Written By Speed Weed
Directed By Peter Leto
The case of a baby abandoned outside of a gym turns into a kidnapping case which in itself leads to the exposure and of a reproductive abuser. Before detectives can try and make a case, however, the man ends up dead. With over 40 children to his name and 47 potential suspects just from his past sexual partners alone, detectives try and pin down which woman did it.
Tropes
- Accidental Murder: Dr. Shelton "only" intended to castrate Ken, but unknowingly grabbed a wasp knife instead of a regular one.
- Asshole Victim: Ken is killed by a wasp knife after it became clear that the law could not punish him.
- Contraception Deception: The episode involves a high-powered businessman (John Stamos) who is a "reproductive abuser", meaning he purposefully lies about using birth control and pokes holes in condoms in order to impregnate as many women as possible. He convinces his partners to get pregnant, while cheating with multiple women and getting them pregnant. He gets killed because a domestic violence activist believes that There Should Be a Law.
- Double-Meaning Title: Ken is a serial reproductive abuser and intentionally impregnates several women. When he is murdered, his neighbors say that they heard a "wet bang" when it happened.
- Driven to Suicide: One of Ken’s previous partners killed their son and herself in a murder suicide after he refused to be a part of their life.
- Graceful Loser: When the detectives deduce that Dr. Audrey Shelton killed Ken, she admits it and doesn't attempt to flee; she simply asks to finish a glass of wine since they don't serve it in prison.
- Groin Attack: Dr. Audrey Shelton tried to castrate Ken with a wasp knife when he tried to seduce her, but ended up killing him instead.
- Honorable Marriage Proposal: One of the ways Ken convinces the women he impregnates to keep the baby is this. At some point after they can't get an abortion or the baby is born, he leaves and calls off the engagement.
- Idiot Ball: Dede’s neighbor, Wade, stole Jasper to "save" him, but rather than keep him or leave him somewhere safe, Wade decided to leave him in the back alley of a child-oriented place, on the theory that anyone who found him would be associated with the place and would love kids. It apparently never occurred to him that leaving a baby outside in the freezing cold in an area that doesn't have frequent foot traffic presents its own risks — namely, hypothermia, which is what happens to Jasper.
- Informed Attribute: Ken's charm. All of the women he seduced say he can make anyone believe anything. He never does this on-screen. In fact, everything he says only seems to make people hate him.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: While Ken Turner's actions are sleazy, nothing he does is illegal (except for one minor technical violation in Jasper's adoption), so the legal system can't punish him or prevent him from doing it again in the future. It seems like he's going to get away with it until Ken tries to seduce the wrong woman.
- Law of Inverse Fertility: None of Ken Turner’s victims (that we know of, anyway) wanted to get pregnant, all of them did, many as a result of one night stands. Add to that the probability that Ken would find 47 women who, despite not wanting to get pregnant, did not use any birth control in addition to the condom and didn’t use the morning after pill after the condom broke (or the backup measures also failed, which can happen but is statistically rare). While it’s possible that there were many women that Ken unsuccessfully tried to impregnate, a job that allows Ken to financially support 47 children couldn’t leave him with that much personal time. All things considered, Ken’s ability to impregnate 47 women who didn’t want to get pregnant in as short a period of time as the children's ages imply stretches the laws of probability to the point of Writers Cannot Do Math.
- Mother of a Thousand Young: Ken is a "reproductive abuser" who fathered 46 children, twenty in New York alone and compared himself to Monteczuma and other harem keepers. His 47th child was killed when his mother committed murder-suicide after he refused to become more involved than a check once a month. He met his end after the psychologist who identified him as an abuser decided to become a vigilante woman (again - she'd previously beaten a child rapist to death with a bat); she "just" wanted to cut off his penis but accidentally blew him up because the knife was filled with compressed air.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: If the detectives had bothered to google Audrey they would have known that she was violent, unstable, and should not be involved in a police investigation. Due to their negligence, Audrey ended up killing Ken. Now the women that the detectives were so determined to get justice for will have to raise their children without Ken's financial support.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Ken insists fathering 47 children is a natural urge and tries to justify it by claiming Elliot having five children is the same thing. Except Elliot had those children with his consenting wife, so the audience knows not to take it seriously.
- "Pop!" Goes the Human: A WASP Injection Knife is a real weapon that, after cutting something, floods the cut with compressed air, making the target explode. Ken's body was described as looking "like he ate a bomb". Its intended use is defending against large predators who can't be dealt with using conventional weapons, and the murder weapon's actual owner — not the culprit — is a scuba diver who had to use it against a shark in the past.
- Really Gets Around: Ken has had countless partners and numerous children by them, to the point where he’s suspected of reproductive abuse.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: While being interrogated, Ken tries to say that fathering so many children is fine, Elliot comes back by pointing out that he was around for his children as much as he could be, while Ken only financially supports them and loses interest once it's clear the pregnancy will be carried to term.
- There Should Be a Law: Ken is a huge sleaze taking advantage of women, but the only actual legal violation he commits is mishandling Jasper's adoption, which is a slap on the wrist at best.note
- Too Dumb to Live: Ken tried to seduce Audrey after she made it clear that she held him in contempt.
- Villain Ball: Ken saw an attractive woman and just had to try to get her pregnant.
