Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 9 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Melrose Law
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.01.2004
Chez Mars. Keith arrives home to find Veronica making sundaes. Man, everyone I know could use one of those right now. Maybe with butterscotch. Eh, screw the butter. Keith collapses into a chair. Veronica asks him if he had a rough day, and Keith lapses into a Philip Marlowe impression. I could live with it in small doses. Veronica plays along, and then tells him they're having dessert for dinner. Yay. The sugar buzz is killed, however, when it comes over the TV that Abel Koontz, the dude convicted of killing Lilly, fired his public defender that day. We see old footage of Koontz being arrested, and of Officer Fuckface holding up evidence presumably found on Koontz's boat, including a pair of what look like ballet slippers, with a froufrou ribbon on each of them, and a heart with some writing inside drawn on the left one. The announcer tells us that Koontz is scheduled to die by lethal injection as early as the next year, barring appeals. Keith flips off the TV. Veronica asks why Koontz fired his lawyer. Keith: "'Cause he's ready to die." Veronica asks what Keith is going to do about it. Keith points out that no one in Neptune cares what he believes: "This town's gonna have to find another conspiracy nut." Keith, I believe you already know Veronica. But not as well as some people think, I hope.
In Veronica's room, which is now GREEN! Instead of RED!, Lilly appears to her and says, like in horror movies, she's doomed to walk the earth until justice has been served. Veronica: "Really?" Lilly: "Yeah, that, and, as kind of a side project, I dispense fashion advice." Hee. Veronica asks if Koontz killed her. Lilly says she can't say, and Veronica wonders why he'd have wanted to kill her. Lilly: "Honestly! I was awesome, right?" Hee, again. And yes, it seems in fact you were. Veronica tearily says she misses Lilly. Lilly beams....
And the GREEN! of Lilly is replaced by the normal RED! as Veronica wakes up. Hmm. I wonder what color the room is when she dreams about Weevil.
School. Some girl is babbling school news on the local network. Miss Dent comes over to Veronica and asks if she'd be interested in covering the election. Veronica cracks a joke, but agrees. On the TV, the girl announces that Wanda is running for student body president. Wanda tells the school that student government doesn't do jack, but she's promising real change as The Electric Guitar Of Credibility strums jauntily in the background. Wanda pledged to abolish Pirate Points. Everyone cheers, and I'm not surprised. Who would support a system that sounds like a promotional campaign for Long John Silver's? Wanda signs off with a salute and a "God Bless America" that are supposed to be ironic, but she's too much of a poser to pull it off. Nevertheless, just about everyone cheers, including Veronica and Duncan. The one dissenter is Logan, who's worried about his precious point system. I can't imagine that Logan has participated in many school activities, but perhaps "King of the Assholes" is a vaunted school position. In fact, thinking back on my high-school experience, I'd be surprised if it weren't. Logan thinks Duncan should run. Duncan, not so much.