Nazi Hunters – The episode begins with Colonel Patrick Quinn (Denis Leary) calling Corporal Papadakis (Hal Cumpston) into his office. Quinn tells him that he began seeing some potential in him after the tank heist but he is on the verge of kicking him out of the Army. This conversation lasts until Sergeant Dana Conway (Laci Mosley) announces that there is birthday cake in the teen room.
Quinn visits Captain Maggie Quinn (Taylor Misiak) and asks her to go to a WWII memorabilia shop with him in town. She tells him that a love for WWII is not something they shared it was something he droned on about. She also tells him that he is obsessed with WWII. He tells her that when he was a kid, Nazis were everywhere, including in the Netherlands. When she doesn’t appear to believe, he tells her that’s the kind of thinking that leaves their base susceptible. She tells him that they run quarterly war games. He tells her that he’d like to run one at 0900 hours tomorrow.
Quinn kicks the war games off the following day by announcing that the mission is to supply three full brigades with laundry and cheese. Major Abraham Shah (Danny Pudi) later throws a loop into things when he announces that an enemy has fired a short-range ballistic missile into the Fromagerie and all the cheese has been destroyed. Although Maggie orders Conway to get the secret stash of cheese, things get even worse when Private Anthony ‘BA’ Chapman (Dempsey Bryk) announces that half the machines keep tripping the breakers. Maggie also handles this by ordering Papadakis to shut down the power at the bowling alley. Shah and Quinn try to throw a final wrench in the war games by stealing BA’s Jeep steering wheel, but he makes it with the final two loads of laundry with just seconds to spare.
After the war games are over, Quinn notices a drone flying overhead and freaks out. Maggie and Dana try to tell him that this is Geert (Louis Kirwan), the town drone boy, but he flips out and destroys the drone. Once Papadakis is able to extract Geert’s location from the drone, Quinn decides to pay him a visit. On the way to Geert’s house, Maggie tries to convince Quinn that Geert is just a little boy but he doesn’t buy it.
Back at the Teen Center, Papadakis and BA come up with the idea of removing the possum from the Air Tower, in hopes of preventing Quinn from kicking Papadakis off base. The removal doesn’t go so well. When Quinn and the gang show up at Geert’s house, he does, in fact, turn out to be a young boy. When Quinn begins interrogating Geert, he admits to secretly storing documents and gives them his mother’s fashion magazine. Things get even more awkward when Geert’s parents return home.
On the way back to the base, Quinn still won’t admit that the Netherlands isn’t packed with Nazis. This is when Maggie apparently has enough and takes him to the antique museum. While at the museum, Maggie tells Quinn that if he doesn’t stop living in the past, he is going to become an old dusty relic that no one wants anything to do with. When Maggie asks to use the bathroom, she accidentally steps into a room full of Nazi memorabilia. She also finds a picture, identifying the owner as The Butcher of Baden.
Maggie tries to tell Quinn that he was right about the Nazis but he beats her to the punch and says that he is a dusty old relic that belongs on a shelf. She tells him that’s real growth and to remember that right before she tells him about the owner Nazi. While Quinn prepares to take down possibly the last Nazi on earth, Papadakis and BA continue to fail to get the possum out of the Air Tower. When they are taking a breather, Papadakis gets a text message. Seconds later, he and BA show up at the museum with an official WWII uniform for Quinn.
When Quinn goes to take down The Butcher he has a heart attack. They try to do CPR on him but this fails and they end up having to call the paramedics.
The episode ends a week later with a new Padadakis showing up in Quinn’s office. His hair is combed, and his shirt is buttoned and ironed. Papadakis tells Quinn that he is finally getting everything that he has been teaching him – stealing tanks, punching old Nazis, and prostitution. Quinn makes him promise not to tell anyone those things.
Going Dutch Review
This show gets a bit funnier every time I watch it, so I think it is starting to grow on me, which is what a good series should do. For that, I have to give it major credit. I still won’t go as far as saying it is a great series, but I probably would recommend watching it. I actually enjoyed the Nazi theme of this episode and that’s saying a lot because it’s a theme that is way overplayed these days. I also liked that Quinn turned out to be vindicated in the end. I’d have to give this episode a 5.7 out of 10.
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