...It is actually starting to make sense. Which means, I think, that it is wrong.
LARSEN
Stan: "In a shocking turn of events, my wife Mitch's return has not brightened my mood."
News: "Okay, well, Ogi Jun shot Janek in the head at the same time you were refusing to kill Nowack, which means your entire family is off the hook from the Mob in a couple different ways."
Stan: "Say, that does do the trick! Next you'll be telling me Professor Clitorectomy has made a full recovery and/or also been killed."
Mitch: "I see that smile on your face and I do not like it."
Stan: "Oh, hell. What fresh nonsense are you going to sprinkle on my good mood now? You're like the human equivalent of that stuff janitors put on barf, except for happiness."
The conversation is a long one. It has to be. When you're breaking out a story like this, you have to just block off a respectful amount of time for these two great actors to pull the entire season (really, two of them) together: Now is the time they put on the table the things they've been rolling around in for two years, and yell at each other, and finally talk about what they're going to talk about. And in a scene like that, let me tell you, recapping gets hard, because they're just saying the same thing over and over and it's all about the acting and the beauty of the scene and the darkness of their house and the painful satisfaction of finally seeing something happen you knew was coming.













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