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This week’s episode begins the morning before the first day of shooting for “Santa Monica Cop”, the movie penned by Hank Moody for Samurai Apocalypse. It is here we find Hank and Charlie locked in a fierce debate--should Charlie, Hank’s agent, choose to represent Tyler, the writer on a meteoric rise and boyfriend of Hank’s daughter? Naturally, the snake in Charlie comes out as the dollar signs cloud his better judgement. Naturally, Hank wants nothing more for Charlie to turn the other direction and run as far away as possible from Tyler because Hank deems it inappropriate. Hank may have seemingly won the debate as Charlie agrees to not represent Tyler, but after years of watching Charlie act as Hank’s agent, I knew this was just the beginning.

The episode shifts to Hank on set for “Santa Monica Cop” and we get to see Hank in all of his snarky and slacker glory. It doesn’t take long for trouble to rear its ugly head when Samurai Apocalypse wants new lines from Hank. After a little weed and crafting some new lines for the gorgeous female lead of “Santa Monica Cop”, Hank finds himself in a familiar situation: getting a “favor” from said woman. This simultaneously pisses off the director, the producer and the leading man, Samurai, and gets Hank unceremoniously fired from the movie.

The whole time all of these events are transpiring, Charlie decides to have a meeting with--you guessed it--Tyler. Charlie isn’t all to blame here, Tyler definitely shows his manipulative side this episode (reminiscent of another writer we all know). Not only does Tyler use the meetings he has with other agencies as leverage against Charlie, but also forces him to show his willingness to do anything for his clients. Details aside, Charlie ends up getting a mushroom stamp (Google it) across the face. Even after this, Tyler flirts with the idea of not letting Charlie represent him and we finally see a strong, assertive Charlie. And his first job for Tyler? Replacing Hank Moody as the on set writer.

At the end of this episode we see Hank at a professional low after being fired and firing his agent (he didn’t take Charlie’s representation of Tyler very well), but at a relationship and family high. Becca and Karen, the most two important women in his life, are both overjoyed that Hank assisted Tyler in getting a job and taking the first step in “making it”. Hank may not have a job or an agent, but when this episode ends Hank has the two things he wants more than anything, Becca and Karen.

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