Season 2 Episode 8: Reggae Doggies

Drew and Nate become best friends! Mark McGrath is replacing Nate soon. Clayne Cast are recording a reggae album only dogs can hear. Plus we talk about Lethal Weapon Season 2 Episode 8 Fork-Getta-Bout-It, episode about Italian Culture.

### Next episode:

Season 2 Episode 10: Phelan the Malewitch

## Episode Summary

A great ClayneCast episode, wish the same could be said about this episode of LW. But what can you do, eh? Fuhgeddaboudit.

### Lethal Weapon episode recap

**Season 2 Episode 9:** Fork-get about it

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Riggs and Murtaugh get pulled into the deadly world of the Mafia, while Riana gets pulled into the arms of Murtaughs neighbors son. Scorsese gets more involved. Air duct, Mob Lair.

The episode starts in a hospital. A corpulent man, Anthony Tibone (Teddy Margas) recognizes a guy and calls someone but before he can finish the call someone stabs him in the neck with a fork!

Then Riggs is in Molly’s kitchen fixing her sink. Molly from a few episodes ago. Remember the last few episodes with his dead dad haunting his dreams? Well the writers didn’t. Because Riggs is all better now, no mention of any trauma. Instead, he’s back to moping about Miranda (his dead wife) again.

Murtaugh is arguing with his Neighbor, Jim McNeile (Andrew Patrick Ralston, APR), about his fence. They see a footprint on it and Jim tells Murtaugh it’s a size 8 lady’s shoe. He says he knows this because teeth are his job, but feet are his passion. Freak! That’s his daughter he’s talking about! Anyway, Murtaugh sees the neighbors son, Robbie (Mavrick Moreno) mowing the lawn without a shirt on. He's got a zoomer perm and a sixpack, the type of actor Nate would be down to party with. Riana is watching him dreamy eyed from her window, but Murtaugh gets mad and tattles to Trish. She tells Roger to mind his own business, as he should.

She also says when they first started dating, her father also objected to him, just like he does with Robbie. But not because he was a cop, because he was *too boring*. Yeah the guy who shoots people daily and blows shit up with his suicidal partner is so boring. Anyway moving on.

We finally go to the to the crime scene. Scorsese is also there, and they don’t really do anything and just drive back to the station. Avery informs them that their Victim was also known as Anthony “Bonesaw” Tibone, a notorious New York killer for the mob! Also, the fingerprints on the fork came back positive for a doctor called Jerry Johnson – but he supposedly died years ago. Weird. Murtaugh puts out a BOLO on him.

Scorsese tells them that it’s just like in his script! He’s a writer in case anyone has forgotten. He’s on fire this episode. The B-Team is totally absent in this one.

Riggs talks to Cahill about when it’s too soon to date someone but he's not talking about himself (of course), he's talking about Molly. Murtaugh and Scorsese are in the Morgue going over his script when Avery comes in and tells them the BOLO got a hit, their suspect renewed his large-mart card.

So Riggs and Murtaugh go to the Large-Mart and of course instantly find the suspect, Jerry (Todd Grinnell). But as soon as they call his name, two bad guys show up and a gunfight breaks loose. In the middle of the Large-Mart! One of the bad guys has an Uzi and people are screaming.

One of the bad guys takes a woman hostage but Riggs climbs up onto the store shelf and sneaks up above him. Then he throws a chair down from the shelf to get the bad guys attention, who looks up only to see Riggs holding on to some electrical cord, swinging into the aisle and popping the guy in the shoulder. Great scene, good action.

During all of this the Doctor/Jerry/their suspect ran back to his cart amid the crossfire to grab a pack of diapers. Once the dust settles they find out he was buying things for a baby girl!

So they just killed those two bad guys and against all odds no civilians were killed or injured. I guess it’s all good because they’re back at the station and Avery doesn’t even mention it. He introduces them to Bryan Graves (Michael Beach), their Liaison with the FBI who flew in from New York.

Graves tells them the two bad guys from the Large-Mart shooting and the fork in the neck first victim both were contractors for a big time mob boss, Frank Truno (played by Paul Ben-Victor PBV, from season 2 of the Wire). In classic Lethal Weapon fashion, he tells them that the FBI has been after Truno FOR YEARS, but it ends up being our two bumbling detectives who are left to arrest him.

Jerry witnessed Truno suffocate a states attorney in the hospital he worked at and was supposed to be the star witness until he allegedly died in a car bomb. Or so they thought. They also learn that the suspects WIFE IS STILL IN THE HOSPITAL. What!? They just left her there? Come on. More importantly, we find out Avery has read the script and is a big fan. KR the G.O.A.T.

Riggs talks to the doctors wife (Kristanna Loken) but nothing comes of it. Scorsese takes Murtaugh to meet his co-writer, Nick (Ken Garito). Some wise guy in an Italian restaurant. Visit Italy, it will change your life. He recognizes the doctor as that doctor that got whacked a few years ago. But upon some great acting from Murtaugh he coughs up that the broad in the picture is Adriana Stabilito, Frank the mob boss’s ex lover and top contract killer. Yep.

Riggs also finds out she’s not as innocent as she makes out to be, when he catches her grabbing the murder weapon on the surveillance tape of the murder night. He confronts her in the maternity ward, but before she can come clean two hitmen show up. Don’t worry he oneshots them both but Adriana escapes.

At the same point, Murtaugh and Scorsese are driving to the Doctors last known whereabouts, when all of a sudden, Jerry himself is in the car next to them! A convenient car chase ensues. Murtaugh defies all odds and does not play it safe and speeds up, eventually spinning the car around in a 180, in front of Jerry – who gives up instantly seeing such a feat of awesomeness.

In the interrogation booth, Jerry tells them about how he met Adriana and Graves the FBI agent watches.

Somehow during all of this we still have time for the Murtaugh subplot. He’s fixing his fence at night (as one does), when suddenly McNeile is standing right in front of him. It’s so fucking freaky. He’s spying on their kids, he bugged his sons phone. Roger and him listen in. When they boy mentions something about fooling around, Roger and Jim burst in and *dun dun dunnn* they were just pretending to entrap their dads, got 'em!

Riggs babysits Molly's kid while she’s on a date then Adriana calls and asks Riggs to help her I guess. He offers her witness protection if she confesses about Frank. She does provide them with a lot of information, but Graves the FBI guy tells them it’s not enough for WITSEC as he calls it and she will just end up getting arrested. **Unless** Martin Riggs can deliver Frank to him. So it’s all up to Riggs to save the day again.

But before she can get locked up, Adriana knocks out the FBI agent and goes to see Frank to kill him. Riggs and Murtaugh eventually figure this out and drive over to follow her. She’s headed for a fancy restaurant where Frank and his crew are hanging out.

Adriana gets there first and confronts Frank, but he is totally calm even with a gun to his head. He then reveals that they have Jerry and the Baby. Meanwhile Riggs shows up and tells a henchman who comes out of the elevator with some pastry boxes to “drop the gun, leave the cannoli” a direct reference to the Godfather. But they’re croissants!

Murtaugh gets the idea to crawl in through a ventilation duct and eventually makes his way above Frank. Then Riggs bursts in and Murtaugh pops out of the vent but gets stuck on a pipe. He hangs mid air and they shoot everyone, notably Frank in the shoulder, and everyone is saved yayyy.

Frank survives and is arrested. Jerry, Adriana and the baby get put in witness protection. Riggs goes to see Molly and fix her sink (again) and they’re probably gonna get together. Murtaugh then goes home to send his daughter off to prom. Same day as the shootout. Good thing he’s totally over his heart issues. The episode ends with him saying “I’m too old for this.” Like in the movie. We all laugh, the end.

A lot of ins and outs on this episode. Did Scorsese write this? A lot of guest stars too! Someone had a mob story and just crammed it into a lethal weapon episode. It was fine overall though, some good action moments and McNeile (APR) is a freak. Looks like they’re setting up Molly with Riggs so she can be killed off and he can be back to his early season 1 self. We’ll see.

8/10

## Quotes

### Drew

* “I like winky.”
* “Yeah, maybe a dog did bite it off.” (Nate’s hwang)
* “Don’t believe me just watch!” (singing)
* “Arrow never bit your winky off.” (to Nate)

### Nate / The corniest musician I’ve ever googled

* “Winky’s good.”
* “Why not do preworkout instead of cocaine?”

### Tom

* “Keith. Keith, Keith - look at me.”
* “When we go to court, I’m gonna testify for both of you and against both of you.”
* “We need dudes rock”

## AMPDate

Much like the plotline with Riggs’ Father, the AMP buzz was building up over the past few episodes only to be neglected completely this episode.

## Fun.2 in.format.ion (title pending)

Tom’s getting full dreads, Nate is getting the zoomer perm and Drew will get half-dreads / half-zoomer perm.

Fun.2’s first album will be for dogs (Only audible by dogs).

## The Leftist Angle

Preworkout is a drug.

But drugs are fine, drugs are all around us. Everything is a drug, and all drugs should be legal.

## Trivia

When Drew went to L.A. it caused an earthquake.

This is the episode where Nate proposed a revolving door system for the hosting duties of Claynecast, wherein each host would be replaced one-by-one by a celebrity of his choice. (Such a suggestion must've been inspired by his time on The Voice!) Eventually this would lead to the creation of an entirely new lineup. Nate's replacement is gonna be Mark McGrath, Tom’s replacement will be ~~Rob Rousseau~~ ~~Jackass Flores~~ Arcade Matt. Drew's replacement is either J. Cole or Seth MacFarlane.

The Simpsons is not a family show at all, they say 'damn' and 'hell' on that show!

## Freaky Figures

Nay Nay is 5’9.7”, congrats big boy!

Everything is an hour away from everything in L.A.

## The ClayneClandestine

Nate says he only recently learned about preworkout, but in season 1, episode 12, Tom mentioned he uses preworkout to help him post.

We already found out Scorsese's name is Bernard in episode 1.

## Clayne Fore-Casting

ClayneCast University - coming soon.

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Tier 1: $400 video feed and all the cool stuff

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