BREAKING IN Recap: Contra Club or The Land of Oz

Breaking In after getting cancelled and then shockingly renewed starts off in the best possible way, Christian Slater looking as cool as he always has, with sunglasses on indoors and smoking a cigar. He looks directly into the camera and says, “Greeting and salutations…so happy to see you finally came to your senses and gave us another shot.” Quick side note:  I love that Breaking In uses a Heathers reference to start this episode off, If you aren’t old enough to get a Heathers reference just keep it to yourself (I’m getting off topic)

Back to Breaking In: Turns out he is talking to a client named none other than Mr. Fox. Either Fox didn’t realize that Breaking In was in fact obviously talking about themselves or they are okay admitting they were wrong.
Oz takes the client on a tour of The Contra Club introducing for you new comers the crew.
Cash: Gadget Geek
Melanie: Lock picker and ass kicker
Cameron Star Hacker
While they are all standing there in front of the client Megan Mullally makes her grand entrance. She pushes past the others while stating her name is Veronica, “a sassy receptionist who types 14 wpm, knows how to email and is up to Windows 95.” She is also a temp.
Bring on the slo-mo shot of the team walking out of the office. Veronica again elbows her way to the front and throws them off. The music grinds to a halt and Veronica wants to know what happened? They were all cool a second ago. Cash says it is a victory drinks invite only event.
Oz surprises them all by saying he just bumped her up to VIP. She happily exclaims they can all take her Kia Sedona.
This freaks the team out…why is Oz being nice to the crazy lady? The only explanation is he is up to something. Cash isn’t worried…he has the greatest of office pranks planned for her.

The next day Oz continuing his odd behavior sits Cameron down in his Captain Kirk chair. Cameron is skeptical and pretty sure Oz is going to kill him. Oz says it is just a vibe he gives off. He assures Cameron that they are a family and now they have a new member. He rubs Cameron’s shoulders and looks towards Veronica bouncing on her yoga ball and drinking coffee at her desk.
Oz wants Cameron to show her the ropes. Cameron says they had planned to do just that with the most epic prank ever. Oz says absolutely no pranks especially after what happened to the last receptionist.
*insert a flash back of the last receptionist surrounded by all giant things. She is losing her mind because she is sure she is shrinking.*
My best friend actually does this bit where she pretends she is a giant by holding small things, mini bottles of champagne, small cups of coffee, etc… If you are over 5’2”, which I am not, you won’t get how amusing this is.
Anywho, Cameron shows Veronica around. He is explaining how they aren’t a normal office, things happen around here. She says the craziest thing that happened at her last office was a little unwanted game of grab ass with Harry from Accounting. Cameron is momentarily concerned since he assumes it happened to her. She immediately sets him straight saying that man and a sweet sweet chassis, “Hmmmm…whomp there it is.”
She takes over the tour. She calls Cash Mitchell and says he has gadgets and quipy one liners. His response is, “I hate your face.”
They find their way over to Melanie whom Veronica calls Little Miss Hot Potato and says, “she is fine like rice wine candy.”
The look Cameron gives Melanie prompts Veronica to make a squeaky bed sound, open a fake can of pop, drink it and star the squeaky bed sound again for an uncomfortably long time.
Cameron has to launch into an awkward denial of having feelings for Melanie. This actually serves as a way to tell the loyal viewers from last season what happened to Michael Rosenbaum/Dutch. He got arrested for selling clean urine to airline pilots causing Melanie to break up with him.

Around the foosball table Cash is lamenting no pranks on the temp but this doesn’t last long as they see Oz meeting with Creepy Carol (head of HR)…Alone. This can’t be good and even though she smells like soup, they figure they must find out what is going on. Their plan is to take her out to Fananigans and get her drunk.
At Fananigans there is a half a watermelon with a whole pineapple in the middle filled with orange slices, a lot of liquor and straws on the table. The team is looking uncomfortable, while I am making notes about this drink and plans to recreate it at my next get together or maybe just Wednesday night after dinner. We’ll see how today goes.
Creepy Carol can’t believe they are all out together. She says they are, “So pretty, so cool and so black.” She fist bumps Cash for having brain freeze and spills that Oz is selling Contra. They leave her at the table doing an unpleasant shimmy dance to “her jam”.
At the office they are talking about how being sold means they will probably lose their jobs. Veronica comes up and wants to know what the gossip is but they clam up. She says that is okay, she will, “Go back to my ball…Fire up my core, get back into my leathers…”
The team confronts Oz about selling Contra. He insists that is inconceivable. He isn’t blinking is he? He isn’t showing any tells. So basically stop being ridiculous. HE ISN’T SELLING CONTRA! But Melanie sees him sweat, the great and powerful Oz (had to do it – sorry) never sweats.
They follow Oz, he is meeting Veronica, who is not driving a Kia or a Mini Van but a pretty awesome sports car.
Back at the office the Contra Club swipes Veronica’s fingerprints from her coffee cup, hack the DMV and find out she is the VP of acquisitions for OCP a huge company. Sure Veronica is there to decide who to keep and who to fire they decide to suck up to her.
She seems to like the attention and says she will make them her famous banana bread, “sometimes the cat gets into the batter but it’s pretty good.”
Not being able to hold it in any longer they corner Oz and confront him about selling Contra. He says a condition of the sale was secrecy but he sure did drop them a lot of hints. The sweating was fake, the back rub Oz gave Cameron in the Captain Kirk chair was Oz doing Morse Code for S.O.S. Cameron says no one knows Morse Code anymore and Oz assures him it is popular with Somali Pirates.
Cash panics because he remembers that despite Oz’s warning he pulled a prank. Veronica is bouncing on her exercise ball only to have it fill with more and more air. It pops and she falls backwards to the ground.
Veronica calls them to the break room where she asks if they have any comments, questions or concerns. Since they blew her cover now they have to fill out evaluation forms. Forms aren’t the right word as these things are bigger than the last Twilight book.
She wants to know about everyone in the office. They say they don’t want to throw anyone under the bus and Veronica assures them all they have to do is put them near the tires and she will throw it into reverse.
Enter a British woman holding a cat, she is Veronica’s Executive Assistant. She runs RonnyLand or VeronicaVille. She seems harried and allergic to cats. Poor woman.

Cameron tells Oz he won’t work for Veronica or her conglomerate. He won’t be a corporate bitch. Oz confides in Cameron that he is broke. He has to sell Contra.
The speech Cameron gave about not being a corporate bitch makes Melanie and Cash decide not to fill out the evaluations either. They actually fill them out with bad words and rude comments. Before Cameron can stop them they email them to Veronica.
Cameron gets caught hacking Veronica’s email to delete the evaluations. Veronica says the deal is off, they crossed a line. Cameron is getting the kill vibe from Oz again.
While drinking at a local bar Cameron says they have to show OCP that they are worth buying. The only solution is to get to the meeting before Veronica can and talk to the suits at OCP.
The team does what they do best…
Oz lays out the plan. Cameron hacks the system. Melanie pops the locks on the door. Cash gets them past the palm scan.
By the time Veronica gets to the meeting the Contra Club is there joking with the suits. They think it was all Veronica’s idea to show them the flaws in their security and it was brilliant.
She can only agree with them saying, “She came to chew bubble gum and kick ass and she is all out of bubble gum.”

The show ends with an homage to Breakfast Club. Veronica is back in the office reading Oz’s self-evaluation letter which basically says how great his team is and how they are a family. Of course “Don’t You Forget About Me” by Simple Minds is playing as Oz walks out of Contra fist raised in the air.

I admittedly never get tired of Breakfast Club references.  I loved the movie and I adore Christian Slater so the two of them together make my heart skip a beat.
Best quote of the show goes to Cash for, “Oz is an enigma wrapped in a puzzle wrapped in a M. Night Shyamalan movie…the good ones…the first one.”

Breaking In airs Tuesdays at 9:30/8:30c on Fox