Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 2 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Actually, They're Neither, But Who's Keeping Score?
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.21.2006
Hangar. Keith anxiously waits until Lamb comes out from searching with a bomb-squad member in tow, who's carrying a barrel of something. Lamb: "Oh, you looky-loos, with your police-band radios and free time." Geez, Lamb, you make me...I mean, "it" sound so cheap. Keith asks whether it was, in fact, C4 in the container. Lamb says that Keith will have to wait for the press conference just like everyone else. (Sometime later, Keith is going to wonder how he got a certain Bob Marley song stuck in his head.) When Lamb's gone, Keith notices a truck with the sign "Magic Touch Custom Auto Detailing" on the door. The driver's destination seems to be the hangar, but he's turned away by a deputy.
Neptune High. Veronica's walking down the hall when Jane catches her and tells her that Heidi's missing. I'm left to wonder why no one seems to think this is good news as we go to opening credits.
Neptune High. Apparently, Jane has waited until she and Veronica have gotten their lunch and settled at an outdoor table to tell Veronica the details of Heidi's disappearance. That seems to conflict with her breathless attitude in the hallway, but it could be that Veronica values cafeteria fries more than she does Heidi's life, and after that first scene, I can't say as I blame her. Anyway, Heidi got dropped off at 2 in the morning -- which, I'd point out, is about when Bacchus starts his day -- and she missed her final dress fitting at 10. Upshot: Heidi's not at her place, no one's seen her, and her cell phone goes straight to voicemail. Jane adds that her mom checked the hospitals, to no avail, and then Wallace arrives to tell us basically that Heidi is a big bimbo, a comment by which Jane looks mildly offended but doesn't exactly deny. Jane says that she doesn't want Heidi to ruin her life, and that they have to find Heidi before her fiancé and his family find out she's gone, and plus, the wedding is in three days.
Sheriff's office. Lamb is giving a live press conference, saying that a warrant has been issued for Cook's arrest on eight counts of murder in the first degree. I guess that means that he's being charged with Meg's death, though it seems like you could argue that count should only be attempted murder. I mean, if she died from injuries sustained in the crash, that would be one thing, but considering the way in which her death was presented, it seems like my old friend Contrivance should at least bear some of the blame here. Lamb goes on to say that the explosives found in the hangar Cook was renting match the type used in the bus crash, and self-congratulatorily tells the reporters Cook won't get away. You'd think he'd want to apologize to poor Jessie for all the financial and emotional hell his "investigative" "work" caused her and her family, but I have a feeling Lamb has to have an awfully selective memory to have any professional pride at all.