Before the credits, Gabriel Knight and Cody Cash are discussing how lazy and lustful Wet Palms Inn is, sitting at the pool in classic soap fashion. "Ah, 10 a.m., the running of the tricks," they toast as a bunch of guys in towels zoom by. Welcome back to "Wet Palms."
There are a few more characters and a few more plot developments to introduce in the second episode of Wet Palms, not to mention some fantastic sex. Playing himself, the wacky Jason Sechrest has a laugh at Cody and Gabriel, causing Cody to issue a warning about Jason's gossip column and his desire to pry into everyone's business. Meanwhile, Jason Ridge calls boyfriend Brad Benton to complain about Gabriel, thinking he's a shady person from his past, but Brad defends him.
Amorous Bret Wolfe allows suddenly boyfriend-less hunk Paulo Cortez to check into the booked Wet Palms Inn as long as has sex with him. They start to make out, until Bret decides, "you know what? Fuck the foreplay, I'm on the clock!" and they hastily undress and jump into sex. What follows is a frenetic scene where we see Paulo fuck Bret, filmed beautifully with light flooding into the room and Bret a loud heavenly bottom full of harsh begging for more from his solid quiet top. Bret is ravaged, and excited by it, hustling it along with his pleas of harder pounding from Paulo. "Fucking use that hole!" he screams over and over, and he gets it. He gets it damn good. After the big-dicked Bret has cum, his latest trick ends up back with his boyfriend, but the quick fuck was just what Bret needed before returning to work.
Bret asks Gabriel to help around the Inn, putting him on laundry duty and condom and lube restocking. Gabriel also offers to fix the motor in the hot tub, the indispensable cutie! Back at Brad's office, Michael Soldier is looking at the photos of Jason and sugar daddy Ethan Marc, jacking off as he gets a mysterious call telling him of the need to meet for a long family discussion.
Cody explains the Jett family to Gabriel. Remember, back in the first episode, Gabriel had come to Wet Palms looking for Randall Jett, who is the last clue to a snapshot of his mother, but Randall is out of town. Cody mentions three Jett brothers: Randall, Simon (Michael Soldier) and J.D., the one on the phone with Michael in the previous scene. There is a lot to learn about this family, in typical soap fashion. Of course, since it is a soap, I'm sure the family doesn't end with three brothers. There's probably a fourth, fifth, a second cousin, an unknown daughter and an alien tucked away in the attic somewhere.
His publicist stonewalls Brad, still trying to get an interview with a pop star coming out, and Michael connives by handing him roles of film with Jason and Ethan to go develop. Brad retreats to the washroom where he complains that his Columbia journalism education shouldn't have led to grunt work. He then spies a man jacking off in one of the stalls. The amazingly hung man (Chad Donovan, natch, though we never see his face) sticks his cock out of the stall to Brad's major interest. Brad falls to his knees as the man exhorts Brad to suck it, but Brad hesitates throughout a wonderfully long tease session where it's as erotic as hell, but all the man does is stroke himself. Brad wants it, but he doesn't take it, and the salivating routine he does is worth the price of the whole episode. It's that hot. The man cums a whopper on Bread's shirt, much to his dismay.
Ethan shows up at Jason's to bring him drugs. Jason warns Ethan that Brad has changed him from those years of drugging and men (the foreshadowing is intense and the way the plot is chopped up quickly here brilliant). Brad tells straight co-worker Rod Barry about the "Jett Office Wanker," an urban legend come true, acting the hell out of the scene which ends with Brad asking co-worker Rod Barry to develop the film so he can change his shirt.
Gabriel accidentally falls into the hot tub and manly slab of beefcake Rob Romoni pulls him out. Rob is Chase Walker, the president of the Bubble company for which Jason is the top underwear model. Rob gets Gabriel into his room and throws him on the bed, yowling about his ass, that it's "a perfect size 31!" He gives him undies to try on and offers him a modeling contract. Gabriel is spooked a bit and runs out, but in comes dashing Scandinavian hottie Ashton Sorenson who wants to use Rob's TV to watch his favorite program. Rob refuses, but notes, "but if you help me get off, I'll buy you a DVD." Talk about butts, Ashton has one for the books! The two handsome men kiss and jack off until Rob blows Ashton in another scene full of helpful intense editing that shows Rob's eager mouth from every angle. The camera also focuses on Ashton's smooth ass, inches away from Rob's sucking. Ashton then takes on Rob's thick cock, sucking it wet and well, with Rob still focused on Ashton's ass. However, for someone so into butts, it's actually Rob who gets fucked, on all-fours so the Adonis Ashton can fuck him with hip-grinding excitement. Ashton really buries his cock deep in Rob, and thankfully the sounds of sex are left in, causing the scene to unravel with a truer traditional porn feel. That makes absolute sense here. The other sex scene (Bret and Paulo) was a break-time quickie, but since this scene has nothing to do with the plot, why not let it be more conventional? It's a great directorial choice. Rob ends the scene with a fun load and Ashton a gigantic one.
To get to our great cliffhanger, Ethan lords the bag of coke over Jason, using a picture of Jason and Brad to spread out lines of the nose-candy. Jason is nervous that Brad will find out, and of course Brad is on his way up the stairs to their room to change his shirt. Oh, the tension mounts! When Brad enters, Jason and Ethan hasten to the closet, but the damage is done when Brad sees the drugs. He leaves his cum-stained shirt and runs off. However, nefarious Ethan sees the shirt. "Methinks the player hath been played," he crisply notes and gets Jason to do a line. The camera finishes on the photo of Brad and Jason, a happy picture now blurred by the dust of blow.
Sex itself is more prevalent in the second episode of "Wet Palms," though I can't dismiss the truly luscious performance of Brad Benton as a close second in the highlights department. But, now that we're used to the goings-on of the Wet Palms Inn, we can dive into the sex more fully. The sex doesn't disappoint. From a wonderful teasing solo to a standard sex scene that dominates the end of the episode, the perfections of "Wet Palms" simply never end. Now I must rush to third episode to see how the season ends!
DVD features (Disc 2): A written summary of the episode; a disc index; a review of the previous episode as well as a trailer for the next; galleries; hilarious outtakes; a meaty fun-filled documentary on the making of "Wet Palms" (which introduces us to a lot of the behind the scenes oddballs, including the all-important cue card boy, and a note that Jason Ridge is single, not to mention Rod Barry's singing cock and a lunatic trip down the Hollywood Walk of Fame); chapter selection that leads right to the sex scenes; and no regional coding (playable worldwide).