Kingpin, doesn’t know what Sara looks like now, only that she’s a blonde – so Karen volunteers to go in her place.

She boards Orloff’s Ship and Riggs tells her through her earpiece that she needs to get him to confess to crimes. No shit. Bailey and Sara (the murderer) are both listening in from the station, and Avery Riggs and Murtaugh are observing on Avery and Todd's fishing boat. Orloff tests her by saying something about an Eric in accounting, but she somehow knows “there is no Eric” in accounting, making Orloff trust her. Damn she’s good.

They make a deal on the boat, and he wants her to get into a red bikini. Hand check!

He then reveals that he knows Sara stole the shipping manifest, and that she (Karen) will be tortured until she reveals where it is. The boat speeds off but Riggs jumps into the bay and hangs on to the anchor, eventually climbing aboard and killing the entire staff/crew.

Avery chases after them in the boat and Murtaugh covers Riggs with his pistol, taking out the remaining bad guys.

Finally, Riggs runs into Karen and it’s like Overboard – but then Orloff jumps behind her and has her at gunpoint.

Riggs manages to mutter “Hey Palmer? Duck.”

She ducks, and Murtaugh fires a harpoon through Orloff's heart, which we see in graphic detail.

Avery shouts “CALL HIM ISHMAEL!”

What a great show.

Back at the station everything gets wrapped up in under a minute, and then Cahill shows up to set Riggs straight. But just before he can really open up to her, Avery yells “Armed robbery east L.A., who wants it?” and Riggs jumps up to take it. Sorry doc. Bad guys, gotta go! (Never mind that he’s a homicide detective)

Murtaugh and Trish give RJ his last box of stuff at the Dorm, and Trish finds out he’s in Co-ed dorms when a girl flirts with RJ and *AHHHHHHH* actually she suddenly has fears of parting with her son, and Murtaugh of all people tells her to play it cool. Good Riddance RJ, little freak.

When Riggs shows up in the gas station, instead of some thugs he finds dun dun DUNNN **Karen**! She hides two bottles of booze in her blazer and says “I’m armed, and I’m robbing the place!” they run out with the stolen goods and make out in a dirty alley as police cars race by with sirens blaring and lights flashing.

Lots of gleeful killing in this episode, the show is finally returning to its roots and it’s great. Clayne has a really demonic smile after offing even just the most low ranking nobody bad guys, plus we get a full frontal close up shot of a guy getting harpoon’d through the heart! Avery got some much deserved screen time again, give us more of him and Bailey!

Anyway, I bet Santos will show up in the next episode and I sure hope the Audit goes well for Avery!

## The Leftist Angle

Doctors do cocaine, and that's why it should be legal.

## Notable Quotes

### Dead Air Drew aka Drizzo

* "Don't we have actual stuff to talk about?"
* "I just don't think eating is something that should be done in public"
* “I think she’s a babe in both.” (both faces of Sara Burns, from the episode)
* “We’re all Ringo!“
* “If I wanted you to snap, you’d be broken.” (***NOT*** a threat to Nate, simply stating a fact. Like a twig.)

### Tom the snake

* “You’re so boring. You’re so boring, ughhh.”
* “I don’t care what you think, you little freak.”
* “It’s cool to smoke mids.”
* "We all hate the sound of your voice!" (To Nate)

### Boston Nate

* "My thing is canceling"
* "You don't have a queue of all the weirdos?"
* (Muted yet somehow yelling) Let’s go!!”
* “She’s the new Cruz!” (Karen Palmer)
* “I’m looking at you and I’m saying, ‘Eat shit’. You hear me?” (to drew) ☹
* “But it’s so good, it’s **so** good!” (Talking about the show which we all watch and love, right?)

## Get to Know Your Hosts (New category!)

This newly established segment will allow two of the hosts to ask the third one up to 3 questions each. We start it off this week with Drew!

Episode one: Drew

(But Tom also butts in and answers some)

### Questions:

As asked by Nate

Q: How you doin’ today?

A: Great

Q: How are you doing today? (but Tom asks)

A: Great

Q: Do you collect freaks or send them in real time?

A: real time

Q: Do you bookmark the freaks?

A: No. But he usually keeps one person in mind that acts as a gateway.

Q: What’s your favorite Restaurant to go to

A: Don’t like eating in public. Drew doesn’t think eating is something that should be done in public!

Q: What kind of creamer do you use?

A: None, coffee = black.

(Tom says "man made", thanks Tom.)

Thanks for these Insights into the Drewniverse!

## AMPDate

Amp is 100% Dead.

It has been hijacked by the BBC, it was kidnapped and killed by Johnny Depp. They’re gonna develop British AMP (bAMP). OB may have been involved in the heist.

However, with the passing of Johnny Depp the rights to AMP (and bAMP) go back to ClayneCast! Phew!

### *Big paver news*

There’s been a Creative rift regarding casting.

Lizzo needs to be involved.

Joe Gord WOULD be great in the paver but *SOMEONE* ruined that when they had to have a moment.

And James Comey makes a comeback and Lizzo is fucking in it too because It’s Nate’s fucking project!

## Leftist Angle

The drugs were steroids but however, legalize all drugs!

Doctors do cocaine, so it has to be legal.

## Clayne-foreCasting:

The hosts will establish an Office/Church in the metaverse but also in Iowa, where the NFTs will be on display.

## Trivia

Tom would be Riggs, Nate would be Murtaugh, and Drew would be Avery.

Nate’s getting his driveway painted

The ClayneCast Foundation has secured 2 Never fear Truth NFTs; the Marlon Brando one and the Andy Dick one (Tim Burton)

### Forbidden words

Several utterances of forbidden words stayed in the recording despite Drew's editing. It's currently unclear if there is any punishment for this.

## Freaky Figures

RUNNING TIME 44 Minutes

Drew Nate and Tom are just three normal guys.

It only took Nate 18 minutes and 35 seconds to go from barely audible muttering to shouting at the top of his little lungs.

This is the second episode where Riggs yells at Karen Palmer to "DUCK!", the first being in Season 1 Episode 7.