‘Claws’ Recap: Desna Desperately Rescues Roller + Polly Bonds with Joe

Claws Season 3 Episode 4
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Desna reveals Roller didn’t show up for their date.

The episode begins with Desna nervously walking into the salon. Jenn, Ann, and their client noticed Desna’s apprehension and question her. They all scoff at her in surprise when they learn Roller didn’t show up to their date. What they don’t know is Roller’s being repeatedly punched in the face by Melba as he’s tied.

Meanwhile, Virginia runs into Eric while she’s wondering why Dean couldn’t show up to breakfast. He gives Virginia his number and invites her out. Virginia doesn’t accept but doesn’t tell him that she’s engaged.

Dean couldn’t show up because Mac’s with him at the casino teaching him Mahjong. Mac uses this time to learn about Dean’s past and to build trust with him and encourages him to join the Mahjong tournament.

Joe and Polly grow closer.

As this goes on, Polly’s still in her professional persona working with pit boss Joe when they briefly make out. After stopping suggesting that Desna, Mac, and Melba wouldn’t like it but go at it again.

Dean gets caught by Desna at a Mahjong table and she tries to get him to stop playing and to leave. However, he refuses and ignores her request.

At the new rehab center, Uncle Daddy does his best to rehabilitate Jenn’s mother. Bryce shows up telling Brenda that she has to leave.

Desna learns from Melba why Roller didn’t show up for their date.

In her office, Melba patches into Desna’s security system to reveal what really happened to Roller. She tells her to come by herself to get him. Desna gives the news to everyone and they all decide to head to the yurt with weapons drawn. However, they all enter to find just a speaker present and an old school, rotary phone ringing.

Mac and Melba have a camera in the yurt tent and sees everyone that showed up. As a result, Roller seemingly is harmed by a hatchet.

Meanwhile, Joe and Polly head to a clothing store to scare, extort the employees and make out.

Dean gets caught up in his game of mahjong.

Dean’s getting really good at mahjong and wind 6 games in a row. Unfortunately, he’s ignoring Desna’s phone calls.

Joe and Polly head back to the office making out when Desna calls. Desna tells her to stay on Joe and find out everything he knows. This results in Polly and Joe questioning one another.

Desna returns to the salon with her girls and receives a package from Mac and Melba. Its apparently Roller’s toe with a message to head to them this time by herself, or else he dies.

When she heads out by herself, her good and bad consciousness debate on whether or not she should really safe Roller. The debate gets interrupted when Melba calls noticing she came by herself.

Meanwhile, Uncle Daddy shows up to the clinic in a panic, demanding his nerve pills.

Kevin goes on a date.

Kevin, on the other hand, heads out to a date in the casino with a woman he met on a dating app. He notices Polly sitting with Joe on the other side of the casino restaurant. When Polly notices Kevin, he begins to break out in laughter to make it seem he’s enjoying his date.

Desna arrives at the seemingly empty home where Melba told her to come to in order to save Roller. When she walks inside, candles are lit everywhere and music is playing.

She comes across Melba dancing with a taser. Melba tells Desna to dance with her in order to save Roller. Mac interrupts their dance, walking in with Roller tied up, and bloody at gunpoint.

Back at the casino, Polly confronts Kevin in the bathroom about his date. This ends up sending Kevin mixed signals. She apparently didn’t want to see Kevin moving on so fast.

Mac and Melba finally get the upper hand on Desna.

Back at the house, Mac and Melba hand over a contract, signing over her portion of the casino to Mac and Melba. After she signs it, Melba tases him. When they awaken, they are tied together to a bed. Despite this, Roller’s salty that Desna didn’t sign the paperwork fast enough.

This degrades to an argument and an agreement to figure out how to get out of their tie-up. Unfortunately for them, an alleged poisonous snake shows on the bed and bites Roller in the leg.

Meanwhile, Uncle Daddy and the crew roll into Joe and Polly’s office trying to figure out what happened and if Joe knows anything. When Uncle Daddy reveals to Polly they now have Desna with Roller, she threatens Joe to find out where they are. Luckily for them, Desna and Roller were able to find their way out of the house, only to find out Desna’s car is nowhere to be found.

As they walk, Roller’s limping and they’re arguing about past things. He revealed he didn’t like Desna moving on with Greg. Back at the casino, Joe learns about what happened with Desna and Virginia confronts Dean at his mahjong game.

Meanwhile, Roller eventually falls to his multiple wounds and Desna cries over him, screaming, “I need you.”

As the salon’s closed, Jenn noticed Brenda walking drunk in the parking lot. That conversation doesn’t go far as she’s heading out to find Roller.

Roller manages to come back from the brink with Desna’s help.

Unfortunately, Desna had to leave Roller behind and she ends up on the side of the road where Ann and Uncle Daddy find her. Back at the rehab, Bryce is working when Jenn barges in confronting him about Brenda. Bryce’s adamant about not seeing her after she showed up and she seemingly believes him.

Luckily for Roller, Desna, Uncle Daddy, and the girls find Roller just in time, saving his life. They all head back to Desna’s casino and she’s going to nurse him back to health. Meanwhile, Polly and Joe meet in the office where Joe reveals how he found out where Mac and Melba had Desna and Roller.

Lastly, when Dean stops by Mac’s office to sign up for the mahjong tournament, he notices Desna calling him. Then Virginia shows up to Eric’s open mic event and Eric notices. As a result, he dedicates a song to Virginia.

The episode ends with Desna and Roller taking about their future. She tells Roller, “I think I love you.” To which, Roller says he loves her too.

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