Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Grand Misery
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.24.2006
...the Camelot Motel. Wow, the last time we were here, Logan and Veronica had their big first kiss, so I wonder -- oh. Sorry about that. The effect one sentence can have on the smelling-salts industry. Anyway, Keith enters a room to find a woman in her skivvies passed out on the bed, and a wifebeatered Woodman claiming, "It's not what it looks like." Well, I'm not sure I buy that. On the one hand, it looks like an ugly scene, which seems beyond debate. On the other hand, it looks like The Woodman might be straight, but on that point, I'm certainly still willing to hear arguments. Anyway, The Woodman claims that the woman is with the incorporation campaign, and that they had a few cocktails and yada yada yada, and I'm triply thankful for the word "yada" at the moment. The Woodman begs for Keith's help, and Keith, with extreme reluctance, agrees to take the woman to the hospital.
Presumably soon after, a three-quarters-dressed Woodman checks that the coast is clear, and then Keith hustles to his car with the woman in his arms. When she's loaded in, The Woodman says that he owes Keith big-time. Given later events, Keith probably should have negotiated terms of repayment up front.
Veronica's doing something yearbook-related in the journalism room when Gia rushes in and breathlessly tells Veronica that she's being stalked, and asks for tips. Veronica: "Dancing around in your underwear with the curtains open is always good." Hee. Gia clarifies what means: she wants to catch the guy, because he keeps following her around in a car. Veronica, not exactly stoked -- although I don't completely blame her (even though Gia has kind of grown on me, and I think Krysten Ritter is kind of awesome) -- half-heartedly asks for more information, and Gia tells her that, a week earlier at karaoke, she dedicated a song to a table of cute guys: "But then I realized they weren't cute -- they were dweeby Pan High guys, and not the nice nerd kind." If it were anyone else, I'd wonder how she didn't realize the guys weren't cute right away, but Gia's brain lagging far behind her mouth makes sense any way you slice it. Gia asks whether Veronica can work some PI magic. Veronica: "For you? The daughter of the most powerful man in town? That's a marker I want." She invites Gia to her house after school, and the latter nods with a confused look on her face, probably because she's wondering what the hell Sharpies have to do with anything they were talking about.
Mars Investigations. Keith enters to find a box on Veronica's desk. He opens it to find some sketches of a guy that...well, not only does he have a face that only a mother could love, but even that looks to be pushing it, since he appears likely to have weighed about sixteen pounds at birth. Before Keith can think about that, though, he notices a pair of female legs sitting in his office, and asks whether he can help them...er, "her." Kendall unabashedly stands and chides him for not keeping his office locked. Um, yeah. She tells him that she wants her hard drive back, and after some talk about the drug-dealing, almost-murdering Irish company she keeps, Keith asks whether Big Dick knew about Kendall's house, her jail time, or her identity switch. Considering that Kendall got away with screwing Logan in enough positions that they needed an addendum to the Kama Sutra, I think it's a safe enough bet that Big Dick was unaware of those slightly less sordid details about his wife, as well. Kendall, declining to answer, hands Keith a self-addressed stamped cardboard box, and says that if the hard drive is returned by Friday, she won't press charges.