It should. Through all the testing it seems like everything before and after this point is ok.

At one point while I was poking around with my meter I must've wiggled something because the compressor kicked on for a second (with the AC off no doubt) and then stopped.

it's working. I replaced the pin with on from the wreckers that was in good shape and swapped out the entire plug for a better one.

all is working great now, it's nice and cold.