DISCLAIMER: This recap of Twisted Metal Season 1 Episode 2, “3RNCRCS,” contains spoilers. Read at your own risk.
Greetings, gearheads; let’s kick it into high gear and get right into the next installment of Twisted Metal. “3RNCRCS” opens exactly when and where the last episode left off. John Doe (Anthony Mackie) and Quiet (Stephanie Beatriz) standoff while Sweet Tooth (Joe Seanoa and Will Arnett) speeds toward them. Doe drops all his bullets, and Quiet takes off in his car while he is distracted. The milkman jumps in just in time to help Quiet, who is having trouble driving Ev3l1n. He then rattles off an old PlayStation cheat code and gets her going again. Sweet Tooth keeps screaming about coming to the show as they chase and shoot at each other. They are chased right through the front of a casino.
Next, we are brought to a dingy warehouse resembling a makeshift slaughterhouse. There are people butchering meat in the background. Two men sit tied up in bathtubs and mention being captured by “butchers.” Then, they begin arguing about whose fault it was they got exiled even though they both fell asleep on watch. A couple of butchers start arguing about which sauce to cook them in as they cover their captives in lemon pepper.
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Agent Stone (Thomas Haden Church) and his squad rush in and quickly take out all the butchers. He says they usually don’t catch the pigs before the luau and explains that butchers would rather eat their own flesh than starve. Stone notices the two men are guards and offers them a chance to be a part of his squad and help keep order in ‘the divided stated of America.”
John Doe is working on a broken down Ev3l1n as Quiet keeps watch, but Sweet Tooth quickly finds them. Quiet stabs John in the shoulder with a nearby tool, and they both find a hiding spot as Sweet Tooth begins a demented game of Marco Polo. Sweet Tooth hones in on John Doe and chases him threw the casino hitting him with punches and cheesy jokes. The clown puts on some ‘kill music’ which is “Thong Song” by Sisqo, leading to an impromptu duet with John Doe. Sweet Tooth tells him it is the show’s opening night, and he has to be there.
Now Agent Stone shows the two recruits the headquarters located inside the Hoover Dam. They notice other recruits getting food and items with a punch card. Their excitement gets them a sideway glance from a veteran officer. Then they are taken to their initiation, which is protecting a broken down supply truck from “seagulls.” Both are given huge guns with silencers.
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John Doe and Sweet Tooth are talking about names, and Doe explains he doesn’t know what name he was born with or who he is. His first memory is waking up in his car and blood coming from his head. Sweet Tooth says he remembers coming out of his mother’s “whisker biscuit” and pooping his pants during his elementary school production of “Oklahoma.”
As the recruits wait, Stu (Mike Mitchell) asks why they call them seagulls. The deputy relies, what else do you call trash eaters? However, Stu notices the people that pull up are simply survivors. He asks his partner, Mike (Tahj Vaughans), if they will kill them, but he has already pulled the trigger. Stu can’t go through with it, so Mike does the job and covers for him. Agent Stone explains that seagulls, butchers, and exiles all see the world in shades of gray. As lawmen, they must show people there is only black and blue. He then tells Stu not to miss another shot again.
Meanwhile, Sweet Tooth is doing disturbing theater voice warmups in the casino lounge. John Doe notices he sleeps in a makeshift bed in the lounge and asks why. Sweet Tooth explains it reminds him of where he came from, that he stayed with a solid group of dudes. A blanket that says Blackfield Asylum with the name Kane, M. lays across the bed. He left the asylum and came to Vegas after the apocalypse. John realizes Sweet Tooth has been here alone for over two decades. Sweet Tooth explains he hasn’t been alone and introduces his friend, Harold, a crumpled-up brown paper bag. Harold has been his friend since childhood and never lied to him as his parents did.
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John Doe says that is how Ev3l1n makes him feel and wishes he could make her laugh because he misses the sound of laughter most. Sweet Tooth misses the sound of “hand meat clapping together” or applause. He then reveals Quiet trapped in a glass case and says he planned to watch her starve to death. John convinces him to let her out because there will be even more hand meat to slap together. They are told they can leave after the show, but no one has ever made it through all three acts.
Dressed in a red and white dinner jacket and comically large bowtie, Sweet Tooth presents his audience, John and Quiet, with a steak dinner and drinks. John proposes they work together to escape, but Quiet ignores him. Sweet Tooth gets on stage and presents his one-man show, “In Room Entertainment,” which is him pretending to be various characters and dramatically reciting the in-room entertainment guide from the hotel.
He then asks for feedback, and John and Quiet ultimately tell him it’s boring and that he should do something else. Sweet Tooth agrees with them and says he needs to hunt his audience down and take his show on the road. He thanks them for their honesty and gives his first ‘fans’ a head shot which is a finger painting of himself that says, “See you soon.”
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“Thong Song” plays in the background as Stu watches Mike mingle with the other officers and receive his punch card. Sweet Tooth torches the casino, and we get a pretty sweet walking away from an explosion moment. John and Quiet are back on the road and discussing their next move. They agree to work together from now on. Our duo pulls up to the Hoover Damn checkpoint, and Quiet recognizes the deputy as the one who branded her. She jumps out of the car and tries to attack him, but he gets her and John tased. As John Doe writhes on the ground, the camera zooms in on his old school Casio watch, which tells him he only has eight days left to make the delivery.
Twisted Metal Season 1 is now streaming on Peacock.
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