Still the King Episode 1.03 Take Your Daughter to Work Day

It's 2002, and young Ronnie sits in a booth at Mega Melts, a Mexican restaurant with sizzling hot fajitas. Ronnie disregards the waiter's warning before taking the hot plate with his bare hands. He screams.

Cut to present day where Vernon is sitting in Doily's cubical where he reluctantly autographs head shots. Doily informs Vernon that his first child support payment allows him visitation rights, and he's already scheduled to see Charlotte that same day. Vernon has no idea what to do with a 15 year old. How is Vernon going to entertain a teenager without much cash?

Walt awakes to Vernon's phone call -- he needs money. Walt declines, as he's low on cash as well. After hanging up the phone, Walt gets going on his morning routine: listening to a paranormal radio show, and getting back to his search for Bigfoot.

Vernon makes one more call for some fast cash. Starman, his manager, picks up the phone in excitement. He'll get Vernon a gig, no problem.

Meanwhile, Vernon arrives at Debbie's house to pick up Charlotte. She's very nervous about this father-daughter time. Vernon and Charlotte hop into the car, and off they go.

Vernon makes several attempts to entertain Charlotte with zero cash. This means, panning for various things in the river, doing doughnuts in a parking lot, etc. Charlotte is not amused.

Across town, Walt attends his Paranormal Men's Society meeting where he's kicked out because he shot a lumberjack in the neck with a dart. The group explains he's making them all look crazy. The leader of the group rips off his arm patch, and Walt walks off discouraged.

Meanwhile while Debbie and Ronnie are out on a date at what used to be called Mega Melts, and where Ronnie gets free food for life because of his past incident, Vernon gets a call back from Starman while he's out trying to entertain Charlotte. He's got a gig in 10 minutes, and he can't pass it up -- even if that means dropping Charlotte off late.

They arrive at a biker bar, where a wake is being thrown. As soon as Vernon and Charlotte walk in, Starman hands Vernon an Elvis costume before he gets up on stage. Charlotte is mortified, but also somewhat impressed.

Later, Debbie interrogates Charlotte as soon as she walks in the door.