S4 EP2 Falcon Crest- Father's Day: The " Indiana Chase and the Vineyards of Doom" episode

Welcome back Soap Fiends! Brace yourself for an explosive and high flying episode of our Primetime action flick. Prepare for an emotional rollercoaster as I, Jet, take you through the vineyard of betrayal and ambition in Falcon Crest's "Father's Day." Witness the aftermath of a devastating plane crash and the poisonous gaslighting that follows—will the characters we've grown to love (or love to hate) survive the intrigue? Hold tight as we unpack the layered dynamics between Richard, his new flame, family duties and his cartel conundrums, revealing a complex tapestry of affections and power plays that could topple dynasties.

Soap opera fans, get ready to dissect the intricate love/work  polygons and secret lives that pulse at the heart of Falcon Crest.  Gustav's identity crisis and Richard's juggling act is just the tip of the iceberg as we explore the depths of their desires and the lengths they'll go for control. And let's not forget about Angela—her quest for a new legal eagle may just change the game for everyone involved.

Finally, brace yourselves for a family drama explosion that will shake Falcon Crest to its core. As Gustav's pursuit of power reaches a boiling point with a patricidal bang, we question the very foundations of our favorite soap characters' moral compasses. Join me to uncover the impact of this seismic shift in power dynamics, drawing parallels with the cunning ruthlessness of iconic screen villains and leaving us all wondering what unforeseen twists lie ahead for the residents of Falcon Crest.

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Speaker 1: 0:00

Let's go ahead and play into that a little bit more. Let's just get him topless. If he can't act, who cares? We'll get him as greasy and as action-packed as possible.

Speaker 1: 0:11

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome, or welcome back, to SoFlor, the official gathering place for newbies, novices and all you OG diehard fans of the golden age of primetime. It is Falcon Fiend Takeover as we explore season four, episode two of Falcon Quest. Father's Day. This one is a real adventure, a doozy. If you exploding with excitement, whether you're new to this or true to this, sit back and enjoy. Tell the kids it's time to play outside or out of sight. Tell they no questions, suggestions or concerns for the next 25 to 35 minutes. Everyone else in earshot knows the drill you ought to be cool, you ought to be quiet or you ought to export yourself off the premises because we are watching our stories. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is Soap War. Welcome back, soap Queens, to another fun edition of soap war. We are jumping into season four, episode two of falcon press. It feels so good to be back in the vineyard of doom. That's what I think I'm gonna call this episode. I can't help but notice the uncanny resemblance to a certain mega movie that I may or may not have watched once more again this morning. I love that show. You know who it is Harrison Ford is undefeated. I have yet to watch the latest Indiana Jones because I just can't bring myself to be disappointed. Not just yet. This movie is easily one of my top 10, but we're not going to discuss Indiana Jones. That's not what we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk about the Vineyards of June on Falcon Crest. This is your first time joining me. Thank you, welcome. Consider this vintage soaps for modern folks. I Jet your host. I am an elder millennial sifting through storylines that I've skipped out of the house for, or just completely unaware of, ie Falcon Crest. Falcon Crest has have kicked out of the house for, or just completely unaware of, ie Falcon Crest. Falcon Crest has quickly become one of the favorites because these writers be writing these actors. For the most part, some of them be acting and the ones who don't, they're sexy as hell. So let's jump into it.

Speaker 1: 2:18

Today we're going to do things a little bit differently. I'm going to give you a rundown of the show in under 10 minutes. We're going to get the basic overarching storyline and then we'll jump into some particulars. Among those particulars, we have a very awkward and cringeworthy love scene, a transformation from a supervillain to a smoldering lover. Renewed laser focus on the complete and total destruction of a family member. Aftermath of a plane crash revealing some covert gas sighting. We're going to talk about a rigid new addition to the show, a character so stiff I don't know if he's going to make it through, as well as some deep-seated daddy issues within the cartel. We'll also go over scenes of the week. Buckle in and pour yourself up something bubbly as we enjoy Father's Day In the aftermath of the plane crash. Life at Falcon Crest is quickly returning back to normal. Buckle in and pour yourself up something bubbly as we enjoy Father's Day In the aftermath of the plane crash. Life at Falcon Crest is quickly returning back to normal. Bodies are buried, as they should be, and almost forgotten. The cast of sexy survivors are well on their way to a fresh new season with fresh new challenges, but not before breathing new life into some old beef.

Speaker 1: 3:26

Chase is having night terrors, or what we would call in the 21st century he's suffering from PTSD, rightfully so right. He believes that the plane went down not because of some error on his part or his dead co-pilot's part. No, he thinks this is a result of a stealthy yet effective sabotage that was supposed to happen to Richard and Richard only. Effective sabotage. That was supposed to happen to Richard and Richard only. I've been set up, I've been set up. He's betting what's left of his Nazi sympathizing art, smuggling, inheritance money that his half brother, richie Rich, has something to do with it. He knows it, like he knows it, like he knows it, and he struts around for most of the episode declaring as such, saying it with his whole, tastefully and partially exposed chest. God bless 1980.

Speaker 1: 4:06

Richard, on the other hand, is suffering. This is new to him. He's recently grown a conscience and this conscience is inducing some unwelcome and overwhelming emotions like sympathy, empathy, concern, sadness, worry, fear and, dare I say it, a little bit of love. His normal super villain drive has been reduced down to damn near nothing because he feels guilt, not only guilt for what happened, but he's concerned. He's concerned for Chase, not because Chase is going to find out. He's worried about that, but not as much as he's worried about Chase losing his confidence, thinking that, oh my god, I ruined my brother's life. He thinks he's a terrible pilot now because of something that happened to me. It's all brand new territory and it is enjoyable to watch him suffer through this, the rest of the episode. Be that as it may, these new inconvenient feelings have the worst timing possible because he still needs to ensure that the flight inspector, whoever it is, sent to investigate this plane crash. He needs to make sure this guy doesn't figure out that there was foul play, because if there's foul play, then that means there's culprits. If there's culprits, that's going to lead to an even deeper investigation, which could lead to Richard being outed as a Nazi sympathizing nepo baby with major ties to a supervillain cartel.

Speaker 1: 5:23

Speaking of supervillains, angie is back. She's back on her bully, she's wiped her tears, fluffed her perm and she wants revenge against two her favorite nephew, of course. And, by the way, it's Big Ang Channing, it's not Angela Giaberti, it's not Angela Erickson. That guy's dead, she's over that. It's big Ang Channing. And, admittedly, ac is a better, has a little bit of a better ring to it it's easier to say than AE. You know what I mean. And there's a whole thing. All of her sheets and robes and towels and travel and traveling luggage all has her initials on it. You know what I mean? It's a, it's a lot, it's a whole thing. So she's just gonna keep her her first husband's name. So she's once again decided that Chase is not only persona non grata, but he's also an incompetent and liable pilot, and she will make sure that goes down on again, off again.

Speaker 1: 6:13

Dutiful grandson Lance is back to doing her bidding, but not before. He tries very, very briefly to convince and remind Angela that Chase is nothing if not a fantastic aviator. Say what you will about him. This man managed to land a plane that was on fire with no engines. He landed it safely, saving 72.7% of the people on board, including her, angela. He didn't save my life, he killed my husband. That's the way she looks at it. I'm only breathing because I'm a superior human being. He can't fly, he sucks. She's going to spend the rest of the episode telling everybody as much.

Speaker 1: 6:52

Okay, so enter the Germans. Remember episode one. We're introduced to these new Germans who are cleaning house at the cartel. It is a hostile takeover and seems to be going really, really well, except for one little caveat, that being Richard Channing. Richard is refusing to get in bed with them and it's really inconvenient to the younger German guy whose name is Gustav. Richard's complete and total lack of participation is going to eventually earn him an all expense paid trip down the side of a very scenic hill. He looked like Jazzy Jeff getting kicked out of the Fresh Prince's house. He's good, but we'll get into that here in a little bit.

Speaker 1: 7:32

Got to talk about Gustav, gustav, the younger German. Their last name is Riebmann. He and his father have a disagreement, if you will, over the way they're handling Richard. The dad's like, eh, let's just kind of let it go, it is what it is, we don't really need him. But Gustav's like, no, no, no, we need him, we need him. So there's this. They're butting heads and it's very apparent that the father only he only takes Gustav a little bit serious and Gustav really really wants his approval. So he goes out of his way. Gustav, that is to purchase his dad a super villain, super car that looks exactly like Angela Channing's.

Speaker 1: 8:05

This is weird to me, but I'm quickly learning. So is Gustav. He's just kind of a weird dude. There's something about these cars, hell babies. They got these deep, deep, deep daddy issues. Now the dad is mildly entertained by the car, but not really, which adds just another dagger into Gustav's already breaking heart. It's also revealed throughout the course of this episode that Gustav is somewhat of a secret. Most people don't know who he is because they don't know that the elder Riemann had a son. It's also worth mentioning that they don't look like they're very far apart in age 10 years, top 10, 12 years, top. So you got two parts here. Here you got Chase and Richard with this kind of weird tension where they're both putting on a facade in front of each other, where Chase is like I'm this bull guy, I can still fly a plane and I know you ruined it. So he spends most of this episode at the airport looking at planes, just like kind of going over the situation in his head.

Speaker 1: 8:57

Richard is dealing with these new emotions. He's got Miss Lynch at home. She is living life, baby. She's been laid up. Every time I've seen her she's laying in bed, she's in the bathtub, she's laying on a lounge chair. This episode he's like just take it easy, baby, I'm so, I'm so glad you're back. If you want to go to the office and work, you can. But she's like yeah, babe, I'll go. I know what, no problem, don't worry about it.

Speaker 1: 9:18

This dude, dirt dude, feels like something is missed and I sort of do too, but we'll get into that here in a bit. Richard is dealing with love with her and also his love of Chase. But he can't exactly be like okay, bro, this is what's happening. Chase has already put it together. At some point Richard mentioned the cartel. So Chase is like that's exactly who did it and I'm gonna tell the inspector. As soon as I figure out how they ruined this, I'm going to tell them who did it.

Speaker 1: 9:43

And Richard's like man, you tripping, you tripping, you lying, stop saying stuff. So he's spending most of the episode trying to get Chase to not say too much. But that doesn't matter, because towards the end of the show there is this epic scene where Chase makes his way down to the airport to call this a crop dusting plane. Some sort of moths started eating some of the grapes, so Angela flew into his house super pissed about it. She's like well, you're gonna have to pay for half of that, the pesticide application. You know how expensive that is. Chase is like don't even trip, I'm gonna save us money, I'm gonna fly the plane now.

Speaker 1: 10:15

Maggie is supportive of him jumping back on the saddle. She seems to be rather cavalier about the fact that all these people are dead. She's like just do it, like, why are you even doubting yourself? Supportive wife or super gaslighter? Either way, chase manages to get behind the wheel of the plane, even though he's super nervous. Richard is sitting on the edge of his seat. He's also nervous. So he comes down to the airport. So he wants to see Chase fly the plane. So him, his limo and his new boomer Sledge pull up to watch the whole thing, go down and make sure Chase didn't have some sort of panic attack and crash the plane. Now what are they going to do about it? Less than nothing on the ground. Right, he jumps in the plane and there's this practically, practically swelling cinematic music as he sprays pesticides all over these grapes, coating them with that thick chemical, toxic poison flavor that all us millennials grew up, all us millennials and Xers. You know we all grew up eating pesticides delicious. Anyway, he gets his groove back. By the end of the episode. Richard has bought himself another day.

Speaker 1: 11:33

Meanwhile, angela's trying to replace Phillip, not as her husband, but not looking for a new husband. She needs a new lawyer because, don't forget, philip was her do dirt dude before. He was her husband for like 10 minutes. So she's out looking for a new lawyer. Pretty boy, ken, turns out he's going to be the best candidate. There's just kind of that back and forth. We get to see okay, they, she decides that she's going to take him on as a lawyer. But is he morally gray enough for her? For the most, that's what this episode is about. Chase gets his confidence back, richard is falling in love with everyone around him. He's not cooperating with the cartel and we are introduced to the newest and possibly best villains I've seen on this show Gustav Riebman and his Faja.

Speaker 1: 12:17

What's remarkable about Foul Compressed to me is that the characters really don't mourn very hard. This isn't the first or 15th time they've dropped a body. Nobody cried at Julia's funeral other than Well, julia didn't have a funeral. Now that I think about it, they were en route to drop Julia's ashes off in Italy, but I guess she sprinkled over the Rockies. How pissed is she in the? I bet she's super pissed if she's not alive, which I think she is, because we didn't actually see her body at the end of season three. But no one on this show cries about much.

Speaker 1: 12:57

There's a scene where Maggie goes over to Cole's house because he is still mourning his wife. He's mourning his wife, but Melissa is showing up more and more. You can tell that that chemistry is building because baby Joseph, who's the best actor on the show, absolutely adores his mother. He adores his father. So the scene is they're in Cole and Linda's bedroom. Maggie's there. She's helping him clean up stuff, like get rid of some of her jewelry, box it up so that he's not, you know, he didn't fall into some sort of weird depression, which wouldn't be weird because it's his wife.

Speaker 1: 13:29

Baby Joseph is minding his whole toddler two-year-old business, playing with the train, looking like a real live my Buddy doll. He's got on his Oshkosh B'gosh overalls, their pinstripe red shirt. He's minding his own business. Now Cole starts to weep at some point and Maggie comes over to caress him and rub his back and the baby's like chugga-chugga-choo-choo, chugga-chugga-choo, what the hell is that noise? Who's crying? Turns and looks and he sees his father and he's like daddy's, sad. Anyway, the baby goes over and he hugs both his grandmother and his father, saying he loves him or something, I don't know. He says it's cheesy, but I thought damn, scene stealer, scene stealer. Baby Joseph is hard to beat when it comes to my attention on this show. He has my full and undivided attention. I can't wait to see what his little two-year-old body says with an 80-year-old man's mind. But he sues both his grandmother and his father, giving one of the best performances of the episode.

Speaker 1: 14:30

Another bit player who is dealing with the loss of a spouse is good old Aunt Terry. Y'all remember Aunt Terry, right? I forget she's on the show sometimes, but you know Michael's been buried all the 14.2 minutes. She's a brand new widow with new money, because he got in an era. He also got Nazi sympathizer paint stealing money and he was a doctor who had been a widower for 15 plus years. So all he's had money. He's probably buying Hungry man, frozen dinners and hospital shoes that's all he does and probably readers, because he was a researcher. Anyway, the point I'm painting is that she has money. Insert Cardi B's song right here. She's got new money and old habits. So of course Terry is one of the new sex symbols on the show.

Speaker 1: 15:15

Falcon Crest is really up in the ante on that. Everything's a little steamier, everybody. If you're gorgeous, you're extra gorgeous. This episode they spared no expense. So we see Terry coming out of the shower. The phone rings, she gets on it and she's apparently threatened by her ex-pimp or somebody I'm assuming it's a pimp because she was a call girl and she's so rattled by this conversation that she hangs up and the phone rings again. Or she called I can't remember who calls whom but Lance is on the other line talking about he's lonely enter. Oh, the best, worst love scene I've ever seen.

Speaker 1: 15:48

Now, memory serves me correctly, terry and Lance have hooked up more times than a little bit. Famously they hooked up at the country club while my Mike yeah, cousin Michael was outside eating lunch, I think. If not, then then whatever. They hooked up in the steam room, which we all know. As an adult, that seemed a little bit exhausting. We'll leave it at that. This time they have a whole house, baby. They don't have to hide from anybody. Lance is getting a divorce from his sham of a marriage. Terry's sham of a marriage is over because her husband's dead. Now they are free to hook up with each other in peace. They don't have to sneak down to this hotel anymore. There's no standing room. Only Now they can do it in her house and it is beyond awkward.

Speaker 1: 16:42

I wish I had a timestamp for you for the moment. They do, but it's just too. You ever see like a nerdy person get a makeover and they try to be seductive and it gives a little bit. It's like olive oil and Miss Piggy wrapped into one trying to be seductive. And I just mean I'm talking about the caricature, not the way she looks or anything, but just the over the top. About the caricature. Not the way she looks or anything, but just the over-the-top, clunky awkwardness of Lance. And they're slowly stripping clothes. Oh my god, I'm getting uncomfortable. Do yourself a favor, jump on Amazon Prime, watch this one for yourself, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1: 17:15

But Terry and his romance to me Terry andion, lance it seems a little boring. It feels like it's a little bit of a placeholder because sadly, at this point in their careers I'm not saying this is a case now, or even five years after the fact when they recorded the episode, and even one of them are great actors, the writers know this at this point, lorenzo Alamos is clearly a sex symbol. So it's like let's make sure he's extra tan this season. He's extra buff, he's getting ready for renegade. Let's go ahead and play into that a little bit more. Let's just get him topless. If he can't act, who cares, we'll get him as greasy and as action packed as possible. He may not be the best actor on the show, but he did give me one of the best lines on this episode. Let me get my notes.

Speaker 1: 18:01

Despite never really being in love with melissa, you can tell that lance. After his near death experience he did try to make a little bit of amends with her. But she's like dude, you haven't changed, you just almost died. That's the only reason you're being nice. And he's like yeah, you're probably right, you're right, you're right. So imagine his surprise when melissa comes over to falcon crest after moving out last week. He's like oh, what are you doing here? I'm so glad you didn't disrupt chow lee. She was like you know what? Chow lee can have my key and anything else. I'm just here to get a couple of my tings and I'll be out of your perfectly coiffed hair now. He's mad. He can't help but rib her a little bit. That's his ex-wife. So he's got. He's got to get under her skin just a little bit.

Speaker 1: 18:39

So they start talking crap to each other back and forth about how pathetic it is. He's telling her how, what a sucky mom she is. Can't believe you were gonna steal your son. That's why you don't have any money now. And she's like boy bye, I have a whole vineyard that I'm just gonna go back to. Don't worry about if I sold my now. Ha ha ha. Not only that, not only ha, ha, ha ha, but when your grandma dies, I get this shit too. Forgive my language, I'm so sorry. Okay, pg, pg, pg. She tells him as much. When Angela dies, this gonna be my house too. I have my dad's house and I'm gonna have this one too, and I can't wait till I do, because you are going to be the first person I put outside. I'm gonna tell you to kick rocks. I'm gonna put all your crap outside. You're gonna sit on the curb. I can't wait to tell you to get off my property.

Speaker 1: 19:34

Well, by this time, angela's upstairs, so she starts coming down the steps and she goes. Oh hey, melissa, I thought I heard your voice. How you doing? Baby melissa's like kind of rolls her eyes, but lance goes. He's like yeah, grandma melissa was just telling me how disappointed she is. It's just still breathing. You know what I have. I only have an apology. I take it back.

Speaker 1: 20:04

Maybe he's not a super serious actor, lorenzo lamas, at this time. I've seen him and stuff later and I thought he was pretty good there. He seems like a really sweet guy. He seems very down to earth in real life and lance was kind of douchey and he seems. Maybe he's just uncomfortable playing him. He hadn't quite gotten into that yet, but when he's being a smart aleck he is hilarious. I actually enjoy him a lot. I like bad boy Lance and I'm hoping he returns back to his demivillain status this season, maybe even upgrade to a supervillain. He definitely has potential.

Speaker 1: 20:36

All right, we're going to talk about a villain who is softer than a CVS cotton ball. Now let's talk about Richard's villain to lover transformation. So Richard showed up on the show basically as a mustache twirling villain and now he's like this smoldering lover tugging at my heartstrings. I can't believe it. He's gone from cutthroat business aficionado to practically making puppy dog eyes in the mirror. Is it love, is it remorse, or is it a combination of a few things?

Speaker 1: 21:07

When we first met Richard, he was like the son of this powerful man. We didn't fully know he was in the cartel, but we knew he'd been adopted by someone, figured out who his real father was and took that name. But he still had a relationship with his adopted father. Clearly it wasn't that close, but there was still something there. By season two's end he discovered who his mom was, thus introducing him to his new family. Now he has a little brother. He knows who his real father is. He knows who his real mother is. There's a little bit more of a solid identity for him as he's getting to know his flesh and blood. During the course of season three he also found a new assistant. Now Richard has slept with every assistant he that's been on the show. We've seen that but this one is a little bit different.

Speaker 1: 21:52

There's something about Miss Lynch. I think it's because she wasn't like going for him first. I still call her Miss Lynch because that's what he called her, but Pam is her name. She didn't really want him at first. She was focused on her money, she was a career woman. She's like I'm doing my job, I don't mess with you and I don't mess with the cartel. So as long as the check clears and you don't try to like, look at my skirt, we're gonna be okay. But of course that didn't last long, because they end up falling in love. Miss Lynch is still kind of a big question mark, but she, she still appears to be very protective of him or at the very least neutral enough not to outwardly side with the cartel and ruin his life.

Speaker 1: 22:26

By the end of season three he is sparing no expense, searching worldwide for her after she disappears. So enter a new emotion guilt. He feels bad about her being kidnapped, even worse when the plane is sabotaged and four out of the 13 people on board died. It's just, it's not great. He's loving, he's doting, he's waiting on her and the scene we got to talk about is not between them. But it is worth noting that his new do dirt dude, the the pi. He don't like miss lynch, he's like man, I'm telling you, where there's smoke, there's fire. And Richard is. I think he's heading. He's heading into work.

Speaker 1: 23:06

When Mr Murdery, aka Mr Spirits, snatches him up and puts him in an old school, super villain Gotham City stretch limo and he's like. Mr Spirits is like listen, the Germans want you to come on board. I'm gonna need you to do what I need you to do, man, or else I'm gonna have to kill you. And Richard's like don't kill me, I'm really tired of looking over my shoulder. Do what you're gonna do so I can go wherever I need to go in peace. Well, this pisses off Spirits. So he kicks the door open, reaches well, reaches across. Richard opens the door and promptly pushes, and he down the side of a hill Falcon Crest. They're not dynasty when it comes to a stunt double. There's. Whoever rolled down the hill looked exactly like Richard. They did a really got a good job of covering the face and hell, as far as I know, it could have been him, could have been David Selby rolling down the side of a hill himself. Either way, now he knows they mean business and this plants the seed for Gustav.

Speaker 1: 24:11

Remember this incident, because this is going to be the straw that finally broke the camel's back. Angela's renewed vendetta against Chase is back and stronger than ever. She's turning into a super, super, super villain. Like she needs one of those high back chairs and a hairless cat to stroke as she plans his demise. At the top of the episode, after Lance, you know she and Lance are outside eating breakfast waiting on a headhunter to come and introduce some new lawyer candidates as well, as they're expecting the plane inspector to come by at some point. I don't know if he's supposed to come that day, but she's all excited about it. She's like I can't wait for him to ask me what I think happened. I'm going to tell him it was Chase. And that's when Lance is like hey, don't forget, he saved your life. He did pretty good. Like 72.7% of us are alive. Yeah, I think he was pretty good. Nonsense, nonsense, nonsense. Anyway, the headhunter shows up and he sits down and he pulls out like four candidates he goes this guy's the best one, mr Craig Reardon.

Speaker 1: 25:16

Mr Reardon met Angie last episode, remember. She sent him packing. She wasn't in the mood. She is a recent widow, give her a break. But she sees his name and she's like I don't want that food. I told her, I told y'all I don't want him. Find somebody else. And can he be bought? That's another thing. That's what you need to do. You need to find out if he's honest or not, because I need him to do dirt work. I don't have nobody clean around here. Cleanest thing around here is my wardrobe baby. This is the dude, dirt house. Well, the headhunter is super offended. He's like you know what? I don't even know if you can afford him, but you definitely can't afford me. I quit and Angela is gobsmacked. Like who's he talking to me like this first and foremost, and she started to realize that she didn't have the power that she once held, with Chase showing up, with her losing half of her land, with her losing her do dirt dude, she's kind of a sitting duck, so she's nothing if not reasonable, always got her eyes on the prize. That bag still needs to be collected. She swallows her pride briefly, talks it over with Lance and decides you know what? I think I'm gonna go ahead and go with this kid.

Speaker 1: 26:23

Craig Reardon is distractingly. He's distracting. He looks like a real, live, brought to life Ken doll. I like real, real Ken doll. He has this hybrid accent where he's sort of British, sort of American. He chops it up to having one American parent, one British parent, but it just kind of feels misplaced. He really enunciates everything with his mouth. It's just super, super distracting.

Speaker 1: 26:52

The guy's name, the actor's name, is Simon McCorkindale and he had, at about the same time as this show was being filmed, he had another show out called Manimal. So I will for sure be looking up Manimal because, listen to this, manimal is an American superhero television series created by Glenn A Larson and Donald R Boyle, and it ran on NBC from September 30th to December 17th of 1983. It is a single season sensation. Gotta do it. This one isn't a soap opera, but it appears to be a show about a man who can change himself into any animal to help police solve crimes.

Speaker 1: 27:39

Ladies and gentlemen, we got the real live Mighty Morphin McGruff, the crime dog on the show, as the new lawyer. At first he doesn't want to take the job, but Angela's like I'll give you 30k a month in 1983 to be my lawyer. So he's going to be set. The deal is he has to work for her for a year and then he can move on to his political career. He he's like you know what I'm putting in writing and I'll think about it. And by the end of the show he has agreed to say he said yes.

Speaker 1: 28:16

He makes his introduction to Lance and to Emma. He shows up on a motorcycle, but like I'm not saying it's an old people one, but it's the one with the saddlebags, it's got the whole it's. It's big, it was probably brand new back in the day. He shows up, he's super stiff, goes in the house and it's not long before angela and lance start speaking freely about how they need to frame chase. She looks over at craig reardon and she manimal. Are you going to be able to do my dirt work? Are you going to be a snake for me? And he's like man, I don't know. Maybe, okay, maybe, yeah, a little bit, I guess. I guess I'll think about it, but she's back to it. So now she's going to come up with a reason as to why Chase is incompetent, and this is long before she has not. By the end of this episode she has not actually spoken to the inspector. He doesn't seem to be talking to anyone either.

Speaker 1: 29:11

Something I hadn't clocked in four seasons that is a little bit embarrassing now to me is Maggie's subtle manipulation of Chase. Hear me out. Post plane crash, maggie is gaslighting him like no other. Now it appears to be a concerned wife saying honey, don't doubt yourself, don't beat yourself up over this. You are the best pilot ever. But really, what she's saying is stop looking for a reason. The plane crash, just get over it. You saved everyone, right? That seems harmless, but I started to think about it.

Speaker 1: 29:49

I'm like every time Chase on this show has had an idea in his head, he is like a dog with a bone. It's very hard to get an idea away from him. He might be a little. What's the word? Stubborn? He might be a little single-minded when it comes to what he believes and most people might call that a little bit of paranoia. However, it's not paranoia, if you're right. Every single time when he thought something was going down in season one, she was like I don't know, chase, he was right, he let her move out of the house. Remember when she moved in on season two, when she moved in with the writer down the street to write that movie? That never happened. And then she was like kissing him and whatnot. She didn't kiss him bad, I'm not this. If this is your first time listening, I'm making it sound worse than it is. She's never had like a full on affair, but she's always so, so lovely. But she was gaslighting the hell out of him.

Speaker 1: 30:42

When your son is being framed for murder, it is natural that any parent is going to want to do their best. Chase was using all of his resources and she was like man, you need to chill. You're doing the most, doing the absolute most. You're ruining everything. You need to stop. But he was right. And now with this plane, he's like Maggie, I flew in freaking Vietnam, I'm a good pilot. She's like yeah, you are a good pilot, but why do you think something was wrong with the plane? Planes blow up every day. You think it's weird that the plane that you walked around and inspected with you know your 25 years of pilot experience. Now, all of a sudden, you're an expert. Now, all of a sudden, you know an expert. Now, all of a sudden, you know planes well enough to know that they've been tampered with. Chase chill. She gaslit him like the cereal industry gaslit our parents.

Speaker 1: 31:36

Convince sound-minded, intelligent people that feeding your kid a glass of orange juice, a Pop-Tart, a bowl of cereal and a glass of milk was part of a complete and balanced breakfast Literally sold us dessert for breakfast. And we're like oh, it's fine. And if you don't eat that pesticide fruits, don't feed your kids pesticide covered fruit, give them a fruit roll up. If you're an 80s baby or an 80s kid, what I'm talking about like we grew up with some wild stuff, the more I think about it, I'm like oh my gosh, anyway, it's that same level of you know, if a pilot of all people says the plane was sabotaged I flown a lot and I felt something was off immediately she's like nah, oh my, oh, my God, just get over it, get over it. She wants him to get over it and I can't get over this. Like millennials, seriously millennials and Gen X, this cereal thing is bugging me and now people want to drag us for liking avocado toast. That's actually not bad for breakfast. It's real food. It's two real foods, especially for people who grew up eating pesticides, plastic and red dye number 40 disguises fruit. I mean, I feel like it's two real foods, especially for people who grew up eating pesticides, plastic and red dye number 40 disguises fruit. I mean, I feel like it's. I feel very much attacked. I think it's an improvement.

Speaker 1: 32:53

Let's talk about Gustav. Gustav, gustav, okay. So do you remember that moment when Richard was tossed out of the car, jazzy, just style? That is what triggered the fight at home between Gustav and his father. It's his dad's birthday, I suppose, or it's very, very near it, and Gustav is, you know, trying to build. He won, I think. He wanted everything to fall into place. He wanted the cartel to be completely taken over. He wanted Richard to be completely on board. And then he's going to present his dad with this Cruella de Vil, angie, angie, supervillain card.

Speaker 1: 33:26

Spirits comes to the house and he reports to the father, whose name I don't know, if they just don't say, or I don't remember he reports to him that Richard wasn't on board. So I threw him out of his car. What do you want me to do? The dad is just like okay, oh well, so he's not on board, all is not lost. We can still kind of salvage our plans. Let's not worry too much about it, let's just move on. Gustav flips out. What are you talking about? Let's just do this. He wants, he wants to fly in all willy-nilly. And the dad is like listen, I've been around a long time, at least 10, 11 years more than you. I think you got to play it just so I know what we're doing. We're setting an example. We can't just go out here. This ain't the wild, wild west.

Speaker 1: 34:09

Gustave does one of the most terrifying things I've ever seen, next to Javier Bardot in no Country for Old Men. Side note, that movie scared the crap out of me. Not because it's a horror movie, by any means, but in the movie, the thing that is the scariest about Javier Bardot is because Bardem, I think, yeah, bardem, he's not afraid. He's not showing any emotion. He doesn't talk about being hungry. He doesn't talk about being cold. He doesn't talk about anything, he just shows up to kill you with the calmest demeanor you'll ever find. He's not unpleasant. He is slow and steady and you see that kind of calm clarity fall over Gustav's face at one point. So he's like, okay, okay, dad, cool.

Speaker 1: 35:00

So the very last scene of this episode is Gustav's father leaving the house to go attend to some business. His driver jumps out of the supervillain car. He goes to the back, he opens the door, daddy Gustav or Daddy Griebman gets in the backseat. Gustav is in his no country for old men, stone face, killer face, and he's just watching out the window as his father climbs into the car, as the driver gets back into the car, and then next thing, you know, boom, freaking, blew up his dad's car 10 feet away from the front door, and just watches and I'm like, oh my god, the driver had nothing to do with this. Can you imagine if I met driver and I woke up in heaven I'd be so pissed like I just wanted to go to work today. What happened? Gustav blew up the car gg, you know, I had nothing to do with this blew him to smithereens.

Speaker 1: 36:05

So there's a new sheriff in town and he is unhinged, because he was perfect. I can't stress that enough. Perfectly calm, didn't flinch. It's like okay, cool, you want, you want to play it this way, we're gonna play it this way. You should always be terrified if you're in the middle of a raging argument with someone and then they just drop into this like ice cold coolness. You better believe whatever comes out of their mouth next is the truth. I for one, am excited because if he's willing to blow up his father, this is on par with Angie y'all already know I talk about it every 10 times. I guess she put her brother's corpse in a 1981 Chevy pickup and set it on fire and threw him off a cliff. They're two peas in a pod. It's beautiful. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1: 36:55

I was in my bedroom watching it, watching it, and, um, my husband I guess he was in the hallway doing something. He could hear the music. So he comes in and he's like oh, I thought you were watching Indiana Jones. No, I'm not watching Indiana Jones. I'm watching Chase fly that pesticide plane over those crops. It's full. And then there's Nazi gold hidden under falcon grass.

Speaker 1: 37:20

Are you kidding me? I can't wait to finish this season. I know this is going to be good. I'm not. I'm going to try my best not to compare it too much to Temple of Doom, but it's hard not to. It's hard to separate the two. Hope you enjoyed this retro review. Enjoy the rest of your day. Next week we're going to jump back into Dallas. We got to see if Sue Ellen's ready to have a memory or not, because it's been three episodes and we still don't know who shot. They are All you OGs know. Thank you so so much for not spoiling it. I still can't believe. I don't know at this point. Can't wait to find out. All right, guys. In the meantime, be good to yourself, Stay hydrated, stay moisturized and keep all of your drama on TV. Thank you, bye.