Recap: Under the cover of darkness, Colonel John Litvak meets up with a KGB agent (Tanya Petrov) to discuss their nefarious plan to faux recruit Murray Bozinsky to a pretend job under false pretences. John assures Tanya he knows exactly the right buttons to push in order to successfully lure the geek, smarmily adding, "Stick with me, you might learn something." When he gets all touchy-feely, the humorless Tanya grabs his hand and gives it a painful twist, then snappishly warns him to not fucking touch her like that ever again. Haha! Murray has wrapped himself in a blanket and is pacing outside the Riptide, loudly hiccupping - a disturbance that's preventing Nick and Cody from being able to sleep. The two go above deck to ask Murray what has him so stressed to the point that he's hiccuping nonstop, so he reveals he has a major life decision to make. He explains that he just got a call from an old college professor - Bradley Stivers - to offer him a job (in Sunview, CA) heading up the Artificial Intelligence division at a new Silicon Valley firm called Techno Trend. The trio head inside the boat, and Nick reminds Murray that he quit his last corporate job during the series pilot...and not, to say the least, under the best of circumstances. Murray insists that that toxic situation was totally different from this new opportunity, and that he's intrigued by the idea of working in the AI field, aka a new frontier in the world of technology. He glumly adds he was hoping they'd be happy for him, and Cody assures him they are - but then expresses concern about the survival of the detective agency without his gadgetry and advanced computing know-how. Murray promises to continue to be there for them, then laments that breaking up their threesome is the most difficult decision he's ever had to make.
In the next scene, Murray is enjoying his Boz Voyage party, to which everyone in King Harbor has been invited...including curmudgeon Lieutenant Quinlan. Bradley Stivers tells Nick he hopes there are no hard feelings towards him for recruiting Murray for the new AI job, and Nick assures him there aren't...but then warns that, sooner or later, Murray is going to crave the excitement of a perilous car chase. Bradley chuckles at that...and when he starts sneezing, he explains that he developed a new allergy the minute he arrived in California. Nick files away that tidbit before he and Cody present Murray with their farewell gifts: a mini Screaming Mimi that also serves as a radio, and a dart board with Lieutenant Quinlan's face on it. Hee! Murray thanks the two, who he makes a special point of calling his best friends and partners, then announces that he's leaving them Roboz in order for them to have continued technical support for the agency. He tells the rest of the King Harborites he'll always cherish the time he spent with them...and drones on and on as if he's delivering a commencement speech - until a buxom Contessa babe wearing a skimpy tank top sexily sashays over to the stage and shuts him up with a giant smooch. Nick and Cody get into a bitter argument as they pack up Murray's computer equipment...and as Roboz mutely observes the snipefest, he no doubt curses Murray for abandoning him to two men who bicker like they're an old married couple. Eventually Nick and Cody call a truce and chucklingly recall the first time they met Murray, and subsequently enjoy a flashback about their time serving in the U.S. military.. Nick and Cody, both decked out in full military garb (yum!), are summoned by their superior officer to provide air transport for Captain Murray Bozinsky, who's been detained after punching one Colonel John Litvak in the face. As the three board The Screaming Mimi, Murray explains to Nick and Cody that he only struck Litvak after he got wind that the scoundrel had stolen a software program he had designed to promote world peace, and intended to use it for some unspecified, abominable purpose. As he starts to natter about his interest in computers, the flashback fades out...and Nick and Cody decide to load the computer equipment onto Mimi and surprise Murray by flying it directly to his new digs in Sunview. Nick and Cody land in Sunview - but are puzzled when they learn that the address for Techno Trend is an abandoned construction site. They ask a construction worker ambling nearby if he knows anything about Techno Trend, and he says there was supposed to be a new office building on the site - but the lot owners skipped town without paying him and his crew for their labor. Nick and Cody chew on that for a few seconds, strongly suspect that Murray's job offer must be part of a scam, and worriedly conclude that whoever's running the scam now has Murray. Nick and Cody head over to the Sunview Police Department and report Murray's disappearance as part of a suspected scam. They tell the police captain that a man named Brad Stivers is supposed to be residing in the area as well, and she listens concernedly and promises to promptly look into the matter...which has to be a refreshing change from the callous way Lieutenant Ted 'I don't give a shit 'bout nuthin' Quinlan would surely have responded. On a rural property outside of Sunview, a hiccupping Murray tells Bradley Stivers he's sooooo dismayed he'd betray him like this - but Bradley denies doing any such thing and says he too was duped into thinking that the AI job was a legitimate offer. A few seconds later, two thugs enter the locked room...and when Murray demands answers about why he's being held in this house against his will, Bradley lunges at them and yells at Murray to make a run for it. Murray races out of the room and reaches the front door - but before he can figure out how to unlock all the bolts, he's tackled by the thugs and then hauled over to a makeshift office. He's stunned when the man sitting behind the desk is none other than Colonel John Litvak. He smarmily says, "Welcome to Sunview California, Dr. Bozinsky" ... and when Murray asks him if this whole thing is some kind of elaborate hoax, he says that while he's enjoying having the likes of him under his thumb, the real motivation is money. Murray sourly assumes this means he's going to be forced at gunpoint to work on some kind of malevolent research project - but John clarifies, "I'm planning to sell you to the Soviet Union." As Murray stares back at him in horrified bewilderment, John explains that the Soviet regime is desperate to recruit the best AI scientists the world has to offer...and that he was the first candidate who came to mind.
Nick and Cody wander around Sunview and post missing person flyers that feature a sketch artist's rendering of Murray's bespectacled face. A random woman wanders over to the bulletin board, carefully studies the flyer, and says she saw Murray at a local airstrip...and that he seemed really drunk and referred to her as Myrna. Nick and Cody scrunch their faces confusedly, then recall that the only Myrna they know of is a New Orleans hooker who deflowered Murray while he was facing charges for Litvak's punching. The two then stare contemplatively into space as they indulge in a second flashback.. While hanging on Bourbon Street, Murray giddily ogles a brunette hooker from across the street. He admits to being a virgin - to which Nick and Cody are all, "Wow, shocker" - then abruptly announces that he needs to go to a drugstore, pronto, so he can stock up on breath mints, mouth wash, and nasal spray. And speaking of nasal spray... Back in the present day, Nick wonders aloud if perhaps Bradley Stivers might have needed some prescription nasal spray to control his sudden California allergy...and if so, they could use the address on the bottle to track his whereabouts. As they amble over to the nearest drugstore, Nick bitches about all the parking tickets they've gotten since arriving in Sunview, and then he and Cody approach the drugstore clerk and tell her they're here to pick up a prescription for Bradley Stivers (while crossing their fingers that a prescription under his name just happens to be waiting for pickup). The clerk confirms that, yep, indeed she does have a bottle of nasal medicine for a Bradley Stivers...and across the store, one of Litvak's thugs just happens to be close enough to eavesdrop on the interaction. Murray resorts to loud shrieking in an effort to get rid of his hiccups, then explains to one of his confused captors that shrieking can sometimes help, then recalls another activity that can quell hiccups as he dreamily flashes back to the time he got his wick dipped in New Orleans.. In the lobby of a New Orleans hotel, Nick and Cody lament the unfairness of a tenderhearted dweeb like Murray Bozinsky possibly getting sentenced to seven years for punching a colonel in the face - particularly an assbag like John Litvak...and highly doubt he'll last in the stockade for seven minutes, let alone seven years. They put their heads together to think of a high ranking officer who owes them a favor and come up with General Bernie Collins. A few seconds later, a dazed looking Murray descends the staircase with Myrna...and, yep, it definitely looks as though getting busy with a streetwalker has cured his hiccupping problem. Back in present day, Murray is returned to his room. When he sees that Bradley Stivers is no longer there, he demands to know what has happened to his friend...but in vain, 'cause his captors offer no explanation. Nick and Cody race over to the address that was on Bradley Stivers' prescription bottle and find him in the garage, slumped in the driver's seat of the car, with the motor running. They drag him out of the garage and attempt to revive him - but it's pretty obvious he's been a goner for awhile. A few seconds later, the thug who was in the drugstore comes squealing over in his car and opens fire on them...and after a brief car chase, a policeman standing nearby jumps into his patrol car and pulls over Nick and Cody while the thug gets away. Nick and Cody are in a holding cell at the police precinct, grumbling about the injustice of the police suspect them of killing Bradley Stivers. As they bicker about which of them is most to blame for their current predicament, someone in another cell yells at them to shut up...and they pause and longingly wonder, "Where's General Bernie Collins when you need him?" During another flashback, General Collins says he's reviewed all the facts in Murray's case, deems the charges "disgusting", and calls out Colonel Litvak for his generally retaliatory-type behavior. He announces that a new trial date will be set, and tells Murray that in the meantime he's free to return to his research post. Once the General has exited the room and is safely out of hearing range, an enraged John Litvak glares at Murray and seethes, "Someday you're going to pay for this - like you've never paid for anything in your life." Nick and Cody tell the Sunview police captain that they strongly suspect John Litvak of being behind the kidnapping of Murray and the killing of Bradley Stivers. She promises to look into where Litvak might be holed up - just as Nick suddenly recalls the many parking tickets he and Cody have amassed during their short stay in Sunview. He asks her if he can look through the precinct's parking ticket files, and she's like 'sure, why the hell not?'. As a crouched Murray is being locked inside a wooden crate, John Litvak smugly points out to Tanya Petrov that he delivered Murray as promised - but she looks unimpressed, reminds him he still has to transport Murray to the trawler, then chides him for selling out his own countryman. Seems like a counter-productive statement to her own agenda, but OK. As Nick and Cody sift through the pile of parking tickets, they come across one issued to John Litvak, whose home address is a rural property outside of town. The police captain perks up at that lead and agrees to meet them there asap. Nick and Cody fly to the rural property via Mimi - just as John Litvak is burning whatever incriminating evidence he didn't want to leave behind after his human trafficking of Murray. When he sees the chopper coming, he flees to his car to escape - but before he can drive anywhere, Cody leaps off of Mimi, tackles him, and hauls him aboard the chopper to get him to spill the beans about Murray's whereabouts. John immediately caves and says that the KGB has their friend, adding that the Russians paid him a fortune to obtain the geeky genius. Tanya Petrov and a KGB goon are driving a truck with the crated Murray in the back when they suddenly realize they're being hovered over by a fugly pink chopper. Cody laments not having any firearms aboard, 'cause they hadn't anticipated being in a gunfight while in Sunview, so he proposes throwing Murray's computer equipment atop the truck to get the driver to stop. Nick concurs with that plan, so Cody begins tossing things off of the Mimi...and eventually one of the computers hits the truck's windshield, causing the goon to lose control of the truck, which is then plunged into a nearby pond. Tanya and the goon emerge from the overturned truck and crawl to shore...and then Cody wades into the water to drag the floating crate to shore. Nick races over and breaks the lock...and when a conscious Murray spills out, Cody jokes about how they finally figured out how to use his computer equipment. A dazed Murray chews on the loss of his entire hardware collection for a few seconds, but then grins happily at the joy of being rescued from a life of Soviet slavery.
Back at the Riptide, Nick sheepishly admits to a weary looking Murray that he told Cody to throw his computer equipment out of the chopper to stop the KGB agents - but Murray assures him he totally understands, and that he can easily replace it all. He expresses sadness at the loss of his friend and mentor, Bradley Stivers, and says he's deeply moved that the two of them risked everything to locate and rescue him. He points out that if weren't for them he'd just be another computer geek, and thinks of them as his brothers. As the three absorb the fuzzy warmth of that shared sentiment, Cody suggests they take an impromptu vacation. Murray says he's way too tired to go anywhere...but when Nick asks, "Too tired for New Orleans?", Murray perks up and is all, "Hell no!" and says he'd loooooove to look up Myrna and see if she's up for another romp...which, if she's still walking the streets in search of johns, she'll no doubt be willing to indulge him. Thanks for reading! If you are enjoying TVofYore's recaps, consider thanking me by buying me a "coffee"!
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