Mac Kills His Dad

"Mac Kills His Dad"
Information
Season	Ten
Episode	Seven
Writer(s)	Dave Chernin & John Chernin & David Hornsby
Director(s)	Heath Cullens
Air Date	February 25, 2015

"Mac Kills His Dad" is the seventh episode of the tenth season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

News surfaces about Mac's Dad, Luther, being a murder suspect. Mac goes into full "P.I." mode to clear his father of any wrong doing.

Recap

Dennis and Dee become depressed at the bad news highlighted on the local news. A news story airs claiming Luther McDonald was arrested for decappatating a man with a stop sign and Mac jumps into action to clear his name.

At prison, Mac tells his father he will do whatever is needed to find the real killer. Charlie decides he wants to be Luther's lawyer. Luther demands they both stay out of it. At the crime scene Charlie questions a blue collar worker "because it's what they do on TV." The man accidentally reveals another person was at the scene of the crime and Mac threatens him to say more. Back at prison Luther reveals their involvement is only making him look more guilty. They check the visitor's log and see Bonnie Kelly visited. At the shared apartment of their mothers, they discover that on the night of the crime Bonnie slept with both Luther and a man named Eduardo Sanchez simultaneously. Put off by the graphic description of the gay sex, they still manage to get Bonnie to reveal it was Eduardo who left to commit the murder.

Meanwhile at Paddy's, Frank arrives with some "Life is Happy" shirts. Dennis and Dee argue that life is anything but happy while Bill Ponderosa arrives in a tuxedo, announcing he is going to drink himself to death. The three Reynolds visit Bill's wife and children, who all hate him and wish death upon him. Maureen has spent more alimony money on plastic surgery to look more like a cat and is too preoccupied to care about Bill. The Reynolds give up on trying to show him life is worth living so they take an expensive life insurance policy out on him.

At Paddy's Mac tells everyone, including Bill, that Eduardo is the real culprit but he's not going to be a rat per his family's requests. Bill volunteers to confess so he'll be killed on death row and Luther can go free. At the police station Bill decides "Life is Happy" from the shirt Frank gave him so he tells the police about Eduardo Sanchez' crime. Mac is thrilled that his dad will be released and he didn't have to rat.

At prison Mac shares the good news but Luther tells him the other inmates will kill him before his exoneration for ratting on Eduardo.

Recurring Roles

• Gregory Scott Cummins as Luther McDonald
• Bonnie Kelly
• Mrs. Mac
• Bill Ponderosa
• Maureen Ponderosa

Guest Stars

• Paul Black as Jake 'Beefcake'
• Cheryl Texiera as Jane Ponderosa

Trivia

• Charlie first demonstrated his knowledge of "bird law" in the episode "The Gang Exploits The Mortgage Crisis."
• Charlie and Mac visit Luther in prison in season 2's "Dennis and Dee Get a New Dad" and Luther asks them to smuggle heroin into the prison in their anuses.
• Charlie does not know what cursive handwriting is.

Quotes

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Charlie: Mom, if you know something, you gotta tell me...

(Mrs. Mac grumbles)

Mrs. Kelly (to Mrs. Mac): I can't lie to my Charlie!

Charlie: Good! Tell me everything.

Mrs. Kelly: OK. They were both here. They were both inside me. Eduardo was in my mouth, and Luther was in my butt.

Charlie: Oh my God, no, don't tell me everything...What, no, what?

Mrs. Mac: Dammit Bonnie...

Mac: Eduardo who?

Mrs. Kelly: Sanchez...

Mac: Holy shit. Tell us more.

Mrs. Kelly: Then Luther went in Eduardo's butt for a while.

Mac: Tell us less. Tell us less.

Mrs. Kelly: Then they both completed on each other. I was left out of the finale. And then Eduardo went out and then he killed somebody and then...well, that's all I know.

Charlie: Jesus goddam Christ, Mom. If you know that, just say that. Don't tell me the whole thing about banging every single guy that comes in the house. If you just know about -- about the murder, just say the murder part. Oh, my God!