I officially declare this show a bore. It's so not funny at all anymore, not to mention it sucked on so many levels! I'm not sure that I was O.K. with anything that happened. And it was so long and booooooring!
Did I tell you that that those guys walking around would come in handy at one point? Well it kind of happened too soon and not how I imagined, but the tall chubby guy they call Blanke came up with a plan to take into custody some "notorious international criminal" named Alexei Drastchev, arms dealer, drugs smuggler, human trafficker and apparently "king" of Transnistria. So the usual dumb bad guy that somehow manages to run an entire business because we're to believe he's soooo intimidating, surrounded by a dumb personal army that can't even shoot right because one man managed to take them down. I know this is supposed to be comic, but is it really? I doubtfully doubt it!
Higgins is skeptical, especially of Casey's ability of withstanding 14 hours crouched in fetal position in a very small and tight compartment. So he makes them all wait so that Casey can prove his point. Leaving out the whole ridicule of the situation, I did not see any oxygen tank of some sort and I did not get the "joke" with the mouse they put in the tank in order to test terrain conditions? Ugh...more stupidity to follow.
They end up taking Blanke with them, having to pose as lawyers and Blanke being the one with the Harvard Law degree. He was totally useless, but I'm going to move on to the fact that they had to pass through Muldova. Muldova, really? I mean seriously, at least google it!It's Moldova and it happens to be adjacent to Romania, where I come from; just saying. There they meet with a guy named Farmer who builds the custom tank for Casey to sit in. Well I'm not sure what an American named Farmer was doing in Moldova, but if he was supposed to be local, it's another huge black ball for them. When they departed he gave them this big speech where he praised how brave and smart they were and how their eyes flickered with passion for what they were doing, their sweat oozed of masculinity, blah blah blah and how he wouldn't want to be in their shoes. Whatever!
So they finally arrive at Alexei's house and he greets them with a shot gun in his hand, pointing it furiously at Blanke. He looks like he might ask them for identification or for their luggage to be checked, at least to eat a scorpion, but he releases the tension with a bold fake laugh that is echoed by the dumb looking bodyguards behind him. He might have been just kidding but I was balling my eyes out at the great amount of bad cliches they managed to squeeze in this 40 minute episode that seemed to never end. He then takes them hunting for rabbits ( I know what you're thinking; Dean Winchester: Why does a rabbit always get screwed in the deal?) and after Alexei fails to shoot any with his riffle, he takes an automatic one and starts shooting aimlessly, hoping to somehow hit the rabbit, who was smartly hiding behind an old terrain car and some other bunch of stuff. Luckily no animals were hurt during this unconvincing demonstration of how crazy Alexei is supposed to be. The team looked pretty convinced, but they were paid to.
At last, after Billy suggested Alexei use a rocket launcher to hunt bunnies, which I think was supposed to be humorous, they got down to the real business. Alexei did not call them to provide asylum for himself, but for....surprise...his two daughters. Shocker, they're both beautiful, but only one of them is dumb. Masha is interested in bio-chemistry and wants to go to Oxford and is actually clever enough to see through Billy's "charms". I think this guy really takes himself for granted and doesn't even bother to try.
And the rest of the story is blah blah blah. Casey gets out of his tank, Ricky find out that Alexei was actually dealing some radioactive missals that were supposed to contaminate clouds so they make a new plan where they leave Alexei behind and leave with the missals only, Billy tells Masha that she can either help him or let innocent people die, which was another overdone line. Ricky just happens to have a class B truck driving license( who has that?!) and manages to steal the truck with the missals, which wasn't even guarded, but magically had the key in the starter... only that the chopper Farmer was driving couldn't carry the cargo and the team, so they had to stay behind and get themselves captured. Except for Casey, who planed to break them out from the outside. Alexei wants his missals back and when Higgins delays, decides to shoot Blanke to make a statement. All talk and no bark, he makes someone else do it, outside, and of course Casey was there at the right time to save his chubby new friend. Then Cassey beats a lot of guys with guns, beats more guys with guns and the others talk Alexei into giving himself up for the sake of his daughters.
They all come home safely and decide to make Blanke their consultant, giving him his own office, even though they shared one and promising to call him oh his phone when they need him. They leave with Ricky asking if anyone knew his extension and Billy answering that not really. Again, another supposedly funny line, but it was not!I don't know if I want to watch it anymore.
