Episode Report Card Gustave: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Pulling a Sherry
By Gustave | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 11.03.2003
Kiefer notices someone escaping and goes after the runner. He follows him down some stairs, passing some faded gilt interior molding, and catches up with him in the balcony of some august rotunda. After a heated exchange of gunfire, Kiefer disarms his pursuee and gets him where he wants him. "I'm clean!" protests the runner, a guy who looks like Daryl Hall. "Shut up, stupid," says Kiefer. "You just fired at a federal agent!" Charlie Brown runs over, and they ask Daryl Hall what he knows about Goss, a.k.a. Patient Zero. "Goss is a dealer," says Daryl. "I score from him from time to time." "Not anymore," says Kiefer. "He's dead." Kiefer asks who Goss's supplier was. Daryl refuses to answer, and I have to point out that it's really unusual for junkies to know who supplies their dealers. Suppliers are really cagey about people knowing their identities, because that's who the feds are dying to arrest and dealers don't like their customers knowing where they can get uncut drugs at wholesale prices. Nevertheless, Kiefer tortures him by stepping on what looks to be his gunshot-wounded knee. Daryl screams in pain for a few moments and then finally tells them that Goss's dealer was a man from Tijuana named Carlos Corretja. Kiefer explains to Charlie Brown that Corretja was a mid-level dealer for Hartmano's family. He asks Darryl if he's doing business with Corretja. "I'm supposed to call him tonight," gasps Daryl. He explains that Corretja wanted him to find a mule, "someone clean, without a record." Kiefer asks him what he wanted someone clean for. "He wanted to move a small bag of coke across the border," says Daryl. "It didn't make any sense to me." He explains that he paid ten thousand dollars for the bag, but coke isn't normally worth that much. Kiefer asks him where the coke is now. Darryl answers that it's still with the clean guy who brought it across the border, whose name is -- ta da! -- Kyle Singer. Oh, and I think this Daryl guy is really Zach.
Meanwhile, "the boy" is still in his apartment, watching Mama Diabetes trying to persuade the landlord not to evict them. But the landlord is immune to such pleading; he hands Mama Diabetes a "final notice" and informs her that she has to pay her rent by tomorrow morning or he's calling the marshals to start the eviction process. Mama Diabetes pleads that she'll have the money in a "couple days." Kyle runs back to his bedroom and removes a wad of cash from his gym bag. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, a poor man's Jennie Garth, is in his bed, sitting topless in a fetal position like she had some really bad sex with Kyle a moment ago. She watches him count up some money. When he leaves the room again, she stares at the gym bag really hard. Kyle asks his mother how much money they need. Mama Diabetes tells him they owe $1,800, but not to worry about a thing because they're going to talk to a rich uncle soon. Kyle runs after the landlord with his wad of cash. Meanwhile, PoorMan'sJennieGarth wanders over to the gym bag whilst putting her bikini top on. She fishes around inside and finds the big Ziploc bag of V-I-R-U-S coke and caresses it with her nails. Meanwhile, Kyle gives the full amount to the landlord and tells him to talk to either him or his dad if they have another problem with the rent. "Where did you get that money?" asks Mama Diabetes as Kyle goes back inside the house. Kyle doesn't answer her.