Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 1 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Murderball
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.12.2007
Keith enters the security office at the Neptune Grand and warmly greets the guy who's watching the monitors, "Reggie." Reggie asks if Keith wants him to check up on Veronica again, causing those of us who get off on continuity porn to light a cigarette. Keith asks if Reggie can check up on a client's alibi from December 10th, but Reggie tells him the bad news that their hard drive starts recording over itself after a month. However, if Keith has a license plate, Reggie could check with his buddy who runs the valet service, since they keep those records for ages. Keith smiles big.
On Hearst's campus, Veronica catches Mason and asks what he told Lamb he saw on the night in question. Mason tells her what he told the sheriff, but Veronica asks whether the coach and "Josh" were facing each other. Mason says yes, so Veronica points out that it sounds like he only saw Josh from behind, so she wonders how he can be sure it was him. Wow, some real, honest-to-God detective work this episode. I may have to buy another pack of smokes here. Mason says that he saw Josh's hair and basketball jacket, and he looked back and saw his profile when he went by. Veronica asks about Mason's feelings toward the coach in the wake of his demotion, causing that temper of Mason's that Josh warned us about to flare a little as he asks whether Veronica thinks he'd kill his coach over that. Veronica: "A woman in Texas hired a hitman to take out the mother of her daughter's cheerleading rival, so, you know, I'm pretty much willing to consider anything. Where do you keep your gun?" On the one hand, the delivery there rocked. On the other, Bring It On used that reference, like, seven years ago, so maybe it's time to look for some new material. (As Gabrielle Union would say, "Tried to steal our bit! But you look like shit! And we're the ones who are down with it!" Yes, I still have every line of that movie memorized. What of it?) Mason is all, "Screw you," and bails. Oh, I don't think Wallace would be too happy to hear that Mason said that to Veronica! Yeah, you know, Wallace! Um...that guy, who was in that one scene? And he had a couple of lines? No? Sigh. Commercials.
Keith arrives home to find Veronica in the preparatory stages of baking, and asks, "Did you suffer a blow to the head?" Keith, surely you caught a whiff of snickerdoodles at some point over the years. But given your lack of any cushioning hair, perhaps you're the one who's endured some cranial trauma. Veronica says that the cookies are for Josh, prompting Keith to ask whether she believes him. Veronica tells him she's not sure, but that she definitely wants Josh to think she believes him. Keith tells her that he checked with Mason's girlfriend, and that she confirmed that he was with her the night of the murder. You know, Keith, you're making Veronica's "believing Josh" act a lot harder with all your detective work and evidence here. Veronica then asks Keith not to get murdered: she's been thinking a lot about what she would do if she didn't have him. Might not want to look at the recent ratings, then, kid. Keith offers to handle the case by himself, but Veronica, already recovering, says that won't work, and asks how Mindy took it when Keith dropped the case. He tells her that he hasn't so much dropped it, explains what happened in the office, and then reveals that someone took out the Volvo from the Grand at 1:51 AM, and returned it at 2:59 AM. Veronica excitedly says that the witness reported having heard the gunshot between 2:20 and 2:30, and declares that the killer has to be either Mindy or Landry. I have to say, I really don't know that Mindy would take her own car to kill her husband. I'm wondering if the parallel here is that both she and Josh are being framed. Just a thought. Keith agrees that it looks that way, but that he doesn't have access to registration records: "Know anyone over there who might be willing to bend some rules?" Veronica smiles and tells him that is indeed a possibility...