Rick And Morty Season 6 Episode 5 Recap: Fortune Favors The Jerry

Meanwhile, Rick and Jerry finally reach the innermost depths of the fortune cookie factory, and what they see is shocking. A giant, alien beast is chained from the ceiling, secreting fecal matter that is then turned into fortune cookies. It's more than a little reminiscent of the fan-favorite "Futurama" episode, "Fry and the Slurm Factory," where Fry (Billy West) discovers that his favorite soft drink is actually the excretions of a giant slug.

Rick recognizes the beast, telling Jerry it's a species that eats chaos. This one, however, has a digestive disorder that causes it to poop out "super dense pockets of energy that bend entropy towards definable outcomes." The old man overseeing the alien explains that he's been trying to free the animal because he's in love with it (and wants to make sweet, sweet love to it). To find help, he's been filling the fortune cookies with bizarre fortunes like the one Jerry got at Panda Express.

Before Rick and Jerry can abscond with the creature, Jenyth Padrow-Chunt busts into the room with a platoon of hired guns — and Jerry's mother. Padrow-Chunt shoves her toward Jerry, and her dress splits open. With Jerry distracted, the goons attack Rick, using modified fortune cookies to give themselves superpowers. Rick turns their powers against each other to take them out, then finds a crate of cookies and eats a handful. He gets one that says, "You'll make a new friend," but nothing that seems immediately useful.

Rick finds some blank fortunes with unpredictable results and shoots them at the goons, then sets his sights on Padrow-Chunt, who tells him she can't be killed because she also has an unresolved fortune: being the most successful businesswoman on Earth. "Every day I get closer to an unattainable goal, a one-woman lifestyle brand, forever!"