Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The 09 Is Even Worse Than You Thought
By Jacob Clifton | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.15.2005
What a big old teaser! You know, I really like it when the credits start. It's more exciting than other shows' credits, for some reason. I don't like having Dick in the credits, but if we must, I very much like the two shots of him in the credits: screaming drunkenly and shooting a gun. It's as fitting as the line drawings, at least.
So basically, Duncan clarifies further, the victim is "between seven and ten," and his parents are psycho. Veronica: "That'll narrow it down." And we haven't even gotten to the Neptune-is-fucking-effed-up jokes yet! Veronica notices that Meg asks the CPS agent in one email whether one of the "books" would be helpful, and Duncan explains that the boy's parents "make him write these admonishments over and over, hundreds of times." Stuff like "I was bad, I deserve to be punished," but I'm more interested in how Duncan managed to learn the word "admonishment." He says that Meg stole one of these Admonishment books, and Veronica identifies Step One: "Get the book." Which is actually Step Omega, but we'll get to that. Duncan points out how the funny thing about Meg's house is two-fold: there's always somebody there, and everybody in it hates both their asses. The only time Duncan could even go over there was Sunday, while Meg's parents were at Church Group. Dear America: when that qualifies as a red flag, something's gone wrong. Like at the top. Veronica says that, in the meantime, they'll need to make a list of Meg's clients. Duncan -- narrowing things somewhat because the emails specify a male child, aged 7-10 -- gets to listing: the Fullers have a son, as does Mrs. Hauser; the Martins have twin girls; the Goodmans.... Veronica's impressed, although by Meg's workload or Duncan's powers of recall I cannot say, and Duncan...I don't know if he's ribbing Veronica because she's so objectively amazing, or because he's vastly forgotten to whom he is speaking: "I think they call it a part-time job? It's when you do this thing called 'work' and strangers pay you, instead of the Allowance Fairy?" "Ah, the Allowance Fairy" is the best Veronica can manage either way. "Meg's parents are big on the not-being-spoiled thing," Duncan says, and does a very good, wistful read here that shows his continued and very sweet investment in the comatose Meg, while Veronica gives it space and respect. It's a pretty cool moment. Then she says, "Well, the Goodmans don't need a babysitter, now that Gia's back...I'll make [the others] trust me long enough to get a writing sample, and then we'll steal the book to compare."
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