The Getaway - Recap

The scene opens with Dan and Jack punk hunting, when they drive into an alley. A young man is doing a graffiti on the wall, when Jack steps out and says ‘Freeze!’ The boy runs across the alley, jumps into a parking lot, and displaying excellent fitness, manages to stay out of Jack’s reach, who can do nothing but look. The boy has jumped across multiple levels of a parking lot, where Dan drives chasing the boy through the levels. However, he cannot get close without fretting, and when he does, the boy drops on his bonnet, and sprays the graffiti paint on the windscreen. Unable to see a thing, Dan continues his chase, but ends up crashing out of the parking lot – luckily out of the lowest level.

Back at office, Dan is disappointed to find himself 1 behind on the ‘number of busted’ chart. Hodges seems to be ahead of them, and Jack tries explaining all that means nothing. It means a lot to Dan, and he plans on using the weekend to catch the punk. However, Jack is taking time off. He has a vacation planned with a gorgeous girl at a bed and breakfast place out of the city. When Jack arrives there with ADA Liz, she is impressed and wonders where he found the place. Although Jack promised not to talk about work, he cannot but mention he owes Dan for telling him about the place. Before long, they are at the reception, where the owner greets them saying they have a couple special massage session reserved. The couple is impressed, and as they are going to their room, the owner tells them he has managed to find his own little thing and stay among happy couples after his marriage ended. So what does the couple do for a living? Liz lets on she is ADA, and Jack lets on he is a detective.

Taken by surprise, the owner asks what kind of cases he undertakes. Jack replies property type, when the owner follows up with a couple of more questions. After getting into the room, Jack finds something funny. Dan’s rule says if a man asks three or more questions after knowing you are a cop, you can be sure the man is a criminal. Liz finds that laughable, but the story moves six months into the past – when the owner blows up a truck and mugs it wearing a mask and carrying a gun. Meanwhile, Dan is spraying the office glass wall with graffiti paint. In order to catch a graffiti artist, he has to think like one. However, he is going to love what Samantha has found. The sample of graffiti paint from Dan’s windshield is a color that is available only in five shops in Dallas. And four of them have gotten robbed recently. Back at the bed n breakfast hotel, Jack and Liz are having dinner, when the owner, Carson Long, arrives with blankets – they might need it since it is a little chilly.

When Jack asks how Carson knows Julius Grant, he feels hesitated to answer, but blurts out he bought televisions and refrigerators from him some time back. However, it was hard to remember. Before long, he has found an excuse to get away from their table. After they have ended dinner, Jack calls up Samantha to look for a name – Carson Lang, but she replies she is not getting any heads up. Jack wants her to keep looking – he might have an alias. When Dan comes back after checking out the graffiti paint store, he is covered in paint – as she can see it did not go very well. When Dan hears about the Carson Lang issue, he wants to know everything there is to know. So he gets to Julius’ bar, where he reveals he has sold Carson Lang only the things he claimed he bought to Jack. However, the cops might be looking for Carson Polaski – who is definitely worth looking for.

Before long, Dan arrives in Jack’s room, where Liz is getting ready in the bathroom, and comes out in a hot lingerie. Putting Dan inside the cupboard, Jack hesitates to have sex, but Liz falls asleep without much action. Jack finds an opportunity to get him out of the room. Next day, Samantha calls up Dan, who has slept the night in his car, and reports that Carson Polaski has been filed lost by his wife – who has been looking for him so that she can get a divorce. He is a money launderer as well. Samantha calls up the wife to give her a heads up, and now she knows where her husband might be. Story moves back three months into the past, and we see a money laundering heist, in which Carson and Tyler (his brother-in-law) are about to run off with bags full of cash. Carson suddenly holds Tyler at gun point, and tells him to count up to 100, during which time Carson runs off with the money. Before long, Dan enters the hotel and is making suggestive comments. Just after he reveals he knows ‘Polaski’, Carson tries to hit him with a heavy flower vase and run.

The chase ends up ramming on to a breakfast table, where two couples, including Jack and Liz are enjoying a lovely morning. Dan has Carson in handcuffs, and tied to a chair. Livid, Liz leaves the hotel with her baggage. She did not expect a police battle on her vacation. Meanwhile, Mrs. Polaski is getting ready to fetch her money. She and Tyler are getting ready with automatic weapons, but Tyler is only taking orders from his violent sister. Back at the BB, Dan and Jack are in the room, when Jack is packing his bags. Wait, wait, wait – Is that what Jack wears on his foot when Dan is not around? As their argument ensues, it doesn’t take long for Mrs. Carson to show up with guns. Tyler says a pleasant hi, and hopes there won’t be any violence, but the wife already suspects cops are in the BB when she sees the handcuffs. Dan and Jack are on their way to the chamber, where they find themselves at gunpoint. The money laundering issue is news to Mrs. Carson. Three months back, he fetched his two million, and when he got into the car with his wife waiting in it, he asked her to get off at gun point, and drove off.

Before long, the gangsters have Jack and Dan tied up on the massage tables, locked up and are doing their own business. In the meantime, angry Liz decides to check her voicemail. After hearing the love message from Jack, she decides to turn around her car. However, by now, Polaski has set her husband’s hotel on fire, and the fire is gradually getting to the massage room. In the yard, Carson is digging to fetch the suitcase, where he has apparently hid his two million dollars, as his wife and Tyler hold the guns. However, when the suitcase comes out finally, it only has $2,700. The two million went into the hotel. Livid, his wife lays a punch so hard, he falls flat to the ground. Moments later, she makes him stand in the hole he just dug up, and plans to shoot him in the head.

Meanwhile, Jack and Dan are struggling to free themselves, but all their yelling and grunting reaches no one. When Liz arrives, she shouts for help seeing the fire, but soon hears Jack’s yelling. She breaks into the massage room, and manages to free them. When the detectives are out, the fugitives are escaping in their car. Dan gives chase in his Mustang, and before long, they manage to fire at the wheels, and make the car go tossing into the fields. Within the next few minutes, cops arrive and take them away. The episode ends.

Written By David Sibert

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