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
Jackie's phone rings, and she looks thrilled that it's Wallace. Given the upcoming revelation that this is now the day of the dance, I'm thinking Wallace hasn't talked to her since he left Veronica's house, and Jackie's clued in that he's pissed. Wallace asks whether Jackie set Veronica up, and she now admits it, but says it was supposed to be a punking. Heh -- for those of you who don't know, Kristen Bell was (or will be, depending on when I get this recap in) on the season premiere of Punk'd, so this is a little in-joke. Jackie goes all breathy (which: shut up) and says she just wanted to take Veronica down a peg for tattling on her for hanging out with "Random Dude" and being Wallace's confidante and "supposably being this legendary badass." Oh, honey, and you did such a nice job with the setup. But while you might have outdone Ashton Kutcher with your prank, even though he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, he would never say "supposably." Wallace snaps that Jackie has no idea what Veronica's been through, and Jackie urgently says that the psychic came up with the Lilly stuff on her own. I might even believe Jackie here, but if she's telling the truth, the question becomes whether Jackie told the psychic Veronica's name. If yes, there's no issue -- the psychic could easily have figured out or known who Veronica was on her own. If Jackie didn't tell her is where things could get a little interesting, but that's neither here nor there at the moment. Jackie asks if she can make her actions up to Wallace at the dance, but Wallace says he's only going because of the election -- he's not going with Jackie. I guess the potential Homecoming Queens are all pretty hot, then. But I guess we knew that already from Veronica's failure to make the cut. Jackie grabs a prescription bottle out of her nightstand.
Chez Mars. Veronica comes out to the kitchen in a black dress with a black shawl around her shoulders. She looks okay, but what happened to strapless red satin? Keith tells Veronica she looks beautiful, and Veronica responds by playing the voicemail from the bus. You know, when a guy tells a woman she looks beautiful, he doesn't expect the response to remind him of death. It would have been a lot more appropriate if he had told her she looked fat. Once the call goes bad, Keith closes his eyes in agony and looks like he's going to be sick. Veronica starts to babble that this will prove that Driver Ed had nothing to do with the crash, but Keith cuts her off and says he's not willing to leverage the deaths of seven people just to win an election. Yeah, it's not really worth the bother. In this country, someone else will be sure to take care of that. Veronica points out that a lot of people in Neptune now think the crash is Keith's fault, but Keith says that if there was, in fact, an explosion (and they point out that the second noise is the bus hitting the guardrail), someone murdered those kids and Driver Ed, and "the guilty party" is still at large: "That evidence can't go public if we want this investigation to stay ahead of it." Veronica thinks the only way the killer will get caught is if Keith wins the election, since Lamb won't do anything about it.