Season 2 Episode 15: ADOPTED!!!

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Nate, Drew and Tom have been adopted and our officially family. The Brothers talk about their new Dad and living arrangement, Drew announces his new job and they talk about Lethal Weapon a bit.

## Episode Summary

Big week for Clayne Cast. Our three brother hosts got adopted by dad!

### Lethal Weapon episode recap

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> "The addition of Ruth is what slightly sets this episode apart from the others as she was a fun addition. Her banter with Riggs was fun to watch as well as she just annoyed the bejeesus out of him."
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 **Season 2 episode 15: *An Inconvenient Ruth recap***:

> „I don’t like all this risky behavior!”
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This episode was all over the place. Riggs stopped drinking and they never even mention his dad and that whole arc, instead introduce Ruthie, a kooky hippie lady who drives Riggs even more insane. Roger has his own battles with his age, leading to tension with Trish. There was a Murder too but it all takes a backseat. No wonder it took the Hosts almost 50 minutes to start talking about it.
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The episode starts in a Jewel Store. But not the same one as in that other episode. Some guys wearing NFT’s as masks rob the place, but a feisty redhead lady pops one of them in the shoulder and the flee the scene. One of them stops to turn around and yell “You’re crazy, lady!” before he gets smacked by an oncoming truck.

This would be a great moment for the intro, but we instead go to Murtaugh and his infant daughter Harper at a park. Some young buck calls him grandpa and it fucks his whole day up. Then he gets stuck in the slide and the young guy (who happens to be a firefighter) helps free him. This is a homage to *The Simpsons*.

Riggs meanwhile is shooting bottles of booze on the beach, scaring some women walking by. He goes to see Dr. Cahill and asks her to slap him, which she does, and he reveals he fells “off” since he quieted drinking. Also he’s been self harming with office supplies but this doesn’t concern her.

Then we head to the crime scene, where one bad guy got away and the other one is plastered on the street. But he’s got a gunshot wound. Which leads them to the redhead. She is squabbling with some officer when Riggs comes over. Her name is Ruthie Krumholtz (Swoosie Kurtz) and she’s quite the character. She is not cooperating so Riggs breaks into her RV. She threatens to call Alan Dershowitz who owes her a favor, but he keeps on going through her stuff. He opens the door but before he can get out, a passing car smashes the door off.

Riggs and the city have to pay for the repairs and also put her up in a hotel until it’s fixed. She also wrote down the robbers license plate because they stole her spot. Now that's convenient!

Riggs and Murtaugh drive to the cars location which they find somehow and witness a shady guy dropping a bag in a car. Riggs arrests the guy but the Car speeds off, almost running over Murtaugh in the process. But he jumps on top of it and begins to ride the roof. He’s ridin’ the roof! Eventually they stop the car but when they look inside, it’s empty! Woahhh, self driving car.

They interrogate the shady guy, who’s just called Beck (Derek Chariton) and he says he was hired on the dark web without meeting in person, but more shockingly, he doesn’t know about Knight Rider! Anyway, these robbers find jobs on the Darknet. Murtaugh doesn’t know about it and it’s very similar to when those kids made fun of him for not knowing about “the cloud”. Avery tells Murtaugh what the Darknet is, he knows because he orders skin care products on the dark web sometimes, because they’re “not exactly legal”. Avery! That’s the captain, admitting to a crime! We love him. He’s like the show’s dad.

Afterwards, Riggs goes to check on Ruthie in the hotel, who has ordered room service and more. He gets all pissy when she confronts him about him ‘losing his edge’ and hints at it being due to more than just his newfound sobriety.

He storms out, back to the station. He just loves driving in L.A. Scorsese has failed to cut a viral video together from Murtaughs roof ride, so they’re back to square one – until Bowman shows up! He found out the accounts used to hire Beck belonged to a shell company owned by one of the very people who was in the jewel store during the robbery, Herb Weiss!

Unfortunately, he’s gone AWOL. But, he hired another killer and at some point before all of this also took out a hefty life-insurance policy on his wife. They think he wants to kill her and might have staged the robbery to accomplish this, so they find the wife, Ali (Bre Blair). Just as they’re talking to her, Riggs sees a sniper and tackles her and Roger to the ground. But then he sees it was just some teenager with a laser pointer, with a huge shit eating grin in the backseat of a car.

But then Murtaugh happens to see a bomb attached to the bottom of the car! But it’s too late – Ali already pressed unlock on her car key and somehow THAT triggered the bomb. What if she activated the lock from 10 feet away? Dumbass assassins. Murtaugh just grabs the bomb like nobody's business and flings it into the nearby dumpster, where it explodes and nobody is injured! Yes that really happens on the show.

They take the wife into the interrogation booth, and then the family's lawyer shows up. He tells them about a cabin where Herb took other women to cheat on his wife.

Riggs quickly checks on Ruthie who is being evicted from the hotel for skinny dipping.

Roger and Trish are at some kids party in the park and Roger sees the guy from the beginning (who called him grandpa) dunk a basketball inside an inflatable bouncy castle. He is intimidated and just so stupid so he goes inside and says “Pass the Roc”. In a slow-mo jump he dunks the tiny ball, but on the way down somehow cuts the wall so all the air escapes, and the castle collapses with the kids inside. The guy who called him grandpa also happens to be a fireman, so he rescues the kids and then Murtaugh. Ridiculous.

Ruthie movies in with Riggs on the beach. We move on.

Bowman hired someone on the darknet, in what he says was a ‘terrifying Russian chat room’, he found someone who hacked Herb’s LTE Network from his phone. He’s nervous about doing something so clandestine, but then Riggs calms his nerves by telling him he himself already done at least seven illegal things before he even got to the office this morning.

I guess props to the show for showing the corruption that is rife within the police. Through this hacked frequency, they hear a British man arguing with Herb and a warning shot. Turns out it wasn’t Herb trying to kill the wife, it was someone else entirely, trying to squeeze both of them (bofa).

Riggs and Murtaugh rush over to the hotel but only find corpses. The British guy killed the lawyer and some cop, and kidnapped Ali (the wife). Riggs comes close to falling off the wagon, but he stops short of drinking a tiny bottle of nameless bourbon.

Back at the station, Riggs has the very same little bottle on his desk, out in the open. No one is concerned by this behavior. Where’s Cahill? Probably down in the morgue reading Scorsese’s scripts.

Bowman gets Herbs GPS data from the car by committing a touch of treason.

At the cabin in the woods, Herb is tied up and some big guy is pouring out gasoline. The British bad guy is there too when all of a sudden they hear a car.

It’s Riggs and Murtaugh!

Out of nowhere a kid on a bike shows up and is looking for his cat. It’s so odd. Keep in mind they keep saying this some out-the-way cabin, but once they get there it's like a 2-story hotel.

They ignore the kid and go inside, instantly smell the gasoline. Riggs goes upstairs and finds Ali, tied up and begins to rescue her, but then he gets suspicious. How did she scream for help if she was gagged? Who tied her up? She says Herb, but guess what Riggs knows Herb got kidnapped and she’s lying.

As this realization strikes him, so does the big bad guy from behind. A fight breaks out and Ali escapes. Downstairs, Murtaugh has a shootout with the British bloke, and eventually pops him. Oh yeah, he found the cat but tries to shoo it off so it won’t give away his position.

Ali comes past them, shoots the big guy fighting Riggs for some reason and escapes into the forest outside. At some point Riggs lost his gun, but luckily he finds a bolt action rifle and one single bullet in a random drawer – the first one he looks in.

He steps onto the porch, as Ali is shooting at him with a pistol. He doesn’t even so much as flinch as bullets strike right next to him. He loads the rifle and shoots her in the shoulder.

Murtaugh stumbles outside, but the kid is still there asking about his cat, **Mister Bellbottoms**, who is still inside. Roger senses his chance to be a hero, and he charges back into the propane filled house.

He sees the cat, but also the British bad guy – who somehow came back to life, all the bad guys in this show get a second wind somehow – and lights his zippo, causing the building to erupt in flames.

Roger does an epic double flip out of the window, with Mister Bellbottoms in hand, landing outside unscathed. We get a fairly good shot of the Cat totally ragdolling through the air, it would be a miracle if it survived. Oh and the kid filmed it all on video and it becomes a viral sensation, with Bowman stating it already has 500 views.

This little stunt lands Murtaugh in the hospital though, and naturally they call Trish. She’s livid. She wants him to sleep on the couch that night. Trouble in paradise!

Riggs is about to go skinny dipping, but suddenly Ruth shows up and is his new neighbor! Oh yeah, Riggs lives in some sort of trailer park now. They just neglected to mention him moving his trailer out of Murtaughs garage. It's fine and the episode ends. Apparently, at some point in the past Riggs moved into some atrailer park on the beach, even though they never make mention of this.

Seems like this was/is part 1 of a 2-part story arc, so expect some things to get resolved, the way they always do on this show, next week.

Rating: 8.5 part 1 of 2 out of 10.

## Notable Quotes

### Drew

* “Dad’s been keepin us hard.”
* “We’re all getting’ good head.”
* “Oh you think you’re such a badass kid, mister Bart Simpson over here!”
* "We have our fingers in a lot of pies." (Drew is dipping his fingers into a bunch of pies.)

### Nate

* “We all love our Dad!
* “Stop Stream?”
* "I'm so fucking pissed off at you right now."

### Tom

* “They don’t appreciate me. Nobody appreciates me.” (yes we do, dumbass)
* “First of all, Tom versus Nate is one of our best episodes.”
* “I’m Alvin!”

## AMPDates / CCUpdates

CCE is not blacklisted from Hollywood, they're on their own kind of Sabbatical.

### JPC – Jurassic Park Calgary

Drew hired to manage new adventure park. Opening soon!

Dinosaurs are real, and they are back, and nothing will go wrong none of them will escape into the city.

### Church of Clayne

The Rumors have been confirmed, and ClayneCast is starting a new religion and/or church, the church of Clayne. It's all about HAWK (Hard Athletic Working Kids)

### CCHAWK

*The Camp!*

Run by ClayneCast Athletics and Prayers (CCAP).

Through hard work and a little bit of pain, these kids will learn valuable life lessons and get molded in the image of Dad.

## The Leftist Angle

Human trafficking is not a good look in 2022.

Luckily no offers were made for Drew since last week so we can all move on like it never happened.

## Trivia

Tom is always posting on the ClayneCast account (especially the nasty stuff).

During the recording of this episode, Tom posted a picture of Nate’s flat cap.

You can do lots of things in a bathroom for two hours. All kinds of things.

## Freaky Figures

At *43:06* Nate goes to "grab a water" and Drew goes to "take a shit". Drew did not edit it out. Tom valiantly recounts what happened in the episode for almost 2 minutes before the two of them show up again. Nate and Drew were texting each other the whole time, too.

## Clayne Clandestine

Nate only threatened to **[redacted]** Logic. He never actually said he wanted to **[redacted]** Johnny, but he did say he would make Johnny feel so bad he would want to **[redacted]** himself.

Tom says "Tom V Nate" is one of their best episodes, but it is actually called "Nate V Tom"

## Clayne Fore-Casting

New Patreon tier:

**Prayer -** **$15.000,00\*** (fifteen-thousand USD)

you will be prayed for!

*\*includes 15-20% cut on any earnings from effects of prayer.*

An anonymous audio engineer released a recording of the confrontation between Drew and AC from after the end of the Season 1 recap which can be read about on The Andy Cohen Tape page!