Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 4 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Is This Betty Ford We're Talking About?
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.28.2005
...outside the bar, where Lianne lights a cigarette and tells Veronica that right around the time Lilly died, she and Jake were in the hotel room. This doesn't take into account the fact that Lilly's official time of death was off by hours, so Lianne's statement exonerates no one, including her. Lianne adds that Celeste burst in on them, as she'd been following Jake around, and when Celeste started saying horrible things, Lianne got out of there. Perhaps one of the things Celeste said was, "They just announced free champers downstairs." Lianne adds that she went to the ladies' room in the lobby, and when she came out, she saw Celeste leaving. Veronica puts her head on her mom's shoulder...
...and Leo yet again pulls her out of the flashback. He's handy to have around. He asks her, referring to the menu, if she sees anything she likes, and she answers yes, referring to the man-u. Ew. In keeping with the Monty Python reference from earlier: I'm sorry, I have a cold. VMVO wonders if Celeste saw Lianne in the lobby, and hired Clarence Wiedman to take threatening photos of Veronica to control Lianne. As intricate as that sounds, it's plausible.
Cut to a TV screen, on which Meg is doing a broadcast on Navigator, Neptune's school-news channel. Veronica, wearing a vest with a fake-fur collar that we've definitely seen before, enters a classroom wherein the "opposing viewpoint" girl from earlier is telling another girl, "I don't want to hear about your protein deficiency. You eat eggs, you might as well eat baby." I feel tempted to eat veal in front of her, just to challenge her to come up with a more extreme comparison. Veronica tells the girl she liked her letter, and doffs her fur vest out of "respect," but the girl thinks that Veronica's leather boots are a problem. Veronica asks if she knows anything about Polly. Some other girls try to cut the fur off Veronica's vest, causing Veronica to shriek that the fur is fake. Hee, and duh. Suddenly, an image comes on a computer screen in the room. A masked figure says he's from Pan High, and threatens this: "If Wallace Fennel plays in tomorrow night's game, Polly the Parrot will die." He sends it back to the taped version on Meg. There are plenty of horrified oohs and aahs. And also some satisfied ones, as we'll finally get some answers after the last commercial break.
Neptune High. Outside, Veronica asks Weevil if he took the parrot, obviously assuming that he gave even points on Neptune because he knew he had a way to stop Wallace from playing. Frankly, this seems like an error on her part; it's not like Pan would be such a prohibitive favorite over a Wallace-less Neptune that Weevil would risk losing several grand were Neptune to win anyway. Also, there's no guarantee that Wallace isn't going to play anyway. After a little flirtation, Weevil informs Veronica that, in fact, he has both sides of the line covered, as any bookie would. He also points out that he wouldn't have assisted her in trying to find the parrot if stealing it were his secret plan, and then takes off. In a bird-themed episode, you'd think he would have stayed around to watch her eat a little crow.