Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 22 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT ...And She's Hella Pissed
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.21.2007
7. "You didn't kill Lilly Kane. You're just somebody's patsy." The first time Veronica faced off with Koontz, she was soundly defeated and left the prison a quivering mess. This time, she turned the tables hard.
Veronica catches up to Wallace, they chat, and she tells him she's taking surveillance photos of anyone who takes a paper out of the machine. Wallace gets an "uh-oh" look on his face, but gives away nothing away to her. Veronica then takes a call, leaving Wallace to look pensive...
...and then a professor of his stops him and gives him an envelope, which the professor says he found taped to his front door. Er.
Veronica enters Keith's office at the Sheriff's station with a change of uniform for him. I'm at least glad to see he has one. Keith gets up, revealing the fact that he has no pants on -- he spilled vinaigrette dressing on himself on the day that he's getting pictures taken for an article in the Neptune Register. This scene is completely unnecessary, but the salient point is that Veronica lays the big hex on Keith's campaign by saying that when he wins, "the sun will be shining, birds will be singing, they'll be dancing in the streets." Well, I guess now we know predisposition to jinxing is inherited.
Wallace shows up at Veronica's house and comes clean about The Castle -- it's Hearst's version of Skull And Bones, and they tapped him to join. Some people on the boards wondered why an old-boy organization like The Castle would want Wallace, given that he's not the greatest student and isn't rich or anything, but given their affinity for knowing their members' secrets, it makes sense to me that they'd only pick people who have real skeletons in their closets so as to keep tight control, and it's clear from what happens later that they have a bead on the whole Rashard thing. Wallace tells Veronica that a few days ago, he blew off some girl with an excuse about studying at his professor's house, and as it turns out, the envelope his professor gave him was from The Castle -- they knew where he was supposed to be. Because of this, he suspects that the camera that recorded Veronica's session with Piz was actually there to catch his movements. Veronica takes a breath that's a mixture of relief (that Piz wasn't involved) and anger at the newly-defined enemy, and says she'll need names, but Wallace hasn't met a single person -- even the guy who gave him the invitation isn't a member. Of course, it seems pretty clear that Gory is, so I don't know why Veronica doesn't start there. Maybe she's afraid he'll flash her again. Wallace says he's not pledging, but Veronica asks him to go undercover for her. When he balks, she realizes she's asking a lot and retracts the request, but Wallace says he'll do it. He expresses concern that he won't be able to get names, so Veronica gives him a pen with a hidden camera in it, and tells him to take pictures. Wallace then takes out a newspaper and says that he looked up everything the library had on The Castle. Veronica looks at the one article he found and smiles as she recognizes the byline...