It’s Wednesday, so that means The Variants — the locally produced web series about the fictionalized goings-on at Zeus Comics on Lemmon — has hit the ether. And now that season 2 is underway, the makers are fooling around a bit.

The episode begins with a Cops-like arrest, and then proceeds, through flashbacks, full of drag and kissing and saucy Barry working as a waiter, to tell what happened.