WEBVTT - Lanterns S1E06 0:00:00.180 --> 0:00:07.290 Warning, today's episode contains spoilers for Lanterns, Episode 6. Be warned. 0:00:08.660 --> 0:00:16.710 Hello, my name is Jason Concepcion. 0:00:17.010 --> 0:00:28.190 And I'm Rosie Knight. And welcome back to X-Ray Vision, 0:00:28.210 --> 0:00:30.650 the podcast where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics, 0:00:30.690 --> 0:00:32.529 and pop culture. Coming to you from iHeart, where we're 0:00:32.570 --> 0:00:33.530 bringing you three episodes a week. 0:00:33.550 --> 0:00:39.740 Plus News on Center. Plus News. In today's episode, we 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:45.100 are recapping episode six of Lantans, which raises many questions, Jason. 0:00:45.690 --> 0:00:47.750 Many questions. Something's right. 0:00:47.770 --> 0:00:48.490 Something's afoot. 0:00:48.510 --> 0:00:52.890 Something is afoot. Something's rotted in Rushville, guys. So let's 0:00:52.930 --> 0:00:55.030 get into it. Let's recap this. 0:00:57.510 --> 0:01:06.910 Okay, Lanterns, episode six, Bad Optics, we open. In the 0:01:06.970 --> 0:01:10.380 present day, the year is 2026. 0:01:10.380 --> 0:01:13.200 I was loving it. Perfect opening for me. 10 out 0:01:13.300 --> 0:01:15.520 of 10, no notes, fan service all the way up 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.340 and down. Everyone in the Discord is going to know 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.340 I'm going to be happy about this one. I loved it. 0:01:20.170 --> 0:01:23.110 So in the wake of the events of Superman, in 0:01:23.130 --> 0:01:27.490 the wake of the events of Suicide Squad, Jon Stewart 0:01:27.630 --> 0:01:34.280 is pitching the civic leaders of Midway City on basically 0:01:34.380 --> 0:01:40.459 plans to protect the citizenry from alien attack, supervillain invasion 0:01:40.660 --> 0:01:45.890 and the like. Stuart and his brother Marcus have a 0:01:46.050 --> 0:01:49.650 architecture company now. They build safe rooms for like the 0:01:49.690 --> 0:01:52.530 elite rich guys, you know, billionaires, the Bruce Wayans of 0:01:52.550 --> 0:01:54.290 the world. He has his own shit. But, you know, 0:01:54.310 --> 0:01:56.010 like that level of person. 0:01:56.590 --> 0:01:59.190 Stuart Brothers. I was texting Joelle. I was like, I'm 0:01:59.210 --> 0:02:01.730 going to cry. This is so great. How could this 0:02:01.780 --> 0:02:04.960 go wrong? How could it go wrong? And the idea 0:02:04.980 --> 0:02:06.900 is for. 0:02:06.780 --> 0:02:12.880 Midway City specifically, 40 stadium sized panic rooms with their 0:02:12.940 --> 0:02:16.760 own energy systems, with their own water, with food supplies 0:02:17.460 --> 0:02:21.440 to protect the city's population. And one of the civic 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.910 leaders is there, very impressed by John. He's like, you know, 0:02:24.970 --> 0:02:28.370 very authoritative and, you know, he holds the room really well. 0:02:29.030 --> 0:02:31.630 One of the guys is like, so can we just 0:02:31.650 --> 0:02:33.750 talk about the elephant in the room, which is the 0:02:33.790 --> 0:02:36.530 Green Lantern thing, you being the Green Lantern. And he 0:02:36.570 --> 0:02:39.310 was like, I was the Green Lantern for five minutes. 0:02:40.570 --> 0:02:44.410 And The guy says, well, listen, very impressed by you. 0:02:45.310 --> 0:02:49.690 If you can pitch Colonel Draycott, who for some reason 0:02:49.770 --> 0:02:53.810 is like the guy holding the federal purse strings for this. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:58.980 Military just very involved in federal, in state level planning. 0:02:59.460 --> 0:03:03.419 So which is very interesting in the DCU. And so 0:03:04.220 --> 0:03:07.220 if you can pitch Colonel Draycott the way you pitched us, 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:14.489 this project is going to get Green, capital G-R-E-E-N. 0:03:14.770 --> 0:03:15.550 Greenlit. 0:03:16.330 --> 0:03:20.150 And so Marcus is there, and Marcus is psyched. This 0:03:20.230 --> 0:03:21.730 is going to happen. This is incredible. 0:03:21.930 --> 0:03:22.220 Okay. 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:23.090 John, yes. 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.800 Wait, can I? I just want to say, this is 0:03:25.860 --> 0:03:30.460 some incredible storytelling. Because when he asks, he says- It's 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.500 a great info dump. Well, also, not only do we 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.800 get to know everything about John, but when the guy 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.970 who's in charge asks, why were you not Green Lantern, right? 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.780 it tells us so much about the status of Green 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.780 Lantern because for a minute, you think he's like, wait, 0:03:45.940 --> 0:03:48.650 are they mad he's not Green Lantern? But then you 0:03:48.690 --> 0:03:52.610 quickly also realize that Guy has clearly kind of besmirched 0:03:52.690 --> 0:03:55.850 the name enough that for them, the fact John turned 0:03:55.890 --> 0:03:58.770 it down is actually an appeal. Like there is so 0:03:58.810 --> 0:04:02.350 much implied storytelling here by the fact that they don't 0:04:02.390 --> 0:04:06.100 see that as a dereliction of duty. You definitely get the, yes. 0:04:06.820 --> 0:04:10.800 You definitely get the feeling from the way multiple characters 0:04:10.860 --> 0:04:17.410 in this episode talk about Guy that while Guy has 0:04:18.370 --> 0:04:21.330 like a huge Q rating and everybody knows who Guy 0:04:21.610 --> 0:04:24.950 is and there are cutouts of Guy in the grocery store, 0:04:25.529 --> 0:04:32.450 there is maybe a perception of Guy as not the 0:04:32.540 --> 0:04:35.620 greatest Green Lantern they could have had. 0:04:36.940 --> 0:04:40.480 We'll put it that way. He's a replacement's replacement. You 0:04:40.500 --> 0:04:42.479 know what I mean? It seems like they weren't planning 0:04:42.540 --> 0:04:45.419 much past John, and Guy is no John. He's not 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:46.119 even a Hal. 0:04:47.300 --> 0:04:47.700 So. 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:54.270 John, who really should set up his phone better, so 0:04:54.710 --> 0:04:55.650 that only. 0:04:55.670 --> 0:04:58.469 Block that shit. Jesus Christ. 0:04:58.570 --> 0:05:00.450 If you're gonna go no contact, then go no contact 0:05:00.510 --> 0:05:03.049 and really do it, John. Gets a call from his mom, 0:05:03.210 --> 0:05:05.710 and she is... She's only ever mad. 0:05:06.150 --> 0:05:06.890 She's mad. 0:05:07.380 --> 0:05:11.580 Because apparently it's been perhaps years, certainly months, since the 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:15.020 last time they actually spoke on the phone. And she 0:05:15.380 --> 0:05:18.700 is like, Hal Jordan wants to apologize. John is confused. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:19.600 It's like, wait, why are you? 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.140 Why the fuck are you speaking to Hal Jordan? And 0:05:24.700 --> 0:05:26.320 she's like, we were friends. What? 0:05:27.850 --> 0:05:28.429 Since when? 0:05:28.810 --> 0:05:31.409 And we learned that Hal has been, was locked up 0:05:31.650 --> 0:05:33.990 for a period of time. But now that he's out 0:05:34.770 --> 0:05:39.110 and apparently he's living in Rushville. And wants to meet 0:05:39.210 --> 0:05:42.200 John so that he can apologize and he'll be at 0:05:42.220 --> 0:05:46.840 the cafe. And again, John is like very confused, but 0:05:46.900 --> 0:05:50.060 he drives directly from this meeting to the cafe. 0:05:50.580 --> 0:05:54.270 Okay, let us stop here talking about some suspicions, right? 0:05:54.330 --> 0:05:57.330 Because you raised this idea last time that maybe there 0:05:57.350 --> 0:05:59.470 were other people on the end of the phone. Jon 0:05:59.529 --> 0:06:02.690 is maybe being controlled by some kind of T-1000 voice controller. 0:06:03.130 --> 0:06:05.460 This is what this feels like to me. Because imagine 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.240 if you were trying to psychologically fuck with Jon Stewart. 0:06:08.500 --> 0:06:12.040 Wouldn't you basically imply his mom has been sending love letters- 0:06:12.500 --> 0:06:15.080 to Hal. We'll find out later his dad no longer 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.790 lives at home. And they're basically implying that those two 0:06:18.810 --> 0:06:22.170 have become close over a 10 year period. And then 0:06:22.270 --> 0:06:25.050 she says, go to this diner. This man wants to 0:06:25.110 --> 0:06:28.170 apologize to you. It seems sus to me. It's a 0:06:28.350 --> 0:06:28.969 set up. 0:06:30.210 --> 0:06:34.150 So by this point in the episode, I was thinking, 0:06:34.190 --> 0:06:38.630 you know what? Maybe that was wrong because, um, And 0:06:38.670 --> 0:06:41.670 maybe this is just a cost-saving thing where it's like 0:06:41.710 --> 0:06:47.600 they got these actors, didn't want to pay them on-screen rates, 0:06:48.900 --> 0:06:51.240 and so got them for voice actor rates. I think 0:06:51.260 --> 0:06:54.140 there's still a world where that's possible. That said, there 0:06:54.180 --> 0:06:57.599 are still too many. There's weird stuff. 0:06:58.100 --> 0:07:00.360 And if we're going to get into it straight away 0:07:00.660 --> 0:07:02.460 when they go to the diner, there's a disconnect. 0:07:03.570 --> 0:07:05.760 I think there's a lot of weird things happening. Not 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.700 to mention another thing I noticed from the previous episode 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:16.430 is when mom calls and is like, they want to 0:07:16.460 --> 0:07:19.090 talk to you, you know, like, and then John calls 0:07:19.170 --> 0:07:20.930 back at a certain time, like when the town is 0:07:20.970 --> 0:07:25.530 exploding is like, get them on, get her on the whatever. 0:07:25.630 --> 0:07:26.590 Now satellite. 0:07:26.830 --> 0:07:26.990 Yeah. 0:07:27.050 --> 0:07:30.200 On the satellite. I thought the satellite dish didn't work. 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.160 Remember that? Remember previously when we were actually live with 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:35.870 the parents and she was trying to set up the 0:07:35.910 --> 0:07:37.530 thing and she could never get it to work? 0:07:37.970 --> 0:07:41.240 And also remember they said, that the Guardians never spoke 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.080 to them. That was the big issue was it was 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.640 all done in faith. And now they do? Now allegedly 0:07:45.700 --> 0:07:48.380 they do. I don't know. It is either, I don't 0:07:48.420 --> 0:07:50.640 want it to be this. I think we could in 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.720 a couple more episodes start seeing some people talk about 0:07:53.780 --> 0:07:56.140 plot holes if this is not resolved. But if it 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.340 is leading into what you are thinking, I think it 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.610 is a really interesting twist because everyone he speaks to 0:08:03.710 --> 0:08:06.880 on the phone from his family is is just isolating him. 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:10.340 They're being cruel. They're pushing him away and they're pushing 0:08:10.380 --> 0:08:14.020 him towards this one thing, the ring, how, this mission, 0:08:14.300 --> 0:08:16.460 the thing that Marcus, the one person we see in 0:08:16.580 --> 0:08:19.460 person begs him not to do. He says, don't go 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.360 back to Rushville. Don't do this. Like your life gets 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:27.020 destroyed there every time. Please stay here. Everyone else is 0:08:27.060 --> 0:08:28.900 telling him the opposite and we never see them. 0:08:30.100 --> 0:08:31.660 And I'll say one more thing about what we know 0:08:31.700 --> 0:08:33.880 about this show. We know that in this show you 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:40.680 can create, and there are, fully sentient AI versions of people. 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:42.479 Oh, absolutely. 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:47.660 And how does that play further into this? I don't know, 0:08:47.730 --> 0:08:50.709 but it does seem... I continue to be suspicious of 0:08:50.750 --> 0:08:52.469 these phone calls. Let's just put it that way. We 0:08:52.490 --> 0:08:58.550 both do. Okay, so he drives overnight in his.... 0:08:59.870 --> 0:09:00.650 Ford Denali. 0:09:01.050 --> 0:09:04.450 Incredible commercial for Ford Denalis. 0:09:04.650 --> 0:09:06.790 Crazy. Very Twilight coded. 0:09:08.610 --> 0:09:14.089 Probably bought $ 550 in gas to get there from Midway. 0:09:13.770 --> 0:09:17.740 City to Rushville. Arrives at the cafe. Hal is there 0:09:17.940 --> 0:09:20.580 chowing down. Sits across from Hal. 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:22.339 Hal's like, what? 0:09:22.740 --> 0:09:23.180 Apology? 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:23.800 Who? What? 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:25.559 How's your mom doing? 0:09:27.020 --> 0:09:30.130 You know, John is like, don't fucking to my family, 0:09:30.190 --> 0:09:33.430 don't talk to my mom. We learned that Hal just 0:09:33.450 --> 0:09:37.429 got out of prison semi-recently, maybe this year, but he's 0:09:37.470 --> 0:09:40.770 been out for months, right? He just did 10 years 0:09:41.610 --> 0:09:42.990 in a federal facility. 0:09:43.670 --> 0:09:44.630 And he says. 0:09:46.370 --> 0:09:49.980 He took the prison bid, he took the fall, he 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:55.260 took the entire responsibility, legally, for what happened in Rushville. 0:09:55.740 --> 0:09:57.780 So why... Exactly. 0:09:57.900 --> 0:10:01.510 Should he have to apologize for anything? And John is like, no, 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:02.510 you didn't take the fall. 0:10:02.580 --> 0:10:07.260 You fell. You fucked up. You just fell of your 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.400 own accord. Because you wanted to get the ring. You 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.020 wanted to prove yourself. You didn't work together with me, 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.540 as far as we know. They are letting the people 0:10:15.580 --> 0:10:18.699 of Rushville know. But I think John is right on this. 0:10:19.370 --> 0:10:21.869 I'm sorry to Hal. Sorry to that man that he 0:10:21.910 --> 0:10:23.650 was in jail for 10 years. That's a crazy twist. 0:10:24.270 --> 0:10:27.770 But come on, guys. Like, move on. But also, can 0:10:27.809 --> 0:10:30.660 we talk about why if I was John... And I 0:10:30.700 --> 0:10:32.940 have to say, John does great detecting. This episode is 0:10:32.980 --> 0:10:35.260 one of my favorite things about the episode. But, like, 0:10:35.900 --> 0:10:38.510 if I'm John... And my mom just called me and said, hey, 0:10:38.530 --> 0:10:40.790 this man who's fucked up your whole life wants to apologize. 0:10:40.850 --> 0:10:42.550 And I get that. And the man is like, I 0:10:42.570 --> 0:10:44.890 don't know nothing about an apology. I would be like, OK, 0:10:44.910 --> 0:10:46.760 so have you been talking to my mom? Have you 0:10:46.780 --> 0:10:48.959 guys been writing each other letters? Like, did you tell 0:10:48.980 --> 0:10:50.160 her I was going to do? I would do a 0:10:50.260 --> 0:10:53.240 little bit more, just a little bit more investigation. 0:10:55.710 --> 0:11:01.270 More on that in a bit. So, you know, they 0:11:01.309 --> 0:11:04.770 talk about Guy Gardner a little bit. And it's clear 0:11:04.809 --> 0:11:06.880 that Hal is not impressed. He refers to him as 0:11:06.910 --> 0:11:11.760 the gym teacher. This will be, as we noted, kind 0:11:11.780 --> 0:11:15.660 of a running theme. People not being that impressed with 0:11:15.700 --> 0:11:19.980 Guy Gardner. Hal says, listen, in terms of the people 0:11:20.020 --> 0:11:25.240 that died, you were there with me. We're both responsible 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.780 for all the people that got killed. killed when the 0:11:27.820 --> 0:11:30.070 hammer of dawn from Gears of War lasered the town 0:11:30.350 --> 0:11:31.650 and who knows what else. 0:11:32.070 --> 0:11:35.390 The Christopher Nolan drums began to pound and we knew 0:11:35.670 --> 0:11:36.670 it was all over. 0:11:38.050 --> 0:11:41.010 Hal says he understands why John turned down the ring 0:11:42.309 --> 0:11:46.390 and he says it's because you were scared. Which I'll 0:11:46.460 --> 0:11:50.960 say that I John then slugs him and rightly so. 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.300 Crazy thing to say honestly after ten years. Like just 0:11:54.340 --> 0:11:55.360 calm down please. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.140 And I will say that You know, you ever get 0:11:58.179 --> 0:12:01.000 in a fight with somebody that you're close to that 0:12:01.020 --> 0:12:03.290 you care about and it's like you say something to 0:12:03.330 --> 0:12:04.800 hurt them and you don't even believe it. 0:12:04.830 --> 0:12:06.750 You just know that. You just know it because you 0:12:06.770 --> 0:12:07.630 know them so well. 0:12:07.670 --> 0:12:10.290 Right. Yeah. Yeah. This is what Hal did. I don't 0:12:10.330 --> 0:12:13.300 think Hal does not believe that John was scared. No. 0:12:13.540 --> 0:12:13.860 At all. 0:12:14.179 --> 0:12:14.439 Agree. 0:12:15.220 --> 0:12:17.380 But he just is like, this is the thing that 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.179 will hurt this person's feelings right now. And that's why 0:12:20.220 --> 0:12:22.490 he said it. That's my feeling. I agree. 0:12:22.950 --> 0:12:25.309 John then gets up to leave. And as he's leaving, 0:12:25.390 --> 0:12:29.290 Hal says in a kind of panicked mode. Yeah. Like 0:12:29.309 --> 0:12:31.150 he suddenly is like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. 0:12:31.230 --> 0:12:31.410 Like. 0:12:31.850 --> 0:12:32.490 Yeah. 0:12:32.570 --> 0:12:35.410 Like a little bit of a panic mode. Don't tell 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:41.420 anybody you were here. And I'll just say that. 0:12:42.980 --> 0:12:44.900 That that exchange. 0:12:45.910 --> 0:12:48.990 Supports my theory that there is something else that those 0:12:49.030 --> 0:12:53.150 two are hiding. There is some deeper thing, whether it's 0:12:53.230 --> 0:12:58.070 they were working together in terms of what happened in 0:12:58.130 --> 0:13:00.970 Rushville to take down the Manhunter, something. There is some 0:13:01.210 --> 0:13:07.170 other secret between these two because John walks away wordlessly, 0:13:07.230 --> 0:13:11.929 but he agrees clearly. And there's something they're protecting, something else. 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:14.420 John goes home. 0:13:15.910 --> 0:13:16.490 Has a drink. 0:13:17.090 --> 0:13:17.470 Oh, God. 0:13:17.490 --> 0:13:20.530 His day is just terrible. It's a terrible day. He's 0:13:20.570 --> 0:13:23.790 not gotten any sleep, really. Sheriff Kerry King calls. Oh. 0:13:23.809 --> 0:13:27.640 With the news that Hal Jordan is dead. Uh-oh. 0:13:28.620 --> 0:13:30.660 And we get the scene from the pilot, right? John 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:31.239 drives over. 0:13:31.260 --> 0:13:33.500 Meets Kerry. 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.040 Snowy football field. Hal is sitting in the stands with 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:38.959 a hole in his head. 0:13:39.059 --> 0:13:43.280 No ring. Sheriff Kerry says all that. 0:13:43.690 --> 0:13:47.189 Security cameras were off. We don't have any witnesses. Hal's 0:13:47.230 --> 0:13:49.410 nose is broken. So she's like, well, you know, maybe 0:13:49.429 --> 0:13:52.209 whoever broke his nose killed him. And John is like, oh, shit, 0:13:52.250 --> 0:13:54.290 that was me. He puts his hands in his mouth. 0:13:55.090 --> 0:13:59.030 He's like, what if? 0:13:59.179 --> 0:14:01.780 But she points out that, listen, everybody here in this 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:07.000 town fucking hates Hal Jordan. So a lot of suspects, potentially. 0:14:08.020 --> 0:14:12.540 John asks why Hal came back. And it's because Hal... 0:14:12.900 --> 0:14:15.360 As we saw earlier in the series, because kind of 0:14:15.700 --> 0:14:19.880 had a crush on Sheriff Kerry. He came back for me. 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.950 She says, we learned that she and Billy split up 0:14:23.010 --> 0:14:26.830 about three years back. Hal was writing her from prison. 0:14:26.850 --> 0:14:31.530 Now he's writing everyone from prison, apparently. 0:14:31.570 --> 0:14:32.770 This man can't get enough. 0:14:33.590 --> 0:14:34.890 He was like, listen, I'm so sorry. 0:14:34.930 --> 0:14:35.530 I'm so sorry. 0:14:35.590 --> 0:14:38.390 I'm sorry. He's writing, you know, he was really on 0:14:38.430 --> 0:14:43.070 an apology tour in prison and post-prison. And then moved 0:14:43.150 --> 0:14:45.990 there after prison, basically to try and make amends with 0:14:46.050 --> 0:14:48.990 everybody in the town. And we learned that the town 0:14:49.030 --> 0:14:51.670 has really been struggling to like rebuild and pick up 0:14:51.690 --> 0:14:51.970 the pieces. 0:14:51.990 --> 0:14:56.430 No investment from Lex. Zero investment. Or the government, whoever's 0:14:56.510 --> 0:14:59.290 president right now. It doesn't seem like they're doing a 0:14:59.390 --> 0:15:03.380 good job investing in midtown America. Not at all. 0:15:03.460 --> 0:15:09.370 Nobody interested in the town. Guy Gardner is like semi-interested 0:15:09.430 --> 0:15:11.570 in the town. In the wake of what happened, he 0:15:11.670 --> 0:15:16.030 put a Green Lantern signal like in the town square 0:15:16.090 --> 0:15:18.760 to be like, hey, if this ever happens again, hit 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:19.280 that button. 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:19.700 Call me. 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.720 I'll be here and I'll fix it without. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.680 30% of the town dying. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.150 They don't want it. But, you know, it's, I guess, 0:15:27.190 --> 0:15:31.420 a nice gesture from him. She gives John the keys 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.280 to Hal's place that he was staying in town, tells 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:35.920 him to go in the back door. And it's like 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:42.430 a real ramshackle, like former hotel maybe that got turned 0:15:42.510 --> 0:15:46.930 into apartments. It actually might be the original hotel, but 0:15:46.970 --> 0:15:48.090 it's like fucked up. 0:15:48.250 --> 0:15:51.910 It's a mess. Not a man who's bothered about curating 0:15:51.980 --> 0:15:54.480 a vibe. Like no matter what house he lives in, 0:15:54.500 --> 0:15:56.500 it's fucked up, whether it's a rich house or poor 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.420 people house. It doesn't matter. John goes there. 0:16:00.660 --> 0:16:04.440 Here's something in the back room. He picks up a shotgun. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.160 And the thing that he hears is Earl, the plant. 0:16:07.250 --> 0:16:10.950 Earl's very, very hungry. Love to see Earl. Earl's hungry. 0:16:11.510 --> 0:16:14.790 John feeds him, gets a call from his brother, Marcus. 0:16:14.830 --> 0:16:19.940 They've got that pitch meeting with Colonel Draycott. And John 0:16:19.980 --> 0:16:23.540 is like, listen, I'm in Rushville. And I've got to 0:16:23.580 --> 0:16:25.980 take care of some stuff. And. 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.200 You know, why are you there? 0:16:28.580 --> 0:16:30.600 Marcus is like, well, I'm here because Hal Jordan died 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.380 and Earl hears this and just gets very sad. Earl's like, what? 0:16:35.020 --> 0:16:38.140 We learn Earl is fully sentient at that point. Fully, 0:16:38.210 --> 0:16:39.370 fully sentient. And he didn't know. 0:16:39.380 --> 0:16:42.110 Has been wondering why Hal has not been back and 0:16:42.130 --> 0:16:46.410 Hal has not been back because he's dead. Marcus is like, listen, 0:16:48.030 --> 0:16:50.810 are you focused on this meeting with Draycott? Like this 0:16:50.830 --> 0:16:51.590 is a big deal. 0:16:52.590 --> 0:16:55.850 You better focus up. I gotta say. 0:16:55.870 --> 0:16:57.790 You being in Rushville is you losing focus. 0:16:58.150 --> 0:17:01.250 We know I can be a Jon Stewart apologist, but 0:17:01.290 --> 0:17:03.600 I'm not really on his side in this case. I 0:17:03.700 --> 0:17:05.600 do understand what he needs to do and I know 0:17:05.660 --> 0:17:08.520 he is doing the right thing. But this stuff with 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.740 Marcus is so well done. You just want to say 0:17:10.780 --> 0:17:12.939 to him, this has changed your life money for your 0:17:12.980 --> 0:17:15.879 whole family. They said, if you get this right, you 0:17:15.900 --> 0:17:18.369 can build whatever you want for the rest of your life. Now, 0:17:18.830 --> 0:17:22.710 do I think that this will come into play in 0:17:22.750 --> 0:17:25.530 Superman that they did not build these? Yes, I do 0:17:25.570 --> 0:17:27.330 think that's going to be a thing. But I also 0:17:27.410 --> 0:17:31.399 think this is a way of, taking Jon Stewart away 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:36.820 from the military industrial system background again, because he's not 0:17:36.859 --> 0:17:38.460 going to do the thing that he could have done. 0:17:38.500 --> 0:17:40.900 And then we're going to live with the ramifications because 0:17:40.940 --> 0:17:42.970 we know he is going to be in Superman too. 0:17:43.010 --> 0:17:46.090 But I will say James Gunn also said maybe like, 0:17:46.150 --> 0:17:48.010 there's not going to be that many characters in it, 0:17:48.070 --> 0:17:51.409 but I feel like there'll be ramifications. I feel like 0:17:51.430 --> 0:17:52.710 there'll be ramifications. 0:17:53.390 --> 0:17:59.350 I'll just say that, like, so my sense is, John 0:17:59.410 --> 0:18:02.530 is doing a lot of the architecting, the engineering work, right? 0:18:03.369 --> 0:18:07.800 And he's got to pitch Drake hot. Like, no offense, 0:18:08.670 --> 0:18:10.820 but Marcus, what are you exactly doing? 0:18:11.020 --> 0:18:14.520 Okay, good point. Good point, actually. Let's talk about it, Jason. 0:18:14.580 --> 0:18:17.080 Why can't he do the deck? Wait a minute. Yeah. 0:18:17.460 --> 0:18:20.220 Can't you just do the deck? Actually, can't John send 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.739 you a deck? What's on your plate, Marcus? Let's take 0:18:23.780 --> 0:18:25.620 a quick break, and when we come back, we'll continue 0:18:25.660 --> 0:18:26.040 the recap. 0:18:40.310 --> 0:18:44.450 And we're back the next day sheriff kerry comes to 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:48.800 the house former apartment and is like let's get breakfast 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.760 they go to the cafe to get breakfast and maggie 0:18:51.820 --> 0:18:56.340 the counter person is this young um you know whippersnapper 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:58.440 small town person who clearly wants to leave the small 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:03.540 town um gives john like this very knowing look she 0:19:03.700 --> 0:19:08.500 saw john arrived to talk to how witness the whole 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:12.840 exchange witness john punch how in the face and she 0:19:13.260 --> 0:19:16.920 very consciously is being like oh hello sir like i've 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.419 never seen you before in front of sheriff carrie in 0:19:19.460 --> 0:19:22.989 a way that is letting john know i'm covering for 0:19:23.050 --> 0:19:26.830 you yeah and we're going to talk about this later 0:19:27.790 --> 0:19:29.570 um sheriff carrie. 0:19:31.030 --> 0:19:33.270 They're sitting there. Sheriff Kerry is stricken. 0:19:33.310 --> 0:19:35.470 She's very heartbroken by this, but she's trying to hold 0:19:35.510 --> 0:19:39.940 it together because obviously the town hated Hal and she 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:44.400 doesn't want to show that much. But she says to John, 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:47.600 ask me what you're thinking. You're thinking I killed how 0:19:47.619 --> 0:19:49.980 just ask me and john's like i you didn't kill 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.580 how it's fine like i i i don't think you 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:56.330 killed him um sheriff carrie gets a call from the 0:19:56.590 --> 0:19:59.670 me and it's the autopsy and john's like i'd love 0:19:59.690 --> 0:20:03.450 to go to the autopsy i love autopsy i'm big 0:20:03.550 --> 0:20:07.459 on those like can i go And she's like, you 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.820 can't because you're not law enforcement. He's like, deputize me. 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:11.860 So she deputizes him and they go. 0:20:11.980 --> 0:20:17.899 Gotta say, this is actually, to me, the first episode 0:20:17.980 --> 0:20:20.850 and the first interactions that truly live up to that 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:25.010 kind of true detective tone that they were promising. That 0:20:25.109 --> 0:20:29.889 scene where she deputizes him is so fucking funny and 0:20:30.230 --> 0:20:34.160 bleak and realistic and just like this kind of hopeless 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:38.939 ridiculousness between these two grieving people. It really hit for me. 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.510 I think this is such a great sequence. So is 0:20:41.570 --> 0:20:44.250 the Emmy sequence too. Like when they get in that morgue, 0:20:44.310 --> 0:20:47.740 that's another true detective type scene. I completely agree. 0:20:47.780 --> 0:20:52.429 So at the morgue, Emmy is just talking wild shit 0:20:52.570 --> 0:20:55.950 about Hal Jordan, who is deceased, who was murdered. 0:20:55.970 --> 0:21:00.090 But she's like, fuck this guy. Fuck him. Piece of shit. 0:21:00.170 --> 0:21:04.489 Glad he's dead. Hate you also, Jon Stewart. You also 0:21:04.540 --> 0:21:05.419 a piece of shit. 0:21:05.859 --> 0:21:06.960 Excuse me, Sheriff Curry. 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:08.600 I know you guys were close, but I hate this 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:13.500 fucking guy. And if he was alive and on fire, 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:15.439 I wouldn't piss on him to put him out. And 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:18.679 I'm kind of glad he's dead. Um, here's the verdict 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:22.100 on how it's exactly what it was. It looks like 0:21:22.180 --> 0:21:24.919 he was shot in the head, close range from the front. 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:29.060 So whoever did it looked him right in his eyes. 0:21:29.220 --> 0:21:33.109 And apparently there was no struggle at all. The busted nose. 0:21:34.109 --> 0:21:36.950 He just took that hit no scrapes on his knuckles. 0:21:36.990 --> 0:21:40.070 So he didn't fight back or anything. He just sat 0:21:40.109 --> 0:21:42.910 there and got shot in the head. It's a complete mystery. 0:21:44.230 --> 0:21:44.770 What about that? 0:21:44.830 --> 0:21:47.649 Nose? Sheriff Kerry says, do you think we might be 0:21:47.670 --> 0:21:49.810 able to get DNA or something? Maybe the person who 0:21:50.290 --> 0:21:52.990 punched him, like the knuckles get scraped and there's like 0:21:53.109 --> 0:21:56.830 skin or, or blood from the attacker, like on the nose. 0:21:57.450 --> 0:21:59.630