S4E3: High-ish Noon

Transcript

Speaker: All right. everyone, and welcome to Versailles 6101, where we discuss everything about the world of Psyche and the antics of Sean and Gus in sunny Santa Barbara. I'm Skylar, and this is my partner, Mr. B, the tabby cat. And today we'll be talking about season four, episode three of the famed TV show, Psyche.

Speaker: Hi, Nune-ish. High noon-ish. And we watched High Noon. High Noon. which Yes. Very clear reference.

Speaker: which Yeah. A Western. Yeah. Did you, what'd you think of it? I, it was so, I thought it was very interesting. it was not what I was expecting from a Western. And I don't know if that's just because I haven't really watched Any Western side. I was expecting like shooting and ah like tons of cowboys and horses and i wasn't really thinking so much like social.

Speaker: not you know? Yeah. Well, know, love to read the Wikipedia. Did you read the Wikipedia at all? I did not. I did not do any background research. Well, that's a very astute observation because apparently it like really was reinvented the Western genre. okay. And was very unusual for audiences at the time to that there all the like excitement was kind of reserved for the end and that it was following more of this moral dilemma the whole time. Yes, yes.

Speaker: So, and it also kind of was a very different um portrayal of women in Westerns. Ah.

Speaker: Up until that point. Businesswoman. Up until that point. yeah Yeah. Yeah, both the women. um and yeah, I guess... John Wayne. That's like the famous Western guy, right? He hated it.

Speaker: Really? Interesting. He thought it was not a real Western because like of the, i don't know, like the protagonist walking around asking for help, like kind of got the impression he thought he was too soft, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker: Which ah I don't really know a lot about John Wayne, but i hear he's a ah piece of work. A piece of work indeed. um So I guess that tracks. But yeah, I thought that was interesting that it really, it was kind of a a turning point. So on the one hand, I don't know that it was a great reference for us for the genre. sure I think it is one of the most famous references.

Speaker: of the genre, but it is a departure too, what it had been. From the standard. Yeah. So kind of interesting. But I was thinking about in watching the episode,

Speaker: I don't, it definitely wasn't like a, we're doing high noon, but no, no, which some of the ones, it is very much so. Yeah. Nearly like one. Yeah.

Speaker: Thinking about, you know, what's coming up next with the exorcist. That is like, we're doing the exorcist.

Speaker: I'm very excited for that one. Yeah. Me too, yeah. um But with this one, it's more just like the the trappings, aesthetic very much. yeah so um But there was an element of like Sean kind of being alienated from the...

Speaker: quote unquote town yes and like try and he kind of does go around asking people you know what's going on and they yeah won't really tell him so i was like sure why not a little bit it does kind of yeah like we do leave you know the nut shelling is like our big thing at the end always and then we have a standoff with Lassie and Stinky Pete at the very end yeah So, yeah, little little bits. Definitely not like a we're going to make a rough and tumbling Western.

Speaker: Although I did feel like there were like a lot of stunts, like some pretty fun stunts. And also references like the very classic shot of ah the building falling.

Speaker: Oh, so good. I love that one. like Yeah. a reference in itself to other things. that Yeah, there was some some action for sure.

Speaker: Yes, like a ah psych twist on action as they always Yes, yes. Like even the falling building I thought was so funny, like them looking at each other and then scooting as close to each other. Oh my gosh, yeah.

Speaker: Like just so, yeah, just always so silly. um While watching High Noon, just before we we jump off of that, now I i haven't seen, Waiting for Godot, but Kylie has mentioned it before. And I was actually... Waiting for Godot. I was watching the movie at high noon, and I was like, is this going to be like we're waiting for this guy, and he just never shows up? Oh, that would have been interesting. Yeah. ready It was just like an odd... It took me...

Speaker: a long time to get through it and I mean part of that is just because my you know I have a lot going on these days so it was like in pieces but I felt like I watched it in like 10 parts and it was like an hour and a half it was not a long movie no going into it I was like oh cool an hour and a half that'll be great yeah it took me a while and was definitely a little slow like yeah it's in real time practically like pretty much yeah Which is wild. And it was like a lot of, like you said, waiting. Just like this anticipation for this guy. And they're building up this guy. And he's got friends in the community. But he's also, you know, been...

Speaker: was supposed to have been hanged for murder, I believe. um Yeah. So, yeah. And then just a lot of like this guy walking around asking people if they will help him and they say no. And he's just like, ah. That sucks. And then the song plays Oh, my God. Almost, like, nonstop.

Speaker: Okay. And the song plays in the beginning. First of all, i I love that this song must have been made for this specific purpose. Oh, yeah. like yeah I mean, sometimes. think it's called the Ballad of High Noon. Yeah. It's like they mention the guy, the the you know, murderer. guess, my name.

Speaker: Yeah, I wonder if that was something like of the 50s or if it was more like to evoke the more of like the 1850s of like where you would have like these kind of campfire songs, maybe like these songs, these ballads of people like yes yeah old folk songs that tell the story of of something that happened. Right.

Speaker: Yeah, that certainly could be. i also found it very interesting that like the entire last 10-15 minutes of the movie essentially turned into like a silent film. like There was no talking. Yeah. It was like like an art film.

Speaker: it what Yeah, very much so. That's a great way to describe it. yeah like it It definitely didn't follow... like the traditional conventions that you would think it would follow, just like of a movie even.

Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. Well, even being in real time, like that's a unique thing to do. Yeah. Even, you know, now. Yeah. It was definitely, it was definitely an interesting watch. I also found it very interesting. Did you watch it while it was still on Tubi?

Speaker: Yes. I know. I went to it and it's like leaving in six or seven days. and I was like, oh no. I know. I was like, oh God, thank God we watched it now. We have no time left. My gosh. Yeah, I did actually, in i liked the song, like in the beginning, the shot of that cowboy out in the field and that song playing over it. was like, wow, this is beautiful. i Yeah, it was.

Speaker: It did, I mean, it was interesting starting with them, the bad guys. Yes. Because I was like, i don't know who these people are. Yeah. Gary Cooper is a name I've heard, I think, probably. But um I almost feel like in my head I'm confusing him with D.B. Cooper.

Speaker: ah D.B. Cooper, the ah guy who famously... Disappeared guy, that one? Yeah. yeah ah not here's Not the same guy. yeah um But yes, I wasn't like...

Speaker: I wasn't sure if that was him, you know, like when we first started, like if that was our hero. Right, right. But it was not. It was kind of just some guy in a way because he's just like part of the crew for the right bad guy He's not even the bad guy because like you never see him until the very end. And it took even when we saw the bad guy at the very end, I was like, oh, is that him?

Speaker: I was like, oh, okay. Yeah, and that. Right. And I, it was almost anticlimactic seeing him because I was like, we have waited so long to see him. And then it's just like, okay, here I am. It's just a guy. Yeah. And I even thought for a minute that they were going to pull a whole, like, we're not going to show you his face. Yeah. Something.

Speaker: I don't know what would have made that feel better. like a payoff because it was just so we waited so long um yeah don't know if anything would have made it feel differently but ultimately it was just just a man and you know maybe that's part of it is they're all just they're just men you know they're just people people um and stories you have this beautiful song that follows us yeah the the wikipedia is an interesting read if you want to check it out read it yeah It does talk about how a lot of, I guess, a lot of, like, American presidents, U.S. American presidents are, like, this is, like, their favorite movie. What? Okay, what an interesting book. I think it said, like, Bill Clinton, like, played it, like, a record 17 times. Like, screened it in the White House or something like that. Okay. Yeah.

Speaker: And I guess, like, they're attracted to the idea of like, one man... ah standing on principle you know like when nobody nobody is has his back nobody agrees and he's still gonna do it it does feel very like U.S. American in that way of like yeah this in individualism oh yes so that's kind of interesting if you look at it like that too yeah and like interesting yeah to to think of it as as that as this idea of individualism, because usually when we talk about individualism, we give it the counterpoint of, like, collectivistic cultures, like, of people you know, people working together for the greater good, you know, that would just be the natural juxtaposition. And then you look at the bad guys, and what is it? It's a group of guys working together. true uhu Yeah, Yeah.

Speaker: Interesting. Yeah. Yeah, i think and I think there's, like, kind of multiple angles, because on the one hand, like, I don't know. It's interesting that nobody in the town will just like stand with him kind of like, it's not just that he is standing up for what he believes in, but just that like nobody, they're like cowardly.

Speaker: Yeah. And, and also their priorities, I guess are, are different. Yes. Yes. Well, and that's interesting, too, to just think of like the especially i would, you know, what am I what am i trying to say, especially in the West where the sheriff is essentially the law. Like, yes, they are.

Speaker: quote unquote, a part of the United States in the respect that they're territory of the United States, but they're they're not falling yet under like the president being considered a state or anything like that. Right. um So for someone to really like stick their neck out and say, like, I'm going to, you know, do the moral thing just because it is the moral thing to do and not because I'm going to have any backing um or there's anything to protect me rather from it. Yeah.

Speaker: That's got to be really tough. Like, yeah, you really do have to, as you said, like stand on principles as the as the sheriff has to do, because he is the last line of defense. There is no like federal government or anybody else to to protect them.

Speaker: Yeah, that's true. And I guess like i I was kind of like, what is he staying? I mean.

Speaker: He's kind of staying Well, I think a lot of the townspeople say, like, if you leave, they're not going to do anything. So can you just leave? um I don't know. And it's goingnna yeah and and they keep saying that. And he's like...

Speaker: It's like he has to face them because they're coming to fight him, which, you know, and then you have the counterpoint of his wife, who's a Quaker and doesn't believe and it believes in nonviolence. And so it's like she wants him to leave because she just doesn't believe in, know, resolving our differences this way. yeah but But I do feel like they kind of tried to show that these these guys were going to hurt the town immediately Anyway, like, because they get into town and they don't even really know if he's still there and they're breaking windows and stuff. Yeah.

Speaker: I guess it's kind of like, if you don't take a stand, h like, they will run you over. Yeah, i it is the Wild West.

Speaker: Yeah. And adjust whatever happens. And it is interesting, like, You know, with this movie and our episode,

Speaker: um there is, it is one man, you know, like there is one sheriff. He doesn't have any deputies. He doesn't have right And even when... i also thought, like, when Sean comes in as the sheriff and then he says, there's a new sheriff in town, which I think he said that, which is, like, yeah the classic. There's a new sheriff in town. Yeah.

Speaker: It's like an idiom, practically. I don't... Yeah. I mean, it's just something we say. And and so, like, literally... in this fake town there's one sheriff and now there's a new one yes yes and it's kind of and that's kind of like high noon too because it it is just one guy yeah um one guy right and like you said before and no one's trying to help him like literally yeah them they all just walk away is on his own

Speaker: Yeah, and I guess if... Now we're just, like, making parallels because we watched it both. But, like, you know, in the end, when everybody kind of turns on Hank, Sean doesn't, which is is really Sean. Like, he... We talked about this, I think, in the last one, too. Like, he sticks with Nainaf just because? I don't... I mean, i guess on one level,

Speaker: He just, he feels it, his gut, his intuition or whatever. um

Speaker: But he kind of just, once he makes a decision about somebody, he he kind of sticks with that. I don't know. Yeah. um but But he does stand up for Hank when even last he can't.

Speaker: I know. Well, and that's a very interesting dynamic in this whole episode too. Lassie coming in and asking the boys for help and not just asking them for help, but asking them for help in a place that means so much to him. Yeah.

Speaker: yeah I mean, this is maybe the biggest episode ever for their relationship. Like, I guess certainly since Lassie did a bad, bad thing, but like maybe even bigger than that.

Speaker: oh ah Yeah, i mean, I would think so. He's really entrusting them. Uh-huh. With mean, his pretty much all of his good childhood memories. Yeah. He's entrusting to them.

Speaker: and I thought it was really interesting that Henry's read of the situation much later when Sean goes to him is you are sticking with Hank because you care about Lassen. Right. Which is like,

Speaker: That's so, right that's huge. I don't, I mean, yeah that's so sweet. And and um it's also making me making me think of, it's actually, this episode made me think several times about um Gus's dad may have killed a guy. oh yeah.

Speaker: And like the dynamics there. Yeah. um Yeah. Well, and I guess, I mean, I guess part, i you know, if you if we really want to take that leap, Hank is kind of a father figure to Lassie. Yeah. He looks up to him. He took care of him every weekend growing up as a child.

Speaker: So it would make sense that there's almost like a blind faith. put in that person you know by sean by way of lassie and or gust in this case but yeah there are definitely a lot of parallels to to that and like trying to do trying to do right by your family or in this case trying to do right by your town but maybe not always making the best decisions or not being able to and like what the repercussions of that then are

Speaker: Yeah, and I feel like um it's interesting, Lassie kind of doesn't have the o the luxury, I guess, of like not being affiliated with...

Speaker: the state like like sean can stick with hank because he can but where lassie is like the the evidence that right is there yeah they they have to arrest him like that is heartbreaking yeah it's so painful for lassie but less lassie does it and it made me think of like in in gus's dad may have killed a guy how sean and gus kind of can keep that they can maintain that that innocence and keep investigating and stuff um for Gus's dad. But Lassie doesn't get to do that for his, quote, dad.

Speaker: Right. But Sean will for him. Yes. So shall we start at the meeting? Let's do it. Yeah, we kind of... That's our little intro paragraph.

Speaker: Our yeah. We bebop around. I really... i feel like i we've held back, though. We didn't go too deep, yeah so... No, that's Now we'll go back. We just teased a little bit of your thoughts.

Speaker: So we we start episode three with our flashback, and we hear about... a giant hole that was just dug in the front yard by Sean and Gus.

Speaker: And, you know, Sean is giving the excuse that Gus made him dig his own grave because they were playing cowboys. And we get this kind of running bit that they're just playing cowboys because playing Indians is offensive. so they're not playing cowboys and Indians, just cowboys.

Speaker: And we hear about this whole saga of what digging his own grave was like. He had buzzards eat his entrails, which feels very Western. Yeah, they clearly like watched something and that happened. And now that's like a fixture. yeah And I love that song because it's the realism that makes it fun.

Speaker: and He has buzzers eating in trouble. And of course, Henry's like, ha ha, go and fix it. Like fill in the hole. you can You can't just leave there.

Speaker: um Which I don't really know how. Oh, I guess a hole, mine shaft. Oh, yeah. Sure. Outside of it just being Western and.

Speaker: Yeah. In graves. Yeah. It is funny. I feel like see them dig holes a lot. They They dug a hole when they hit the water line. remember when they felt like, did we get there yet? And they felt like they hit oil. Yeah, I think we did. think that was last season. Yes, Vic and our sister. Yes, we did.

Speaker: The oil rig. Now we're at the pool. i feel like that's that must be just like kind of an 80s thing. Not that it couldn't happen now, but people have, you know, kids have screens and things. but like That's true. I mean, when I was a kid, I remember being like, i would love to have a pool. Let's try and dig a pool in the backyard.

Speaker: And it lasted for like 10 minutes. And then I was like, oh, that's not happening. Yeah. Well, it does feel latchkey kiddish. Like, yeah.

Speaker: which is like where the parents are like at work. So like the kids ah come home and they're just kind of like ah left to their own devices. Cause like getting away with digging that big of a hole, I feel like that suggests some, some lack of supervision. as we say This is a good question. Where is Maddie? Henry was at work. Where was Maddie? Was Maddie also at work? Was she out on the town? Was she? i think Maddie must be at work too.

Speaker: Out at a conference? but But, you know, that's tough. Like, if it's summer and you guys both have jobs, like, that is not easy. And I feel like at that time, they're that was kind of common, like, for kids to just be, like, about. Sure. They've got their bikes or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, that's just, is what that makes me think of. Because I think, like, yeah, like, I might have done some digging, but, like, not...

Speaker: not a big hole like that yeah not what i'm imagining body sized two bodies yeah yeah no that that's true also you would think at some point sean would be like maybe let's not dig a hole in the front yard but no he's sean no how would re and makes it but yeah different spot in the front yard they didn't learn from their mistakes no Or maybe they did, but the wrong lesson. Don't do They were like, oh, we won't. Yeah, we won't dig where the line is. Yeah, exactly. We'll over there. that That would really track with Sean and Gus. Yeah. Which, you know, very thoughtful.

Speaker: Yes, very. Because we didn't hear about any water lines getting busted. So really, they were quite responsible. yeah And all Henry said was, fill it up. Yeah. So he wasn't that peeved? No.

Speaker: Honestly, it was pretty tame for Henry. Yeah. Some crazy things he's had him do over the years. So that's our our little flashback to set us in the the world of digging and Westerns.

Speaker: And then we jump to present day and we get stoic Lassie in the car with Sean and Gus in the backseat. And they are like... This is so funny. I'm personally panicking. Oh, this is hysterical. Mainly Gus.

Speaker: Sean is like... Yeah, Sean's like...

Speaker: yeah john's like What did Sean say? Oh, yeah. Gus thinks that Lassie's going to kill them. Sean thinks that, like, oh it's just, they're just friendly going somewhere. And Gus was like, no, this is payback for all the times we've made fun of him. And Sean's like, this is team building exercises. Don't worry.

Speaker: be fine. and Lassie must feel the tension because at one point he literally says, don't worry, I'm not going to shoot anyone. Well, I think Gus says...

Speaker: I think they asked him if he's going to shoot them. um did they? I watched this a little while ago. so I know. I was sick. Sickness happens. I love the transcript open. puff Perfect.

Speaker: Look, Lassie, I know I've been a tad annoying in the past, but shooting Gus and disposing of his body in the aquifer is not the answer. then Lassie says, don't be ridiculous. i'm not going to shoot anyone.

Speaker: if then gus goes he didn't say anything about knifing anybody yeah we find out we pull off to the side of the road at this small town it's like the back entrance of this small town called old sonora and what he's asking him to do the back entrance i know i yeah i have never caught that before until this time So I'm like, what kind of town? Yeah, exactly. But then when you like, when the whole thing's revealed and you're like, oh, it's not a real town. You're like, oh, got it. It's like the back entrance to a thief park. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah, when he pulled off the road and parked in like...

Speaker: They got a gravel. Yeah. The side of the road. It is weird. Like this is it doesn't feel like a town. Right. Yeah. There's not like a like street parking, if you will. Yeah. oh Yeah. So we find out that.

Speaker: What Lassie's asking them to do isn't, like, strictly legal, and it's definitely outside of his jurisdiction. So he's asking the boys for a favor because this place means a lot to him. um He's so, like, it this is... We don't really get to see sensitive Lassie very often. No, it's very true.

Speaker: And the way it's portrayed, like, I love... um because he in a way he does take a lot of crap from shawning yeah he does seawny gu um and he'll like kind of give it back a little bit too like he sort of banters with them in his way like he's got his comebacks and stuff but in this i wrote down he says I will ask you to stifle your urge to make fun of everything that is decent.

Speaker: Which is such a sweet, like, like thing to ask somebody like, because, you know, sarcasm, irony, like that's very a common.

Speaker: yeah in this day and in the days of psych and so to ask somebody like please don't make fun of this this means a lot to me like that's kind of kind of big and like coming from Lassie who so like tries to present himself as this such a tough guy yeah yeah it's quite sweet Yeah, I mean, feel like it's very vulnerable of him to be like, I yeah really care about this thing.

Speaker: So I don't want you to, like, make a mockery of it, essentially. Yeah, and it's kind of like, don't know, the way he changes, like, when he's there and when he's around Hank and stuff, it's as if, like, his inner child is, like, still there, you know? Yeah, totally. It's like a homecoming. Yeah.

Speaker: Aw. Yeah, I mean, we I think we've talked about this before, but like yeah humans, just people, we very much so fall into the same patterns when we get into particular spaces. So if Right. Lassie was there as a child and, you know, behaved a certain way as a child and hasn't really been, you know, back since. It would make sense for him to kind of fall into that more childlike role or, you know, kind of defer to Hank when being in that space. That totally makes sense. Yeah, that's true. And that is kind of, you're right, we have talked about that. And I think a lot in the context of like Sean and Gus and their families and their family homes and like becoming like a kind of a

Speaker: asshole teenager when they're yeah totally particularly Sean yeah Gus more I think like maybe in the way that his parents do baby him or attempt to a lot um yeah but with Lassie like this is his haven from childhood so it's like he's very yeah where Sean is like got a real chip on his shoulder when he's like at home with or when he goes to that teenager Sean place with Henry and Maddie, um it's it's quite different from what Lassie, we're seeing with Lassie here because this is like where he went and where he felt safe and like yeah inspired and stuff. Like he thinks it's the coolest place in the world.

Speaker: Yes, he does. Yes, he does. And that still comes out. Yeah. Yeah, I mean... I just think about like, you know, when you're a kid and you have that special place, like there's so many memories attached to that place and so many like just lovely, lovely things. Yeah. Lovely memories. I don't know.

Speaker: Even if it's like in this case, you know, rundown Western fake Western town, like it still holds a really special place in your heart. And therefore to you, it is like, you know, sitting on a hill kind of a thing. um So, yeah, I wonder what it must be like for Lassie to go back like now as an adult and kind of see it a little bit in shambles or or was it kind of like this when he was a kid? I don't i don't know. um yeah i don't think it would have been...

Speaker: like that just based on the way they talk about it and how long Hank has been there and stuff like I would think that you know 10 even years ago like it was probably pretty nice like pretty cool yeah um kept up well and it doesn't seem like it's not being kept up well because of Hank it's oh that's more than other things yeah yeah yeah Right, yeah, like things going missing, and things being stolen, and yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, the things are falling apart because, spoilers, somebody's stealing wood from from the structures. Which also is a crazy thing. Like, you don't want to be caught, but you're stealing structural wood. like Yeah, stealing load-bearing pieces of wood.

Speaker: You're literally, like, right by a bunch of trees. Yeah. Tops of trees. a tree. And we go through a tree. But, like, my goodness. Yeah, so funny. Anyway, so we meet Hank, who is the sheriff of the town. and That father figure that we were talking about when we were talking about Lassie and his relationship with the town. And we hear a very lovely nickname for Lassie, Binky, which...

Speaker: I wonder, like, did he come to this town so young that he still had a binky? Oh, my gosh. Well, you know, and do we want to get into the Lassie lore or do we want to wait a little bit? so we can Whatever. Because I guess it's it's a little bit later at the campfire. But the main takeaway, i would say, is that Lassie's papa wasn't around.

Speaker: I know. Which is really interesting. and I feel like when we watch Psych 3? No, Psych 2? Lassie Come Home? Because I think Psych 3 is this. is yes Yes. Yes, I think it is too.

Speaker: We watched like two Lassie Come Home. I think we should watch this before. then Okay. um Just because it's interesting because in that there's a lot of flashbacks with his father. And I don't, did he die or did he like leave? Because they're quite close in those flashbacks. Yeah, I can't really remember either.

Speaker: um But this episode certainly makes it seem like he like was just... kind of, I don't know, a deadbeat. Yeah. Or like, this didn't, wasn't really there for Lassie. Right.

Speaker: Um...

Speaker: So I guess we'll take that for what it is, where we're at in this part, in this point in this series. Yeah. Well, it's interesting, too, to think then, like, if Lassie's dad wasn't around that much and Sheriff Hank was kind of his role model, could Hank be partly a reason why Lassie decided to get into law enforcement?

Speaker: Yeah, actually, I think that makes a lot of sense. Sheriffing is kind of different than, you know, being cop. Yeah, and actually, now that I didn't think about it, but it's interesting that in this episode, he's going up against the sheriff's department.

Speaker: Oh, my God. Jurisdictionally. That's so funny. Yeah, yeah, he is. It's interesting that he didn't go that route either.

Speaker: Yeah, I wonder, I wonder why. I feel like that maybe ah maybe I need a more nuanced understanding of the police enterprise.

Speaker: don't really think I know the the strict differences between the two. Yeah, I mean, i think basically like ah a city or a town would have a police department and then like the sheriff's department is more for the county and like unincorporated areas. And think usually they run the jails and stuff.

Speaker: Ah, okay. okay So...

Speaker: Yeah, that maybe that didn't, that wasn't as, seemed as interesting to Lassie, but but yeah, I could see. him Equating the character of Hank.

Speaker: Yes. as ah That he saw as a child with law enforcement. Yeah. Yeah, that is interesting. Mm-hmm. So we find out from Sheriff Hank as we enter the town that there has been kind of a bunch of crazy things going on lately in the town. There was some vandalism. We know wood is being stolen, as Kylie mentioned before. um Sean's first instinct is ah beaver, but I won't rule out Keebler elves, he mentions. Shit.

Speaker: There's also been some water poisoning taking place. The air has been smelling weird. um Cat urine, says Gus, which is a very particular pungent smell. So like I'm shocked that just Gus pulled that one. um And that's interesting, too, because we like later it's revealed to be sulfur.

Speaker: Yes. Which isn't the same smell, is it? No, not really. i mean, sulfur smells, i always think more like rotten eggs when I drink a sulfur. But maybe just like a very um like kind of rancid smell. Maybe that's Yeah, and that's true.

Speaker: Maybe um our bad guy is like bringing in cat urine to throw off the smell of the sulfur. Throwing cat urine on the place. You know? I mean, i guess they're trying to chase people out of there. they're trying to make it bad. So sure, why not? You just brought in like 50 barn cats and it's just like, have at. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker: man from his introduction scene i sean's line is so funny where he's like i'm sure you've heard about what i do and how cool it is you've now seen my hair which means you're doubly impressed Let's not get wrapped up in gushy compliments, though. I get a little self-conscious.

Speaker: He's so preposterous. Him and the hair again.

Speaker: i love, it like, lauding himself and ending it with, I get a little self-conscious. Yeah, but don't mention Let's not talk about it. Yeah. And he, like, doesn't know who they are either. Yeah, he's like, what? Right? Right.

Speaker: yeah what I just trust you, I guess, because Pinky's here, but you know. And ah yeah we're also... Sorry. Oh, I just realized like we were talking about Lassie being sensitive and stuff and coming here. wrote we Did we even talk about how like Lassie asked for a favor? um i think we just glossed over it. Yeah, like... Huge.

Speaker: Yeah, definitely big. Like, not only... I mean, it's such a, you used the word vulnerable earlier, like such a vulnerable favorite too, because it's like something that's so precious to him, a place that's so precious to him, a person that's so precious. Yes.

Speaker: And he does not have any other options. And I think I wrote down...

Speaker: Okay, it's a little bit later. They do talk about this a little bit more, but when Sean says, you can count on us, and Lassie says, I knew like i knew I could. Like, that is so... Like, i mean, these are huge moments yeah for these characters. Yes. a, like, kind of in a classic psych way, we can gloss right over them because yeah it's so silly. Well, yeah, and yeah.

Speaker: because there i I really think there's like a there there is kind of a difference between begrudgingly asking someone for a favor and asking them for a favor because, you know, like they're the ones who are going to be able to. yeah And I think initially it it maybe be kind of feels like it's a little bit of a begrudging favor, like just the tiniest tad because he has no one else.

Speaker: But by the end, you can tell that he really, like, he had confidence in the fact that they were going to be able to do this. He just maybe wasn't super ah comfortable sharing that. Maybe, like, similar to Henry, how he just had his emotions. Well, I do feel like he he does have, like, some frustration in these early moments with them. But I feel like it's about how they approach these things. Because how they go back he is being very earnest. And, like, and that he's like, please stop.

Speaker: yeah making fun of everything and like um and then like as it goes on you know sean like dressing up and like like all these little like ah when they come i don't even remember we'll get there in the notes but like at some point I think they he goes there and they've done nothing they're just like in character what are you doing like I don't think he ever thinks that they can't solve it he's just like will you just do your job yeah I think frustrated is a good word for it he definitely seems very like annoyed with them almost yeah throughout parts of the episode

Speaker: ho well And all of this, everything that we've talked about so far is also extra funny because Sean and Gus have no idea that this is not a real town yet. so Yes. They're walking through the town. Yeah. That's so true. Like watching this, like there's those bits about, you know, the back of the town. And so like I was thinking about it, but but I know so well that it's not a town. But when you say that, like...

Speaker: It would be so weird for them walking into this and like having that conversation with Hank. Yes. And then Hank, like, you know, Stinky Pete comes out and Hank, like, yeah dropping gun. There's like an actual standoff. And then people start clapping and Sean's like, oh.

Speaker: This is not a a real town. Yeah. yeah i When Hank takes the shot and they're just like, what? shot that guy and laughing like isn't it great yeah

Speaker: imagine shot a gus like we literally that guy just died and Lassie is smiling like what is happening and then yeah nope not real the shooting blanks and it also i feel like kind of brings stakes down a little bit for them you know yeah and we have had

Speaker: you know We've seen Sean kind of their two wolves and such. john one is like like On the one hand, there's no small cases for him. And then on the other,

Speaker: he yeah he can be a little petulant about how important something is. But I think... i don't know. We don't really see him go there, but maybe that first, like, this is not a real town. Like maybe that first moment, he's like, really? um his But but he for Lassie, he's gonna... Yeah, of course. He gets over that pretty quick, I think.

Speaker: Yeah. Well, and think it's it's not a real town, but it's still a real case. So I think that's really important. That's true. If it was a made-up thing that Lassie was... doing to occupy their time so they couldn't be on a real case yeah that's true if there was something else going on yeah but this is like an actual thing although they don't really know if well yeah theoretically it's an actual thing yeah but i do feel like because lassie's bringing him out here and imploring them to to do this for him

Speaker: I also wonder now that we're, how what did Lassie get them in the car? Like, what did he say to them to get them in the car? I think he asked a favor. Is that it? He just said, can I have a favor that's in the I think they're whispering,

Speaker: Yeah, he asks us for a favor. That's all. We can leave anytime we want. Case in point, he opens the door or attempts to, and it's locked from the outside so they can't get out. And then they and they start freaking out.

Speaker: Oh, my God. Yeah, because I'm just like, the two of them usually need at least like the promise of a Snickers bar, like something to get them somewhere. I wonder if like the thrill of just Lassie asking them for a favor was enough. no probably. Probably.

Speaker: We don't know what it's going to be, man. We got to go. we got to find out. Yeah. As much shit as they give Lassie, like he has a bit of mystique.

Speaker: I feel like, you know, he's such a weird guy and like like a weird dude. They don't... It's almost like, i feel like their curiosity would get the better of... Certainly of Sean. Gus is like, he is going to murder us. I still think that's so funny.

Speaker: Not them dying, obviously, but just like putting themselves into this situation and Lassie being so serious. Yeah, and it also says a lot about like, particularly Gus, what Gus thinks of Lassie. And wasn't it in the...

Speaker: Oh, yeah, in extradition British Columbia when when they're talking about Despro and Sean's like, I saw him on the wall when we were at Lassie's apartment or house or whatever. And Gus is like, oh, and he killed that guy. Sean's like, I exonerated him.

Speaker: But like gus Gus does not trust Lassie. Yeah. at all which you know fair enough fair yeah was gonna say to be fair like he can be kind of rash and like fly off the handle yeah yeah just and his vibe and it's very intense very intense yeah so totally ah valid but but Sean does have this like I feel like curiosity and affection for Lassie that yeah he's like yeah let's see what this favor is about yeah

Speaker: So we we get to We're in our old historic mining town. So we find out old Sonora is. And we get the little tidbit that Lassie spent every weekend of his childhood here.

Speaker: And we also find out that the boys are going to be bunking here. Which I think is also really funny considering Lassie like didn't prepare them for that. They don't have clothes. Yeah, he didn't. Maybe he just like...

Speaker: Didn't want to scare them off. like Yeah, well, maybe. That would make sense. You didn't want to tell them too much. Yeah, so you guys are roughing it. ah fun. And they're going to be eating beans for dinner.

Speaker: and i love that. Of course, the first joke is a pull-my-finger joke.

Speaker: and But um it won't just be them. Hank's going to be staying with them. I can't really tell if Hank lives here. or i was just about to say. Right. Or if he just has been staying Right. Because i part of me thinks that he was maybe staying because of all of the things that have been happening.

Speaker: But then the other part, like, my my back of my brain is always just like, no, Hank lives there. That's his house. Like, he is the sheriff of this made-up town. Yeah. Well, it is it is odd to think that he might have another property somewhere, like another house, you know? Because this is his, like, all he has in life is this town. He owns it as, like, an asset. Right. Because that's part of, like, the story is that people are trying to buy it from him. Mm-hmm.

Speaker: And he doesn't, he hasn't wanted to sell. Yeah. I kind of feel like he doesn't have another place. Yeah. yeah Yeah, maybe he doesn't always like camp outside. Is that what they're doing?

Speaker: Yes. Is it? I think it is next. Yes. They like cut to a shot of the boys and Hank around a campfire. Yeah.

Speaker: Talking about the legend of the ghostwriter who Hank believes is stealing all of these things. um he was a horse thief back in the day. And, um you know, we believe, again, that the legend or so or someone utilizing the lenit the legend is taking these things.

Speaker: Yeah, this is another, like, i was kind of thinking of it as the episode went on, but it's a very light touch, supernatural element to this episode. Like, almost, I mean, and it's funny because Again, it's hard to say if it's because I know the episode so well that I'm like, it's almost like it's barely there that this could be a ghost.

Speaker: Because it's, they do mention it several times. So maybe it's not that, I just don't think of it because it's not actually what happened. but It's not like this is about the ghost writer. That's just like a possible theory. Yeah, it it almost feels like we're not talking about an actual like ghost writer, but rather we're talking about the legend of the ghost writer.

Speaker: Cause I don't know if there ever is. Yeah. I don't know if there's ever really like commitment to the idea. Like you said that it's a ghost. Like it seems like there is by Gus. Well, Gus, I guess, but Gus, I it's so funny that that's just like, i mean, skipping again to the end, but when he's like,

Speaker: You can all the way down here. Why would a ghost be mining for gold? like He says it so seriously. like he genuinely believes in this. It must be the ghostwriter.

Speaker: Well, and mean and maybe part ok maybe part of that is because Gus doesn't clock some of the clues that Sean does. like One of the things that he very quickly...

Speaker: catches after yeah it is right now isn't it something spooks the horses after something spooks the horses and the horses run away sean and gus go to essentially see what's going on and sean clocks in the dirt footprints so obviously a ghost wouldn't make footprints so sean knows that it has to be a person but if gus doesn't clock that slash if sean doesn't tell gus about that maybe it could be a ghost who knows yeah Yeah, this is an interesting, like, in terms of Gus or Sean, like, observing things.

Speaker: We do see him just, like, make observations a lot that come to nothing until, like, the very end. Like, he just sees the water bubbling. And we don't talk about it. at all. It doesn't really come up.

Speaker: he Literally, it's like the last moment. Yeah. And even then, like, they don't explain. They don't really nutshell for us. No. Maybe because Gus puts it together. Because he says like the, you know, the smell is the sulfur deposits. Right.

Speaker: Like this is, all these things are because mining is happening underneath. Right. But we don't have like a true nutshelling where we go through all of Sean's ah observations. Mm-hmm. Yeah. kind of interesting.

Speaker: It is kind of interesting. what And even like, Is there even like a nut chilling at the end? Not really, right? It's just kind of like they figure out that it was Pete and then Lassie kind of comes in and shoots him and then the episode. Yeah. and maybe it's because it's more of like Lassie's story in a way. Yeah. um So we don't get that.

Speaker: That would make sense. And I guess it's it's not really needed again. Like the purpose of the nut shelling apart from like giving Sean the stage to say what happened is to reiterate and like consolidate everything that we've seen throughout the episode.

Speaker: right Yeah. The parlor scene, if you will, in like Sherlock Holmes books or Poirot books or anything like that. um But yeah, it's not really needed here because Gus has already told us it underneath in the mine and then we figure it out and like mention it to Lassie and Lassie shoots the guy and then it's done.

Speaker: So it's not... Yeah. Necessarily. Yeah. But it is interesting. Like one thing I'm thinking of is like he notices a couple different times like the water bubbling.

Speaker: Yes. And... I think that makes him think like, or it makes him go like, want to go into the mine shaft.

Speaker: o But he doesn't really like, he never really says why. i don't know. It's just kind different. Yeah. He doesn't go like, oh, air was escaping from the ground onto the water. i was thought Bubbling. Yeah.

Speaker: They don't really handle us in the way they sometimes do. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker: yeah That's interesting. Yeah, something spooks the horses. And they try to figure out what's going on as they're trying to go back to like where the horses are. gus and Hank goes to check on them, so they get separated. Yes. Hank goes one spot.

Speaker: Sean and Gus go another spot. Gus falls. Sean like makes fun of him. Gus says, well, your stride is too long, Sean. And then we find out that what he tripped over was actually a dead guy.

Speaker: which pretty a gruesome one too yeah and like gross to think that like gus tripped and then fell onto this dead body o right like hope not i hope he he had enough of a clip going that he kind of shot over them i hope so because i mean talk about fearless guster that it's pretty good and i know it's interesting like they are not that wigged by the... No.

Speaker: Like, they're like, oh, it's a dead guy. Like, they don't run and scream the way we've seen them do many times. I mean, I guess they're growing, you know? They've seen a lot more than they had. And you would think, too, like, it's at night.

Speaker: Like, there's no one around them and there's just a dead body. you would expect them to be freaking out. But you're right. They're they're yeah pretty calm. yeah All things considered. ah Okay, so then...

Speaker: We get back to town. There's no Hank. There's no horses. We're very confused as to what's happening. This is when Sean clocks the footprints in the sand, one long, one like regular.

Speaker: And suddenly the horses come running past them and Hank pulls them out of the way. saving the day but sadly hank hurts himself in the process of saving the boys so the boys bring him to none other than henry's house the only place where we bring things yeah and that was also just like that was scary um yeah like a horse is can kill you for sure. on that was like a full stampede.

Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. And I felt for the horses. I also felt for the horses in high noon. know. had a stampede in there. That was one thing like, as would be, think quite a bit later, but the save the cat moment that made me like Gary Cooper. Cause he did make sure he let all the horses go when the bad guys set the barn on fire. I know that really was very upsetting. But yes, I was happy that he set the horses free as well.

Speaker: And there were, in in this scene, it wasn't like there was one horse. Like it was horses. Yeah. Running past. And I think the You know, for the boys, i don't know how well versed in horse the boys are. um To know that, like, these are dangerous creatures when not, like, controlled properly. Yeah.

Speaker: For him to, like, it almost really seemed like they were just going to stand there and, like, let the horses run past. But Hank really had to go in and and protect them from hurting themselves. And thank goodness. Yeah, and he was fully knocked out and then had a big gash in his leg. Like, that looked pretty gnarly.

Speaker: Yeah, when they got to Henry's and you really saw the gash and Henry was like, he needs to go to the hospital. Yeah. It was like, oh man. Because Henry, I mean, Henry's pretty, like, tough as nails or whatever the saying is. Like, he he will pretty much deal with anything. um But he was really like, this is bad. Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah. we Something's got happen here. but yeah. And I loved Lassie was like, well, Hank doesn't want to go to the hospital. He, like, doesn't believe in hospitals. Like, doesn't believe in doctors or something. Hank goes, Gus, just bite down on my big toe to dull the pain.

Speaker: i know. Oh, my God. Gross. And Lassie's like, if a man asks you to bite on his big toe, you bite his big toe? Like, what?

Speaker: That's so preposterous. But yeah, I mean, I guess like for Lassie, it's like whatever this man needs, whatever this man wants, yeah we are going to make sure he's okay. Guster, like you have to.

Speaker: But yeah, they you know, it just simply can't happen. and And now, or um it's simply not going to happen. Gus is not going to bite down on his toe, but Henry's going to do, you know, the best that he can to help Hank.

Speaker: And he gives him a bottle of, he gives him a bottle of like whiskey or something. Yes, some kind of hard liquor. Hank's like, much bludge. I love that Hank, like they we are in the middle of California. Like it this is not a Southern town by any means. um But I love that Hank is like a Southern He's got all the Southern accent. Like, you know, he talks in the the particular vernacular. Very cowboy.

Speaker: Very cowboy. California does have... ah significant rural area and population. So I could i could see him here. Oh, like coming from that kind of that kind of town or something? Yeah, even just like yeah but where they are being like out of, kind of out in the mountains sort of Santa Barbara. Like I could see that. But yeah, he does...

Speaker: um He's very much the the character. And it's fun to see then Sean kind of take on that persona. Yeah, it is really well and And this is essentially the reason why he has to take on the persona. They're like, Hank, you can't go back to Old Sonora.

Speaker: You are injured. And clearly someone's trying to hurt you or hurt the people of Old Sonora. Like, we're not letting you go back there. And Hank says that Old Sonora hasn't closed in 45 years, which is quite the feat. Like, that is really amazing. Yeah.

Speaker: um even though the county wants to shut it down. So Sean decides to step into the role of sheriff while Hank is out of I feel like he is just waiting for this opportunity. Like, he is always the lookout for an opportunity to dress up.

Speaker: Without a doubt. Like, what a fun... know, gotta wear spurs and the nice, you know, badge and the cowboy hat. And he just embodies it. Like, the way he just, like, walks... Yeah, the swagger. Slow and,

Speaker: And he's got, he's chewing something, yeah. yeah Yeah, I love the, he's really taking advantage of the character. i really love the one scene when they walk out of the sheriff's, ah the sheriff's building and they're going to go talk to someone at the saloon it is literally two doors down oh my gosh sean hops on the horse to go two doors down yeah and i was thinking of that when you were saying like we don't know really how much horse experience they have yeah but sean is very confident on that horse he just hops right on there and hops right off and doesn't have any trouble getting and going or anything and i was thinking too like

Speaker: we have the horse racing episode. Oh yeah. um But it's, he is on a horse in that one too.

Speaker: But it's, the horse is turned the wrong way and he has to like, again, I could imagine him like, i could imagine him like not being a cowboy for a summer, but like, I don't know, watching someone's land and needing to like get on a horse to, you know what I mean? Like I could see that being some random skill that Sean would have. We know he lived in Wyoming.

Speaker: Oh, there you go. Which horse Definitely. I would say. All right. So that, that makes sense. I will say Sean has some horse experience.

Speaker: Yeah, he's had he's lived many lives. Yes, very true. So if Sean has a character, Gus has to also have a character. Gus becomes the blacksmith, which I love him having this like little apron. It's so cute. I know.

Speaker: And um they, of course, have to talk to the town folk. They want to get some information about what's been going on in the town, apart from just what Hank has to say. So Sean tries to gather up.

Speaker: All of the town folk together, they're standing there. He talks about there being a new sheriff in town. And as he's going on and on about what's been happening and how, you know, things are going to work a slightly different way now, townspeople just one by one walk away to their respective locations. Hysterical.

Speaker: Because they're all just like, who is this guy? Who does he think he is? And really, they're all... employed by Hank. So I'm sure they're just like, this guy has no idea what he's talking about. I don't even need to stand here.

Speaker: Yeah. And do they, does he say at this point, like that he's like what he's doing? No, I don't think he's said yet that he's investigating.

Speaker: I think maybe he just mentions that things have gone missing.

Speaker: I don't recall. But I don't think he said, like, I'm a psychic detective and I'm here to figure out who murdered this guy. Yeah, he just says, I'll be helping out.

Speaker: There you go.

Speaker: Yeah, because it's just, I guess they're probably skeptical. Fair. Of him. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder, I mean, we we do also see that there's not as much loyalty to Hank as, like, one might expect there. um So, yeah, i don't know. Like, nobody's, like, jumping in to help, really, or anything. They're just like, exactly.

Speaker: no one's No one's got the sheriff's back, my goodness. We soon find out that the body Gus stumbled over at night is the body of a Santa Barbara resident, a multimillion dollar businessman named Frank McBain.

Speaker: This reveal and so funny. um ju We go back to the police station and Jules is has got that information and she's like oh we found out you know he's standing by a resident unless he's like oh yes that is awesome and she's like oh wow okay he's like um good calm down but of course he he's happy about having the jurisdiction is not that this guy you know actually died um what i just want oh

Speaker: Frank is also the name of the bad guy in High Noon. Not Frank McBain. Frank Miller. Close. Oh, yeah. I was like, oh, that's familiar.

Speaker: So, yes. Wow. The Santa Barbara resident. It's funny that there's a Frank and a Hank. Oh, that is interesting. I feel like we don't usually get names so close.

Speaker: Yeah. I wonder what... What they were thinking. I mean, maybe it was a little homage to Frank Miller. Could be.

Speaker: i mean, yeah, this guy is like kind of portrayed as the bad guy for a period of the episode. He's the one trying to take his land. Yeah. Well, and he is, he's kind of not that we, we never meet him. We only meet him as a dead man. um But it is interesting kind of what he was up to.

Speaker: yeah We find out in a little bit, not not yet, but in a little bit, we find out that Hank only heard from Frank McBain's company once.

Speaker: And he said he wasn't interested and they never contacted him again. So Frank McBain was very yeah conniving. Yes. He had like multiple people in his pocket trying to get them shut down. He was out there.

Speaker: you know, I guess, investigating, like meeting up with his yeah rogue agents. Am I misremembering, was this all just because of a park?

Speaker: No, they're building rail, like a rail. That makes way more sense. And like at one point they look at a map of it,

Speaker: maybe in Frank McBain's office. And Lassie's um but like, it's going to go 10 miles south of there. But in the map that the guy that Frank McBain has, it's going like right through Old Sonora.

Speaker: mm So it's like he is planning on getting that land and changing where it goes. And there will be a park as part of this whole rail project. Got it, got it got it, got it. Okay, yeah, so it's it's a financial investment for him. He's going to be theoretically making a lot of money um by having this land and putting the rail on it. That makes way more sense than just having... I was like, what why would you need this just for a park? That doesn't make any sense.

Speaker: So Frank McBain is a resident of Santa Barbara, which you think would give the Santa Barbara police jurisdiction. However, it has turned into a county case...

Speaker: per the chief, but Lassie is still trying to get around Well, I think it just gives them some, like, access. Because I think that's what he says. He's like, I have been looking for a way to get access.

Speaker: Because it's still, the murder happened in the county. I think it would it would still be a county case. But now it has ties to the city of Santa Barbara. So, like, maybe. And that, I think, ultimately is why...

Speaker: yeah The county does invite him in, invite the Santa Barbara police department in. Right. But he's not just, he can justify being there because of the guy.

Speaker: not just butting his nose into something random. Yeah. Or he's like, now I have an excuse. But ultimately Vic is like, no you don't. Yeah. You are not saying this. must be really like that must be really like a a pain for Lassie to like love something so much, to want to be involved in it so much, to not want, you know you know, to be able to have your oversight to say, like, this is going to go the way it's supposed to go, but really be completely tied and have an inability to do so. That must be incredibly frustrating.

Speaker: Yeah, we also get a really interesting thing in this same scene that we're sort of still in with Lassie and Jules is um

Speaker: Lassie tells her to do something or... Or i don't know, but she, like, she doesn't want to overstep right that. And she's like, I'm just following the jurisdictional protocol like you taught me to do. And he's like, well, sometimes there are extensions or exceptions, which is funny because I think we've talked about Lassie, like, before, like, what he, don't know, I guess, like, what his values are. Yeah.

Speaker: Because, like, on the one hand, he, He is sort of by the book, but like also he kind of has his own thoughts about what he should and shouldn't be allowed to do. like yeah I don't know. What comes to mind is like when he's and sort of being reprimanded for...

Speaker: dis what do you call it um discharging his weapon yeah discharging his weapon on three of his last whatever cases and he's like thank you and she's like no that's not a compliment yeah that's not good lab so it's like he has kind of some his own ideas um yeah but also does seem to follow the rules or like you know for the most part yeah yeah and like tools is saying you taught me to you know respect those protocols um and he's like well not not this time yeah i mean i guess that that speaks to you know henry essentially says to sean later like as he does with the gus gus's dad might have killed a guy

Speaker: case, like maybe you're a little too close, like maybe you're not seeing it yeah exactly as it should be. I guess that speaks a lot to like why we have that distinction. Like, yes, lastssie you want to be a part of this, but that's not how this works. Like you cannot or can you? Then the rules for this particular case just because you have a personal connection. And is that OK? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah, and, like, his willingness now to bend the rules because he is connected is, like, just shows even more why those rules are there. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker: Totally. But then it's an interesting, like, because that's why I'm thinking about, like, with Gus's dad, um because in that episode, like, Sean and Gus seem to really, or Gus especially, really wants to them to bend the rules for his dad. And like, yeah they're really frustrated when like ah Lassie and Jules don't tell them that they're coming to arrest his mom. Like, they're like, really? Like, you couldn't, even Sean, Sean's just like, you couldn't give us a heads up. Yeah. um

Speaker: And they try, they are really trying to kind of do this in a way where Sean and Gus can't like get in the way. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And so there's that. And then it's interesting in this episode, like Lassie is trying to get involved, but ultimately when it becomes apparent that Hank is like the most likely suspect, yeah he will set that aside and he does make that arrest or he interests Juliet too. Yeah. um

Speaker: So, yeah.

Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. He takes, he takes the liberties to a point. and Yeah. Resorts back to following the rules. there's ah There's a lot in here about, like, we find out that McBain, we talked about this, bought all of the land surrounding Old Sonora.

Speaker: Vic kind of gets mad at Jules and Lassie because they're still poking their noses into the county's investigation, even though the county has yet to officially invite them into the investigation.

Speaker: Lassie's trying to, like, make McBain out to be, quote, a bad hombre. and He says something about the park probably being named after his mistress. And Jules is like, isn't that the girl that likes to Such a weird leaf.

Speaker: i mean, I guess he's grasping at straws. but like yeah Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot that there's a lot that goes down in there. a lot I'm like, you last, you take a breath. Like it's all right.

Speaker: And, and we have the boys go to Hank when they find out about the, the land being bought and they say the name Frank McBain and Hank, as Kylie mentioned before, didn't recognize that name. The only name that he ever heard of was Sweetwater Land Corps trying to sell or trying to purchase the land. They,

Speaker: Sent two letters six months ago. He declined and hadn't heard from them since, which was kind of odd.

Speaker: Yeah, well, and because they're suggesting that, like, you know, it's painting, it's giving him motive. If this guy right right was, like, has been badgering him and coming to the property and stuff and, like, has been trying to get Hank to sell and Hank refuses, that makes Hank a suspect because right this guy is dead now.

Speaker: But Hank doesn't know anything about it, really. but doesn't know anything about this guy. Yeah, and it doesn't even seem like the buying of the land was that big of a, like, it wasn't that contentious. It seemed at least to Hank. Yeah, from Hank's first perspective, it was just like I said, no, they moved on. Right, exactly.

Speaker: Because he doesn't realize the, you know, the underpinnings that's going on. Right. I do love in that scene, Jules, see Jules getting a little tough on him. um Because there's,

Speaker: I think she pulls the the bottle out of his hand. Yes, yes. He's like drinking and she's like yelling at him about yeah not telling them about this.

Speaker: um And he makes like a little sexist, like at least she's cute or something comment. But I just like seeing Jules putting men in their place.

Speaker: Heck yeah. We need to figure out what happened to this guy. Mm-hmm.

Speaker: the the The next part, the next scene i I think is so funny. You referenced it before. Sean and Gus are sitting inside the sheriff's office.

Speaker: Gus is playing the harmonica. Boys are playing some kind of weird poker, which I still don't really understand. Something like they only use nine cards because all the other ones are confusing. 19. 19 card stud because it's easier to get pairs that way.

Speaker: Basically, they don't know how to play poker. Sounds right. But they want to feel like they're playing poker. Yeah. And Lassie walks in and is like, what are you doing? Like, I think he kicks or not kicks. He up pushes Sean's like feet off the table and ah is like get like, get to work.

Speaker: And... um Sean says to him, well, you've never killed a man. because Yes, I have. You've never pretended to kill a man. Sean, of course, talking about this. Yeah. that He has every day with Sticky Pete. Two times now.

Speaker: Oh

Speaker: and my gosh. I struggle with it every time. I know. So funny.

Speaker: know, to be fair for Sean, who like doesn't brandish a weapon, who has never killed someone like, yeah, maybe the thought of that. Yeah. Kind of harrowing.

Speaker: Yeah. I feel like we've talked about we talked about like Sean and weapons. Maybe that does ping familiar to me as well. Yeah, I it kind of I feel like it's like along the same lines of like Sean and alcohol. We like never see him. Yeah, that is interesting.

Speaker: And it kind of reminds me of like Doctor Who. Did you ever watch any Doctor Who? Yes, I want to say I watched through David Tennant season. I didn't get particularly far. Okay.

Speaker: a But I know that there's like I know Matt Smith was one. I know. Yeah. Okay. There was a female doctor who... It's still going. Yeah. yeah Yeah, but like, the thing with the doctor is, like, he doesn't, or she, or they, does not carry a gun. Like, is, like, against guns. Sure. And I feel like that's kind of a vibe that I get. I mean, not that he's against them, but just that, like, it would be wrong, kind of, to see him yeah with a weapon like that. And I think it's only...

Speaker: and think it's only Santa Barbara town that we we do see that where he's like at his lowest low kind of yeah yeah it feels like too o like too serious for sure yeah like he's yeah he doesn't take anything in life that seriously so to think that there's like this very finite end to something or this very finite way of like hurting another person feels very wrong

Speaker: alongside Sean yeah i like i can't even imagine really I i know we never really

Speaker: even in this episode we do not really we don't ever see him do that no you're right the show they reference it we but it it feels like it would be wrong to see him do that I agree And I mean, and maybe here, like, if we did see it, I could, in my mind, justify it because he's playing a character. Like, he's playing the character of the sheriff. So it's not even really Sean with the gun. Yeah. Yeah. I think that would be super weird. I would, I feel like I could much more easily see him, like,

Speaker: you know, they always have stupid stuff like brooms or like a tennis rack. Right, yeah. like You know, then something Assyria says, but or even a knife. like a can even my gosh, I'm totally wrong. He shoots at the tourist like 10 times. He shoots at the tourist? In the bar. in the bar. He doesn't have any stinky feet. Yeah.

Speaker: I forgot about that. Yeah, and that is pretty weird, to be fair. i'm just weird boom is very intense and it's kind of scary. and like I can only imagine that tourist. like For real, that poor tourist.

Speaker: It's blanks, but... But still. Yeah. And especially, like, you know, as a tourist, you're not expecting something like that to happen. It's not like, you know. Yeah. I mean, it goes berserk.

Speaker: Yeah. yeah And also, like, way off script. Because I don't think, like, part of the show would be that any time he sees that guy, he shoots him. That's way true. It's a very specific time. At rome noon, perhaps. Mayhaps.

Speaker: Mayhaps. Yeah. i that Okay, so everything I just said called into question, but I... know i No, and no, no. I think as we said, like, sean playing a character makes it more okay.

Speaker: Yeah. And even it does sort of feel like so silly of a thing. like yeah, almost like Kid Sean in 1987 with his little six shooter yes That's the vibe of him running around.

Speaker: Correct. Doing that. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. And he didn't like, he didn't quote unquote hit him. He wasn't like quote unquote aiming. You know, he kind of like hit all of his feet and he's just like shooting in the air. Like it's,

Speaker: Yeah, it wasn't like a, I'm going to kill you, Stinky Pete, right now. Put up your weapon. Let's go. You know? Yeah, because even, like, the standoff in the street is kind of almost like, don't know, there's so much, like, ceremony around it. Like, that might have been even weirder to see. Yeah, I think so. him like, go up against somebody in that yes so scenario. Yes.

Speaker: This was really an ambush. I mean, he just attacked this man. Yeah. Yeah, that's literally my next note. Sean fires in the saloon at a tourist crazy man. Capital letters. Oh my gosh.

Speaker: Yeah, what was he thinking? Was he? Maybe he wasn't. He seems like so in character. Yeah, that he just saw someone wearing black and was like, bad guy! Yeah.

Speaker: Which I also found really funny at the end when they were both wearing black at Taurus's reference. And that is a great, ah very subtle distillation of like what is so, I don't know, like dated about ah western like those kinds of stories of like good versus evil cowboys and you know cops and robbers like it that it's it's so like black and white yeah like literally they're like who's wearing who's wearing what how do we know it's like you know sometimes it's it's more complicated than that you don't often you don't

Speaker: Even though in this, the bad guy did end up being the bad guy, which is kind of funny. Yes. But not not always. That's not always the case, obviously. So we're... You know what I realized about this episode? There's a lot of, like, bebopping.

Speaker: Like, we're here, then we're there, then we're here, then we're there, then we're in this salon, then we're back to the... wherever. Then we come back to the thing. And um one of the things that did like about... the bee bopping was that we start to see old sonora in a sepia hue yes i think it's okay did that come later because i might have made that note later yes i made it now okay yeah after the the sheriff deputy sheriff tripsy after that whole thing i was like maybe it was because we were going back and forth it was just that like it became more obvious yeah yeah

Speaker: Because I also probably, like, around this time was like, it's fun that they have it in a totally different color grading. Yes. And it just, it feels not even necessarily more, like, authentic because the the Western that we watched was in black and white and I could imagine any of them being in black and white. But just, like, more gritty almost, you know? Yeah. It did make you just feel like it was somewhere Yes. Which they often do that, like, when they're... um Just a day on television. They'll do that with the other countries.

Speaker: Oh, really? Oh, okay. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, and it's just, I mean, it's kind of a funny thing, but yeah, it does help you realize you are somewhere else. Yeah, like situate you in a different world. That's, yeah I think that's so cool. So fun.

Speaker: So we go and i guess Sean is trying to just figure out kind of what's happening because he goes and he he wants to interview Miss Annie, who is the owner of the salon.

Speaker: And we find out that salon, the saloon, excuse me, who am i The saloon. And we find out she's been working here for five years and was previously in a relationship with Hank, which is interesting information, but not necessarily relevant to what we're doing. Yeah, I guess more relevant to like Hank's happy ending.

Speaker: Yes, at the end. That is really like set that up so they can pay it off at the end. Yeah. Yeah. we So we don't really get too much from Annie. We go and we eventually find Deputy Sheriff Tripsy. And walks.

Speaker: I do have a note when he goes to talk to her. Yeah. And I forget what he says. But he's, like again, in character. And she's like, yeah, hi, Sean. Yeah, jean he's probably like, hey there, little lady. No patience for this.

Speaker: Yeah, I don't. well And that's the thing, too. It's like there are times. there were tourist town like they're a fake town but how much you know after how many years of being the same character how much of it is like just you you know and how much of it is playing the character like the novelty and that's what after a while oh that's very true yeah after so many years i'm sure miss annie was that her name annie yep I think if it were an actual tourist, she'd be more in character. That's a great point, too. Yeah, yeah. She's like, just, Sean is so silly. They're all just like, what?

Speaker: yeah Yeah, and he just, you know him, he's like 100% on all silly stuff. So he's really, he's really about it. We, like I said, we then go and find Deputy Sheriff Tripsy. We go to him because of his stride. He has a very particular walk. He has um like kind of like a limp, you know, one of his legs drags a bit as he walks, which resembles the footprints that Sean saw in the sand during the horse stampede.

Speaker: And Tripsy says that he... loved hank like a brother he's been working here for forever and you know he doesn't doesn't really know i guess what's been going on but sean says that you know we knew that you were there at the corral meaning when all the horses were let loose and kind of what oh oh oh and then we get the ghost rider

Speaker: in the Is that then?

Speaker: Oh, no, no, no, no. Sean says that he caught a glimpse of him. Someone caught a glimpse of the ghostwriter or something, and then he vanished. And we find out that Tripsy was working for McBain by making a list of safety violations. Yeah, I think Tripsy's trying to, like, put it off on the ghostwriter. And Sean's like, I'm not doing this.

Speaker: Right. Starts to walk away and say, call the sheriff's department. And then Tripsy's like, okay, fine, fine. Yeah. And then admits to that.

Speaker: Which makes us kind of think like, oh, he was the inside guy, which he was. Well, he was, yeah. i But it makes me like, yeah, we think he's the inside guy. Yeah.

Speaker: Which we, you know, we find out more about later. And then we see the ghost rider in the distance on the horse silhouetted. And... You know, he again disappears. So we think he must have, question mark, gone into the m old mine shaft. But that is all sealed up. So that couldn't have happened.

Speaker: This is when we get our lovely building falling stunt, which we discussed before. And, you know, they do their little shuffle together, which is so adorable and cute.

Speaker: I then have that down. Gus got the consumption. Oh my God. So funny. They go back to, a well, okay. So with the, the stunt of the house falling, Gus is like, maybe all this stuff is just happening because it's old and it's all falling apart. Right. um And then the house falls on them.

Speaker: um Perfect. And.

Speaker: And then we go back to the police department and they meet with Jules and Lassie. And Sean is once again in character. course. And Lassie's like, I sent you out there for two. Oh, because they were talking about, and they tell them about the ghostwriter. Sean says, I send you, no, Lassie says, I send you out there for two days and all you come back with are campfire stories. And Sean says, Gus got the consumption. There you go.

Speaker: And then Gus is like, I did not. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker: i don't know what to make of that is gus just in on the bit or does he have a cough maybe his allergies maybe his allergies who knows being out in the mine shaft was thinking when they're like i think when the horses run by and they fall into the grasses i'm like god the ticks oh god no no thank you can't no and do you know always i'm thinking of the ticks Yeah, so that's got the consumption. That's where we were. and Is this one we're also with the... When we find out about the coroner.

Speaker: Coroner said that McBain was dead for five days, but the vandalism hasn't stopped since then. think they do talk about that. Okay. And Vic comes in and is like, what's going on here? Unless it's like costume party?

Speaker: Great. Honestly, great idea. yeah Well... it is a very telling costume party oh yeah sean and gus in their and their western attire yeah and i love i don't know sean just being he's so like again that relaxed like cowboy guy um nothing wrong

Speaker: And once I think vi leaves, Lapsy's kind of being hard on them again. They found haven't found anything. And he says, if you believe the short-sighted pundits on CNN, but I take a longer view of history.

Speaker: I wasn't sure if he was, like, as part of his character, like, bringing in some, like, conservative thinking. I don't know what was going on there, but it was very funny. just like just the delivery of but of everything in this scene. and yeah Is this when they also say bub kiss? Where Lassie's like, you've got me bub kiss.

Speaker: Yes. Yeah, maybe Lassie leaves. And then shan or or maybe he's still upset, but I think Sean... their revelation is that the vandalism hasn't stopped so correct yeah couldn't have been McBain himself at least and he does a little like I'm now sensing and it's very half-hearted but also just like relaxed because he's a cowboy which is kind of fun he does it again later too when he's with the bad guy and he's like I'm sensing like ah like this he does it but it's almost like

Speaker: Half-hearted. Just half-hearted. Yeah. I'm like, especially when he's annoyed. i mean, I think at this point he's just being his cowboy self. So yeah, he's just it's a little more relaxed, but later it's like he gets frustrated and he's like, yeah, like he's doing the hand to head thing and just saying what he wants to say, which is kind of fun to see how he ah uses it. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker: When I wonder too, like did for the people in the town, did he introduce himself as a psychic or a psychic detective? Like, do they even know like what, what this means? think he might tell that guy.

Speaker: during that scene okay therefore okay i think when he's talking to tripsy earlier he says what he's actually doing like maybe he's kind of revealing that okay so maybe not like kind of invest to everyone right right as i think so That makes sense.

Speaker: And he also gives Jules in this scene a little cowboy wink with a tip of his hat, which she eats right up. Oh, of course. How could you not?

Speaker: So we head back to Old Sonora. Turns out Hank's leaving town. He has accepted... We also get... Lassie being brought in on that case, I think right before we go back to Old Sonora.

Speaker: At least that's the order of my notes. I do not have that, so I might have just skipped it. yeah It is. It's quite sweet because they call Lassie and Vick and the sheriff guy.

Speaker: and um the sheriff guy says they don't recognize right can't identify the slug or whatever the round oh yes veins body it's too old it's from like well they don't know they can't identify it and they're like since you because your expertise with firearms we thought maybe you could and lassie looks so proud of himself and then he glances at jewels and jewels look so proud of him like have this little cute little moment

Speaker: And I love that Lassie knows, like, literally doesn't have to go reference any notes. He immediately knows it's an original 1873 Colt Peacemaker. Yeah. well And I wonder if it had been another gun of that era, if he would have known quite so well, but it's Hank's gun.

Speaker: That is a great point. He reluctantly says what gun it is. And I think... It seems like even Jules knows that that's... Oh. don't know. They have this, like... This moment. Or maybe she just senses from Lassie that that's not good news. Right.

Speaker: So, yeah. And then... cut to Sean and Gus and they're helping Hank pack up. m I guess they have Henry's truck or is that Hank's truck?

Speaker: There must be Hank's truck because he... I guess it seemed to me like it they're helping him move because they're like... Sean's like, you should? This is all you have? We're good on space. It's like they're giving him a ride somewhere somewhere. I don't know.

Speaker: Yeah, and he's like, he literally just has like a sleeping bag. Yeah. yeah Poor guy. And this does make it look not so good. Because it looks... Now he's he's like, well, I'll just...

Speaker: I'm selling the place. Yeah. And he's leaving. So it's as if he's making a a run for it. so Yes. And then that's not helped by the fact that, you know, Lassie comes in to take Hank's pistol and we find that Hank has been firing live rounds.

Speaker: which he says is for like animals or something about town. There you go. and one it Well, I mean, there were two, but in a different sense. um And Lassie has to arrest Hank and he does it. As Kylie mentioned before, he does actually very solemnly um arrest Hank, even though he doesn't want to believe that it was hank who did this he still follows through with his responsibilities evidence speaks yes circumstantial but so yes um and sean is like come on and jules is like sean stay out of this uh yeah and then he points to his little badge

Speaker: yeah I know. I'm one of you guys here. know. Well, and i bet most of that, like, from Jules is probably like, this is really hard for Lassie. Like, don't make this harder than it has to be. um Yeah, that's true. I mean, nuna this isn't like a Jules episode. So we haven't, like, talked a lot about her, you know, what she's up to other than in these little beats that she has. yeah But, yeah, I mean, she's just trying to be there for her partner.

Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. and it's interesting that she does the dynamic that she and Sean have. She is able to be like, like to say, stop Sean. Like we don't need this right now. Yeah, they they definitely have.

Speaker: they All of them, I think, have definitely cultivated like a respect for one another. And I think Jules ultimately knows that last that Sean really cares about Lassie, even though he has, you know, kind of a weird way of showing it in the perspective of Lassie, maybe. um So I think Jules being like, stop it, is like, here's the boundary, you know.

Speaker: You care about him, this is how you showing show it, not like by, you know. yeah that's interesting they both they have different ways of showing it in this month because of who they are and the roles yes yeah totally it's like let him do what he has to do right and he is like he doesn't have to do that and right right like that guy didn't do it um so yeah what do we do when we're back into a corner Gotta go see Henry. Of course.

Speaker: There's no other place to go but to Henry's. um And yeah, this is when we get the whole, you know, the whole conversation of like, you're kind of too close to this case. Like Lassie cares about it and you care about Lassie, therefore you care about it. But that might not be the best thing for you. It's a classic case of transference. Yes, of course. And Sean's like, you don't use words like that. I've even been hanging out with mom.

Speaker: We may have dined together. Yeah, Henry is still being his weird little self about Maddie. Yeah, he's just, he uses different words about her. he like And he's also eating like low-fat grilled cheese or something which like feels like he's you know really thinking about taking care of himself and all this um so just a little glimpse into that all still going on which will come back around yeah and actually that makes me think because we talked about with the last episode

Speaker: how we kind of retraced our steps with Sean and Henry being so at odds and stuff. And then they kind of come back to balance at the end. And now we're kind of back in Sean goes to Henry for help. That's how this works. yep um But then we get,

Speaker: Because we really don't have much of an update on the Maddie situation. i don't think we have had that. Not yet. Yeah. But now we know she's around. They're hanging out still. Mm-hmm. So, yeah.

Speaker: Maybe rekindling flames. We'll see as time goes on.

Speaker: Yeah, I just, I i find it so sweet. Anytime Henry talks about Maddie, just like... we dined together like oh oh my gosh okay cute no it's like he has to talk about it special because it's so special yes it's just so sweet

Speaker: So then we decide that we are going to go back to Old Sonora. We're going to check out the Old Mine. yeah, because Henry's part of wisdom is go back there, forget everything.

Speaker: Yes. Forget what it means to let you see. Forget about Hank. Like, just look at them. Look at what's going on. Right. Basically. So they go to scope it out again with fresh set of eyes.

Speaker: And when they're at the Old Mine, this is where we see those bubbles. Yes. The whole idea of it being a fake town. And it like.

Speaker: It only being kind of. The stories that are there. The stories that they're playing. The performance of it all. Like the memories and stuff. like it All of these layers to it. But ultimately it's just.

Speaker: These buildings. It's just this crappy fake town. Strip it all away. And what is left. Yeah. And that's. i Thank goodness Lassie's not there. That's a really hard ask for someone who has like these truth deep Lassie is kind of incapable of that. Yeah, totally.

Speaker: Bringing Sean and Gus in and kind of ah in a way that is like when back with Gus's dad may have killed a guy.

Speaker: That's kind of what Sean brings to that too. It's like, yeah, he, that's kind of his argument is that forget how he puts it but something about like it because it is personal and guess is how he can look at it objectively in a way like he is able to see it for what it is because don't know almost because he knows they didn't do it which is I kind of forget but something like that yes yes Which I was talking about that, like I was interesting way of thinking about yeah it. It feels very similar here. It does that. Like he is now able to look at it more objectively because he understands the way that Henry, that henry that Lassie looks at it so subjectively.

Speaker: Yeah. Be able to kind of see through it. Yeah.

Speaker: But yeah, only once he really strips away that character as well. Like he goes back to Old Sonora. Yes, very true. He was very, angry he was enjoying himself too much. Yeah, yeah, yeah he definitely was. He was on vacation. Yeah. He was sheriff with a little bit of murder case. The idea of a tourist trap.

Speaker: Oh, yeah Like it is a trap. It's like Hotel California, you know, like he went there and like he's like just never lost his senses. so Yeah, yeah. Well, and it's interesting then that when they come back, like, within moments of theoretically being objective, they figure the whole thing out. Yeah, it's like they just have to step back.

Speaker: Yeah, exactly. I guess, I mean... They wouldn't have figured it all out had they not collected all that, those observations of being there. Right. And they did talk to people and stuff, but it's like the clarity of coming back without anybody else there and like in there their own selves, like a lot of them to put it all together. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker: Except for Gus, who's like, what? Maybe a ghost. Could still be. Why would a ghost be mining for gold? ah Yeah, that was really funny. Just like such a sincere, like, well, that's what's happening, but but why would a ghost do that?

Speaker: Yeah, not a ghost, Gus. oh Yeah, i love um I love that whole little bit. Everything from like them falling into this old mine. Yes.

Speaker: down to you know them then having to deal with you know stinky pete and everything like it all just so good the the bit about you know gus hurting his coccyx hysterical you know you must say that like 10 times at minimum and shot like but the yeah that's so funny uh i i love the you know, the the vein of gold and and Sean thinking it's iron and like Gus being like, no, it's gold.

Speaker: Gold, Sean. And then, yeah. that makes for sense Yeah. And then Gus being the one to like pull it together, i think is really fun too, as we mentioned before. Yeah. It's like he, he, he does pull it all together, except he can't let go with the ghost. Yeah.

Speaker: And then we get stinky Pete coming around the corner and we're like, Oh, actually no Gus gets hit on on the head. Scary. Yeah, so scary. And... Throbbing head and throbbing coccyx. I know, poor guy.

Speaker: And then, you know, we realize that, or someone finds out that Pete has an identical weapon to Hank's. They were actually twins. Yeah, because I think we cut back to that.

Speaker: Maybe Pete leaves them to die, basically. Ah, yes. Yes. And then we cut back to the police department and they're booking Hank. But then Lafley runs in and he's like, good news. yeah It wasn't a match.

Speaker: um And then, but Hank is still hurt. Yes. If he would have ever thought that. So it's like a really sad little... am moment and and Lassie's like I never should have and then we kind of see everybody reacting to this and everybody's all awkward like Jules and Vic and the sheriff and Lassie kind of remembers himself and goes kind of back into character kind of deepens his voice and and everything and he's um it kind of gets back to business

Speaker: And then Hank is still cooperative. He's like, well, I think it was part of the set. And they're like, do you know who has the other one? Yes. fact, I do. In fact, I do. And then we go back.

Speaker: Yeah, so Pete, if I'm remembering correctly, he hits Gus over the head and then causes like a rock slide inside the mine to lock him in there. But the boys find, Sean's like looking, he finds like water trickling and they start digging. That water, good thing he's been taking attention to the bubbles. Thank goodness.

Speaker: They end up using the mining equipment after Gus attempts to use a spoon like in Shawshank Redemption, which I got pretty hysterical. Yeah. They then end up getting out from like, you know, ah under a house they're able to dig their way out of. And that's when they come to the standoff in the town square with Pete trying to leave.

Speaker: And Lassie's like, Pete, you know, he like gets him. And they both turn around. They're about to do the quick draw. We get our lovely tourists going, how can you tell which one's the bad guy if they're both wearing black?

Speaker: Of course, which that I also thought that this was really funny that Pete actually thought he was going to be able to beat a police officer in a quick draw. I was like, are you kidding me?

Speaker: I mean, with all those people around, like... I guess he already killed someone. he was I guess. I'm going down swinging. Yeah. Yeah. Again, in a darker show, that would be a very intense. Yeah. I hear it's just fun.

Speaker: It is just fun. Lassie ends up shooting him. People start booing, which is hysterical. And Lassie's like, I'm the good guy. But I did just shoot that man for real. So yeah clear up. Let's leave. And.

Speaker: and that's pretty much it like i think lassie ends up thanking them and and yeah he says uh he's he is gonna sell and it seems like a nice park i think maybe that was earlier but but he's ready to go and he's got he asked miss any to marry him and thought it was interesting that lassie now that all this is behind them like lassie doesn't seem like it seems like this was closure for him kind of um yeah this whole part of his life because he doesn't really cling to it at all he's not like well what about old sonora like yeah he seems at peace by then maybe like because he paid hank back in a way um he you know it almost feels like in a way

Speaker: He has taken over the role of sheriff. He has protected the town himself. The town no longer needs saving. It can go into the distance, if you will. I think that the LOS will use some of that one.

Speaker: That's true. Very true.

Speaker: Well, there you go. That's it. That's the episode. High noon-ish. She's like, and done. yeah No more. more. This is what you're doing. This is what I want you to do.

Speaker: any questions hu And then next. next Yes. The devil is in the details. Dot, dot, dot. And in the upstairs bedroom.

Speaker: Oh, this feels like another classic. And also like definitely like a later episode. Like this feels like season four. You know, we talk about some episodes that way can be put maybe anywhere. But this feels like i mean, it's got it all. It's an homage. It's got a cameo from a Twin Peaks actor. Yes. It's got supernatural-y possibilities.

Speaker: Yeah, it's going to be interesting to talk about this one in uh in like just juxtaposition to scary sherry i think that's going to be a really interesting um discussion because that's our first kind of like horror-y supernaturally episode so have we evolved almost from then i do have like other kidship of like being sort of in at school kind of yeah and heights falling from towers yeah yeah women yes women yes um

Speaker: Yeah. we're going to watch Exorcist. I will say. Yes. yes i will say I have watched it already with my mom. watched half. Okay. Okay.

Speaker: My mom was brave enough to watch it with me again. She said nowhere near as scary as she remembers as a child. And I thought honestly pretty tame for what we've watched so far. So I was happy to.

Speaker: i about that so far I mean I'm only an hour in I haven't even involved the priest like literally on my pathway exactly oh perfect but and we'll talk more about it but yeah I was looking at wikipedia page and like people like fainted and stuff and really watching it yeah yeah that you should check out the wikipedia Okay. I will try my best to remember. You know me, my memory is like... It's so funny that you don't look at it because I like can't help it.

Speaker: Like anything we watch, I'm like, I gotta know everything. Everything everybody thinks about it. I feel like i I like going into them almost like a blank slate, like having really no no reference of things.

Speaker: And I feel like at this point, I know you're probably going to look at something. So like, I don't know anything interesting. I'm like, okay. I do, especially with the scary ones. It's almost like watching on Tubi and having ads. Like if I need to step back, I'll be like, okay, let me look at what happened in real life.

Speaker: Yes. Yeah. I got you. Create a little distance. Yeah. I think it'll be an interesting conversation next time. um Now that, especially now that we've had so much like horror experience. Yeah.

Speaker: I think it'll be, yeah. think it'll be an interesting discussion. So I'm excited. yeah And if you'd like to join us back here to discuss it as well, you can take a hour or two out of your day, watch The Exorcist, watch season four, episode four, and join us back here next week when we discuss the famed TV show, Psych!

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