History Recap / TheVentureBrosS3E13TheFamilyThatSlaysTogetherStaysTogetherPartII

At the LAPD station, Brock and Dr. Venture are being brutally interrogated by the two arresting police detectives. In another room, a police psychologist is questioning Hank and Dean. Hank gives a entirely truthful account of the events, but the psychologist assumes they must be delusional. Back in the interrogation room, two SWAT officers enter to inform the detectives that the body and all evidence at the crime scene are gone. The detectives are incredulous, but suddenly, The Cleaner bursts in and kills the officers with chemical spray. He dissolves the handcuffs on Brock and Rusty and helps them escape with the boys.

The Monarch and his henchmen are torturing H.E.L.P.eR, trying to get the location of the Ventures out of him. He resists at first, until Dr. Mrs. the Monarch comes in acting sympathetic. She then tricks H.E.L.P.eR into giving up the coordinates of the Ventures family.

Under a bridge over the UsefulNotes/LosAngeles river, Brock suddenly puts his knife to The Cleaner's throat, knowing that something is amiss as Hank never actually called The Cleaner. Molotov, in her civilian garb, tells him to stand down, as it was she who called the Cleaner, knowing that even Brock might have trouble fighting the entire O.S.I. on his own. Just then, the Monarch arrives in his Cocoon, calling out Venture over his wrist communicator. Molotov and the Cleaner speed off in her car, leaving the Ventures taking cover under the bridge. At that same moment, General Treister contacts Brock over his communicator watch, asking Brock to turn himself into the O.S.I. "to talk." Brock, thinking fast, speaks into both communicator watches at once, saying that he'll meet them both at the Venture compound at dawn.

The next day, the Monarch's Cocoon arrives at the Venture compound with Brock and the family having hitched a ride in the bottom hatch. They head inside the compound, with Brock directing the family to the panic room.

Sgt. Hatred, still hanging out in the compound waiting for Rusty to come home and kill him, visits the Ventures in the panic room. Dr. Venture tries in vain to strangle Sgt. Hatred while Dean is crouched in the corner terrified of the battle going on outside. Hank wants to join the battle and gives a rallying speech, saying that they can help if Rusty "let's him open his Christmas present early." (His and Dean's clones.) Venture activates the clones and Sgt. Hatred, with new found purpose, leads them into battle.

Brock, seeing the clone army entering the battle, runs outside to surrender. Just as the fighting stops, the Monarch arrives in his new prototype battle armor, the "deathshead panoply." His suit immediately malfunctions, leading him to flying erratically over the battlefield, firing lasers in all directions. After killing many of the O.S.I. agents, his own henchmen, and all of the Venture clones, he crashes back to the ground, sick from dizziness.

* BittersweetEnding: The three assassins who tried to kill Brock turned out to ''not'' have been with the OSI, but they were Molotov's assassin rivals. However, the others don't know yet and Molotov is still likely not an enemy of the Venture family, so they're safe for the time being; it also appears Sergeant Hatred might perform a HeelFaceTurn. However, Brock's experience with the whole situation convinces him to quit the OSI, thus he also quits being the family bodyguard. Finally, the attack on the Venture Compound by the Monarch left the boys' clones destroyed, but Dr. Venture may be likely to protect his boys more often (as he told Hank, "you only live once"). His cloning experiments (which are illegal) have been made public. Henchman 24 and H.E.L.P.eR are dead; the former now talks with his best friend, Henchman 21, from beyond the grave (he also helped said friend become a badass) and the latter had his head placed on a walking eye Dr. Venture made some time ago.

* FreezeFrameBonus: The list of disorders the police psychologist has in his notebook for the boys can be briefly seen: "Paranoid Delusions, Arrested Development, Cry Baby, Oral Fixation (due to Hank asking for a cigarette before telling his story,) and Stockholm syndrome".

* PercussiveMaintenance: When General Treister's electronic heart stops working momentarily after a workout, this is how he gets it working again. (Also while yelling at it.)

** Brock mentions Molotov "Comicbook/{{Catwoman}}-ing" around in regards to her usual attire.

** General Treister shares a number of similarities with ComicBook/NickFury, including his eye patch and being in charge of a top secret government organization.

* WhyAmITicking: The Monarch straps a bomb to H.E.L.P.eR as another way to kill Dr. Venture. This backfires on him when the bomb not only destroys their car, it kills 24.

* MixedMetaphor: Phantom Limb (his own PunnyName an example being both a medical condition affecting amputees and him being a man with invisible limbs) says one:
-->'''Phantom Limb:''' Let the rats desert the ship. It's the big-fish-rats we're after.