How about them golden shovels?
“It’s 7 o’clock?
Do you know where your freedom is?”
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he asked, reading from a handwritten script spread before him like sheet music.
He turned to a kitschy Statue of Liberty lamp and pulled the string.
Let there be enlightenment!
And the yanking of your chain.
WHERE ARE THE COPS WHEN WE NEED THEM?
Microbial toxins bacterial toxins!
Our air, our water, our EARTH!
The very soil itself!
Our bodies, poisoned!
POISONED!!!"
Dr. Amp’s shticky rage against the machine recalled the “kingdom of bulls” invective ofMr.
Yep, his righteous program is a vehicle for advertising.
Just like TV shows!
He pushed a clicker and he gained a buttery glow from an unseen lamp hanging in the trees.
“Accept no substitutes!
Get yours now!”
Who else is selling this stuff?)
(Among his powers: Dirty Cooper has a sixth sense for mealtime.)
But as we saw in “Case Files,” this seemingly idyllic community is as troubled as ever.
Oh, and will someone hey fix Doris Truman’s busted leaking pipes?!
Help us, Yoda Buddha Cooper!
You’re our only hope!
But they were meaningful inches sometimes explosive, sometime certifiably bizarre.
You got the sense of a show settling into a groove.
My golden shovel is ready.
Let’s get to digging.
Anyway: How the heck did Dougie’s (wedding?)
band wind up in this guy’s stomach?
You wonder if whoever was responsible for putting it there the man’s killer?
wanted it to be found, a clue to point the authorities toward Dougie.
Or Janey-E. We’ll see.
All the show’s current investigations are leading them to Vegas.
Before we bail on Buckhorn, a correction.
I’ve been incorrect in my understanding of Ruth Davenport’s murder.
I thought the bloated body in her apartment belonged to her.
I didn’t understand we’re dealing with two different victims here.
Are we also supposed to be wondering if the male in question here is Major Garland Briggs?
That’s hard to believe.
Regardless, the Pentagon is en route to Buckhorn to investigate the Briggs of it all.
Perhaps they’ll have some answers for us soon.
But no: A man’s gotta work!
Turns out Dougie’s day job was working at Lucky 7 Insurance.
(Apparently, lecherous Dougie had been interested in such a thing for quite some time.)
He made an enemy out of star insurance agent Tony, played by Tom Sizemore in slimeball mode.
We remember that Cooper was practically a human lie detector in the original series.
He gave “Dougie” homework for causing trouble a stack of case files to review and process.
How the West was won?
With Garmonbozia, that’s how.
As Deputy Andy said in this episode: “Have you found any Indians anywhere?”
Still despairing, still squatting!)
Which is apparently her usual state of being.
“She’s a worrier,” one goon quipped.
The Worrier sent a text.
She probably meant URGENT, but “argent” does have meanings worth your investigation.
He agreed to give Steven an interview, just to blast him for his poor resume-making skills.
Is Becky’s dad none other than Bobby Briggs?
Is she repeating the teenage narratives of her messed-up parents?
Becky and Steve parked.
They smooched, they made plans for a romantic dinner, they snorted coke.
Is Becky miserable and out of control, too?
Might she become a target for Red Room predators?
And did we meet such a demon at the end of the episode?
A scene at The Bang!
(My guess is they’re involved in dealing those designer Chinese drugs we heard about last week.)
With a name like Horne, we might wonder if he sprang from the well-traveled loins of Benjamin Horne.
Or (gulp) Audrey?
Something very dark is lodged in this prick’s heart.
Might he be supernaturally possessed, as well?
But the interaction captured my imagination for the state of their relationship.
To what degree are doppelganger and demon partners inside the vehicle of this body?
Has BOB become more of a silent partner over the years?
I also wonder if they could be turned against each other.
I also wonder if dark-side Cooper could exist without BOB.
But here’s another scenario.
The strangest thing to go down in “Case Files” was the prison break that wasn’t.
At least, not yet.
Dirty Cooper was allowed to make his one phone call.
He suggested dialing “Mr.
Strawberry” a name that made the warden really, really nervous.
The sound-alike lines may not have been coincidence.
(I really do wonder if we’re going to see Agent Jeffries in some form this season.
The show keeps waving wildly at the character, stoking the expectation.
We can dream…)
The pager melted… or maybe teleported?
Everything soon went back to normal, but Dirty Cooper clearly set something in motion.
