Season 2 Episode 5: Reggae Tom w/ Andy Cohen

Andy Cohen is back! He was on his way to catch a flight, so we didn't have the right connection but here we are! Information about Fun 2.! This was the shittiest episode of Lethal Weapon. Tom is a reggae singer!

## Season 2 Episode 5: Reggae Tom w/ Andy Cohen

### Next episode:

Season 2 Episode 6: Lor Enforcement Labretery

## Episode Summary

Andy Cohen joins again to help us all through this very mediocre Lethal Weapon episode, as our hosts shift their interest from Bee NFT's to Coolsculpting!

### Lethal Weapon episode recap

**Season 2 episode 5: “Let It Ride”**

> “Human viscera doesn’t wash off”
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*A Fat man gets murdered at the racetrack, but this case goes deeper than a few gambling Debts. Riggs struggles with his past, while Murtaugh struggles with Riggs. And Thomas Lennon is back as Leo Getz, the jokey third wheel.*

Riggs wakes up somewhere on the beach, takes a swig of beer and stumbles to his trailer – only to find it has been towed by the city! Second Scene, MMM (Mandatory Murtaugh Moment), Roger and Trish are lamenting their empty fridge. Son of Roger has raided everything and is now a vegetarian.

Later, Riggs & Murtaugh get to the crime scene. All the LAPD Staff walk off however, because Leo Getz is there, threatening to sue anyone who interferes with the scene. We all remember him from last season where he ended up using a picture of Trish with a lewd slogan on it for his commercials. Anyway, he thinks it’s murder! The dead guy was a friend of his, and his name was Howard Trotter (Craig Rikki Shaynak).

They take the case since it looks suspicious.

In the morgue, Scorsese confirms their suspicions: Murder by way of poison injection in the neck! He finally has some screen time again after they only mentioned him in the previous episode, but even in this one he's there for less than a minute. Hope we get a Scorsese episode!

Anyway, they go to the dead guy’s house but tis a bar, and there’s a funeral/wake for Howard happening. Some of his friends gathered there but they all seem like they didn’t really like Howard. During this Roger tells Riggs he is gonna put him in his will, but Riggs objects adamantly.

When they finally ask why they’re at the dead guys wake Leo informs them that the apartment was above the bar. It’s very messy but the one thing they find missing is a lucky baseball bat, allegedly signed by Sandy Koufax.

Leo goes exploring and turns on the stereo on full volume for some reason. When he gets to the shower, a big burly man surprises him and tries to choke him out and they fight. But Riggs and Murtaugh don’t notice because of the music and they’re bickering about the will.

Eventually Leo and the guy burst through the glass shower door and one of the shards of glass pierces bad guy in the neck! Leo pulls it out and blood gushes all over the place. Awesome! Leo shrieks, to which finally Riggs and Murtaugh arrive. and Leo is standing there, covered in blood.

They take him to the station where he is completely unnerved but Bailey tells them it was a certain Alex Olea (later in the episode, Clayne refers to him as “Axel”). Supposedly he was at the track the day victim got murdered! This makes Leo feel A-OK again. Bailey also informs them he was an associate of a notorious loan shark, Tony Guzman. Leo did some of his best work for the guy!

At some point during all of this Riggs meets with Cahill and she tells him she’s looked into his past and his dad. They moved around a lot, which may be why he hasn’t been able to settle down yet, and currently also has nowhere to stay. Murtaugh offered his place but Riggs turned it down.

They go the Tattoo Parlor Tony (Jeremy Luke) has been known to operate from and confront him. Riggs instantly notices the Baseball Bat that was (potentially) taken from the Victims apartment. But when Tony won’t tell them anything, one of his henchmen pulls a gun and a fight breaks out. Roger gets hit on the arm with a stray tattoo needle, and Riggs goes nuts on Tony’s face with the Baseball Bat until Roger stops him. Sheesh!

Then back at the station they get more confessions from arms dealer. Roger is mad about his squiggly line tattoo he says looks like a churro, and Riggs prods Tony some more. He claims Howard had just come into a windfall, just before the day he died.

Riggs sleeps in the Parking lot, and has another flashback to his father, who’s chasing him with a belt (and we are led to believe he beats him). Again, young Riggs is played by Chase Mangum! He hides in the trunk of an old car and his dad doesn’t find him cause it starts to rain.

Meanwhile no one else at the LAPD believes there’s a Windfall! But Leo calls a meeting with the B team to inform them of his theory. They drive to the deceased’s and find out he had recorded people in the Jockey Club (the bar at the track). Whatever he heard must have got him killed. The Windfall!

Leo drives over to Murtaughs to tell him about the Windfall (at 11pm), but just as he’s about to pop open a little bit of the bubbly, Riggs crashes his Truck with his Trailer in tow onto the Murtaughs front lawn!

Next day, he comes in to find Trish mad as hell. Understandably. He tries to apologize but she says “No. I’m speaking.” And is nicer than he deserves. But she walks off saying “to be continued”. Weird.

Leo informs Avery of the Windfall. One of the Recordings is missing, and they recover it from the track (don’t ask about when or how they just do) and find out it was his 4 “best friends”, the ones from the wake!

Riggs and Roger meet at the the bar, but it’s locked. So Murtaugh breaks the window and says oh the window was already broken, and we were concerned for this establishment! Classic police lie. Leo tries to bury Howards ashes in the planters of the racetrack café but the Maitre’d catches him and he runs off.

In the bathroom of the Jockey Club, Murtaugh finds a big hole in the floor that leads to a tunnel! They head down and just at this time, masked gunmen are robbing the safe room below the Track! They start shooting and have to flee when Riggs and Murtaugh come through the back, but they just end up shooting them all.

Leo is held at gunpoint by a squeaky guy but then Roger tells him to “let go” of Howard, and finally Leo Getz gets the message and throws Howards urn up into the sky, blinding the bad guy and Roger can finish him off. Then he says “I got Howard in my mouth, and I don’t know what part!”.

Then we find out Leo is gonna join Trish and Murtaugh for a Movie Saturday night.

The magnificent Dr. Cahill gives Riggs an overnight bag with blankets and toothpaste etc. – much more than he deserves.

He’s living with the Murtaughs now. We neither see Son of Roger nor Riana even though they tease us at the start when they mention Son of Roger raided their fridge. Riggs agrees to be in Murtaughs Will, but when he critiques Rogers Marinade, the will has to be redone.

Riggs goes to sleep in his Trailer, which is in the Murtaughs garage now, and we also get a shot of Murtaughs hog from episode 8!

Maybe the weakest episode so far this season. Not bad, but I guess they’re just trying to play the Riggs story slow. Murtaugh has no development it seems; his heart issues are more a non-issue. And what was that case? Nothing made sense but before you could think about it, everything was over, and Riggs was chilling with the Murtaughs. Thankfully Thomas Lennon saved it. Looks like we’re being set up for more of Riggs’ past and the big reveal of what happened with his dad. At least Son of Roger didn’t show up - 8.0001 / 10

## Notable Quotes

### Drew

* “We’ve been manifesting things, we gotta be careful!”
* *(Pounding fists on table)* “Where. Are. The Bees!?”
* “I just feel so rudderless without Tom, like, what do we even do?”

### Nate

* “Yep. I know how to do it. It’s called right click copy paste. \*Inaudible yell\*”
* “Listen, I think the three of us can learn how to operate a Coolsculpting machine. You just crank that badboy up!”
* “Turn up the Kilohertz!”
* "Coolsculpting's the future, dude!"

### Reggae Tom

* “Am I not allowed to have an opinion?”
* “We’re not mad. I love you. Never mad at you.”
* “I’d love to be in the Metaverse with our Bee NFT’s, and we’d be buzzin’ around bzz bzzz bzzzz”

### Andy Cohen

* “Yeah, well I guess you’re just a big fucking baby, but you got also got a good memory. Pussy. Wait what. Haha. It’s all love. It’s all Ringo.” (*forbidden word detected!*)
* “Cash me outside, how bout dat!”
* “That’s great. That’s just great. How ‘bout you Nay-Nay? How you living doggie? Arf arf arf!”

## The ClayneClandestine

Andy says we’re halfway through Season 2, but Season 2 has 22 episodes, so we’re actually still 6 episodes away from the halfway point!

Also, how did this episode fail so hard when it had such a great cliff hanger setting it up?

In the Interview Nate mentions, Clayne was saying the show was like "The Cosby Show with guns".

## Trivia

The ClayneCast Wiki team of audio engineers can confirm that this Andy Cohen may have changed his microphone or his Kilohertz were too low, because he did indeed sound different than last time. Hope he’s ok, he did sound a bit crazed there at the end. Something about catching a flight to Argentina, is that some kind of drug slang?

Forbidden words were used by Andy (RJ, Memory) and Tom (RJ). Drew also says "RJ" but it was the RJ from "My Wife and Kids", Damon's other show, so we'll let that one slide. Nate also says RJ several times.

Drew was absolutely correct in episode 4 that they were setting Riggs up to have been abused in the past.

## Freaky Figures

In a ClayneCast first, Tom is on the phone from 27:38 to 29:38. Despite it all, Tom is a good guy. We love Tom.

That said: current count of episodes in which Tom mispronounces biopic has gone up to 2.

## Clayne-foreCasting

Fun.2 will become the most popular white reggaetón band.

They'll have a backing track but also be playing buckets, dancing and banging on Pipes.

Drew gets spray painted gold but I don’t want to spoiler any more.