So when she finds a body back there, she can’t exactly head to the cops. It turns out to be Marge’s truck, which she parks out of the way because it’s stuffed to the gills with illegally reimported pharmaceuticals from Canada. Jed dumps Damian’s in the back of a Mack truck that he notices parked out of the way. The last order of business is what to do with the body. Damian’s lotto ticket is Jed’s ticket out of Dodge no trunk space is required. Jed pockets the scratch-off with plans to purchase another and pull a switcheroo. Jed pushes Damian off the roof, though it will take a tire iron to the skull to finish him. As if to show how much Damian has disinvested in the idea of good luck, he scratches off his scratch-off to prove he shan’t care when it comes up a loser. Damian tells him that kind of dreaming can only lead to disappointment. Jed tells Damian he dreams of stowing away in the trunk of a car he fixes and hitching a ride to anywhere. They have an honest-to-God, “reach across the aisle and hug your fellow man” bonding moment. And I think he really gets through to Jed. That desperate ache that makes Jed into a sullen stalker who may as well harass a pretty girl because who cares? Damian understands that monotony is as dangerous a force as any. Instead - and this is compelling writing here - they find common ground. But Damian has legitimate combat training, so maybe it’s Jed who will die in that skirmish. He wants to warn Jed that he makes Sara uncomfortable, which makes Jed defensive, and I start worrying that Damian will die on the misbegotten hero’s errand. One night, Jed invites Sara and, reluctantly, Damian to watch a meteor shower on the roof, but only Damian shows up, and he’s not there to witness a celestial event. I think Jed is hella weird, but I don’t really want any of them to kill and/or be killed.Īlas, this dusty way station ain’t big enough for the three of them. Sara likes Damian but thinks Jed is harmless. He’s a creepy incel-type who drinks beer on the auto shop’s roof and watches Sara with binoculars. Every night on the late shift they exchange sandwiches, lotto scratch-offs, and cute banter that will never ever go anywhere. There’s convenience-store clerk Sara (Megan Suri) Jed the mechanic (Colton Ryan) and Damian (Brandon Micheal Hall), an ex-jarhead and present-day hoagie-man who’s developed a TikTok following by joyfully creating off-menu sandwiches at Subway. This week, we find ourselves roaming a dead-end town with three 20-somethings working dead-end jobs for company. Nat’s death was in service of a bad man’s craven attempt to maintain control of his tiny fiefdom. Before we get into Charlie’s sleuthing, we witness the crime, which struck me as somehow bleaker than Natalie’s murder. The Columbo structure remains intact here. ![]() Like Sir Galahad himself, she’s pure and well intentioned - almost chivalrous, really, if you can accept that sometimes a knight rides a white horse and sometimes a knight is bleeding from the abdomen in a truck-stop bathroom. Charlie helps, I guess, because she knows Marge to be a good person. Marge (Hong Chau), a trucker who briefly helps Charlie on the road, ends up falsely accused of murder. ![]() ![]() So why does she feel compelled to use her very particular set of skills for the greater good? In episode two, the answer is specific. Charlie isn’t Columbo, a homicide cop with open cases to clear. This risk-taking behavior may be the series’ most complicated investigation so far. and his henchman get a little closer with every tap of the brakes. So every time Charlie swerves off the road and into some one-horse town to solve a case or right a terrible wrong, she’s imperiling herself. Sterling blames Charlie for his heir’s suicide in episode one, or maybe he really blames himself ultimately, it was his decision to keep Charlie close rather than banish her from his casinos in the first place. Now, she’s racing through the Southwest in her unreliable beater, trying to stay off the grid and ahead of Cliff - the man Sterling has dispatched to avenge his son’s death. Her devotion to justice in the case was primarily emotional.īut that’s not Charlie’s MO any longer. As such, the inaugural crime she was solving was intimate. In the series premiere, Charlie was a hapless cocktail waitress with a curious ability to read people - a mostly dormant skill that came suddenly handy when her close friend was murdered. Our girl is on the run now, and it dramatically changes Poker Face’s feel.
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