Episode 12: Have you Heard? AMP is Back

The Boys are back to discuss another mediocre episode of Lethal Weapon. But our podcast episode is so good...Tom bought a mask, the AMP lineup is solidifying and Drew is marrying Spider-man movies.9o9i

## Episode 12: Have you Heard? AMP is Back

### Next episode:

Episode 13:"////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////"

## Episode Summary

Naturally, as an episode that involves as many characters as possible, Lethal Weapon S1E12 enables Nate, Drew and Tom get a lot of work done. Unfortunately, it did not enable our beloved KLM in the same way. Nevertheless, our hosts persevere, cementing their reputations as multimedia visionaries and creating many opportunities for ClayneCast listeners to get involved along the way.

### Lethal Weapon Episode Recap:

Episode Title: Brotherly Love

The episode starts with a sexual scene (Drew's words). As *Pony* plays, a parking lot security guard is fooling around with a woman in his booth. Their romance is cut short however when a masked burglar attempts (but fails) to steal a car. He escapes over the fence.

Obligatory breakfast scenes. Riggs wakes up and pours some beer into a bottle of mustard, shakes it a bit then drinks it. He washes his hands but when his wedding ring slips off, he has to cut his hands on the trash disposal to get it back. Later that day at the station, Dr. Cahill semi-jokingly asks him if the wounds are from a bar fight, but he tells her about the Ring and not being able to lose it. She asks him what would be so bad if he lost it?

Trish and Roger are discussing what kind of Car to get RJ. Roger wants to get him a hooptie, but Trish wants something safe. To everyones dismay, RJ himself walks in and quips something about cars, but suddenly Roger has an **epic bacon moment** and grabs his chest in pain. Trish is concerned for his heart but he says it’s just “gas” from the tofu bacon he’s forced to eat. This wouldn’t happen with *real* bacon (which RJ eats right before Rogers face like a little shit). Trish drives RJ to school but once they’re gone, Roger sits down and again clutches his chest in anguish.

They arrive at the Parking lot crime scene, Bailey is there and has naturally already questioned the security guard, but he saw nothing (cause he was gettin’ it on). He gave her a vague description of the suspect and they examine the car. Murtaugh is such an excellent detective that he lifts a panel off the passenger door to reveal: COCAINE! About 2 million worth.  No press conference this time.

Roger orders the car to be delivered to the lab, not removing the coke. It gets towed off the lot, and as they squabble over a blood sample with Scorsese, a second tow-truck man shows up and is like “I’m here for that car!”. As they grapple with this news, the other tow-truck speeds off with the car. They chase after it, but after a few blocks Roger starts cramping up, his heart rate alarm keeps going off. Riggs himself doesn’t care if he lives or dies, but Roger is a different matter. He cuts the chase short to take Murtaugh to a hospital.

The Doctor tells him Murtaugh will be fine, he just needs to take it easy. But Roger is an idiot and wants to keep chasing the tow-truck. They head to the station to tell Avery what happened. He’s mad they spent 3 hours on a chase that lead to no arrest and wants to know what happened. But when Riggs suggest they all take a step back and have a rest Avery *knows* something’s up. Roger “comes clean” and Riggs thinks he’s gonna tell him about the heart attack, but to his surprise he says it was Riggs’ fault because he wasn’t the better driver today. Fucking Roger!

Sonya comes in and tells them Scorsese got a lead on the Blood sample from the Parking lot, it came back to a Dino Brandt. Roger says the name sounds familiar but doesn’t know why, and looks over this guys LONG rap sheet. He did time in San Quentin and was allegedly working for a mobster called Angelo Casciano. Now that is a name Avery knows. Casciano is a high ranking mafioso!

Riggs says he has to see Cahill, and that Roger should take the drugs they *did* confiscate to the evidence room as per protoco - which makes Avery seriouisly concerned for Riggs’ mental state. But Roger abides, and Clayne it turns out tricked everyone and didn’t go to his psych appointment but drove to check out Dino’s place of work.

At some Diner, Riggs finds Dino’s locker and starts going through it. He finds a jumper which he thinks is the suspects outfit, when Dino shows up and freaks out, leading to a short chase into the parking lot. Dino pulls a gun on Riggs who then says he’s a cop. Dino wants to see his badge, and but Riggs forgot it. Luckily Murtaugh shows up, having figured out Claynes deceit, and saves him. They take in Dino, but before they can really interrogate him, Trish bursts in! She’s not only Dino’s lawyer, but also his mentor! So that’s why Roger thought he knew his name.

She forces them to back off and they have to look for other leads. Cruz mentions he found Dino’s address, he lives with his brother Jerry in Van Nuys. Him and Bailey head there but he stonewalls them and spits on Cruz’ shoe and slams the door shut in their face.

Later that day, in Court, Trish invites Riggs over to dinner before absolutely making a fool of Riggs during a cross examination. She points out his failings during the chase and asks why Murtaugh didn’t show up to help, which eventually makes him blurt out that Roger had a heart issue. Trish is shocked and looks to Roger, but his seat is empty and somehow Roger has burst out of the door.

The next day, Roger, Trish and RJ are at a car dealership. They’re arguing passive aggressively about Dino’s guilt or innocence, when RJ says he’s gonna check out the Ford escape. This seems as good a point as any to bring up that this show enjoys promotional support from Microsoft and Ford. So The Murtaughs are going back and forth about crime, whilst showing off the great security features of the car. It’s a full blown commercial, and leads to nothing.

Scorsese cross-referenced the saliva from Cruz’s boot with the blood from the crime scene and they matched! So Trish was right, Cruz maybe unknowingly saved the day, and Riggs and Murtaugh head to tell Trish the “good” news. She and Murtaugh get the bloodwork back and surprisingly he appears healthy. Dr. Littlejohn tells them that his model of Pacemaker had a known malfunction which caused issues and it should be replaced.

Angelo Casciano meets with Dino, and tells him his little brother fucked up. He was supposed to transport the drugs but stopped to get pizza and the car got towed. So now Angelo wants Dino to pay him 2 million bucks or get him the cocaine. They have his brother tied up in a trunk and he’s dead if Dino doesn’t deliver.

Dino then saws a hole into a brick wall in some alley with an angle grinder for some reason (we never find out), when Riggs shows up to tell him he has a plan. They come up with a plan to trick the mobsters: They’re gonna forge Avery’s signature to get the coke back out of the evidence. (I guess at some point during the chase, at the start of the episode, the car gets loose and falls off the tow-truck, so this is where they got the rest of the coke.) Riggs comes along and “pretends” to be a corrupt cop, handcuffed to the steering wheel, and Dino will play his kidnapper. Disregard all that talk last episode about doing things by the book and “the right way”.

The meeting goes wrong however when one of the Mobsters uses a big truck to ram the car with Riggs inside over the ledge, into the water (oh yeah they’re at the docks).

Riggs wriggles his fingers out of the handcuffs while sinking, but his Ring comes off during the process. He tries to grab it but fails, and decides to swim to the surface to save himself NOW rather than dive after the ring (his PAST), showing he *can* grow. Murtaugh finally comes in and dives into the water to save him but realizes Riggs is fine. Both of them are wet, another great slapstick moment. Maybe someone can make a compilation of these.

Anyway they shoot all the mobsters except Angelo, whom they arrest. Back at the station avery is pretending to be mad at them for forging his signature but is basically infatuated with them for capturing Angelo. No consequences!

Riggs gets trapped in the elevator with Cahill and pretends to be annoyed he gets to talk to this earth angel. He tells her about losing the ring, but she praises him for the growth mentioned above. But right afterwards, he buys a replacement ring for $5 from a pawn shop, setting him up to negate all progress he made by the next episode.

Roger is about to get his pacemaker changed, with Trish his faithful wife lying next to him in the hospital bed. He once again propositions her for sexual favors, and the episode ends as sexual as it started.

## The Leftist Angle

As an addendum to our hosts' running discussion of drug policy: Coffee is absolutely (not?) a drug. Dry January is not just about alcohol.

Criminals probably want crooked cops on their side.

Normalize calling your kids and your single friends freaks.

## AMPDate

It's been confirmed: Drew Powell and Amber Heard are back. Josh Gad and Jack Black's participation has not been confirmed.

AMP will be a series that will lead into a movie. Each episode will be 60 minutes long.

Bobby Bullet aka Logic will MC AMP as four holograms and bring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (aka Joe Gord or JGL) into the production. Something bad will happen, and Bobby will come away with a new identity: PsychoLogic.

The show will feature "Pony" and "We Are Young."

Clayne and Ozzy will form an onscreen sketch/talk show duo. Clayne and the set paver will form an off-screen duo. To mitigate any animosity between Clayne and the set paver, Amber Heard’s assistant (Xander’s dad) will double as Clayne’s punching bag.

The catering budget will be spent exclusively on old rice, leaving plenty of funds to cover the rest of the production.

No matter how you look at it, the show will be a success.

## Notable Quotes

### Nate

* “Are you familiar with the term umami?”
* “If you guys were colors, I would be green, Tom would be beige, and [Drew] would be black.”
* “I got hired by Joseph Gordon Levitt to teach a class in punch lining.”
* “I can’t wait til Duck rips your balls off.”
* "Are you Mentooor?"
* "I've got a phantom dick."

### Tom

* "I’m not gonna baby-bird him.“
* "We just spent the first, like, 15 minutes talking about American Monty Python. I think it’s okay if we just do whatever we want.“
* “I’m feisty today.”
* “I got the mask and I turned evil.”

### Drew

* "I'll baby-bird both of you."
* “I guess instead of Fuck Jerry this episode is more about Saving Jerry.”
* “Blue’s my man!”
* "Well I think AMP is gonna be a success, no matter how you look at it."

## Trivia

* Nate is married.
* Drew is holding out for a movie. Spider man at least tbh.
* Tom probably is hating again. I’ll update this later he doesn’t read the wiki anyway
* Nate references the world-quaking, podcast world to-the-core-shaking silent episode of Globe Hell Warning in this episode of ClayneCast.

## Clayne-foreCasting

Nate will get a mask made of his younger self's face.

The rest of ClayneCast will not necessarily consist of group episodes. There will be no break between seasons.

Drew and Nate will baby bird Tom together, while Drew will baby bird Nate, human mentopede-style. Maybe they’ll go get some pizza.

Devin will come on the podcast and get a mentor.

ClayneCast fans will send in punchlines and four-word short stories to the show via DM.

We will all cry at the end of Lethal Weapon Season 2, regardless of whether Nate starts drinking again.