Entourage’s last season had a slow start for me, but this third episode made an impact. It instantly went from slow-paced to riveting in an episode! This episode they show Vince giving a speech about his rehab and how he changed, in the meeting he sees Carl. Remember Carl? The guy from four seasons ago who offered Vince a part in his movie “Danger Beach” but screwed him off of it. He was in rehab too and wanted to make peace with Vince. He approaches Vince with excuses as to how he used to be an addict back in the day and now wanted to make a fresh start with Vince’s new script. But Vince breaks news to him of him wanting to make Johnny the lead in the movie, Carl agrees if Vince would give him the chance to work with him again.
On the other hand, Turtle gets a gold watch from Carlos and also bad news. He tells Turtle that his girlfriend has found someone and they are also moving to a bigger distributing company which makes Turtle just a shareholder. Ari gets an advice from Vince that he should see other people much like his wife. Accepting Vince’s offer, he sets a date with a young girl. The date goes horrible as Ari doesn’t feel like the girl was mature enough for his age or humor. On the way back, Ari calls Dana Gordon, and visits her. This little reunion was awesome as I loved the rivalry between them over the years. Over at the animation studio, Andrew Dice takes off and wouldn’t record again if his quote wasn’t met. Because of which, Dice gets fired from the show and an extremely lame replacement gets placed.
Vince visits Carl even when Ari told him not to. Carl seems to be stoned out of his mind, gives Vince a script entitled “TaxMan” and wants him to star in it as the lead. Vince, not interested in anything but his own script, tells Carl he wasn’t expecting this from him again. Carl runs into the bathroom and locks himself in. While Vince and Turtle keep knocking on the door to put some sense in him, he shoots himself in the bathroom. And this is what I call progress! Never in the entire series have I seen a more serious and mature episode than this, this is true awesomeness and I wish the season keeps this vibe going! The title of the episode “One Last Shot” was very cleverly given, as the last scene in the episode is Carl shooting himself. It also implies to Turtle and Vince having their last “Shot” of Avion as they both sell their stocks. Amazing episode!