Yes, Jules Rivera has moved into the “just plain silly” phase of the story. As it turns out, there is such a thing as the “Cobra Clutch”, but it appears to be a “pro wrestling” or Brazilian jiu-jitsu hold; and neither of those match what is happening here. Rivera must have recently watched one of the cheesier martial arts films where the fighters are always shouting out their special fighting techniques (“I’ll defeat you with my ‘Spitting Crane’ attack!” “Clever, but I’ll defend with my ‘Drunken Tiger Vomit’ kick!”)

None of this makes any sense to the story, unless it turns out that it is all a nutty dream that Mark has been having, after getting Cliff’s original phone call. But I doubt it. Wait … Is this scene borrowed from The Octagon film? Help me out; I just can’t remember.

So where is Security Guy Number Two? Maybe Rivera has him in the role of the martial arts Sifu, the master fighter who can only be faced after all of his students have been defeated (and the good guy is worn out). I reckon we’ll see about that tomorrow! But I’m suddenly inspired to go watch “The 36th Chamber of Shaolin”, starring Gordon Liu.