Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 9 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Melrose Law
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.01.2004
VMVO tells us that she's been waiting for an opportunity to take a closer look at the picture she found in Keith's safe. She puts it into a scanner and blows it up on her computer screen. The left shoe has the heart that we saw earlier, meaning it's definitely the same one Officer Fuckface was holding up for the cameras. This sends Veronica into a flashback. Lilly and Logan are being lovey-dovey as Veronica draws the heart on her shoe. I think they're sneakers, actually, and that the ribbons just obscure the laces. Veronica writes "Duncan" in the heart. Lilly: "Now that's just creepy." Um, yeah. We've had quite enough incestuous innuendo already on this show. Meaning "any." Veronica picks up the phone and dials "Action News." She tells the guy who picks up that she's a journalism student, and asks for a copy of a piece on Koontz that ran a couple days earlier.
Parked at a roadside stand, Duncan and Jake are enjoying some junky Mexican-esque food. Jake says that Celeste and her personal trainer don't have to know anything about this. Heh. Jake suggests that they stop on the way home and pick up some campaign bumper stickers. Dude, how long is it before the runoff anyway? Duncan wants to know whom the "we" in the equation is, and Jake confesses that he means to appropriate his graphics team to do it. Man, I'd think any bumper sticker Jake's team would design would cause a lot of traffic accidents. Well, anything to achieve nerdvana. Duncan's not too thrilled with the idea, but Jake tells him he just wants to see Duncan involved in something. Besides the soccer team, which totally doesn't count, I suppose. Jake: "Your happiness is all I've ever wanted." Well, I'm glad he has such humble desires, instead of, for instance, the more ambitious goal of having a daughter who lived past the age of sixteen. Duncan allows himself a smile, and the two of them banter about driftwood carvings and Stanford Law. At least Duncan's laughing. Maybe he's dropping his meds down the sink again.
In the hall at school, there's a stir caused by the fact that some of Wanda's posters have been defaced by a large "NARC" written on them. Veronica goes to her locker and discovers a sticker with the words "KANE" and "PRESIDENT" on it. Boy, if that's what Jake's crack design team came up with, I can only imagine that after the streaming video breakthough, all the talent took the stock options and ran. And considering how stock options of internet companies have panned out over the last decade, I can't say as I blame them. There are also some girly drawings on the locker that I'm not sure were there before, and I wonder if Duncan put them there to remind Veronica of Lilly. (Not that Lilly's girly, but given her froufrou sneakers, maybe she wore some such stuff ironically.) Veronica goes over to Wanda, and we see that "NARC" is spray-painted on her locker; she tells Veronica that the same thing happened to her car. Veronica smiles that whoever did it chose the word "narc" because it would hit hardest with her constituency. Or, as another possibility, because she's a big fat tattletale. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Veronica invites Wanda over to her house that night to make new posters (again, how much time before the runoff?), and suggests that they listen to Avril Lavigne "just like their pep squad days." Wanda strikes a perky pose and is like, "Awesome!" Veronica laughs, and then is all, "Don't do that." Hee. Seriously.