Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 11 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Papa Was A Rollin' Stone...
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.25.2005
Cut to Jackie's house, where she's got the TiVo cued up. The psychic calls a blonde girl up to the stage and says that someone from the Great Beyond is trying to contact her. Blonde Girl starts to cry as she says she thinks it's her friend Rhonda, who was on the bus. So she's really calling from the Sweet Hereafter. Also, now we know five of the eight (seven dead plus Meg) people on the bus -- Rhonda, Meg, Naima, Cervando, and Driver Ed. I wonder if the other three will, um, surface. They're interrupted by the appearance of Cook, who remembers that Veronica promised not to wash her hand after he shook it. Veronica: "I haven't. People are starting to complain." Jackie asks what Lamb wanted, and Cook tells her he wanted him to emcee the department's charity ball. Jackie asks her dad if he's kidding. Cook: "I wish I was." That moment is nicely understated enough that I can even forgive the failure to use the subjunctive. Cook leaves as VMVO tells us that she and Jackie came up with a plan to get even with Madame Sophie...
...and the VMVO continues in Veronica's bedroom, as she tells us that she's going to take Jackie's place on the show and expose Madame Sophie as a fraud. Veronica sits at her computer and listens to the recordings from the bug. She comes across the meeting Cook referenced earlier...
...and we're in flashback, as Lamb is suggesting that Cook purchase some $10 tickets for his department's annual fundraiser. Cook is annoyed that Lamb called him in just for that, but says he'll buy two, and gets up to go. Lamb counters that he thought Cook might be interested in more like a thousand, as well as emceeing the bachelor auction. Cook looks bewildered, and says that's a lot of money. Well, if you want to provide an alternative to shelling out your own money, you might consider putting yourself on the block. And be sure to post the date of the auction in the forums. Lamb pointedly says that the ten grand isn't nearly three million bucks: "That's the kind of money that certain people take very, very seriously. Gambling debt like that and they might send some guys down to your nice, new, cliffside house to remind you payment's due." I wonder if they'll meet up with the goons Veronica's going to send to Jackie's house after this episode is over. "After you!" "No no no, after you!" Cook says he never bet on baseball, but Lamb grins that he's got a guy in a holding cell who says Cook "did favors" for people who bet extensively on baseball. I take this to mean Cook intentionally affected the outcome of games he was involved in. Because if he was helping out The Woodman, I don't want to consider that it might have been another kind of favor. Lamb stands up: "We both have something in common. We'd both like to see you make it into the Hall of Fame." Heh. We jump out of flashback, and Veronica sighs, "Say it ain't so, Terrence." Heh, awesome timing that the White Sox just won the World Series. I wonder how much UPN paid to make that happen?