The Delta Flyers - Inside Man

Episode Date: April 3, 2023

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Greetings and salutations, everyone. Welcome to the Delta Flyers with Tom and Harry as we journey through episodes of Star Trek Voyager. Your two hosts along this journey are my fellow Voyager actor, who also in 2004 to 2005 directed four episodes of the television series, Summerland. Oh, I didn't know where you were going. And myself, your favorite forever, and Gareth Wong. Remember, you can get the full version of this podcast by signing up to become a patron

at patreon.com forward slash the Delta Flyers. I always love watching your reaction. I'm like, what is you, what are you going to pull out of the hat this time? I know, you have no clue. Summerland. I love Summerland. Tell me about that briefly.

It was a show on the WB back when, you know, Dawson's Creek was on the WB and all those teenage soapy kind of shows. Yeah. And this one was set, in this fictional town of Summerland, California, where it was a surf town, and it starred Lori Lachlan, who was on Full House and, you know, has done a thousand things.

Where'd you film? Where'd you film at? We filmed at Raleigh, Hollywood Studios, so right across the street from Paramount Studios. Yeah. But what about the beach scenes? Where did you guys film those at? We filmed those at Leo Corrio, which... Leo Carrillo State Beach, yes.

Yeah, very popular. very popular beach has that for Baywatch filmed a lot of their stuff too probably Leo Carrillo I don't know I don't know maybe yeah but in terms of okay let's say how many days

speaking of Baywatch that's so funny you say that because Carmen Electra came on Summerland and I remember I was filming a beach scene and she wanted Carmen Electra wanted to wear her ugs in the beach

she was supposed to be out for a run or something like barefoot footrun on the beach. Yeah. And I was like, it just doesn't fit this show. And she goes, I wore these all the time on Baywatch. Like, this is what we did. And I was like, yeah, bugs on the beat.

Like, this is a more kind of natural, you know, not fashiony. It was supposed to be down to earth. So you vetoed her. She was mad at me, too. Carmen Electro was mad. Like how mad? She was mad. She was mad.

She was mad. Do you call you names? I can't remember. she was mad yeah i never met her but i was behind her in line at the uh check-in at hard rock hotel in Vegas back in the day when i was going in the late 90s she was in line and what i realized was she is not tall at no i mean carmen alexera is hobbit four foot 10 yeah she's if she's five feet i'd be shocked i would say four four four four nine or something yeah i just i was shocked i was like oh my goodness yeah okay but other than that experience you enjoyed it i love summerland

i was yes i was heartbroken when that show went off because i was i came in late in season one and then did one episode and then i did three episodes in their season two but then that was it they only did two seasons and it sounds like they liked you too they enjoyed your yeah it was a good fit yeah okay oh well well thank you for sharing that with everyone and myself i always enjoy good times good memories all right let's talk about this week's episode yes let's do yeah so this week we are watching and recapping the episode inside man okay inside man so let's go and watch this episode and we will come right back with our recap and discussion of inside man and for our patreon patrons please stay tuned for your bonus material

Hey everyone, we're back from watching Inside Man and not all the men stayed inside There was not even a planet with people that had to stay inside No, but we were just basically on the ship Oh, we got to see Earth a little bit we did we got to see my father You got to see Admiral Paris yeah Admiral Paris Yeah. Okay.

Let's start off with our poetry synopsis. Let's do. Here we go. Here's my haiku for Inside Man. Okay. Hollow Reg arrives. Ferengi greed is to blame. Escape pot empty.

Oh, haiku. Because are so nice. They're just simple. Yeah. Okay, here we go with our limerick. Not quite this simple, but we'll see. And there's some imperfections in my rhymes, but it'll have to do. Explain it, Robbie. Just do it.

It's a limerick. Here we go. Okay. For inside man. Barclay has created a hollow composite to help Voyager get out of the Delta Quadrant. Harry wants to go home a lot. The Ferengi plan starts to rot. And the lesson is that cheaters never profit. oh look at that so it's like the yeah composite and profit are good but my quadrant rhyme was

close not you know but it's like it's like horseshoes it is close is good enough okay so this episode inside man written not by brian fuller like i thought or who did you think wrote it ten biller biller yeah no it's robert doherty it's bob i was going to say that name I was like, no, I'm not going to go with Doherty this time. You love Doherty. I love Doherty. I know. And I don't remember Doherty as well as you.

And I definitely didn't remember that he wrote as many scripts late in the shows. He did. He wrote a lot of scripts. Sure did. So Bob Doherty wrote it. Alan Craker directed. Oh, good job. Nice.

All right. Guest stars will bang through him. So Dwight Schultz, again, I love him. his performance is always great we've talked about him before Richard heard my father your pops yeah they were both in the Pathfinder episode previously on our show hey have you ever referred to him as Papa Paris

Papa Paris Papa Paris nice okay we have Richard McGonagall as Pete Harkins that's Dwight Schultz's good buddy he was also in pathfinder. So again, another repeat. One of our new actors is Cherise Baker-Bernard, who played

Leosa. Oh, she kind of reminds me of like a blonde Nicole DeBoer from Deep Space 9. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She was great. Cherise Baker-Bernard. Her first job was a TV movie in 1983 called Bill on His Own with Mickey Rooney. Mickey Rooney played, I think like a special needs older man who needed to be on his own or something so that's what it looked like you said that title i just thought bill shatner the entire film is about bill shatner on his own bill on his own on his own that was her first job we have our three forangie and it was hard to tell which was which in those scenes to be quite honest i did okay i could tell who nunk was because he was the boss so i could sometimes tell yeah he was the main guy so nunk was played by michael william

Rivkin, and his first job was in 1989 in a B-movie called The Freeway Maniac. That was his first job. The Freeway Maniac? Yeah. It sounds like a... It sounds like from the same people that brought you toxic Avenger, Trobe Films, Freeway Maniac. Our other two Ferengi were Yegi and Gegis.

Yeggy was Christopher Nyman. His first job was in 1998, right before this, not long before this. On the X-Files, he was the first carpool man was his character. Oh, okay. And Gagis was played by Frank Corsentino. And his first job, he was an older, he was by far the oldest of this Ferengi group, Frank Corsentino. His first job was on Gilligan's Island in 1965.

Yes. Okay, well, then that would have been Nunk then. Nunk is the oldest of all of them. You can tell that there's one elder statement amongst the three. But that's not how he's credited. He's not credited as Nunk? No. That's maybe the credits got wrong.

I think they got messed up. That doesn't make sense. Frank, Corseantino. Yeah. You would think that he's the oldest one. Right. Frank Corsentino unfortunately passed away in 2007. Oh.

I think he was about 65 years old. So a young man, you know, but Gilligan's Island was his first job in 1965. What role was he credited as in Gilligan's? Did it say? He played the native. So I guess he was one of the, okay, he's one of the natives on the island that they encounter every now and then. Okay.

Yes. We also have, of course, Marina Surdice playing Deanna Troy. And we all know and love her. So there's our guest stars. Awesome. There you go. Okay, so let me jump right into this. So we have an exterior space shot of Voyager moving very slowly at impulse across the screen. We have a captain's log talking about how the last month's data stream never arrived.

So everyone's really looking forward to this month's data stream. We don't know the reason why last month's data stream didn't arrive. But everyone's really excited about this current data stream. Then we move to the corridor and we see Harry Kim walking down and Paris jumps in to kind of chat with Harry about the new data stream and he was wondering what the holdup is about. Yeah, Harry's got a coffee in his hand. I never see Harry with a coffee.

No, but can we just talk about that very quickly? Yeah. I unlike Robert Picardo, was not a fan of props. I hated props. I didn't want to hold props. I never wanted a hold. I just wanted just to be able to. I remember that.

And my dialogue. And I just, you know, Alan's like, hey, I want, I want Harry to hold. a coffee mug while he's walking and I'm like oh please don't make me do this I just did it because the number one thing is I don't want to match continuity if I'm drinking you know what I'm saying I don't want to think about that I just want to think about the acting I don't want to think about oh did I did I did I lift the cup to my mouth before I said that one line or did I you know I don't want to yeah yeah it's very unusual to see you with props very much yeah you had a coffee in

your hand yeah basically Harry has gotten some new, you know, data stream. It just came in at two in the morning or something. And Tom wants his mail. Tom's like, hey. He wants it bad. Yeah, Tom seems to really want his mail for some reason. For some weird reason, yeah, he's super eager.

But the holdup regarding this transmission being downloaded is because there is a very large, something is, it's a larger transmission than usual. So something is going on where the download is still happening. And I will say, after. I say trust me and I walk into the astrometrics you give me this look which is just like

whatever you get this really funny look I just wondered what you were doing what were you doing? I have no idea okay I don't know just checking with you Tom's always giving Harry crap so it'd be over anything like hurry up dude come on

yeah slow slow I did think that this walking shot in the hallway it obviously was done off the dolly rolling down the carpet and it was a little bumpy really yeah it felt a little bit bumpy just a little bit it had like a little chatter in it and i wow i wish they had used a steady cam or something because sometimes they would roll down the hallway with us on these walking scenes on the dolly right but they wouldn't wouldn't lay down like um you know dolly track or or boards or anything so why wouldn't they lay the boards down the well then you'd see it if you were if you were backing up

You would see it. You would see that. You're right. So yeah. So anyway, I thought that was a little bumpy. I also thought I looked a little tired in this scene. I don't know why. I didn't notice that.

Okay. But you felt it though. I felt it, yeah. I'm sure you were dealing with, you know, the rigors of being a dad of three at that point. I guess, yeah. We go into astrmetrics. Yes, yes. Seven has discovered what has hindered the download.

It's a hologram. Harry says that the transceiver wasn't designed to store a photonic data. store of photonic data. So he will have to get it out of there before it degrades. So he decides to tie the transceiver into the holodex pattern buffer, which freaks seven of nine out. She's like, hey, those are incompatible systems. What are you thinking?

This is going to be fried relays left and right, but Harry doesn't care. And so he goes ahead and does it. There's a huge bang. Yeah. Or seven is annoyed. And Harry's like, but I saved the hologram. So that's what counts. That's all we want to, you know, that's how we want to, the home.

maybe that's what counts maybe it's all your fault if you think about it that way maybe we could have all died but yeah maybe seven was right yeah um we go to the hollow go to the holodeck next janeway's there with harry and seven yep and they they start up this program that that starfleet apparently has sent them and it is reg barclay yeah and he's got a whole new attitude oh he's like This is the Uber confident. Yes, Mr. Smooth. I love his line where he goes, I am a walking, talking, interactive, problem solving polygram.

Yes. It was like, oh, Mr. Smooth is here. Yes. He's even more confident than the doctor, I'd say. Oh, yeah. Right. Yeah, confident and just friendly and charming. And, yeah, Dwight Schultz, in this episode, I think is fantastic.

Yeah, he did such a great job. And so his hologram comes up and says, oh, I've been looking forward to working with you, Harry, and seven. And sorry that, you know, letters from home didn't get here. My program took up all the space, but you may be seeing your loved ones face to face in a few days. So that's the big, you know, the big reveal. It's like, hey, look at this.

Yeah, he says in three days, Voyager's going to pass grid 898. We're going to pass by this red giant. He starts explaining, I love this dialogue, the way he does it, because it's very techno-babel heavy. You're talking about after the credits, right? The credits will come back in the holiday. We come back and he starts explaining, you know,

that we're going to pass this grid 898 and we're going to pass this red giant. He sort of holds his hands out. And I love how he sort of used his hands to explain something that was really complicated. I could relate to, because I'm not a techno-babel fan. And I don't follow it as a viewer. I don't follow it. So having him sort of his Mr. Smooth version explaining this in like a childlike way, I thought was so great.

I totally bought it. So I'm going to say, instead of mansplaining, he was hand-splaining. Yes, he was. Which really helped in talking about geodesic folds. And yeah, a lot of these tecum babble can, it can turn your mind into mush and try to understand what's going on. If I try to listen to what he's saying, because a lot of it's all of it's, not all of it's made up, but a lot of it's made up. And so I just found his delivery of it was some of the best I've ever seen, just for me to follow.

Yes, for the layman, for the average layman to understand. But we understand at the very end of this that Janeway is excited about this. And she says, listen, Reg, if we're going to attempt this, you will need access to areas without hollow emitters. And Reg says, I have just the solution. And of course, we now go into sickbay where the doctor is handing over his mobile emitter. to Reg. I want to say with Janeway going, you're going to need access to parts of the ship,

you know, you can't normally travel. I immediately thought, this is suspicious. If you have to let this hologram do things that he's not supposed to be, you know, normally be doing, maybe you should run some security checks on him first.

I just felt like, and that's globally, I felt like Janeway acted very much out of character. Like, taking risks in ways that and I have a solve for this later when we talk about a missing scene and our bonus material and I have a solve for how I think this could have been fixed beautifully and tied it back more to our characters but anyway we'll talk about that in the

bonus material I'm going to defend Janeway because I'm just going to say we have been receiving this monthly mail grab you know this transmission on a regular basis who is going to, except last month. And he explains it. He says, well, they try to send an unabridged version of my hologram, but that totally degraded the transmission where it didn't come through. And so now this is the abridged version of my hologram. And so he explained it pretty clearly. And I don't think Janeway has any suspicion about this because it is part of the regular monthly thing, except for last month's not receiving that message. Right. So I don't think that her spidey senses are tinkling what did what did ronald regan say he said trust but verify back in the old

soviet union days i feel like janeway could have trusted but she didn't do much verifying no there's no verification so okay you have a valid point there yeah valid point anyway okay um so but i love the i love the scene sick bay when at the end of that scene oh yeah where he's like i'd And really like to get to know you. Yeah. And then he's like, yes. He's got a hologram friend. He's got like a hologram friend finally.

But as the doors of sickbay are closing, his little, Bob's little face is sticking out kind of askew. And he's like, you know, where to find me? And I just thought that the way he played that was very funny and very true to who the doctor is at this point, you know, in the series. And really, he did a really good job. It was a very quick scene, but I really loved what Robert Picardo did in that scene. Yeah, I agree.

I agree. But basically in that scene, he gives Reg the hologram his mobile emitters. Now the doctor's stuck in sickbay, but Reg can move everywhere. And we go to the briefing room and Reg is laying out his whole plan for what's going to happen. It's a very funny, I love his performance in this. It's just dramatic. And it's like, you know, he's taking it. charge. Reg is hilarious. He's so funny. Seven does suggest using board technology to help out with

this plan that's about to happen. But yeah, Reg start going, that monologue he goes into talking about the miracle ship and everything. It's just, it's sort of like the speech in Henry V. Like, you know, just let's get the troops on board here and get everyone excited about what we're about to do. So, yeah. I did notice that I was playing very skeptical in this scene. Yes, you did. That's what you played the entire episode. So understandable, yep. I played very skeptical. I love that Neelix doesn't get an assignment.

He's like raising his hand like, hey, can I, can I help? Can I have an assignment? And Reg says, well, the crew's going to be working super hard. They're going to need an experienced morale officer. And then Neelix is, you can count on me. Yeah. I just love. I do.

It was a fun scene. Yeah, fun scene with Neelix. The briefing room session ends. And now we're in the corridor. And Tom is basically playing the skeptic. He's telling Harry to temper his expectations. Don't, you know, every time we try to find a shortcut before this, it blows up in our face. It blows up in our faces.

And I just love how I'm, you know, I bought into Reg Barclay entirely. I'm sitting here. Oh, yeah. The miracle ship, you know, and I'm shocked. They didn't, they didn't reshoot that scene because the emotion that I put in that line. you know typically when we're a little bit too excited about something that's when we get that little memo is like no that's too much emotion so i i'm glad that got that that was left in i know i love i liked it the one thing i'll say is i'm sure we shot both of these walking hallway scenes back to back

yeah i'm sure we did they scheduled it so we probably shot that earlier scene first yes and then then shot this one right after because it's the same hallway the same walking coverage so i did think about that but um and i like how how alan left it like he let us kind of go off off screen and in that final line you know just his blocking i enjoyed it my slight annoyance with you i think we played that really well you know is that interaction between us i will say when you bring up um alan craker yeah i and all the fans know this alan is one of my favorite directors i think he's he does some of the most interesting blocking and the way he shoots the show, but this one doesn't seem like top game Alan Craker to me, I'll be honest.

This one seems a little bit more just typical. And I was surprised at that. I kept looking at some of these scenes and just thinking, oh, I usually Alan would do something more, just a little more. And there was not a lot of more in this for him. I still love him. I still think he's an awesome director. I just wouldn't call this his best episode, in my opinion.

And as human beings, we're all allowed one episode or one job that we didn't do our best work in. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm okay with it. Totally. Yeah. It's still a great episode. I really enjoyed it. But I just, when you mentioned his name, I wanted to say that.

That was my takeaway is like. But I mean, I can see what you're saying. I can see what you're saying. because I... It's okay. Yeah. I, when I was watching the show, I kept missing who the director was. I kept not seeing the credit. So when you, my first time learning that it was Craker was you saying it was Cricker in this recording. Yes, because I didn't even see it. And I was a little bit shocked. I was like, oh, really? Because it didn't seem like our typical Ellen Crickard episodes. I know. You're right. You were right about that. But that could have been any number of things, you know? And typically when we don't put in our best work, as actors and directors, I believe it has something to do with our personal lives. And, you know, who knows what was going on in Allen's life at the time. So, you don't know. Yeah. All right. So now we're in astrometrics. Yeah. And Seven is showing Reg her proposed board tech upgrades. But ultimately, this scene kind of rambles on to the point where finally Reg tells her that, you know, everyone is the

most excited to see you. An ex-borg who escaped the collective. It gives hope to every person who's had a loved one who has been assimilated by the Borg. So this is the whole, you know, rah, ra, you're going to be the most popular person when you return home and you've got to, you have to be involved in the parties and the parades and then this, there's going to be a lot of hoopla. And at the end, Seven sort of resigns herself to say that, yes, I will join in on the hoopla, is what she says. And it does make sense in retrospect that Reg is pumping her up the most.

because the Ferengi want her. They don't care about anybody else. So in reality, what he's saying, yes. You are the most popular with the Ferengi is what you are now. Yeah, we only care about you. Everyone else is nothing to us. Now we go to Starfleet headquarters for the first time. The Pathfinder Lab specifically.

We're at the Pathfinder Lab, the Pathfinder Project at Starfleet Headquarters. And we see the real Reg Barclay working here. And he says in the scene that neither of his last two attempts have worked to get the Barclay hologram through. And I was like, wait, what? Because he's there. So for the first time, we start going, wait a minute. And I also love that Reginald Barclay was very different. The way that Dwight played, the real Reginald Barclay, the sort of nervous, neurotic, not so much confidence, totally different than the Reg.

Barclay on Voyager, who's Mr. Smooth. It was just-Hull-Redge. Hall-Redge. Yeah, Holler-Redge is very different and great performance by Dwight. But he does go up on the monitor, and he shows. He says, look where the data stream ended in the same exact spot both times. But they couldn't find anything out of the ordinary there. So they're just confused.

Like, why does it keep stopping right here? Yeah. And Pete, the boss man, basically says, look, you know, let's just. Let's just move on from this. It just, it clearly didn't work. Maybe the hologram was too, it was too much to transmit. And basically the, the transmission degraded and it just never got there. So he's chalking it up to just, hey, it just didn't work.

Yeah. And he's chalking it up to like, well, Barclay, you're trying to do something too complicated. That's the problem. It's your fault. Yeah. Yeah. Let's keep it simple. Just letters from home next time.

Let's not add any holographic matrix, matrices to this. transmission. Then there's a bit of a passage of time. And now we're still in the Pathfinder lab. But now his boss, Pete, is giving a tour. Yeah. Pete Harkins. Giving a tour to about a half dozen little kids, like little kids, like six, seven year old kids, which is so funny that you're bringing these, you know, first first graders through. It's a little. You didn't get any of their names? Any of these little kids that were talking? Oh, I did not. Yeah. Okay. But he asked these kids. Pete asked the kids, what do they know about the races, you know, in the Delta

Quadrant? And the kids, I was shocked. They're like, you know, six-year-olds and all of a sudden they go, Talaxian. Yeah, they know. And they know it. I was like, boy, these kids in the future are smart. They say, Talaxian, Ocampin. And then you hear Red from

off-camera. Yeah. Do you have Schultz going, Borg? And he runs in and scares the kids off, but he thinks that the Borg have intercepted transmission and he is like stop you're losing you're losing your you know your marbles here you need a break and i and i love when pete asks him he says how much vacation time do you have yeah he's like well i i have a little like how much 50 or 60 days yes he hasn't even you never taken he never takes nothing so pete said take a week yeah he's like take a week why don't you go to i got a

friend with a place in Malaysia on the beach It's cousin, actually. Cousins Beach House in Malaysia, yeah. But Reg has somewhere, you know, he's got a place in mind. Suddenly he's like, wait a minute, I have somewhere else in mind. Yes. We go back to Voyager. There's a space flyby.

Yeah. We're in Sick Bay and Hollow Reg is with the doctor. And I just made another note. Super cool vibes from from Reg. He was just a great contrast from the one that's having a, breakdown and needs to go on vacation right to this one who's so confident was great.

This might be his best episode of Star Trek. I think it is. Yeah, I agree. Right. I mean, just to show that the complete difference between HoloRedge and Real Reg is so. I think it is. So good. And it's heartbreaking sometimes on the real side.

Yeah. Yeah. Super creepy. Yeah. Yeah, it's great. Hey, Garrett, have you been traveling this summer? Oh my gosh, so much already. I don't always travel, but this summer's been insane.

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this is his reasoning. And the doctor is still very skeptical. And he's like, well, okay, if you say so. And then he starts talking about golf, about how he really wants to be able to play some golf and maybe he can get that mobile emitter back to play a round or two and then give it back to Reg, Hollerge. But Hollerge is very quick to basically say, yeah, okay, maybe. And I'll see you later and leaves again with the mobile emitter, much to the doctor's consternation. He basically says, yes, if the day goes smoothly, consider it yours and he leaves. Right. And then the doctor's line is, I thought it was mine.

I thought it was mine. Yeah, I love that. Astrometrics, we're in astrometrics. The transceiver is now repaired and Reg wants to add a progress report to Janeway's reply back to Lieutenant Barclay at the Pathfinder Lab. And Harry and, is it Torres there too? I think Torres isn't there too, yeah. Yes. Yes, it's Bologna and Reg working on the response.

The transceiver's been repaired. Harry arrives. And Reg says he wants to add something to the progress report. He lays his pad down. It looks like a charger. Like, you know the cell phone charges? Yes. Lay your phone down.

That's what it looked like. That's what it looked like to me. Like, they were, they invented that 20 years before we had the, you know, contact chargers. Right. But they send everything out. We go out to space. We see Voyager for a minute. We go to the Pathfinder like...

The Midas Array. Was that what that was? The Midas Array, yeah. And then also the Frangy ship. Are you okay with this sort of... Because remember that episode we reviewed and it tried to show, you know, the distance between Voyager and Earth and you were not happy about that? It was confusing.

This was also confusing. This was also confusing, like the other one. Oh. Yeah. I had to rewatch it. I'm like, okay, we're with Voyager. Then it goes to the space shot with the Midas array and some probe sort of detaching from it. And then suddenly we're at a red giant and there's a Ferengi ship nearby.

I was just like, where are we? I know the intention was. Yeah. The intention was, watch this. The transmission goes from here to there. And then instead of getting to where it's supposed to go, it's intercepted by the Ferengi. That's what they're trying to show. But it was confusing to you, though.

It was a little confusing. It was a little confusing to me. But anyway, yes, this reply is intercepted by the Ferengi ship by the Red Giant. They started to play it, and they're like, fast forward through this. It was Janeway's message first. They're like, fast, we don't care about this. This is not important. And then they get to Reg's additional response.

That's what they really want to see. And he basically says, everything's going forward is planned. And then this photo of seven appears, which was just, I guess it's like a crew manifester. something, but it was like, yeah. And one of the fringue lackey says, look at those hands. I'll bet she gives good umacs. So that's our little, you know, these guys are funny. All these fringy were funny. Yeah, yeah. But we do learn that they did not estimate the amount of nanoprobes in the seven of nine's body correctly. There's actually 20% more. There's 3.6 million nanoprobes inside her body. Which I didn't know that we ever knew that. There were that many. No, we don't

know that but three point six million we know from none pro each nanoprobe will get six bars of latinum six times three point six million is what they stand to make in latinum off of that's a lot that's a lot of latinum a lot yeah and they say too bad she'll be dead when she gets here so now we know that that radiation is pretty much going to kill her as she gets through it's going to kill everybody can kill everyone yeah um next we cut to randomly crane shot of a beach yeah like a resort it was so bizarre and by the way it was leo koreo beach which is funny because didn't we talk about that in the we we talked about leo koreo in summerland oh because i asked you i said where did you film that and you said leo so bizarre that's the exact same place

it's the same beach that we did summerland that i directed that we talked about the intro hey look at this this is where we work this is how the universe works robbie mcneal i talk about this in the big intro and it becomes where we end up on this episode. But what I will say is that first establishing shot, the wide shot, there's no sun at all. It's solely horrible. And then later, all the close-up stuff with Reg and Troy, there's sun everywhere. So obviously that's the thing that happens up at Leo Creo. We dealt with that on Summerland. I've shot a bunch of stuff up there. I shot the OC up there. We've shot other Star Trek stuff around that beach. So And that's also very indicative of Los Angeles, which is early morning, you know, kind of foggy, just misty, smoggy.

And then as the day goes on, it clears up and the sun comes out. That's pretty much what happened there, too. Yeah. It was a weird alien resort. The bathing suits were bizarre, as usual. I felt for those poor extras. Hey, the alien guy looked good. The guy holding the drinks, they had the full, you know, he had full application of makeup across his entire body.

I thought he looked good. Yeah, he looked good. Eventually, we see someone in like a straw hat from behind. I'm starting to think this is, you know, Barclay's vacation that he was talking about. And he approaches Deanna Troy, who is vacationing on this beach. And I want to know, why did they put that crazy blue sunblock on his nose? It was so. It was just so weird.

Like, what do you think in the future that they would have sunblock that is clear? like or or no if they put the sunblock that we're used to which is white right if it just did the white stuff on his nose or just the white blue yeah and it was so perfectly put on by the makeup of the part i was like nobody puts on some block that clear i'm going to say it should have been sort of messy and just i don't know this is my feeling this is my feeling they didn't have the white that they needed and they had all that blue that they put on that alien waiter they were like wait let's use some of the blue we used on him and we'll stick that on Dwight's nose, and I think that's what they ended up doing.

Maybe. Possibly. And also, what else was weird is when he comes up and finds Deanna Troy, I did like that Barkley was so paranoid. He had those crazy sunglasses on. And at one point, he's like, they might be watching. And he tilts up the sunglasses on the outside, and there's another layer of sunglasses. So he had like a double sunglass thing.

It was funny to me, just that one little bit. Comedy with props. Yeah. There's a lot of talk about basically Troy asked, oh, I remember last time seeing you at the party and you were so happy. Yeah, life was good. You were dating someone. LaForge was impressed with your work. You're dating somebody, Leosa.

And then everything just kind of hit the fan for his life. But it's- She says she senses some suspicion, she says. And, you know, Barclay. does reveal that he was recently dumped and then leo what's her name leola leola root leola root leosa oh yeah leosa rute leosa root yeah leosa root just dumped him recently and then he says she disappeared yeah and he's just he's paranoid that she may have stolen the the hologram she's behind the missing yeah she is somehow related to the disappearance of the

hologram that's his belief that's his suspicion But I'm going to say that was quite envious of both Marina Sirtis and Dwight Shultz because they got to shoot that beach scene, you know? And I kind of feel like, man, that should have been reserved for the series regulars of Voyager. Why do the guest stars get to go on the dad go? They ought to get the nice beach scene. And then we have to be locked on the, yeah, I was not happy with that. Oh, you know, I was bumped.

Or left out, Garrett. I was left out again, again. It's okay. all right exterior space shot of voyager yeah captain's log supplemental chat from janeway there then we move to we move into the mess hall where barkley is putting on a show doing impressions of janeway for the whole the whole uh crew and everyone's laughing hysterically yeah and i was watching you in the background you were so jealous that he was doing janeway and even though he wasn't doing them i well here's the thing he was it was lute it was lute but i didn't realize because

they didn't they didn't do a playback of the loop on on set yeah when we were there in the mess hall it was dwight doing his best impersonation of them in his own voice and i and then after the fact you know they changed it all but i yeah you're right i was and they placed me right next to him too and i know you were like you guys are that's salt in the wound garret is so jealous right now well because that's my thing my impersonation is my thing forever and they give it to the guest star i but it's he's a hologram yeah yeah yeah he's literally putting back a recording i but every time someone has impersonated somebody the episode that you didn't you direct the one where where the doctors in seven's head or something yeah yeah yeah that one and the doctors is being improper sorry yeah seven is doing the doctor's voice

yeah and again i'm just rolling my eyes sitting in that damn scene again it's almost like the writers knew. They're like, this is the way that we're going to just kind of like mess with him. It would have to be some sci-fi idea because Harry as his normal Harry self, I don't believe would do impressions of anybody. I don't believe as a character he would be that, that like you in real life do impressions, but I don't think Harry would do that. It would have to be some sci-fi concept. Yeah. I mean, I'd know for something like that. Yeah. And like I said before, I try to pitch that to them. I was like, listen, let's just have a B storyline. where they have a ship-wide talent show.

Ship-wide talent show, and Harry comes up with his impersonations of the different members of the crew. And I said this to the powers that be on Voyager. And their response was like, nope. So, yeah. But you do that in your stand-up thing, right? I do. You do all the impressions. So you get to do.

I do get to do it, finally. Do it now. Two decades later. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But, yeah, still a funny scene, though, Regist sitting there talking as Jane. way and then later is Tuvok and um everyone's applauding him he is and i love when he leaves he gets called to i think uh i think it's the doctor that calls him is that right at that point uh yes he's

called to go to the holodeck two the doctor calls says go to the holodeck two yes and he right before he does that he's doing a tuvok impression and he because tom is very skeptical still that we're going to get home and so he does a two vok impression and he goes to mind meld And I remember shooting this scene. Now, Dwight Schultz, I love watching his performance in this episode, but he is a bit of a, like, when you're acting in a scene with him, I remember feeling a bit nervous sometimes because he's, he's on edge. Like, you feel that Dwight Schultz performance edge.

And when I saw this moment, I remember when he had to come over and put his hand on my head. All right. And I remember feeling like, I remember feeling when we filmed it, like, is he going to punch me? Yeah. He's a bit possessed, Dwight, when he's acting, especially this sort of, he was a little amped up. And I remember that hand, like, coming over.

And I was like, whoa, it just, I don't know that I felt safe, put it in. I understand, which I know 1,000% I was a little, yeah. And I had that, like, PTSD when I saw that, I was like, oh, yeah, I remember when his hand kept coming over and like, so everyone just feel his energy through his fingers. So just, just to elaborate. Yes. what as to what Robbie is trying to tell everybody here is as actors we I would say 99% of the other actors we work with we understand where they're coming from they've done their homework

they've done their preparation they're in the scene with you and they're interacting with you but there is that one percent of actor that they are they're so into their character and it's it's like you don't know it's almost like they're a live wire you don't know what's going to happen like is this is this live wire going to turn on you will you get shocked by it or you know you get or you will you just get to watch the festivities and so yes there's always that one actor that that we've all acted with where we're like oh my gosh i don't know what's gonna what are they gonna do is he gonna hit me yes so you felt that's how i felt and then at the end after that he gets called like you said to the holodeck yeah and he leaps over the table and he does this little

jumpy hoppy thing which i love and again it was great no one other than dwight shultz would have come up with that type of blocking, and he did it, you know, and it was so characteristic. But it was that sort of big, you know, out of, you know, out of control is probably not the right word. No, that's not what you're trying to say, um, unpredictable behavior. You have no idea what he's going to do next, right? Which makes for good television, right? When you watch a character like that, but you were mesmerized.

When his hands flying at my face over and over, I remember feeling like, I don't know what he's going to do. Anyway, all right. So he leaps out of the room. we go into the holodeck. Yeah. And the doctor is dressed in, like, vintage golf wear. I had no clue that the doctor was so obsessed with golf in this stretch of three or four

episodes. And now my, my business brain is moving. I'm like, oh, my gosh, this would be kind of cool. It was Bob Picardo, Robbie McNeil, and myself doing a show on Golf Channel, where we're kind of like the big break, we're doing challenges and stuff, or we're being taught. Maybe we're trying to lower our score, you know, our. our make our golf game better i mean i think that would be super i don't know if bob picardo really is into golf i don't think he is but see that's the that's what'll be amazing though if he is not

in golf to take him from absolute scratch and teach him the basics of it you know what i'm saying it'd be yeah maybe it'd be a lot of fun as long as he wears that outfit that was a great outfit okay but this is an interesting scene because most definitely reg comes in and there's the doctor saying hey, I'm dressed for golf. Let's go do it. Because they had plans already, right? Because the doctor says, I was starting to think that you've forgotten our tea time. So there was a plan to go golfing.

But that's when Reg says, hey, sorry, I've already got plans with seven of nine. She's going to teach me Caddiscot. Yeah. The doctor's like, wait a minute. When I gave you my mobile emitter, it was about official business, not, you know, to learn Catas caught. And that's when Reg goes, oh, and golf is important. And he grabs his golf club, his driver.

got really angry. Oh, he got really. Yeah, the dark side turned all of a sudden. It was like, what the heck is going on here? But this is a moment where I felt like on the Voyager side of the story, people should have started getting much more suspicious. Oh, yeah. And this is where I think the missed opportunity of the missing scenes or parts that I'll

talk about in our bonus material should have started. This is where I think there was a. an opportunity, a missed opportunity, for the Voyager side of things. But anyway, yes, he kind of lashes out, but then recovers and heads off to go learn Coddiscot with seven. And then we go back down to Starfleet or to the Pathfinder Lab. And they have, they're questioning Leosha. Yeah.

I think we're in your dad's office at this point. Yeah, I couldn't tell because they're in the office and then maybe step out, but then later they're right back at the Pathfinder. Yeah, it's a little confusing. It's a little confusing. But, yes, Admiral Paris is questioning her. We learned she is a Dobbo girl, not a teacher, like she told Barclay. We're starting to see, yeah, that she's not what Barclay thought she was.

No. And even Admiral Parris says he thinks that she helped the Ferengi somehow. And she goes, no, I didn't leave because of the Ferengi. I left because Reg was boring. He is heartbroken. She doesn't admit any wrongdoing whatsoever. And Troy says, give me a chance. Can I talk to her myself privately?

And basically says, I'm an empath. I know you're lying. Tell me the truth. And she's like, I'm not going to tell you anything. And Deanna basically blackmills her and says, well, I could have you held indefinitely for a psych evaluation. If you want to, you think I'm bluffing, try me. Yeah, but before that happens, she dismisses Admiral Peres, well, not dismisses, but asks Erbil Peres for some, you know, alone.

Yeah, talks to her alone. Yeah. And then basically says, I know you're lying. Tell me the truth or I'll stick you in a psych word indefinitely. We cut outside. And after this threat, Troy has found out that she was employed by a Ferengi named Nunk. Yeah. And she says she did steal the hologram twice.

and that Nunk has that hologram on his ship now, basically. So, Troy has gotten this information out of Leosa. I love, I do love when Harkins goes, Nunk, and then Liosa goes, my, she's about to say my boyfriend, but she went, my, employer, like that. She was really good that after, great job. We go to the Pathfinder lab. We see that we have located Nunk ship. says, there it is, says it has been near this star, this red giant, for the last 43 hours.

And Admiral Paris says, well, there must be something valuable there. They wouldn't be hanging out there. So the Admiral says, you know, contact the USS Carolina and see if they can swing over there and see what's up. Yep. They're only 0.7 light years away. Maximum warp two hours than get there. Barkley does have a moment with Leosso when he says,

you know was everything between us a lie yeah was it all fake yeah and uh she says well you know i got money out of this deal what no the set her line was so sad she goes not everything just the parts where i expressed affection for you that's what and that's so sad like every time she said i love you or i you know you're the best she meant none of it at all yeah yeah it's painful he does ask her like well what's a broken heart worth these days and she says yes 10% and he's like 10% of what? And Leosa says profits from the nanoprobes. So this is when he realizes. Yeah. They're after seven of nine. This is the whole point. Yeah. So that's a really important. 10% of the value of the Borg nanoprobes, which are worth two billion times their weight in

Latina. That's right. Wow. So now we have a space five by Janeway is talking to the doctor. The doctor wants to deactivate. He's suspicious. And he wants a diagnostic run on the program of hollow reg. Yeah, because he says this this hollow Redge has been rude and careless and those are two traits that the real Barclay does not have. Doesn't not have exactly. So he's suspicious. Next we go to astrometrics. Seven is there working with Reg and Janeway comes into astromatrics and talks to Hollow Reg and tries to convince him to undergo this diagnostic. She says you've been, how long has your program been running? Without a break.

And she also dismisses seven. She wants to talk to him alone, so. Yeah, that's right. But she basically says, look, you've been running nonstop since you got to the Delta Quadrant. We just need to, you know, run a few diagnostics, make sure you're running at tip-top shape. And Reg asked, Hall of Reg says, you know, did the doctor ask for this? And she says, well, yes, in fact, he did. And he goes, I thought so.

And he goes, well, if the doctor's ordering a diagnostic, an exam, who am I? might argue or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. So he kind of handles the suspicion very well. He does. We go back down to the Pathfinder Lab at night. And I love that nighttime shot of the building outside. Yeah, that was cool, that exterior shooting shot. Yeah. Barkley is working very hard. He's sitting with his head in his hands. Yeah. Off in a corner. And Troy comes over. She's like, why are, what are you hiding from? Where are you over here? And Barclay says he's trying to figure out how to foil the Ferengi's plans for the first time Troy knows what Barclay believes the Ferengis were trying to do and she's like let's share let's tell

your commanders and Barclay says no no I need some time to identify more details and really prove it if I tell them now you know they're not going to believe me so just keep this between us yeah and even Troy thinks like what what do they want with the simulation technology and And Barclay's like, well, it can be used for a lot of things, slowing down the aging process, reanimating necrotic tissue. So there's a lot of benefits that these little nanoprobes can do other than just assimilate people. We go back to Voyager. We're on the holodeck this time.

Reg is sort of fritzing, getting his diagnostic. He's getting his hollow shower, so to speak. He starts the scene by saying, that tickles, Lieutenant. Yes, it was very funny. He's getting tickled by it. Bilanah's there running the diagnostic. Janeway's there. The doctor comes by.

Ultimately, they run the diagnostic. They can't really find anything. And Reg apologizes to the doctor. So now you're starting to think, oh, man, he dodged that bullet. And he's totally charming. The doctor apologized first. And then Reg says, well, but I owe you an apology. So he's charming the doctor again.

Friends, he says, and they shake hands. I was just like, no, don't trust you. Just him. Yeah. We'd go back to the Ferengi ship. They say it's time to initiate the geodesic pulse. Nunk orders them to start it up. You like that graphic?

You like those graphics? Yeah, that was pretty good. Yeah, that was pretty good. Yeah. Got to space. We see that giant phaser beam three into one. The red giant sort of, it looks like they're drilling a hole into this red giant. It does.

Yeah. We go back to the Starfleet Pathfinder Lab. Yeah. And Parris sees an alert. And they see this hole being dug into the thing. They can see that on their sensors. And Admiral Parris is like, what is that? And that's when Barclay realizes, aha, it's a geodesic fold.

That's what they're trying to do. Suddenly he puts it all together. That's how they're going to get the nanoprobes. Then we go back to the Voyager Bridge. So all this is happening simultaneously. Right. The Voyager Bridge, we see the other side. of this geodesic fold where Voyager is. Paris has two million kilometers in closing. Chainway

orders this advanced impulse online. And so it feels like we're going to fly into this thing and I'll be dead in a minute. But we cut to astrometrics and there's an alert. And seven suddenly discovers that three different types of radiation that were not accounted for in this plan that Reg, Hollerge brought up. And she's starting to doubt that these shield modifications will protect the crew. And Barclay tries to, you know, cover and say, they'll work in combination with the inoculation. So he's sort of playing the inoculations against, you know, the shields again. Right. And she calls the bridge to, to voice her concern. And suddenly Reg reaches his hand out, hollow Reg, reaches it and goes into her head. Yeah, which fritzes. And he just knocks her

unconscious knocks her unconscious i don't know how she survived that like it's a horror movie moment yes her head goes into her into her inside of her yeah i don't know how there was seven of nine anymore like if that happens and by the way she just laid there for a while like didn't get treatment immediately no no so i don't clearly there's brain damage at this point i think right i would but janeway calls back and says what is it seven and then red and then reds in a perfect 7 of 9 voice says there was a problem, Captain, but I've corrected it. So she is now, well, Bredge is now doing the voice of seven. Because again, he's done everyone's voices.

Yeah. It's great that they sort of set that up earlier in the comedy scene. Yes, that was well structured. Yes, it was. We go back to the Pathfinder Project. They figured out the Voyager's heading towards this geodesic fold. And Admiral Parris says, why are they doing this? Janeway would never do that.

So again, even Admiral Paris thinks it's out of character, just like me. He's on team Robbie on this one. I felt like Janeway just took, did not verify at all. Anyway, Reg thinks the Ferengi altered his program. He could have even taken over the entire ship. Obviously, they did alter him because he's Mr. Smooth con man. Reg says, like, maybe the Carolina can close the fold. And Admiral Paris says the Carolina isn't equipped to do that.

Yeah. So then, you know, more conversation goes back and forth. Can we get a message to Voyager? not with the geodesic fold you can't get through that so there's some issues we have some hurdles to overcome we don't know what's going to yeah it doesn't look good for us to survive

this no we go back to the Ferengi ship yeah they're talking about what they're going to buy they're like oh my god this is a funny scene yes what are they going to they're going to buy their own starship with multifasic shielding and a gold pressed

latinum hull so we're talking about the entire whole on the ship. Really bling. It's going to be made of latinum. I'm like, oh, my God. And then one of them says, what about a fleet of casino ships? Yeah.

Well, that's the, his line is we'll have enough left over after building our own starship to buy a fleet of casino ships. So again, they're going to be rich beyond rich. And I love that Nunk. I think it's Nunk says at the end, what about lobe enlargement? So he's imagining cosmetic surgery for bigger ears. Bigger lobes. bigger lobes and suddenly they're hailed as they're fantasizing about all this stuff they're hailed

and and it's coming through the fold they say which they're a little shocked by they're like huh this is this yeah how is this happening and it's reg yeah and then reg comes on the screen they think it's hollow reg there yeah and he says you've got to shut this close the fold immediately yeah i noticed that it's not the smooth con man reg it definitely dwight play a perfect mixture of like the neurotic Barclay, the real Barclay, and the con man that he's trying to impersonate here. But anyway, on screen, Reg says, Hala Reg, they think, says to them that Janeway has found out the whole plan and you've got to shut this down.

Yeah. And we cut to... She's furious. She said she was going to kill anyone who was behind this. And so, yeah. Yeah, we cut over and see that it's... It's the real Barclay doing this impersonation with Admiral Paris and Troy off the sidewise. They're watching. Yeah. And the background, they're in the hall. They're in the holodeck.

Looks like they're actually engineering. Yeah, with the workforce behind him. So, you know. But he's telling the Ferengi that Janeway is furious and she's going to hunt them down and kill them. Yeah, because they were going to warp out of there. They say, okay, we'll shut down the fold and we'll get out of here. We'll get out of here. We're just going to get out of here, period. And he's like, no, no, no, I need you to shut down. Yeah, he goes, you don't know what kind of weapons they have, too. They've got technology. You don't even understand. You can't fight.

You can't hide from them. You can't hide from her. No. Because she has Borg interquadrential warp drops. He's making up things. Horogen hunting sensors. And Herogeon hunting centers and Videon phage torpedoes. Yeah.

He's making up all this stuff to terrify them. And it works. Yeah. And he says, the only hope, your only hope is to close the fold. So that's his whole point. Just close the darn fold. And they do. They actually listen to this and they start closing the fold.

We jump back to the bridge. Kim says, well, something's wrong, Captain. And Reg, holler, Reg. Astro messrs the bridge. Why are we stopping? And Janeway is like, well, the fold's collapsing, Reg. We didn't make it in time. So it seems like, you know, his plan's not going to work.

It's not going to happen. And but he does say, well, it's not too late. If we remodulate the shields, like it can still happen. And Janeway is like, you know, know, we appreciate this, but we just can't risk it. You did all that you could. And that's when Kim says, hey, someone just initiated a site-to-site transport. It's 7 in Reg. They've beam to an escape pod. And of course, Janeway is trying to call 7. Seven doesn't respond. And Janeway says, put a tractor beam on it. Too much interference. So Chkote says, can you get a

transport or lock? And then we kind of get out of that scene. So now we leave it up to the viewer to know whether did it happen? Did it not happen? We don't know. I did like the outside that when the escape pod sort of exits Voyagers hall like that door opened up and it popped out of the side. I thought that was a cool shot. It was a cool shot. Yeah. But we don't, yeah. Try to get a lock and beam them out. Yeah. So we don't know what happens. We go to the Ferengi ship and sensors pick up this escape pod. Right. And the Ferengi don't know what's happening. You don't know what's coming Fage torpedo, like a Videon Fage torpedo, brace for impact, and they duck out of the frame. They all hide.

It's just like that's going to do anything. I know. Brace for impact, they ducked down, very funny. And then they pick up this escape pod and the Ferengi are excited. They don't pick it up. It runs into them. It just hits them. Yeah.

Yes. They think that Holo Reg has sent them seven, basically. The Borg. Yeah. They think maybe he sent it through. they scan the pod and pick up nothing on board. So they realize there's nothing, which means. And great, great ending lines, nothing, no bork corpse, no nanoprobes.

And nunk goes, no profit. That was the end of that scene. That's funny. We go to space. We have a captain's log supplemental. Seven of nine has recovered from her injuries. And Reg has been deactivated until we finish analyzing his program, his motivation. remain a mystery.

And we go to the mess hall. There's Torres and Paris trying to cheer up hairy. It's with a slice of pie in front of him. Key lime pie, maybe? I thought it was apple pie with some whipped cream or ice cream or something. But it was green, the filling. But he's playing with this food. He's kind of hitting it.

He's playing with it. He doesn't want to eat his pie. Yeah. And he said it would taste better in San Francisco. Clearly bummed out that they didn't get back home. man i should have known this was doherty because like look at the lines right here right and i say because you your line is as i'm poking it you're like making first contact with a new life form like that's so doherty to me yeah i should have known that but then tom says something about well

didn't you hear that uh tries to cheer him up and he makes up this story that there's another way we're going to get home next week maybe even and and harry's like no you're you know you're lying he doesn't believe well torres jumps on the back bandwagon with you right yeah she jumps on the bandwagon she's like no it's he's telling the truth telling the truth and then finally harry's like really yeah because i well carry even says i'm not that gullible and torres says it's true i was there the captain has wanted us to get you know our hopes up but personally i think we'll be home by the end of the week and that's when harry does get gullible and says he does you're serious and i do like my change of my face i went from like totally skeptical to like

oh my god it's real and then torres says you were right about him And it's haw-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-lid jokes on hair. It was fun to see Balana getting in on some. Yeah, she typically doesn't do that. So, yeah, I like that. Yeah, she doesn't usually play the mischief card. No, no. Yeah, Tom's wearing off.

You're rubbing off on her. I am. Back in San Francisco, Barclay is working on adding more security features to his hologram. And Troy, he adds, you know, high security level features, Troy steps in. And then Barclay says something like, identify yourself. Yeah. But the way he says it, it's very aggressive. Very aggressive.

It's like, identify yourself. Yeah. And that's his hologram. Yeah. Troy's like, what is going on? He explains I'm trying to make him more secure. But then she invites Reg to go on a double date. And I love when he says, oh, I don't want to be a third in a cell.

Yeah. Again, Robert Doherty. Third in a cell. Good job. Very cute. But she goes, no, there's a friend of. Will Reiker and it's a teacher name Marl, Marl? Merrill. Yeah, like as in Merrill Schindler. Oh, yeah, it could be. Yeah, Mary Howard, Merrill Schindler. There we go. That's what I thought it was.

Teacher named Merrill and I love how Troy goes, this time it's a real teacher. She's a real teacher. He's a real teacher. It's not a Davo girl. Ultimately, you know, he doesn't really want to go, but then Troy convinces him to get out of the office and get back. into life again. He agrees, a happy ending for Red. He's to get back out there into life. Definitely. Okay. So, what is your takeaway? Do you have a lesson for this? My lesson or theme is cheaters never prosper. It's the old adage cheaters never prospered. Brangy tried to cheat everybody and it just didn't work out. You know, I think that's the lesson for me. Okay. My lesson is, is never loan out your mobile emitter to another hologram.

Never. Ever. Bad. Yes. Agreed. All right. All right. So that's our episode.

What about the rating? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. So my rating of this episode, I'm going to give it a, I'm going to give it a 8.2. So pretty high. Wow. Yeah, I'm going to go up a little higher.

Wow. Yeah. I'm surprised. I had fun with it. I really did. I agree with you. I enjoyed this episode and even though there's a lot of holes, even though, as I said before, I don't think it's Alan Craker's best directing.

It's fine and I just was entertained. Okay. So the flaws took it down for me a bit and the lack of our entire cast being deeply involved. That took it down a little bit, but it still for me was a 7.5. Okay. Pretty good. That's a good rating. that's a good rating what's the uh admiral and captains group rating the admiral and captain's

average rating is 6.8 oh man you and i went quite a bit higher we weren't higher see i thought you were going to say six i thought because of the fact that this wasn't allan's greatest directorial you know job i i thought you were to go six point something so yeah no i thought seven point five more i might have even gone to an eight because i was just entertained yeah it was an it was an entertaining episode and best episode it was dwight shultz's yeah um you know not his swan song but his uh his uh his you know his this is the like if i was him this was the episode that i would show people like look check out what i've done in this oh yeah which really yeah yeah good job all right everyone thank you for tuning into our recap and discussion of inside man join robbie and i next week

when we tackle the episode body and soul. Oh. Oh, is that reaction. We'll see. That's next week. Oh, yeah, that is next week. Okay. All right.

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