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Dope Thief Recap: The Old Head-in-a-Box Routine
Ray Driscoll is stuck in Philly, and the mysterious, big-time drug-dealing threat is rapidly closing in.
Shoutout to director Tanya Hamilton and crew for staging and shooting the next scene like the riveting suspense sequence it is: rooting the viewer in the geographical positioning of Ray and Michelle, the lawyer at the nearest road-side bar, speaking in code as the Aryan biker boys surround them — a table of day-drinking prison guards the only thing between them and oblivion. So when he steps onto the other side of those prison gates and the DEA swoops in and saves him from what was surely set to be a Sergio Leone–style criminal execution (the timing strains credibility a bit here, even for a show that mixes straight drama with pulp like this one does — nevertheless, kick-ass spaghetti-western LARP-ing shit), Ray takes his second chance at life to make all the amends he can — parlay a lifetime of bad decisions into priceless nuggets of love. An insanely brutal end for a local pawn shop owner who didn’t do anything except sell Manny a firearm and call the Aryan bikers a trio of dumbasses to their faces.
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