Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B | 8 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Ask Not For Whom The Bell Tolls...
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.26.2007
Sheriff's station. Keith, Veronica, and Tim are pedeconferencing as Keith tells them that the kid from the last scene was one strike away from being put in foster care, and that his mother claimed that Landry called and threatened to take her kid off probation unless she showed up that night at the convenience store and lied about having bummed the cigarette off Landry on December 10th. I can't really believe that both Veronica and Keith miss the obvious point here, but I'm going to recap it later, so I'll skip it. Veronica brings up the Papa's Cabin thing, and Tim hands Keith the pictures they were looking at in Landry's album. Tim tells Keith that Landry called his grandfather "Papa," which, okay, that makes more sense at least, and Veronica and Tim go on for a while, trying to figure out where the picture might have been taken based on the trees and the partially-visible license plate. They hilariously try to one-up each other with their hopelessly specialized knowledge, but it still goes on too long, so I say good for Keith in more than one way when he speculates that the "Papa" could be Ernest Hemingway. Keith Zowies the name and tells them that the Papa's Cabin Retreat is in Cabo San Lucas, and was a beloved spot for Hemingway. Keith justifiably gives the two punk-ass whippersnappers a cute smirk. Veronica, for her part, makes a note to buy another spiral notebook to continue her "Things I'm Never Going To Hear The End Of" list.
Papa's Cabin. Keith, in full traveling uniform, pulls up, walks onto the beach, and has a confab with the local law. The jefe tells Keith that the manager gave them a positive ID on Landry. He says some other stuff too, but it's garbled and also irrelevant given that Mindy's boat is anchored offshore.
Keith takes a police boat out. I know they're trying to create tension, but I'm seeing a fair amount of filler in this episode, and I'm not just talking about Parker and Logan. Keith and the local law eventually make it downstairs and discover that there's been quite the boozing going on, which I have to say seems like it should be required at a resort named after old Ernie. Maybe Lindsay Lohan can relocate down there now that the Marmont is finally rid of her. Anyway, Landry, a cut over one of his eyes, opens the door to the bedroom, and hazily tells Keith that he didn't kill Dean Ed -- it was Mindy, and she set Landr up. One of the stronger points of this arc is how Landry and Mindy each came to suspect the other. It took them a long time to get past the "he/she would never do that" thinking, but once they realized all the evidence was mounting and each knew that he/she didn't do it him/herself, what other logical thought could they have? It's pretty diabolical. After Landry admits that he's the one who swapped Dean Ed's keyboard for Richard Grieco's in an attempt to throw suspicion Grieco's way, Keith asks where Mindy is, and Landry isn't letting the presence of the law separate him from his booze. Of course, they might be far enough out that they're in international waters, in which case Landry might as well down the rest of the booze and go challenge another boat to a drag race. Anything goes, right? Landry, voice breaking, says that it was an accident, and that he just wanted to find out how Mindy could turn on him like that. They fought, he hit her, and she fell into the dark, dark water. He again swears that it was an accident as he completely breaks down. Wow, that was an intense scene. I'd better lighten things up with a joke. What kind of wood doesn't float? Oh, you know that one?