The second episode of The Get Down.
Tropes:
- Chekhov's Gunman: Det. Sporran drops the name of one of the Savage Warlords who shot up the club: Napoleon.
- Corrupt Cop: Annie has one on the payroll, Detective Sporran.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Zeke figures out the secret of the crayon while watching Shao's pigeons flocking.
- Mylene has a real one and fakes a divine one at church in order to get out of the back of the chorus and sing for Jackie.
- Foreshadowing: Two bits, to the song that ultimately makes it onto Mylene's record. First, she's asking Zeke to turn the beat around on a gospel song, make it disco. And she gets the idea while singing with her friends, who end up joining her on the record as her back-up dancers.
- I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: While wrestling over Cadillac's gun, he and Wolf accidentally shoot one of the Warlord's to death. Ultimately subverted, in that Wolf was trying to kill the witnesses to his betrayal of Annie.
- Mr. Fanservice: He's a violent, drug-pushing, womanizing, cokehead, but damn if Cadillac ain't stacked.
- The Nicknamer: Shao dubs Zeke "Books" because he used his book smarts to figure out the crayon.
- Oh, Crap!: When the gang see's Shaolin's home on fire.
- Pastor Cruz has one himself when he sees Mylene singing to herself in the mirror, thinking he's nurtured the deadly sin of pride in her by putting her up front to sing solos at church, which leads to
- Mylene having her own moment when her father moves her to the back of the chorus and takes away her solo, scotching her chance to sing in front of a record producer.
- Then Pastor Cruz has another one when Mylene pulls off her choral gown, revealing the ivroy gown Cisco arranged for her to have (and which, contrary to Cisco's instructions, does "emphasize" el cuerpo).
- Scenery Gorn: Shaolin's burning crib, full of melting records.
- Serious Business: Shaolin is not joking around about that purple crayon.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: Cadillac dances to bouncy disco music while torturing the two child gangsters he kidnapped for information.
- Title Drop: The "Get Down" is explained by Grandmaster Flash (it being the part of the song that the DJ really wants - which could be a short, two-second sting or a longer hook - and that finding the get down and isolating it is a metaphor for life).
- Would Hurt a Child: A coked up Cadillac is willing to torture the two young Savage Warlords he and Wolf have brought in.
