Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | 2 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Domo Arigato, Donnie Roboto
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.30.2006
Veronica goes up to the counter at a pizza place. A young kid working the register turns toward her, and rather hilariously looks at her all slackjawed for a moment until he blurts out her name. Veronica reads his nametag to see that he's called "Danny," and he starts babbling about how he went to Neptune High, and enthusiastically rattles off a few of her exploits before Veronica gets him to focus because she needs his help. She tells him about the pizza order, which she says went out the night before. So they're contending that Weevil ordered the pizza to his house before getting there? Okay, fine. He was hungry. I think I can buy that. Danny tells her that all their phone calls go through the computer for identification purposes, which makes handling repeat business a lot more efficient, and does kind of an adorable simulation of fielding an order. Veronica, for her part, looks at him like he's a mildly revolting scientific specimen, and it would be nice if she treated someone so clearly stricken with a case of hero worship with a little more diplomacy, if not kindness. But then again, it's not like she's ever known what it means to be widely disliked. Seriously, what the fuck is up her ass? Such a pill. Uch. Anyway, Danny quickly discovers that the order in question came in over the internet, and only their manager has the authority to request an order's origin from their ISP, and he's not in. Veronica: "Any way we can make like he is?"
Cut to Danny on the phone, pretending to be his boss, and if the accent he's putting on is any indication, he's working for Vlad The Impaler. And it that's the case, I hope he doesn't touch the pepperoni or the sausage.
Sometime later, Veronica is looking at an email from Danny, titled "Your request, Madame." Aw. How cute is he? VMVO tells us that the order was placed from a public Hearst computer hub "just forty feet away from where Weevil was dry-walling." She notes, though, that hundreds of people have access to the computer cluster, and admits that she's back at square one. She picks up her bag, but is chagrined to discover there's gum stuck to it. Looking around, she sees a young girl sitting nearby, chomping on the same color gum. Veronica patronizingly asks the girl if she has any idea how her gum got from her mouth to the chair Veronica's bag was on. The girl gets up and lisps, "I thought this was supposed to be a good school. Shouldn't you be, like, smart?" It's too bad they had to show Veronica's stunned reaction here, because that would have been the perfect comment off of which to cut to Wallace. The girl heads into the campus cop headquarters as Veronica impotently gapes.