Mort Dinner Rick Andre

"Mort Dinner Rick Andre" is the premiere episode of the fifth season of the Adult Swim animated television series Rick and Morty. It is the 42nd episode of the series overall. Written by Jeff Loveness and directed by Jacob Hair, the episode was broadcast on June 20, 2021. Plot Rick and Morty are about to die crashing their spaceship, so Morty calls Jessica, confessing his true feelings for her. Not knowing of his imminent death, Jessica asks if she can come over to watch a movie. Now motivated to keep his date with Jessica, Morty frantically steers the spaceship into a palm tree and splashes down safely in the ocean. Rick, furious, reveals he has been in a longtime war with his nemesis, Mr. Nimbus, who controls the ocean. Nimbus appears, and demands to meet Rick for dinner at Rick's house to negotiate a treaty (which Rick agrees to, using it as a distraction while Summer dives into the Mariana Trench to steal the magic conch shell that gives Nimbus his power). In preparation, Rick has Morty throw bottles of wine into a portal where time moves faster so as to age it, because Nimbus has demanding tastes. Jessica comes over and requests wine, so Morty enters the portal to get it. The portal leads to a farm where a bovine man named Hoovy helps carry a crate back to the Smith house. Upon returning through the portal, he finds his wife long dead. Hoovy tells his son that Morty did this. Throughout the years, Hoovy's son, grandson, and onward prepare for each of Morty's returns to fetch more wine, so they can kill him. They eventually take Jessica, so Morty goes after her. They trick and trap him, but Morty escapes with Jessica, with the help of Rick and Nimbus - who forgives his enemy, noting that they are nothing without the other. When they return to the Smith home, Jessica, trance-like, shares her new understanding of time and goes home, leaving Morty disappointed. Just as Rick and Nimbus reconcile, Summer abruptly enters with the conch shell, making Nimbus furious again. He gives Rick a savage beating before summoning the police to haul Rick off to jail.