Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 4 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Double Your Mothers, Double Your Fun
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.11.2004
Veronica and Justin tail their target to a parking lot in front of some sketchy businesses. The dude's driving an ordinary convertible, which will become convenient in a moment. Speaking of convenient, Veronica's wearing her hair straight, with the bangs pulled back over her head. My friend in high school referred to that as the woke-up-late hairstyle. She was funny. Veronica starts to tell Justin to stay in the car as she takes some more pictures, but Justin gets out and goes after the guy with Veronica close behind. Justin gets the guy's attention, and short story even shorter, it's not his dad, who goes into one of the stores. Veronica, however, notices a shopping list on a Post-It in the car, and grabs it. The handwriting matches the writing in Justin's letter. DUN!
Duncan is watching bowling. I certainly hope he's hallucinating, because that's the only way that wouldn't be mind-numbingly boring. Agreeing with me is Lilly Kane. Oh, yes -- Dead Lilly enters the room, blood dripping from the wound on her head and bathed in green light, and complains about the whole mind-numbingly boring thing. She casually flops down on the couch with Duncan, and then sits up, all while telling him that the official version of her murder doesn't add up, like, at all. "The truth is gonna come out. Clue in, Donut." Duncan is really wondering whether this was worth the trip. She tells him that he knows it too, and she wishes he'd just admit it to himself. He wakes up to the sound of pins crashing. Hee. The Foley guys are my friends too. Oh, and by the way, I was sure going in that Lilly's scene, a clip of which was shown in the promos, was going to be with Veronica, but I think it was far more interesting for it to be with Duncan.
Veronica and Justin follow Old Vin Diesel to his house. Justin notices Veronica's taser, but she tells him to put it back and stay in the car. Because he's demonstrated that he's really good at doing that. Cut to Veronica skulking outside the house. She looks into the garage and sees a tarp covering what might be a classic car, fueling her suspicions about the dad living there. She climbs through the garage window and takes the tarp off the car, but it's a Hyundai. Wow, it's like she chose the wrong door on Let's Make A Deal. Old Vin Diesel appears from the house with a baseball bat and says he's calling the police. Veronica tells him she followed him and she knows what he does, but he tells her he's a parole officer. She's confused, but tells him that his son just wants to see him. He retorts that he doesn't have a son. Veronica: "Are you trying to tell me you're not John Smith?"
A rather classic-looking car pulls up to the house. Justin grabs Veronica's taser. He reaches the car as the driver is waiting for the garage to open. The driver is…Melissa Leo, who smiles and greets him by name. Justin looks at Veronica, adds it all up, and stammers, "Dad?" The woman nods us into the last commercial break.