Season 2 Episode 7: Wet Right Hand

Double espresso hold the creamer (brought my own)

We are back to talk about what to put in your coffee! Mayhem the open world MMORPG! AMP Stands for AMERICAN MONTY PYTHON. Plus we discuss episode 7 of Lethal Weapon season 2.

## Episode Summary

What an episode. After last week's CCE business meeting, we're back to Lethal!

### Lethal Weapon episode recap

> “You traumatized Scottie Pippen!”
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**Season 2 Episode 7:** "Birdwatching"

A surfer winds up dead on the beach, and Riggs and Murtaughs lack of sleep affects both of their ability to solve crimes. Riggs has is having nightmares about his dad.

Riggs finds a dead body on the beach with a raven cawing on top of it. He turns it around but suddenly it’s HIS DAD! It was just a dream though, phew! He wakes up and immediately goes to see Cahill. But not to talk about his nightmares, he just wants sleeping pills! She of course wants him to talk about what dreams he’s been having. Naturally this just makes Riggs storm off.

Then, like in every every every episode, we are in the Murtaugh's kitchen. Roger hasn’t slept because their baby, Harper, cries so much and Trish’s phone was beeping all night. She’s texting with some Scott from work, for the big gala she's attending tonight. Murtaugh still doesn't trust her but she tells him not to worry.

Then they’re at a crime scene, it’s on the beach and once again a Raven is there cawing beautifully to which Riggs asks if it’s illegal to shoot Ravens in California (YES IT IS YOU FREAK!). It’s some surfer with a head wound, but not from a fall – Scorsese is there too and finds some metal in the wound! Foul play.

They head back to the station, where Rog informs Avery about Trish’s Texting, but he tells him he’s blowing things out of proportion until he tells him she’s been giggling! Giggle texts, oh no! Then the B-Team shows up and inform them about a violent surfer gang called the Shore Boys. Since Bowman used to be a great surfer, they get sent to follow it up and Murtaugh gets assigned to check on a neighbor who complained about surfers. He’s upset but Avery tells him “Duuuude, chillaaax!”

Riggs and Murtaugh show up at the noise complaint ,where they meet Tom Noble (Andy Buckley, from the office). Mansion on the beach more like it - he's super rich! He tells them about the surfers and that the cops never “do” anything. He wants them to shoot the surfers I guess? At some point his adult son comes home but denies knowing anything about the murder/body and then just stomps off like a little brat.

Riggs tries to operate the coffee machine but it won't stop and he ends up drinking several cups of coffee.

They find out Noble’s also going to the gala Trish is going to, since he's a big donor. Then he reveals the leader of the Shore boys is some dude called Cody Lewis.

The B-Team is already at the local bar, where they hope to find Cody. Bowman gets his third high-five since they’ve been there and when the Barkeeper gives them shots on the house, Bailey wants to know what’s up. Bowman lived and surfed around here as a kid. One day he punched out a shark and saved five kids! So he’s a legend. They ask the Bartender where Cody might be and she points him out with her eyes.

Cody (Zach McGowan, NOT Shane McGowan's son, Drew is just messing with you) sees them looking at him and bolts, of course. They chase after him and some random bar patron gives Bowman his **fourth** high-five as they run out!

Just then, Riggs and Murtaugh show up. Like in all the other episodes, a chase ensues. Riggs runs after them on foot, hopped up on all the coffee from Nobles house, with Murtaugh following in the car, driving in reverse. So dangerous Roger!

Eventually, they cut him off and Riggs launches himself off the hood and crashes into Cody. Then, yet another Raven is sitting on a Homeless persons Bags, and Riggs pulls a gun on it. Sheesh! But he calms down and they arrest Cody.

In the Interrogation room, Cody denies having anything to do with the murder. Yeah, him and the shore boys ruffed the victim up a bit but nothing serious. He tells them about Tom Nobles boat that sank a few days ago.

Riggs checks it out – in the middle of the night. Normal stuff. No warrant needed stuff. He finds a bunch of COCAINE in the boat! And the propeller happens to have a small chunk of flesh, that matches the wound the victim had. He calls Murtaugh and tells him to arrest Tom Noble on the spot!

Only problem is, Murtaugh is at Trish’s big event. "The Innocence Project" gala. He walks in on her in Scotts dressing room, and finds out the Scott Trish was texting with is Scottie Pippin! Woah! No tippin' Pippin! Scottie is really nervous about giving the keynote speech, but Roger pep-talks him and then chest bumps him - crushing Scottie’s glasses. Now Scottie can’t read the his speech! He’s freaking out!

Somehow, Scottie stumbles his way through his speech, but just as he's finishing up, Murtaughs phone rings and he arrests Noble. It’s played for laughs, but several people are left traumatized, most of all, Scottie freakin Pippin!

Roger and Riggs interrogate Noble, but his lawyer rebuts their accusations, and informs them that mister Noble had reported his boat as stolen last week! Avery comes in and lets him go, but Riggs is still pissed.

At some point during all of this, Riggs has a nightmare about his dad (with half his face missing) making him breakfast in the trailer. He starts to eat but then bites something hard – a bullet! The bullet that killed his dad! He looks closer at the meal and sees it’s part of his fathers missing face, gross!

Then we find out Austin, Tom Noble's son, is working with some skinheads to sell drugs! Wow. But not the good kind of skinheads, these are white nationalist neo Nazi Skinheads! The Skinheads confront Austin about Riggs finding their coke and kidnap him.

The B-Team is sent to look for Austin, and they find his car but the driver is actually Cody Lewis! They say he drives a red Jetta but thanks to an attentive IMDB user, we know it was actually just a Golf. Anyway, he tells them that Austin has been hanging out with some “bad people”, aka the skinheads.

Concurrently, Riggs and Murtaugh check in with Tom Noble again. He tells them Austin called and said he had been kidnapped, but he hung up cause he thought he was lying. Great dad! Anyway, he skypes again and the kidnapper skinheads chop off his pinky! Ouch! A lot of gory violence in this one.

Naturally, Bailey tracks down the I.P. address they used to skype. It’s some old barn in the middle of nowhere. Only Riggs and Murtaugh drive there, no backup, and Murtaugh pretends to be birdwatch, as Clayne sneaks into the basement. Apparently it's like Silence of the Lambs but I haven't seen that in ages. Eventually, a shootout breaks out and they kill all the Nazis and save Austin. Oh yeah, Murtaugh shoots the gas tank of a truck with a shotgun and it blows up and flips over, much like we’ve come to expect cars to do in the Lethal Weapon universe.

So they save Austin, he comes clean about the whole thing and has to go to Jail. He let the skins use his dad's boat to smuggle coke, and the victim saw them so one of the skinheads killed him with the boat.

Then Austin and Tom Noble (his dad) patch things up, oh yay.

Later that day, Murtaugh gets a sext from Scottie Pippen! Murtaugh asks “what do 3 eggplant emojis mean?” and they laugh and the episode ends.

Surf gangs and skinheads, what’s not to love! Seems like a pretty good episode on the surface, but as usual it doesn’t stand up to closer scrutiny. The case of the week could have been presented cooler, but whatever, it was fine! Pretty graphic violence in this one too, but only the one explosion at the end, however.  In the grand sum of season two, this episode feels like it will be rather mediocre.

## The Leftist Angle

Cops should not arrest people for crimes they didn't commit.

## AMPDate

They totally mentioned American Monty Python last episode. Pretty sure. Maybe not though. However, if you're reading this, on this website? You absolutely know what AMP is, let's be real.

## Notable Quotes

### Drew

* "You know what, I'll just shut the fuck up."
* "I love Keith."

### Nate the Leprechaun

* “Sometimes I call Andy. That’s about it, otherwise nobody does any work except for me.”

### Tom

* "I don't care! I don't care if anyone gets it. I'm just pointin' it out."
* "You got a negative attitude today. You're a real nasty little boy." (to Nate)

## The ClayneClandestine

Tom says Riggs is bugging Avery for Drugs, but he means Dr. Cahill. Avery is Captain Avery, the big dog Kevin Rahm!

Furthermore, while Cahill may have a doctorate in psychology, only psychiatrists can prescribe medication in the state of California.

Nate is thinking of Münchhausen Syndrome *by Proxy*, a condition in which a caregiver creates the appearance of health problems in another person, typically their child.

## Trivia

Arrow's rash is gone. We all love him. The official pet of Claynecast!

Tom refers to the 1998 Comedy Can't Hardly Wait in this episode. Let's just say a lot of comedy from the 90's didn't age well.

Drew was referring to the (now deleted) Ninja Tweet below

Drew made Chuck get a wet right hand, but he got a wet right hand to Nate.

## Freaky Figures

Nate quits the Pod 3 minutes in.

Drew quits at 41:15 but agreed to record and publish the pod, do the artwork and set up the Patreon. Luckily for us, both hosts rejoined by the end of the episode.

At 55:09 we hear a Windows 10 notification sound.

This is at least the third episode in which Murtaugh doesn't trust his wife.

1. Denzel / her sexy new assistant
2. Azouley, the billionaire with the private Jet
3. Her Boss at the restaurant she's a lawyer for
4. The Weed episode where he accuses her of getting baked

Feel free to expand this list!

## Clayne-foreCasting

Claynecast will soon offer a **Patreon** experience! On it, we may enjoy a Video form of the podcast/episodes, as well as the hosts reading the Wikipedia articles for each SAW movie. Drew will create it after Nate bails on doing it last minute.

Fun.2 will have chapters instead of songs. No two concerts will be the same. Nick Hexum is gonna get our boys whipped into shape!

## Citations & References

1. ↑ Common ravens are classified as a migratory bird species and are protected by federal and, in most cases, state laws. In the United States, ravens may only be lethally removed or live trapped with a permit issued by the USFWS.