Mac is in the duster (which he can actually wear again), and Charlie has on the shades, which doesn't please Mac, since he says he needs them to "assess the threat level". Charlie says he knows where Cricket is, and so they go to an animal shelter. Frank tells them that he threw the dog painting out, and the last he saw of it was Rickety Cricket running off with it. When they get Frank on the phone, he tells them that he is stuck in a window at Pop-Pop's house, where he is trying to find the treasure. This leads Mac, somehow, to think that the painting will make them famous, getting them a " DaVinci Code-style thriller about us." Charlie wants Mac to call Frank to see if he remembers where the painting went. This leads to the conclusion that Hitler painted the dog picture.
While Charlie searches, Mac is on the Internet, where he finds a site full of pictures of Adolf Hitler with German Shepherds, along with an article on how Hitler loved to paint pictures of them. They run out of the room, off to find the painting.Ĭharlie searches his apartment for the painting. Mac, who is eating some of the rotten soup now as well, asks Charlie what his point is, and Charlie tells him that he thinks that painting is the Nazi treasure Frank spoke of. However, Frank didn't like it, calling it "evil", and stashed it away. Charlie tells him about the box of Nazi memorabilia Pop-Pop told him about a few years ago (as seen in " The Gang Finds a Dead Guy".) They burned it, but Charlie reveals he saved a painting of a German Shepard dog from the box, and hung it on his wall.
Dee and Dennis seem very unsure about what to do.Ĭharlie pulls Mac aside.
Charlie says that they should make a decision on what to do about Pop-Pop just like he made a decision to eat the soup Dennis tells him that there's no comparison between the decisions they face. She then sees Charlie starting to eat some of the rancid leftover soup. Dee seems ready to pull the plug on Pop-Pop, but Dennis tells her they need to think more about it. He then tells the real reason for his visits: he has heard that Pop-Pop has "Nazi treasure" hidden away, and so if he spends time with Pop-Pop, Pop-Pop will tell him where it is. Frank explains that sometimes Pop-Pop doesn't finish the soup, and Frank forgets to take it away. When they enter Pop-Pop's room, it's filthy, full of rotting soup that is filling the room with a disgusting odor, and Pop-Pop himself appears to be completely unkempt, with long white hair and untrimmed beard. They are surprised that Frank knows where his room is, and Frank tells them that he visits Pop-Pop every week to check on him and bring him soup. The Gang goes to the nursing home to see Pop-Pop. Dennis and Dee appear to be stunned by the news that they have just heard. He tells them that their grandfather, Heinrich Landgraf (who they call " Pop-Pop") is in a coma and is being kept alive on a respirator, and since they are only surviving blood relatives, it is up to Dennis and Dee to decide if he should be kept alive. After being cleared by " ocular patdown", The Lawyer tells that he has been trying to contact them for some time (a reversal of the usual situation of him trying his best to stay away from them). Mac replies that he will indeed be using them, but he soon sees a big disadvantage of his glasses: because they wrap all the way around his eyes, and they are so dark, they basically take away his peripheral vision, and he cannot see that Dennis, Dee, and Frank have walked away. Dennis counters that this does not make him feel any safer, and there will never be a time when Mac needs this. Charlie suggests that the reason is so the people Mac is checking out "won't see how scared is", which Mac denies. He shows his first move: wearing a very dark pair of sunglasses so that subjects of his "ocular patdowns" will not realize what he is doing. Mac announces that his "sudden and unfortunate" weight loss has put the bar at risk, and as "head of security", he is making a few moves to improve security. Ĭharlie enters the bar and calls everyone to attention, saying that Mac has an announcement. But things get complicated when The Gang learns of Pop-Pop's history as a Nazi, and Mac, Charlie and Frank set off in search of the old man's spoils from the war. Dennis and Dee's ailing grandfather Pop-Pop is wasting away in the hospital, and they have to decide whether or not to pull the plug.