Reaper Recap: Episode 1.08 “The Cop”
Episode 1.08 - The Cop
Air Date: November 13, 2007
Gladys is at the Work Bench. The boys see her loading a cart with paper towels. They are curious, especially Sock. He follows her around the store. He takes over Andi’s checkout. He gives her a hard time, then helps her out with her cart. There is a tarp with something body wrapped around something shaped and sized like a body in her hatchback. He is suspicious. He stands in front of her car and taunts her. After another car bumps him out of the way, Gladys drives off.
Ted is handing out employee awards. Sam asks Andi what she wants to do for her birthday. She wants to just see a movie, and keep it low-key. Sock is disappointed when Sam wins the “Dog of the Month” award for slack.
Cleaning the dumpster, Sam notices a cardinal tattoo on his own arm. He falls into the dumpster, and suddenly is at a nice dinner table with The Devil. Sam questions his motives for treating him to a nice meal. Sam can’t believe that The Devil isn’t tricking him somehow. The Devil calls him his Employee of the Month, and gives him a new watch. He gives Sam a case file for the next soul.
Curtis Dean Mays, a multiple murderer, is the escaped soul. He says he’s back, and killing again, wanting revenge. People will think it’s a copycat. Sam questions his giving him all this with no catch. The Devil says to take it for what it is. It’s just his way of making his life a little nicer. Suddenly, Sam is alone, and the waiter brings him the check.
In the break room, Sock and Ben are looking up Gladys’ recent –and suspicious- purchases. Sam shows them the file on Mays. Sam doesn’t know where to start looking for the people on whom Mays wants to exact his revenge.
They go to the courthouse. There is now a tattoo of a “6″ next to the cardinal. Sam shows Andi’s present to the boys. It’s a necklace that she saw in a store, and that has a small diamond on it. The boys give him a hard time about it. Ben tells him he shouldn’t give her something like that because it indicates he wants the relationship to change. Mays comes through security right after the boys. After passing the metal detector, he heads up the stairs pulling the barbed razor wire tattoo off his arm, producing an actual string of barbed razor wire.
The boys are talking to the DA about Mays, claiming to be writing a book on him. The DA says always used a different weapon, and changes up his MO, each time. They ask who he blamed for his conviction. The DA says that he blamed everyone, even attacking his own lawyer, when the verdict was read. In fact, his defence lawyer was shot in the head a couple days earlier. He says it looks like a copycat killer. About then, Josie walks by, comes in, and plays along, but makes the boys nervous.
They hear a scream, and run out to see Judge Collins lying on the floor with razor wire around his throat.
Pulling into the Work Bench parking lot, they talk about Judge Collins’ being the judge at Curtis Dean Mays trial. Sam figures that, after Mays’ lawyer and the judge, that the prosecutor, Franzen, must be next. When they get out of the car, they find the vessel box sitting on top of it. The vessel is a taser. Sam is excited. Sock and Ben excuse themselves from going to watch for Mays at Franzen’s house, and go stake out Gladys’ house.
Inside the Work Bench, Sam runs into Andi and Greg. Greg insults Sams hair, then Andi excuses herself to go back to work. Greg kisses her. Greg tells Sam that, for Andi’s birthday, he wants Sam to pretend to take her to a movie, then take her to his surprise party at the club instead. Sam tentatively, and mostly by default, agrees. When Greg leaves, Sam scratches his forearm, then finds a “1″ to the right of the “6″ on his arm.
Sock and Ben are staking out Gladys. Kids egg Glady’s house. She runs out, holding a broom and yelling at the kids that she’ll cook their brains in stew.
Sam has fallen asleep in his car. He awakens to the sound of a car door slamming. He sees a man disappear around the corner of the prosecutor’s house. He grabs the taser, and follows the man around to the back of the house. He sees the man trying to get in, and, thinking that it’s Mays, he tasers him. It’s not Mays. It’s a policeman (Mitch Pileggi). Sam realizes he’s in trouble.
Sam is standing in the street with the detective that he tasered –Stafford. Sam stammers on about how he didn’t realize who he was. Stafford finds the taser. Sam says it was a gift from a friend. He says he’s going to take him in for assaulting a law enforcement official. Spinning Sam around to cuff him, Stafford, sees the watch that The Devil gave him. He asks Sam about the watch. Sam says it was a gift… from a friend. He takes the watch, puts his cuffs away, and tells him never to let him catch him in that neighborhood again.
At the bar, Andi asks Sam if Greg is throwing her a surprise party. Sam stammers, then denies it. When she presses the issue, Sam feigns an emergency, and flees. Andi talks to Josie about Greg, leading the conversation to how she really likes Sam. Andi says she doesn’t want to ruin their friendship by trying it again.
At Gladys’ house, Ben and Sock show up, thinking they have a while before she comes home from work. They break in and look around. Her house has all kinds of angel figurines and other kitschy clap. Gladys arrives home from work early, as the boys are checking out her greenhouse. Sock is looking for body parts or other wierd, freaky stuff. Suddenly, Gladys comes into the greenhouse, screaming and wielding a shovel. The boys get in Ben’s car, and Gladys beats the car with the shovel. She’s very enraged, screaming at them to get out so she can beat them. She’s stopped by seeing her neighbors in the street staring at her. She pleads with the onlookers that it was them, they were in her house. Sock and Ben’s faces grow sympathetic looking.
As Sam is putting his smock on at his locker, The Devil transports him to a ballfield. The Devil is hitting balls into the outfield. Sam is frustrated that the watch he gave him belonged to the murdered defense attorney. Sam becomes hysterical. The Devil tells him he needs an outlet, and taunts Sam to take a swing at him. He hands Sam the bat, and Sam wails away at him. Of course, the blows deflect off him.
Suddenly, Sam is back in the break room at the Work Bench. His locker has been broken open. Ted walks in tells him that the police came to search. Sam questions why, when Ted has the combination, did he let them break the locker open. Ted hands Sam a piece of paper and says that Detective Stafford wants him to come down for questioning.
Sock finds Ben in the garden center. He shows him what he has been reading about demons. Sock says he couldn’t get the angel figurines out of his head, and wanted to find out why Gladys would be into them. He tells Ben that The Devil used to be an angel named Lucifer, and all demons used to be angels. Ben, of course, already knew this from Sunday school. Sock is formulating a theory about Gladys, offering narrative about her “backing the wrong dude and winding up in Hell for eternity.” Sock sounds sympathetic toward her. He then tells Ben a story about his being his current height –6′ tall- in second grade. He offers the other children’s taunting as similar to Gladys’ being taunted by children.
Sam and Sock are walking outside toward the car to go to the police station. Greg drives up, and calls Sam into his car. He’s angry about Sam’s telling Andi about the party. He thinks Sam is just trying to make him look bad. They argue about how to fix the problem, and Greg smacks Sam in the face. They begin loose-wrist slapping each other –girlie-style. Sock pulls Sam out of the car, and takes him to “get arrested”.
Sock, dressed in a suit, pretends to represent Sam in an interrogation room, as if to intimidate Detective Stafford. The detective chases Sock out, and begins to shake Sam down. He says it looks bad. Sam had possession of a murder victim’s watch. He was caught trespassing at the home of the prosecutor of the Mays case. He was in the courthouse when Judge Collins was murdered. Stafford notices some blood on Sam’s hand. He asks about it. Sam freaks out, and yells at the ceiling and walls, as if calling someone out. When the detective questions him, Sam tells him that he’s yelling at the devil. The detective throws Sam up against the wall, and sees the tattoos on his arm. He now has “613″ then the cardinal tattooed on his forearm. The detective asks how he has his address “613 Cardinal Drive”. Sam says he doesn’t know, and that it’s a clue to finding the killer. He says that must be where he killer is going next.
At Detective Stafford’s house, Stafford enters with his gun drawn, and Sam in tow. Sam says the weapon won’t work, that he needs his taser to stop him. “Who?” Sam tells him that it’s Mays and he’s coming to get Stafford. The detective doesn’t believe him, but says if Mays shows up, Sams’s in the clear.
Sock, at home, begins looking through a book about angels. He goes to Gladys’ house and apologizes for calling her a monster. Inside, Gladys serves Sock tea, and they open up to each other. She says their coming to her job at the DMV is the high-point of her day. Gladys tells Sock she wants to kiss his “pretty mouth”. They kiss and begin undressing. Suddenly, Sock awakens, hysterical, from his dream.
Sam is looking at all of the detective’s commendations and articles about his big busts posted on the wall. Stafford tells Sam that it was his heyday. Now, it’s going to be back, when he makes the big bust tonight, unless –his voice takes on a mocking tone- it’s really the ghost of Mays. Sam tells the detective he needs the taser. They go to the car to get it, when a fireball comes at them from the sky. Stafford and Sam go to the ground. Mays throws another fireball at Stafford, sending him to the ground. Sam shoots Mays with a shotgun, gaining his attention. Sam is able to get the taser out of the detective’s glove box, and captures Mays with the taser, as the detective looks on. Sam helps him into the house and into his office. He grabs the phone, saying he’ll call for an ambulance, but that he needs to leave after that. As Sam is making the call, the detective pulls his gun on him, telling him to put down the phone.
Stafford says that Sam seems like a nice kid, but he needs one more big caller so he can retire as a hero. He can’t tell them that the killer is an escaped soul. Stafford tries to fire the weapon at Sam, but it just clicks. He seems to have no control over his hand, as it points the gun at his own mouth. He shoots himself. The Devil surprises Sam, putting his hand on Sam’s shoulder. “Perfect timing”. He inspects the scene, walking around Stafford, saying in a disappointed tone, “Dan. Dan. Dan. Dan.”
The Devil tells Sam that he had a 20-year-old contract with Stafford. He promised him five high profile cases to make him a big hero. He has now delivered his fifth case, with him “catching himself”, saying the papers will say that Detective Stafford “ate his gun”, overwhelmed by the guilt of being the copycat killer.
Sam apologizes for giving Greg a bloody nose. Andi tells Sam that she and Greg broke up. She laughs at his telling her about the slap fight in the car. He gives her the necklace. She says it’s beautiful, hugs him, but won’t accept the gift. She tells him he’s the most important person in her life, her friend. She cries, says she’s sorry, and runs off.
At the DMV. Gladys asks Sock if he’s had any good dreams lately. Gladys gives Sam a gift. The card is to “my employee of the month”.
The boys are sitting at the bar. Sam is staring at the box from The Devil. Sock grabs it, drops it, and a “Get out of Hell FREE!” card falls out to the floor. Sam puts it on the bar, and they walk off. He goes back, though, and puts it in his pocket.
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