Dec 9, 2019
Buyer Beware, Geoff and Wayne review season 2, episode 9, of Castle Rock, Caveat Emptor. With the help of insightful listener feedback, they discuss what they liked and didn't, from the episode. They also have a Castle Rock Life Lesson of the Week and King Connections. Full show notes at http://CastleRockZone.com
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Caveat Emptor – Pop vs Augustin:
Caveat Emptor was a hostage situation and battle of the wills.
Augustin/Ace needed the info Pop had, but he was not going to give
up that easily. Pop realizes that the letters between Warden Dale
Lacey & Alan Pangborn are the key. He obtained them when he bought
Alan’s trailer after he died last year. He pours over the letters.
Augustin and the cult got to Dale’s wive, killed her and took her
over for info on the Kid. She does not have any info, but knows
about the letters and that Pop, the Collector, has them.
Pop heads to the hospital and finds Nadia and what happened to
Chris. They are getting ready to leave when Chance arrives warning
them of the Cult killing the people who didn’t respond to the noice
and statue. They race to the Emporium but are stopped just short.
The gun battle is not going well, when Abdi slams into the Cult’s
car and kills them. The Resistance locks down the Emporium and sets
up Pop’s pressure cooker bombs around the doors and windows. They
discover Annie and her crew and question them. After Jamal is
discovered, the Cult shows up outside.
Augustin calls Pop via CB and introduces himself. He offers safe
passage out for Abdi, Nadia and anyone else in return for Dale’s
papers. Pop says that he burned them, which he does later. Augustin
calls Pop out for hitting Ace a lot as a kid. He say he ruined all
four of the kids in his care. The battle of the wills via CB
continues to ramp up. Augustin says they will kill Pop and take his
memories of the letters, but offers to do it easy. Pop say no on
retires these days. He says he has wired up a suicide vest and will
kill himself first. So Augustin sends in the Cult.
Pop is buying time for the others. Abdi, Nadia, and Chris played a
game as kids, They ran across the railroad tracks to escape Ace.
The train is a mile long and takes a long time to get through town.
The Resistance intends to do the same thing now. They fight their
way though the Cult members and make it to safety. Pop makes his
way back to his office, killing along they way. He injects himself
with the mind altering drug on the way. When he arrives at the
office Augustin is there. Pop attempts to blow himself up, but it
fails. Ace kills him.
King Connections:
All the floors and layers of the Emporium reminded me a lot of
Jonsey’s Memory Warehouse he is trying to get info while being
pursued by the enemy. We see the resistance fleeing across the
railroad tracks to escape. It reminded me of the train scene from
Stand By Me/The Body.
We have Annie trying to get her way with a man strapped to a bed
and dishing out vengeance on him like in Misery. Pop is called the
collector and his Emporium holds things that people will give
anything to get to. That plus the mentions of the Mellow Tiger take
me back to Needful Things.
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