The Poker Game - Resident Alien
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Harry is having a nightmare. It looks like Armageddon, and as Harry calls for Asta, he can't find anybody. D'Arcy finds him. She's dead. He let them all die. She sarcastically rips him a new one. At least Asta got a good burial spot. D'Arcy's down by the pond. Geese, she'll just say that.

Liv and Mike are spying on Harry. He's emptying dirt from the inside outside. Liv wants to see, but Mike won't give up the binoculars.

Jessup, Colorado is trying to lure vacationers, and he taunts the dead feet found in Patience.

The octopus is now in Harry's living room. He annoys Harry.

Max wakes up to find he has a full beard.

Harry drops one of his spaceship balls into the giant hole in his basement. The entire place rattles. Octopus is getting tossed around in the tank.

The activity makes Harry smile. He grabs a light and descends. He's created a bunker and will present it to Asta so they can live and everyone else will fry.

Ben has hired an elderly doctor, Dr. Smallwood, and Asta thinks that's not the best idea. When she tells him to tell his twin brother, the mayor, she says hi, Asta tries anew.

D'Arcy arrives, believing Dr. Smallwood has been dead for years. Her hair is dyed Raggedy Ann red. Ben is uncomfortable because of the kiss. They argue over who initiated it.

When Ben sees the foot on the Patience sign, he's upset.

Harry considers allowing Asta's big father to survive with them in the bunker so that he can cook and clean since, by the look of her car, Asta is a piglet. But then he thinks that as father and daughter, they could turn against him and make him a servant.

Sahar makes poop jokes while shaving Max and says he's hairy because of space. What else could it be? The camera pans down to the silver ball he stole from Harry.

D'Arcy and Asta go boating, and one of the songs reminds D'Arcy of their youth, while it reminds Asta of being pregnant with Jay. If Asta had told D'Arcy, she would have come running back. Asta says that she only keeps secrets to keep D'Arcy's life uncomplicated. D'Arcy wonders what she's hiding, but Asta pretends it's nothing.

Dan tells Asta that she's the only person keeping them alive, so she needs to take care of herself. Wear two lifejackets. When Asta worries about Harry's lack of friends, Dan says that if Harry can't find something good about humanity in Patience, maybe they deserve to be extinct.

Liv reads lips and tries to understand what Harry is saying to Max and Sahar.

Harry will help them if they stand on their seats and scream that they just farted.

When Asta arrives, she tries to get Harry to consider making more friends in town. He's met everyone in town. He thinks they're all annoying flesh monkeys.

She takes him over to Liv and Mike to get Harry invited to their poker game. And then Harry takes Mike's pie and side.

Harry wants to use the poker game to find new recruits for the bunker.

Ben wants to win to make a Patience commercial. When he does some magic, Harry considers asking Ben aboard, but then Ben asks how long, medically speaking, you can choke someone during sex. Pass.

Harry loses and breaks Ben's grandfather's poker table in his anger.

Mike and Liv are on an undercover mission for which Mike has created an elaborate backstory. Liv turns his story on its head.

The real estate agent claims she knows everything about Harry because of her job.

Jay is on the street, and Asta stops to chat with her. Asta's adopted mother has a word with Asta. She's not happy that Asta is so close to Jay without Jay purposefully seeking her out.

Liv wonders if Harry is a contract killer because real Harry took out a loan on his cabin and paid it back a week later. Quarter of a million dollars.

Mike says that's a lot of cash; he only has $90k in the bank for a rainy day. Liv can't afford to fix her car for $65.

Judy is running a murder tour of Patience.

Liv and Mike find out that Harry was disciplined at his last job because he was in a lab he shouldn't have been - with botox. Did they put the wrong person behind bars?

Judy arrives with her tour group. She uses the same phrase Bonnie Hunt used in Dave. We're walking.

D'Arcy dedicates a song on the radio to Asta. The Breeders, "Off You."

Asta visits Harry wondering about the big surprise. She sees a blue light and follows it to the basement and down into the bunker. He's very nervous to show her.

Asta freaks out. She thought it was all over. He even painted a window for her, complete with dead stick people. Asta won't spend a year with him and the octopus in there. Octopus says it's fine with him as he wouldn't want to watch her shitting in a bucket for a year anyway.

Asta doesn't want to be the only person left on this planet without the people she loves. She tells Harry to call his people and tell them not to come, or she will just die. He thinks she's bluffing, but while he could call his people, he wants to kill all the bags of douching.

Asta decides to electrocute herself if he doesn't call it off. He doesn't like this game of bluffing, after all. He bursts into the bathroom, where she is standing with the toaster over her head. She drops the toaster, and Harry gets the plug in time. But she had already flipped the breaker in the outlet. She was safe.

Liv and Mike arrive. They need to talk with Dr. Vanderspegiel. Mike trips over a loose board and finds botox hiding under it. She directs them to the basement, and once down there, Asta wonders what's with the guns. They're like, WTF?

Upstairs, Harry transforms back into Harry.

 

 

 

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Resident Alien
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Resident Alien Season 2 Episode 2 Quotes

With my people coming to kill everyone on earth, I will need a bunker to survive. I will fix it up and present it to Asta as her new home. We will live, and all the beer-drinking douchebags can fry.

Harry [internal dialogue]

Harry: You don't know anything about space. You are a Colorado octopus.
Octopus: Is that where we are? Shit. I thought this was India. THAT is an Indian rug. You are appropriating their culture. That's not a good look, man.
Harry: I saw it at a red tag sale for five dollars. I had to buy it. Plus, I think it really brings the room together.