Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 7 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Hat And Mouse
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.04.2005
Veronica's in her car with Backup 2.0 as VMVO tells us that Wiedman is ex-Army intelligence and ex-FBI, and ex-who-knows-what-else: "Probably a good man in a bad situation." And at this month's track meet, we add a special eleventh event to the traditional decathlon, called "Jumping to Conclusions." You might think a girl as short as Veronica would be at a disadvantage. When are you going to stop underestimating her? Creepy flashback to Lilly lying dead as Jake sobs. On his knees, he calls Wiedman and blubbers that he needs his help. Cut to Jake and Mommie Sneerest opening their front door to find Wiedman with a big bag of ice. He tells Jake to get the rest of the ice, and that he and Mommie Sneerest need to decide which of them found Lilly. So the answer to "who knows what else" is "cleaner."
Back in the present, we see that Veronica is staking out Cho's Pizza. Her phone rings, and she answers it to have Sabrina tell her that a car alarm is going off incessantly by her window. She called the police twice, but the alarm stopped right before they arrived. Isn't that always the way. Veronica says it can't be Hamilton, as she observes him inside Cho's. Sabrina, freaking, asks Veronica what she's going to do for her. Veronica instructs her to get the license number of the car that won't shut up, and she'll see what she can do the next day. VMVO: "In the meantime, I need to know when a certain ticking time bomb is set to go off." Hon, you just hung up the phone with her. Why didn't you ask?
No, she means Logan, whom she pulls into a classroom at school and asks when he's going to tell Duncan and "everyone" about her Lilly investigation. Logan doesn't answer the question, but says that what Veronica found out about Duncan's epilepsy has been bothering him. Hmm. Logan definitely had a very limited amount of time to look at the computer. I'd think he would have checked out Weevil's folder and not Duncan's, but then, perhaps Weevil talks in his sleep. Logan wonders why Duncan never told him about his condition, since they've been friends since kindergarten. As people were quick to point out in the forums, Veronica said in the limo ride that Logan moved "here" when she was twelve, so either the Kanes and the Echollses knew each other in some other capacity, or this is a continuity error. If it's the latter, I kind of feel like selling it to the circus so people can pay five bucks a pop just to look at it. Veronica thinks the Kanes obviously didn't want anyone to know. Logan asks if Duncan has fits, and Veronica says that he might, but the attacks could also manifest themselves as hysterical laughter, uncontrollable crying, or blind rage. Logan gives Veronica a pointed look at that last possibility. He tells Veronica that this is between them, but that last year, when he was over at the Kane estate, he heard screaming from the next room, and then heard Duncan's voice. He found Duncan with his hands around Jake's throat, and he tried to pull him off. Suddenly, Duncan went limp, and then he was back to normal. Jake said nothing about the whole incident, and when Logan asked Duncan about it the next day, he acted like he didn't remember a thing. Veronica asks if this was when Lilly died, but Logan says no: "It was the week you guys broke up." Well, those are practically the same week, but given what Veronica overheard about another of Duncan's fits, the timing does seem extremely significant. Looking guilty that he's betrayed his best friend's secret, Logan leaves the room, and Veronica wonders how the hell she's going to wrap all this up in just five more episodes. She's not the only one.