DISCLAIMER: This recap of Twisted Metal Season 1 Episode 4, “WHZDARE,” contains spoilers. Read at your own risk.
John Doe (Anthony Mackie) painfully explains the concept of a knock-knock joke to Quiet (Stephanie Beatriz) when semi-trucks suddenly surround them. John mentions that the law stripped Ev3l1n down to factory settings, so he has no guns to fight them off. The trucks force him to drive into the back of one of the semis, and the door slams shut.
A woman introduces herself as Watts (Jamie Neumann), who says she runs the rigs and apologizes for snatching them up. She noticed the milkman sticker on his rump and needs to ask a favor. John admires Watts’ “blood missiles” as she looks over Ev3l1n. She tells him that he installed his limited slip differential backward. Watts then gets on a walkie and says, “Lock it up.” Suddenly, all of the semis join together with automatic ramps and hallways (while moving). “Welcome to the convoy,” she says, walking them into a makeshift gathering place bustling with people and activity. She explains the founders were driving the trucks when the walls went up and thought it best to keep moving. There are 30 rigs total, and they keep moving constantly thanks to fuel made from waste.
Quiet gets a chance to look around and sees a one-armed person selling various prosthetics made from all types of found objects. The merchant offers her a finger made of random metal bits at no charge, just a chance to shine. Watts then rolls out an old woman in a wheelchair named Granny (Peg O’Keefe), who needs John Doe to get her medicine. The last milkman they sent never returned, and the roads are swarming with vultures, lawmen and holy men. Granny explains that she will give John guns for his car now and more when he returns with the medicine. They even throw in a blood missile. John is to see “the pharmacist,” who we learn Watts pushed out of a truck. Quiet convinces John to take her with him.
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John notices Quiet’s new finger that goes with her robotic personality. She promptly does a robot dance and flips him off with the shiny new finger. On the roadside, they see the missing milkman dead and upside down on a cross with the Got Milk? sticker over his mouth. John suggests it was the holy men. He explains how dangerous it is to be a milkman, but it is his only way to survive. If he delivers the package and gets to stay in New San Francisco, he may be the only milkman ever to die old. As they arrive at the pharmacist, they hear the church bells of the holy men ringing in the distance. John says, luckily, it sounds like they are far away.
The pharmacist’s place is a quaint house with a large porch surrounded by various plants. A small, unassuming woman with a mousy voice greets them. She introduces herself as Amber (Diany Rodriguez) and offers them tea. Quiet and John chug the tea, projectile vomit and then fall to the floor. Amber explains that they will be temporarily paralyzed while she asks them questions. She asks John why he killed the convoy’s milkman and then holds a plant to his arm that causes excruciating pain. She thinks John is a holy man and says she believes in recycling as it cuts to potted plants with hands and feet sticking out of them.
Finally, John convinces Amber that he is a milkman retrieving medicine for Granny. She apologizes and explains the holy men are on pilgrimage right now and are everywhere. She then quickly gathers a bouquet of flowers (medicine) but wonders why Granny requested a specific flower with no medicinal value. John asks why Watts pushed her out of a truck, and Amber responds that she poisoned her first. She elaborates on why things did not work out between them. As Quiet and John are leaving, they hear loud church bells and speed to a nearby movie theater to hide out.
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The couple watches Blankman, but the sound doesn’t work, so they do the voices themselves. John then says he occasionally sneaks into a movie when he gets a chance and likes the action because it’s nice to watch someone else get shot at. Quiet tells John about sneaking into the movies with her brother as she holds back tears. Later, Quiet walks in on John washing her brother’s jacket in a sink. She gets angry and snatches the jacket back, saying that is all she has left of him.
When John and Quiet return with the medicine, Watts explains that no medicine can save Granny and that it is meant to ease her passing. We see the old woman sitting in a BMW, drinking the poisoned tea, and Quiet asks her why she is just giving up. Granny says she wants the luxury of dying quietly and on her own terms, which most people do not get. She was given the rare gift of getting to say goodbye to those she loves. She tells John he will be paid in full and gives her a handwritten copy of Granny Sutra to Quiet. The dying woman tells Watts the most valuable thing is time and not to let something stupid take it away from her. She gives her the flower from the pharmacist. Granny Dread pats the taxidermied pug next to her and says, “See you soon, Fang.”
Watts gives a moving eulogy for Granny Dread to people crowded around the beamer. She says the car was Granny’s pride and joy, and she used to be the best real estate agent in Boca Raton. The group pushes the BMW out of the back of the moving semi, and Watts pushes a detonator, making the car explode. As the rest of the group parties, Watts is in her shop and looks behind papers on her wall that reveal three pressed flowers precisely like the one Granny gave her. She then pulls the cover off of an Indy car, gets in, and radios someone called Flower Power. Amber stops pushing a dead lawman in a wheelbarrow to respond from her Volkswagon Beetle. They apologize to each other and say that they miss each other.
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Meanwhile, John apologizes to Quiet at the party for washing her brother’s jacket. They talk about staying with the convoy, but John doesn’t want to be a milkman anymore. Next, we see Ev3l1n driving down the highway with a huge blood missile on her hood. A poisonous flower from Amber’s garden falls out of Quiet’s jacket, and she quickly hides it before John sees it. John says, “Knock, knock,” and Quiet responds, “Who’s there?”
Twisted Metal Season 1 is now streaming on Peacock.
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