Bad Monkey Episode 1 Recap & Summary: ‘Bad Monkey,’ an American TV show based on black comedy-drama, was released on Apple TV+ on 14th August 2024. The first season of this show consists of 10 episodes with the first two episodes of ‘Bad Monkey’ already released on 14th Aug. The subsequent episodes will be released every Wednesday weekly.
This show has gained huge popularity among viewers and consists of some of the great casts such as Vince Vaughn performing as ‘Andrew Yancy’, who is known for his ‘Best Actor Performance’ in ‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’, then we have L. Scott Caldwell as ‘Yaya’, Rob Delaney as ‘Christopher’, Meredith Hagner as ‘Eve Stripling’, Natalie Martinez as ‘Rose Campesino’, Jodie Turner-Smith as ‘Dragon Queen’, Michelle Monaghan as ‘Bonnie Witt’ and few others.
Bad Monkey Episode 1 Recap
Episode 1 starts with some tourists fishing on a boat on a great sunny day in Florida. Suddenly he got something on his fishing hook, when he pulled it up, it was a HUMAN Hand chopped off with its middle finger still up. The atmosphere on the boat suddenly changes and they inform the coast guard about this finding.
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Then Andrew Yancy, played by Vaughn comes on screen, a one-time detective who was demoted to a restaurant inspector for harassing Bonnie’s Husband Mr. Cliff. Andrew gets to handle this case as the authorities believe, that this incident can turn down Florida’s tourist visits hence they ask Andrew to take the hand to Miami as the victim might belong to Miami. They also found out from the doctors that this hand belonged to a white man with black hair who was in his mid-40s which makes them suspect that the victim should belong to Miami. This incident has also surfaced the new channels across the city hence this case needs to be taken care of.
Bad Monkey Episode 1 Recap
Andrew takes that hand from Keys to Miami where he meets Dr. Rosa Campesino, performed by Natalie. She works in the Miami Metro Police Department and examines the hand and tries to match with their citizens, but none matches. Rosa asks Andrew to return the hand to the Keys as this case doesn’t belong to them.
While returning from Miami he called his best friend and his former police partner, Rogelio Burton, performed by John Ortiz. He informs him about Rosa not taking the case upon which Rogelio suggests him to throw that hand to crocodiles and stay out of this trouble. Then there is an intimate scene between Andrew and Bonnie where she agrees to talk to her husband about the case and when she opens the fridge, she finds the chopped hand kept in it and upon seeing that, she starts screaming and by the time Andrew could have explained the story, she drives away.
Then, Andrew narrates the story of a young man from the Bahamas to the viewers. That man had a trained monkey named ‘Driggs’ who belonged from the set of Jonny Depp pirate movies who can be taught anything. Then we are back with Andrew where Rogelio meets him and informs him about a lady named Eve Stripling who reported his missing husband who went boating in the Bahamas and now wants that hand back so she can perform his funeral. Andrew then takes it to hand over the part to Eve but when he meets her, he suspects that she is lying all about it. He asks many questions to Eve who later complains about it to his superior. Andrew gets fired from his job and this is the moment when he decides to find the truth behind this case.
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Later, Andrew went to the funeral and talked to the daughter of the dead man. She feels that it’s Eve who might have got his father killed and she even swapped the diamond ring with a gold one. Then we are back Neville Stafford, the guy with the monkey ‘Driggs’. He is concerned about his place being sold by his sister in Florida to build a resort there. He really wanted to stop that from happening so his friend suggested to meet the Dragon Queen who can make curses.
After meeting her, when he was returning, he saw developer Christopher, wade into shore, and then the narrator, Andrew clarifies to the viewers that he wasn’t telling two different stories but it was one and the episode ends there. We are covering episode-wise recap of ‘Bad Monkey’ on our website, do check our other articles as well and if you find this content interesting, we have more waiting for you on our Home Page, do pay a visit.
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