Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT When You Assume...
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.17.2005
Veeery interesting scene. I think I'm starting to understand a dynamic of this relationship a little better. Veronica dumped Logan because of his temper and his violent tendencies -- his heat, basically. Now she's gone to a guy who's the other extreme -- he shuts down and goes cold when things get rough. She's putting up with the cold temporarily because she couldn't handle the hot, but I don't think it's going to last. But this scene made Duncan more interesting to me, especially given the whole Meg's computer storyline coming up. A thought occurred to me: qhat if Duncan has reason to believe that Meg was the intended target of the crash, not Veronica? It would explain why he was so weirdly insistent that Veronica not blame herself for Meg's condition (although I have to point out that if that's the case, Teddy Dunn handled those scenes badly, letting no emotional turmoil into his performance). It would also explain the daily visits -- perhaps he still fears for her life, especially if she wakes up. Duncan's freezing Veronica out is in keeping with what we've seen of his character so far, but this example is so extreme that I get the feeling Duncan is involved in a deeper game than it seems. (A Meg-is-pregnant theory has been advanced on the boards, but that seems highly unlikely to me for a number of reasons.) Also, Teddy Dunn did a nice job with that scene. It can't have been easy pretending that he didn't want to fish out Veronica's microphone with his tongue.
Sometime later, a shirtless Duncan is asleep in bed. Veronica's next to him on her computer as VMVO good-naturedly chastises herself for bringing up the ex. I don't think she did anything wrong, but if she wanted answers, maybe she should have waited until afterward. At least he would have been guaranteed to be in a good mood. Veronica discovers that Col(l)in has visited a genealogy website, and concludes that he was checking up on Julie's family's money. Veronica, I thought we discussed your not making "a" ass out of yourself.
Veronica and Duncan are awoken by a knock on the door. Veronica blurts that it's her dad, so that the promo people have something misleading to work with. Duncan pulls on his pants and asks who it is; the answer is Lizzie. I wonder if she's wearing her schoolgirl uniform, especially given Duncan's thumbs-up on costumes. Veronica whispers the question of why she's there at 2 AM, and Duncan gives a shrug of confusion. Veronica hasn't been getting a whole lot of sleep lately. Duncan starts to close the bedroom door, and Veronica seethes that she has to hide in the bedroom "like a hooker." I guess it would be mean to point out that there's a certain dissimilarity between the events of her evening and those of a typical hooker. Maybe she wouldn't make that much working the pole after all. Duncan, with a frustrated look, closes the door, and I should point out that while Teddy Dunn doesn't have the flattest stomach, he certainly looks like he could bench quite a bit. No wonder his car took such a beating. Duncan pulls on his robe and opens the door, and Lizzie apologizes, but says she had nowhere else to go. I wonder if that's the story she gave the desk clerk, because I don't know how she got up to the expensive wing of the hotel at an odd hour without an announcement. Veronica listens as Lizzie tells Duncan that Meg's parents are going to Neptune High that morning to clean out Meg's locker, and produces a laptop on which Lizzie says Meg kept "everything." It's nice, by the way, to know that even in a town that class warfare is threatening to tear apart, everyone can agree that Apple computers are the way to go. Lizzie reminds Duncan about how nosy her parents are, which we happily know about from last year, and adds that whoever called from the school told her parents about the computer, so she can't simply hide it or hand it off to Duncan or anything. Also, she doesn't have the password (although it seems like she must have had Meg's locker combination to get her hands on the computer), so she wants Duncan to get Meg's personal stuff off her laptop: "You're the son of a computer visionary. Can't you do something?" Duncan: "I can burn a CD." Heh. Lizzie says that if her parents read what's on Meg's computer, they'll pull the plug on her. I think that was meant as hyperbole, but I'm just guessing, because I would never employ it in a million years. Lizzie asks if she can use the bathroom, and before Duncan can stop her, she's opened the bedroom doors and found Veronica. Veronica, off Lizzie's glare: "Okay, so apparently looks really can't kill." Hee. Lizzie heatedly asks if Veronica heard her conversation with Duncan, and Veronica admits she did, but says she knows someone who can help.