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| "The Dog Eat Dog Syndrome" | |
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| Season | 2 |
| Episode | 4 |
| Episode in Total | 17 |
| Air Date | October 10, 1998 |
| Production Code | 17 |
| Directed By | Nathan Chew |
| Written By | Steve Roberts |
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"The Dog Eat Dog Syndrome" is the fourth episode of Season Two it originally aired on October 10, 1998. It was written by Steve Roberts and directed by Nathan Chew.
Synopsis[]
Drekk, an old friend of Frank the Pug, is running loose on Earth. And Frank faces getting boiled alive if he helps Jay and Kay apprehend him.
Plot[]
Summary[]
It was another day on Earth. Two dog catchers were driving their van around the streets, having a good laugh about a joke regarding a talking dog. Then, a real talking dog that they unknowingly held spoke, demanding to be let out. The van halted and the dog catchers fled in terror from what they just witnessed. A certain LTD stopped them and two familiar agents exited out of the vehicle and Neuralized the men. Kay and Jay freed Frank before arresting the alien dog for revealing his identity to human citizens. Although, Frank claimed that they just thought he was a talking dog.
One night, a shooting star crashed onto an elderly couple's diner. MIB arrived to handle the situation: Neuralizing the couple and hiding the evidence (via remodeling the diner). The agents went inside to investigate the shooting star, actually a UFO.
J attaching the Noisy Cricket Silencer
Inspecting the UFO, they learned that it's a prison transport ship and the one driving was most likely a fugitive. Jay and Kay head to the roof top and found their perp who attacked them by shooting flames from the palm of his hands. While taking cover, Jay added a silencer to the Noisy Cricket allowing him to fire his weapon without recoil. With the tide turning, the alien escaped on a train with Jay continuing pursuit while Kay get the LTD. After an intense chase, the train headed into a tunnel and K arrived with the LTD to save his partner but the perp escaped into the river below the bridge.
Returning to HQ, Jay and Kay learned that the fugitive was Drekk who had been reported to having escaped the maximum security wing he was imprisoned in a week ago. There was only one lead to Drekk and that was his cellmate, Frank the Pug. Jay and Kay confronted Frank about Drekk but Frank refused to cooperate, having been threatened by Drekk once before. To compensate for his help, MIB will offer Frank a new suit which the latter accepted, desiring a XL 2000.
Frank headed to a local alien pub where Drekk might go to. There, he met his friend, Weasel who reminded Frank of the card game they'll going to have at Frank's apartment. As expected, Frank found Drekk who wanted his former cellmate's help in giving him a place to stay and hide from the MIB. Remembering his pursuers irked Drekk that he manhandled Frank. Before things got literally heated, Jay and Kay, disguised as aliens intervened. Drekk fired upon them but thanks to their disguises being heat resistant, they easily took him down. With the threat over, Frank emerged from hiding to taunt Drekk. Drekk vowed revenge on Frank before being taken into custody.
Drekk was dragged to a ship that will take him back to prison. Unbeknownst to the agents escorting him, Drekk took one of their cards allowing him to escape. Elle introduced the latest state of the art suits but Frank wanted the XL 2000. Elle stated that they are fresh out of those models and until a new shipment arrived, Frank had to resort keeping his old look. Frank returned to his apartment where he meet up with his friends for the card game. However, the two of them expressed fear about Drekk's return but Frank believed that crisis is over. Hearing a knock, Frank believed that to be Weasel and told him to come in. The door exploded and entering the room was Drekk who had just killed Weasel to find Frank's apartment to exact revenge. Frank's friends abandoned him leaving Frank at the mercy of the psychotic alien.
Before Drekk could kill Frank, the two heard a call from Kay. Frank lied to Drekk that MIB made him to sell him out, enraging the latter. Deciding that his hatred toward the MIB far surpassed his hatred for Frank, Drekk decided to prioritize revenge on the agents. Frank told him to go after them but Drekk had other ideas. Drekk forced Frank to set up a meeting otherwise Frank will be one dead mutt.
Having been informed by Frank about Drekk's whereabouts, Jay and Kay enters the steel mill to find him but they are ambushed by Drekk. Drekk easily incapacitates them and takes them to a vat of molten metal where Drekk intends to dunk them in. Frank reveals himself leading to the agents to be surprised or unsurprised that he did it. While Frank just mouths off that the agents could handle themselves and that he isn't capable as he's not a Rotweiller. Jay agrees and says that Frank is just a chicken in a dog suit. The mention of a suit and Kay inspiring him to get the XL 2000 causes Frank to turn on Drekk with an icer. But to his dismay, Frank accidentally iced his own tongue. Seeing no threat, Drekk drops the agents into the vat while Frank watches this in sadness. His revenge on the agents done, Drekk grabs Frank and throws him in to join them.
All of a sudden, a hand grabs Frank from falling to his doom. It was Kay and Jay follow suit to get the icer from Frank's tongue. Drekk was about to retaliate but Jay was having none of that and defeats him by freezing him. After getting out of the vat, Frank speaks out loud how the two were able to survive. Jay and Kay explains that they had opposable thumbs and heat resistant suits which was just layered over their bodies. The two MIB agents teases Frank to their amusement about an earlier statement Frank made that he was willing to sell Drekk off for free but Frank denies it and wants the XL 2000.
Elle introduces Jay and Kay the new and improved Frank. To their confusion, Frank is just the same as before. Frank explains that he has an XL 2000 modeled after his pug disguise. Unlike his original disguise, it has a very comfortable leather and a moon roof for his head.
Trivia[]
- This Episode marked the debut of the Silencer to Jay's Noisy Cricket.
Watch[]
Men in black the series S2E04 - The Dog Eat Dog Syndrome