Team Tardis is making a run for the border to get to the wedding on time. We’ve got the Doctor going full MacGyver, a shoutout to Babylon 5 and we hope Big Finish is listening, all in thirteen minutes.
It’s rash time, everybody. We don’t want to talk about blood poisoning. But we do it. For the kids. Everything is breaking this week: Tony, the arc reactor, their friendship, the works. Meanwhile, back in Queens, it’s Hammer time. We head into Justin’s factory littered with Space-X employees and Ivan’s new digs.
Don Cheadle is epic being epic! They’re rolling tanks up the PCH! PIVOT! As exciting as Tony getting chewed out may be, watching Tony take the emotional hit is a highlight of this sequence. CGI wonder-work in the palladium core and no, it probably shouldn’t be smoking.
Christiane Amanpour has a corner on the “twos.” There is, in no way, instruction on extending the float time of checks in this episode. Rhodey has access codes. Pepper is getting interviewed. Tony is in the car. Jarvis is in exposition mode. And thank goodness, too, because how else would we know how corrupt we all are?
What would it be like to be approached by a benefactor? A venture capitalist of evil? We explore these opportunities this week. We don’t speak Russian, but we pretend do thanks to Rourke and Favreau. And along the way, we dive deep into our friend the bird, the importance of the bird to negotiation, and language as a power move. Finally, a discourse into appropriate pop culture metaphors in a dance between Peanuts and Buffalo Bill.
Introducing the Blend Friend. You will not thank us for this. Back in the minutes, it’s monologue time. It’s the juicy-juicy Sam Rockwell 2-camera Hammer-Ivan talk. All this reminds us how important therapy with your father is, and how much we miss not knowing about “Daddy Hammer.” What we DO know is that Justin sees Ivan’s power over dinner and chocolate and they are awakened to the value of Legacy.
You say Tsuranga, I say Tsurunga. You say Pting, I say Ptang. Let’s turn the whole ship around. A Doctor among doctors, the heart of a pilot, and a baby in seven days, we’ll talk about it all, or as much as we can in 13 minutes.
We open in Hammer’s hanger in Monaco. As it turns out, Ivan’s free, and the prison liberation was not only a good plan, but it worked. There’s reason to celebrate! How about dinner? Steve Sarmento returns with a hopeful eye toward a set table because NO ONE wants a hangry Ivan.
Prison Break! It’s a fun action sequence that calls on all of Ivan’s intellectual faculties to put together the puzzle of his release. He’s just… amazing, y’all. AMAZING. And SO casual! The team celebrates the release with a walk down the accidentally successful liberation of Whiplash.
Krazy Kabbies! Bed-adjacent porcelain! Salisbury steak! It’s another minute of long, knowing looks between Pepper and Tony. We visit the Lincoln Heights Jail and walk through the shooting history of the facility. Steve Sarmento is back to overthink the potatoes with us. Finally, welcome prisoner #6219, our favorite photographic callback.
