Medical Police season 1, episode 4 recap: Mature Group Action

Lola and Owen must find Neri’s twin in order to unlock his phone, but all they have to go on is an old photo of the brothers at an unnamed water park on Medical Police.

As Lola and Owen have lunch in Sudan, Lola makes a call to Derrick Childrens (Jon Hamm), who really loves water parks and can immediately identify where the photo was taken on Medical Police. So now Lola and Owen have to go to Denmark to check out this water park in the long shot of all long shots. When they get to Denmark, though, the water park attendant points out that it says the date and location right on the photo. It was actually taken at Parc Glissant in France in 1971. How did they miss that?

So now Lola and Owen have to go to France. Derrick explains the mistake by saying that the Denmark park was modeled exactly on the French one and if they had told him it was taken 45 years ago he could have told them that in the first place. Also, how did they miss that it said “France” right on the photo?

Lola and Owen ask an attendant at Parc Glissant if there is anyone working at the park who would have been around in 1971. It just so happens there is, and Henri recognizes the Neri twins right away. They used to work at the park in the summers, but something happened that ruined their relationship and the twins never spoke again after that summer in 1971. Don’t worry, it’s not important. Henri wishes he could help them. The last thing he heard Franco Neri was living in Silver Meadows retirement community in Flordia under the name Frank Nelson, but that was nearly three months ago.

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Lola and Owen jet-set once again and track down Frank Nelson (John Kapelos) in Florida, where Dr. Glenn (Ken Marino) just happens to be on call for an orgy in progress. So this is what he left Children’s Hospital for! When Lola and Owen try to talk to Frank about Neri, he completely shuts them out and refuses to help. So instead they plan to sneak into his house to steal his scrapbook for reference photos to print a 3D model of his face. Great plan!

This leads to my favorite scene of the series, after Frank catches them in his house and decides to shoot them because he thinks they’re agents sent by his brother to kill him. Just as he is about to shoot, Lola starts singing “Rock a’bye Baby,” with Glenn and Owen joining in. Frank looks stunned at first, wide-eyed with confusion, but then ridiculously begins to actually fall asleep. He fights it for as long as he can, but as the song comes to a finish, he stumbles back into his chair and falls fast asleep. It is so stupid and unexpected, it is one of the great laugh-out-loud moments of the series.

They steal his scrapbook and go back to Glenn’s office to begin scanning photos. It is an intense montage as they scan photo after photo and render the blueprint for the printer to read. If you’re wondering why they didn’t just unlock the phone with Frank’s actual face while he was sleeping, so is Owen. The beauty of these gaping plot holes is that they are the result of nonsensical comedy bits that are written without regard to plot in the first place. The writers then almost always call attention to the plot hole, acknowledging the illogical storyline and adding a layer of meta-humor. Also, it’s just a show.

This plot hole also adds about sixteen hours of extra work for our heroes as they then have to wait eight hours for the model to print and then another eight hours of meticulously detailed paintwork to finish it. But in the end, they have a perfect model of Neri’s face to unlock his phone.

The evidence is all there on his phone, but the real question is how the virus was deployed simultaneously to all those cities. Lola realizes that the one thing all those sites had in common as the same model top-of-the-line 3D printer. It can print literally anything, even a virus. But Neri’s phone doesn’t stop with plans for those five cities. There’s a second wave coming and Chicago, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Moscow, and Tokyo are next.

Lola calls Patten at the CDC and tells him how the virus was transmitted and that there’s a second wave scheduled to deploy. Patten has all the 3D printers taken offline, presumably putting an end to the attack. They still have to find a cure and discover who is responsible, but otherwise, everything’s good.

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Unfortunately, Senator Barney recognizes that Patten was able to handle the outbreak just fine with the resources at his disposal, so she calls off the budget meeting. After all, 3D printers are the real threat, not viruses. But the threat isn’t over, because there are still people out there meaning to do them harm, enemies they least suspect. A cut scene reveals that McIntyre is still alive and doing just fine. What is she hiding?

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