Martha Gets Revenge

Martha Gets Revenge is the eleventh episode of season 2. It aired on June 4th, 2001.

## Synopsis

Daniel Lorraine makes a mistake that he will never forget.

## Plot

It is a typical morning in the Lorraine household. The night before, Daniel Lorraine promised Martha that he would take her to the park so she could scout out capitalists, but he forgets, and heads the grocery store to buy milk while Martha is eating her breakfast. Enraged at the discovery that she has been lied to, Martha puts Baby Jake in a picnic basket, duct tapes it closed, and drives to the Plutonium Forest. After a few tries, she succeeds in getting the basket to hang from a branch very high up in a tree. Satisfied, she goes underground to check on her forced labor factories, and uses one of the phone booths to call Daniel, who is heading back home with bagged milk. All three of the phone booths underneath the Plutonium Forest are extremely archaic and warp the voice of the caller severely, so Daniel does not know who is calling when he picks up the phone. The voice on the other end of the line tells Daniel that "the baby is very loud," and that "the baby is not in a safe place." Daniel, although a hardened hit man, has a soft spot for his only son, and rushes home to tell the rest of the family. Nobody is home, and a note on the kitchen table reads "Went to the park. Be back at noon. Make sure Baby Jake eats his applesauce." Upon reading the note, Daniel bursts into tears. The family must have thought that he took Baby Jake with him to the store. How will he tell them that he is missing? He decides not to tell them, and to do his best to find Baby Jake before they return. He calls back the number that gave him the alarming call earlier, and this time an employee of the factory picks up.

"Biscuits Galore, how may we help you?"

Daniel Lorraine takes a deep breath. "It's my son-he's missing. I'm really having a bad time."

"Well, at least you aren't forced to work in an underground labor camp disguised as a dog biscuit factory."

"Ha, good one."

"I'm not kidding. If your kid is gone, I'd check the Plutonium Forest, all the missing kids are found there sooner or later."

"Thank you, I will."

Daniel Lorraine hangs up as soon as he can, and gets into the family station wagon. When he opens the garage door, he realizes that Martha's car is missing, and grows suspicious. Did Martha not go with the family to the park? Martha loves going to the park. How odd. He drives to the Plutonium Forest, going off the road every now and again because he is so nervous about finding Baby Jake. When the station wagon eventually sputters into the abandoned lot by the Plutonium Forest, he jumps out, leaving the car lights on by accident. The forest is more menacing than he remembered it being the last time, and Daniel turns on his key ring flashlight as he starts into the mass of overgrown trees. He screams when his flashlight falls upon a picnic basket, and is afraid to look inside of it. When he takes the tape off and opens the basket, there is a rotting watermelon inside. It smells terrible, and he staggers backwards, falling on his bottom. The particular spot he landed on just so happened to be one of Martha's entrances to the underground labor camps, and as he fell farther than he ever knew to be possible, he hoped that his death would be quick when he landed. The fall eventually became more of a slide as he slowed down in speed. He found himself in a huge room full of boxes, and when he heard footsteps approaching, jumped into one to avoid being found. The box was later filled with loose dog biscuits, nearly suffocating Daniel Lorraine. Martha made an announcement over the loudspeakers that the heaviest dog biscuit box was to be sent to her home, and it was, leading Mariella to open a box with her husband inside. She did not ask any questions, since he seemed embarrassed enough by being sent through the mail. Daniel does not talk about the events of that day. Hours before he arrived in the mail, Martha brought Baby Jake home, calling him a boring hostage. Later that night, Martha asks Daniel if could take her to the park the next morning. Daniel remembers that he had promised to do just that the night before, and is hit by a wave of emotion.