Post by randomnation on Mar 28, 2009 12:48:14 GMT -5
We open on the boys in mid-hunt, walking through a wooded area with Sam carrying a spear. Sam is giving Sock and Ben the 411 on their latest conquest: a warrior who's skilled with swords, spears, and knives with strength strong enough to snap their necks with his bare hands. Oh, they are so screwed. Poor boys. They come up to a stable, where The Devil said he’ll steal a horse from. After a weak suggestion to split up, they enter the stable, where Ben immediately spots the most adorable of adorable bunnies ever! When noticing the M.A.A.B.E. is about to be crushed by one of the horses, he tip toes into the stall to save him. At least not all continuity got thrown out the window in season 2. When he emerges with the bunny, Sock immediately puts the kibosh on the whole pet idea seeing as how, “it’s his house, his rules, no pets”. While Sock and Ben bicker, Sam tells them to hush as they’re supposed to be looking for the soul, which picks that moment to leap down from the loft up above. The soul, looking like an 18th century Mongolian warrior lunges at them. Seeing as how they can never keep possession of a vessel for more than 5 minutes at a time, lose the vessel to him. As the Mongol here advances upon Sam, his phone rings. It’s a text message from Andi, “Hey sexy”. Heh. The ringing seems to be scaring the Mongol, so Sam uses this newly discovered bit of knowledge to his advantage. He calls Sock’s and they taunt the Mongolian warrior (who is still in possession of the spear) with their modern, new age cellular devices. Neat! But Mr. Mongol here isn’t having any of that as he then throws the spear at Sock (which given his plotlines for these first few episodes, isn’t such a bad idea. Oh, was I not supposed to say that?). Nevertheless, the spear misses him and lodges itself into a beam. Ben, the adorable brain trust that he is, tries to both hold onto the bunny and pull out the spear. As you’d expect, it doesn’t go so well and the Mongol whistles for a horse and rides off (forever!?!?). Ben eventually pulls out the spear, “I got it. I got it!” Oh, Ben.
Title Sequence.
Close up on a wanted picture of our friend Alan Townsend, who gave Sammy a nice little whack upside his head back in the premiere. Sam’s gonna hang a bunch of wanted posters all over town, as it’s the only way he can think of to find him. We’re in the kitchen of Sock’s house, by the way. Ben, who has been standing behind Sam is still firmly holding onto the M.A.A.B.E., brings up the “large reward” Sam is apparently offering for the finding of Alan.
Heh. M.A.A.B.E. finally gets a name as Ben looks for food in the fridge to feed, “King Charlie”, he calls him. Classy. Sam thinks KC should be outside, but when Ben refutes this, Sam starts to bring up Ben’s attachment to animals whenever he gets lonely. Ben then proceeds to coddle King Charlie. Again, Oh Ben!
Ugh. And the nightmare begins. Kristin sneaks her way into Sock’s room where he is currently sleeping. She jumps on his bed and begins a tickle war to wake him up. They move on from “tickling” to “wrestling”, while Kristin can’t believe what she’s doing. Neither can I. Is there some sort of time restriction as to when it becomes appropriate for the recapper to stab himself? Ahem. Anyways, Kristin manages to get herself on top and starts wriggling all over Sock’s junk. Sock, thankfully, decides enough is enough and tells Kristin that this type of behavior is wrong and inappropriate. What? It could happen. Actually, he just starts to get aroused and runs into the kitchen. He asks Sam why she’s doing this to him and says he’s starting to crack up. He gets so frustrated he bends Sam’s spoon (he’s eating breakfast you see). Ben, who’s been hanging back from this little exchange, tells Sock he’s got The Blue Man group in his pants. Ha! Sock turns to issue some sarcasm, but turns dickish when he notices Charlie and wants to know why he’s in the house. Sock calls a house meeting, with Sam’s bent spoon as his gavel and proposes a ban on all animals in the house. Sam, for some odd reason sides with Sock. Ben sadly loses out (but not for long!) and is forced to take King Charlie out to the garage. Sock mockingly tells Ben’s little buddy to bundle up as it gets cold out there. Ass.
Cut to Andi in The Work Bench busting out some knowledge on a table saw to a customer. Since we don’t get her name, I will call her Megan. Megan would like to know specifics on the table saw and Andi obliges, impressing all to see. Which is just Megan, so…never mind. Anyway, Andi shows off her astuteness and asks Megan if she’s a Secret Shopper from Corporate. Megan says her assumption is correct and wonders if she was obvious. Andi denies this and is then sworn to secrecy by Megan, to not let anyone know what she’s doing. “My lips are sealed”, she says and we immediately cut to her filling in Sock and Sam on this little evaluation and Sock is none too pleased. After hearing about a worker who was fired last year for trying to sell pot to a S.S., Sock goes on about how The Work Bench is an “evil corporation” that represents everything that’s wrong with this country. Tell us how you really feel, guy. A customer approaches and before he can get out two words Sock tells him to shush. “I got a message for you and the boys at Corporate. I’m watching you watching me watching you. Believe it.” He then knocks the customer’s basket out of his hands. “NARK!” What. An. Ass.
Sam and Andi approach the lovely Christine Willes, aka Gladys the DMV Demon, at where else? The DMV. Sam says he doesn’t have a vessel. “Next!” she shouts. Hee. This should be fun. He’s there because he wants to know if she can hang his wanted posters of Alan up in the DMV. She eyes it for a second before telling him no. Sam looks saddened but Andi notices Gladys’ shiftiness. “You recognize him”, she states. Gladys, in all her deadpan glory, “All you meat bags look alike. This is a federal building. No private bills can be posted.” Hee! Andi insists that she knows the soul. Sam says all he needs is an address and tries an “I got you out of hell, remember!?” approach. “Once! You’re never gonna let me live this down, are you?” I doubt it babe. She finally concedes and says she’ll meet him at 8:00 p.m. at his place. Andi smiles a smile of victory as they leave. Gladys looks worried. Or pissed. It’s so hard to tell with her.
Sam is back at the Bench, running off more copies of his “Wanted Alan” posters, when a creepy demonic sound comes out of nowhere. Sam looks around and finds the source of the noise: The Devil! Sadly, whenever I cup my hands together to make noises, I can never sound like that. Maybe I need to take a class? The Devil cracks that the look on Sammy’s face was priceless but the next time he hears that noise to run away. He then says that on second thought, to forget it, seeing as how he’ll be dead, because that’s the sound demons make. Sam asks him what he’s talking about and D-Man brings up the demon rebellion out there that’s trying to kill Sam for being The Devil’s son. The Devil says he’ll try to watch Sam’s back but can’t promise anything since he’s a busy guy. During all of this dialogue, it should be pointed out that The Devil has been inching towards Sam and the copier. Sam, in succession, has been smoothly hiding any view of the posters. Good job. Before The Devil takes his leave, he reminds Sam to capture the soul. “Those Mongols conquered half the earth. And I have a feeling this souls’ gonna adapt to life in the 21st century pretty quickly”. Hmm, adaptation…a theme for this episode? Let’s wait and see.
Sam returns home (Sock’s home, not his mother’s home) and finds Sock staring at Kristin, who’s in the living room stretching. Kill! Murder! Remove this filth from my screen!!! *regains composure* After some displays of flexibility, Sock comes to the conclusion that since they aren’t even related and that they don’t even look like each other, that he will take her dancing. Because, “all chicks love to dance. They love to get drunk when they dance. More importantly I can shake this ass. I start poppin ‘n lockin, she’s gonna go straight up bonkers”. Wow. Kristin then asks Sock to spot her. Sigh. Onto more interesting plotlines…
Ben, out in the garage, has bought King Charlie a present: a tiki-torch to keep the bugs away. Aww! A flashlight appears outside the window, which Sam notices from inside the house. As he steps outside looking for Gladys, he’s abruptly attacked by a demon, which flies in from nowhere. The demon throws Sam into the side of the house, knocking him to the ground. It then proceeds to strangle him, but is interrupted by Ben who charges at it with the flaming tiki-torch. The demon’s arm catches fire and goes to leave, but stares at Ben for a moment. It flies off as the camera pans down to Sam on the ground, looking horrified. Now, as far as demon prosthetics go, this wasn’t that bad…nowhere near the Whedonverse demons, but it’ll do.
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DMV. This scene is shear awesomeness, so it’ll require a full transcription.
I love it so much! Christine Willes is made of so much win, I’m constantly amazed by her. Bret was great here too. Sam then gets aggressive and orders Gladys to get Alan’s address. She writes down an address. But Sam is ready this time and uses the “my dad is the devil” card in order to ensure her honesty. She rewrites the address. Heh.
Aaaaand we’re back to the plotline of suck! All this scene consists of is Sock and Kristin in a dance club. They dance. New guy comes in and makes moves on Kristin. Sock and new guy dance off. New guy wins.
We find Sam and Andi in his car outside Alan’s apartment. Sam remarks on how great it would be to convince Alan to help him out of his contract. No more devil, no more souls. Andi says they could be a normal couple and do normal couple things, like go on vacation. Sam suggests Paris, Andi suggests Malta. Sam doesn’t even know where that is but wants to go! This scene is kinda getting to me; they’re both so happy and optimistic about the future. And they’re laughing together! Missy and Brett have great chemistry together, I don’t care what you say. Um, oh right, the show. Anyway, Andi gets a hankering for some food, so she pops over to the gas station. The Devil takes this moment to appear and wonders what Sam is doing here. Sam tries a lie about looking for the soul, but The Devil knows better. He says Sam is trying to get in some alone time with Andi. He then turns on the radio and they listen to reports of Mongol sightings, ending with the reporter saying there’s a $10,000.00 reward for information leading to his arrest. The Devil tells Sam to get on it and leaves as Andi comes back. With the pressure on, Sam decides Alan can wait and speeds off with Andi in tow. As they leave, a city bus arrives and Alan gets off. The Devil looks on knowingly. Ruh-roh!
More commercials. Including Bret and Tyler’s Free to Be Green diddy.
Sock and Sam are walking…downtown, I guess? While Sock complains about Kristin’s dance floor admirer. They enter a restaurant where Ben is already seated. Ben wonders what Sam’s carrying and it’s the vessel wrapped in paper. Real inconspicuous there, Sammy! Sock wants to know how Ben knows the soul will appear. “History”. To illustrate his thought process, he pulls out a War game board. As we all know, the Mongols invaded China first, Korea second, and then Vietnam. Ben’s thinking is simple, since the Mongol has hit both Chinese and Korean restaurants (with game pieces placed upon their respective countries), a Vietnamese restaurant is next. The restaurant the boys are in? A Vietnamese restaurant, which is a sure bet to be hit next, seeing as how it’s the best one in Little Saigon. Now, I can get behind this logic, I can. It’s just, there’s a lot riding on luck and chance here. Although to be fair, that’s exactly what these three have been surviving off of so far, so…Alrighty, moving on. Sock wants to start up a game War when a customer walks in and starts causing a ruckus. It’s the Mongolian and he’s looking pretty snazzy. In the immortal words of Barney Stinson, he “suited up”! Mongol spots the boys and heads into the kitchen, to which Sam follows. Sam starts to advance up on him when the Mongol picks up some cleavers and starts swinging them around. Sam tries stabbing him with the spear but Mr. Cleavers here chops off the upper portion of the vessel. Well, damn. Sam is stunned momentarily before running to the other side of the kitchen. He pulls out his cell phone and tries the ringing trick again but the Mongol pulls back the hair covering his ear and reveals a Bluetooth headset. Snerk. Mongol attacks but Sam hits him with a skillet and runs back to the vessel lying on the ground. Mongol runs the other way and they’re now facing each other with about 10 feet between ‘em. Tension rises. Sam dives for the upper part of the spear and thrusts it into the Mongol (dirty!).
Sam, Sock, and Ben are back home in the kitchen with what appears to be a nice buffet provided by the Vietnamese restaurant. Ben says they have to admit it, that he was right, which they do. So, he wants to reopen the vote to let King Charlie into the house. Sock still doesn’t want him inside and says that two people have to agree to reopen the vote. After Ben rightfully convinces Sam, the vote is reopened. When asked who agrees to let King Charlie inside, Ben is still the only one for it. Ben and I both agree: this is crap.
The doorbell rings and its Topher, Kristin’s dance floor party buddy. Sock immediately shuts the door, but then reopens it, with a knife in his hand. Jeez. Sock leads Topher to a chair and gives him this spiel about how Kristin is not like other girls, she’s smart and kind and very, very special and he’s the only one who gets to have sex with her. Kristin appears in a short, tight red dress and says they’re going dancing. At the door, Topher remarks to Sock that if she were his sister, he’d want to have sex with her too cuz “that ass is crazy doable”. Oh. My. God. Topher goes down to his truck as Sock looks like he’s ready to kill a bitch. And he does kill. And by kill I mean he whops Topher across the back with a chair. Everyone is shocked. Except for me. I’m just bored.
We’re back at The Workbench. Sock, feeling guilty over his chair attack, has cut himself off from everyone. Literally. He’s constructed a Fortress of Paint cans in the helpdesk area…place. He tells Sam he can’t believe what happened, his sister hates him, blah blah blah, why do I care? The Secret Shopper from before, who I’ve named Megan, is back, and she’s looking at fabrics or something. Anyway, Ted strolls up behind her and tells her he knows what she’s doing. Ted being Ted is totally wrong and thinks she’s there for a fleeting moment of passion. With him. Ew. “You won’t be the first. You won’t be the last. But you will be the seventh.” Hee! Donavon’s delivery there was perfect. Megan asks for his name. Uh-oh. Sam runs up to Sock’s fortress and tells him Ted’s been fired. Sock busts out and joins everyone else as Ted is led out of the building by a security guard. Before he goes however, he leaves us with one final monologue.
And with that, Ted is led out of the building, never to be seen again. Or you know, not until The Favorite.
A city bus stops and Alan gets off. The camera is located pretty far back until it swings to the side and reveal that we’re looking through Sam’s perspective. Very nice, show! Alan runs off into his gated apartment property while Sam chases him. He’s not having anything to do with Sam, as Sam works with the Devil. He tries to reason with him, even explaining his own deal, but Alan isn’t budging. Alan says he has a second chance and has to avoid temptation. Sam, getting his puppy dog on, and gives a very convincing monologue and it appears to have worked when they’re both suddenly attacked by demons. “You set me up”, Alan accuses as he runs off. One of the demons starts to advance on Sam, but stops suddenly and see’s why. The Devil has his hand gripped tight. He forms a fist and the demon goes poof and turns to dust. He manages a very threatening, “Go. Back to your rebellious little huddle. This one is not to be touched”, to the other demon, while pointing at Sam. “God, I just love killing demons”. Poor Sam.
Sam and the Devil are in a bar, with enough beer to drown their sorrows (or so it appears). The Devil says Sam needs to forget about Alan Townsend, because he’ll never talk to Sam again after what he did, and looking for him will just make him miserable. Sam figures out that that The Devil set up the demon attack to make Alan think Sam really is working with The Devil. He agrees and tells him to move on. “Adapt or die”.
Wysocki home. Sock is stretching when Kristin comes in, still steamed from Sock’s assault on Topher. They get into an argument over him when Sock makes a very valid point about how douchey the guy was. And that he probably just wanted to “bang her and move on”. Kristin shock’s him with a “maybe that’s just what I want”. Hmm, substance. Interesting.
Sam and Andi are in the Workbench parking lot returning carts. Sam is relating his failed attempt at getting Alan to help him. He thinks it’s helpless while Andi takes the more positive and grounded approach. Sam thinks The Devil has done everything he can to sabotage the situation and all but ensure Alan’s weariness, but Andi says there’s something The Devil didn’t count on: her. “When I want something, I can be pretty persistent. And I want to go to Malta!” Did anyone else find that hot? No? Guess it’s just me…
Nighttime. Ben is in the garage with King Charlie when he notices a demon in the corner. He runs out of the garage with KC in his arms up to the house, but Sock locks the door when Sam tells him he has the bunny. Ben pounds on the door until the demon hoists him away. Sam looks on in shock.
Close up of a terrified King Charlie lying next to an unconscious Ben. It would appear we’re in a lair of some sort. Ben awakens, picks up KC, and asks if anyone is there. All he gets is grunting from somewhere within the lair. The demon drops down and approaches Ben. It takes KC away and starts sniffing Ben. He starts getting freaked and asks the demon what it wants with him. It wants what everyone wants. Well aren’t you specific!? It notes Ben’s protectiveness of King Charlie and goes on to comment on how Ben has a kind heart and beautiful eyes. Creeeepy!
Back at Sock’s, Morning-ish. Sam is freaking, Sock is distant, worrying about what they should tell the police. Dick. They start to get into it when Ben reappears without a scratch on him. They’re both ecstatic about his return and want details. Ben says that he isn’t gonna be taken down by some punk ass demon and said he got an adrenaline rush. Sock is skeptical, but Ben is tired, so he goes to lay down with KC in his arms. Sock starts to protest when Ben finally puts his foot down, “New rule. King Charlie can stay”. Yay! Sock’s phone begins to ring, its Kristin…
…Sock pulls up to Topher’s apartment. She gets in the car, upset. She says Sock was right, Topher was a jerk. She got all nice for him, but when she got there, he was having sex with another girl. She was going to give her virginity to him; she wants it gone because all of her friends have lost it too. Sock, showing some heart after all, tells her that her lady hood is a special thing and uses a hot tub metaphor. “Sex is like having a hot tub. If you let anyone hop in, it becomes kind of meaningless…gets full of hair…” “I hate dirty hot tubs!” Hee! Sock goes on to tell her that she’ll find the right person eventually and she somehow interprets this as vowing to stay a virgin until marriage. He looks so enthused.
Nighttime again. Ben steps outside and moves around to the side of the house. He whistles and the demon appears, morphing into a very hot looking Jenny Wade. He tells her she looks amazing, she agrees. They kiss. He pulls back and wants to know that she’s not just using him to get close to his friends. “Probably not”. “That’s fine”. They kiss again and it’s awesome.
Sam and Andi once again. They’ve finally gotten into Alan’s apartment and take a look around. It’s very empty except for all the crucifixes everywhere! One the walls, hanging from the ceiling, etc… In addition, there are sticky notes on cabinet doors and drawers that list the various Ten Commandments. Andi deduces that Alan’s obsessed with avoiding temptation. Sam thinks it’s hopeless and they’ll never find him. Andi once again, shows a more upbeat perspective. She wonders that since this was his fortress, “Where would Alan go to be safe from The Devil?”
Cut to Alan in a graveyard, surrounded by cross-shaped headstones. The groundskeeper is telling him it’s not easy and messy work. He inquires about the grounds. They’ve been consecrated by the Bishop. That’ll do it for Alan as we close the episode with an aerial shot of the cemetery.
Title Sequence.
Close up on a wanted picture of our friend Alan Townsend, who gave Sammy a nice little whack upside his head back in the premiere. Sam’s gonna hang a bunch of wanted posters all over town, as it’s the only way he can think of to find him. We’re in the kitchen of Sock’s house, by the way. Ben, who has been standing behind Sam is still firmly holding onto the M.A.A.B.E., brings up the “large reward” Sam is apparently offering for the finding of Alan.
Heh. M.A.A.B.E. finally gets a name as Ben looks for food in the fridge to feed, “King Charlie”, he calls him. Classy. Sam thinks KC should be outside, but when Ben refutes this, Sam starts to bring up Ben’s attachment to animals whenever he gets lonely. Ben then proceeds to coddle King Charlie. Again, Oh Ben!
Ugh. And the nightmare begins. Kristin sneaks her way into Sock’s room where he is currently sleeping. She jumps on his bed and begins a tickle war to wake him up. They move on from “tickling” to “wrestling”, while Kristin can’t believe what she’s doing. Neither can I. Is there some sort of time restriction as to when it becomes appropriate for the recapper to stab himself? Ahem. Anyways, Kristin manages to get herself on top and starts wriggling all over Sock’s junk. Sock, thankfully, decides enough is enough and tells Kristin that this type of behavior is wrong and inappropriate. What? It could happen. Actually, he just starts to get aroused and runs into the kitchen. He asks Sam why she’s doing this to him and says he’s starting to crack up. He gets so frustrated he bends Sam’s spoon (he’s eating breakfast you see). Ben, who’s been hanging back from this little exchange, tells Sock he’s got The Blue Man group in his pants. Ha! Sock turns to issue some sarcasm, but turns dickish when he notices Charlie and wants to know why he’s in the house. Sock calls a house meeting, with Sam’s bent spoon as his gavel and proposes a ban on all animals in the house. Sam, for some odd reason sides with Sock. Ben sadly loses out (but not for long!) and is forced to take King Charlie out to the garage. Sock mockingly tells Ben’s little buddy to bundle up as it gets cold out there. Ass.
Cut to Andi in The Work Bench busting out some knowledge on a table saw to a customer. Since we don’t get her name, I will call her Megan. Megan would like to know specifics on the table saw and Andi obliges, impressing all to see. Which is just Megan, so…never mind. Anyway, Andi shows off her astuteness and asks Megan if she’s a Secret Shopper from Corporate. Megan says her assumption is correct and wonders if she was obvious. Andi denies this and is then sworn to secrecy by Megan, to not let anyone know what she’s doing. “My lips are sealed”, she says and we immediately cut to her filling in Sock and Sam on this little evaluation and Sock is none too pleased. After hearing about a worker who was fired last year for trying to sell pot to a S.S., Sock goes on about how The Work Bench is an “evil corporation” that represents everything that’s wrong with this country. Tell us how you really feel, guy. A customer approaches and before he can get out two words Sock tells him to shush. “I got a message for you and the boys at Corporate. I’m watching you watching me watching you. Believe it.” He then knocks the customer’s basket out of his hands. “NARK!” What. An. Ass.
Sam and Andi approach the lovely Christine Willes, aka Gladys the DMV Demon, at where else? The DMV. Sam says he doesn’t have a vessel. “Next!” she shouts. Hee. This should be fun. He’s there because he wants to know if she can hang his wanted posters of Alan up in the DMV. She eyes it for a second before telling him no. Sam looks saddened but Andi notices Gladys’ shiftiness. “You recognize him”, she states. Gladys, in all her deadpan glory, “All you meat bags look alike. This is a federal building. No private bills can be posted.” Hee! Andi insists that she knows the soul. Sam says all he needs is an address and tries an “I got you out of hell, remember!?” approach. “Once! You’re never gonna let me live this down, are you?” I doubt it babe. She finally concedes and says she’ll meet him at 8:00 p.m. at his place. Andi smiles a smile of victory as they leave. Gladys looks worried. Or pissed. It’s so hard to tell with her.
Sam is back at the Bench, running off more copies of his “Wanted Alan” posters, when a creepy demonic sound comes out of nowhere. Sam looks around and finds the source of the noise: The Devil! Sadly, whenever I cup my hands together to make noises, I can never sound like that. Maybe I need to take a class? The Devil cracks that the look on Sammy’s face was priceless but the next time he hears that noise to run away. He then says that on second thought, to forget it, seeing as how he’ll be dead, because that’s the sound demons make. Sam asks him what he’s talking about and D-Man brings up the demon rebellion out there that’s trying to kill Sam for being The Devil’s son. The Devil says he’ll try to watch Sam’s back but can’t promise anything since he’s a busy guy. During all of this dialogue, it should be pointed out that The Devil has been inching towards Sam and the copier. Sam, in succession, has been smoothly hiding any view of the posters. Good job. Before The Devil takes his leave, he reminds Sam to capture the soul. “Those Mongols conquered half the earth. And I have a feeling this souls’ gonna adapt to life in the 21st century pretty quickly”. Hmm, adaptation…a theme for this episode? Let’s wait and see.
Sam returns home (Sock’s home, not his mother’s home) and finds Sock staring at Kristin, who’s in the living room stretching. Kill! Murder! Remove this filth from my screen!!! *regains composure* After some displays of flexibility, Sock comes to the conclusion that since they aren’t even related and that they don’t even look like each other, that he will take her dancing. Because, “all chicks love to dance. They love to get drunk when they dance. More importantly I can shake this ass. I start poppin ‘n lockin, she’s gonna go straight up bonkers”. Wow. Kristin then asks Sock to spot her. Sigh. Onto more interesting plotlines…
Ben, out in the garage, has bought King Charlie a present: a tiki-torch to keep the bugs away. Aww! A flashlight appears outside the window, which Sam notices from inside the house. As he steps outside looking for Gladys, he’s abruptly attacked by a demon, which flies in from nowhere. The demon throws Sam into the side of the house, knocking him to the ground. It then proceeds to strangle him, but is interrupted by Ben who charges at it with the flaming tiki-torch. The demon’s arm catches fire and goes to leave, but stares at Ben for a moment. It flies off as the camera pans down to Sam on the ground, looking horrified. Now, as far as demon prosthetics go, this wasn’t that bad…nowhere near the Whedonverse demons, but it’ll do.
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DMV. This scene is shear awesomeness, so it’ll require a full transcription.
I love it so much! Christine Willes is made of so much win, I’m constantly amazed by her. Bret was great here too. Sam then gets aggressive and orders Gladys to get Alan’s address. She writes down an address. But Sam is ready this time and uses the “my dad is the devil” card in order to ensure her honesty. She rewrites the address. Heh.
Aaaaand we’re back to the plotline of suck! All this scene consists of is Sock and Kristin in a dance club. They dance. New guy comes in and makes moves on Kristin. Sock and new guy dance off. New guy wins.
We find Sam and Andi in his car outside Alan’s apartment. Sam remarks on how great it would be to convince Alan to help him out of his contract. No more devil, no more souls. Andi says they could be a normal couple and do normal couple things, like go on vacation. Sam suggests Paris, Andi suggests Malta. Sam doesn’t even know where that is but wants to go! This scene is kinda getting to me; they’re both so happy and optimistic about the future. And they’re laughing together! Missy and Brett have great chemistry together, I don’t care what you say. Um, oh right, the show. Anyway, Andi gets a hankering for some food, so she pops over to the gas station. The Devil takes this moment to appear and wonders what Sam is doing here. Sam tries a lie about looking for the soul, but The Devil knows better. He says Sam is trying to get in some alone time with Andi. He then turns on the radio and they listen to reports of Mongol sightings, ending with the reporter saying there’s a $10,000.00 reward for information leading to his arrest. The Devil tells Sam to get on it and leaves as Andi comes back. With the pressure on, Sam decides Alan can wait and speeds off with Andi in tow. As they leave, a city bus arrives and Alan gets off. The Devil looks on knowingly. Ruh-roh!
More commercials. Including Bret and Tyler’s Free to Be Green diddy.
Sock and Sam are walking…downtown, I guess? While Sock complains about Kristin’s dance floor admirer. They enter a restaurant where Ben is already seated. Ben wonders what Sam’s carrying and it’s the vessel wrapped in paper. Real inconspicuous there, Sammy! Sock wants to know how Ben knows the soul will appear. “History”. To illustrate his thought process, he pulls out a War game board. As we all know, the Mongols invaded China first, Korea second, and then Vietnam. Ben’s thinking is simple, since the Mongol has hit both Chinese and Korean restaurants (with game pieces placed upon their respective countries), a Vietnamese restaurant is next. The restaurant the boys are in? A Vietnamese restaurant, which is a sure bet to be hit next, seeing as how it’s the best one in Little Saigon. Now, I can get behind this logic, I can. It’s just, there’s a lot riding on luck and chance here. Although to be fair, that’s exactly what these three have been surviving off of so far, so…Alrighty, moving on. Sock wants to start up a game War when a customer walks in and starts causing a ruckus. It’s the Mongolian and he’s looking pretty snazzy. In the immortal words of Barney Stinson, he “suited up”! Mongol spots the boys and heads into the kitchen, to which Sam follows. Sam starts to advance up on him when the Mongol picks up some cleavers and starts swinging them around. Sam tries stabbing him with the spear but Mr. Cleavers here chops off the upper portion of the vessel. Well, damn. Sam is stunned momentarily before running to the other side of the kitchen. He pulls out his cell phone and tries the ringing trick again but the Mongol pulls back the hair covering his ear and reveals a Bluetooth headset. Snerk. Mongol attacks but Sam hits him with a skillet and runs back to the vessel lying on the ground. Mongol runs the other way and they’re now facing each other with about 10 feet between ‘em. Tension rises. Sam dives for the upper part of the spear and thrusts it into the Mongol (dirty!).
Sam, Sock, and Ben are back home in the kitchen with what appears to be a nice buffet provided by the Vietnamese restaurant. Ben says they have to admit it, that he was right, which they do. So, he wants to reopen the vote to let King Charlie into the house. Sock still doesn’t want him inside and says that two people have to agree to reopen the vote. After Ben rightfully convinces Sam, the vote is reopened. When asked who agrees to let King Charlie inside, Ben is still the only one for it. Ben and I both agree: this is crap.
The doorbell rings and its Topher, Kristin’s dance floor party buddy. Sock immediately shuts the door, but then reopens it, with a knife in his hand. Jeez. Sock leads Topher to a chair and gives him this spiel about how Kristin is not like other girls, she’s smart and kind and very, very special and he’s the only one who gets to have sex with her. Kristin appears in a short, tight red dress and says they’re going dancing. At the door, Topher remarks to Sock that if she were his sister, he’d want to have sex with her too cuz “that ass is crazy doable”. Oh. My. God. Topher goes down to his truck as Sock looks like he’s ready to kill a bitch. And he does kill. And by kill I mean he whops Topher across the back with a chair. Everyone is shocked. Except for me. I’m just bored.
We’re back at The Workbench. Sock, feeling guilty over his chair attack, has cut himself off from everyone. Literally. He’s constructed a Fortress of Paint cans in the helpdesk area…place. He tells Sam he can’t believe what happened, his sister hates him, blah blah blah, why do I care? The Secret Shopper from before, who I’ve named Megan, is back, and she’s looking at fabrics or something. Anyway, Ted strolls up behind her and tells her he knows what she’s doing. Ted being Ted is totally wrong and thinks she’s there for a fleeting moment of passion. With him. Ew. “You won’t be the first. You won’t be the last. But you will be the seventh.” Hee! Donavon’s delivery there was perfect. Megan asks for his name. Uh-oh. Sam runs up to Sock’s fortress and tells him Ted’s been fired. Sock busts out and joins everyone else as Ted is led out of the building by a security guard. Before he goes however, he leaves us with one final monologue.
And with that, Ted is led out of the building, never to be seen again. Or you know, not until The Favorite.
A city bus stops and Alan gets off. The camera is located pretty far back until it swings to the side and reveal that we’re looking through Sam’s perspective. Very nice, show! Alan runs off into his gated apartment property while Sam chases him. He’s not having anything to do with Sam, as Sam works with the Devil. He tries to reason with him, even explaining his own deal, but Alan isn’t budging. Alan says he has a second chance and has to avoid temptation. Sam, getting his puppy dog on, and gives a very convincing monologue and it appears to have worked when they’re both suddenly attacked by demons. “You set me up”, Alan accuses as he runs off. One of the demons starts to advance on Sam, but stops suddenly and see’s why. The Devil has his hand gripped tight. He forms a fist and the demon goes poof and turns to dust. He manages a very threatening, “Go. Back to your rebellious little huddle. This one is not to be touched”, to the other demon, while pointing at Sam. “God, I just love killing demons”. Poor Sam.
Sam and the Devil are in a bar, with enough beer to drown their sorrows (or so it appears). The Devil says Sam needs to forget about Alan Townsend, because he’ll never talk to Sam again after what he did, and looking for him will just make him miserable. Sam figures out that that The Devil set up the demon attack to make Alan think Sam really is working with The Devil. He agrees and tells him to move on. “Adapt or die”.
Wysocki home. Sock is stretching when Kristin comes in, still steamed from Sock’s assault on Topher. They get into an argument over him when Sock makes a very valid point about how douchey the guy was. And that he probably just wanted to “bang her and move on”. Kristin shock’s him with a “maybe that’s just what I want”. Hmm, substance. Interesting.
Sam and Andi are in the Workbench parking lot returning carts. Sam is relating his failed attempt at getting Alan to help him. He thinks it’s helpless while Andi takes the more positive and grounded approach. Sam thinks The Devil has done everything he can to sabotage the situation and all but ensure Alan’s weariness, but Andi says there’s something The Devil didn’t count on: her. “When I want something, I can be pretty persistent. And I want to go to Malta!” Did anyone else find that hot? No? Guess it’s just me…
Nighttime. Ben is in the garage with King Charlie when he notices a demon in the corner. He runs out of the garage with KC in his arms up to the house, but Sock locks the door when Sam tells him he has the bunny. Ben pounds on the door until the demon hoists him away. Sam looks on in shock.
Close up of a terrified King Charlie lying next to an unconscious Ben. It would appear we’re in a lair of some sort. Ben awakens, picks up KC, and asks if anyone is there. All he gets is grunting from somewhere within the lair. The demon drops down and approaches Ben. It takes KC away and starts sniffing Ben. He starts getting freaked and asks the demon what it wants with him. It wants what everyone wants. Well aren’t you specific!? It notes Ben’s protectiveness of King Charlie and goes on to comment on how Ben has a kind heart and beautiful eyes. Creeeepy!
Back at Sock’s, Morning-ish. Sam is freaking, Sock is distant, worrying about what they should tell the police. Dick. They start to get into it when Ben reappears without a scratch on him. They’re both ecstatic about his return and want details. Ben says that he isn’t gonna be taken down by some punk ass demon and said he got an adrenaline rush. Sock is skeptical, but Ben is tired, so he goes to lay down with KC in his arms. Sock starts to protest when Ben finally puts his foot down, “New rule. King Charlie can stay”. Yay! Sock’s phone begins to ring, its Kristin…
…Sock pulls up to Topher’s apartment. She gets in the car, upset. She says Sock was right, Topher was a jerk. She got all nice for him, but when she got there, he was having sex with another girl. She was going to give her virginity to him; she wants it gone because all of her friends have lost it too. Sock, showing some heart after all, tells her that her lady hood is a special thing and uses a hot tub metaphor. “Sex is like having a hot tub. If you let anyone hop in, it becomes kind of meaningless…gets full of hair…” “I hate dirty hot tubs!” Hee! Sock goes on to tell her that she’ll find the right person eventually and she somehow interprets this as vowing to stay a virgin until marriage. He looks so enthused.
Nighttime again. Ben steps outside and moves around to the side of the house. He whistles and the demon appears, morphing into a very hot looking Jenny Wade. He tells her she looks amazing, she agrees. They kiss. He pulls back and wants to know that she’s not just using him to get close to his friends. “Probably not”. “That’s fine”. They kiss again and it’s awesome.
Sam and Andi once again. They’ve finally gotten into Alan’s apartment and take a look around. It’s very empty except for all the crucifixes everywhere! One the walls, hanging from the ceiling, etc… In addition, there are sticky notes on cabinet doors and drawers that list the various Ten Commandments. Andi deduces that Alan’s obsessed with avoiding temptation. Sam thinks it’s hopeless and they’ll never find him. Andi once again, shows a more upbeat perspective. She wonders that since this was his fortress, “Where would Alan go to be safe from The Devil?”
Cut to Alan in a graveyard, surrounded by cross-shaped headstones. The groundskeeper is telling him it’s not easy and messy work. He inquires about the grounds. They’ve been consecrated by the Bishop. That’ll do it for Alan as we close the episode with an aerial shot of the cemetery.