Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 5 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Say It Ain't So, Jo...er, "Terrence"!
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.07.2006
Veronica returns to her booth to find Beaver (an FBLA member, as you'll recall) trying to work one of the machines and Mac (red-streaked today, by the way) sitting on a shelf next to him. Veronica, slightly surprised, asks what she's doing, and Mac adorably is like, "Keeping Beaver company," in that "I have a boyfriend, EEEEE!" voice, which is only made cuter by Beaver's little smile of acknowledgement to Veronica. Veronica opines that that sounds fun, and Mac bubbles, "That's 'cause it is!" I just discovered that I cannot snark through solid sugar. Not that I want to in this case. Beaver thinks the machine's broken, but Veronica tells him that the ice is just jammed, and to break it open with a screwdriver, which must be what she was doing earlier. Beaver says he lent the screwdriver to Jackie, and Veronica gets all agitated at that revelation, which ends all the cuteness of the scene. Just as well -- I was starting to get embarrassed. Mac points out Jackie heading into the school, and Veronica moves.
Inside, Jackie enters the girls' room, and soon after, Veronica sidles up to the door, listens, and hears what sounds like metal scraping. She sighs resignedly, no doubt wondering why she couldn't have made this discovery before reformed Catholic priests started quoting affecting bits of Scripture at her.
After the commercial, Veronica enters the girls' room and asks Jackie, who's hidden away in a stall, what she's doing. Jackie says she's changing into her bathing suit, which admittedly is suspicious, since there are innumerable smart situational comebacks to Veronica's question. Of course, most of them tempt fate. Veronica notes that changing into a bathing suit doesn't usually require a screwdriver. Jackie neutrally agrees as she emerges wearing a bikini under her coat and hands the tool off to Veronica. Creepy music plays as Veronica looks at the inside of the stall door, which reads, "Jackie Cook is a [something with almost as many letters as 'Jackie Cook is' scraped off the metal door]." Jackie: "Like putting on a bikini isn't stressful enough." Okay, between the dramatic music and that comment, I'm really dying to know what that message said. Veronica starts to explain how suspicious the evidence against Jackie looked, but Jackie curtly but not defensively says she knows. Veronica asks what the bathing suit is about, and Jackie takes off her earrings and lets down her hair as she explains that before the stuff with her dad came down, she signed up for the "dunk tank," and adds that whoever signs up and gets the most money contributed to him or her gets the honor of getting dunked. "I went from a week of having the three dollars I put in for myself to having almost four hundred dollars." It's rather amusing to note the fact that this senior trip is partially sponsored by seething hatred. Jackie starts to leave, but Veronica tells her that she's wasting her time trying to prove something to the Neptune students. Jackie: "Yeah. And when people thought the worst of your dad, you just took it lying down, right?" Well, in fairness, if she had, there wouldn't have been a show. It's nice to be reminded of how much Wallace must have told Jackie about Veronica, though, and to learn that Jackie actually listened for non-nefarious purposes. Jackie leaves...