The most tricky part about writing a breakdown for a comedy mystery is that you never know what’s just a joke and what’s crucial for the plot. For example, in The Chair Company episode 3, a designing guy tells Ron, “A bug went in your phone.” Now you can come up with various explanations for what this “bug” could symbolize, because you know that there’s a bug inside Ron’s mind, and that bug is called Tecca. And if I keep stretching this theory, then we can speculate that Tecca or whoever is behind the company may have installed a bug (a virus) on Ron’s phone to spy on him. Or maybe the bug is the pictures Ron’s keeping on his phone because he’s obsessed with finding at least one representative from the chair company so that they can offer him the apology he feels he is owed. I think you get the gist. For a show where every character is unpredictable, anyone could be the culprit, and in the end, as it always happens, it’ll turn out to be the person you least expected. But until then, Ron will keep shooting in the dark, and we will be watching him, laughing at his misery.
Spoiler Alert
The Intruder Is Mike’s Guy
The previous episode ended on a cliffhanger where Ron received a picture on the burner phone Mike Santini had given to him. This photo made Ron realize that someone was hiding inside his closet, and he went straight to the door to find out who it was. Well, no big surprise here. It was Mike Santini’s guy, LT. Mike was just a bit paranoid, because he had hit Ron with an iron pipe and even tried to scare him off with a gun. He didn’t want Ron to set him up or go to the police, and therefore asked LT to keep an eye on his corporate friend. However, LT accidentally sent Ron’s picture to the other burner, thereby exposing himself to Ron.
Later, Mike told Ron that he’d gone to see Jim X, but he didn’t actually meet him. He was having a meeting with a guy who owed Mike, and he told Mike that Jim got paid around 50,000 for scaring Ron off. Well, that’s a lot of money for just keeping one guy away, right? Something really fishy here. Mike was a bit offended at the thought that a guy was paid 50 grand for the work he had done and therefore decided to help Ron to investigate the mystery. Good news. Ron now has a partner.
Ron Gets One Step Closer To Finding The Truth
While talking to the designing team, Ron just got the idea that he could find out more about the company that owned Tecca through municipal records. On one of the chairs, Ron had found an address of the company’s warehouse, but unfortunately, it was empty, with just a giant red ball in the middle of an empty room. Ron went straight to the Licking County Recorder’s Office and found out that the land belonged to a corporation named Red Ball Market Global (RBMG, Inc.). He even figured out the name of the person who had previously put in a request to check the property records. It was someone named Steven Droyco. I’ll come to that later.
As usual, Ron looked up the name of the company online, went through their website, and didn’t find any useful information in the end. The website had lots of people with authentic-looking bios, but it was hard to verify whether these people existed in reality or were just made-up names someone had put online to make things look authentic. Ron discussed it with Mike as if he knew any better. However, Ron believed that Steven Droyco was a real person, and so he asked Mike to see if he could find anything about the guy.
Seth’s Been Drinking
Paranoid after the LT incident, Ron convinced his wife, Barb, to set up security cameras around the house. Ron didn’t want anyone to intrude on their house and harm his family. However, shortly after the cameras were set up, Ron got a notification on his phone alerting him of suspicious activity, and on the camera, he saw his son drinking cans of beer in the backyard. As a father, Ron wanted to talk to his son just to see if Seth wasn’t depressed or something. But Seth told him that he liked drinking because it made him feel less self-conscious. Well, he was just young and trying different things; therefore, Ron decided not to be too harsh on his son. However, he couldn’t keep up the mask of a good father for long, as he told Barb about Seth’s drinking problem to save his own soul. Barb knew that there was something going on with Ron. He had been away from home for long hours and had been acting strange for a long time. She believed Ron had once again started doing those Jeep tours, and she was extremely worried about him. Actually, the reason for such a suspicion was that LT, while having those fits, knocked over a box labeled “Jeep tours” in Ron’s garage and Barb likely would have found the carton lying on the floor making her believe that Ron once again had become obsessed with them. Well, she was not entirely wrong. Ron had become obsessed, even though it wasn’t Jeep tours this time. And this is going to have an effect on both his personal and professional life in the near future.
Ron Becomes an Intruder Himself
Mike finally located the guy Ron had been looking for, and together they paid a visit to Steven Droyco, one of the former employees at Tecca, who’d worked for the company for four terrifying days. Ron wanted to ask Steven some questions, but he was a total mess. He shut the door on Ron and Mike’s faces and left the house shortly after. Ron and Mike came up with the idea of sneaking into his house to see what papers he was talking about earlier. They believed the house would be empty, but to their surprise, Steven lived there with his mother. Mike had heard rumors that Steven’s mother had died years ago, but it seemed like he had lied about her death because she owed some money to their aunt. Interesting. Also, there was this other woman at Steven’s house, who could either be his sister or his partner. We’ll find out more about her in the next episode.
Canton Marketplace Will Have Football
Okay, so Ron, in his interview with the news channel, had told the reporter Sarah there wouldn’t be anything related to football in their new mall. Remember in the first episode, Ron got a bit agitated when the girl serving the family in the restaurant seemed more interested in football than in the new mall. I think Ron had this discussion about football earlier too, and he felt that Canton’s favorite sport was in a way overshadowing his vision, which was why he was so hell-bent on not including anything minutely related to football in the new mall. But his interview kind of made the residents upset about the project, and with so much negative PR going on, Jeff Levjman, CEO of Fisher Robay, decided that they should have a little something around football in the mall, and that was the end of the discussion.
Steven Wants His Papers Back
I guess the papers Mike and Ron had stolen from Steven Droyco’s were completely useless, because you see, if there was any important information in them, Ron would have discussed it with Mike or Steven. But even though Ron didn’t find anything useful in them, Steven was quite fixated on them and wanted them back at all costs. He had put a camera inside his house and recorded Mike and Ron breaking in. He had seen Ron on the news, through which he figured out where he worked, and the very next day, he showed up at Ron’s workplace shouting at him to return his belongings. I was quite surprised that Ron wasn’t afraid of him. I mean, it was a huge deal that a guy showed up at his office and started screaming at the top of his lungs, but it seemed like Ron was no longer afraid of losing his job. I guess it had something to do with his conversation with Barb, where he told her that he wasn’t happy going back to work for Fisher Robay. Ron was happy that he got the project, but he didn’t seem to be obsessed with it, the way he was with Tecca. Well, whatever the case might be, Ron used the opportunity to interrogate Steven about the board members whose pictures Ron had downloaded from the RBMG website. Steven looked at the photos and told him that he might have seen the Chief Financial Officer, Ken Tucker, but couldn’t recall where. Ron wanted answers, but his boss was waiting for him in the other room, and therefore he quickly gave his card to Steven and told him to call him when he had remembered where he’d seen him, and he would return his papers. Trust me, none of it makes any sense. I think Steven’s just paranoid because someone at Tecca made him work in his “birthday suit,” and it was embarrassing for him. I don’t think he knows anything about the company or recognizes any of the board of directors because, in my opinion, none of them exist. Honestly, if someone’s running a scam, why on earth would they put original pictures online? And speaking of those papers, Steven seemed to be sentimental about them because he believed that there was some crucial information in them, but how much of this information is useful for Ron, we don’t know. If you ask me, Ron and Mike should have gone after Jim X because if there’s a guy out there who earned 50,000 just to scare someone, then this company in question must be hiding something really questionable. Or maybe it was another rumor that Mike had heard, and he just blurted it out in front of Ron to show him that he was resourceful.
There’s A Jason Voorhees Outside The House
In The Chair Company episode 3’s ending, Ron got another notification on his mobile phone, and this time there was a masked intruder sitting in his backyard. The person was dressed like Jason Voorhees, and considering we are already in the Halloween month, this masked guy could simply be a red herring. If we have learned anything from LT’s incident, then it’s that we shouldn’t trust the cliffhangers in a comedy show. I believe it’s Seth dressed as Jason to scare his family on Halloween. But if I have to shoot in the dark, then I think it could either be Steven, the woman at his house, or Jim X. You see, Jim X has all the reason to scare Ron. However, the way the man brought a chair and sat in front of the door implied that they knew that Ron had set up security cameras around the house. We know that Barb knows about the camera. And Seth knows too. But if an outsider has this knowledge, then is it possible that there’s really a bug inside Ron’s phone? Well, I leave that to you.
