Season 2 Episode 16: Jurassic Park Calgary vs Jurassic Park Santa Barbara

JPC v JPSB

Three Brothers argue for almost one hour about their theme parks. Would you rather go to Calgary or Santa Barbara? What if both had a Jurassic Park?

## Episode Summary

Tom has been hired by an anonymous client to fly out to SB to mentor Nate. Dad is not happy because Drew and Tom may not have been the founding members of Fun. But that all takes a back seat as this episode focuses heavily on the details of JPSB and JPC. It’s very #BrotherGoals and Frenemies.

### Lethal Weapon Episode Recap

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> "In other news, Ruth was still around and she and Riggs were becoming closer. She got a phone called that worried her and when Riggs tracked it, he learned that it was from her son that he didn’t know about. Her trailer was booted due to thousands of parking tickets. They didn’t stop her as she got them off anyway and left Riggs."
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Lethal Weapon Season 2 Episode 16: Ruthless

> *Avery: He’s still seeing Ruthie?*
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> *Murtaugh: Yeah. I think it’s purely sexual.*
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For the first time since the start of season 2, a character sticks around for more than one episode - Ruth is back! And apparently she's Rigg's new love interest. What ever happened to Molly and her Kid? Murtaugh takes the lead on this one and acts like a total badass while fighting his way back into Trish's heart. The case of the week deals with an undercover ATF agent who's just as insane as Riggs, smuggled guns and Mah-Jongg.

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This episode finna start in a crowded street at a gun buyback. Some dude gets shot and the trailer with all the 400 guns gets stolen.

But then suddenly we’re in Riggs’ trailer, in the new trailer park both him and Ruthie live in now apparently. Ruthie Krumholtz (Swoosie Kurtz) from last episode as we all remember.

Riggs cheated at penny mah-jongg (fun as hell) then Ruth gets a call and has to leave.

Scene 2, MMM. Five nights in a row Roger has slept on the couch

Ri Ri and Son of Roger are both home, confronting him about this.

Suddenly Trish shows up but Roger rides away on his motorcycle even though he looks like guy who can’t ride.

Roger and Riggs show up at the crime scene, the gun buyback lot. The truck was stolen with 400+ guns by gangbangers, they say.

One of them was killed during the commotion, or as Scorsese says, he decided to stick around, or it was decided for him. Guy named Carlos. Somehow, they suggest an inside job – one of the Gangbangers killed their own? Corruption or jealousy.

At the station Roger confides in Avery (Kevin Rahm) but he recuses himself because Trish called him this morning – what are they up to? Make sure to follow the big dog KR himself on twitter – but don’t bother him.

He tells Murtaugh (as a neutral party) Trish is way out of his league. Truth. Murtaugh quotes Caddyshack like a fool, thinking it was Sun Tzu.

They arrive at some party, tied to the gangbangers corpse they found at the scene. Someone spit on Roger’s helmet on the freeway; he thinks it was Riggs but that’s pretty fucked up. Accident? Nah. Murtaugh gets flirted with by a hot lady leaning on a mint muscle car. Riggs acts a fool and accuses one of the people playing mah-jongg of murdering the victim at the gun buyback.

The dude bolts and a chase ensues, but he turns out to be an undercover cop.

By the time he’s explained this, the entire party shows up in the alley, as does Murtaugh. The guy orders Riggs to punch him to keep his cover, but Murtaugh comes up from behind and bonks him. He escorts him away in handcuffs, and the lady from before asks him for his number. He responds: “My number is 911”.

They interrogate the dude, and he confesses to killing Carlo because he was about to shoot a cop with an Uzi - he’s ATF undercover called Booker (Sheaun McKinney)!

Riggs somehow tracks down Ruthies son, he’s towing a car.

Then a silver fox ATF guy called Charlie Blum (Wallace Langham) shows up talking about Booker - “his lunatic” - who is the guy in the interrogation booth. Apparently he’s Avery’s old college ‘frienemy’, and Booker is to him what Riggs is to Avery. It's only mentioned very briefly but Blum joins the team for this episode.

At this point we note that Bailey is still gone. We miss her. But the show probably doesn’t deserve her. Hope she comes back though!

Anyway, Booker knocks out a cop, steals his gun and has Murtaugh at gunpoint. They escape through the elevator; the whole station aims at it like Blues Brothers.

Riggs (Avery’s lunatic) goes into the other elevator and jumps on top. Booker is climbing out a ladder and shoots the cable causing the elevator booth to plummet soon! He must choose between saving Murtaugh or killing Booker, so he OF COURSE saves Roger. They force open the door and jump out at the last second.

Later that night, Trish crashes into Roger’s bike but when he threatens her with legal action, she says she can afford it. Ouch! He’s got nothing on her.

Ruthie yells at Riggs in the station, then she realizes he talked to her son. She’s accumulated over 1800 parking tickets. Ruthie is a real bitch (Nate’s words) about the parking tickets and wants Riggs to make them disappear or something. He clamped her car so she couldn't leave. More emotional terrorism.

The next day or later Roger is in a stakeout in a suit and shades lookin’ fly. He sees Booker and a Truck.

Meanwhile Riggs slept in the Morgue. Avery and Scorsese find him, and Avery asks him if he should be worried. Riggs who slept in the morgue and reeks of alcohol tucks his gun into the back of his pants and says no. Amazing.

Back to Roger, who confronts Booker about the guns. But suddenly a big swarthy gun dealer called Luther Strickland (Adam Lazarre-White) shows up ready to buy the guns, which are basically muskets.

Roger brings back his old undercover persona, Randy Drexler! He pretends to be the “broker” and Strickland buys it but then shoots Booker to punish him for not telling him he wouldn’t be coming alone.

Avery and Blum are listening in from some surveillance van, Riggs storms inside and of course doesn’t wait for backup. Inside this darkly veiled hall (it’s the restaurant from the Owlsy episode) they start the gun deal but once Riggs shows up they frisk him (sort of) and make him kneel. Strickland orders Roger aka Randy Drexler to shoot him to prove he’s not a cop and Riggs shouts DO IT, SHOOT ME! But somehow he’s produced a knife and a gun from his boot and waits for his chance to strike. When Roger finally shoots, the gun only clicks – no bullets!

Strickland just wanted to test Rog/Randy. But when he tells the guards to take Riggs out back and ‘do it right’, Riggs flings the knife into one of the bad guys in an epic move and shoots another one. Murtaugh pops a few guys and ends up hiding for cover with Riggs. They both realize they will likely die and get emotional, but when they stand up to face their demise the backup shows up and a bunch of SWAT teams arrest the bad guys.

We end up at the station again where no one is punished or reprimanded, au contraire, Riggs and Murtaugh are lauded by Avery for their heroism. I think.

The scene ends with Riggs tearing up Roger’s copy of Sun Tzu and it’s totally green screened with each of them separately in the station. Keep in mind this is already a few episodes after the one where he yelled at those kids. The tension between Clayne and Damon on set is unbearable.

Anyway, Riggs goes to his trailer to get freaky with Ruthie, but she leaves! But not before gifting him her Mah-Jongg set.

Murtaugh goes home where Trish apologizes for running over his hog. Oh my god she admit it. But it’s fine because he got himself a slammin’ whip, in fact it’s the car the hot lady that flirted with him at the party owned. Trish still disapproves and kicks him out of the house.

He winds up spending the night in Riggs’ trailer, and the two of them play a game of Mah-Jongg. Lovely.

The end.

Great episode aside from some strange sexual scenarios. Murtaugh was finally a badass. He carried this one, surprisingly.

400/10

## Notable Quotes

### Drew

* “I’m sorry I’m such a garbage person.”
* “Tom. Tom. Tom. Tom! Toom! *TOMMM*!”
* “You know what Nate? I don’t give a fuck.”
* “We could become genetic wizards!”

### Nate

* “Turkeys came from dinosaurs.”
* “I’m high on Lethal Weapon right now, ok?”
* “All we do is give you olive branches, and all you do is whip yourself with them.”

### Officer Tom

* “You know what? You’re not done, but you’re finished.”
* "This is my chance to lay down the law!"
* “Jurassic Park Calgary has real dinosaurs!”

## AMPDates / CCUpdates

### JPC – Jurassic Park Calgary

As mentioned last week, this is the dinosaur park Drew got hired to run by one of the most powerful men in the city. It's the sister park to JPSB.

Features:

Real dinosaurs and in addition to that, animatronics and robotics. It’s very intense.

Very well paved park – some of the best parking in north America.

There will be no yodeling.

Ski with the dinos!

Tar sands health spa.

Dino’s made through cloning from amber. This works almost perfectly. Small issue: the dinosaurs have a sort of genetic version of arthritis, so they creek and groan when they move, and it sounds for lack of a better term like animatronics. But they are REAL. JPC has its own cloning facility.

Live Music by ~~JD~~ Captain Jack Sparrow & Jeff Beck

### JPSB - Jurassic Park Santa Barbara

*REAL Dinosaurs – Real Danger*

This is the recreational dinosaur park Nate invested in and brought Tom along for security. It's the sister park to JPC.

Features:

Several restaurants (a Bobby Flay joint, The Melting Pot *presents* The melting pot of gold)

Megachurch with Dad as the Preacher.

Grant Hill (?), some anti-intellectual Sportsball guy will offer Brontosaurus Basketball.

Tom has been hired as Security and as the overseer of the Dino-Jail.

Dinos are made from splicing frogpeople DNA with the investors own (and potentially others). They will be outfitted in Gucci and Louis Vitton clothes.

## Fun.2 in.format.ion

Dad wants to talk to the boys. Something about Tom and Drew not really being original members of Fun.

They're going to write all new songs though! So dad will be proud, I hope daddy.

## Trivia

We don’t need a *‘Best of Drew’* episode because every episode he is on is the best.

Nate has perfect pitch; he can see colors. Maybe he means sounds.

## Freaky Figures

400 Guns and 1800 unpaid parking tickets. Assuming an average cost of $60 per ticket, Ruthie would owe $108 000 for her parking offenses alone.

## Clayne Fore-Casting

The hosts are all getting Glocks.

Demo will be done on Nate’s House, top secret Reno’s that his wife will absolutely love. They’re going to weaken the walls with the Glocks, like we learned in the episode with the guy who drowns Riggs.

The cloning facility at JPC will become the epicenter of genetic research and all kinds of funny new animals will be created.

Tom will make a cow that when you milk it produces Monster.

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