In Reaper episode 3, Andi decided to go back to college, but thanks to some help from the Devil, the all classes were cancelled due to the mysterious appearance of asbestos. C’mon, Sam. The Devil gave you another opening. Don’t screw it up.
Episode 4 starts off the way every week starts off: with Sam’s mind getting screwed with. As he’s going to get in his car, his keys disappear into thin air, so he has to take a cab to work. When he goes to pay the cab driver, the money disappears as well, along with his wallet. Ben has his keys but doesn’t know why. Then he finds his wallet in a paint can.
A new vessel arrives. As they’re trying to decide a good reason not to open it, Andi comes in and tells Sam she can get tickets to a concert for them, them meaning all of them. They make plans to head to Idaho, a 7 hour trip. Ted comes to tell them they’re in trouble for their earlier destruction of property when Sock was playing rodeo and riding a homemade bull, and Andi, who wasn’t even there, is lumped in with them. He forbids talking of a social nature while at work.
The Devil takes Sam to the scene of a car crash, where someone’s dead at the hands of an escaped soul. As usual, he’s not real big on minor annoyances like details. After Sam pushes, he’s told the name of the soul, Bellifiore, which is about all he’s going to get. Sam, hoping to get this over with so he can go to the concert, stands up for himself and says he refuses to accept his power over him. The Devil lets him know he doesn’t have a choice but to work for him by sending two tractor trailers that he needs to jump out of the way of to avoid being crushed.
The boys head back to the vessel, which is moving around. With much hesitation and fear, they open it to find a not so terrifying bird. While searching, the mouse disappears, as do Ben and Sock. They come back after Ted gives Sam a lecture about talking to himself. This gives him the idea to search for Bellifiore’s name plus the word disappear, which leads them to a magician DVD. On it, they learn he was found guilty for murder.
Andi breaks the news to Sam that she could only get two tickets to the concert. He says she should go with Josie, but she says she asked him first. The problem is the Devil made it clear he didn’t want him to go. I don’t get this Devil guy. Does he want these two together or not? But considering the invitation to be alone with Andi overnight, Sam forgets that the Devil tried to run him over with trucks.
Acting on a tip from a lady with a bunch of apples (there were apples at the scene of the accident), the boys go to a magic show. The magician gets pissed off because people applaud but don’t give him a standing ovation. He invites one of the onlookers on stage to assist him with a trick. He stabs the guy, leaving him unharmed, then disappears. When they walk outside, they discover the guy wasn’t so unharmed, as he’s got massive internal injuries and is being hauled away by an ambulance. Sam feels Bellifiore hates the audience because he blames them for his crappy career when he was alive.
Sam asks his mom to see the contract for his soul. Should be a pretty simple thing to find, but for some reason it takes some searching. Sam looks in the envelope and finds the contract fell apart. Sam tells his keys not to disappear, and they listen. His car disappears instead. As he’s walking, the Devil drives by and tells Sam his rights are an easy question to answer: he doesn’t have any. Complaining he has nothing to look forward to, Sam asks for some incentive. The Devil has his own plan in mind, and he goes to see Andi. When Sam gets to work, his car is there, parked in a handicapped spot and ticketed. Then they try to get out of work early, and Ted says there was a guy in there earlier giving away tickets to a magic show. The bird got out and flew away because Ben let him out to talk, so it may not be as quick a process to get there as they thought.
When he arrives at the magic show, Sam tries to convince Andi to leave, saying the show sucks. Of course, Bellifiore hears this and invites Sam on stage to see some real magic. He tries to talk his way out of it, but Andi says she’ll do it, so Sam agrees to do it instead. Knowing better than to admit the sword’s real, Sam steals it and runs. He finds out that Bellifiore is powerless without his sword. Bellifiore grabs his sword back, and a chase ensues. In the nick of time, Sock and Ben show up with the vessel. Thanks to Bellifiore’s mocking, Sam figures out how to work the vessel. He makes the bird disappear, and it reappears overhead (and much larger), attacking Bellifiore and sending him back to Hell.
In his rush to get out of the store to rescue Andi, Sam agreed to work the next four weekends plus Thanksgiving, which means he can’t go to the concert with her. She asks why he would do that, but he can’t answer. While he’s moping at a bar, the Devil comes up to him. He tells him he realizes that if anything’s going to kill him, it’s going to be a soul from Hell, not the Devil, who needs him. The Devil agrees to give him the contract.
Quotes from this episode:
Sam: I just had this really weird vision that he stabbed me.
Sock: I just ate this really weird cupcake, so I guess we’re even.
Sock: Beta males are in right now. Chicks dig it.
Devil: I’m not Google.
Sam to the Devil: God, you sound like Ted.
Customer: How much for the flat screen?
Sock (not feeling like talking): $1 million. Try Best Buy.
Sock: Dude, Winston is not a bird’s name, Ben.
Ben: Okay, well you tell me what a bird’s name is.
Sock: I don’t know. How about Flappy? Or Paul?
Ben: I’ve never seen a dead body up close before. It’s messed up.
Sock: I know, right. I mean you think that seeing Scarface all those times I’d be better prepared for that.
Sam: You put the contract for my soul with my third grade report card and Mr. Huggles?
Devil: Sarcasm is the lowest form of social discourse.
Guy driving by (to the Devil): Go to Hell, jerk.
Sam: I’m just the guy sending you back to Hell. Just… as soon as my friends show up.
Ben (saying goodbye to Winston): You a freaky ass bird, who scared the crap out of me, and now I can’t be comfortable around birds ever again.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Reaper episode 5 What About Blob?, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on The CW.