Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 7 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT So Bye, Bye, Miss Lillian Kane...
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.09.2005
Jake and Mommie Sneerest are discussing the seating arrangements for a big splashy party they're throwing for the governor. Mommie Sneerest asks when they became Republicans. I'm backing away slowly from that one. Jake says they're just "going with the flow," and starts to launch into some praise about the governor's social policies, but Mommie Sneerest is all, "Spare me." Hee. Duncan barges in accusingly with the news that Koontz didn't kill Lilly. Mommie Sneerest tries to deny the story, but Duncan isn't having it, saying they treat him like he's six years old, and they always have. Jake, despite Mommie Sneerest's protests, decides that it's time Duncan knew the truth: Duncan killed Lilly in an epileptic fit. Flashback to Duncan holding Lilly in his arms as Mommie Sneerest calls to him. Her hair is short in this flashback, and given that this is supposed to be the real thing, that's a problem. Realizing something's wrong, they rush forward, and Duncan turns to them with blood all over his mouth. He's holding Lilly's corpse in his arms. Mommie Sneerest breaks down, and Jake looks like he's in shock. Back in the present, Mommie Sneerest goes to get the door as Jake tells him that Lilly's death was an accident. He hugs Duncan as he says that the cover-up was for Duncan, so that he could have a future. Duncan cries into his dad's chest as Mommie Sneerest announces that Keith is suing them. Jake looks at her with an "I'm a little busy here" look, which, I'm sorry to say, is the best acting he did in that scene. Teddy Dunn did well there, and Lisa Thornhill was her usual acerbic bitchy self, but Kyle Secor was waaaaay off, what with the total lack of affect. Given his freak-out at the end of the episode, perhaps he could have averaged out his emotional output in the two scenes a little.
Pan into Veronica sitting in the darkened journalism room, and the creepy music and late setting make me think I'm back in the first season of Buffy. But Beaver appears, and I relax, because he's so scrawny that I think Veronica could take him even if he were a vampire. Veronica greets him, and he tells her his real name is "Cassidy." Man. Cassidy Casablancas? Seems to me that if you give your kid a name with two "Cass" syllables in it, you're exponentially increasing the chances that he'll choke to death on a ham sandwich. And if that's the case, they gave that name to the wrong kid, as fitting as Dick's name may be in every other way. Beaver says there's something Veronica should know: when Logan was in Mexico with them, he was upset about Lilly seeing someone new, and actually left early the morning Lilly was killed to drive back to Neptune to see her. It's very worth noting, also, that Beaver prefaces this information by saying that he's telling Veronica for her own good, which implies that he thinks Logan might hurt Veronica. For anyone who thinks Veronica was overly harsh to Logan later, I have to point out that this could have had an impact on her thinking. Anyway, this revelation is so stunning that they cut to commercials without even playing the theme song. Or maybe including it would have caused the episode to explode like a tube of toothpaste in airplane luggage, not that that's ever happened to me and I'm bitter about it or anything.