Season 3 Epsiode 6: We Hate Lethal Weapon

2:38 AM yogurt snack

Lethal Weapon is in the shitter! After a strong start, Season 3 STINKS. So we talk about ball torture, sounding and how much we love our sons instead!

## Episode Summary

Only 6 episodes into the season, the Boys don't give a fuck anymore. This may be prime lethal fatigue! Now granted, this show doesn't make it very easy, but we have faith they'll power through.

Nate shakes a bottle of Tajin, Drew shakes a box of a Lego BD-1.

We also get another Buzzfeed article, written by a severely disturbed journalist, about Brew's trip to Disneyland. It alleges that Brie was seen telling someone on the phone she can't live with a 'D' anymore - but who could she be talking about? Drew? Duck? Drews son DD?

### Father-Son-Updates

**Tom's** boy had to stay in the shed all week but again somehow escaped captivity. His current whereabouts are still unclear, but Tom leaves a plate of hush out on the porch and every morning, it's all gone! And he's also getting his hair gel back, so look out for some spiky styles! He also may be able to shift into a liquid form. Tom has bite marks on his arms from his son literally snapping at him. **Drew's** boy has been eating more (mainly yogurt and white bread), fueling his personal growth. They went to Disneyland with Brie but things got a little ugly. This is totally sending me. **Nate's** boy hasn't come out of his room much lately, mostly because he's afraid of the little elf on a shelf and L&O. He's also deathly afraid of losing to kids at chess. Despite some tough times, like when Nate tried to have his son killed, they all love their sons.

### Watch-a-long

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### Episode Recap

Cole is haunted by several characters from his CIA past. Murtaugh is haunted by his wife taking on clients in their living room. A rogue operative steals a hard drive with personal info about all CIA guys and their families, so of course Cole tries to stop him. Turns out, it's one of his old colleagues. Pressured by his recruiter, he tries to walk the line between covert ops and by-the-book detective. We get quite a few references to other movies and even some direct play-by-plays of previous episodes. All in all a boring episode that just sets up a potential enemy in Coles life.

- Roger
Episode directed by Keesha Sharp aka Trish! GOAT.

This episode starts in a big bank safe. While the guard is taking a leak, a robber comes into the safe mission impossible style, wearing the splinter cell outfit. In the bathroom, the guard notices something is up but it’s too late, the safes are empty! He tries to call it in but then the guy hangs back down from the vent and strangles him.
Cole is in a café with his daughter, Maya. She grills him about the CIA but he dodges questions. When she goes to pay, he suddenly sees a man standing outside on the other side of the street and gets a flashback to Panama 2004. There, he got thrown in a dank jail cell while drunk. That very same man is there and tries to recruit him, lauding his many skills. He speaks 7 languages, 8 if you count Esperanto. This guy wants total commitment from a drunk Cole, saying he has to make sacrifices like no friends or family. Then suddenly we’re back to the café and Maya and him leave.
Of course next is the MMM, he finds a youth lounging in his living room. Turns out it’s one of Trish’s clients – she has started a private practice in the house! Murtaugh is *sooooo* not having it.
At the scene of the robbery homicide, we need Bailey to save us aka do Murtaughs job for him. He gives her plate numbers but she is swamped, working without a partner for weeks now! He tells her to use Cole.
They go inside the safe where Cole got Murtaugh a scone but he ated it. Cole finds traces of hairspray which can illuminate the lasers. Then he figures out the thief walked in during bank hours, and entered the vault through a vent from the toilet.
At the morgue, Scorsese (who is indeed still on the show) swoons over Cole and found blood on the victim but they couldn’t match it – so he suspects a spy and suggests searching local hospitals.
Murtaugh and Cole drive to some Vet where they assume the killer has sought medical attention, and Cole mentions he was wounded in Panama once and had to break into a snake supply store to get medicine, even though he hates snakes.
Before he can elaborate, they hear shouts inside and Cole whips out a thieves tool of some kind and expertly lockpicks the door.
Inside, they search the place by holding their guns not at all like Clayne used to. They stumble upon Tom Barnes (Mykelti Williamson), the very man who recruited Cole back then in Panama and taught him everything he knows.
They go get breakfast! Steak and eggs. Barnes tells them the suspect is a Joshua Wilson, one of their former employees. He says Wilson reminds him a lot of Cole, and that they’re so similar. This episode is not unlike the Milk episode back in season 1, where Clayne had to chase down an ex-navy seal just like him. Anyway, Wilson is now apparently a contract killer in California, working for the notorious Saban Gashi (Gregory Scott Cummins), former arms dealer and now “broker” for shady deals.
Barnes “accidentally” spills his drink on Murtaughs pants, who runs off to the bathroom to clean up. He then insists Wilson can’t just be arrested, he needs to die. Cole rebukes him by saying one of the good things he can do now that he’s a cop is ask questions, talk the bad guy down. Not just shoot first and cover up later (quote). Hero.
Back at the station, Murtaugh fails at searching for Wilson, and Bailey comes back with a black eye! The plates Roger gave her turned out to be from the woman in his living room, who bought drugs and when Bailey tried to arrest her got sucker punched! Murtaugh is not respectful at all and scolds her! Fuck you Roger!
Wilson’s file is suspiciously short – just like Cole’s. When Murtaugh asks her about Saban Gashi, it only brings up a bunch of parking tickets from Elysian Park. Murtaugh suspects Gashi is holding meetings there, so he drives over.
Luckily, Gashi and Wilson both are meeting in the park!

Cole suggests leaving their guns to avoid a big escalation, but Murtaugh doesn’t care and shouts *LAPD* – of course then a gunfight breaks out.

Civilians scream and people run away, and Cole chases Wilson as Roger hides behind a dumpster shooting at the remaining bad guys. When Cole catches up to Wilson, he tells him to cuff himself instead of shooting him. Wilson realizes he won’t shoot him so they start a MMA fight. Eventually, Wilson stabs Cole with a barbeque skewer and somehow, gets away. Murtaugh still ends up killing 3 guys.

Once again we head back to the station. All but one of the many owners of lockboxes in the bank had contacted them regarding what they had in them, except for one – the owners of box **713**, a Fleming Inc, shell corporation. Roger suspects Barnes knows what was in that box. But we don’t find out, instead Cole has a flashback to a mission in Mexico back in 2005, and Scorsese admires him in a very tight shirt as we’ve come to expect him to wear. In the Flashback, Barnes ‘asks’ Cole to kill a Cartel guy, his first field assignment.

In the Murtaugh mansion, Murtaugh does a Pacino impression to try and pressure Trish into stopping her home practice, but just as he’s warning her about the kind of scum that could end up in their house, the very lady from the start shows up! Turns out, she’s a cop too. Womp womp. We’re not even halfway through yet.

Cole drives Maya home but thinks they’re being tailed. He gets out and yanks the driver out of the car but he says talk to Barnes. Eventually he confesses Wilson stole the ‘Special Ops list’ – the CIA list of missions and operatives. Mission impossible had the same plot?
He also tells him Cole and his family were on that list! Uh-oh.

They all drive to the diner from before, and Cole confronts Barnes. Barnes come clean and tells him Gashi was just the middleman, they need to find the buyer.
Cole’s flashback to Mexico continues, he is now in the bathroom with the target and shoots him, but for some reason, the guys wife comes in and starts screaming – and importantly, she sees Cole’s face.
Cut to the Mojave desert present day.
Cole and Barnes, are driving on the highway, followed by Murtaugh and Bailey. At some point, Cole pulls over and shoots out the tires on Murtaughs car, then they speed off.
Dumbfounded, Murtaugh commandeers the pink Cadillac of a very old just married couple, and speeds to the scene.
The scene is a gas station, where Cole heads inside while Barnes and the other agent who tailed him give him cover.
He tries to get Wilson to surrender, much to Barnes’s chagrin. Barnes keeps pressuring him to shoot, but Cole moves to block Barnes’ line of sight, and tosses Wilson the handcuffs.

Just then, two SUV’s arrive and Agent Chang tells Barnes ‘the buyers are here’.

In a crazy twist, the window rolls down and it’s none other than the woman who’s husband Cole shot in Panama, Sofia Vasquez. Barnes whips out a walkie talkie and says he doesn’t care how they do it, but he needs to get through to her now. That works, and he tells her he can deliver her what she really wants – Wes Cole – but no list, no buy. Just him.

She agrees and starts driving off, but then Roger and Sonya pull up in the pink Cadillac, and Sofia says to shoot these clowns. A gunfight breaks out, and many people are shot, Wilson grabs the hard drive and tries to escape in a SUV. Cole aims at his head, and eventually takes the shot. Wilson's brains are splattered across the windshield, but the large vehicle is still speeding towards Roger. Sonya shouts out **Roger!** (not unlike episode with the twins) because he is about to meet his death via vehicle, the most common way to die according to this show.

Roger is standing in the direct path of the car and Wilson is dead at the wheel and has stepped on the gas. Cole then shoots the tank cap of the car, which in this universe absolutely will cause the car to explode and flip into the air as we saw in the car killer episode. The car explodes and flips over Roger, who is safe, a very sweaty Cole throws down his gun disappointed, and everyone returns to the station unscathed.

There, Bailey informs Murtaugh a HiPo found the SUVs from the scene, but no drivers. Just then, Bailey’s new partner shows up – none other than the Lady from Murtaughs couch, Luisa Gutierrez. Most people call her Louie or the Gute. Be sure to remember this because it's very important.

Sonya and the Gute start some bantz but then Scorsese comes along and sees a gun in Gutierrez’s pants and, thinking she's just some gang member, shouts to warn Sonya. But before you know it, the Gute swings Scorsese to the floor and has him at gunpoint. Scorsese, meet the Gute!
We’ll miss you, Bowman.
Cole is sad but Murtaugh tells him he may have done what Barnes wanted, but he did it for the right reasons. Before Murtaugh can figure out what Cole did in Panama, he leaves through the elevator.
In the Murtaugh kitchen, Roger and Trish make up, Trish is drinking wine again and pours Roger a glass. She asks him to be patient and Roger tries to neg her but she’s too good for that. They laugh and drink their wine.

Cole is on the phone with Maya, his daughter, and assures her he’s going to pick her up after her recital, but just after he hangs up he gets kidnapped by several masked men! From her car, Sofia Vasquez watches with a nefarious grin.

## Notable Quotes

### Nate

* "We're not talkin' about wolves today."
* "I'm losing my mind."
* "I miss Keith so much."
* "All the D's are the problem!"
* "S'coolated?"
* "You're so candy-ass, your shit is so soft!"

### Tom

* "I don't give a shit, stinky."
* "Sounding Sunday!"
* "We're making America Steel again."
* "What's the Mandalorian?"
* "I like making a woman happy. Drew, you should write some of this down."

### Drew

* "Do *not* look at Scool's page."
* "I like Jamie Sweaty.."
* "*Jaakers*!"
* "Elon posts funny stuff."
* "I miss Keith."

## The Leftist Angle

The only thing to quote tweet Elon's tweets with is that picture of him and Ghislaine Maxwell, and a gun.

## CCEUpdates/AMPDates

**CCE** is being split up equally among the boys, in that each of them will get one of the letters. Tom and Nate get a C, and Drew gets the E.

Tom says CCE is about America first.

**Rhymeboys** - New Boyband with Tom and Nate

### Fun.2 in.format.ion

Fun.2 is currently on hold until they get the large custom made steel drums. Thanks to Brandon this is taking forever! But they will not stoop so low as to buy Chinese steel. They need American Steel.

## Get to know your Host(s)

Drew has taken Steroids in the past, but only for one cycle to see what it was all about. He was and continues to be ripped.

Nate and Tom went to the gym before they recorded this episode (not the same gym).

Disney Tom has a great relationship with his wife. They spend all day at Disneyland but he demands she drive him home before the fireworks.

Drew has never had a yogurt.

Nate recounts a story about being a complete psychopath to his wife, by acting like he can't hear her when she calls him. (he loves her.)

All 3 miss Keith, and it is decided in this episode that the next show they watch on the Pod *must* be one Keith reviewed.

None of the hosts are doctors.

## Trivia

Shady broker **Saban Gashi** from the lethal episode was indeed played by Mac’s Dad from It’s always sunny in Philadelphia, mister Gregory Scott Cummins.

Agar-agar is a plant based jelly-like substance that can be used in the kitchens of the world.

All of the big freaks are Canadian.

If you need to get in touch with Nate Ruess superstar singer songwriter grammy winner then just simply contact his manager, Tom @tom\_on\_here!

Hush is a traditional Chinese dish.

## Freaky Figures

A six pack a day of Activia yogurts, 7 days a week, 42 yoghurts a week is not a lot and totally fine. Tom said 35 but then quickly corrected himself to get the right number. He's still probably the best at maths out of all 3.

10 is more than 6.

## Clayne Clandestine

Nate absolutely talked about sounding in the past. Specifically, in Season 2 Episode 12 "Full Frontal". He also mentions he has a sounding device "right here" in this episode.

## Clayne-foreCasting

Nate and Tom will start their own Podcast/Show about Wives, and Drew will occasionally be featured as a guest.

Brie will be cast as the next Wonder Woman.

Nate will produce a dubstep track with Zuby.