Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 2 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Actually, They're Neither, But Who's Keeping Score?
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.21.2006
Some café. Veronica exposits to Wallace some stuff she would have told him already about how Heidi's cards were maxed out, so she hit three different ATMs in an hour and made the maximum withdrawal at each. Oy, so Heidi's financially irresponsible too. Lovely. I mean, maybe her fiancé could be snowed about her relative purity, but you'd think someone so rich would at least have ordered a credit check. Wallace wonders if someone could have forced Heidi to withdraw the money, but Veronica says that they shouldn't freak out yet. When they come across Heidi's car seemingly abandoned in the parking lot, however, they decide that it might indeed be time to freak shit.
Back from break, Veronica frustratedly hangs up her phone and tells Wallace that the sheriff's department won't do anything until the forty-eight-hour waiting period is up. (There's apparently no such waiting period in California, I should add, but I can believe the idiot deputy that answered the phone wouldn't care.) Veronica gets some better news, though, when she uses a crowbar to open the front door and finds the disposable camera. She did this in plain sight of anyone in the parking lot, of course, so it's nice that the incompetence and laziness of local law can work in her favor as well as against it.
Keith goes to see the guy from Magic Touch who was trying to get into Cook's hangar. Keith explains who he is, and the guy -- who's not a bad-looking specimen himself -- says that Cook has him detail all Cook's cars once a month. There are eight of them now, down from forty, and I wonder if the Maserati and the Porsche eye each other nervously, wondering who's going next time Cook loses big at the tables. I guess it goes without saying that the Bronco rests easy. Keith establishes that the guy goes into the explosives cabinet during every visit, and when he was there a month ago, the explosives weren't there. Moreover, the guy would have found them on this visit, so Keith is thinking that the explosives were there as a setup job to frame Cook, and that Veronica simply happened across them early. At least, that's what I'm guessing from the goofy "I KNEW my man would never do something like that!" grin on Keith's face.
Jane examines the photos as Veronica gives her the results of Keith's searches: Heidi got two short calls just before three the morning she disappeared, and the ATM transactions happened roughly half an hour later. The bad news is that the phone number from which the calls originated is no longer in service, and according to Keith's "friend" at the phone company, it never was. Jane finally finds the guy she's looking for (or at least some of him, since his head's cut off, but she recognizes his bright orange shirt). Veronica: "Is that a bowling shirt?" I guess with Rob Thomas's...er, "Veronica's" obsession with The Big Lebowski, this was bound to happen. Not that I don't love bowling, because I do. I'm just not that much of a Dude about it.