2.14 No Such Thing As Fair Play
Title | No Such Thing As Fair Play |
Episode # | Season 2, Episode 14 |
First aired | April 15, 2022 |
Directed by | Jensen Ackles |
Written by | Katherine Alyse |
On IMDB | No Such Thing As Fair Play |
Outline | A day at the Annual Ranger Community Fair sees confrontations between Cassie and her old boss, Geri and Abby and Stella and Colton. Also Kansas plays! |
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Contents
Synopsis
At the Side Step, Walker tries to get his kids to look at potential places to stay. Geri tells Walker that she visited Gail, her birth mother. Walker asks her along to the Annual Ranger Community Fair. AT the Fair, James and Cassie run into Trey. Cassie gets paranoid when she sees the two exchanging meaningful looks - which is obviously about her being Mickey's replacement. They are interrupted by Captain Fenton Cole
Cassie's old boss from Dallas - who is with Rita, the widow of Cassie's ex-partner, Miles. Cassie is suspicious of their relationship as Miles has only disappeared six months ago and, to Cassie's mind, prematurely declared dead by Fenton.
Walker and Geri enter a blind-folded obstacle race against another couple, with Geri directing Cordell through the course. They win after the other pair fail to communicate well. Cassie finds them and asks walker to help get some information from Fenton.
Todd tries to convince Stella to enjoy the day. They meet up with Colton and play a side show game, but Stella gets angry when Colton fumbles an apology about his family taking back the Walker ranch.
Walker approaches Captain Fenton, who has only good things to say about her. Cassie confronts Rita, and Fenton intervenes. They explain that the quick declaration of death was to help Rita out financially, and that there is also additional evidence Cassie is unaware of - a witness saw Miles get shot and they found a van and Cassie's stolen gun both with traces of Mile's blood. Fenton says he will release all the files to Cassie for her to validate.
Abby decides to try and clear the air with Geri, saying the information that Gale's child had not died but been given away had not been hers to share, but also making snide comments about Gale. She runs into Colton who is upset about his interaction with Stella. She advises him to tell her that he understands her point of view of what happened, something she obviously wishes Abby would do with her.
At the Kansas concert, Geri gets a text from Gale, which Cordell is dismissive of, and she storms out in the middle of "Carry On". She uses their safe word - the word they agreed to use when either felt they had lost their way in the relationship. Geri feels Abby, and Cordell, don't understand what's going on for her and says she needs some time apart.
As the Walker's leave the Fair, Colton catches up with Stella, and gives her a locket of her mother's he found at the Walker ranch and acknowledges how much she has lost. He also finally tells her how he feels about her. They share a moment, and Stella leaves.
Cassie is working on getting drunk after the confirmation that her partner is dead, and wanders into a fortune tellers tent. Tray finds her there and confides that he was close to Walker's previous partner, and seeing Cassie was a reminder that she had really left. Cassie plays with some tarot cards and draws three - for the past, strength for the present and death for the future. A card for her she claims.
Meanwhile Captain Fenton drives into the night and stops at a trailer and walks towards it carry some supplies. "We need to talk" he yells, as a man appears at the door of the trailer.
Characters
- Cordell Walker
- Cassie Perez
- Stella Walker
- August Walker
- Bonham Walker
- Abeline Walker
- Liam Walker
- Geri Broussard
- Trey Barnett.
- Captain Larry James
- Green Cooler
Music
- Midnight Sun by Sur
- Enough by Clint Manning
- All My Living Time by Radio Company
- Automatic Attraction by Palm Palm
- Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas (Live)
- Life Sentence by Zachary Knowles
- Admiral of Upside Down by Dhani Harrison
Quotes
Trey: Come on, now, I'm not gonna miss out on an opportunity for deep-fried cookies.
Geri: Yeah. Can I ask you a question? Yes. If it hadn't been me, do you think it would have ever crossed your mind that some kid out there didn't know their whole story?
Cassie: Mm-hmm.
Walker: Worst-case scenario, he figures out what I'm trying to do and...
Cassie: Gets you on desk duty for the rest of your career.
Walker: Yeah.
Trivia & References
- "That's my M. Night Shyamalan," Ackles says, joking that he knew fans would recognize his bow legs. "I said to our DP, 'Is there light between my knees? Okay we're good, we can shoot.' They were like, 'No one's going to recognize that is you,' and I'm like, 'The right ones will.'"
- "He and I worked together on Rust and after the incident, he had just recently moved to Austin during COVID, and he was like, 'Hey man what are you going to do?' I was like, 'I think I'm gonna drive home. I could use a nice 10-hour day in a car.' And he was like, 'You want some company?' So we spent 10, 11 hours in the car after that incident and really bonded."
- "Dean was always going to end up in Heaven, and we were always going to see Sam's life in fast-forward, but those final moments were supposed to take place somewhere else. When Bob Singer and I sat down to talk about season 15, and our inevitable end, we came up with something that felt like a fitting version of Sam and Dean's Heaven: all the people the boys had met along the way (or, at least, those we could convince to fly to Vancouver) crowded into a re-built Roadhouse, as the band Kansas played our (official unofficial) theme song: 'Carry on Wayward Son.'"
The shuttering of production in March 2020 due to covid - just as episode 18 was about to be filmed, but a stop to that idea. According to Jensen "they were literally at the airport and some of them were getting on a plane to come to Vancouver when they got called and told, 'Sorry, COVID, we're shutting down.'"
When production resumed in 2020, drastic changes were required due to infection control rules
Jensen talks about how the Kansas appearance in Walker came about:
- "They were like, 'We're writing that script right now, but we just found out Kansas is actually going to be in Austin playing one night and it happens to be three days before you start working.' So I was in prep and basically, they broke the main unit early on the previous episode so that they could do a full company move over to the Moody Theater in downtown Austin and we could set up and shoot, essentially, a rock concert. So I shot that while in prep, and then a couple days later we started rolling on principle photography for me."
Sides, Scripts & Transcripts
Promotion
- Promo and behind the scenes photos
- Episode trailer
- Jensen talks about directing Walker and including nods to Supernatural by tvline
- Jensen on directing Kansas for the episode by tvinsider
- Jensen on directing Walker and Jared by EW
- Jensen Ackles Talks Walker, Jared Padalecki, Kansas & SPN Easter Eggs by Bleeding Cool.
- ‘Walker’: Jensen Ackles Reveals the Bear-Raising Prank He Pulled on Jared Padalecki by TVInsider
- Jensen on directing Walker by digitalspy
- Jensen on what's next on Walker and working with Jensen by Nerd and Beyond
- Jensen's appearance on camera by EW