Main cast: Bruce Weitz (Ray), Norma Dell’Agnese (Corinne), Sabrina Boudot (Ruby Rusell), and Page Fletcher (The Hitchhiker)
Director: Randy Bradshaw
Useless, jobless, neglectful hubby Ray only loves fast cars and fast women. That’s right, he’s better off sneaking off in his car to meet up with Ruby at the strip club, because having a wife and two kids can be such a drag to a man’s lifestyle, you know.
Only, he learns that Ruby is moving to a fancy club out of town, and she “forgets” to tell him until the very day she is leaving, right after her show that Ray is there for.
When he has a big row with his wife the next day, he decides that he’s done with being a family man and he’s out of there. He’s going to look for Ruby at her new club in her new town, and he’s delusional enough to think she’d let him mooch off her. You know, I think Ray is the forefather of those creeps that donate huge amounts of money to Twitch thots these days, thinking that doing so will win them the affection of these thots.
So, he speeds out and then runs over some bloke, and the poor guy looks very dead. Ugh, another selfish fellow trying to crimp Ray’s lifestyle.
No matter. No one seems to have seen him, so Ray reverses the car, lets the body fall off to the side, and speeds off. There’s his mistake right there. Folks in China know well enough to at least double tap the person they run over, to make sure that the person is dead and there will be no messy lawsuits to follow, and this fellow should have learned from the experts over there.
Like too many episodes of The Hitchhiker, Hit & Run is a predictable one, and variations of this episode has been done many times already in other anthology series and movies. However, this episode has its trump card: Bruce Weitz.
That fellow plays a most enjoyable loathsome villain here. Ray is such a narcissistic megalomaniac in such an over the top way that he becomes a memorable asshole. I love how he tries a few times to practice his tears, when he realizes that he has no choice but to go back to his family, only to give up halfway because he’s too much of a douchebag to get it right.
There’s nothing much else in this episode that is worth noting, but Mr Weitz’s performance is more than enough to make this one an entertaining episode. I’ve had fun watching it and hating the main character, and that’s the most fun I’ve had out of the fifth season to date. So… yay?
