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S3E5: Catch the Vibe, You Dig?
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Series spoilers abound! We’re watching Season 3, Episode 5 “Disco Didn’t Die, It Was Murdered!”. One of Henry’s old cases from the 70s gets called into question and the boys get hired to find some more information. Little did they know they would be flung back into the 70s with clothes, cars, and dance clubs to boot! We’re talking grammar, competition, Phil Collins, and more! So jump in your lime green Mercury Cougar and join Kylie and Skyler on this new episode of Phsysics 101!
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Introduction to Versaixix 101 and Psyche
00:00:21
Speaker
Alright, hi everyone and welcome to Versaixix 101 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 Bumpy.
Season 3, Episode 5: 'Disco Didn't Die, It Was Murdered'
00:00:32
Speaker
and Today we'll be talking about season three, episode five of the famed TV show Psyche. Disco didn't die, it was murdered. It was murdered.
00:00:46
Speaker
This is such a I feel like this episode is so fun because it's just so aesthetic. Yeah. It's kind of an interesting one. Like, because the way the seventy s like, visually becomes part of it is so, like...
00:01:05
Speaker
accidental, I guess. You know, it's not like they're going on. but mean, they kind of are going undercover, but it's just like they stumble into these yeah personas, yeah which is kind of fun because we have seen them be very intentional about like dressing up.
00:01:19
Speaker
has stuff or maybe have we maybe we will we certainly will if we haven't yet yeah yeah and so yeah this was just and it's not like the whole episode but there's just like these moments yeah like the car and the clothes and even it's so funny they put the clothes on and they really do like you said take up this persona they start sending all of the like 70s slang oh my gosh well and that's so We ended up watching Shaft 1971 as to sort of definitely helps, you know, get us in the 70s
Exploring 70s Cultural References in Psyche
00:01:58
Speaker
mindset. But it was um sort of came up after the fact because let me just read through all the references. Oh, yeah. The site quickie mentions. So.
00:02:11
Speaker
so Pookie is based on Huggy Bear, a street informant for the titular characters in the 70s show Startski and Hutch. Although watching Shaft, I was like, well, Bumpy also feels right there. So I feel like this, you know, just the Pookie, all the like silly names. The funny slang names.
00:02:30
Speaker
Yeah. When Gus's car breaks down, he slings his bag over his shoulder and starts hitchhiking in a scene reminiscent of David Banner's final moments in every Incredible Hulk episode. Okay.
00:02:41
Speaker
Four parting ways briefly with the reporter he hired. Sean tells her, good luck. We're all counting on you. This is likely a reference to the same line used in Airplane, which I think we should watch at some point. Okay. Maybe the next Foundations round because it has that kind of like real genius-y like oh okay humor. Yeah, yeah.
00:02:58
Speaker
um and sean saying and it's a bad mother and gus cutting him off with shut your mouth before saying that he can dig it is a reference to the isaac hayes theme song for the 1971 blaxploitation flick shaft which as soon as that came on i was like oh my god same same i was like perfect what a jam And then when Gus's left side is asleep, which just happens, because of the way the steering is in this car, um it resembles the pimp walk, in quotes, commonly performed by bull by stereotypical black men in 70s blaxploitation movies.
00:03:33
Speaker
Sean yells, lies, lies, lies, yeah. In a reference to a song, to the song Lies by the Thompson Twins. And then the s song playing at the end is Car Wash by her Rose Royce, also a song. So there was just like so... They really...
00:03:52
Speaker
just created this fabric of 70s little nods and vibes. And it's not like a super specific homage to anything, but yeah um just the decade, I guess. And then also, since they referenced a couple blaxploitation, well, Shaft, and then sort of like the stereotypes from them, like, I felt like that would be a cool place to go for us.
Blaxploitation Films and Diversity Discussion
00:04:19
Speaker
Yeah, it was. I enjoyed the movie. I thought it was good. i thought yeah it was funny because as I was watching it, I was just kind of like I could see... this being part like you know when we get suave guster and he's like he thinks about like the lady like he wants the ladies and like he wants to smell good i was like i could totally see that coming from like this you know he's like very suave and very sensual all the women love him you know just thinking about the song my god i know the first line of it but it's something that
00:04:56
Speaker
But yeah, I felt that too. Like this is definitely could definitely be part of their like repertoire yeah of like things. That's kind of, you know, what we focused a lot on is like the movies that made them kind of and the shows and the music and stuff. And this definitely seems like it fits right in yeah But I was also excited because I feel like we, for as much as we've talked about like popular culture, like we really, it's been pretty white.
00:05:20
Speaker
And so um if not completely, so this is like, I was excited to have a little more, you know, going on there.
00:05:31
Speaker
Yeah. Who's the black private dick. That's a sex machine to all the chicks. but
00:05:41
Speaker
Like when that first line, they said shaft. was like, did they just pick that? Cause it's a dick. I'm like, they totally did. It's amazing. I mean, it was, it was definitely like,
00:05:54
Speaker
fun i guess like there was action there was some humor um but like there's also like a very like gritty look at sort of what the what new york city was maybe like in the 70s and i guess we go ahead did you catch that they went somewhere we've gone before yes i was like oh my shout out yeah um that was very exciting and i was like yes that's really it i know i was like oh my gosh that is actually pretty much what it looks like i looked it up right after they talked about it and it's been in like 10 movies it's been a bunch of movies i didn't know that
00:06:36
Speaker
I mean, it's definitely old. But yeah, so i know. Let's see. I looked up a couple things about blaxploitation. And I guess exploitation films were like oh kind of a broader genre of like very like themes of crime.
00:06:53
Speaker
And then like blood, sex, like all these just like more something like high risk themes or something okay um and then blaxploitation was like this ah shift into movies made by black filmmakers and starring black actors and um and then i think the more it this was one of the first of like
00:07:25
Speaker
two that came up. I think it was like this and then sweet Sweetback's Badass Song was the other one that came out right around the same time. And then like as they did well box office, they made a lot more. And then I think there were some more like, or there's some criticism about like getting, ah being stereotypical or promoting stereotypes um but yeah it seems nuanced yeah like everything yeah but yeah so
00:08:02
Speaker
this was fun i liked watching it yeah i Yeah, I thought it was really good. I thought all of the characters were very... Okay, so I feel like with when we talk about Psyche, we have so much time with these characters. and we talk about We talk about this all the time, how they feel very like real world, very lived in. Obviously, we don't have that much time with these characters. It's just a movie. It's like two of our Psyche episodes smushed into one.
00:08:25
Speaker
Yeah. But I still really felt like I knew who these people were, like I knew where they were coming from and a little bit about like their motivations. And even just with like my little bit of knowledge of New York from the 1900s, which was very different from New York as we knew it, I was like, OK, I could get how.
00:08:49
Speaker
this kind of exploitative really situation would have happened I could get why the police were doing you know what they were doing not that you know any of it was necessarily right or correct or what should have been happening but it all kind of jived if you will in the storyline which you know I i like i said I enjoyed it I thought it was really good and I thought all the actors were really great too yeah it did yeah there were a lot of like super interesting dynamics and like I liked but this character of Shaft being sort of in the middle of all these bigger bodies.
Influence of 70s Detective Films on Psyche
00:09:25
Speaker
yeah He doesn't really have allegiance to everybody or anybody. kind of reminded me of Star Wars, which okay which I guess is also informed by, you know, yeah ah was probably informed by the same time period. But like um the the way in that there's like the rebellion and the fascist
00:09:49
Speaker
empire and then there's these people like Han Solo who are just like they're they're not really on either side they're just kind of well ultimately they are on the right side of the rebellion but they don't have allegiance because it's sort of just like ah very tough situation and everybody's just kind of got to get by and I feel like you kind of see that here um but yeah because we had like like shaft kind of had this like begrudging friendship with the lieutenant and also yeah like a yeah begrudging dynamic with bumpy the leader of um well he's like a a drug kingpin and a yeah like crime and and yeah crime boss yeah um and then also
00:10:40
Speaker
Ben, who seems to be like in like the Black Power movement. And so there's like all these different players and they're all just like kind of moving through this very tense time period and doing it however they can. or like you know I don't know. It was it was ah cool just a compelling look at all those players yeah at that time.
00:11:09
Speaker
Yeah. And I could see it as a as a movie that maybe Sean and Gus watched, even just because it was like a detective movie.
00:11:21
Speaker
Well, like a huge action, like, mean, I guess not huge at the time, but definitely, ah because I guess these kind of exploitation and and grindhouse was the other term that I saw, which is like,
00:11:37
Speaker
was the kind of movie theaters that would show more like B movie type action flicks. And so like all of those kind of falling into the same, but I could see them because we've watched other, um don't know if we've really watched them, but I feel like they definitely have like a B movie love.
00:11:54
Speaker
um And so I could, yeah, just like watching any of these. To be clear, B, not as in B-E-E, not that. They're just like huge fans. I could imagine they would love that. Yeah.
00:12:07
Speaker
Honestly, I could see that.
00:12:10
Speaker
Yeah, so like I could see this movie being informative to them. Yeah. and Clearly it was. They make reference to it. Right. And just having like these, like that view of the 70s because they weren't there.
00:12:24
Speaker
Like it was, or maybe they were for like a minute. I was going to say. Not in a way that they were remembered. I don't remember year were But even when we get into the flashback, like right off bat, it –
00:12:36
Speaker
It feels older than our other flashbacks. Yes. And so like we know this is pre. Yeah. Pre Sean or at least pre kid Sean. Yeah. And, you know, we talk about the we've talked about kind of the the grainy or like fuzzy quality of the film that they've filmed on before yeah i now I love that it almost felt like they went to the nth degree of the the like fuzziness for this flashback like it was a little bit more like orangey kind of vintage and a little bit like less clear and it was fun to also see that that is really how it looked in Shaft like I didn't watch HD or whatever version so it really did feel like
00:13:20
Speaker
Like of the time to see the flashback with Henry and Henry and his, you know, police get up and yeah. Yeah. And the clothes. I just, I love the clothes. Yeah. I love 70s clothes.
00:13:32
Speaker
Just so groovy. too. Yeah. Everybody looked so good. Yeah. And the music was great. God. It did like, just like hearing them talk, like calling everybody baby and like everybody called everybody baby. Yeah.
00:13:45
Speaker
And um yeah, there was, And I can see even, you know, the way that Sean and Gus sort of embody the 70s when they get the opportunity to do so, it does feel like it came from the movies. oh oh yes.
00:13:59
Speaker
Without a doubt. Yeah, it's a very, like, heightened version yeah of, I'm sure, what the 70s were actually like. But, yeah, it was good. And our flashback starts, what was it, 78?
00:14:11
Speaker
I think it was. was, like, right at the end, tail end of the 70s. Yeah, 78 flashback. And we see some guy... working on a bench on some kind of mechanical wiry something, which we very quickly find out or realize is is a bomb, some kind of explosive device.
00:14:29
Speaker
And Henry and his other you know cop buddies in their you know blue uniforms are standing outside the door getting ready
Henry's Role in the 70s and Detective Methods
00:14:35
Speaker
to to kick it in. And even that, just like smashing in a door with very little like pretense, I feel like is very reminiscent of also the 70s and the 80s. And feel like Henry addresses that later. He's like, it was the 70s. We did what we had to do to get our guy.
00:14:49
Speaker
It does. It feels so...
00:14:53
Speaker
Yeah. they I mean, because when you do watch like those old movies, there's always these like cops that are like these kind of like bad boys, like cowboy type figures that it's like, yeah, they just, you know, do what they have to do. But yeah, but that and it comes back to bite him.
00:15:10
Speaker
And rightfully so, because ultimately he was wrong, which is, you know tough pill to swallow. Yeah, yeah. And we even see that for Henry, that it becomes very difficult for him to...
00:15:21
Speaker
To deal with the fact that he wasn't completely right. He wasn't completely wrong. He wasn't completely right either. Yeah. Well, we you do. Like, there's that moment later where after. Again, I know I say it every time. It's giving head.
00:15:38
Speaker
Sean and Gus. After Sean and Gus do talk to the yeah potential. Or like the former. pals of... Yes.
00:15:48
Speaker
Melanie and Derek? Yeah. Good pull. I don't remember. Thank you. I think so. But after they talked to them briefly, which we can talk into more detail later, but um Henry says, well, maybe they were just telling you what they want you to know or something, which felt like...
00:16:07
Speaker
a lesson he has learned because like if if that if which is interesting that this is henry's biggest bust because that if it is like you know 10 years or whatever before sean before all the other flashbacks no like that's pretty kind of early in his career yeah maybe i mean he's a sergeant i don't really know where that falls but yeah it seemed like he had grown to the point where now he can say like You know, maybe there was more than meets the eye, but at that time, right he was unable to see that.
00:16:40
Speaker
Right. that That does feel kind of weird because, I mean, I don't know what detectiving was like back in the 70s, but if Shaft was any representation, detectives were still wearing plain clothes when they went out. Like, they didn't wear their uniforms.
00:16:57
Speaker
And here we see Henry and his fellow officers all in their uniforms, so it seems more like he's still like a beat cop. Yeah. So I wonder if it was maybe more of like,
00:17:10
Speaker
in his early career, like the biggest bust in his early career, you know, something that like made a name for him himself. Oh, that, I feel like made a name makes sense. Yeah. And then he went on to like become, you know, detective and and do all that extra stuff.
00:17:25
Speaker
Because I feel like as a detective, you're working like crazy stuff all the time. Well, I don't know about that, but in the movies, the TV shows. Probably not in real life. but In Santa Barbara, it's a murder a week. you know yeah You know, they're really busy. I mean, even in this episode, episode we see Jules and Lassie dealing with, you know, exotic animal smugglers, drug smugglers, pirates. Pirates.
00:17:46
Speaker
I know. They've got a lot going on. Yes. Yeah. Totally. And I can't imagine that, you know, it was much different in the 70s. If anything, people were probably just a little sneakier or a little bit more discreet in a different way than they were in the early two thousand s But...
00:18:02
Speaker
Yeah, so so Henry and his squad bust into this apartment. And inside the apartment, we see this guy who Henry calls Franks. And he's holding what is a bomb.
00:18:13
Speaker
And Henry says a line that I'm just like, Harold, you, did you think of this? Like, I don't even know if his name is really Harold. Henry, dear child, did you just, were you thinking about this beforehand? I could imagine that he was.
00:18:27
Speaker
He says, um you have the right not to get shot. You make the wrong move, you lose that, right? Like that sounds to me like something that Sean would have thought of beforehand and was just like, who can I do this? or Yeah, saw it in a movie. Like it does feel very high to him. Yeah. Very.
00:18:44
Speaker
Which I guess adds to that whole idea that like this was maybe his first big bust, like his first, big thing yeah was like henry you're so silly and um we we get to see kind of our at least to my recollection i don't know maybe we have before but we definitely see in this episode a first instance of henry clocking Yeah.
00:19:10
Speaker
In the same way that Sean clocks a clue. we've We've noticed, like, we know that Henry is good at his job, but did we know that he has that hyper observancy like Sean does? Maybe not necessarily up until this point.
00:19:21
Speaker
And it confirms it here. Yeah. And the way they show it, like, later, Henry and Sean do it at the same time. But we see Sean...
00:19:34
Speaker
I love it. Which kind of adds this notion that the show is from Sean's point of view. Yes. Or emphasizes that. And then we just like, you know, in that same moment, see Henry looking at the same point. But there's no figness. There's no, there's no like finger to the head or face or squint or any of that. He's just like...
00:19:55
Speaker
looks. Yeah, he has that same kind of like, Gus will later call it like the the clue face or whatever. Yeah. You know what i mean? Where he does that like certain thing. You can definitely see Henry like noticed something. Right.
00:20:09
Speaker
But it's quite zooming. Yeah. It's a quite... ah blank face like he doesn't give anything away and the way sean does which they kind of mock as we go along but yeah so it was just fun to see that in the same moment yeah see them see what they saw yeah and i just love throughout this whole episode that it really is like this episode is a double check it's a check on each other like henry's checking sean sean's checking henry like they're they're both just kind of reminding each other cool it You're not the best in the game, which I think is so fun to see that dynamic out in the real world and not just in the kitchen. henry Yeah.
00:20:49
Speaker
Yeah. This is very... Like ah a very humbling episode for Henry. And then... you know, Sean kind of has this moment of like... Kind of like what they did for Lassie. Like, we got to give this to him.
00:21:05
Speaker
Yes. Yes. But they do ultimately... Like, they're all helping each other in this. Is this? I don't know if I missed it, but did. I know at some point Sean says that maybe his dad wasn't as good of a detective. Oh, as he thought he was? As he thought. But I feel that wasn't in this episode, was it?
00:21:26
Speaker
I don't recall. I think that's in. Is that with the with the buddies, the partners? With the partner, yeah. Because his partner was. Right. dirty yeah and Henry didn't see it.
00:21:39
Speaker
Okay. yeah Never mind. but um But I do feel like that is like
00:21:48
Speaker
Perhaps the next installment of Henry's like, hmm, disillusioning with his yeah work. um Even though it's several seasons away. I think it's in like season six. Yeah, it's a little while. But I do think too, that's, you know, that's, that statement, like that's such a statement to make. Like maybe my dad wasn't as good of a detective as I thought he was.
00:22:10
Speaker
Especially because i would argue that sean Sean is maybe only as good as he is at his job because he's not working within the confines of the police department. If he was working with the confines of the law, he wouldn't be able to find half of the stuff that he finds. He wouldn't be able to put together half of the pieces of information that he put together in the way that he does.
00:22:32
Speaker
He's a great detective. Of course he is. And I think Henry is as well. But Sean's able to really... overstep a lot to... Legality?
00:22:43
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, talk about like doing what we had to do. Like, he' yeah he's breaking in He's handling evidence. Yeah. Like, none of that would be admissible.
00:22:54
Speaker
No. Yeah, not at all. Not at all. And and for Sean, I think it's all okay because, as we've said before, he's ultimately looking for the truth. So as long as he's finding the truth, that's all that really matters. But Henry had specific confines to work within.
00:23:08
Speaker
Mm-hmm. And that certainly makes it more difficult. say like I wonder if we could even argue the same thing for Jules and Lassie. like If Jules and Lassie didn't have to work within the confines of the law, would they be, quote unquote, better detectives?
00:23:24
Speaker
Well... I mean, they have an authority that I think makes that, you know, dangerous where ah Sean is just detecting, like, just like, you know, looking for clues in like a very um classic way.
00:23:42
Speaker
But like what, you know, those confines are like for the rights of the people to Oh, yes. Have like... um I suppose I mean just just the sheer skill of being able to like put a puzzle together.
00:24:05
Speaker
Yeah. Well, I do think when he says that, it's more about, I feel like, reading people because he couldn't see that his own partner was um doing something illegal.
00:24:19
Speaker
Again, I feel like that's so tough. Like, because Sean right now has... Sean's life right now is really easy. i don't i want I don't want to make the generalization of Sean's life is really easy, but Sean doesn't have a lot of the stressors that Henry does have to think about.
00:24:36
Speaker
Wife, child, house, keeping everybody fed and and you know all these things, keeping his job, doing a good job. like That's a lot. sean's kind you know Sean just has to deal with, is he happy and enjoying himself?
00:24:50
Speaker
So I think... like
00:24:54
Speaker
I could imagine Henry maybe misses some of those clues because he's dealing with his own stuff. Like Sean's pretty much 100% in on this. It seems like he breathes. That's all he does.
00:25:08
Speaker
Yeah. Psych, you know. Yeah. And I mean, I feel like what it comes down to like at that time too is that Henry just can't imagine...
00:25:24
Speaker
Like, he can't entertain that the people he trusts could yeah could could abuse their power. And i feel like that is part of his journey is, like, seeing these people for what they are.
00:25:43
Speaker
um And also, i mean, even as you say, like, his his partner, what he did do was sort of, like, what he had to do to get... So I kind of like Shaft, you know, it's all like a lot of gray areas, a lot of difficult choices, a moment and a choice. a moment and a choice, yes.
00:26:04
Speaker
A moment and a choice. But I do think it's interesting, like that Henry...
Chief Vic's Warning and Sean's Tactics
00:26:10
Speaker
Even the the way he ends up sort of coping with this realization that he has failed.
00:26:20
Speaker
He's sort of, he's like, you know, it's not my case. It's not about me. It's a Santa Barbara case. Like, he has to create distance from between himself and the job, which I think has always been very hard for him to do. And and he, like, really holds the job on a pedestal, which he shouldn't do and he can't do because it's ultimately, like...
00:26:41
Speaker
human beings doing these things and yeah people are imperfect and and sometimes bad. Yeah. Literally the whole profession is possible because people are bad.
00:26:54
Speaker
Yeah. So yeah, it is interesting to, and and it's interesting too, to have Sean say like, well, maybe he's not as good as he thought he was. Cause like then, cause as much as Sean disdains,
00:27:10
Speaker
the police force and like who his dad has um you know that version of the detective that his dad was i mean he still holds that sort of reverence for it that was internalized like he holds both yeah um so yeah interesting indeed Indeed. So that's kind of the ah setup for this episode is that we have that case, that bust that Henry made with that bomber come into question by the DA's office.
00:27:51
Speaker
And they need to relook into that case already. any information from the case. Interesting too, because like that's what it seemed like that they were just looking into it. But then later they say like it was overturned.
00:28:04
Speaker
So like straight up and he's out. Yeah, yeah. So they, well, I guess what they found was an inconsistency or something was wrong with the warrant that Henry had in that arrest, I think. yeah And so that made the whole thing Like, no, I guess.
00:28:23
Speaker
Yeah. So. Well, well, right. Because Henry at one point says that they only the only thing that they admitted into evidence was things that he got from that specific bus because the evidence was so compelling. So with that warrant not being considered valid or legal or whatever the terminology would be, it means that the entire case had to get thrown out. So I wonder if maybe the question now is, can they.
00:28:50
Speaker
Well, no, they wouldn't be able to retry him. Why are they looking at this?
00:28:55
Speaker
Well, are we just trying to see like where people went wrong? Or maybe like if there was more to it. Because there's two pieces. Because I think, I mean, i dont I forget what the organization Vic mentions is, but it's something like the Innocence Project.
00:29:13
Speaker
Ah, yes. Right? Something, I mean, that's what I assume. Something like that that goes and finds people who they believe are wrong wrongfully convicted and like fight that conviction.
00:29:24
Speaker
um And then maybe what they found was this technicality of this warrant issue. Right. um And so maybe they're looking into it in case there was somebody else.
00:29:38
Speaker
Cause then Henry says that this was all they used, but they could use all this other stuff from this other warrant that was filled correctly. This time or something, which does make it sound like they would just.
00:29:51
Speaker
Right. Try him again. Which you're right. I don't think they're allowed to do so. I don't know. We might need like a. Institutional expert. Yeah. They. this Yeah. Where's your sister?
00:30:05
Speaker
She's legal things. Yeah. But I guess. In terms of television and the story. Yeah. We're watching. Yeah. Um. It sounds like they are reinvestigating this crime. And Henry, and maybe Henry's just saying that, not even thinking about
00:30:25
Speaker
whether it would be possible or not, but more like he, his stake is that he was right. that He was right right. He did it right. And so really that's what he has to prove. Okay.
00:30:37
Speaker
So maybe that's his mentality. Yeah. Well, you know, that's kind of a good point because the police aren't really looking into this at all so this seems maybe like maybe it was more of a favor that vic was like here sean take this and if you want to do something with this well i mean she i think she hires them to do it but she yeah because she's very strict about the fact that he can't be involved you're right you're right um
00:31:09
Speaker
Let me go back to the... I have the transcript open, so let's see. And she does say, Henry's not allowed to participate in this case. It could compromise it as if they were going to, like, try They're going to do something. Yeah.
00:31:20
Speaker
I mean, maybe if they did find that he was... guilty, the guy who they just let out. Maybe there would be some other charge. Oh, yeah. Maybe some other charge? Okay.
00:31:33
Speaker
And maybe Vic thinks that there's imp possibility that he that there was more to it, I don't know. Yeah, I mean, anything's possible, I suppose.
00:31:44
Speaker
Yeah, so the again, the whole thing is just the the case has been brought into question. Seems like it's been overturned. And Vic wants the boys to look into it.
00:31:56
Speaker
And before we find out that Vic wants them to look into it, Sean and Gus walk into the station with a reporter, which I thought was this whole bit with the reporter. I just really love about like him saying how they've been hounding him for months and it's been his whole thing and she's like you called me and you called me back he's so annoying sometimes he's just such a showboat sometimes calm down I feel like it was a great way to like put him at like max silliness, obnoxiousness, and then give him something that's really very serious.
00:32:36
Speaker
Yeah, knock him down. And have that contrast. Yeah. Which, as I say that, again, we have been talking about how this season has been like all the serious stuff being thrown at them, which we are again.
00:32:49
Speaker
We are. Yeah, definitely. And also those relationships because he – you know As much ah tension as he has with Henry, he you know he doesn't want to humiliate him.
00:33:01
Speaker
Yeah, oh of course not. It puts him in a difficult position. Yes.
00:33:08
Speaker
But it is just that whole, could you get the hand off again, Chief? And then he makes her redo it. And I'm surprised Vic didn't throw that lady out. I just want to get over with. Let's go. Come on.
00:33:25
Speaker
Yeah, and I love that we got um also got the long form intro this time. I think we haven't gotten in while. I love the full theme song. Love the long form intro. I just think it's the song is so great. It's so freaking catchy. It's so dancey.
00:33:41
Speaker
It's just so much fun. So fun. And then we get the Vic being very clear with the boys. Henry is not allowed to participate in this case. And of course we get All the shenanigans while she's trying to tell them this.
00:33:58
Speaker
Which I thought was just really fun. that Because it's like grammar shenanigans. It's like splitting. know, they're so silly. It reminded me again, which we referenced a lot, but like in the Yang episode, how in a serious situation, they have to just make it silly.
00:34:14
Speaker
yeah And Vic is trying to be so stern. She is. and he They're just like having none of it until finally... Gus is like, that was acuted perfectly.
00:34:30
Speaker
And you could tell she's just like, get me away from here. And then they go back to the psych office because where else can they be? But Henry's already there, which I want to know. How did Henry find out about this? Do you think someone in the station is like still friends with him and just called him up and was like, I could see that.
00:34:49
Speaker
Like i get to the records guy or someone. Yeah. one That's a good question. Maybe he follows this sort of thing. Oh my. I could totally see that. was like a ah blotter or something for all this stuff.
00:35:04
Speaker
He gets it in the mail. Yeah. But he's waiting there in the psych office and Sean's like, how'd you get in? was like, I don't know. The window that was unlatched, the door that wasn't locked, or this key that I made, maybe.
00:35:17
Speaker
They're just like, what? What's going on? Hand over the file. Give it me. I know you have it. And Sean's like, I'm not going to happen. And I also love this line from Henry. You're lucky I'm even asking you, Sean. I could do this the simple way. could grab it from you. Clean up any evidence of a struggle before either of you even know what hit you.
00:35:35
Speaker
And then Gus, though, goes, in some states, that's called child abuse. I think Sean says that. And then Gus is like... like all of them i was like oh my god i was like that's hysterical just this again that like silliness in the face of a serious situation not that child abuse is funny at all by any means but having to make it like ridiculous yeah it's very much their mo so they then end up deciding that they need to go also liked him saying that he was there for
00:36:10
Speaker
For them to try his chocolate chip raisin bread. Oh, yeah. Why he was actually there. Specific and weird. That sounds good. Chocolate chip raisin bread. We should add that to the end of the... I thought about that too.
00:36:21
Speaker
I would probably prefer to just leave the raisins out. That's fair. Chocolate chip bread. Give it a shot. Yeah. i think When I think of raisin bread, I always think like cinnamon raisin. So I can imagine like a little bit of chocolates and chocolate in there wouldn't be bad. Or, okay, hold on. Adding it to our pancake churro. This is like the most complicated pancake.
00:36:42
Speaker
It could be cinnamon or what what a chocolate chip pancake raisins on top. in the shape of a churro could like roll it up whoa rolled up and then like fried oh yes that sounds delicious that sounds like something sean and gus would do yeah on the food truck oh man
00:37:05
Speaker
oh man So they're they're realizing that they got to really they actually really have to legitimately work this case. They're going to work it backwards, says Sean. So they're going to go to the DA's office to start.
00:37:16
Speaker
And they head on over there. They walk in. They're like all proud themselves and excited. They sit down to like wait for the guy to behind the counter to call them. And lo and behold, Henry's already there.
00:37:27
Speaker
Be by eight minutes, he says. Not bad.
00:37:32
Speaker
And... Again, Sean's like a little annoyed, a little pert two perturbed. I mean, I get it. This is like Sean and Gus's thing. And I think he even says that at some point, you're going to ruin the proceedings or the flow or whatever whatever he says. Yeah. Well, and it's his, it's their ass on the line because Vic says if Henry, if she finds out Henry is involved at all, he's they will find They will have to find another police department to work for. And she will make, yeah don't know, she's going ruin their name. They'll never work again in this town.
00:38:08
Speaker
Yeah. um Which I think he also kind of tells Henry that once they kind of come to an understanding. It's like, this is by my rules because it's my my case. My case, my butt.
00:38:21
Speaker
Yeah. Yes. And I think that that's also fair. I do think under any any from anyone's perspective, Henry is definitely kind of overstepping here. Totally. He's overstepping. in you know He has no jurisdiction. He's not a cop anymore.
00:38:42
Speaker
um He's overstepping in the sense that this case wasn't given to him. He you know is talking before. And I don't know like how... if it really matters but it is like a conflict of interest yeah yeah definitely so i don't know if like that would cause an issue if they did try to prosecute again and they and it was it became clear that henry was involved that might cause more problems yeah it's it certainly could i bet i bet it probably would But certainly it's causing problems for Sean because Sean is like very annoyed that Henry is doing all of this to the point where he, I mean, you know, Henry even steals his partner shtick. He calls Gus Methuselah Huntsuckle and himself Old Scratch Johnson.
00:39:22
Speaker
Which are pretty good names. Great names. Honestly, they are some of the partner names that I like, I pull from my Rolodex, you know, when I think of partner names. Yeah, they are really good ones. And it's funny how...
00:39:35
Speaker
henry like knows so well what sean's sticks are yeah and he like just has no time for it because yes sean is like begins to in a very measured you know tone introduce themselves and henry's like yeah yeah and this is mcseus le honeysuckle and that makes me old scratch johnson yeah yeah Yeah. He really just like he wants to get it. Yeah. He's like, let's go.
00:40:01
Speaker
We don't need to play these games. It's sorry. Freedom of information. And I do think it's interesting. You know, we've we've kind of talked before about why is it that Sean puts on the psychic shtick even when the police aren't around.
00:40:16
Speaker
And I think I think we kind of came to the standing conclusion that it's in case people get spoken to. Like if if he goes to witnesses and starts acting like he just can observe things and that he's not a psychic and someone comes and asks them questions later down the line, it kind of blurs everything for him at the police station and what he's managed to construct. So by...
00:40:44
Speaker
continuing to put on this farce like it's also protecting him and Gus and the agents in the process but Henry is like cut it out he's like I don't care what why'd you do that for like what was the purpose of that like he keeps telling you that whose benefit was that for right whose benefit was that for yeah yeah it was funny when um that that is the moment where they kind of make both make the observation ah um and we watch Sean like interpret yeah all of these things he like sees all of these different things and we like kind of see him make it come to a conclusion and then at the same time henry is just like staring yeah in the same direction yeah and sean is about to go into a big vision and uh henry really steals his thunder yeah yeah there another case like yeah yeah yeah you're having a boy great it's a boy congratulations and this guy behind the counter is like
00:41:39
Speaker
What? yeah He looks so confused. And it's also like, Thinking about like why Sean goes through all of this charade.
00:41:50
Speaker
Like it's interesting that then Henry is like, no, you have to give us it because the Freedom Information Act, which maybe Sean wouldn't know. I feel like Gus might know that. Yeah. yeah um But that would also make sense that Sean doesn't know he like has a right to that information. So he thinks he has to weasel it out of people. Yeah. Yeah.
00:42:11
Speaker
So, yeah, so they do end up getting the information that they wanted because of Henry's knowledge of that Freedom of Information Act. But while the guy from behind the desk goes to get said information, Sean kind of pulls Henry aside. And this is where he really sets the rules for him.
00:42:26
Speaker
And this whole um instance, I thought this whole like mini monologue here was just so absolutely hysterical. He started off so well. And then just falls into like a total de-evolution of whatever in the world he was trying to say. But I love how he goes to Gus and is like, I really lost it the end there, whatever he says. And Gus is like, yeah, you he should have had a name for the wall.
00:42:52
Speaker
<unk> Like, that was the problem. Yeah, that that would have kept him on track. Yeah, no. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Climb the wall. If want to go back to the academy and climb the wall, do little thing, shoot the, yeah, grandmas, whatever. Yeah.
00:43:08
Speaker
Too much. But Henry does agree. I think Henry, like, at the end of the day, he does understand that, yes. like Yeah. And I wonder if Henry likes a little bit, you know, Sean actually stepping up.
00:43:21
Speaker
Sure. Because he also says, was it earlier?
00:43:27
Speaker
ah oh yeah. When they're at the office. Henry is like, you go ahead and handle this half-assed like you do everything. Which I feel like that's him defaulting to the fact that he doesn't take Sean seriously. But yeah I think he does. Like he has learned better, but he's in such a defensive, insecure place right now that he's lashing out in his old favorites.
00:43:52
Speaker
Yeah. they're comfortable that's you know yeah right they're easy it's easy to fall back into those old ways so yeah maybe like it's comforting or like you know makes him feel good about the the child rearing that he's done to see sean really kind of put him in his place a little bit and take charge yeah Definitely. And I think if Henry didn't trust Sean at the end of the day, he would have been like, even with him, quote unquote, standing up to him, Henry would have been like, cut it out. No, you can't do this. I'm helping you.
00:44:30
Speaker
know So I think he, like you said, he realizes that Sean can do this and that Sean's good at this. It's just he he's gotten a little triggered by all of this going on right now.
00:44:42
Speaker
A little much. and Understandably. So we go back to the office to look at all of the information that we get from the DA when suddenly Sean gets a call.
00:44:55
Speaker
ah It's too thick. And she is concerned that Henry is working with them. He was seen down at the DA's office with them. And Sean pulls out what is going to turn into a running joke, which I just love, that it wasn't Henry. It was actually Phil Collins.
00:45:13
Speaker
He was taking a invisible touch. If that helps you. No, I wasn't aware that Phil Collins lived in Switzerland.
00:45:21
Speaker
And this is going to turn into a longstanding thing for Chief Vic where she just upset. It's like my favorite bit. oh collins I love this bit ah so It's such throwaway. Just like, how does she know so much about Phil Collins? Which is funny because, I mean, we're not hearing her whole side of the conversation, but all we know that she knows is that he lives in Switzerland, which is not a crazy amount to know. Yeah.
00:45:45
Speaker
But I, yeah, because I think the next time is like in with the seal, right? Or the sea lions. Oh, yeah, I think and she gets pulled. ah Is it that one?
00:45:58
Speaker
think so. She like, doesn't she like go to a concert or something? She's yeah, she like has backstage pass and stuff and lanyard. Yeah, it's just so cute that this is like, I just love little character things like that.
00:46:09
Speaker
She's just really big Bill Collins fan. I mean, who's who isn't? He's fantastic. Two ears and a heart. Come on. Yeah, yeah. The 30 Rock. thirty rock Yeah, I love that Henry, too, is the background like, I look like that.
00:46:24
Speaker
Yeah, and Sean is just like, shh. It is funny because it's like, Henry, be quiet. He could hear you. On the phone, yeah. Haven't you learned?
00:46:38
Speaker
Yeah, but I love that whole bit. I love... that then it turns into like, okay, everyone must now be disguised. Like Gus, work you can't know that you're still doing this because remember just a couple episodes ago, they're like mad at you and Yeah. Well, he doesn't want to use the blueberry.
00:46:56
Speaker
course. They're tracking his Ogletree. Yeah. Gosh. Tracking his mileage or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Checking his mileage, which I mean, you know, fair.
00:47:07
Speaker
Yeah. Fair. It's company car, Sean. It's company car, Sean. Um, Yeah, imagine if they had seen what he did to it in the drag racing episode. Oh my god. Oh no, Chop Shop. It wasn't even the drag racing. with Yeah. It was good. That car really goes through lot. It does. lot Transformation. It's it's true.
00:47:28
Speaker
It would have been fun to see them all try to get on the motorcycle, but of course they will not would not go for that.
Pawn Shop Adventures and 70s Immersion
00:47:33
Speaker
Yeah, it would have would not have been quite discreet enough. So they decide to to get a cab to remain inconspicuous.
00:47:43
Speaker
And they decide to take the cab to the pawn shop to see where Eugene got rid of all of his stuff before he was arrested. Desperate people pawn stuff, Sean. So they head over there. And um I love this little scene too. this guy behind the counter. I thought he was great.
00:48:00
Speaker
I loved the the weird little thing with the box. and What is that? What you think it is? Catacombs beneath the... We got a yeah yeah National Treasure reference.
00:48:10
Speaker
Which I thought was so funny that Gus is me like, shame on you for knowing that. Yeah, so the National Treasure reference. Because I feel like when we were talking about National Treasure... you know It's very contemporary. so I can totally see it being something that maybe Sean really does like and appreciate because it is in the spirit of everything. you know yeah The movies, again, that made him.
00:48:31
Speaker
It's not classic movie. you know it's not a classic Yeah, it's not acclaimed yet. It's not beloved yet. It's just a family-friendly movie. Yeah, and that makes sense too for what we were saying that it's like something we're nostalgic for. So it is weird yeah to like for them to be referencing it, but it is it's also something that's like uncool to them. Yes.
00:48:55
Speaker
Yeah. Well, where' and I guess that does kind of make sense being that at this point, they're they're in like their 30s. And when National Treasure came out, we were kids. So it was definitely. It was not for them necessarily. Yes, exactly. Exactly.
00:49:09
Speaker
Even though it's still amazing, you know, and it still holds up. And clearly Sean likes it. Yeah, it's a great movie. Like National Treasure. Yeah. And then we find out the box is literally just a box that holds all pawn shop tickets.
00:49:25
Speaker
Yeah, the box is just a box. But I do also love getting to see Sean just doing what we love to see Sean doing, which is just enjoying the little things in life and like making everything kind of silly and and yeah totally not serious.
00:49:39
Speaker
Like, man, there's stuff in there. He's like a child in that way. Yeah, totally. And, you know, it is they are in a very exciting moment. They are trying to, you know, figure out a case. And that's pretty cool.
00:49:52
Speaker
yeah Is this their first cold case? Oh, I think so. That does add like another element. Yeah. I'm not like thinking of Sean and him liking like a challenge.
00:50:06
Speaker
Yeah. It's like a new level. Totally. And I think, too, of course, now there's some competition that it was Henry's case. Yeah. He's got to figure it out before he does.
00:50:18
Speaker
We end up finding out. We end up getting our pawn shop ticket from Eugene. And again, we see both of our Spencers look at the ticket and figure out. exactly what's going on at the same time but this time Sean's like and makes him zip it so that Sean can work his magic and deduce that it's a VIN number so it must have been for a car which if no one came to claim the car says our pawn shop guy they would have sold it So somehow they end up finding the car. We don't know how they find the car. I can't remember because they debate the best way to do it.
00:50:56
Speaker
Yeah. they And then they just cut to like them in an impound lot or something yeah with the car, which I guess doesn't really matter. um But we do end up finding this very stylish green car from the 70s. I don't remember what model. A Mercury Cougar, they said. There you go. Yeah, it was great. It's quite dirty. Yeah.
00:51:16
Speaker
It is. For now. For now, yeah. It's been sitting in an impound lot or a junkyard or whatever it is. Oh, yeah. Maybe a junkyard is a better... oh but we did skip a very important part, which is that... Oh, yeah.
00:51:30
Speaker
Again, they need to be in disguise, so... they see that there are racks of perfectly tailored 70s well just old clothes at this pawn shop and so they deck themselves out and yeah they look great so dapper like henry's wearing a shirt that he still has which also feel like is very good yeah people do People do that.
00:51:57
Speaker
Oh, totally. People keep their favorite clothing items for forever, especially if they're a... And i would I do feel like of the three of them, his is the most... Yes. Or like the least loud.
00:52:08
Speaker
yes. yes Yeah, it's just like a... The only thing that's different is really like the sort of the cut of the collar. Yes. It's like pretty 70s. Yes. But yeah, Gus and Sean both have these like patterned shirts and Gus has a vest and they've got these like flare pants. Oh my God, I love the flare pants. Very sick shoes.
00:52:26
Speaker
So cute. And sunglasses. I think they're all sunglasses. Yes. They're all sunglasses. So we have like time traveled now. And then they're going to go get the car to like complete the look.
00:52:36
Speaker
Yes. And their transformation will be complete. We'll start saying five and all that good. All that good stuff. I can dig it. They're so silly. They get to the lot and you know, an attendant or someone brings them over to the car.
00:52:54
Speaker
they They want to look inside. Shocker. They want to find clues. The attendant's like, if you buy it, you know, I'm not just going to let you. Yeah. three So John's like, let's pull, let's pull our money. Like, let's see what we have.
00:53:07
Speaker
Henry's got 50 bucks. Gus has got 400 bucks. Combined with his wallet and his sock. Yes, his sock. And they're like, what? And that's his emergency money that he keeps in his sock. So a great Gus. love that.
00:53:20
Speaker
I used to do that as a kid. So I love that. Just in case one never knows. And it wasn't in kangaroos. it was like literally in my sock. yeah, the kangaroos. yeah i loved I really want a can pair kangaroos who stick money in my in my shoe, not in my sock.
00:53:35
Speaker
you know it gets slightly damp. um But that's besides the point. Yeah, they end up pulling amongst the three of them only having $450. four hundred and fifty dollars And Sean's like, let me, let me negotiate with this man.
00:53:50
Speaker
And of course, the negotiation is just, it's $450. So he him. He's like, look, we have $450. How much is this going to cost me? And the guy says, $450. four hundred And fifty dollars he's like, okay, great. And he ends it. Perfect. Perfect.
00:54:03
Speaker
love it an incredible haggling technique yeah because they're like from the person who's never bought a car makes yeah and yeah it's incredibly dirty like you can't see through the windshield you can barely tell what make they get out of there yeah honestly i Really, they don't even know that it runs yet because they turn it on or anything because he gave them the keys.
00:54:29
Speaker
But it does. it It turns on and they manage to clock a couple of clues within the car. Sean sees, you know, a sticker on the windshield, something that he can't really determine quite yet. Henry notices that there's a smuggler's hatch and cracks it open and they find some film for a camera.
00:54:45
Speaker
And they decide that they're going to go and develop the film and see if they can get some more information. I do love Henry's little quip at the end of this is, Let me guess. This is the part where we take one step back before informing the police.
00:54:57
Speaker
Yeah. actually Yeah. He knows their methods for sure. I mean, he you know, he's known them since before they were born as parents often
00:55:10
Speaker
On the film, they end up finding an image with three friends, one of whom is Eugene And they use this to say, okay, let's see if we can figure out who these other two are. And we should these three people are holding AK-47s and they're standing in front of flag of some, so yeah I don't know. They look like mercenaries. They want to be a mercenaries.
00:55:35
Speaker
Yes. Yeah, they definitely look um a little scary or certainly very intense, if anything. So seeing these three people...
00:55:49
Speaker
which and we'll talk about this in a second but henry is talking about like how are they going to figure out who these people are well we should go talk to but an old informant from the 70s pookie and henry saying this with of course it's just a person named pookie and the boys start dying it is extreme reaction they're like hysterical over this man being pookie Which I feel like, and maybe it's just because like now I feel like pookie is actually a term that the children use nowadays. So maybe it doesn't.
00:56:24
Speaker
All I know it as is like a term of endearment. Yeah. Yeah. They'll say to each other like, hey pookie. Like, oh, you're my pookie. That's interesting. Yes. I mean, I've heard, I feel like just, you know, it's just a thing people say.
00:56:36
Speaker
Not like a lot. I feel like I hear it more in like, maybe like on TV as like and a very babyish like voice, like pookie. Yeah. um But yeah, I have always been like, what is so... And at first, I thought they were... like It was funny that it seems kind of like Henry slips into the 70s.
00:56:59
Speaker
Kind of like they've also laughed at him for like when he said that we used to roust punks yes out of there all the time, which I felt like it was more like that. It was like he is speaking how he spoke then. ah But that's then he just said, they say his name is Pookie. Like that's all they're laughing at. So it is weird. yeah It's always been weird to me.
00:57:19
Speaker
Yeah. And I mean, it could just be that, you know, they're just silly. I feel like it'd be a big word since if his name was like, duty or something and they're just being really childish but like pookie is it's not really much of anything i mean don't know maybe they think it's like girly i don't know or maybe it's coming from henry like having henry say pookie yeah maybe and he says it so straight he does very straight yeah i'll look on urban dictionary and see if there's anything else that we're missing about pookie a nickname which you call your best friend or someone you really love
00:57:56
Speaker
Okay, yeah. There you go. There you go. One pookie without the other pookie is nothing. They are cute together, boop each other's noses, and love being weird. Together they are themselves.
00:58:08
Speaker
Though they are complete opposites, oh, their personalities balance out, and together they will grow for the rest of their lives. lives Nothing else matters when the pookies are together. That's a very intense one. Sounds like boy.
00:58:23
Speaker
So I don't think we're missing anything, so I don't know. Okay, fair. don't know. We're just being silly. Once they are over their Pookie tirade, they decide to go to where Pookie currently works, which is Top Flight Dance Club.
00:58:39
Speaker
And he's a cool dude. I like Pookie. He seems like he... Yeah, Sean says he never left the 70s. Like, he's just... Yeah, well, yeah, they walk in and it is a 70s themed bar. Yeah. And I think the DJ even says, like, where it's always the 70s or something like that. Yeah, yeah. So now and now they look...
00:58:56
Speaker
you know They've got their get-up on, got out of their Mercury Cougar. there they have now now they're the 70s. Yeah, they're fully immersed now. But it is so fun because it's not like like we have – Psych Odyssey is almost like – you know, we really see the past and they're all playing those characters. And like, that's one version of of this kind of And then we have other ones where they really like go into sort of another world or subculture. But this, it all just feels so and like incidental.
00:59:29
Speaker
Yes. Yeah. Like they ended up with this car. They wore these clothes because they had to wear something. Yes. This club that is a 70s club for some reason. So it is a fun way to kind of take us to the 70s without...
00:59:42
Speaker
Yeah. Without actually having to be in the 70s. Yeah. So they they chat with Pookie. And, you know, Sean pulls out his psychic-ness without actually calling it psychic-ness.
00:59:56
Speaker
ni And I love that Pookie says, i used to trip like that. As if he was, like, on something. Oh, yeah. and And then Henry has to cue him and be like, no, no, Pookie, he's psychic. And Pookie goes, I can dig it.
01:00:11
Speaker
Psychic wall. Very fun. Very Very shaft. Yeah, this whole like informant thing, and like that felt you know right out of the shaft. Yeah.
01:00:27
Speaker
Universe. So we find out that the other two people in the picture are Derek Ford and Melanie, who worked with Eugene in SAG, Soldiers Against Government.
01:00:39
Speaker
So this is the time when Henry becomes... and annoyed, bothered, frustrated. i don't know what you would call it, but he's certainly upset with himself himself because he just learned that my biggest bust and I was wrong.
01:00:54
Speaker
And I guess he was wrong to like some degree in the respect that he didn't realize that Eugene had partners, but also Eugene was making a bomb. Like they did just see him with bomb or not just, but he walked into his apartment with him making a bomb.
01:01:08
Speaker
Like he was definitely still not doing something that he should have been doing. But whether or not he had partners, I guess, is the the thing that Henry was upset about. He didn't realize that. Which is, it's an interesting, like, scenario because
01:01:23
Speaker
I guess also the fact that no threat came to be would also make Henry and company think they took care of the issue. But right Eugene?
01:01:35
Speaker
Eugene was the patsy. So they wanted, his partners wanted... a clean break. They were in over their heads. They didn't want to go through with it, but they also didn't want to get in trouble for it.
01:01:50
Speaker
So they let Eugene take the fall. um And I guess set him up to take the fall. So in that sense, I guess the, it seems like none of them really wanted to do it in the end.
01:02:06
Speaker
Yeah. I guess like it never would have happened. Yeah. I don't know, because they're all like, they're college kids at this point in time. we eventually find out they,
01:02:17
Speaker
you know or in this with a professor as well like people are so impressionable you know like i wonder if but the professor is also not presented as like this mastermind he's not he's like which i mean we know he kind of drunk drank himself it sick or i don't know he just had yeah and he had alcoholism and they kind of suggest that was out of guilt i think for more for what happened to eugene yeah Um, so yeah, we're not, I feel like we don't really know like where his head was at when all of that went down. Like if he was going to go through with it.
01:02:50
Speaker
Right. Or, but it seems like he also didn't, you know, he wasn't gonna go to bat for Eugene or anything. didn't seem like he was involved in getting, having Eugene take the fall.
01:03:04
Speaker
Did it? No, it didn't seem, it seemed like maybe they were just complacent in letting it happen. Yeah, it was just like kind of an opportunity to like get out of right what they were doing. It is interesting. like I wonder if there were any more people involved like but he yeah and like as a group. Like, okay, let's just not.
01:03:24
Speaker
Yeah. But they must have publicized the threat somehow so that yeah whatever happened, like like they were being looked for because there was a threat. Right.
01:03:35
Speaker
I guess. It is kind of Interesting. Yeah. interesting you know interesting turn of events but yeah yeah so we okay so that's what we know that they're partners and so that's what Henry's like he missed that yeah he he missed that which yeah maybe maybe they knew about like this group but just thought that Eugene was working alone like in general they knew about the group because it seems like it was new information
01:04:09
Speaker
that or the The group entirely to Henry. yeah Yeah. Yeah. So they maybe just didn't know about the group at all. Maybe it really is just a four person group. Just four people and they were like just like the worst terrorist ever because they actually just didn't didn't anything. They didn't want to do anything. and They should have just not done anything and then would have been fine.
01:04:29
Speaker
Yeah. Everyone would have been a-okay. No one would have gone to jail. So that's Henry, Sean, and Gus. Jules and Lassie, on the other hand, have a... and We haven't really talked about their path.
01:04:42
Speaker
Yeah. They're dealing with some some cases right now. They have two possibilities of what they could be working on. They could be working on like a plastics case.
01:04:56
Speaker
Yeah, ah like fraudulent permits at a plastics factory, yeah i think. but all And diamond smuggling, which of course they're like... They're like, oh, because Vic is like, we've got these two cases.
01:05:10
Speaker
and they And then she'll she's like, I'll let you decide who's going to take which. So that it seems that her expectation is one of them is going to take one and the other will take the other one. But yeah, Lassie and Jules are bored by this, which...
01:05:26
Speaker
This whole thing for them is so funny. We've talked about the you know no small cases, only small detectives. um And it's interesting. This is kind of a lesson for them because they want the cool one and it really bites them in the butt. every like It keeps biting them in the butt, which is like someone like Sean would take any case and sort of seems to know that you just don't know what's going to come out of it. Yeah.
01:05:52
Speaker
Yeah, some cosmic karma for them. Yeah. They end up deciding to take the diamond smuggling case and they pawn the other one off on Buzz, which I love Buzz. He's such a golden retriever. And I love how he's like, thank you guys for like believing in me.
01:06:07
Speaker
And I'm like, Buzz. And then Lassie's like, yeah, yeah, we love you. Get back to work. Which is such a funny Lassie line because even to say we love you, it feels big. That's true. It's pretty sweet. so Maybe it's a throwaway, so it's okay.
01:06:21
Speaker
yeah <unk> only when I throw it away is it okay yeah they really build it up for McNab too that this is like a big opportunity Jules says it might land him on the detective's board someday bureau something like that which is like seems silly to say that about a singular case but i don't know they sell him on it for sure you do and they probably wouldn't have even had to i feel like anything they if they were like this is a good opportunity he would have been like yeah Yeah, he's so for everything. like He's just so wanting to help everyone all the time. yeah
01:06:56
Speaker
So we end up finding out in this little, we actually come back to it now. That happened before. We come back to it now. Lassie and Jules are walking into the police station all torn up, red, slightly bloody. Cuts everywhere. yeah And they're like you know walking like they're in pain.
01:07:14
Speaker
and turns out they had like a rough go of it. In the diamond smuggling case, they opened up the wrong shipping container and i love that thing what was inside the shipping container container was wild marmosets yeah it was actually an exotic animal treater or exotic animal smuggling yes also you know they should take that down too so those poor animals yeah i know i felt bad for the marmosets i feel like they needed some more sympathy there but but jules and lassie are really very um self-centered this episode they they just want cool things yeah yeah they don't care about anybody else they don't care about the marmosets and i hope they're all right poor guys
01:08:03
Speaker
And Buzz is over here like all smiley and happy because you'll be happy to know that case you guys gave me took a fun turn.
Real-Life Sea Pirates Case
01:08:11
Speaker
Turns out the Plastics Factory was a friend for real life sea pirates.
01:08:19
Speaker
Just so funny. And of course, then they take the case back from Buzz. Yeah. Meanies that they are. You can see them cooking. Yes. In their little heads being like, oh, actually, if it involves, forget what they say, something about like if it involves another department or something something about it.
01:08:35
Speaker
Yeah. Makes it so they really have to take it over because it's now above his pay grade. And Buzz is just so sweet. He's like, okay. Yeah. He's just sweet. yeah
01:08:49
Speaker
They'll get theirs. They will. They will. They will continue to get theirs.
01:08:55
Speaker
So we jump to, oh, we jumped to the house. Yeah. and Henry has taken a step back. We're in the ocean side of the house. yeah Yeah. and I got really excited when we saw the driveway.
01:09:11
Speaker
was like, the driveway! know, the driveway. It does feel like, in that shot, it definitely felt like the back of the house. Yeah. You know, like the garage. Yeah, but it is odd or It is. Still.
01:09:22
Speaker
Yeah. I mean... because like i feel like garages are usually in the front yeah but i mean as we've discussed that like you know the ocean really throws i did like there was a big sign that said beach with an arrow or like a finger pointing or something i feel like we need a diagram maybe that would help us maybe draw it out one day but we're in the we're in the yard we'll call it that we're in the yard and yes henry has taken a step back he's a little dejected, trying to put some distance between him and the case.
01:09:56
Speaker
And Sean's like trying to convince him, but he's not having it. So Sean goes to the driveway, hop in the car with Gus, and this is when they scheme.
01:10:08
Speaker
to get Henry back in on the case. And it's funny because Ashan's like, we're going to need to make it seem like we need him. And then that's not really what they do. No. They just... Totally different. Or maybe he meant just need him...
01:10:24
Speaker
period in general yeah really not for the case they just need his presence and their excuses to build bookshelves because i've always taken it as like the lassie thing that they are gonna like build him up and make him feel like he's they really can't solve this without does he say that actually
01:10:42
Speaker
don't know if he can't solve this without him or just we can't do this without him Yeah, now I've got to see because I'm like, did did he mean to build a bookshelf or to solve the case?
01:10:55
Speaker
Like they've had the bookshelf scheme the entire time. Yeah, like they're like, we just need to get him in the car.
01:11:05
Speaker
i mean, a bookshelf is a good book for Henry. He's talking about wood. Going the lumber yard. Yeah, he's very excited. He's got opinions. Yeah.
01:11:15
Speaker
He's got a leveler. What the wood should be like. Yeah. I like when Henry says what wood? Gus says cypress.
01:11:27
Speaker
And Sean's like cypress. Gus is like it's a good wood. That's what Noah's Ark was made out of. Yeah. He was like no you need something that breathes more. finally found the scene.
01:11:39
Speaker
No, he does say that. I can't believe I'm about to say this, but instead of lording over him that this is our case, our rules, I think we have to convince him that we can't solve this thing without and Okay, there you go. How do we do that? Most likely through the use of trickery.
01:11:52
Speaker
Yes. And then all that they do is get him in the car by saying they're going to go build a bookshelf, which I don't understand how ultimately that makes Henry feel like they need him. suppose it doesn't.
01:12:02
Speaker
Yeah. But maybe they're thinking if they get him there, then along the way he will contribute because he can't help himself and then he won't feel useful. It's a long con. Yeah.
01:12:14
Speaker
this case, yes. once Once he gets there, he'll see. But that doesn't work out that well either because he refuses to go in the house. I just love that shot of him like cross leaning on the farm.
01:12:29
Speaker
Yeah, like 10 o'clock right now. Yeah. Yes, because they get to, they go take him to Derek and Melanie's house.
01:12:41
Speaker
Yes, they've gotten married. Yes. And they get there, they like park in the driveway in their old green car. And while they're sitting in the driveway, another car comes up and like pulls a crazy Yui and speeds away. So of course we get some chase master guster.
01:13:01
Speaker
He's very, ah they're very conspicuous. Yeah, they were not able to not be seen. They just totally freaked out. And they do later say that they saw the car in the driveway and they knew it was Eugene's car and they kind of freaked. So that makes a little bit of sense. But yeah, you would think they would have tried to.
01:13:20
Speaker
I mean, i guess they, just and they just think that Eugene was, is going to exact revenge on them. don't know. Like, if they knew Eugene this whole time, it doesn't seem like he would. Yeah, he seems pretty chill.
01:13:34
Speaker
Yeah. yeah And, like, even in the end, like, he just wants to talk to them. or and he Or they want... I don't know. But they they do know, I guess, that he's looking for them. So... And they... Maybe they feel guilty, so they're like, oh, he's definitely going to kill us, because that's what we would do. True.
01:13:51
Speaker
True.
01:13:54
Speaker
They get spooked. They run. Wonderful car chase. Gus, you know, sweeps out in front of the car. All the cars stop. Sean and Gus get out of the car. Henry's like, I'm not about this. Don't agree. And I love Gus pulls the the leveler that Henry brought with him. And Sean looks him and goes, oh, you better hope they're not uneven in there. That's a very good one.
01:14:19
Speaker
That was silly. And he's like, I'm going to blind them with the laser, Sean. And it's just, you know, two middle-aged people. Very preppy.
01:14:31
Speaker
Very preppy, yeah. The woman has... ah The woman, Melanie, has a pink shirt and pink sweater tied around the shoulders, which is just the preppiest thing you can possibly do.
01:14:44
Speaker
okay And then Derek has just like a nice dress shirt. They just look picture perfect. They do. They look very nice.
01:14:56
Speaker
And they end up going back, Sean and Gus end up going back to their house and conversing about all of this, everything that's gone down. And they seem pretty forthcoming.
01:15:07
Speaker
seem like They're willing to talk, you know, like they were just kind of scared. They were young kids back then, didn't know what they were doing, blah, blah, blah, blah. blah It's really, that is that, you know, that kind of cliche, I guess, about like, what is a good lie is that...
01:15:23
Speaker
part of it is true. yeah Like, you know how like Sean learns how to lie and stuff because they are telling them the truth, look just not the whole truth, yes which is also what Henry suggests is possible because yeah that is why they did what they did because they ran over their heads and stuff.
01:15:43
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Henry always comes in with like the perfect little nugget of wisdom when we need it at this point. Sean asks a hard-hitting question, asks if any anyone else was involved in this group that they were a part of.
01:16:01
Speaker
And all of a sudden the wife like cuts her finger and it's this whole big thing. She got herself really good. She goes into the other room, kind of derails the conversation. The boys end up deciding to to leave and this cut will be very important later. Yes. Oh, and Sean also clocked that when we got to the car, he saw like a faded half of like the remnants of a sticker of like a crest.
01:16:24
Speaker
And then at their house, he sees um a letter from an alumni association with that same crest. And so he puts it together that they went to college together.
01:16:35
Speaker
and that kind of, that's kind of what they look into next. Maybe they had a shared. Yes. We go outside and get a very contentious conversation. Yeah. Between Sean and Henry.
01:16:48
Speaker
With Henry essentially not wanting to be a part of this anymore. And Sean's like, come on, we need you. And Henry's like, well, not everyone is so comfortable screwing up. next He's like, you made a mistake. No one cares.
01:17:00
Speaker
Get over it. Not everyone's as comfortable screwing up as you are, kid. Again, back to the like, he's just triggered. He's just like. Yes. It's like the worst. Yeah. yeah like We see like Henry reverting to like the this like old patterns.
01:17:15
Speaker
Like yeah we've talked a lot about like people reverting to their teenage self, which isn't quite what's happening, but like ah similar sort of thing. And then Sean says, my mistakes were the only thing pointed out to me.
01:17:28
Speaker
and He's like, oh, put away the violin. Put away the violin. And then Gus has had enough.
Family Dynamics and Peer Relationships
01:17:36
Speaker
And he's like, look.
01:17:41
Speaker
We need you because you're old, frankly, and we weren't there. And Sean, you're actually pretty smart sometimes. have a brilliant idea now and again. So just get over it And then he gets back into the car. And then we have this moment of like Sean and Henry kind of having a common enemy to redirect their frustration And he's like, geez, is he always such a know-it-all?
01:18:06
Speaker
so Yep. I do love seeing the three of them as a little team. Yeah, it's cute. Yeah, and it's fun to just see them sort of on the same level. You know, like when you get to the point where you're your friends and your parents can be just as...
01:18:25
Speaker
like Like peers in a way. Like for Henry to be like, oh, is he always such a know-it-all? Like that's such a, that's not really something a parent would say. No, yeah. But yeah, it's fun.
01:18:37
Speaker
So then I feel like they kind of simmer down a little and they start discussing the college.
Unraveling the Mystery: Eugene and Professor Colbert
01:18:44
Speaker
Oh, and Sean's pretty sure because the cut thing, like when it happened after he asked that question that they're protecting somebody else from Eugene is what they think.
01:18:55
Speaker
Yes. And then I think Henry says maybe they're protecting an old mentor. Yes. Maybe they were protecting an old mentor. And then going to guess Jules ran it, although I can't remember. they She did.
01:19:08
Speaker
There you go. That they all had one professor in common, Professor Richard Colbert at the university. So they go to ask him some questions thinking that, you know, of course he would, he might, if he was the mentor, know some information about these people.
01:19:25
Speaker
And they they, of course, have to go back undercover because why not go into those snazzy outfits again? they They enter the lab and they sadly find him dead on the floor. But Sean clocks that there's like a fiber in his nose and a cloth on the table, leading us to believe that he was likely like chloroformed or suffocated or something like that.
01:19:47
Speaker
And they say, looks like Eugene got here first. So they're still thinking Eugene is the bad guy here. Yeah. And they must call Lassie and Jules.
01:19:59
Speaker
And Sean's getting some serious jives. Yeah. We also get an update on Lassie and Jules' case that they were sequestered to the... Lumberdeck. Lumberdeck, which is the nautical term for a place they sent you to puke or something like that.
01:20:14
Speaker
um So they've continued to have a terrible time with their cool cases. that they had to wash my hair three times. Yeah. Let's do this.
01:20:24
Speaker
Yeah, they seem very, like, they've had their fun. Yeah. Or what they thought was going to be fun. And now they're, like, all business. Yeah. We just got to get this over with. Which I don't blame them. That sounds pretty horrible.
01:20:34
Speaker
Yeah. And then I do, this is, like, one of my favorite, like, they're just talking about the case and the, you know. Well, I think they don't assume it's murder. And Lassie's like, when are people going to realize that?
01:20:49
Speaker
alcohol and whatever, don't mix. And then Gus and Sean pop up like way across the lab. And Gus is like, actually, technically page And they just are in character. hall loose hydrogen bond or whatever he says.
01:21:06
Speaker
And doing the full, like this, like the shaft. Yeah. Like it's smooth. They've got the like lingo. Yeah. Sean starts his like 70s vision, like picking up some jive.
01:21:20
Speaker
Yeah. This is where we get the smooth mother shut your mouth. I'm having a vision. It's so top 10 vision for sure.
01:21:34
Speaker
Yeah. Yes, definitely. Very. and They're all very like out there, but I guess this one is just very themed. Yes. They're so in character. And I just, I love so much when Gus is right there with him.
01:21:51
Speaker
but And what what did he... He's been... You know Sean goes and sees that Henry has some new information. Oh, yeah! do looking you you like And he's building cake. And Gus goes, make a wish!
01:22:04
Speaker
What?
01:22:07
Speaker
He's like, ro oh, set that makes no sense. But I was so in it with you. A bomb! A bomb! but Yeah, ah that's incredible. Make a wish!
01:22:19
Speaker
Yeah.
01:22:23
Speaker
Oh, so stupid. So stupid. ah dubin So, you know, they think that Eugene killed this professor
Bomb Threat and Case Resolution
01:22:34
Speaker
guy. They think he and built another bomb. So they're like, where would he Oh, yeah. That was the other thing.
01:22:39
Speaker
right Right. Back to the people's house that we were just at. So they end up going back to the people's house we were just at. And they, in fact, not them, but some other police officers find Eugene. like there's like a call in progress, maybe. oh okay. That makes sense.
01:22:53
Speaker
Although I don't... I was gonna say maybe ah Derek and Melanie did that, but I guess they probably wouldn't have because they want him to get blown up. Truth. Yeah. Who knows? Maybe they like called like, yeah, because they could have sent somebody over there or maybe a neighbor saw him snooping around. Oh, true.
01:23:11
Speaker
and and Yeah. He was snooping around the back and some officers, Eugene being he snooping around the back, they have some officers bring him to the front And, you know, Eugene's trying to explain that he was invited here. He was just trying to see if people were home, like he wasn't going to hurt anybody. But my gosh, the police officers also found a bomb in a bag in the back of the house. So i'm not looking too good for Eugene.
01:23:37
Speaker
Until Sean notices Melanie and Derek standing with each other and Melanie's finger has not been
01:23:49
Speaker
So it all started together. line eyes Lies. Lies. Lies. Yeah. yeah
01:24:00
Speaker
And he, you know, he nutshells it all up for us that they were all involved in this SAG group and the couple didn't actually want to be a part of it anymore. So they frame Eugene. He is Patsy.
01:24:13
Speaker
And when Eugene got out, they were worried that he would come after them. So they were the ones who went to the professor because they were worried that with his alcohol problem, he would blab to Eugene about the fact that they were actually the culprits or they were, you know, the people who they let him go. so out Yeah, sold him out.
01:24:35
Speaker
And he also implies that Eugene didn't make the bomb that is sitting right in front of them that either Derek or Melanie did. And to prove this, this wackadoodle,
01:24:48
Speaker
activates the palm and says, well, whoever made it will have to turn it off. Which while... Down the street? ah Yeah. down Down the road immediately. That would be me. I'd be like, nope, goodbye.
01:25:03
Speaker
Yeah. Not happening. And the suspense builds for little bit. It a very suspenseful moment like i like how you see like the other officers like moving people down the street and stuff they're like yeah you've got to get everybody out of there yeah absolutely you don't want to endanger other people and then moments before it is about to go off derrick turns off the bomb leading to obviously an arrest of derrick and melanie and then of course everyone's like um
01:25:39
Speaker
What happens if they didn't turn off the box? Yeah. was like, don't worry. i would have cut the red wire and the green wire at the same time. Joel's like, Sean, there is no green wire.
01:25:51
Speaker
Oh. Yeah. Oops. Oops. done And then as everybody leaves him behind, Sean's like, thank you. Yes.
01:26:02
Speaker
With the little prayer hands. Yes. Yes.
Conclusion and Media Spotlight
01:26:06
Speaker
And then we we head back to the station and Henry essentially says thank you to Sean for getting this right as they're walking into the station.
01:26:21
Speaker
And we see in the very back by Lassie's desk a horde of police officers. Yeah, well Sean is trying to get in there because as part of the hope yes the article, this woman who he...
01:26:35
Speaker
got to write an article about him yeah she is gonna need to hear like henry's side too because it was his case first now it's her yeah and then yeah they get there and she's interviewing lassie and jewels and lassie and jewels are just loving it yeah they've swooped in we don't seek out the high profile cases they have a way of finding us yes Clearly.
01:27:01
Speaker
So yeah, it is a really, it's like a funny arc for Jules and Lassie. Like they, mean, I guess we definitely have seen Lassie's ambition. I wonder if this is kind of Lassie's influence on Jules.
01:27:14
Speaker
Yeah, I could see that. Because she doesn't strike me so much as like someone one who would only want to do the cool stuff and because she is pretty sympathetic to people and like we've seen other times like um i'm thinking of malone bray fogle oh yes when like there's nothing she can do but like she still wants to help she brings in sean and gus so like i feel like she does sort of
01:27:49
Speaker
appreciate the small cases but I guess you know who doesn't like their 15 seconds of fame yeah and I think you know maybe it was just a slow week or something and they wanted something exciting I mean who knows yeah it's never really a slow week in Santa Barbara but no I mean just this week we've got murder bomb threats sea pirates uh animal smuggling diamond smuggling I mean come on yeah How can one get more exciting than that? i
01:28:25
Speaker
I actually don't know.
01:28:28
Speaker
But yeah, this was a fun episode. I like yeah and like the pacing of it. i thought it was paced very well. I like the 70s theme. So fun. Yeah, so fun.
01:28:41
Speaker
What we got next? Next we have There Might Be Blood. Which one is this? Because I always get... It is the oil rig one. Oh, the oil rig one.
01:28:51
Speaker
Oh my gosh, Coast Guard. so they Yes. They like prime us with Coast Guard in one. Oh my gosh, you're so right. Then to the Coast Guard next time. Whoa, I never thought about that.
01:29:03
Speaker
Yeah, they kind of plant the seed. next It's probably our biggest episode, Vic episode. Yes. Yet and maybe ever. I'm excited to get some Vic. I love some Vic. Yeah, and guest star Jane Lynch.
01:29:16
Speaker
Yes, she's so good in this too. Iconic. And they're so good as siblings. Yeah, perfect casting. Yes, they're so good. They play off of each other so well. Yeah, and Lassie's going to get super weird.
01:29:30
Speaker
oh yeah. All the, pulling out all the stops. And love a psych episode on the water. Yes, we do get them every once in a while. huh got it Yeah, it feels like really part of the I mean, ocean town. Yeah.
01:29:49
Speaker
so It's fun to get out there. Yeah. And him on a boat. twin yeah makes sense Makes sense. Yeah, I'm excited. It'll be a fun one. Yeah. And if you'd like to join us back here next week, feel free.
01:30:05
Speaker
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01:30:27
Speaker
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