In Reaper Episode 4, Andi invited Sam and his friends to a concert, but the Devil fought him on it and convinced him he couldn’t go because he’ll never get a vacation. Once plans changed to him and Andi alone, though, a little thing like the Devil wasn’t of great concern. But in order to save Andi’s life, Sam had to promise Ted he’d work for the next four weekends, which means no concert. It also means Andi’s getting tired of him lying to her.
Sam makes plans with Andi to go to karaoke. He says he’ll be there in 10 minutes. I think we all know that won’t be happening. A demon carrying a contract for his soul prevents that. He needs to sign/initial/etc. every page of the several thousand. For some reason, the demon doesn’t want Jell-o shots and instead wants Sam to sign everything right then and there. He was hoping he could find a loophole in the contract, but the medieval and Latin writing in the huge document negates that possibility.
When Sam tries to walk, he starts slipping all over the place. As usual, his demon powers suck. The stickiness this gets replaced with is a lot easier to deal with (at least he doesn’t need to hold Sock’s hand) but still weird.
Sam says he really wants to know what he missed last night. Bad idea. What he missed was Greg, a guy who was hanging out with Andi all night.
Andi plays a prank on Ted, putting a note on his car apologizing for the damage (which is made up). She puts the regional manager’s phone number on it. He searches for 10 minutes to find out what’s wrong, then calls the number and calls the guy an idiot. Completely irrelevant but a good prank nonetheless.
Sam’s excuse for flaking: jogging. Late night jogging. If you’re gonna lie, at least make it believeable. Or tell her the truth. That sounds better.
The Devil, who Sam hates (again), shows Sam pictures of people who died because they slipped. After asking, he’s given a clue that’s remotely helpful, slime. After he climbs out of the sewer, Sam sees a guy walking in the middle of the street get hit by a car, but that guy turns out to be a slime monster.
The vessel is a sweater that looks like a really embarrassing homemade Christmas gift. For some reason, Sam thought it would be something that made sense and that actually looked impressive. As he’s leaving, sweater tied around his waist, Sam promises Andi he’ll tell her what’s up tonight.
Andi gets flowers at work from Greg. Ted says he approves.
The boys head into the sewer and find a slime trail. This trail of slime leads to a political fundraiser. Too easy. Sam says he’s friends with Ed, the guy who died in the car accident earlier, which doesn’t get them anywhere except thrown out. Sock decides the fact that they get no reaction when informing Bobby Hartford, one of the men at the fundraiser, about Ed’s death means it’s him who’s the monster. He grabs the sweater and shoves it on Hartford’s head. Since this doesn’t work, now it’s time for them to not only be escorted out but be busted by the cops as well.
Josie’s boss convinced Hartford to not press charges. He’s about to run for office and doesn’t want to deal with them, so he’s willing to let them go if they don’t get near him again. When he gets out of jail, Sam realizes he’s three hours late to meet Andi. When he arrives at her house, she’s out with Greg. The Devil dug up some dirt on him, telling him Greg’s been dating twins. Sam doesn’t want to stoop to that level. He says he’ll outcharm him.
They find out Hartford’s father dumped a bunch of toxic waste while he was still alive. Speaking of fathers, Sam’s dad wants to meet with the Devil, but the Devil’s not interested.
The boys head to the dumpsters to dig up the ugly sweater. While there, Ben gets attacked by slime. Sock saves him with used kitty litter.
When Sam meets with Josie, Andi calls and says she’s going out with Greg and wants her to double date. Sam spills the truth about the twins but asks her to not tell Andi. So much for the charm. After she spills coffee, they find out the sweater is really absorbent. Then Sock comes in with a lead.
This brings them to a woman taking a shower, which Sock’s getting a bit too much joy from. Slime comes out of her shower, but it goes down the pipes before they can catch it, so they head into the sewers, where Hartford’s dad grabs Sam. Sock puts on the sweater and captures the soul. Sam and Sock get stuck in that position, hugging, but their friendly neighborhood DMV demon helps free them.
Josie told Andi about the twins, who turn out to be Greg’s sisters. Now she’s fed up with him, and the worse his relationship gets with her, the worse his relationship gets with the Devil. Afterwards, the Devil warns him that if he tells Andi the truth, it will be bad for him and very bad for her. While he’s telling Sam about it being noble to keep the ones you love in the dark, we get a glimpse of his father, burning the contract he pretended he was going to help read.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Reaper episode 6 Leon, which airs Tuesday at 9/8 on The CW.