Season 2 Episode 13: Nate Vs Drew

Nate feels betrayed by Drew because he saw something really cool...maybe he's feeling insecure? We are buying a yacht to record on

Fuck Zev Borow!

## Episode Summary

Well this was a hostile episode. But a good one. Drew saw a Velociraptor, and Tom recounts more tales of his favorite hobby: driving on vacation.

### Lethal Weapon episode recap:

**Season 2 episode 13:** "Better living through chemistry"

**Keith read-a-long: Click here.**

RJ floats and sinks and floats and sinks. This worries Trish and Murtaugh. Riggs is back to day drinking, and things with Dr. Cahill go way off the deep end in this episode. Why did Zev Borow do this to us?

Riggs gets into an violent altercation with some guy in a suit, which is not unusual, but someone filmed it! Turns out the guy is the Deputy Mayor.

Dr. Cahill goes to see Stan Oliver, a bipolar patient of hers. He's on suicide watch, but somehow is in a room with a medicine cabinet. And when he asks Cahill for a hug and she reluctantly agrees, he breaks a glass cabinet and holds her hostage, fleeing the facility.

The whole team (including Scorsese) is on the hunt for her, when they find a lead: her car. She’s tied up in the trunk, and Oliver's dead by gunshot wound to the head next to the car.

Back at the station, Gina Santos is back! She’s scolding Avery while the video from Riggs’ fender bender plays in the background. Bowman is reading lips. Sonya, again the only one doing any work, finds out the last guy to visit Stan in the hospital was some Carl Edwards, who was in prison for doing B&E’s with our victim.

They go to some biker bar to check it out but when they ask about Carl, everyone stands up and says they’re Carl Edwards. They beat up the entire bar, including a woman and a little person, and of course gain the upper hand. What a diverse episode. After they line them all up and check IDs, THEN some guy shows up and says *he’s* Carl Edwards. They take him in and interrogate him, but he has an alibi: he was on *The Price is Right*.

Somehow, they find out about a fence who Carl insinuates is the killer.

Santos wants Cahill to sign an Affidavit that attests that Riggs is mentally fit to serve on the force – which if she signs, will make it her responsibility if he fucks up again. Nice way to shift the blame.

She confronts Riggs about the video, and then Sonya shows up with the fences name, Jose Esparza. Dr. Cahill is also there and informs them Jose was a patient of hers! And even more stunning, she just calls him to arrange a meeting. What?!

She goes to meet Jose on a busy street, but when he realizes Riggs and Murtaugh are there too, he bolts – chase time! They crash through a busy construction site, and somehow Riggs chases the guy onto a steel beam stretching off the buildings roof. Jose has trouble making eye contact, but Riggs doesn’t care about that and keeps yelling at him to look him in the eye, while edging closer and closer. Suddenly the guy pulls out a knife and takes a swipe at Riggs but misses and falls into a dumpster below. You might think it's like in the church episode where Riggs and Murtaugh fall out of a construction site (possibly the very same one) into a dumpster full of nails, which saves them - but no, Jose is dead.

In the Morgue, Scorsese has the two corpses of Cahills patients, as well as a cheese plate laid out for Sonya - but thankfully she rejects his advances. We learn that both victims were totally clean, not even their meds showed up on the tox-screen! Suspicious.

Later that night, Cahill is drinking scotch in her office when Clayne walks in and she asks him to join (she did this in season 1 too, what kinda Psychologist is she?). However Riggs is a master manipulator and Cahill can’t figure out why he’s is so *angry,* and blames herself. That poor Woman. He starts to talk about something but then they pass out. Nothing happens, no sexual scenario!

Next day, he makes a hangover cure, and they figure out the doctor involved in running some hospital, Dr. Samuels (Matt Malloy), was selling the meds the patients got prescribed and replacing them with placebos. In hardly subtle ad, Sonya uses a Microsoft Surface tablet to draw up how much Dr. Samuels is making by selling the drugs of his 52 patients, and it equates to 1 million dollars a year!

They come up with some stupid idea to get Riggs sent to the mental hospital that Samuels works at undercover as a patient. The way they accomplish this is by staging a fight with Captain Avery and punching him. But when they perform the ruse, Avery ducks reflexively and Riggs lands a punch on Murtaugh.

For this, Riggs gets sent to the looney bin. It's not like Riggs has ever done anything worse in the past that might get him sent there. Oh well, some large orderlies put a surgical gown on him *over* his clothes, and he winds up looking simply ridiculous. He’s sneaking around investigating, and finds some goons replacing the meds with placebos - so there are several people involved in this operation, a big deal if they blow this thing open, you would think.

Riggs gets caught and outnumbered, they taze him which he loves, put him in a straitjacket and throw him into a padded cell. There, the big bad guy Dr. Samuels shows up and injects Riggs with a comically oversized syringe of green stuff.

Riggs starts to hallucinate and has a flashback to his early years again, and it’s the day he was shooting that deer with his dad like in some other episode. They come home and his dad tells him mom decided she can’t fight the cancer anymore. Young Riggs (Chase Mangum) says “she’s giving up!?” like a little shit but then BOOM they hear a gunshot and run inside, only to find his mom shot herself. So *that’s* why he’s so angry. Meanwhile in the present, he’s manic and writhing on the floor.

Luckily, Cahill and Roger show up (Roger is wearing those big ass sunglasses of his **indoors**) and they confront Dr. Samuels in the hall. He says they need a warrant, to which Murtaugh pulls out his gun. Then they bust in the cell and save Riggs, and Roger rubs Riggs’ belly and calls him “Bro” – so weird.

I guess this means they arrested Dr. Samuels and solved the whole case; the murders and the drug smuggling operation, but it’s never mentioned again! Mind boggling.

They choose to instead show the boring RJ subplot, Rog and him are having a heart to heart in that damn kitchen. Roger says he worries all the time, he worries about worrying too much, and RJ relates because they're both complete morons. Much later that night, Riggs, sitting on the edge of a roof drinking his 7th beer, calls Cahill and tells her she’s good at what she does.

Two of her patients are dead, that other patient of hers in season 1 who was her stalker and killed her boyfriend is also dead, a host of other grave episodes of malpractice and not to mention Riggs' "progress" – but no, she’s great at what she does.

The end.

## Quotes

### Drew "The Belt" Druess

* “You’re nothing without me.”
* “If you guys have a problem with me, you can go fuck yourself.”
* “You know how full of shit you are?” (Talking about Tom’s intestines)
* “There's Dinosaurs everywhere, Albertosaurus, hello!? You know about Drumheller!”
* "Why are you so mad that I sent someone less famous than you a picture of my cat?"

### Bean Baby Nate

* “I wanna be his pisspig”
* “I disappear.”
* “First of all, you don’t fuckin’ count. After the shit that you pulled, you don’t fuckin’ count!”
* “I’m chill, I’m always chill!” (yelling)

### Leisure Tom aka Vinnie Vacation

* “I don’t fight either of you, I love you both!” (lying)
* “Listen, I want to go looping with both of you. And then I want to go to the Melting pot with both of you.”
* “You’re gonna have to chill, Nate.”
* “Eve6 is a dope ass band, which I love and their Singer is so cool on twitter.” (Tom doesn’t read the wiki so we can make him say whatever we want!)

## Get to know your host(s)

This week: Drew!

Nate: You make any new friends this week?

Drew: No, I didn’t.

Nate: Drew, did you make any new friends this week?

Drew: No, I didn’t, that’s two questions.

Tom: Drew, Drew are you starting a new band this week?”

Drew: No.

Tom: Drew did you make any new friends this week?

Drew: No.

Tom: OK last question; Are you going to leave Nate and I, and ClayneCast, and start up a new podcast, with hmmmmmm let’s say a 90’s musician, and maybe the band could be called…like, **Eve7**? Are you starting Eve7? With that Eve6 guy (Referencing the fact Drew and the Eve 6 guy are besties now)

Drew: Let’s move on.

## Trivia

Albertosaurus (meaning "Alberta lizard") is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaurs that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 71 million years ago.

No one commented on the Skyrim sound effects Drew added last week. Guess we all weren’t paying attention and now must hang our heads in shame.

Tom goes on driving vacations all the time.

## Freaky Figures

Through the power of retention, Nate will grow in size until he is 6'2".

## The ClayneClandestine

Bartenders are the vanguard of the pandemic.

Lethal Weapon enjoys promotional support by the Ford Motor Company and Microsoft, which is why there will be several scenes in which the characters are driving that brand of car or using Microsoft products, like Bailey did in this episode, and Ri-Ri (Riana, Murtaughs daughter) often is sitting at the kitchen Island casually using that great 2-in-1 handheld PC tablet buy now!

## Clayne Fore-Casting

The next episode will be broadcast live from the CCE Yacht Nate is gonna buy.

The hosts will receive the script ideas/notes for season 4 and have full creative control over it.

Nates brother Ben (@Betrayedman1990) will be joining the pod soon either as the 4th host or as a replacement for one of the current hosts – just in case. Please don’t forget to send him a follow request.