Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 3 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT He's As Cold As Ice!
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.25.2004
Morning. Veronica comes into the kitchen to find her dad packing up the rest of her mom's things. He says they don't need the memories. Someone in the editing department is like, "All day long I slave over these flashbacks, and this is the thanks I get. Will someone please give me a hug?" Keith asks Veronica if she wants to take a look at the stuff before he gets rid of it, but she doesn't. He leaves the stuff anyway, saying he's got to run. Veronica: "So you and [BSK], huh? I wouldn't have pegged that one." Keith, you didn't run fast enough. He apologizes about her not hearing it from him, but says they only went out a couple of times. Keep that in mind for later, because Veronica acts very cool about the whole thing here. Not that he needs her permission, but it's nice, as well as sincere. Keith shyly admits that he likes BSK, and then leaves. Once he's gone, Veronica goes to the box of her mom's stuff and looks at a picture of the three Mars...es. VMVO tells us, "The best way to dull the pain of your best friend's murder is to have your mother abandon you as soon as possible." That's like saying the best way to dull the pain of cancer is to have a brain aneurysm. "It's like hitting your thumb with a hammer, then when it's throbbing so badly you don't think you'll survive, you cut the damn thing off." Eh, I like my analogy better, Veronica. After all, a throbbing thumb is just a good excuse to get high on Xanax. Veronica finds a safety-deposit box key.
Sydney Tamiia Poitier reminds the class about an "interviewing exercise" the next day, and then leaves the room. Nice work if you can get it. Veronica's looking up someone's death certificate. Luke busts in and starts babbling. Veronica: "You're sweating on me." Heh. I think Luke's supposed to be "fresh" from his encounter with Walker-up, despite the intervening scene with Veronica and Keith. Luke confesses that the piñata he had was full of steroids, and that he did a run for Walker-up so that he could get pumped up for baseball season. I hope you didn't already start taking them, Luke, or your performance on the bench press was even more pathetic than I thought. Veronica asks if the other boys knew. Luke says that Icetwin didn't, while Logan did, but wasn't in on the deal. Veronica says that she doesn't help idiot drug-running meatheads, but Luke pleads with her on behalf of his limbs. That excludes the promised wooden limb, I'm guessing. Veronica tells him that she'll save his ass (literally), provided that he returns the drugs for cash, and then returns the cash to Walker-up. Luke agrees, and Veronica grabs a printout of the death certificate...