The cold open this episode was the trailer for a new superhero TV show called Gold Storm. I kept thinking worse ideas have actually been made. Andy’s daughter asked him to look into the overdose death of Chris Walker, the lead in Gold Storm. She’s close to the actor’s sober coach, Jared. Andy asks Tao for help on the case since he knows “the business.” I just knew this meant I would be enjoying tons of Andy snark toward Tao. I wasn’t disappointed. Andy was determined not to let his daughter down, because she so rarely asked for anything. Given what we’ve learned about his drinking, it makes sense.
They seem to accept that Chris was murdered when they discover that there is a 2 inch wide strip of Oxy in the Very Vanilla shake powder. (I don’t want Sanchez fussing at me!) The interviews lead them to Mrs. Walker’s supplier, Dr. Deb. Who wastes no time providing all of the evidence they need to nail her to the wall. Listening to her lawyer argue for her, I thought perhaps he got his law degree the same place Dr. Deb got her medical degree.
Dr. Deb admits that she sold Oxy to Chris Walker’s dietitian, Jared. Jared is innocent of the murder, but he does give them a clue to finding the killer. Sean found an Australian actor that looks a lot like Chris. After sneaking into the house to spike the Very Vanilla shake mix, he got his replacement an audition and voila, he’s back in the money Chris screwed him out of.
Rusty backs off of his edict and encourages Sharon B. to accept the offer Gary’s parents extended of living with them and raising the baby together. Gus is there to see Rusty off as he drives Sharon B. to their house. Rusty decides to confess to Gus that he is in love with him. Gus is one happy camper but Rusty, after an all too brief but genuine smile, looks worried. I’m a little stumped by that.
Buzz’ story only got one scene this week. Raydor and Provenza were willing to go to bat for him and get the information from the partial prints, but they needed him to further justify the request to run the prints. Buzz committed himself to a thorough investigation, so we should be hearing results soon.
But the scenes that really stood out for me were his conversation with Rusty and his final scene with Jared. Rusty wanted to know the secret to knowing when he could trust his mother. Andy tells Rusty that there is now guarantee. He suggests to Rusty that Rusty may be the one hurt if he doesn’t forgive his mother. The moment Andy took with Jared was just Andy being a good guy. He called Jared out on falling off the wagon and didn’t indulge Jared’s claim that he had it under control because he’s a doctor.
What did you guys think about the episode?
