Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 7 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT You Gogo, Girl
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.18.2004
Fortress of Geekitude. Keith calls for Grrrant, posing as an admissions officer. Grrrant tells him they're not interested in showing a prospective around. Keith tempts him with a private screening of "the Matrix online game." Grrrant is hooked. OWNAGE!
Veronica finds Logan in the computer lab again and asks how it's going. Logan: "It's very Wonder Years." Thanks, but I'll stick with the voice-over I've got. We see a shot of Lilly dressed up like a princess or a magician or something as Logan says that Celeste will love the tribute. Veronica hands Logan a tape titled "Fun With Lilly." Man, where's the rest of the collection? Logan asks what it is, and Veronica answers, "It's not a violin recital." Logan considers it for a long moment, and somewhat meekly tells her that he has a lot of work to do. When Veronica's on her way out, he looks like he wants to thank her, but doesn't work up the nerve. Nice work by Jason Dohring there.
Geeks on parade. Grrrant and Portly Dork are totally psyched about the game. Grrrant asks Wallace what he's doing, who tells him that he's text-messaging his girlfriend to tell her how psyched he is. Grrrant looks at Portly Dork all, "'Girlfriend'?" Wallace, it's pronounced "grrrlfriend". You're never going to make it at this school.
Cut to Veronica, who gets a message on her phone saying, "ALL CLEAR." Then she's entering the geeks' room and punching in the code. VMVO tells us that she's learned from her surveillance that the geeks have developed a game that will "make Quake look like Asteroids," and that they raised their startup capital through the email scam: "With no investors, they stand to make millions." Honey, if the game's that good, I'd think they'd stand to make millions anyway. Maybe they're worried about letting anyone else get a look at what they're doing before it's finished, but I'm not sure the secrecy is worth the risk of committing repeated felonies. This A-plot isn't quite up to the standard of the other ones we've seen, I'm afraid. Good thing Lilly Kane's got so much intrigue to give. Veronica sees that the geeks' hard drives are encased in metal security gates. She pulls out a giant-sized cutting bolt used for stray locks off lockers. Better stay away there, Grrrant, or you might find yourself squeaking "Lamer!" in the coloratura range.
Later, Veronica's taking out a hard drive when she gets another text from Wallace, asking how she's doing. According to the times on the phone, over an hour has passed, which seems like quite a long time for the geeks to be in transit, but whatever. Also, it's supposed to be September 17th, and I know that at least some districts in California start in the middle of August (which...uch) but that just makes Wallace's "four months" comment from earlier seem even dumber. Veronica texts back that she's almost done.