Friday the 13th: The Series S1E9
Episode 9 "Root of All Evil"
An old lady is out and about doing her gardening when an older groundskeeper just randomly murders the sweet old lady with a rake! He drags her body into a woodchipper. Oh, dear.
At the antique shop, Curious Goods, Jack is bewildered when he comes across an unopened letter to the late Uncle Lewis that was post marked the day he died but the contents contain a single hundred dollar bill. Okay? It came accompanied with a brief letter to thank Lewis for using the "cutting edge" of the knowledge they attained. Whoa. It has no name on it but they see from the post mark it came from the Temple Heights area.
They hit up the Manifest to see if they can find any matches from the area. Wow Ryan was able to find it pretty dang quick. #27668 Harley O'Connor and the item in question is a woodchipper. Ryan goes to call the number on file but when he picks up the phone he overhears Micki in the other room talking to her fiance talking shit about being in this "dump. He puts the phone back down.
Over in Micki's room, she has tears running down her face while it is more apparent now that she is just saying whatever the guy wants to hear but she pleads for him to give her more time to deal with the antique store. She even tries to assure him that she still wants to marry him when he questions her intentions. The second she says she needs another month he accuses her of having an affair and hangs up on her.
Back at the groundskeeper dude, he is just doing groundskeeping things when he comes a fancy shmancy car that rolls over a puddle and splashes the dude. Now this time, it's personal!
The elderly richy woman gets escorted out of the car by the owner. They do more rich business people talk and leads her inside.
While the groundskeeper is giving them psycho stares, another groundskeeper (both not the dude in the first scene), likely his boss, tells him what a fine job he be doing with the mulch. However, he leads him into another area where he needs to do more work and he begrudgingly follows.
Jack and Micki take a visit to the house that was listed in the Manifest and to their dismay the house is boarded up and has a for sale sign somewhat put up. He says that that explains why the number was disconnected when they finally did get a chance to call. He still wants to look around for clues. Micki snaps and says WTF is the point of all of this since it is clear no one lives here. Just one less curse for them to worry about.
Micki goes on to mini rant how she is stressed how much she has to put on hold because of all these cursed objects they have to track down. Jack is well aware and makes it known that Ryan and himself are the same boat, too. She ain't special, sistah.
Okay so the 2 groundskeepers have the woodchipper going. In comes the psycho dude who walks up and stares into the void that is the woodchipper. Creepy foreshadowing.
Jack and Micki walk down the property and let themselves in the abandoned house. There is a few things that got left behind but it all looks like junk. Little do they know that someone else is hot on their tail and is making a beeline to where they are at. Micki be tripping but in doing so, Jack finds a crisp $5 bill.
Amazed at the pristine condition, they turn around and a guy (also not the dude from the beginning of the episode) asking WTF they are doing on her property.
This guy be looking angry and has a crowbar ready to beat them senseless but Jack explains their intentions to look for a man named Harley O'Connor. He lowers his guard and tells them to step outside after receiving the Curious Goods business card. They all take a walk and this man informs them that Harley is in the mental hospital due to a mental breakdown exclaiming about the "mouth of hell" before attacking the cops. Oh, and he was also a suspect in his mother's disappearance too. Now THAT was the dude in the beginning of the episode.
Lol is this where the duck face originated?
The older groundskeeper says his body ain't when it used to be so this younger groundskeeper says that since it's his 1st week on the job, he'll finish the rest of their work so he can rest his wittle heart out. You betcha ass he took that offer!
After he takes his leave, a homeless bum nearby recognizes the dude and makes his way towards him. When he gets to the woodchipper, is when the bum taunts to out him to people that owe him money. In fact, he tries to extort him for $100 a week in exchange for his silence so he won't rat out his location. This is when he comes up with an idea.
He turns on the woodchipper and the more this bum is talking his shit he ends up snapping and kills the bum then proceeds to yeet him in the woodchipper. This is where it gets interesting. Once his body get chopped up to bits, out the other end, money is being spit out through one of the pipes. However much this bum was worth, that's how much moolah this groundskeeper received. Whoa.
At the antique shop, while Jack is inspecting the $5 bill from earlier, he explains to Ryan some information he was able to dig up. The mulcher got sold to a Robert Smith at a police auction to be used for his landscaping company. With the magnifying glass, he takes note that there's peculiar similarities between the bill and the $100 bill that was sent to the late Uncle Lewis. The condition of both look brand spanking crisp as fuck kind of new despite it being dated back to 1937.
Jack calls shenanigans!!!
Ryan shows some concern about Micki since she has to deal with her uptight fiance but Jack doesn't really want to butt into her business and says that she will have to deal with her problems herself. She is a grown woman, afterall.
Speaking of which, Micki is in her room brushing her hair and getting ready for bed until she spots something troubling through her mirror and starts to freak when she spots a shadow lurking. She runs to Ryan next door. He was about to use his guitar as protection but quickly puts it back down because well, '67 stratocaster. Heh.
Ryan goes bare hands and rushes in the room to tackle this peeping tom turned burglar and starts wailing on him until Micki pleads for him to stop because...THAT'S HER FIANCE! Awkward first meet, eh?
And this fuck ass has the audacity to give Ryan the stink eye. DA FUCK!
Ryan steps out of the room so Micki and her fiance have a heated discussion and he demands to know why she doesn't sold this shop and GTFO out of there. Micki tries her best to reassure him that she still has loose ends but he isn't buying it and storms out.
The next day, Ryan visits the business of where this landscaping/gardening company is currently at. He talks to the rich old lady who directs him to Robert Smith, who goes by Smitty and points him in the direction .
When he gets approached outside by Ryan and Micki, he is all too cooperative to see it to them. Ryan pulls a big number right out of his ass without discussing it first and she low key blows up at him then Smitty goes to retrieve the woodchipper.
Unfortunately for him, the murdery noob is within earshot and murders the poor old man! He walks over to him and fires up the woodchipper but when he goes to retrieve the body, Smitty is not as dead as he thought he was. He jumps the noob but unfortunately he ain't as spry as he used to be so he gets quickly overpowered by this asshole and get deader than dead this time.
Out pumps the money, money, money that he gleefully collects.
In the mental hospital is the original owner of the woodchipper that murdered his mother in the beginning of the episode. Jack pays Mr. O
Conner a visit and tries to pry some info on him but he is just too loopy out of his mind and starts yelling to high heaven until Jack tells him that his Lewis is dead is when he decides to calm down. Jack tries another way to lower his guard by saying he wants to enter a partnership with him and he'll even split the money with him if he tells him how it works to make said money. Looney O'Connor tells him that the higher yield AKA money for burning bodies is to kill more successful people like doctors, lawyers etc. And he laughs maniacially.
It is now night time and Ryan and Micki come back to the shop where Jack is already motionless like a statue there but they are none the wiser but still the beans on what they were able to dig up...or not. The reason why Jack is a bit silent is because Micki's fiance is there so he heard EVERYTHING!
Micki leads the fiance downstairs to show him the vault. You know, since he heard this outlandish story. As she opens the vault, she reveals to him that this is where they keep all the cursed objects. He is not amused.
So he just leaves the shop entirely and doesn't say a word to Micki. Distraught, she runs to her room.
The next day, Jack and Ryan go undercover as landscapers on the same grounds to see if they can get some more info. According to Jack, he spoke the guard at the gate and Smitty was not seen leaving the premises at all especially the mulcher so he suspects that Smitty is in fact a victim. However, murder dude is always within earshot. How convenient.
There is a bunch of old rich people on the premises and one of them asks the noob where Smitty is and taking the bait, he lures him into the more desolate area to make his kill. He gets live fed into the mulcher!!! That's not cool, yo.
Meanwhile Micki is taking a break from the cursed object hunting and sulks on her bed when in comes the fiance. Wow. This mothafucka sweet talks his way into her graces again. He says patronizing things like "I believe YOU believe these objects is cursed." Just saying anything to get into her pants again. He lovebombs her then into straight emotional blackmail to get her back home. Otherwise, he is not convinced she wants to marry him. One smooch later, she agrees to go home.
The old lady leads a group of other people and bumps into the noob where WE FINALLY know what this asshole's name is at long last (only took 3/4 of the episode to find out!). His name is Adrian. Yo, Adrian!
Ryan comes back to the shop and sees Micki all singy songy and back to normal but to his dread in pops the fiance who leaves after he tells her about their plane to catch. This leads into an argument between the 2 how they owe it to the people to save them fromthe cursed objects, in which many are used to murder people. Micki is struggling between the 2 worlds and ends up abruptly leaving after she slapped him. Dang.
Ryan catches up with Jack in their incognito landscaper cosplay. Jack sees him sad and says yes, it sucks but there is not a darn thing they can do about it. They'll miss her for sure. Buuuut, they got a cursed item to retrieve so they resume their plans.
When Adrian the out of sight, Ryan goes into Adrian's shit and finds the money with the tell tale signs of it being old. Well, Adrian does catch Ryan snooping. What a ninja!
When Ryan runs off to try to track down the mulcher, he finds the old rich dude's glasses. Oh noes. Well, he also finds the mulcher which was obscured by branches and whatnot. In pops in Adrian who lunges at him but Ryan ducks just out of the way and the knife gets stuck in the box. Oh, dear. He can't get it out. Fuck it. He leaves it there to ensure in a chase with Ryan. Poor Ryan trips in front of the building so Adrian and his Hulk-like strength is able to drag his body back to the shack undected.
Meanwhile Jack is waiting for Ryan when in comes Micki in a taxi. As soon as she steps out, her fiance nags at her that they don't have much time to spare and to hurry TF up with her sappy goodbyes!! She gives Jack and warm hug. Upon asking for Ryan, well....
She makes Micki go on a search for him with fiance closely behind accusing Ryan of fabricating his disappearance to prevent her from leaving but no one knew that she was going to stop by so STFU!
Adrian on the other hand has moved the mulcher to another part of the premises while Jack is racing everywhere to find the silly goof. Eventually Ryan comes to and is locked inside the shack and yells for help. Luckily, Jack was within earshot and frees Ryan. This is where he confirms that Adrian is the killer. They both make a mad dash to look for the murdery noob.
Adrian then goes inside the office to the sweet old lady but she knows he has bad intentions so she screams her little heart out. Micki and her fiance run in and holds the lady at knifepoint? Whatever tool he is holding and threatens to hurt her right then and there if they don't let them leave. so off they go with Micki and her old man in hot pursuit.
Jack and Ryan find the mulcher parked dead and center in front of the building. Ryan takes the big bag of money and runs off while telling Jack to distract the quickly approaching Adrian.
With the knife held at that sweet old woman, Jack yells over to Adrian that the jig is up. Ryan turns on the mulcher and proceeds to dump the big bag of money in there.
Noooooooooo!
As this dumbass tries to reach for his bag of money, his greed gets himself sucked in. No one pushed him. Fool did that do his damn self. The bag that was supposed to be filled with money is just filled with blood. This fuck ass wasn't even worth a dollar.
Back at Curious Goods, fiance is a bigger jerk than ever before. Even after saving someone from being killed, he had the audacity to call Jack and Ryan a pair of clowns. Ooooooh you dun goofed! Micki tells him to GTFO she's no longer going home with him.
That's the end of that chapter.
Micki is upset all around and once fiance leaves for good.
she takes it out on poor Ryan but he takes it like a champ. After she stomps to her room, she makes it clear she wants to be left alone. Well, with his room immediately connecting next to his he proceeds to put up a banner that says "Welcome Home Micki".
Micki comes out and apologizes and sweetly smiles when she sees the banner. There was never a home for her to go to because Curious Goods is her home now.
The End.
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