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Hello, one and all!
Welcome to another thrilling episode
of "Dimension 20: Never Stop Blowing Up."
I'm your humble game master, Brennan Lee Mulligan.
With me, as always, are our Amazing Action Heroes.
Say hi, Amazing Action Heroes!
- [Players] Hi, Amazing Action Heroes!
- Last we left off, the fucked-up, mundane, boring,
shitty world of Dave's Video World was fucking blasted
into the past- (Jacob snoring)
- Go off. - As we got sucked into a...
Snooze alert, motherfuckers!
- Go off!
- Lake Elsinore is nothing but a distant fucking memory
as we get zapped into the world of "Never Stop Blowing Up,"
a VHS tape brought to Dave's Video World
by incredibly late fee owing customer Barsimmeon Higgs
in the last week of the store's financial solvency.
We met security guard, Paula Donvalson.
- [Rekha] Whoo! Yes! - [Jacob] Yeah!
- We met high school senior
and video store clerk, Liv Skyler.
- [Rekha] Yes! (Alex laughing)
- We met a tool-shed-dwelling sort of security clerk
for the adult section, Andy "Dang" Litefoot.
- Dang. - Nephew. That's my nephew.
- A fellow high school senior and potentially on his way
to UC Irvine, we're not sure, still up in the air,
Wendell Morris. - I'm just a lanky boy.
- [Ally] Yeah. - Just a lanky boy. (laughs)
Lake Elsinore handyman, Russell Feeld.
- [Rekha] Yes! - [Jacob] That's my uncle.
- And Dave's Video World bookkeeper extraordinaire,
Usha Rao. - Hello! Nobody's home.
(players laughing)
- We saw some of the sadnesses and sorrows
of this almost-defunct video store.
The tyrannical fist of one Dave Balt,
the owner of the store,
and we saw also the secrets of these coworkers,
perhaps a shoplifted nail polish,
some invoices that had yet to get sent out,
a mildewy carpet, but who gives a fuck about mildew carpet
when you're racing down the LA river as one Vic Ethanol,
aboard a nuclear submarine as one secret agent Greg Stocks,
as you are deep in the air vent
as cat burglar extraordinaire Jennifer Drips,
holding court at your illicit nightclub as one Kingskin,
getting a fat brick of cocaine
tossed onto the table in front of you.
Deep in the server bay,
trying to upload the Shadow Falcon Protocol
(device beeping) (keyboard keys clacking)
as one G13. - Wow, classic hacker.
- And racing across the rooftops, trying to snag a perp
is one Detective Jack Manhattan.
(Ally and Rekha cheer)
(Jacob mimics punch landing)
- For Brooklyn! (Izzy laughing)
- Jack Manhattan, notably from Brooklyn.
- From Brooklyn!
- Don't mess with Brooklyn. (laughs)
- Our game here inspired by our friends
over at Hunters Entertainment with "Kids on Bikes"
made an action format kind of hacking together
some of the great mechanics from their game.
This is "Never Stop Blowing Up."
All of you have a bunch of skills.
Last time, we started to blow up
and advance some of our skills.
Andy or "Dang" is now sort of beefed up to a d8 on-
- D8 on Tough, dude.
- [Brennan] D8 on Tough. (Ally and Rekha cheering)
- Come on, now! - Come on, now!
Come at me, bro! - Come at me, bro!
- Big time.
- And we also, I believe, had a Stunts bump up to a d6.
- And Tough. - [Brennan] And Tough?
- Okay, Jacky Manna. - Hell yeah, Jack Manhattan.
- Come at him, bro. - Come at it, bro.
- Come at me, bro.
- Your Turbo Tokens, some of which have been spent already,
keep track of those Turbo Tokens.
Now that we are in Action Land,
now that we've gotten sucked into the world
of "Never Stop Blowing Up" as our characters
now in these sort of action personas,
keep an eye on those tokens.
At the end of every episode moving forward,
you will have the ability to spend any unspent Turbo Tokens,
bumping up your character.
And I just wanna speak to that right now.
At the end of every episode,
you'll be able to spend two tokens,
getting some character creation abilities from that list
or you can spend two just to give yourself
a permanent lowering of difficulties in a skill by a -1.
So if you just wanna get better at a skill,
you can do that too.
- And what if I swallow it? - I wish you wouldn't.
- I'm not hearing no! (players laugh)
- I'm realizing that being in this jacket
with these fingerless gloves for the role of a game master,
which is often being like,
"Well, let me adjudicate that moment,"
does bring a kind of horrifying vibe
to the behind the screen area here.
- My little tray has TUMS in it, so I might mix 'em up.
(Alex laughing)
- You mean you feel uncomfortable going, "Don't eat that!"
- (laughs) (arms swishing) Hey,
we need some freaking rules around here!
(Ally laughing)
- Sweetie, please don't eat those Turbo Tokens.
- Also, at the end of this episode,
we'll begin to introduce some abilities
that are awarded to the entire squad.
- Oh. - Oh.
- If you pool your resources together.
But then again, I would say,
don't be afraid to spend those tokens
(Rekha gasps) 'cause your life
might depend on it. - Oh no!
- I need everyone here to go ahead and roll a d20 for me
and we're gonna go to the highest number first
as we come back to the world of "Never Stop Blowing Up."
Anybody beat a 15?
- I got a 16. - Okay, awesome.
With that being said, we move back to Kingskin's Nightclub.
- (gasps excitedly) It's beautiful.
- The decor. - (laughs) The decor.
Liv, you are in the body
(slick '80s synth music) of a massive crime lord,
this suited master of the underworld,
this king of crime here in the city of Los Angeles.
You look down and see for the first time in your life,
everyone is smaller than you.
The sensation of being in this body is sort of a wild one.
Thick arms, broad, powerful shoulders.
Everything has become small.
From sitting, you can reach up to one of the upper lights
on the wall and just grab it if you want to.
And as you begin to move your arms around,
just experimenting with this new form,
one of your henchmen goes, (snickers) "Boss,
you gettin' a little fucked up already?"
- Oh, I mean, I feel pretty fucked up.
- As you say that,
you hear the resonant vocal cords in your throat.
You know that your voice sounds absolutely different
to everybody else in this space.
They hear the rumbling bass tones
of a massive, dangerous man.
But for you, you in your own head
hear Liv's voice perfectly fine.
It registers to you.
You hear your own thoughts in the same kind of way
you've always heard your own thoughts,
but everyone else here kind of responds
as you stumble over your sentence.
You see that the guy in front of you goes, (laughs wildly)
as blood pools from the knife he stabbed into his own hand.
- [Alex] Oh my god! - In the center of the table.
We just like a little bit of red snow from time to time!
And you see that he takes a little drop of the blood,
mixes it into a tiny caldera of the cocaine
and puts a weird wet bump of blood and cocaine
up to your nose. - Oh, that's-
- (laughs wildly) We like this!
- That's for... (Jacob laughing)
That's for me? You want me to put that in my body?
- (laughs frenziedly) Whose body you want
to put it in instead, boss?
- Okay, why don't you try some first?
- Whoo! (bell rings)
(Brennan screams intensely)
Takes it and you see that there's a,
immediately both nostrils start to bleed
as he like, takes this massive bump.
You see another sort of henchman looms behind you and says,
"Boss, Empresario's on his way.
He wants to meet in the back hall."
- Oh, Empresario. - [Brennan] Yeah.
- And his deal is?
- (laughs gravelly) I think you know his deal.
- Okay.
- You and him have business going way back.
Kingskin and the Empresario, (Jacob and Ally laughing)
that's like peanut butter and jelly of crime.
- Wow, so we're a sandwich.
- Yeah, and we're the bread.
And you see the other guy who's still got the knife
in his hand goes, (laughs) "A lovely 12-grain bread!"
- Wow, that's a lot of grains!
- You see that the music thumps
into the club over and over again.
A server comes over with a bottle,
sort of like bottle service
putting this incredibly expensive bottle
of champagne in front of you.
Two huge gilded bottles of some incredible brand
of tequila you've never heard of.
And you see she leans over, touches your arm and says,
"Boss, you all right?
You're looking a little green around the gills."
- Ooh, uh, is that for us?
And Kingskin picks up the champagne,
and you realize the bottle looks tiny in his hand.
He's like, "We can't afford this. That's...
You can take it back."
- You say, "We can't afford this."
I'm gonna need a Hot check from you, difficulty of five.
- You can't be- - A three.
- Ooh! - [Brennan] Okay.
- Difficulty of five. Oh. - Difficulty of five.
- Do you have any tokens? - Do you have any tokens?
- No. Do I take a token?
- You take a token. That's a failure.
As you say you can't afford this,
all of your kind of henchpeople turn around and look.
And you see that another guy says,
(laughs confusedly) "What?"
(Jacob chortles) - Oh, um...
I'm just being funny today.
(cast laughing)
- Walking into UCB like... - You see...
(players laughing) You see a guy
sort of way out at the edge of the circular booth says,
"I didn't get it.
It didn't seem funny to me."
- Oh no! (laughs) - And you see that
a looming figure comes out of the shadow,
Grote wire around his neck. (groans)
Pulls tight. (mimics choking)
"The boss is always funny, you dumb motherfucker!"
And just pulls him off into the shadows.
"Don't worry, boss. We killed him."
- (laughs) Just now? - Oh.
Oh, you didn't let me see that one.
Okay, um, you didn't have-
- We'll never not laugh at a joke.
From now on, when the boss jokes
about us not having money, we laugh.
Of course that's a joke! - Oh.
- We have so much money. We sell drugs.
We sell weapons. - Oh.
- We smuggle wild stuff like for making bombs
or chemicals and stuff.
- Oh, thank you for listing everything. Yes, uh, so what-
(Jacob laughs)
What is next for me to attend to?
- "Well, the Empresario's on his way.
He wants to talk in the back of the nightclub."
And you see he points up at this wild catwalk
with like, one or two go-go dancers,
two enormous black-suit-wearing security
have a little surveillance in them.
They just have automatic weapons up there in this nightclub,
and it's just a place that like,
you would be in full sight of everybody
having a meeting up there.
Seems like a bad place to have a secret meeting,
but damn, it looks cool.
- All right, um... (reverberating techno music)
And I've been up there before as, uh, me?
- As me. (chuckles) - [Brennan] (laughs) You see-
- Normal question coming through.
- [Ally] Goddamn it- - [Brennan] Give me-
- [Ally] Goddamn it, goddamn it!
- Basic routine. - Yeah.
Give me another Hot check.
We're just gonna call this a difficulty of two.
- Hello, it's me again. Me.
- Oh, explode! - [Brennan] Explodes.
(players cheering) - Boom!
- Boom! Okay, go ahead and roll a d6.
- Six. Four so eight.
- Eight, so you beat it by more than five.
You beat the difficulty by more than five. You graduate.
You now have a d6 Hot. - Getting hotter. (laughs)
(Rekha laughing) - Kingskin's so hot.
- And you see that they go, (laughs) "That's right!
When you do drugs, sometimes you have ego death
and it doesn't feel like you're you anymore.
Laugh at the boss's joke!" Pow!
(players aggressively fake laughing)
- Oh, that's a new feeling. (laughs)
- And you begin to head up to that area.
One of the guys at the top goes, "Good to see you, boss."
They both part ways.
There's this feeling of moving through this space
and everyone makes space, gives you this huge,
there's like an invisible bubble around you
of status and authority as you walk through this nightclub.
And these guards sort of nod, look away, and make room.
These like, massive rings on your hand,
this like, white suit that you're wearing.
You see that someone else from below
comes up with another drink.
Does Liv drink that much?
Has Liv like, gone to high school parties with drinking?
- I think Liv has had one like, vodka Gatorade at a party
and was like, "Ah, I didn't really feel it." (laughs)
But in this moment, Liv as Kingskin
takes one of the drinks on the tray.
- Mm-hmm.
- This is paid for? This is, we got this?
This is fine? - You own it. It's your bar.
- (chuckles) And then slams it, but it is very small.
- Yeah. (mimics slamming shot)
Hell yeah, go ahead and give me a Tough check.
Call it a difficulty of three.
- Okay, explode. - Explode.
- Explodes!
- Wow!
- Big, big boss.
- Five, so nine.
- Nice! - Hell yeah.
You slam it, and other times that you've had alcohol,
you've noticed an effect right away.
This enormous body that you're in,
you can feel it diffusing and metabolizing the alcohol
after like about a minute or two.
It's not the same sensation. It's like, "Ooh."
And also, you don't even really wince
as you throw it back down.
You feel like this guy has done this many times before.
- Whispers to the waitress.
- Mm-hmm. - Server.
Wait, so I can kinda do anything here?
- What? - [Alex] Like...
- What are you asking?
- Okay, I don't know if I have the words for it,
but like, I can do this?
And then Liv as Kingskin just goes up to one of the henchmen
and punches him in the face.
- Great. Give me a Brawl check.
- [Alex] Okay.
- Call it a difficulty of five.
- One. (laughs) Oh no.
- You go and swing.
Go ahead and take another failure token.
You swing at a henchman and you see that he swivels
to the side and he goes like, (shouts) "Oh, oh, oh."
- Oh, oh. - Boss man, boss man.
- Sorry. Oh yeah, no, we're not having a fight, sorry, uh...
- No, no, I didn't think we were.
You threw that punch from like, six feet away.
- Yeah.
- I thought you were doing like a...
I actually thought we were bonding.
- Wait, so you're not mad at me?
- Nothing you could do would ever make me mad.
(Alex gasps in astonishment) I just work for you.
If you hit me, I deserve it,
and it would be an opportunity to show how committed I am
to your crime syndicate.
- Nothing I could do could ever make you mad.
(Rekha chuckles) Okay.
- No, the only emotion you make me feel is fear.
Fear and pride at how scared I am.
- You really laid that out for me.
Okay, I guess I feel incredible. (laughs)
- (laughs) So Liv is feeling like, incredible right now.
- I feel perfect. Okay, I forgot.
- There's a gentleman who begins
to walk through the nightclub, and you hear (snarls)
snarls as this guy walks
with two enormous Doberman Pinchers on chains
through the nightclub.
Sick! - I'd date him. (laughs)
- Dogs are cool. - God, cutie alert.
- Love dogs.
- Dogs in the club? I mean, come on!
- This guy brought dogs to a nightclub!
- Send three shots over there. - Yeah. (laughs)
- This guy, older.
He's got this purple-textured kind of fabric suit on,
but incredibly deep, almost black-purple patterned shirt
with this sleek gold necktie on it.
Salt-and-pepper hair that is slicked all the way back
to then turn into curls at the base of his neck,
like a thick mane of hair.
Salt-and-pepper beard, mustache.
Somewhere in the neighborhood
of a more villainous "Dos Equis" guy.
And comes up with two Doberman Pinchers on chains
and ascends the staircase up to this catwalk,
approaches you and says, "Buona notte, Kingskin."
- Oh, good evening. Are these Doberman Pinchers?
My mom has a Mini Pin at home. Miniature Pincher.
(Brennan chuckles) Mini Pin. (laughs)
- Hm, these- - He's really old.
He has like, no teeth. (Izzy giggling)
His name's Dilly.
- Dilly?
- Yeah, she's had him
for like 11 years. (laughs) - Oh my god, Alex.
- Oh, not that you asked. (Ify laughing)
You didn't ask about that so...
But I just, um...
I see you have two dogs with you.
That's what I- (players laughing)
That's what I meant to say.
- Give me a Hot check, difficulty of 10.
- My mom has two toothless dogs.
- Really old. - They don't eat.
- That's a one. - No! (laughs)
- So you failed this check by more than five. Take a token.
- Oh?
(tense sinister music) - Kingskin,
I don't have time for your bullshit.
- I'm trying to be funny lately, Em-Empresario.
- The warehouse, it got hit. The Sinclair Group.
The chemicals we are moving into the country,
they are compromised now.
Santo Patron is after us.
I think it's about time you got serious
instead of lounging around this bordello snorting booze,
licking cocaine off your henchman's face.
- Oh yeah, I mean, we're not just having fun here.
I wrote down the name you said, Santo Patron.
I don't wanna forget, so...
- You see, as you take out a notepad and start writing...
(Alex laughing)
- Crimes down.
- The two Doberman Pinchers- - Just taking notes
on a fucking conspiracy. - to either side,
one of them goes. (growls and snarls)
- Oh. (dog barking threateningly)
You definitely have teeth.
(players giggling softly) - He says,
"My dogs are not the only ones with teeth, Kingskin."
- [Rekha] Oh, oh.
- And he grins and has two gold caps on his lower canines
like tusks that hide behind them.
And you see he says, "Remember, the bite of the Empresario
is more deadly than that of the Australian fierce snake.
(sinister music abruptly stops)
Which is the most deadly snake.
(tense music starts again) I know this
because I collect deadly snakes."
- See, when someone doesn't answer right away,
you feel the need to keep going.
- Well, I might need to keep going as well, Kingskin.
Somewhere in our organization, there is a hole,
and the information got out to Santo Patron.
I know my men would never make such a careless mistake.
- Oh, okay, so you're making accusations.
- I'm making promises.
If you cannot move the few chemicals
we have in the warehouse out of the city by tomorrow night,
you can consider our contract absolved.
You see that he hands you a card. You're in real danger.
This guy might, like...
And suddenly you're like, "Can I die?"
There's like, what would happen
if you got attacked in this place, right?
Suddenly you're like, "Am I alone in this movie?"
You remember a moment in Dave's Video World
of everyone else having that moment
of almost being like, electrocuted.
Is there another coworker that your mind kind of drifts to
in this moment or that you think of in this moment?
- I think I'm thinking about Paula, but I'm like,
a little nervous that we left things in a weird place.
- Yeah, you see that the Empresario looks at you and says,
"Somewhere in your operation there is a hole.
Someone is talking. This-" - It's not me. It's like-
- One of our fronts had this dropped off at...
And hands you a business card that says,
"Detective Jack Manhattan" on it.
(Rekha gasps) (tense dramatic music)
"It looks like some New York detective
is sniffing around the outside edges of your organization.
We have him clocked at the Deluxe Royale Hotel in Downtown.
Maybe make yourself useful, Kingskin.
Let's see this detective decapitated."
- Oh.
- Okay, I don't even know this guy,
but we'll see what I can do.
- Good. I will take care of Santo Patron.
Make sure this detective wakes up dead.
- Oh. - [Brennan] And turns around.
- Wakes up, "I'm dead!" (laughs)
- This man also said, "Snorting booze."
- And licking coke off someone's face.
- Okay, so I'll just cross out Santo Patron.
You got that one. Okay.
- Be aware of Santo Patron. - Oh, okay.
I'll write it down again. - But take care
of the detective, scrappy New York beat cop
with almost no federal resources
has been a thorn in our side for years.
The amount of international criminal conspiracies
that have been thwarted by this one real Brooklyn tough guy
are almost beyond counting.
- I thought you said he was from Manhattan.
- No, his name is Jack Manhattan.
- Okay. - He's from Brooklyn.
- Oh, it's confusing.
- Take care of it, Kingskin! - Okay, all right, okay, okay.
- And you see as he moves down,
you see that some of his men come over to the table,
and you see that one of them grabs the brick of cocaine.
Or did you bring that up with you in person
or would you have left it on the table?
- I left it. - Cool.
You wanna toss that back to me?
- Aw. - I'm so sorry.
- Oh no, sorry. (cocaine smacks)
- [Brennan] All good.
Liv. - Yes.
- Where do you go as the Empresario leaves the nightclub?
I'll also say that as he grabs that brick of cocaine,
there's a moment where you look at it,
(light clicks) and something feels off.
It feels wrong. Like there's something
about that walking out of here
almost like a suppressed memory or something.
Like something sort of,
that doesn't sit quite right with you.
But after that, the music continues thumping
and you see that the guy with the knife
who now has a bandage around his hand comes up and says,
(huffs) "Boss, Empresario's guys took the brick,
but I assume it's all okay."
- Yeah, yeah. We'll get that brick back.
- (cackles) We sure will!
And I know just what we're gonna do with it.
(thumping techno music) - Wh- What?
- Snort some and then sell the rest for money.
- Oh, yes, yes. Looking forward to it, my man.
(Brennan cackles wildly)
(Brennan mimics knife slicing air)
Okay, be careful, please.
- You don't want me to do knife tricks?
- I want you to be happy.
(dramatic impact pounds) (Jacob chuckles)
- Give me a Hot check. - [Rekha] Ooh!
- Difficulty of four. - [Ally] Hot?
- Okay. - I want you to be happy is-
- It's a three. (laughs)
- He goes, (cackles) "I don't want me to be happy!"
Stabs himself through the hand again.
"I wanna get rich!" - Okay, yeah.
- (grunts) Pulls his hand out, walks out.
Liv, where do you go?
- Do I get a token for failing?
- For failing, yeah, you do. - Okay, thank you.
- You guys, if I ever neglect
to tell you to do so, just grab one.
- It's not like failing by a certain amount. It's just-
- Any failure gives you. - [Alex] Okay.
- And it's one token.
- One token per failure. That's correct.
- I guess let's have some more of these drinks.
- (laughs) You look down at this business card.
Jack Manhattan. There's something about that.
That's a name you recognize.
Even has Liv, you recognize that name.
That's some kind of character from an action movie.
- I didn't write down where I was supposed to go.
- (laughs) You see that there is a telephone number
attached to the card that you could potentially call.
We're going to move elsewhere now.
As we do so, we jump back to the LA rooftop.
Jack Manhattan, you are still on top of this culprit
who is like, spinning around.
You have this little evidence baggie here,
but the guy is still scrambling around underneath you.
Do you want to continue fighting him?
He's still got a duffel bag.
He's trying to make a run for it.
What do you do in this moment as this guy's about to rear up
and either try to throw you off him
or fight you or try to escape?
- What's going on?
- I think you know what's going on!
He's going to make a Brawl check
to try to kick you off of him.
That is a five.
I need a difficulty five Tough check from you.
- Oh. (intense dramatic music)
(die taps table)
- Three. - Three.
A boot lands in your chest, boom, kicks you off.
You only receive injuries
when you fail a Tough check by five or more.
And boom! You are kicked off of him.
- Ow! - And land on the gravel.
He runs up and sprints towards the edge of the roof.
(panting heavily) And leaps off over the edge of the roof.
- Oh my god, he's dead. (Alex chuckles)
- You just hear wind rushing past
and (snaps fingers) he is gone.
- Okay.
- You have time to get up now if you wanna get up.
- Yeah, I'm gonna get up.
Is the guy who threw me the bullet casings here still?
- Well, I think it was the culprit, right?
The guy who you were chasing had the baggie of bullets
that fell out of his duffel bag.
- Oh. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you hear a walkie...
You have a little walkie on your belt
that starts going off and it goes,
"Manhattan. Come in, Manhattan!
Where the hell are ya?"
- I'm from...
I'm from Lake Elsinore.
- What? - What?
- Goddamn it, Manhattan! Did you catch the guy?
- Uh, um...
I don't know why you're using that language with me.
I, wha, um...
(Ally laughing)
What's going on?
- You see-
- A man kicked me in the chest!
(cast laughing)
And I'm on top of a train!
- [Brennan] A what? - A train!
- You're on top of a building.
- I'm on top of a building! I'm sorry, the world's spinning!
I thought it was moving! - I'm a train now!
- Wait, a man just jumped off of a building?
- Wait, you've been kicked!
We got an officer down! Get the goddamn medevac in here!
And you see flying overhead.
(Brennan mimics helicopter blades chopping air)
- LA tax dollars at work. - And as the...
As a police helicopter swings in,
you see an enormous bristly-mustached man.
The helicopter lands. He leaps out.
Big trench coat, big beer belly, big mustache,
and you just see the word "Kosciusko"
over his little name tag here.
He looks like some kind of lieutenant.
Lands here and goes, "Goddammit, Manhattan.
Are you all right? Did you get hit?"
And leans down and says, "Get the paramedics in here!"
You see two paramedics run over to check you.
Are you still like, sort of prostrate on the ground
like where you landed?
- I think I was, I'm sort of like on all fours
trying to get up.
- "Goddammit, Manhattan! Don't move!"
And you see that the paramedics put you on your back,
start to check you, and he says-
- (gasps) Oh my gosh! Handsy!
- You look, see like, hairy forearms.
You've got like, the A-frame shirt on.
You got the gold watch,
and you see where your pink pepper spray should be,
there is a real gun. - It's black.
My pepper spray is black. (cast laughing)
- [Brennan] Yeah. - Just spray. (laughs)
- And your hear your voice, too.
Like, all of them appear to be hearing like,
your word choices are the same,
but they're hearing like, a Brooklyn detective
basically say like, "Oh my gosh!"
You see- - (deep voice) "Handsy."
- [Brennan] "Handsy."
- Handsy! - My pepper spray is black!
(cast laughing)
- Kosciusko leans down and looks at the baggie in your hand
and says, "Wow, you did it again, Manhattan.
Way to go.
(sighs) Whoever that burglar was,
they interloped into an FBI evidence locker.
I don't know why they were after it,
but these were the bullet casings for your partner."
(Rekha gasps) (tender instrumental music)
- My part...
My partner? What?
Who? Who am I? (Alex giggles)
- Your partner!
- I think Paula is attracted to this man.
- Yeah, you see he says, (players laughing)
"Your partner, Manhattan!
He was gunned down like a dog in the street!"
- Oh my god! - Cosmo Chase.
- Chase and Manhattan!
- Chase and Manhattan. Manhattan?
- [Brennan] You're- - From the movie?
- What movie? You're Jack Manhattan!
You're famous detective Jack Manhattan!
Every- - Is this a gun?
- What the hell? That's your service weapon, Manhattan!
- (laughs) It's not a gun. "Service weapon."
- [Brennan] Well, he's got- - Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!
- He got his bell rung.
He's got his bell rung. - [Izzy] Oh my gosh!
- Get him medevaced. - Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!
- They load you onto a gurney
and start to get you to the helicopter.
- Wait! Come with me! (players laughing)
- What? Yeah, obviously! (players laughing)
I came in the helicopter!
- We have to talk about the evidence.
- We...
Yeah, you, yeah, the evidence. Your partner...
God, he really got his bell rung.
All right, get him in there.
You see he gets in.
He like, grips your hand and he goes-
- Oh. - "Goddammit, Manhattan.
Don't you know? God, what?
What are you saying?" - What?
- What?
What's happening right now.
- You keep moving your lips like you're...
Your partner, Cosmo Chase. - Of course.
- He got gunned down by the Belgian Mafia.
- Gunned down by the Belgian Mafia?
- [Brennan] Last year- - They have one of those?
- Goddamn it, Manhattan. The Belgians got to him.
Last year, they gunned him down.
- Oh god. Oh!
- At least, that's who we think hit him.
Those bullet casings have been in FBI custody
since the shooting 'cause- - My gosh.
- Because it happened- - My partner.
- [Brennan] What? - Did I love him?
- What? Did you love him? (smooth '80s synth music)
That's a question only you can answer, Jack Manhattan.
- (sniffles) I'm so mad about it!
- [Brennan] Okay... - Right?
- I would imagine. You see he says-
- Gosh! - "Look,
I know that that man stole that evidence,
but if he got away, we still don't know why."
- Well, he jumped right off of that building train.
- What? You keep saying train.
- It was all a blur. (Alex chuckling)
I was getting thrown around like you can't believe.
- Yeah, he really gave it to, huh?
- He really, yeah. - All right.
Look, Manhattan, do you need to go to the hospital
or do you wanna go back to your hotel?
- I wanna go out. I wanna go out on the town.
I wanna find this (slaps table) chump!
- Look, Manhattan, I can tell you're outta sorts.
You got your bell rung and it's personal, all right?
I can tell.
Whenever you do this, you go wild! You're a loose cannon!
- I'm a loose cannon! (cast chuckling)
I'm crazy! (cast laughing)
I got a mind to shoot at a-
- Put your service weapon down!
- Car! - [Brennan] Goddamn it!
You said they'd lead a- - [Ally] A car. (laughs)
- Shoot a car.
Don't shoot a car! - I won't.
- We're in a moving helicopter.
Put your gun away. - Oh.
- Service weapon. Fuck! (players laughing)
- We're on the train. (laughs)
- [Brennan] We're on a train. All right.
- [Rekha] We're on a sky train!
- All right, Manhattan needs some rest.
Let's get back to the hotel.
So you see they fly you back. They land.
There's a helipad on the roof of a giant hotel
in Downtown Los Angeles
called the Deluxe Royale. - Oh my, oh my gosh.
- And you see he says,
"Head on back to your room, Manhattan.
Get some rest." - And you're coming with me?
- What? No. - What?
(players laughing) - No.
- We don't have the same room? - No.
You're in Los Angeles.
You're an NYPD detective
so you don't have a place to live here.
You're in a hotel.
- (mimics Brooklyn accent) Of course.
- I work here.
- Of course.
- And we... (players laughing)
- I'm- - Wait, okay, okay, okay.
(laughs) Wait, wait, wait, wait!
- Zoom out. Yeah. - So when she tries
to do a Brooklyn accent, what happens
to the actual Brooklyn accent?
- We're gonna go into Lieutenant Kosciusko's perspective.
What is he hearing Jack Manhattan do?
- (overplays Brooklyn accent) Of course.
(players laughing)
- [Brennan] That's it.
- Someone doing an impersonation of themselves.
- Yeah, it's like a Xerox of a Xerox, right? Yeah, for sure.
- Yeah, yeah, just slightly mutated.
- I'm an NYPD cop! (cast laughing)
- Paramedics, get Manhattan back to his room.
- I'll see you there. - You see Kosciusko
goes ahead and takes the bullet casings from you.
- Okay.
- We'll get this back into evidence.
- Okay. For Cosmo. (switch clicks)
- For Cosmo, that's right. - For Cosmo.
- We'll get this back there as soon as we can.
Get some rest, Manhattan.
You done good. - Okay.
- And he takes off in the helicopter,
and you see that there is a small rooftop access doorway.
You go up and it's locked and you're on the roof.
- He left me up here on the street?
- He left you up here on the roof of the hotel.
(mysterious synth music)
(players chuckling)
- Oh my god.
(players laughing)
(mysterious synth music continues)
- I'm gonna just shoot at the door.
- DC 4 Weapons check. - Okay.
- You miss the door.
- What'd you just roll?
- A three. - You get a token.
You hold the gun.
- I have not done anything to the gun.
- Yes. Yeah. - You know, safety, cock.
(players laughing)
- Well, with Jack Manhattan, the safety's always off.
(gunshots resound) Ping!
And you see the bullet flies past.
(Izzy screams)
And the gun-
(Brennan laughs) - That was cool.
- That was cool, man. I don't know what you want me to say.
- Was it a bullet? - [Brennan] Oh boy, this?
- Yeah. - [Brennan] Ping!
(gunshots resound) (Jacob and Brennan laughing)
- I shot a building! - Ping, the bullet flies off.
Ricochets off the hotel.
- I've been shot! (screams frantically)
- Give me a DC 2 Hot check as you yell, "I've been shot!"
- Three!
- You see as you yell, "I've been shot!"
The door opens and you see a bellhop leans out
and says, "Is someone up here?"
- Let me through! - Oh, okay, hi.
Yeah, have you been shot? (Izzy groans uncomfortably)
Okay, yeah, come right through. Come right through.
- Pick up my gun.
- And a bellhop leads you down into the hotel.
The Deluxe Royale, a premium, gorgeous five-star hotel.
- Gorgeous. Oh my gosh, the linens and molding.
- We just see Jack Manhattan-
- I've never been in a...
I'm holding my gun like this.
- You're holding your gun?
- I've never been in a hotel this nice.
- The bellhop goes, "Do you want me...
I can't take that, legally."
- I don't want you to.
- Okay, do you need, what do you need? You're holding it.
- Don't talk to me! - Sorry!
And you see he goes. You go to your hotel room.
You have your keycard there. (door latch beeps)
You were let into your room. You look around.
You see there's a half-drunk bottle of whiskey,
some cigarettes crushed out in an ashtray,
and you see that there is a file folder
sitting out of a little leather satchel.
(bright synth music)
(papers rustling)
Looking in it, you see there's some case files,
evidence documents- - Can I put this down?
- [Brennan] Yeah. - And look in the mirror.
- What do you see?
- The hottest man I've ever seen in my life.
- Is you. - It's me.
- [Brennan] It's you, it's you. You're looking-
- And Paula's gonna make out with the mirror.
(cast laughing)
- Can we roll to see how good the make out is?
- Yeah, give me a Hot check. DC 2.
(die taps table) - Three.
- It's so hot. It's so hot. (players laughing)
- Take this, Don. - Take this, Don.
Yeah, you leave greasy hand prints
and just a bunch of saliva caked in a weird circle-
- Ew.
- [Brennan] where the mouth part is,
just pushing up against the mirror.
(upbeat sensual music) (cast laughing)
- Okay. (Brennan laughing)
Okay, look at the file. - You look at the file
thinking that you're gonna see evidence,
but you look down and you see
they are divorce papers signed-
- Not again!
(cast laughing)
No!
- Incredible. - Really, really good.
- And you see, yeah, they're divorce papers,
and you look on your left hand
and you see a gold wedding band
even though there are divorce papers here
signed by Lucy Santangelo.
- (laughs) Santan...
- Can I open my wallet and see if there's a picture of her?
- Yes, you see a picture.
You take out a picture.
An angel from heaven, her shoulder pads
raise her beautiful fuchsia blouse up past her ears.
Her hair is easily as big as her torso.
Just out in all directions.
- Freaking model. (Brennan laughing)
- And in this moment, you think back suddenly
to Dave's Video World.
Thinking of Dave's Video World,
who else do you think of in this moment of other people
that might have gotten sucked into the world with you?
- Russell.
- Jennifer Drips, we are back in that air vent.
As we arrive, (text beeping)
(Izzy gasps) - Ooh, ooh!
- Claustro. - [Brennan & Izzy] Claustro.
- As you are back in the air vent
looking through the slats of the vent,
and you heard Barsimmeon Higgs's voice
in that supersoldier commando that just laid waste
to the sort of private security in this room.
You're looking through the air vents,
breathing heavy in this latex body suit.
What do you do in this moment?
- I have this, right? - Yes, you do.
- Is the room below empty now? Like, that person was killed?
- Bodies, and then the wall blew out
and there's now the rope ladder helicopter
that moved out of here.
- I wanna drop down through the grate into the room.
- Hell yeah.
Go ahead and give me a Sneak check just to do this.
Call it a Sneak check difficulty of five.
- Three. - [Brennan] Okay.
- Four. I'm blowing it up.
- You blow it up. Boom! (Rekha cheers)
Okay, great. You go ahead, you blow that up.
Boom! Die explodes.
Go ahead and roll your d6.
- Whoa! - Yes!
- (claps) Six!
- [Brennan] Oh that's explosion number two, baby!
- Baby! (players cheering)
- [Brennan] Okay.
- [Jacob] 10. A+
- [Ify & Ally] Six. - [Brennan] Six.
- 16. - An enormous...
16. You beat it way over five. - [Rekha] Hell yeah.
- So, you felt this latex catsuit,
this fluid fucking like, acrobat, martial artist,
cat burglar Olympian athlete body in this latex bodysuit.
You undo the vent effortlessly.
Even with that little bit of just like,
Russell's own mechanical knowledge
of like working in air conditioning vents.
- I know how to take this off. - Yeah. Boom.
- I put it back on properly. (players laughing)
- You go to like, drop to the ground in this place
and are expecting what you would normally do,
which would be like either to like, land on all fours
or to even like, land into a little like, roll,
and reflexively, you do a somersault midair,
one knee up under your breast, arm out like this.
You look and see that your right leg is extended
full extension at a 90-degree angle.
And the way you're looking,
you, in your peripheral vision, can see your own butt.
It's so weird how often you can see your own butt.
(triumphant dramatic music) (wind whipping)
(footsteps tap floor)
- What? (cast laughing)
Okay, wow. So I'm looking at my body.
- Mm-hmm. - It's not hurting at all.
I think Russell was already pretty flexible.
He prides himself on that, but he is like, so much,
it's like that even more so. - Yeah.
- I think he's feeling himself in this body
that's like, lighter but still like, substantial.
- Yeah. - Crazy good butt.
He also had a good butt, but he's like,
this is a different kind of good butt.
- Mm. (Jacob chortles)
- [Ally] He is gonna go- - Mm, mm, mm.
- He's gonna try to get out of this building, I think.
I think this is stashed.
- Give me a Wits check here, if you'd be so kind.
We'll call this a difficulty two Wits check.
- Four, explode. - [Brennan] Four, explodes!
- Whoo! - [Brennan] Hell yeah!
- Four, eight. - Boom, up to a d6 in Wits.
Roll your- - I did. I'm up to an eight.
- Up to an eight. Amazing.
So, you beat it by more than five. You look around.
What you see immediately, much like your luxury maintenance
on your overalls as Russell,
these guys have a name on their bulletproof vests
that are over their bodies.
You see it says, "The Sinclair Group."
- Oh, there's the person who's dead here.
- Yeah, there's dead guys
all over the ground. - [Ally] Oh.
- The floor is sleek with blood.
- What's their...
Can I get into their clothes?
- Yes, absolutely, you can. - I'd rather wear that,
I think, yeah. - Okay, cool.
You, real quick, effortlessly undo this latex bodysuit
and get into some of these like,
extremely expensive well-made gear.
Kevlar, the slacks are sort of like command pants,
utility belt on them.
These utility belts are heavy fucking duty.
(Ally whistles appreciatively) Grenades, TASER.
It looks like a sort of extending baton rod on them,
automatic weaponry, and you see along the back of the vest
sort of on the inside it says, "Sinclair Group."
Some part of you, you don't know why, but you're like,
"Sinclair Group, mercenaries."
You don't know why you would know that,
but it's like some part of you knows that.
You're coming into the middle of some other life
of like a character, and as you do so,
you look up and see that there is a small vault on the wall
like a locker, like almost
a little security thing, right?
The wall's totally blown out, but you hear thundering boots
coming down the hallway of people
that heard the noise of the wall going out and the gunshots,
so there's a vault here.
It has a little keycard access on it,
but every second here, those boots are getting closer.
What do you do?
- I must have the access key, right? On all of this gear.
I'd give a check for that. - Yeah.
You look for access gear along this stuff here.
Go ahead and give me a Tech check, difficulty of three.
(pulsing tense music)
- Three. - Okay. You go ahead.
You try two of the security cards really quick here.
Looking at it, you suddenly see the one that you have,
the security clearance of this agent, and you try that
and it goes (mimics electronic buttons) opens.
As it opens, you see that there are a number of small vials.
There is a small like, refrigerated section
that has a key code punch-in in it,
and you see one of these. (Rekha gasps)
Above it, you read the words,
"Adrenanoxinil Plutonium Sulfate."
- [Jacob] Don't know how to spell that.
- [Ally] Adrenanoxinil.
- [Brennan] Adrenanoxinil Plutonium Sulfate.
- Turns you into The Mask. (Brennan chuckles)
- [Ally & Brennan] Smokin'!
- So, having opened this, you see that there's a key code,
but the boots are about to approach.
This is your last chance to get out of this room.
- There's another door that I can maybe exit through?
- The only door out of this room
is where the boots are coming from.
- Mm-hmm. - The wall is blown out
into sort of nighttime, and then there's sort of like...
And you see the exterior of a massive chemical refinery.
So, nighttime and escape.
Staying to fuck with the green liquid and the key code-
- Oh, I can escape. - You can escape.
You can just run out the wall where the guy went.
- Oh, I'm picturing the top of a skyscraper for some reason.
- [Brennan] No, no, you're in a chemical-
- No, I get the fuck outta there.
I go. I go. - Cool. All right, amazing.
- Do I have a cell phone?
Does she have a cell phone on her
or some sort of mobile device?
- Ooh, I want you to make two Wits checks in a row.
- Okay.
- There's gonna be a difficulty six
and then a difficulty four.
- Okay, first one. (die taps table)
Five. (Rekha gasps)
- Okay, so fail the first one. That's okay.
Now difficulty four.
- Five. - Five.
- Okay, sick. So, hearing the boots, you see this stuff.
You rush out- - But I don't have a phone
to snap a picture of this cooler?
- You pull out a phone, and the chunkiest 1980s cell phone
with absolutely no camera technology comes-
- I sprint, I sprint!
I sprint, I sprint! (laughs) - You sprint, you sprint,
you sprint, you sprint, you sprint.
As you sprint, you succeed on the Wits check for the phone.
Good thinking. You leap out of there.
Go ahead and give me another Sneak check.
You are opposing a difficulty of...
They're gonna try to perceive you.
They only roll a two, so it's a two Sneak check.
- Eight. I blew it up! - [Brennan] Eight.
- I blew it up! - [Brennan] Oh my god!
- [Jacob] Yeah! - [Brennan] What the fuck?
Boom! - (claps) Sneaky!
- Roll a d10.
(die taps table)
- Five. - Five.
The body you are inhabiting,
Sneak is like their primary fucking thing.
- Cool. - Like, this ability,
you can feel yourself instantly leap to the shadows.
You grab the cell phone, leap out of there.
You remember seeing the chemicals. You hear noises.
You avoid the guards. Sprinting into the night,
you look up and see the sign,
"Mercury Facility for War Chemicals."
And you see... (laughs) (Jacob chuckling)
- It's crazy that they just straight-up advertise that.
- Dude, this movie fucking rules!
(cast laughing) (epic rock music)
And as you flee the Mercury Facility
on that failed Wits check with this cell phone,
you hear, only too late behind you, "Beep, beep, beep."
(players gasp)
Not a bomb but a reminder
of the keycard left in the access port.
- (gasps) No! - No!
- [Brennan] I'm gonna need that from you.
- Do I feel that I've lost something?
- Yes, you have that same feeling
of like, "Shit!" (light switch clicks)
Of something significant having been lost.
A weird kind of, you know like, whoever Jennifer Drips is
as this like, action hero, you feel it like,
bumping up against, like almost in the subconscious.
Like, for lack of a better word, like this action hero
is some kind of like, spirit in the world
that is trying to speak to you from the beyond, right?
But you have made your getaway,
and the phone is in your hand.
Go ahead and make a DC, like, three Wits check for me.
- Four. - Okay.
There's basically an easy three-number code of like,
what's the last phone that this phone called, right?
I forget what actual directions.
- *69? - Yeah.
- [Brennan] *69? - Yeah.
- Yeah. *60...
One of them is... - [Ally] Oh, that's calling-
- What's the one that calls you?
- [Ally] Oh, yes. - But there is one that...
What's the one? - *67?
- [Brennan] *67. - Oh.
- So you can go *67 and call the last thing
that this phone on your person called
or you can do *69 and do the last one that called you.
- 67.
- *67. (mimics phone ringing) Starts to call.
(phone ringing)
Ah, Ms. Drips. Splendid to hear your voice again.
I take it that the mission was a success?
(Ally sighs softly) (methodically tense music)
- Tell me what
I was supposed to do. (players laughing)
Now! (laughs) (cast laughing)
He's hearing his own voice and he's like,
"Damn, I'm gonna be powerful."
- Yeah, I love it. Give me Hot six.
- Oh, that's right. That's right.
I get to reduce that by one.
That's only a two, though.
- Okay, that's a failure.
The voice says, "Uh, Ms. Drips, it's-"
- I'm waiting. (laughs)
- There's a pause and says,
"I suppose telecommunications
are not the best for this sort of covert conversation.
Ms. Drips, meet me at the Santa Monica Wharf at once.
Come alone." (energetic dramatic music)
- I'll be there.
You know, I've been wanting to try a nickname for you.
What's a word that's kinda close to your name?
Let's kinda workshop it together.
- I think we can stick with the codename, Ms. Drips.
St. Jude is fine for now.
- Okay, sounds good. And I hang up.
Do I know LA?
- Yeah, I think you've lived a long-
- [Ally] I think I've spent like, some-
- You've been around.
You look out and you clock yourself
as being somewhere on the Pacific Coast.
The way the cliffs look, the way vegetation looks.
Running through these giant mounds of like, gravel,
things that are being refined,
you see those long conveyor belts.
You know, this is like one of those big chemical refineries
with tons of like, raw mineral resources
standing in these huge, like almost dunes, right?
So sprinting out through here you run for like,
20 or 30 minutes and eventually get to a highway.
And just looking at the paint on the highway
and everything else, you see a mile marker.
You're like, "I'm in the United States.
I feel like I'm in California," right?
- Can she have felt, does she have like a motorcycle key
in her pants or did she pull up to this on a vehicle?
Like, I think he would be looking for a vehicle.
- Give me a, call this a Wits check.
Let's call it a difficulty four Wits check.
- Okay. (energetic tense music)
(Rekha gasps)
Four. - Four.
You find keys to a motorcycle.
- Okay, so he's like, "Okay, okay."
He's like, piecing it together.
- [Brennan] Mm-hmm. - I think he's like,
he's very like, systematic.
He's like a fix-it... - [Brennan] Yeah.
- Like, you know? - [Brennan] Yeah.
- So he's like, "Okay, all right."
He's got all this new gear. - [Brennan] Yeah.
- He finds a key. He knows...
He's like a car guy, (laughs) probably.
- Yeah. - This fucking guy.
So yeah, it's like a key to a motorcycle?
- [Brennan] Yep.
- Can I just start running around
trying to find the motorcycle nearby?
- Okay, give me Wits. - He's still in uniform.
- Yes, still in uniform. Give me Wits difficulty of six.
And I'll say if you roll a one,
you're gonna get stopped by a patrol, okay?
- Okay, I have tokens. It'll be fine.
(Rekha gasps) Four.
I use both of these to blow up.
(Rekha cheers) - [Brennan] Ooh, shit! Okay.
- Six. - Boom!
- Ba-da-boom! All right, boom. (epic explosion resounds)
As you explode, you're gonna roll your d8.
- Two, so... - [Brennan] Two.
- Eight. - So you make the success.
As you look you're like, systematic.
It's like, it wouldn't be in the parking lot
because why the fuck would you be in an air vent?
So you look up and are like, "Where would I hide a vehicle
if I needed to get to it fast
and not have the people who work here see it?"
You see a little ridge.
It's about like a 30-foot climb up
this sort of easy scramble getting up this 30-foot cliff.
And you see behind a bit of foliage up there
there is a sleek, black motorcycle.
- Unreal. I think he's just starting to sweat.
And he does like, a motion that he's never done before
like underneath his hair and he's like, "Whew, it's hot!"
(cast laughing)
- You take off on the motorcycle.
You know what this ocean is.
You know about where you- (Jacob laughs)
It's like, "There's an ocean. I know where that ocean is."
- All right. - [Brennan] That's east.
- Looking for a wharf. (mimics motorcycle revving)
- And you fucking take off. Who are you thinking of?
- Dang. - Dang,
you are holding a deck of playing cards in your hand.
- [Jacob] I just capped those dudes.
- Just fucking capped those dudes.
Moving through this place as fast as you can-
- Still on the sub, right? - [Brennan] Still on the sub.
Yes, absolutely. - Cool.
- In fact, as you're moving through it,
go ahead and give me a Sneak check difficulty of four.
(epic adventure music)
- Three.
- Okay, you have a failure there.
Moving through, you hear boots coming from both directions.
You are in a long stretch of hallway.
The doors here all have locks on them so you're hemmed in.
You're about to get cornered. What do you do?
There's locked doors
and sound of approaching soldiers from either side.
- I quickly look in a porthole
just to like, kinda see my reflection,
and I see an anonymous man. - [Brennan] Yeah.
- [Jacob] And then I like, look down at my hands,
and there's an amazing Rolex watch.
- [Brennan] Yeah.
- That's just like, shining back at me.
The hands are not my hands.
There's like, the cuffs of the suit.
I open the suit. There's a pen.
- Yeah, you're in a like-
- [Jacob] There's a pen in the breast, like-
- Looking around, you would expect
to be in camo or something. - [Jacob] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You are wearing a tuxedo, baby.
- [Jacob] Mm-hmm. (Ally chuckling)
- [Brennan] And- - I'm gonna look around.
I assume there's like, pressure lines and everything
for the submarine. - Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- So I'm gonna like,
lock one door behind me. - [Brennan] Yeah. Cool.
- And then try and like, hold up against the other door
that those people are walking in
so they're like, in a section, does that make sense?
- And then you sneak out and lock them in.
- Yeah. - [Brennan] Gotcha.
- That's what I would like to do.
- So you wanna...
Oh, one of the open segment doors.
Okay, so in the hallway... - [Ally] Yeah.
- Understood, you go in.
Locking one of these doors is gonna be easy.
That's just a DC 3- - [Jacob] Okay.
- to lock one of the segment doors behind you.
Go ahead and give me a Tech check.
- Ooh, one. - One.
Okay, looking around behind it,
you just see that the mechanism for this
require a key you don't have. - Okay.
- So looking at it, you can try to like, finagle one
or bust another one out,
but you do see that there are doors
leading to sideways compartments
and other stuff like that throughout here.
So you can still do the hide part of your plan
of like, dipping into a side room.
- Yeah, I'll do that.
So if I like, beef it, I fail. - [Brennan] Mm-hmm.
- And then I just kinda like,
duck into a hallway, ears tight.
- To duck into one of the side doors,
you're gonna have to bust them.
Or if you wanna try to hide,
there are those pressure pipes up above
if you wanted to just like, haul yourself up
into the piping of the roof and try to hide up there.
- I think I'll go for the door.
I think that makes me more... - Okay.
Do you wanna try to just bust it down
or do you wanna do another Tech check?
- Yeah, can I do a Tough check on it or?
- We'll just do Stunts. - Stunts? Great.
- [Brennan] Yep. - What's the D?
- So we're just gonna say is a four.
- Okay. (die taps table)
Three and I'll use one of my guys
to make it a four so I blow up.
- You blow up. Boom. - [Jacob] Get my six, five.
- Whoo! Do you have another guy?
- [Brennan] Hell yeah. - Like, yes.
- [Rekha] You can blow up again.
- [Ally] Blow that die. - [Brennan] Okay.
We're blowing up another time. - Okay!
- [Brennan] So the d8. (epic explosion resounds)
- D8 and a...
Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.
- Come on.
- Five. - Whoo!
- Okay, effortless. - Yeah.
- And that was what again? Stunts?
- [Brennan] That was Stunts. - Okay.
- [Brennan] So your Stunts moves
to a d8. - To a d8. Great.
- Bam! You kick the door open, you go in.
This is clearly some kind of like, dormitory.
There's four incredibly narrow cots.
It's like submarine living.
Every inch is precious and expensive
in how this is laid out so it's like as narrow
and spartan as possible.
You see that there's
the couple little personal effects in here.
- Are there like, can I look at the bunks
for any keycards or anything that like,
people who were sleeping might have left?
- Hell yeah. Give me a DC 3 Wits check.
- Okay.
(die taps table)
Three. - Hell yeah.
You look forward and you find a keycard.
Sailor's keycard here for the submarine.
Door closed behind you.
With the door shut behind you,
you hear the patrols walking by, and you hear shouting
as they discover the dead bodies further down.
- [Jacob] Okay. - [Brennan] As you do so,
you hear in your earpiece, and you see it says,
"Lawrence, you old dog.
How goes it aboard the vessel?"
- Uh, just getting my sea legs, man.
- Hahaha. Yeah, man.
Well, this is your old friend, Jude.
We're just gotten word from the Mercury Facility.
Looks like things have gone sideways.
A bit of the old dog's tit if you know what I mean, old boy.
So, we'll meet you at the Santa Monica Wharf.
There's an outside agent Santo Patron has been working with,
but we need to move fast.
Seems the Empresario's gotten here ahead of us.
- Do we know where this thing's headed.
- (chuckles) Straight to the bottom of the sea, old boy.
All you need to do is hit the timer on the second hand
for that watch and our old friend Boris
will be taking a long trip off a short pier, wink, wink.
- Dang.
- Absolutely. Are you in position?
- No. You tell me, just ping it.
Can you ping it?
- You want me to ping it? - Ping where it...
Could you send me a ping?
- A ping?
- I'll go wherever you want, man. You just send me a ping.
- He says, "Torpedo #3.
There's a bottle of brandy and a nice cigar
waiting for you inside, old boy."
- Is there any beer? They got some light beers?
- (scoffs) Well, I know that this little voyage
has taken us stateside, but surely
we haven't lost all of our culture and refinement.
- Okay, man. I'll get down to that torpedo, man.
- Yeah. Yeah, man.
Go ahead and give me a Hot check, difficulty of four.
- I have Smokin' so it...
Well, I guess it's not a first impression, right?
So I wouldn't able to use- - Not a first impression.
- So I'd not be able to use my Smokin' thing, right?
- Yeah, absolutely.
- Three.
- Okay, that's a failure. - [Jacob] Yeah.
- So go ahead and take a token.
You see he says, "Is everything all right, Lawrence?"
- The pressure's gettin' to my head, man.
- Yes, after all, you and I,
we knew each other back at our Eton days, didn't we?
- Back when we used to eat? (Ify chortles)
Back when we would...
Yeah, man, we're lunch buddies.
I think like, Andy kind of understands
that he's in a different body. - [Brennan] Yeah, yes.
- Like, does understand.
Like, it's not, there's not resistance here.
He's like, seen himself,
knows that he's in a different space.
It's not the biggest question in the world
so he's just trying to like... - [Brennan] You see he goes-
- Trying to sink his teeth into something.
- Says, "What's my codename, St. Lawrence?"
(Rekha gasps) (pounding tense music)
- Come on, man. We got bigger fish to fry.
You gonna get hung up on this right now?
And then Andy's trying to think like,
"I've watched these movies." - [Brennan] I've watched this.
- I've watched these movies.
- Give me Wits four.
- [Ally] You got it. (die taps table)
- Four. Blowing up - Oh baby! Boom!
- [Rekha] Ooh, do you know that name!
- [Jacob] Four. - [Ally] Yeah.
- Sick.
- He said it, too. - Yeah.
You see that you go back and you're like,
"I've seen these movies.
He just said something and-" (Jacob mimics neurons buzzing)
- And you get to roll a six 'cause that blew it up.
- [Brennan] Yeah, he rolled a four on the d6.
- Yeah, I rolled. Yeah. - Oh. Sorry, sorry.
- You know this name so bad. - [Jacob] Yeah.
- So bad. - Something in your head
comes back, you're like, "No, that's the guy
that is in the movie 'cause Jude Law was in this movie,
but I remember he didn't play...
The other guy, the old guy is the same name
as the actor from the other thing.
It's Jude, but it's not Jude.
Someone said it was Jude. Is there a St. Jude?
It's gotta be Jude!"
And that all comes to your head as you're talking.
He says, "My codename, St. Lawrence!"
- Dude, you're St. Jude. Come on, now.
- Uh... (Ify chuckling)
Yes, come on, now. Very well.
All right, Lawrence, get to that torpedo.
Hit the button and you'll make your way to shore.
I'll meet you at the wharf.
- I can't wait to see you, meet you, see you.
See- (Rekha sputter laughs)
- Yep, yep. Okay, goodbye. (cast laughing)
- Yep. - Yep.
- I'll head to the torpedo room.
- Hell yeah.
- I guess I don't know where these guys are,
but I'd love to like, key these doors behind me
as I'm clearing out. - [Brennan] Hell yeah.
- So like a line of defense.
- The keycard means that you can get there
by a pretty quick route. - [Jacob] Cool.
- Go ahead, I think finding the torpedo bay
on a nuclear submarine- - Is gonna be tough.
- [Brennan] Is gonna be tough.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - But go ahead and give me,
we'll call this, I think this is going to be a Wits eight
to get there, but if you fail, you can roll again.
It's just about getting there like,
it's like, you'll have to start rolling Sneak checks
and other things like that. - Or like some other way.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure.
Go ahead and give me Wits eight.
(die taps off table) - Oh!
(Rekha groans) Oh!
- Been there. - Two.
No, I'm not gonna blow up it up-
- Take a failure.
You see that a soldier rounds a corner
and speaks to you in Russian. - Mm-hmm.
- But you know, put the little subtitles here on the thing.
But says something in Russian to you
and gestures to your tuxedo.
- Can I just be like, in Russian, "Don't worry about it."
And I just try and wrap.
- (laughs) You try to like, wrap him up?
- Wrap him up. - Give me a Brawl check.
He's gonna make a Tough check to oppose it.
- [Jacob] Of course.
- You're trying to do a Brawl five here.
- Okay. (die taps table)
Seven. - [Ally] Yes!
- Seven. You wrap around. (mimics choking)
And he goes to sleep, baby.
- Okay. - You move on outta here.
Give me another Wits check. DC lowers to six.
- Three. - Okay, no worries.
Another failure. You come across a large room.
Looking around, you see a massive nuclear reactor.
There's a group of scientists moving around,
and you see there's a dude that has this tattoo
of a chainsaw covering his whole face.
You see he has brass knuckles
and has a sleeveless lab coat on.
- Uh-huh. - You see he goes,
"Na zdoróv'je" and just sort of moves around in this-
- So they're all like in a centralized location or whatever?
- Yes.
- Before I enter the room,
can I pop one of those pressure valves to like,
create a distraction to sneak into the space?
- Ooh, yeah. Go ahead and give me...
This can either be Tech
or just Stunts if you wanna just bust something.
- Yeah, I'll try Stunts 'cause it's a better roll for me.
- Okay, we're gonna call this, this is Stunts three.
- Cool. (die taps table)
Eight. Blowin' up! (players cheer)
- [Brennan] Whoa! - Moving to the 10, baby.
- Here we go. We blow up. (epic explosion resounds)
Going to the 10.
- Two.
- What die are you at now on your Stunts?
- 10.
- [Brennan] You're at a d10 for Stunts.
- Yeah. - [Rekha] Cool.
- Steam (mimics steam hissing) fills the space
as you kick the valve off. - No way.
- And then he goes,
"I'm not the only one feeling pressure."
(cast laughing) - No! No!
- He has it in there. - [Brennan] Yeah.
- He's accessed that file. - [Brennan] He's got it.
(Brennan mimics neurons buzzing)
- [Jacob] These neurons.
- The neurons are shaking hands.
- [Brennan] Dang, you- - Thank you, Rashab.
- Yeah, thank you, Rashab. - Thank you, Rashab.
(cast laughing)
- Dang, you being to sprint through here.
What is going on emotionally
as you sprint through these grated catwalks,
totally obscured by steam?
You begin to see torpedo bays 20, 19, 18.
What is emotionally going on as you are just fucking nailing
the highest pressure moments of Dang's life?
- There's a sensation you get when you have tasks
and you have something to do. - [Brennan] Yeah, yeah.
- And then there's the sensation of what it feels like
to not have any of that. - [Brennan] Yeah.
- That's Andy's baseline. I don't have tasks.
I don't have anything to do.
I'm probably not even gonna show up to work.
So I think he's kind of like, titillated and excited like,
he knows exactly what he needs to do right now,
and somebody else told him what it was.
- Yeah. - So he's like, purpose.
I just have to achieve the purpose
that somebody else gave me, and it's kind of freeing,
which is maybe why he's able to just like, clink into it
where he's just like, "You told me what to do,
I'm gonna do it, no argument."
- This moment of like, "Why do I feel so free?
Like, I hate doing what people tell me to do."
- Mm-hmm. - "And now I'm here doing it,
and I feel so free," and I think you look back
and see the steam valve that you kicked off.
No one told you to do that.
And I think it's the idea that,
whoever that guy at the other end of the phone was,
he didn't think you were a shithead.
There was trust there. - Mm.
- And you weren't given just a task.
You were given an impossible thing to do.
And in the moment that you needed
to figure out how to do it, something leapt to your mind
and you were capable of doing it.
And as you did it, it felt fucking awesome.
- [Jacob] Yeah. - And as you rush down,
you see an open torpedo bay under this number three.
And as you look at it, you look inside
and see that the base cap of this missile
is a little bit loose.
- Can I like? - [Brennan] Yeah.
- Like crack in there or?
- You open it and see the inside of this torpedo,
rather than being lodged with explosives,
has a red velvet lining
like the back of a high-back chair in a study.
And you see that in it, there is a small,
like set into the side, a small little glass case
with some beautifully carved artisanal ice cubes,
a bottle of brandy, a glass,
and a row of a couple of cigars
along with like a chunky 1980s screen in there.
And two little brass rungs to just hoist your body up.
- Cool. Yeah, I immediately climb in.
- Hell yeah.
- And pour a small tumbler and taste it and go...
(cast laughing)
- You are in the thing. It seals up behind you.
You look at your watch and you hear St. Jude go,
"Everything all right, old boy?"
- I'm in, baby.
- You see he goes, (players chuckling)
"The States have gotten into you.
I forgot how deep you go undercover.
(Jacob laughing) Hit the button.
Hit the button, St. Lawrence."
(Jacob mimics smacking button)
Boom! The torpedo launches.
You see your watch starts beeping.
Do you hit the second hand? (Rekha gasps excitedly)
- Oh, of course. Yes, yes.
- Boom, a window opens in the base of your fake-out torpedo
as you zoom through the ocean.
You look and you see this giant submarine
that has a fanged wolf's mouth painted on the outside of it
as it moves through here.
You hear, "Ten, nine, eight, seven..."
The stink of the brandy in this little thing
rocketing through the ocean.
And you see quickly, the lights of the submarine fade away.
"Five, four, three, two, one."
- (chuckles appreciatively) Yeah, dude.
- Boom! (Rekha cheers excitedly)
(fire roaring) Boom!
The entire submarine explodes
and sinks to the bottom of the sea.
- Something sinks! (Brennan laughing)
- Leaning right in. - Just to yourself.
- You are rocketing quickly away
from the explosion of the submarine.
As you do so, a huge amount of violence just happened.
There's a lot of people to be concerned about,
and you realize your friends
from Dave's Video World may well be around.
Who knows?
Does your mind drift to anyone in this flash of a moment?
- In this immediate flash,
he does, unfortunately, think about Rashab.
- [Brennan] Okay. - But he realizes that like,
he's not getting it. - [Brennan] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Like, he thought it was, but he's not.
He like, can't feel it. - Yeah.
- [Jacob] So that's confusing. - Yeah.
- It's really confusing and he's like,
"There's so much going on.
Like, I'm going so fast."
And he kinda thinks about the roar of the motorcycles
in the parking lot.
- Hell yes. Hell-
- And somebody would be so terrified
to be going so fast right now.
- [Brennan] As you think about-
- He thinks of his buddy, Wendell, yeah.
- As you think about your buddy Wendell being so, so scared,
Vic Ethanol with the dynamite. (mimics engine revving)
(Ify screaming in terror) (intense action music)
You see the motorcycle next to you.
This dude like, blue-and-red leather jacket.
He's got this insane motorcycle that has like,
those sort of chopper chrome pipes coming off the back.
And you see just sparks lashing by
as you move through this place over and over and over again
like this katana on the end of this huge length of chain.
Whoosh, whoosh! (blades slicing through air)
Slashing the side-view mirror off your car.
I'm gonna need a Drive check.
You've just slammed into the side.
This is Drive check, difficulty 10.
- I'm still on my learner's permit!
Four!
- Four, baby! - [Brennan] Four!
- That's a blow-up! - [Brennan] Okay, baby, boom!
We are exploding. Rolling a d6.
(intense rock music) (die taps table)
- Three. - [Brennan] Okay, seven.
- All right. - You get a little token.
- Take one of your little guys.
So, you now bump to a d6 in Drive.
Once again, your car slams
but does not fail by more than five
so you do not wipe out and crash the car in this moment.
However, this dude, you see he kicks a little thing
on the side of his motorcycle.
The motorcycle goes (mimics device chirping and buzzing)
and two huge chain guns emerge from either side
of the motorcycle. - Oh no.
- As he is gonna make a Stunt check
to leap off and leap onto the hood of your moving car.
That is an eight. He (mimics wind whooshing) leaps.
Bam! Lands on the hood and says, "Pull over, Vic!
Looks like your license is expired!" (laughs maniacally)
- I don't know who you're talking about!
- You are racing.
You've just sort of slammed again into the side.
The wheel casing got slashed by the katana
that this guy is still wielding on the end of this chain.
And the motorcycle autopilots directly behind your vehicle.
Right now, you are heading to one of the sloped edges
of the concrete, the sort of dry basin
of the Los Angeles River.
There is an overpass of cars moving.
You, right now, if you stay on track
are just gonna kind of launch at a straight vertical
and pop up and crash and die in this car.
If you go to the left, you might be able to like,
get back into the basin of the Los Angeles River.
But you've got this stick of dynamite next to you,
and you see that the dude in front of you is like,
whipping this insane weapon around over and over again.
What do you do? (intense action music)
- I try and turn to the left. It's like, "Get off the hood!"
- Okay, do you wanna go so hard to the left,
that you like, whip him off the car?
- Yes.
- Okay, this is going to be a difficulty 10,
and if you fail by more than five,
you're going to overcorrect going too fast
and just barrel roll over and over and over again.
- Oof.
- All right. - [Brennan] Here we go.
- That is a two. (laughs)
- So you're failing by seven.
You're gonna take a Turbo Token.
And now I'm gonna need Tough.
The good news is that the guy on the hood of your car
also cannot survive what is about to happen.
(cast laughing) - That's one way to kill him!
- [Jacob] Yeah. - Then you're both dead.
- Be so bad, yeah. (laughs) - It's so bad.
This is going to be a difficulty 10 Tough check.
- Also, I failed that first Drive one too, right?
- Yes, so take another token there. Difficulty 10 Tough.
This guy's gonna make the same thing. He rolls a d8.
I'll roll for him
in front of the board real quick just to see.
So, he needs to explode to hit the difficulty
or he's gonna take a point of injury.
If he fails, five or lower, he is instantly fucking dead.
(intense action music)
That's a four, so you see as you go,
overcorrect, (tires screeching)
he goes (yelps)
The katana lodges in the front wheel.
He goes, whoom, gets chained to the hood.
Bam, as it rolls, like getting tangled in a fishing line.
And you see bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam!
Every time the hood comes down on concrete,
this guy is flattened more and more.
It is just blood and chain and screeching metal.
You see every time it comes up for air again,
his face going (repeated screaming)
As you, (mimics car flipping)
I'm gonna need a Tough check, DC 10 from you.
Now, you are one of our action heroes.
If you fail, you take a point of injury,
which will be our first injury in the game.
- Oh. - All right.
- If you fail by five or more, you'll take two.
If you hit a nat one, you're gonna take all three.
- All right, um...
Four! (Rekha cheers)
- [Brennan] Okay. - Exploded!
- [Brennan] Oh, exploded! That explodes.
This is a Tough check.
- All right. (epic explosion noise)
- Get that six. Get that six, baby.
- Two. Yeah, that's... (laughs)
- [Brennan] That's- - I'm just...
So let's see, how much would that-
- [Brennan] That's six. - Six points?
I'll go ahead and- - Well, you already...
You can try to spend all the way up to succeed,
but this would only be one injury level right now.
- Okay, then I'll take it. (shouts in pain)
- Okay, so, (mimics vehicle rolling rapidly)
this wild turbo-action drag car spins over and over
and over again and slides into the shadows
under the overpass.
You feel a cool, dramatic little piece of blood
just from the edge of an eyebrow
that would give your face like a little,
it'd be fucking hot!
Sort of first injury level.
Action heroes only have three,
but the first one is just superficial.
- That's hilarious. (Brennan laughing)
- Superficial, no mechanical result
at the first injury level,
but you only got three of them to go through.
So, car. (steam hissing)
As it does so, you hear the distant revving
of motorcycles approaching.
What do you do in this moment?
- Does it look like the car is like, toast?
- Oh, it's totaled, baby. - Okay. (laughs)
- Is the car like- - [Jacob] That's great!
- Is it usable? - Was that explanation?
He's like, "Yeah, it'll still go."
(cast laughing) - Oh yeah.
- It just can't go into third gear.
- Could I like, sell this on a resale?
- Yeah. (laughs) - [Brennan] Yeah.
- It's like, bring it to a car wash and-
- 'Cause maybe the parts are good.
- Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, are the parts good?
- What's the Blue Book? (players laughing)
- Negative $1 million. - Yeah. (laughs)
- Okay, so I grab the dynamite
and I just run up the...
I'll try and run up out of the LA river into traffic.
- So smart, so smart. - Hell yeah, okay.
Go ahead, as you're grabbing the dynamite
and just pulling yourself upside down out of a car,
this is just gonna be Stunts two.
- Okay. (lively action music)
- Yeah. - That's two.
- [Brennan] Hell yeah. - But I'm gonna go ahead and,
actually, I'll save this for some more exciting,
but yeah, nice. - Okay, cool.
You pull yourself.
So you grab the dynamite, pull yourself out.
You can see in the distance that lights of like,
six or seven approaching motorcycles
coming down the LA River.
And for those watching at home and realizing,
the LA River is mostly always a dry concrete, right?
- [Rekha] Super dry. - [Ify] Yeah.
Right?
So people are hearing us say, "You're driving down a river,"
and they're like, "Boats?" - Yeah, if you want a good,
like, example of the vibe,
look up Blink-182 "Down" music video
when they're having a drag race in the LA River.
- We'll recommend a new Blink-182 video in every-
- Every single episode, guaranteed.
- As you stumble up out of the LA River,
what's in your mind right now?
And by the way, as you're ascending, you look down.
Like, this powerful, muscular body
that you're suddenly inhabiting,
as you get up to the edge of the river,
you look and see your reflection in like,
there's a sort of like, lights-out building,
sort of like, some kind of office space
that has big bay windows on the ground floor
and see your reflection with this little bit of blood
holding a bunch of sticks of dynamite.
What is your emotion as you see this?
- Grabbed the dynamite instinctively,
not for any actual cause,
and it was almost like I felt like I had to.
And I stare at my reflection and I'm like, "Who am I?"
And the reflection is like, "You're me.
(Rekha gasps) (Brennan chuckling excitedly)
Get outta there. Those guys are some bad dudes."
- Hell yes. (clapping) I fucking love it.
- I didn't know! (cast laughing)
- Let's do that! That's sick!
Yeah, do that! - [Ally] Fuck yeah!
- That fucking rules! - Fuck yeah!
- Vic Ethanol speaks to Wendell in this moment
being like, "You gotta get the fuck outta there."
- That's right, that's right. - That's fucking great.
I'm gonna say, take a Turbo Token
just for a sick fucking move. - Oh shit! What?
- Oh! (laughs)
- [Brennan] Just for a sick fucking move,
take a Turbo Token. - Wow!
- That shit was tight. - That shit is tight.
I fucking loved that. Emergent storytelling.
So, in this moment,
you hear the motorcycles approaching behind you.
Vic Ethanol looks at you from the reflection,
says, "Get the fuck outta there."
And as you do this, there's the overpass
which is basically just a little four-lane boulevard,
like two lanes going in either direction.
You can see there's sort of like,
it sounds like there's some noise of like, nightlife
or restaurants a little bit beyond,
but this is right near the river
so it's sort of like the industrial edge of a neighborhood
that actually does have some fun stuff.
Looking at the overpass, you see busy cars, lots of people.
There's more shadowy area,
and then there's the motorcycles approaching you
so you kind of have to make a decision of,
do I head towards people,
which maybe helps with these motorcycles pursuing me
but has all the risks of this world that I don't know
and people seeing me with like,
a stick of dynamite and blood on my face,
or do I take my chances and head to the shadows where,
whatever these motorcycle freaks wanna do can go down,
but maybe I can hide and avoid people.
Or there's the LA River underneath you
and the motorcycles that are approaching.
What do you do?
- Wendell is kind of stuck looking at all these options,
unable to come up with a decision, but he sees the shadows
and he wants to move towards it
'cause he's like, "Oh, I can hide."
And that's when Vic says like, "No.
There's no cars in the shadow. (Ally laughing)
You're only strong as your fastest car.
(Brennan laughing) Go find me a whip."
And he runs towards the people.
- Hell yes.
- Okay... (sighs) (Ify laughing)
Why is what's happening to Ify cooler
than what's happening to everyone else?
- Well no, this is great. - [Jacob] Made a great choice.
- I fucking think it's a great fucking choice. I love it.
Please, everyone else bite this. Everyone else fucking...
(players laughing) Everyone else do this.
So Wendell, you rush into traffic.
As you do, you hear some beeping from cars
as you kind of lurch out of the shadows here,
and you see the motorcycles are getting closer.
There's traffic here.
Probably you can make it on foot
to some of the nightlife areas closer by,
but there's also some cars here.
What do you wanna do in this moment
as you arrive at the more populated area?
- Wendell is listening to the voice in his head
and is just kinda scanning for cars.
- [Brennan] Mm-hmm.
- And if he sees the opportunity to take over one,
like maybe someone's like getting into it
or someone's kind of like- - Great.
Let's do, I'm gonna say that finding the kind of car
that would rate for Vic is gonna be a Wits six.
- Okay. (chuckles)
♪ Try to speak up can't say none ♪
♪ Try dig dirt, there ain't none ♪
- That is a one. (laughs) - [Brennan] Okay.
Go ahead and take a Turbo Token.
- Okay. - You look around.
You're like, Hyundais, Jettas, Hondas.
It's a lot of like, really reasonable sedans.
There's a van for an air conditioning company.
- Lotta Subarus. - Lotta Subarus, okay?
We're seeing a lot of Subarus. - Gorgeous vegan bakeries.
- Yeah. - [Brennan] Yes.
- A Subaru will take you far. - Yeah.
So seeing all that, you don't see anything
that you think is gonna be able to handle these motorcycles,
but you do have time to run on foot if you want to.
- Okay, then he's just gonna run on foot.
And he's like- - [Brennan] Okay.
- "None of these are good enough."
- You arrive at the door of a nightclub.
You see there's a huge bouncer,
long line of people trying to get in.
As you attempt to get in, the bouncer turns to you and goes,
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, man.
What happened to your face?"
- Some weird motorcycle dudes are, (hyperventilating)
they're trying to kick my ass, bro.
I just wanna, you know, maybe come in here,
have a few drinks, lay low and stuff, my guy.
- Give me a Hot check, difficulty-
- Are you holding sticks of-
- Oh, you're holding dynamite. - Difficulty six.
- Three. I'ma burn one. - Yes!
- That is a blow up. (Brennan cheers)
- That's a blow up, baby! - That's a blow up, baby!
- [Ify] All right, and- - Moving to a d6.
- Moving to a d6. Come on, let's go.
Let's do something fun. - Let's go.
- That's a six. (cast cheers)
- A blow up, baby! (explosion resounds)
- [Jacob] D8! - Yeah, yeah.
I'm gonna get the d8, baby.
Let's go. (die taps table)
That's an eight. - No way!
- Oh my fucking god! Triple explosion!
- Hey, okay. (laughs) - Murph would be so proud.
- [Jacob] Get a 10, baby. - Come on, let's go.
- Ooh, ooh, ooh! - [Jacob] Get that 10.
- That's a one. (laughs) - There you go.
But wait, that's still four, six, eight. That's-
- 19. - [Brennan] You got a 19.
- Yeah. - So the guy says, "Hey, man,
(scoffs) I run some pretty tight security here.
You've got a stick of dynamite
and you're bleeding from the face and you ran up.
Also, there's a long line of people
who've been waiting very patient-"
And you see a hand the size of a fucking garbage can lid
touches this dude's chest and goes,
"Man, you gotta chill out.
That's Vic fucking Ethanol!" (Ify laughing)
And you see that this dude looks at you,
like barbed wire around a forearm the size of a cannon.
He's like, older, looks like a guy who's been like,
on the wrong side of the law forever.
Huge chinstrap mustache all the way around
wrapping up into sideburns and then bald head,
barbed wire undershirt.
He goes, "Vic, I thought you were dead."
- Uh... (energetic techno music)
So did I.
- (laughs heartily) Been there, brother!
And comes in for like,
the clasp hug, comes in. (Ify groans)
"Hey, bring it in." And he says, "Get this man a drink.
You still drinking Patrón?"
- Uh, no, I have something, for some reason,
I desire the Mexican Lager Sombrero.
Can I have a...
Are there any Sombreros in here?
- On a 19 Hot check, he looks at you and goes,
"This guy's crazy!"
And just ushers you into the club.
And Kingskin, you look down and see,
walking into your club- - (whispered) No, no.
- A man named Vic Ethanol, and for some reason,
even though you don't know that name, you know that face.
As you walk in, you look up and see this like,
white-suited, clearly important figure
looking down at you from a catwalk up above.
(Rekha laughing)
And you are led to this place.
You see that your sort of knife man lieutenant comes over
and says, "Boss, Vic Ethanol just walked in.
I think this is the man you wanna see."
- Yeah. Um, bring him to me. (pulsing techno music)
- Vic, you see that a bunch of guys,
they're sort of like henchmen over in a corner smile
and nod, look at you, and you are led up the catwalk,
and you see one of the guys
with the little surveillance and the automatic weapon says,
"Boss man wants to talk.
Good to see you, Ethanol. Stay sharp out there."
- Yeah, yeah. You too.
Don't get cut. (chuckles) - Yeah, I won't. Not again.
And you see he lowers his T-shirt,
and there's a huge scar on his chest.
- Oh.
- From your boy, right? Shaun Nitro.
- Oh, yeah, Shaun. Shaun, Shaun.
He's a loose cannon guy, that is.
But you know, I was just talking to Shaun,
and he said he would never do that again.
He's actually very apologetic for it.
He says one of the biggest regrets of his life.
You should really forgive him- us as a unit. We-
- I'll forgive him
(slaps fist aggressively) at the end of the next drag race
when I wipe him out
just like his shithead older brother who I wiped out,
and that's why he hates me and that's why he stabbed me.
(Ally stifles laugh) - Oh, oh.
This seems like a you and Shaun situ-
I hate getting in between it. - Yeah!
- Sorry for speaking for Shaun.
He probably has his own thoughts on the matter to be honest.
Where's the boss? I think I'll go-
- Liv, you see this incredible burly looking man
who commands the respect of all the criminals
in this nightclub as he walks in
speaking with Wendell's voice that you hear loud and clear,
exactly as it is in Lake Elsinore.
He says, "Lotta words, Vic.
Maybe if your engine ran as fast as your mouth,
you wouldn't have lost the last race!"
And he walks away.
- Okay, yeah.
- The aggro exposition is so funny.
- And that's why he hates me and in turn why I hate him.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Liv and Wendell, you are alone up here at the top.
But you're looking at this enormous crime boss.
- Um, so you wanted to...
- Wendell, it's me! - [Ify] Oh!
- It's me! Wendell, hi! - Whoa, oh!
Hey, oh, how, who, what, why?
- Look how big we are! - Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're...
- [Alex] Look how big we are! - We are pretty big. (laughs)
- Oh my god, I knew it was you 'cause well, we're both...
I mean, not that you didn't do a good job, but that,
oh, that was a weird interaction you just had.
- You see the knife man comes up and says,
"You want anything, Vic?"
- Um... - That Sombrero, right?
- Yeah, yeah.
The Sombrero beer. - Great.
Can I take that stick of dynamite away from you?
(Rekha and Jacob laughing)
- [Alex] Hey, hey, hey, hey- - Yeah, I guess I-
- Hey, actually... - Mm-hmm?
- Leave it.
- You want? You...
This guy's not with our gang. He's a lone wolf.
He's a bad boy. - We might need it.
- Go ahead and give me Hot five.
- [Alex] (laughs) Okay. - He's cool. Leave it.
- Leave the bomb. - It's a two.
It's a two but I'm gonna use- - Yes!
- Okay, you use two to blow up.
Here we go, boom. - Yeah.
- Oh wait, I guess I could blow it up.
Sure, yeah. I'll blow up. - [Ally] Oh, yeah, yeah.
- If you're using two, yeah. Or, yeah.
- Or no, I had a two. I'm gonna use four to blow up.
- Oh shit! Okay, roll a d8.
- [Alex] Okay, that's... - Oh, you were on six Hot?
- Two. - [Brennan] Yeah.
You were on six Hot. - Yeah.
- Okay, so that's eight overall, right?
- [Alex] Eight, yeah.
- Okay, so you see he looks and says,
"Whatever you say goes, boss man.
Good luck with the dynamite, Vic."
- Oh, don't worry. I'm not gonna do anything with it.
I'm just kinda holding it 'cause it feels necessary.
- And as he walks away,
you hold it and it feels great holding onto it.
It sort of, it just, something about it feels reassuring.
In this moment, looking at each other,
you realize everyone else has to be here as well,
your other coworkers.
And I'll ask you, knowing that there's only one person
left at the table, I will ask in this moment
if you're worried about anybody else
who might be stuck here in Action World?
- Yeah, where...
Wait, where is like, all, everyone else?
'Cause you know, I'm sure, you know,
Dang and Russell, they're tough dudes.
- They can take care of themselves.
Paula, she's like, she's on top of things.
- Usha might be dead. (cast laughing)
- And as we hear, "Usha might be dead,"
we cut to a- (players laughing)
We cut to a server room with like,
a fucked-up chipped floppy disk stuck in a fan.
The sounds of, "We're fucking dead! We're fucking dead!"
- I forgot! (players laughing)
- I'm fucking dead!
- I am?
- As the shouting happens, you-
- Yelling!
- You hear, Usha, you hear a noise outside.
Looking in the reflecting casing of one of the screens,
you see the look of that hacker from that movie,
and you begin to hear noises outside going,
(pounding wood) "Is everything all right in there?
We hear some shouting."
- I'm getting it under control.
- Do you need assistance?
(tense futuristic music)
- No! (Ify chuckles)
- Give me a DC 3 Hot check.
- Three. - You succeed.
So you see he says, "All right.
Let us know if you need anything."
And the voice starts to go away.
You look down and also see that you are wearing right now
what looks like a sort of like service technician's uniform
'cause you saw this guy in a movie where he was a hacker.
So you're like, this is something deceptive
is going on here.
This guy should not be in this room.
- Oh my god. This must be my fault.
What did I do? I must have pushed a bad button or something.
I gotta call Lisa.
She wants to try to call her granddaughter.
- Hell yes. Go ahead.
You had a cell phone on your side.
- [Ally] That's so funny.
- Big, chunky 1990s cell phone. Go ahead-
- I hate new technology. (cast laughing)
- Go ahead and give me a Tech check.
Just a DC 3 Tech check. - Okay, okay.
Four. - [Brennan] Oh baby!
- All right, baby! - [Brennan] Here we go.
Boom, let's roll a d6. - Okay.
Two. - Two, okay.
So, we get the six. You dial Lisa's number.
(phone ringing)
(phone beeps) Haldwell.
(epic action music) - Huh?
- [Brennan] Agent Haldwell.
- Oh, I'm sorry. I must have the wrong number.
I'm looking for Lisa. Are you Agent Haldwell?
Is my daughter home? Granddaughter, my god.
- One second. (phone beeps)
There's a hang up and then your phone starts to ring.
(phone ringing)
- Phones are always broken. Hello.
- How the hell did you get that number?
Never call me on that line.
- Lisa, did you get a new phone number?
Please stop changing your phone-
- Is this G13?
- She looks down and she sees G13.
- Undercover as G13? (laughs)
- Well, I think you see there's a fake name.
- [Rekha] Yeah, yeah. Yeah- - But as a joke,
G13 always plays, like, that sequence
is in the serial number. - Yes, yes.
Something like that. Good job.
And then... (laughs) (Ally laughing)
And she's like, she connects the dots a little bit
that this is not Lisa.
This is not a current cell phone. She is not Usha.
And she, her neurons are high fiving.
They're doing a little jig for her.
- For us this season, it's all about this.
- It's all about the neurons doing a little jig.
- [Brennan] Mm-hmm. - They're dancing together.
And she goes- - (chuckles) Or that.
- This is G13. (tense dramatic music)
- Yeah? Why the fuck are you calling me at the bureau?
- Am I supposed to reach you elsewhere?
- This is the number you reach me from,
and I know you have it, G13.
Why are you calling me? Did anything go wrong?
What happened to the Protocol?
- She remembers that the disk she shredded in a fan
said "Protocol" on it. (players laughing)
The computer isn't working.
- (laughs) From the hacker!
- The computer isn't working,
and so when I was trying to upload the floppy,
something in the system whirred up.
- Word up?
- It whirred. (players giggling)
Whirred, hwhirred.
It whirred up. It whipped it up.
♪ Now word up ♪
- It whipped up the floppy (players laughing)
into bits.
Now, can I get a second one?
(cast cracking up)
- He says, "Hold. Hold right now."
You hear voices that sort of mutter in the background,
"Oh fuck, they're all dead.
They're all fucking dead."
"What?
Goddamn it!
G13, did you fuck us?
Need I remind you that you are on loan
from the fucking government,
and if we don't get what we need from you,
I'll put you so deep in the fucking hole
that you'll never see so much as a pocket calculator again!"
(tense dramatic music)
- Okay. (cast laughing)
You take care now.
- No, don't you fucking hang up on me! You listen here.
You are nothing more than the dirt on my boot,
you no-good, lowdown, rotten criminal.
And I'll tell you this.
We are gonna find a way to make this right.
- What? - Okay, listen.
Our man lost the casings,
so you need to go back and find out.
We're gonna have an operative waiting at the Deluxe Royale.
We need you to get into the security system
and wipe the cameras.
He's gonna take out Manhattan and then you peel outta there
and we'll meet you back up at the rendezvous point.
Do you understand?
Deluxe Royale! Be there!
Wipe the camera system.
- Okay, I'll give it a clean.
And hangs up. (Brennan laughing)
Usha looks at all the computers ahead of her,
and is so intimidated. - [Brennan] Yeah.
- She knows she needs to do something with these.
- [Brennan] Hell yeah. - So she does
what anyone who doesn't know how to use computers does,
which is touch everything.
You're touching every part of every touchscreen hoping,
praying something pops up, something opens,
something that will give her a clue as to who she is.
She's feeling around. - Yeah.
To get information about like, who and what you are
from this room, go ahead.
This is gonna be a Tech check of 10.
Tech check of 10. Cool. - Okay.
(die taps table)
- Oh, reroll. - Okay.
Okay, I would call that cocked.
- Okay, that's cocked, that's cocked.
- And you gotta- - And I got five.
- [Brennan] Five, okay. - Okay.
- Do you have a thing? - I do have a token,
and I'ma spend it. (Brennan gasps)
- Blowing up! - [Brennan] Oh my god!
Blowing on up! (players cheer)
(explosion pounds) - Okay, so now an eight.
- So you need a four to meet the DC here.
- Five! - Five!
- [Brennan] Oh my god! Okay. (players clap and cheer)
- That's awesome.
- Usha, as you walk up to one of the servers,
you get on a keyboard.
And as you do, you start to look through,
(mimics device buzzing) looking through code.
- [Ally] No way.
- As it begins to load up here.
And you just let your fingers start to type,
and as they do so, a little line of code
starts to go like, "Initiate Buzz, Buzz Protocol.
Stinger, Stinger."
And a little image shows up
made of sort of like lines of code
that just goes, "Entering The HIVE."
And you see that someone comes back to you
and it just says, "Username: Slicer."
And he just goes, "G13, how did you log on?
We thought you were nabbed."
And you see that someone else comes on that says,
"Username: Banks" says, "White hat, feds, puppet, narc.
Close 'em out."
And you see another one says, "G13, give us the password."
- Okay, Usha looks desperately around.
She thinks to her skill set.
She thinks, "Okay, my kids have had passwords.
My grandkids have had passwords.
Are they on a Post-it note? No!"
She looks at the keyboard
to see which are the greasiest keys.
(Brennan gasps) The keys she's always
had to clean from her granddaughter's nasty little keyboard.
She sees the keys that are greasiest.
She uses her knowledge of Scrabble.
- Awesome.
- Here's greasy keys. Okay.
P-S-T-U-A-V-N-M. (Ify laughing)
What word could that make in Scrabble?
She's doing a lot of mental math.
Do I roll to attempt a password?
- I think based on how fucking rad that was, you go,
"PSTUA17."
And as you type that in, that random string
of letters and numbers opens up the password.
G13 would never have an actual English word as the password.
That's not strong encryption.
As you, (mimics typing rapidly) letters and numbers,
you put the password in.
It opens up and you see just these strings of code and text
are flying so fast that they actually make like,
almost like symbols and gestures back and forth.
You see that Slicer comes in and says,
"G13, what the hell happened?
You haven't logged onto The HIVE in like, eight months.
We thought you were dead."
And you see that Banks says again like,
"Did you get nabbed by the feds?
What happened?"
(tense synth music)
- Usha does not know who is on her side or not.
- [Brennan] Yeah.
- 'Cause she knows she's been told
she is sent by the government,
but then these people are saying,
"Oh, did you get nabbed by the feds?"
She says,
(chuckles)
"All you need to know is I'm on my way
to the Deluxe Royale."
- Got it.
You see that someone else opens a little side window,
and you see it just goes (mimics message notification)
"This is an unscannable text box.
Do you have the feds over your shoulder
watching the primary chat?
Y/N" for yes/no. - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Do I in this?
- [Brennan] Not to your knowledge.
- Knowledge, okay.
- But give me a Wits check, difficulty of four.
- Okay. (die taps table)
One. - One. Okay, no worries.
Take a token. So yeah, not to your knowledge, you don't.
- Yeah, okay. - [Brennan] Mm-hmm.
- Okay, so I type N.
- You see it goes back to the main text and says,
"G13's off the leash.
Listen, do the feds have you going there to do some dirt?
What do they want you to do?"
(tense techno music) (Rekha sighs softly)
- Usha really doesn't know who to trust.
She is someone who kind of relies a lot
on her kids and grandkids for support,
and she was not able to reach Lisa
and instead reached a really rude man.
So she, taking a cue from Paula,
whatever this device is, she just closes it. (laughs)
- Unbelievable. You go and you close it.
And the screen shatters on the ground.
(Rekha laughing) (glass crashing)
- So much progress, but then, you know what? (slams table)
- [Brennan] But you know who you are.
- Yes. - And you know
that there are some people...
Like, what has Usha taken away from this
about G13's place in the world?
What has she put together?
- Usha has taken that he's possibly like, an agent
for many people to use. - [Brennan] Yeah.
- The government, criminals,
anyone who wants to use a hacker.
The hacker's on nobody's side but hacking.
- [Brennan] Yes. - And but curiosity.
- Yeah. Fuck yes, fuck yes! (players laughing)
- Hacker's on nobody's side! - Yes.
- I'm on the side of hacking! - [Rekha] Yeah.
- That was cool. - That is what she's taken.
And then also that she needs to get to the Deluxe Royale.
- Hell yes. You- - And that's whirred up.
- [Izzy] That's whirred up.
- Give me a Wits. Give me a...
That's whirred up.
- If the episode title isn't "Whirred Up."
- [Brennan] Yes. - W-H-I-R-R-
- R-R- - [Brennan] E-D?
- It made so much sense in my brain.
- [Brennan] What's the word? - I was just like,
"What are you talking about?" - [Brennan] Whirred up.
- And then it made me laugh so hard 'cause I was like,
"Wait, this is so out of character." (laughs)
- Usha, as you exit from this place and head out,
give me a Wits check of a difficulty six.
- Three.
I have one that I'm spending. - Yes!
- [Brennan] Okay. - I'ma blow up.
- [Brennan] Hell yeah. - All right, and then-
- Blow up. Gotta roll a two on the d6.
- [Rekha] Yes. - We get that boom, blow up.
- Two! - Yes!
- Two! Hell yeah, boom! (Rekha cheers excitedly)
Again, as you move through this space,
you just feel this like, body, this personality, this tone.
Like, there is something available to you
from someone who has lived a life
in the most dangerous channels possible.
- [Rekha] Yeah.
- And has lived to tell about it.
These skills are yours if you can have the wherewithal
to seize them. - Yes.
- And on your way out, getting that six Wits, you stop
and grab the floppy disk
from the wall. - Yes! Oh my god, fuck!
Yeah, the chewed-up floppy.
I was like, I literally wrote down like,
"Grab this, grab this, grab this!" (laughs)
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you grab the chipped floppy disk from the wall.
- The broken one? The whirred one?
- [Brennan] On your way out.
- Yes! Oh my god, fuck! - The whirred one.
- You grab the floppy disk on your way out
and head in a cab to the Deluxe Royale.
- And can I steal an Ify moment?
- [Brennan] Yeah. - And as she's in the cab,
she looks in the reflection,
her like, disgusting reflection now in the window.
And it's like a little sniveling hacker that's like,
"You had it in you all along, kid."
- Ooh! - And she's like,
"I have not been called kid in 78 years." (laughs)
- (laughs) Fuck yes! The cab takes off to the Deluxe Royale.
We're gonna cut back over to the Santa Monica Wharf.
On the docks, a lone motorcycle (mimics engine revving)
of Jennifer Drips, AKA Russell Feeld,
rocking up to the docks at night.
Meanwhile, you see coming out of the water,
(mimics water splashing) you see the trail
of whirring white water as this torpedo
(mimics engine buzzing) banks alongside a ladder.
The hatch opens up.
Dang, you see a ladder going up to a dock,
and in a beautiful camelhair coat,
like a slightly sort of like, comb-overed hair,
immaculate suit, an older British gentleman
walks out the shadows as you ascend the staircase
and you arrive on a motorcycle.
He goes, "St. Lawrence, I take it
you had an explosive time below water." (chuckles)
- It's crazy. It was crazy down there.
- Oh my god! (Rekha gasps)
(Jacob clears throat)
- And you hear Russell's voice coming out
of a stunning assassin.
Like, motorcycle helmet coming off, long hair.
So you see this like, cat burglar assassin.
You see this tuxedo-wearing nondescript everyman.
And you hear Russell's voice come out,
and Dang's voice comes out of this tuxedo-wearing.
And I think you would recognize Greg Stock
as the character.
St. Jude says, "Ah, Ms. Drips.
I see that you and Mr. Stocks are acquainted.
Can't say I'm surprised." (Ify sputter laughs)
- Yeah, we met at the Trailer Biennial.
(players stifling giggles) - [Brennan] What?
- The Bi-ellenial Trailer.
- You must not have been invited.
- Ha, well, uh...
Yeah, perhaps. Um...
So, uh, uh, how did-
- I just wanna kinda like.
- [Brennan] Yeah, he looks around and says-
- Are you trying to like, make a...
- But then it's like also like...
- Oh my god! You guys kiss.
(players laughing) - [Brennan] Yes.
- No incest. - Yeah.
- Not on my watch! - Not on this season.
- [Brennan] Not on this season!
- Is it incest? (Brennan and Alex laughing)
- That's a really interesting question I'm not willing
to open up. - [Ally] Said so quietly.
(Brennan laughing) It's so quiet.
- In this week's "Adventuring Academy,"
can you kiss your uncle if you're both different people?
- [Jacob] (laughs) No, no. (players laughing)
- So, St. Jude basically looks at you and says,
"Lawrence, were you able to recover the deck of cards
from the submarine captain?"
- Like, out of the lapel? - Yeah. Incredible.
I will remainder its custody to the Santo Patron.
Meanwhile, I think you both should know,
the Empresario has already become active
and may be aware of our presence in Los Angle-less.
- Oh. (chortles)
- Then we'll have to lay low.
- Hm. How did it go?
Were you able to recover the serum?
- No, I didn't have clearance,
and I was ambushed out of the room.
- We thought that this may have been possible.
Turns out that one of our agents was abducted
by one Damian Bane.
- Which agent? - St. Francis.
He's been off the grid for over a week.
We discovered that there had been
what looks like a bomb fight
somewhere on a train in Geneva.
- Bomb fight. - St. Francis has vanished
from checking in with the Santo Patron.
However...
He takes a dossier and hands it to you, Dang, and says,
"Normally we don't like to work outside
of the Santo Patron's trusted inner circle,
but given your history with Bane,
it felt right to reach out to Ms. Drips,
whose work with the Santo Patron
has occurred only in passing from time to time,
but then again, we do often find ourselves
on different sides of the law, don't we, Ms. Drips?"
(Ally chuckles confidently)
- Russell's really getting into the hair flip
'cause it just feels so damn good.
I guess so. - [Jacob] Dang, it looks like-
- [Ally] And then he scans everyone's faces
to see if they thought that looked fake.
- St. Jude looks at you, and seeing the hair flip
that Russell's thinking is like, overly pronounced.
Jude just goes, (chuckles) "Awesome."
- Looks like we got ourselves a St. Gato joining the team.
- Oh, from the Spanish for cat. Cat burglar, meow, meow.
- Very good. - Very well.
- (laughs) Really good. - The cards, St. Lawrence.
- Hand it over. - Cool, go ahead, toss them.
As he does so, he says, "I shall be on my way
to rejoin the College of the Santo Patron.
Be in touch with you.
You should know
that there is a New York City Police detective,
who is currently on the heels of the Empresario,
who is staying at the Deluxe Royale.
We believe that the crime boss Kingskin may be after him
to take his head.
This detective is none of the refinement
of the Santo Patron.
We don't tend to work with him.
He's too rough and rowdy, a bad boy,
a loose cannon, a wildcard, if it were.
But it just so happens that over the last 10 or so years
he has been instrumental in stopping a huge number
of world-shattering terrorist attacks
and then always goes back to work
for the New York Police Department every time."
- Sounds like a good résumé. (Ify snort laughs)
- Wow, do you need a ride? (dramatic spy music)
- Yeah, I could use a ride.
Now, just to make sure, this Emperor...
The Emperor Penguin (spy music abruptly stops)
that you were talking about. (players chuckling)
- [Brennan] Who? - Emperor Penguin?
Empresar...
Emperor Penguin Sarios. - Oh, sorry, the Empresario
we believe is working- - The Emperor Penguin.
- with Kingskin.
(dramatic spy music resumes) - Yes, now,
are we trying to infiltrate him
without the detective knowing?
- The priority for the Santo Patron is Bane,
having absconded with the serum.
However, we believe that Jack Manhattan
may have some hot leads as to the nature
of where the serum has been taken.
And if he's as close as we think he may be,
his intel is necessary
for the Santo Patron's objective to be obtained.
- I hate cops. - (laughs) Yes.
A rural and unrefined version
of the incredible international extralegal law enforcement
that is the calling card of the Santo Patron.
We love to operate outside of governmental jurisdiction
but still kind of enforce laws.
- Hm. - Don't tell me that again.
- Don't tell me what to do. (mimics jetpack blasting)
And he jetpacks away from the wharf, and as he vanishes,
you have some like, feeling in your gut
about that deck of cars, but turn and are at once alone
with Russell and yourself. (light clicks)
- Wait...
- Ooh, I wanna like- - And then I don't have it.
- [Ally] Oh my god.
- [Jacob] I can't retcon something, can I?
- [Brennan] Potentially. What do you wanna retcon?
- Could there be something else
in the deck of cards that I handed him?
- (gasps) I'm gonna say that to know-
- [Jacob] It's tough. I get it.
- It's a toughie. - [Jacob] Yeah.
- Let's call it a difficulty 10 Wits check.
- [Jacob] Okay, great. - Cool.
(die taps table)
- Nah, didn't make it.
- [Brennan] Okay, but take a token.
- Yes, thank you. - I think like, as you...
It's like, you weren't even aware
that that would have been a priority
until they go. - [Jacob] Yeah, totally.
- And it's weird 'cause it's not...
It's like an emotional feeling.
It's not a logical thing, right?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I look at my uncle.
- Oh my god! - What the hell's going on?
- I have no idea.
This is so sick. - 'Cause you're them, right?
And then I'm me. - Yeah.
- But you're you. - Yeah.
- And I'm me. - You're the guy
from the movie! - But I'm different.
Yeah, and you're the guy, you're the...
Well, you're not a guy. You're the sexy lady from the movie.
- Yes! I'm the sexy lady from the movie.
It's incredible. - You look good.
- Thank you! My knees feel incredible.
- Oh. (laughs) - They're just, ooh!
- I feel smarter than ever. - I have a motorcycle.
This is so sick. We should go to a bar or something.
- You wanna get lit?
- Let's go get a drink. I wanna see the town!
- This is LA, baby. We finally...
Like, I'm in LA! - [Ally] Yeah, can we-
- The city! - Try to like, go to a bar.
On our way to the hotel. - Hell yeah.
- Can we stop? I want normal street clothes.
And I just wanna get a drink nearby.
- Cool. You start like, zooming through.
- I'm on the back of the bike. - Go to the pier.
- Oh, go to the pier.
- Oh my god, get Boardwalk shirts.
- Oh, what's that place called?
- 3rd Street Promenade! - What's that place called?
- You gotta get Boardwalk shirts that are like,
- "I love my slut dad." - [Jacob] The Bungalow.
- Or whatever. - [Jacob] The Bungalow.
- I love my slut dad. (laughs)
- My slut what?
- The head, "Love my slut dad."
- Whatever. (laughs)
- [Brennan] Okay, so you guys head out from there,
and are just- - Make that shirt!
Make it! I need it! (players laughing)
- [Brennan] Incredible.
- Some are babies'. - The size is like only-
- I'm already deciding that I'm making that for you.
- Thank you. Make for me? - For the baby.
- I love my slut dad. (players laughing)
- [Brennan] Um...
(adventure music abruptly halts)
(Izzy laughing) Unbelievable.
- (laughs) Took his thunder.
- Okay, so you guys just take a second to like,
go have a ball?
- I mean, we're in a fucking movie together.
- [Brennan] Yeah. - [Ally] We're so close.
- Yeah. - It's like,
I'm just, I'm exploring myself.
I just wanna get a drink- - [Brennan] Great,
I think you guys- - on the way to the hotel.
- I think that we see a man in a tuxedo
with a high-tech wristwatch and a like,
international cat burglar kind of assassin criminal
in like, street clothes.
What's like, the first T-shirt you would buy
on the Santa Monica Boardwalk?
- I heart my slut dad. - I mean, obviously,
it says "California." - [Brennan] California, yeah.
- And in small print, "I love my slut dad."
- I love my slut dad. - I love my slut daughter.
- I love my slut uncle. - Like jeggings.
- [Brennan] Yeah. - Wait, what's '80s?
- [Izzy] My slut nephew. - Yeah, as you suit up,
I think you're just like, it's like,
cotton candy on the Santa Monica Pier.
- (gasps excitedly) Yum! - We get a beer.
- You get a beer. Easy, great. - Get some coke.
- [Brennan] We're gonna move from there to actually-
- It's the '80s. - It's the '80s, baby.
- [Brennan] We're gonna move from there
back to Jack Manhattan.
- I'm pissed. - [Ally] Yeah.
- I'm pissed off.
- I didn't even realize that these were-
- I don't even know what it is-
- You guys are geniuses. - but I'm fucking pissed!
- [Brennan] I'm fucking pissed-
- You guys are geniuses for this.
- You were able to keep yours. - So Jack, in the hotel,
you're making out with yourself for a little while.
- (laughs) For a little while!
- But I stopped 'cause I'm Catholic.
- It occurs to you that maybe this is not okay.
- And he hasn't... (laughs)
He hasn't consented.
- (laughs) So you have a moment of like, being in this body.
- When I look in the mirror, does he...
- What's that?
- When I look in the mirror,
do I Ify? (Ify laughs)
- Only you can tell me that.
- I think you should Ify.
- I feel like maybe not right now.
- Okay. - [Brennan] Okay.
You look in the mirror. It doesn't happen right now.
- He's like, waiting to speak to-
- Jiggle off, yeah. - [Ally] I'm dead, I'm dead.
- So you're kicking it in the...
Are you just gonna kick it here
and like, rest up for a little while
until you're feeling better?
- Well, I think Paula is like, geeked up.
- [Brennan] Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- She's just like, "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
Oh my F! F!
Oh my F! (laughs)
Um, S-H!
Oh!
And okay, I've got these divorce papers. Oh, gosh."
And just like, trying to like,
go through everything that just happened.
And she's like, "I wanna get out
and I wanna solve this crime!"
- [Brennan] Hell yeah. - And I wanna avenge Cosmo.
- [Brennan] Yeah. - And shoot this gun.
(Ally laughs) - Most importantly.
- Well, you've already shot the gun once,
but you wanna shoot it again! - Yeah, I wanna-
- At a car. - At a car.
- I wanna shoot a car. - So, Jack Manhattan,
you like, get your stuff together.
You head down to the lobby.
And as you're walking up,
you see there's a little concierge.
"Detective Manhattan, lovely to see you back.
I didn't see you come in."
- (chuckles) Yep, yep.
- Oh?
Well, if you'd like any recommendations,
I know that you're coming in from New York City, so...
- Darling.
- Oh?
- Do you have-
- At this most, Usha, you enter the hotel,
and as you do so, you see a New York City detective
talking with Paula's voice. - Do you know anything
about my partner?
- Oh, are you looking for companionship?
- Of course. Of course.
No, I mean, I guess my cop buddy who died.
- Oh, my condolences.
- Yeah, so sad.
- Paula. (players laughing)
It's Usha, the old lady from the store.
(players laughing) (cheerful hotel lobby music)
Paula, can you hear me?
It's Usha, the old lady from the store.
- So this tween is saying... (laughs)
- Oh no! - [Rekha] Paula!
- Oh no. - Remember?
You were gonna come to my granddaughter's birthday,
but you didn't respond yet.
It's Usha!
- (whispering) Shut up. Hush up.
Shush, shush.
- Okay, so I'm gonna leave this interaction.
- Shush up.
- [Brennan] And you see the concierge-
- All right, this isn't for me.
- (laughs) And the concierge leaves you two alone.
- I stop crouching
from behind the baby stroller I was crouching behind.
Paula, Paula, is this you? And she feels your face all over.
- Stop.
- Is that you? - [Izzy] Yeah.
- Or am I feeling a man's face?
- Well, I think it's both.
- Okay. It's Usha, the old lady from the store.
(players laughing)
- Third time saying it. - Oh my god. Okay, oh god.
Oh gosh, okay. Uh, okay, you're here too?
- Yeah, I think we're stuck in a place.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Paula, I'm supposed to do something, and guess what-
- I'm supposed to do something too.
- What are you supposed to do? - [Izzy] I don't know what.
- Maybe we're supposed to do the same thing.
- I don't know. I think I'm, I mean, I-
- 'Cause us gals gotta stick together,
us old gals. - I'm in this world,
and I'm also getting a divorce here,
and I just don't understand- - Oh. Oh no, Paula.
- how that's possible!
- Paula, I'm sorry. (players laughing)
I'm sorry. Who's it from this time?
- Oh, Lucy.
- Oh, she sounds mean.
- She looks gorgeous.
- Oh no. I'm sorry, Paula.
- (stammers) What do you need to do?
- I knew I was supposed to- - I have a gun
and a (whispers) penis. (Brennan laughs)
- Oh my god!
- I think you have a penis, too.
- Very discreetly, (Alex laughing)
Usha makes sure.
She checks all around.
- That stroller, long gone.
- The stroller, fortunately, is gone.
- [Izzy] Thankfully. - Thank god.
There was a dog in it.
(suspenseful music) She...
It's like, feels wrong. She just...
She won't even look. It's too scandalous.
But she gives herself a little shake and goes... (gasps)
(cast laughing) (suspenseful music continues)
Something shook! Oh my god!
- Are you wearing a skirt?
(players laughing) - Hey.
- It's boxers. It's loose boxers.
- Oh my god. Oh my god.
- Baggiest pants and the biggest boxers of all time.
- I told you, this man is impossibly thin
and extra small swimming in it.
- Yeah, that is definitely, definitely... (laughs)
- Okay, Paula, all I know is I'm supposed to show up
at the Deluxe Royale.
I'm some sorta computer blizzard or something.
I'm- - What did you say?
- A computer wizard blizzard or something.
I'm supposed to know all about this technology,
and I'm supposed to stop at the Deluxe Royale.
I think I'm working for two agencies, the government.
I think I'm working for criminals. I'm very worked up.
- Me too. - Yeah.
- (mimics Brooklyn-ish accent) I'm a New York cop.
(Jacob guffaws)
- That's nice.
That's actually kind of a nice graduation for you, right?
'Cause you kinda wanted to um, you know,
you were always trying to wield that mace like it's a gun.
I mean... - It's very exciting.
- I think you're getting your groove back.
- That's how I felt. - That's nice.
I touch her neck. (players laughing)
- It's this young boy touching this grizzled cop's neck.
- I give it some squeezes.
- Um- - What, Brennan?
(Brennan explodes laughing) You wanted to do something?
- Oh, fuck! - You want us to do something?
- [Brennan] No... - We might go shopping.
We don't know! - Great. Well, let me ask.
Like, you guys, having reunited here in this moment,
like, if you wanna go get a drink, you absolutely can.
Would you guys go get a drink?
- Why are you supposed to come here?
- I don't know.
- Is there a hotel bar in the-
- Yeah, there's a little hotel bar.
- Yeah, can we?
I was gonna ask if maybe we can have made our way.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think if you guys are done looking around,
you did have that location.
- I want a appletini.
- We're doing a drink crawl or something like that.
- I would love an apple. Let's go to the bar.
- You go to the bar.
As you guys walk up to the bar, you continue talking.
Russell and Dang, this was the hotel you were told about.
You see these figures walking in and hear their voices.
- One apple. - Tini.
- I don't want that. One apple for me.
And the appletini for the gentleman.
(lively dramatic music)
- Ush?
My little Ushie?
- Dang?
- It's Dang! Ush! - (gasps) Oh!
Gives him a neck rub. (laughs)
- Feel how big them is. - Oh my god!
Your neck got so big. - You look awful.
- (laughs) I know!
- You look awful. (laughs)
You look bad. Worst I've ever seen.
- I'm Paula!
- Oh god. You made it?
- You... - And you're a cop? Classic.
- Uh-oh, is there rudeness? - Yeah, still.
I'm still a cop. - Nice to see you.
What, you want me to pretend
I'm happy to see you, Paula? - I bump into Paula
and I go, "Watch where you're going!"
- Wha? (Jacob laughing)
- You bump into Paula and say, "Watch where you're going."
- Watch where you're going. - (gasps) Russell! Russell!
- What?
- It's Usha, the old lady from the store.
- I run away.
No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. (players laughing)
I was just trying to like, prank.
- Oh, sorry, sorry. - No, no.
It's okay, it's okay. - What?
- Yeah, it's me, Russell! - Oh, you were trying
to do a thing. - What?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I didn't get that- - No, it's okay.
No, no. It's okay. - because I didn't understand.
- Yeah. (laughs)
- It's Usha, the old lady from the store.
- What?
- For Wendell and Liv
that are back at the nightclub together, do you think,
'cause you were told about Vic Ethanol by the Empresario,
but you were also given the Deluxe Royale to head to.
Do you think you would head there?
- And someone wants to decapitate me.
- [Jacob] Someone wants to decapitate you.
- Yes.
- But what are the chances you're...
You're Vic Ethanol? I overheard.
- I know. It's so weird.
You know, I have these muscles now
when I've never had. - Oh my god.
Wait, do you mind if I... - [Ify] Yeah.
- Oh, oh, wow. - Yep, oh, oh!
- Do you wanna feel mine? - Yeah! Yes, yes!
Whoa, you're like.
- Oh, you've really gotten in there.
- Yeah, yeah. You're like a boulder.
So strong, firm. - Yeah.
- A bunch of the criminals nearby are just like...
(players laughing)
And just like, "Ah... (players laughing)
Yeah, yeah." - Just two jacked dudes,
like, flexing with each other-
- Flexing and really feeling each other's bodies
while they flex.
- Guys- - You see that a guy
comes over and says, "Boss, you want me to do a pat down?"
- Oh, no, I got it. Thank you.
- Yeah, he's wearing a tank top. He doesn't have anything.
- Yeah, no, we were were just-
- Oh, we're just following the protocol.
- Yeah, yeah, we're just making sure we were strong
and firm enough for the next mission.
- Oh. You want me to check?
- Uh, no. This is like a one-on-one firm.
- You know, you know what, I'll check you also.
- [Ify] Yeah, yeah, okay. - Oh, you wanna check me?
- Yeah, I'll check. - Yeah, good. Okay.
You see he takes his suit jacket off
and strips down to his bare skin.
Yeah, go for it.
- Okay.
- He just, he's crying a little bit.
- Oh. - Fuck.
- Oh, why are you crying? - Oh, yeah, you're all good.
- [Brennan] No, it's good. - Yeah, yeah.
No, you're good. - [Brennan] That's good?
- You're good. - Do you think I'm strong?
- [Ify] Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're very strong.
- [Alex] Yeah, you're very strong.
- You're probably the strongest dude I've seen.
- Yeah. - [Ify] Yeah.
- Like, I would say before today,
you'd be the strongest person I'd ever seen.
- [Ify] Yeah. - That's just nice to hear.
(sniffles) Yeah. - [Ify] Yeah.
- Are you doing okay? - No.
(Jacob takes sharp breath) - Oh. Okay, well, um-
- Just really good to be touched.
- Oh no. Too sad. - [Brennan] Okay.
- Well, um...
- Um... - Yeah, there's, um...
- Anyways, we were talking about something.
- It's really, I appreciate that.
Sorry, boss. I just thought you might need help.
- [Alex] No, no. Yeah, we'll talk more later.
- Yeah, and you're so loyal, so-
- What's this guy's name? - What's this guy's name?
- Just say it.
- [Brennan] What's that?
- Sorry, I know I know your name.
- No, I know. I...
You know, I know you need to be worried about more.
- Yeah, yeah. I was asking.
I was trying to be- - Doug. Doug Meat.
- [Rekha] Doug Meat? - Doug Meat.
- Doug Meat? - Doug Meat.
- Doug...
- [Ify] Hey, Doug Meat,
why don't you come with us on the mission?
- Really? Okay. - [Brennan] Only if you want.
I don't wanna impose.
- [Ify] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think you need it. - [Alex] Okay. Yeah, he...
- [Brennan] Yeah. - [Alex] Yeah, all right.
- [Brennan] Oh, this is the mission
for the Empresario, right?
- [Alex] Yeah, yes. - [Ify] Yeah, yeah.
- [Alex] That's what I'm saying.
- [Ify] Who? - [Alex] You come with us.
- Yeah, the Empresario?
That's one bad cat, man. - Yeah, he's the peanut butter
to my jelly or the other way around.
- Yeah, yeah, whatever like-
- Hey, whatever sandwich you make, it expired.
- Oh, I didn't know that. - [Ify] Yeah.
- The Empresario, that dude's no good.
Those two dogs, I've seen them kill, pff, 20 people.
- That's not the right way to use a dog.
- It's not the right way to use anything, honestly.
But hey, you don't pay me for my opinions. I'll help you.
You wanna get over to the Deluxe Royale?
- Oh, Doug, that's very nice. - [Ify] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah. - Yeah, you do
what you think we should do, and we'll watch you do that.
- Yeah, let's go to the Deluxe Royale.
- [Ify] Yeah. - I'll get us over there
'cause there's that New York City cop
who's got his nose in other people's business,
and that's bad for business, so-
- We gotta take his head. - Okay, let's take his head.
I'll do anything for you. - All right.
Okay, let's do it! Wow.
- So, Doug Meat pulls the car around.
Doug Meat. (players laugh)
- Like Dog Meat but with a U?
- It's Douglas. - Yeah.
- Doug. - For sure.
- And then his last name's Meat.
M-E-A-T Meat. - Yes.
- Douglas Meat. - Great.
- Douglas Meat. - Doug Meat.
- Ooh,
it sounds like a dating website for Dougs.
- [Alex] Doug. - The baseball player.
- Doug pulls up to the hotel, the Deluxe Royale, and says,
"I'll go find parking,
but I'll meet you at the hotel bar.
We can talk strategy."
- Oh yeah, you could spring for valet if you want,
but yeah, I'll see you in a bit.
- No, no, no, no, no, no. There's street parking.
And you see he- - (laughs) Street parking.
- Doug takes off.
You guys enter, walk into the bar,
and hear some familiar voices.
- [Ify] Okay.
- What kinda bar doesn't have an apple?
- Ooh, I think they're in here.
- Oh, it's our friends? - [Ify] Yeah-
- I mean coworkers. - So, here's the thing.
I think this is like that movie "Jumanji,"
and if we do the mission, we get to go home.
- What?
- I'm at the bar just massaging you like old times,
but now my hands are way smaller.
Oh, I think we know that we're all each other now.
- You're massaging Paula like old times?
- Yeah, I'm very handsy as Russell, so I think now,
but now I'm like, in this smaller body so I'm just like,
"Oh my god, Paula, how are you doing?
You look great." - Jack Manhattan is just like,
"Oh yeah, get in there." - Okay.
- Usha has been given a green apple
that they use for appletinis,
and she also asked for a knife
so she could cut it into small slices for herself,
and that's what she's doing.
- So, I think we'd like to follow the voices.
- [Brennan] Yeah.
- But I think I don't connect the dots quick enough
and see the New York cop and go, "This is what we gotta do."
And I punch. (impact thwacks)
- (laughs) Go ahead, give me a Brawl,
and Jack Manhattan, give me Tough.
- Oh, that's good, Russell.
What do I do? - Give me a Tough roll.
- Oh my god. (laughs)
- Oh, I blew. - [Ally] Ooh!
- You blew up? - No, no.
But I had done it before.
Sorry. - [Brennan] Oh.
- I rolled a three and I'm gonna blow it up.
- [Brennan] Oh my god! - Nice.
- Oh, oh no! - I rolled a two
'cause I'm deep in euphoria. - Oh no.
- Okay, go ahead and take a token.
Take a Turbo Token. - A five.
- [Brennan] Okay, four.
You got nine? - Yeah.
- [Brennan] And what'd you get?
- Two. - Oh no.
- Two. You take a full injury level.
- Oh shit!
- Bam! You failed by more than five.
- Oh my god! - [Brennan] As Vic Ethanol
punches a cop in the face. - Ow!
- Hey!
And I go to step up to him,
but I'm not used to being this size,
and now this is an even bigger person.
- [Alex] Wait, what the- - Hey, watch your fucking...
- Step back from the cop- (cheerful hotel lounge music)
- Wha? What? - Russell?
- Ow!
- Oh no!
- Ow!
- You punched Paula!
- You know, we were told- - Oh my god.
- We were told to come here and beat up a New York cop,
and I saw a New York cop.
- Wait, Paula, you're Jack Manhattan?
- Y-y-yeah...
- Wow, you both got so big. I got way smaller.
- I got way ugly.
- No, don't say that about yourself.
- It's true, though. - Yeah, it's kinda...
- I know. It's Usha from the store.
- Yeah, yeah, Usha. Usha, yes, yeah.
- The whole bar is looking at you all kind of like this...
You see the bartender's like, "Hey, take it outside."
- [Ify] Listen, I'm, yeah. - Hey, listen!
(Brennan screaming in panic)
- Oh my god!
- (screams) And ducks behind the bar.
(intense dramatic music) (players laughing)
- Just like a cop. Just like a cop, pull that gun out.
- Does one of you have a room that we can go to?
- I do. - Okay, let's go, let's go.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Let's get outta here.
- [Alex] Let's go. Okay. - Okay.
Yeah, let's go to my room. (laughs)
- Hell yeah. You guys all get into the elevator.
You're in this, but it's a quite large,
stately sort of elevator to head up
to Jack Manhattan's room.
A bunch of other people file in from the lobby
including Doug Meat who steps in with you
and a bunch of other people.
What are you talking about
as you start heading up in the elevator?
- Okay, who touched themselves?
- Um, not me.
- Well, Wendell and I touched each other.
- [Ify] Yeah, yeah, so that's what we-
- But yeah, so that's what we did.
- Oh my gosh. Oh, you've been waiting for that for so long.
- [Ally] What? - Wait, what?
- The elevator suddenly halts for a second,
and as it does so, a stranger you don't recognize, Usha,
right next to you says, "You killed the cameras, right, G?"
(tense dramatic music)
Batons and guns come out
as the other people in the elevator turn to attempt
to murder Jack Manhattan. - No, no, no!
- And that's all for this episode
of "Dimension 20." - No!
- "Never Stop Blowing Up!" (epic explosion resounds)
- [Rekha] So he trapped us and himself in here.
- This is his "Jumanji."
- So he knows how to get out.
- He just comes in here into this VHS-
- [Rekha] To solve- - to have a ball.
- To get away from it all.
- I wanna do that. - You are.
- Fantastic! (epic adventure music)
- I'm going to kill you.
I'm going to kill you and everyone you've ever met.
- Well, I was trying to help you, but thanks to that 'tude,
why don't you start planning your funeral, buster!
- The wings that flap in the night
(explosion pounds) are the most hidden of all.
(epic action music)
(Rekha laughs) - Ah!
- Yeah, Empresario, what's up?
- You brought Vic Ethanol with you
to hit the New York detective.
- Oh, we were hitting him?
- Probably get out of these
dirty clothes. - [Rekha] Dirty clothes.
- Yeah. - Oh-
- Like right now. We're all friends.
We can get naked. - All right.
- Wait, what's up?
- You gotta believe me.
Jack Manhattan, he has some information we want.
(Izzy bawling)
- Do you have kids? You got any little Meats back home?
- I only ever had one partner,
and they said that I would not make a good parent.
- Okay, we'll talk to you later.
- Okay, well...
Well then, buy something for yourself then
if not for the little Meats.
- If that's an order, I will follow it.
- That dude's gonna die. That dude's gonna die.
- Paula!
Paula! (Izzy screaming)
(Izzy gagging)
- My god!
- This is the craziest you've ever been at this table!
(intense rock music) - Let me out, baby!
Time for daddy to have fun! (players laughing)
(intense rock music fades)
(chill '80s synth music)
(synth music continues)