Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 5 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Papa Was A Rollin' Stone...
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.25.2005
Neptune Grand. A staff member serves Veronica and Duncan dinner, so I guess Duncan's gotten over his aversion to room service. He thanks the staff member, "Carl," and I wonder if Carl's grunt of "Mm-hmm" is enough to earn him an SAG card. It seems like kind of a grey area. Veronica puts her arm around Duncan as she says it's weird he lives in the hotel, and she doesn't want him going all "Howard Hughes-y." Duncan jokes that his nails are trimmed, but that he has been bottling his own urine. Heh. He takes this opportunity to start nibbling on Veronica's neck, and his affection is sweet, if likely motivated by the fact that it looks like Veronica's taken to wearing an Aquabra. I don't know what position you guys favor, Duncan, but I'd pick one that doesn't put too much weight on her chest. Duncan suggests that they invite some people back to the hotel for an afterparty, and Veronica coyly asks, "After what?" Duncan duhs that it's after the dance, but eventually cottons on to her point, and says he's a dope. Arguments? He tells Veronica that she's his woman, and he wants her to accompany him, and they're both kind of sweet and adorable and, more importantly, believable as a couple in this scene. That is, until Veronica asks Duncan for some Kane Software stationery, which I can't believe he would give up when it might be used for something unethical or even illegal. He does ask what it's for, but Veronica breezes, "You're here for your looks. Why don't you leave the heavy thinking to me, sugarpants?" She tells him to go make himself pretty. He laughs, knowing that that's not really going to take long.
Chez Mars. Veronica reads aloud to Keith from an article in the Neptune Register that says Keith and Lamb are now in a statistical dead heat. Keith fishes a metal replica of a large beetle encased in glass out of Veronica's bag. It would have been cool if her bag were booby-trapped, and Keith got his fingers caught in a mousetrap like this was Tom And Jerry. Come on, Veronica would totally do that. Veronica tries to cover by saying that the bug is for a bio project. I wonder if Keith will ever take up the strategy of not believing a word that comes out of Veronica's mouth. It's an idea that the percentages certainly seem to favor.
Chez Fennel. Alicia, dressed in a robe and pajamas, enters the kitchen to find Wallace standing there with the letters. When she learns what they are, she tries to grab them away from him, and they end up on the floor. She yells that she told him to stay away from Woods, but Wallace, just as heatedly, counters that she claimed she gave Woods a choice, and she lied. Wallace storms out past Chaos, who's got his feet up on the ottoman and a shit-eating grin on his face.