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“I like the Punisher,” he explains, “because he takes the law into his own hands and punishes the people that wronged him.” He says that his grandfather, whom he cared for up to his death, left him money with one condition: He can’t access any of it if he’s dating a “gold digger.” Patrick’s brother, the will’s executor, thinks his current girlfriend is with him only for the money and refuses to release it. When we first meet Patrick, he’s wearing a necklace with a silver tube of his grandpa’s ashes and a “Punisher emblem” on a chain. Outside the house, he’s got more rehearsals to run.īack at the warehouse, Fielder’s team has built a complete replica of a Raising Cane’s restaurant so a man named Patrick can practice asking his brother for his share of an inheritance. Fielder doesn’t seem too happy with this arrangement - when he enters the kitchen and Angela asks Adam “Who’s this?” the kid just shrugs - but what can he do? It’s still technically her scenario, built around her specific desires.

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We see a montage of him chasing chickens around a coop (holding his upper body completely stiff), struggling to till the soil and lay down pipes to irrigate the vegetable patch as Angela plays with Adam inside the house. Some things are real.”Īfter the title, the portrait of Nathan’s domestic life continues. “Nathan, where have you been?” Angela asks, incredulous. “I thought it was just trick-or-treating,” he says. “I had no idea.” He’s employing a technique he’s been using whenever any of the show’s participants say something off-the-wall: conveying genuine surprise without pushing back, giving his subject some open space to flesh out their worldview. “Okay,” Fielder replies in a voice of naïve astonishment. “It’s the highest satanic holiday,” she whispers as “Adam” toddles around them trying to get her to dress up as “Batman’s mommy,” Catwoman.

How’s his foray into fatherhood going? Well, when he and his fake son decide to dress up as Batman and Robin for Halloween, Angela pulls him aside and explains that she doesn’t celebrate it. When we left off last week, Nathan Fielder had decided to join Angela’s rehearsal as a co-parent.

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