Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A+ | 4 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Shall We Play A Game?
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.25.2005
School. Veronica sunnily greets Carmen, and they smile about what a good morning it is. Oh, dear. Some dickhead asks Carmen if she wants to suck on his Popsicle. The girls looks horrified as Veronica breathes, "Tad pressed the button." Pick out your outfit for the Dog Beach men's room, kid. It'll be a good warmup for your inevitable fate involving "community soap."
Felix is watching the Carmen video on his cell phone before Weevil grabs it away. Man, Brad Bufanda looks pretty tall. Weevil asks where the video came from.
Veronica finds a sobbing Carmen in a classroom. Carmen says that she's waiting for the rest of the school to leave so that she can "sneak home without being assailed with any frozen desserts." And you'd think that was the one upside to this situation. Carmen adds that her parents probably have already seen the video (really?), so she doesn't know where she's going to hide: "Somewhere they don't have computers." I know things look bad now, Carmen, but I'm not sure hiding out in hell is the best solution. They both express disbelief that Tad went through with this horrible plan, but Carmen straightens herself up and says she's still glad she dumped that "idiot loser...crapface." Aw. Veronica smiles, and Carmen adds that she'd rather people think she's trashy than let someone like Tad push her around. Good for you, hon, although if you want people not to think you're trashy, you're going to have to clean up that potty mouth. "Crapface" is just the sort of word that makes distinguished gentlemen drop their monocles in horror.
Veronica opens up her laptop and invites Carmen to do the honors of "outing" Tad, but after some hesitation, Carmen declines to go through with it: "Tearing Tad down isn't gonna make me feel better." And that's true. At least in the long run. Veronica tries to change her mind, but Carmen leaves, saying that revenge just isn't her thing. This isn't the first time a decent girl has expressed reservations about Veronica's "an eye for an eye" approach. It will be interesting to see if she ever takes them to heart. Also, not only is the actress playing Carmen very pretty, but she did a nice job with this performance. When Carmen's gone, Veronica realizes that two boys are watching the video, and stalks over. "It's all fun and games until one of you gets my foot up your ass." So not so much with the rethinking, yet. The boys scatter, and Veronica sits down to a horrifying revelation: she recognizes the background from Shelley Pomeroy's party. A quick flashback confirms that the settings are the same, and VMVO asks: "Could it be the night Carmen gave her boyfriend a sex show in a hot tub that she can't remember the same night I was drugged and raped in a guest bedroom?" Considering how little time we have to wrap up the mysteries of the season, I'm going to have to say KICK SOME ASS, Veronica. Rethinking be damned.