Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 4 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT It's Noir, Baby!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.06.2006
In the Mars kitchen, Keith and Veronica are washing up the plates as Veronica's excitedly gushing about how great Landry's offer is, and I can't think that Veronica's calling Landry "the biggest gun in the department" was unintentional on the part of the writers either. Heh. Keith asks her not to phase him out of her life too quickly, and asks if Landry's smarter than he is. Veronica: "Actually, you two have a lot in common." Don't you hate it when sentences wait until the second viewing to punch you in the gut? Veronica heads out of the room, and the phone then rings. Keith answers, and when he hears it's Harmony, he tellingly looks to see if Veronica's out of earshot. Oh, Keith. Harmony tells him that she enjoyed talking to him, and Keith gets all Steve Sanders about agreeing with that sentiment. Harmony tells him that her husband is out of town, and she's got passes to the noir festival, so she invites him to go with her. Keith looks wary, but it's not clear whether it's because of moral misgivings, or if he has some vague notion that the mix of the noir genre and beautiful adulteresses sometimes leads to a bit of trouble for the males involved. Anyway, we don't see Keith's final answer, but his goofy smile kind of gives it away.
Veronica arrives at Lucky Tim's office and says that she got a text message from him requesting her presence. She asks how he got her number, since she doesn't give it out to anyone. Lucky Tim: "You're not the only one at this school who has certain...gifts." Interesting -- I wonder if he's aware of how she invaded his files. Of course, his big trick could just be checking the bathroom stalls at Neptune High. After a joke about Veronica's grandmother's endowments -- and not the kind that would really turn Dean Ed on -- Lucky Tim accuses Veronica of plagiarizing her paper. He claims a classmate of hers recognized the excerpt of her paper in class (although he doesn't say that part explicitly) and told Lucky Tim about it. Tim then ran her paper through a computer program that checks for plagiarism (much like this one, and thanks to the reader that emailed me the link) and it "lit up like a Christmas tree." And given how happy the revelation must have made Lucky Tim, that's a particularly fitting metaphor. (Of course, I think Tim's fudging some of the details here, given what we learn later. He probably put the paper up, and Ratner took it upon himself to run it through the program.) Veronica's aghast, but Lucky Tim shows her the evidence on his computer screen, and suggests that she tells Landry, or he will. Landry's voice cuts in, "Tell who what?" and we see he's entered the office. We go to credits ahead of Veronica saying, "Good news first -- I definitely want you to be my adviser!"