Episode 14: You're An Emotional Terrorist Riggs

We are back to talk about Episode 14 of Lethal Weapon! The state of AMP is in jeopardy as Logic's inclusion as musical director is questioned...Riggs is an emotional terrorist and Damon Wayan's is GOATED with his leathers up...Plus a lot of great Montero!

## You're An Emotional Terrorist Riggs

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## Episode Summary

Nate is done. Tom is risen. Drew is AMPed.

#### 1.1 Lethal Weapon Episode Recap:

"The Murtaugh File"

This episode starts with a high octane showdown on a road between a guy on a motorcycle, and a big Pickup-truck. The Truck tries to ram the biker off the road, but he eventually speeds away. Later, the biker is enjoying the scenic view of a Californian canyon, when out of nowhere the Truck rams him off the side of a cliff! Congratulations to everyone who had “Vehicle used as Murder weapon” on their bingo card this week.

We cut to the Murtaughs, who are having a very sexual scenario in their bed. The kids are all out of the house, the baby is asleep, and they begin to get it on, but for some reason start talking about Riana, who lied about her whereabouts. They don’t get it on and instead choose to wait for her to get home.

The next day, Riggs is having his session with DOCTOR Cahill (portrayed by friend of the Pod, Jordana Brewster). He’s going on about chicken parm instead of sincerely opening up emotionally. On the way out he sees that Roger Mayfield Murtaugh also has a file, and gets curious. What could Roger be seeing a shrink for??

Afterwards, our two detectives show up at the crime scene. Roger is wearing a quite incredible outfit; a big beanie pulled down so low it covers the top of his shades, a blazer and work pants. Riggs tries to get some information out of him concerning his file in Cahills office, but Roger gives him nothing. Bailey’s got her own Bailey in the form of officer Jason Montero (Matthew Alan), a bumbling young Cop, who tries to tell them about what they know, but is bad at public speaking. The Biker had an action cam on his helmet, maybe there’s a video of the murder?

Murtaugh takes one look at the bike and says it’s a Yamaha R1, which comes fully equipped with GPS. Really Rog? He wants to use it to find the last address entered. But Bailey already did that! Murtaugh got schooled.

They go to the address in the GPS and **dun-dun-DUNNN**: it’s Dr. Cahills House!

She was dating the victim, a certain Sean Hawkins, for about a month. She is handling the news of his death surprisingly well. She says Sean was a Surfer (like her because she surfs), then Riggs almost steals her Tissues.

Riggs and Murtaugh head back to the station where they debrief Avery. Suddenly, Dr. Cahill shows up! Avery told her to stay home, but she has patients and insists that she needs to be here. Then Sonya walks in and has the video from the helmet cam. Again, Cahill insists on being present while they view the video, showing the violent death of her boyfriend. Cahill gets upset and absolutely storms out of there! She passes Montero but he doesn’t even enter Avery’s office as Murtaugh notices the license plate. They put out a BOLO and seemingly instantly find it's location.

They find the killing truck parked outside a house in the hills. The hood is still warm – which prompts Riggs and Murtaugh to both draw their guns and hold them close to their chest in a really badass way as they clear the house. It's completely empty, save for a camera with a huge zoom lens on it. Riggs looks through and sees it’s aimed right into Cahills living room. No Bueno. The Camera had a bunch of pics of her on it, this creep was stalking her! They realize she's in danger.

They immediately tell Avery this. He's brought in a “Special Master”, an outside shrink who will objectively assess Cahill's patients to determine a potential suspect. This Special Master comes in the form of Doctor Ronald Levinson (Johnny Sneed), who Maureen hates. He’s rifled through her files and already come up with someone: an ex-con named Kevin Flynn who made death threats to Cahill in the past.

Despite Cahills objection, Riggs and Murtaugh drive to his apartment, only to find out Flynn (Christopher Neimann) is but a bean of a man. They accuse him of stalking Cahill and whoop his ass, eventually Riggs hogties him with a telephone cord. Yeehaw! They bring him back to the station, but once there, Cahill tells them Flynn isn’t their man. She confronts him in the interview room and he reveals that he was taking care of his mom on the day of the crime.

Defeated, Riggs drives Cahill back home, where her ex-husband, Bradley, has broken in. Well technically it’s still his house and he had keys, but Riggs punches him and takes him to the ground, just in case. He claims to be concerned for Maureen but is just jealous and she tells Riggs to punch him again (he doesn't). He was a terrible husband, cheating on her (potentially even on their wedding day), and Drew accurately describes him as a 'stone-cold Pimp'.

At some point during all this, Trish and Roger raid their daughters room. They find a fake ID but just then, Riana comes home in that moment, and they’re forced to hide in her closet. She of course finds them and explains the fake ID is for WORK. She’s been “working” as a DJ and needs it to get into the clubs.

Levinson, the Special Master, has read both Riggs and Murtaughs file, and lets them know this condescendingly. He also knows all about “Brad”. Cahill also is back at the office and just so happens to get a call from Brad, asking where she is, since she texted him to meet her downtown. But she tells him *she* never did any such thing! Before he can make sense of it all, a person in a hoody walks past him and pushes him onto the street. He violently slams his head onto the pavement, and lays dazed as a big delivery truck is fast approaching.

Riggs has figured out what's going on in mere seconds, and somehow makes his way to the street, where he slides on his knees (on the pavement) and shoots a bullet precisely into the Trucks brake system. This is a tiny rubber tube only visible through a small gap, on a moving vehicle, but miraculously Riggs makes the shot, the brakes kick in and the Truck comes to a halt inches from Bradley.

Now they can rule out Brad, but Riggs is sent to keep an eye on Cahill. She’s having dinner at a nice Restaurant and asks him to join her. There she talks about their relationship and his progress, but Riggs is just happy to have a warm meal. It's a chicken parm! However she's much smarter than him and is using him as bait, because she figures the stalker is watching. He is.

Riggs drives her home, and even pretends to kiss her, then drives off, hoping to lure out the killer. Murtaugh is perched up on the other side of the canyon in Riggs' truck, keeping an eye on Cahill through night-vision binoculars. He finally reveals that he saw Cahill because he didn't take a shot one time when him and Avery were partners, even though Avery gave him the "secret signal" to take the shot; tapping his shoulder twice. Avery talked the guy down but it shook Murtaugh and he needed therapy because it affected his life, *intimate* areas of his life. So he went to see Cahill. Happy ending, and nine months later Murtaughs Daughter was born. Interesting wording.

Suddenly Sonya calls. Cahill had been getting flowers from a secret admirer, which a longshot DNA test revealed to be from dun dun dunnnn: Dr. Levinson! And just at this moment, Roger sees Levinson show up at Cahills house. Murtaugh calls her to tell her IT’S HIM and to get out ASAP, but he won’t let her leave. She tries to get by, when suddenly he gets shot straight through the heart from behind. By who you ask? **Monteroooooo**!

We all remember Montero, Bailey’s Bailey, from the 7 seconds he was on screen at the start of the episode. Turns out he was a patient of Cahills and became obsessed with her. Just before Riggs can show up, he turns the key on Cahills Fireplace, causing the room to fill with gas. Now he has them both at gunpoint. Any gunfire would cause an explosion, and Montero says he’s willing to die for Cahill.

Murtaugh watched the pilot so he knows Riggs has a bigass Sniper-Rifle in the back of his truck. He is a genius, and knows that he can fire it without causing an explosion in Cahills house, which has by now filled up with propane.

Riggs gives him the secret signal Roger just told him about (tapping his shoulder twice), and Rog takes the shot. He shoots Monteros hand even though he had his head in his crosshairs. Riggs grabs Cahill with one hand and with the other chucks a vase through the window, and they leap into her pool just before Montero can grab his gun and fire recklessly, causing the house to explode.

They survive the massive explosion unharmed and, still in the pool, Cahill quips that Brad actually *can* keep the house. Riggs chuckles.

Avery praises Roger for taking the shot and doctor Cahill tells Riggs that she can’t see him anymore after “something like this”. She seems more broken up about this than when they told her that her boyfriend got murdered, but whatever! She even says thank you Riggs and he leaves, gun still sticking out the back of his pants.

In what looks like a university library, the Murtaughs attend one of Rianas raves and dance to the music.

Later that night, Cahill notices something on her balcony, which turns out to be Riggs balancing on the ledge. He says he’s gonna jump if she doesn’t resume seeing him, which she agrees to, but states “**You’re an emotional terrorist, Riggs!**”. He comes down from the ledge, taps her on the shoulder and says “Good Session”, which is also coincidentally the name of the shows production company. Very clever...

This was a great episode. Truly phenomenal television. The main plot was that Cahill had a stalker who kept sending her flowers and such. He also happened to run her new boyfriend off the road and killed him. We learned a more about Cahill and a little more about Murtaugh.

Score: 14.5/10

## The Leftist Angle

ClayneCast (and Podcasting in general) is work.

Don't dox Drew.

The people who are supposed to be detectives only want to shoot people.

Coffee and tea are hardcore drugs that will kill you. They are dangerous, people will get addicted to them.

## AMPDate

Tom died on Sunday and stayed dead through Monday, causing Ozzy to be a bit shaken. The lot has not yet been paved. In spite of these obstacles, AMP is gonna rock.
Tom Hanks will host if there's going to be hosts and if Tom agrees to cede his monopoly on his first name. His episode will feature a sketch in which Ozzy plays all of the parts in Forrest Gump.

In other news, Nate is thinking about canning Bobby. He's taken some things to HR.

## Notable Quotes

### Nate

* "Oh NOOO...1488 no bueno!"
* "A bean of light? Wowww."
* "Oh my god that's so many backslashes!"
* "As a guy who's married into a family of DJs; it's a low maintenance job. It's extremely easy. From what I've seen."

### Tommy the Dark Angel

* "First of all, I'm a being of light, it's been well established."
* "Look, if someone got parked on, I would expect everyone to be donating to their GoFundMe, even six years from now."
* "Dun dun dunnnnnn" (for the big reveals/plot twists)

### Drew

* "It's Chekhov's gun!"
* "We're amped about AMP."
* "Brad is gonna be big in season 4!"
* "Welcome everyone, to Globe Hell...wait, no..fuck off."

## Freaky Figures

Dun-dun-dunnnnn count: 3 by Tom, 1 by Nate and 1 by Drew. What a twist!

Nate actually mentions his computer more times than Tom dun-dun-duns (at least six times).

## The ClayneClandestine

* Cahill didn't just label Roger's file as "R.M. Murtaugh" -- the end of the episode reveals that that's also how she put down Roger's name in her phone.
* How did Dr. Levinson know what Riggs and Murtaugh look like? Do they keep pictures in those files?
* Dr. Levinson was not in love with Cahill/her second stalker. He certainly was weird towards her, but Montero used Levinson's chewing gum to plant his DNA on the gifts he sent Cahill, and he also arranged for him to show up at Cahills place before shooting him.

## Trivia

* Nate was very well behaved this episode, despite the provocations from *certain* other hosts, he held back and didn't even so much as raise his voice.
* The name of the popster who collab'd with Wiz Khalifa is Charlie Puth.
* Nate now has a powerful new gaming computer that can display that little bar thingy aka backslashes.

## Clayne-foreCasting

Drew is going to direct a commercial starring Johnny Depp, which will feature extensive pyrotechnics.

Nate will collab with Vo Williams, who will do the music for Lethal Weapon season 4 (not Bobby). Johnny Depp may play guitar.

Bobby's 2024 album release will coincide with the premiere of Lethal Weapon season 4. Drew will fund Depp's comeback, making a thousand milli in the process.