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‘The Cleaner’ Episode Review – ‘Here Comes the Boom’ (Caution: Spoiler Review)

This is an episode from the A&E show Cleaner which stars Benjamin Bratt as William “The Cleaner” Banks an interventionist who tries to help people off drugs. He struggles to do this while trying to hold his family together. This is because of the strain on them from the time that he was an addict.

The plot of this episode starts with Ray junior, the son of the first person William tried to help showing up at his shop. William learns that the boy’s mother had died from an overdose but had a number of years clean. The boy also tells William that he is in the foster system and his father, Ray senior, has been released from prison. You find out as the show evolves that William was responsible for this happening because the father was in the house with drugs when William picked up the mother for an intervention.

The son asks William to help keep his father clean. The father has a job cleaning cars at a lot and is trying to stay clean even though he’s having troubles with his bills. However he learns that his son is going back in the system because his foster parents are moving. He wants to be able to provide his son with a home they can share. This pressure causes him to fall back with his motorcycle gang and agree to go on a drug run.

William finds out the metal worker that rigs the gas tanks for the gang has been picked up and uses this to make an entry. He convinces the gang that one of his men can rig the tanks for their motorcycles. This gives him an in and helps in keeping an eye on the father.

While trying to do this things stay in flux at home for William Banks. William’s daughter is talking about a spelling contest his son blurts out that he is quitting football. William is the coach of the team and tells him no. The next day William stops his son and a friend on their way to school to confront him about it, but while trying to talk to him gets a call about the case and has to leave. To rebel the son throws footballs through a building’s windows and waits to be picked up.

Back to the car cleaning drug addict, William finds out the father has started smoking crack again and tells two of his people to watch for him at the gangs club. These are Swenton (Esteban Powell) who rigged the tanks for the gang and Darnell McDowell (Kevin Richardson) a recent addition to the team. Swenton defies William’s orders and tries going back into the club to see. The gang is suspicious and starts questioning him, pistol whips him and forces him to smoke some crack. Swenton tries to avoid it because he’s one of the people William had helped in the past.

The climax comes when William tries to rescue Swenton and reveals that he was the cause of the Ray senior’s prison sentence. With the gang holding guns on William and Swenton the son Ray junior bursts in holding a gun. He tries to get them to let William and Swenton go explains that he was the one who wanted them to help his father. He gets so desperate that he is going to lose everything he tries to shoot himself.

William stops him and Ray senior calls for the gang to stand down because he is going with William. During the end of the show you see snippets of the father going cold turkey. Swenton smoking more crack and them breaking down and asking Akain for her help even though he has always made fun of her in the past saying she receives all of the best jobs.

Finally you find out that William’s son Ben has disappeared which has his wife frantic. They have the police looking for him, although by the end of the show Williams’s daughter tells him she got a text and Ben is safe, but she won’t say where. The show ends with William crushing a rock of crack that had been dropped by Ray senior earlier in the show that William was looking at and considering.

The featured song from this episode is:

1) Song: Chemical Courage

Artist : Jack Savoretti

Album : Between The Minds

2) Song: Where You Don’t Belong

Artist :One-Eyed Mule

Details: The song played while William Banks son throws a football through the school’s windows. (Big thanks to Lenny for locating the song!)

3) Song: Are You Afraid

Artist : Fay Aiyana

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