Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A | 9 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT What A Non-Incorporated Municipality Without Pity Can Do
By Jacob Clifton | Season 2 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.04.2006
Weevil summons Veronica with an eyebrow and tells her he needs her help. "Ahhh, if I had fifty bucks every time somebody said that..." she moans, and walks off .Not getting it, Weevil follows, getting shirty: "I know, it's hard to be you." And Veronica's like, "Um, I wasn't kidding? Duh?" He says he's banking on her curiosity, and they bluff like it's Jennifer Tilly's last night in Vegas. There's funny music, about fifty cuts back and forth, all very Clint Eastwood, and then Veronica is hilarious, hands-up, all: "Okay! Tell me! Damn my curiosity!" As though that could have ended any other way, but well played. Weevil: "Thumper killed Felix." She's like, "Great," but forgets how Lamb's Shit List is exactly as long as the number of people in the principality or commonwealth or parish or whatever the fuck Neptune is, and that Weevil's name is right below hers on it. He explains that Thumper has a video of Weevil beating the tar out of Curly on his cell phone, and admits that he didn't tell her all there was to know about that particular situation. "Shocker," says Veronica, whilst giving the BSA salute. Weevil -- this is so great, it feels improvised -- takes her fingers and arranges them in proper shocker formation, all, "I think that's Scout's honor..." Not exactly grateful for the Horrific Gesture workshop, Veronica stops him: "Not important. Moving on. Which parts did you skip?" Weevil tells her that he and other PCHers got an anonymous call that Curly was the guy who sent the bus over the cliff, in order to "take out Cervando for hustling Lee and Fitzpatrick out of a few grand." Short flashback to Weevil beating up Curly, who protests that he knows who it was that set the whole thing up. Weevil tells Veronica that his "boys" wanted to throw Curly off a cliff, and that by beating the shit out of him -- hence the video -- he was actually saving Curly's life. And Veronica does her usual: "Did you see my name on his palm?" She feigns shock when he says no, and he cracks that Curly was wearing a cameo necklace with her image. That's funny. Weevil lays it out, in a way you might not take seriously at this moment but will learn to, that Thumper's going down, the law or Weevil will be taking care of him post-haste, and he advises Veronica to help him to get proof for this if she wants it "done right."
Into a weirdly lit study hall, where Wallace and Jackie are dangerously flirting, and giggling that Jackie's dad got shot at and put on suicide watch and will soon be going from the booby hatch to jail. So funny! Wallace asks, leering slightly, whether she's okay in that "great big house, all alone," and she fills in the obvious blanks of stuff Wallace doesn't know about Jackie. Namely, that when her mom was getting wrinkly and foresaw the ending of her modeling career, she switched careers to "landing a man," and the kind of man you generally target there is into traveling and being super-cool, and not so much cute kids like young Jackie. She wasn't "supposed to be around," she says, inching up the "no more Haterade once the dunking booth goes down" bar just a tad father. Jackie says that "being alone is like normal." Aww. I always liked that girl. Wallace offers that "even Superman leaves his Fortress of Solitude once in a while," and offers to make...er, hang out with her some time. The teacher asks if they're clear on the study-hall concept, and Jackie smarts off, "I think I know this one..." It's really just a pretext for her and Wallace to smile cutely at each other some more. Oh, Jane. I don't know who I'm more afraid for!
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