Episode Report Card Sobell: A | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT He is a man of constant smirking
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 08.28.2005
Meanwhile, back on the outside...in a very nice little house with window boxes, L.J. is getting what for from his mother with, "Two pounds of pot -- what were you trying to do, set a record?" "Yeah -- record for most glaucoma patients treated, Mom!" he shoots back. Oh, not really; the kid lacks the smart mouth. He does pull off a nice smirk when his mom's ineffectual, detached, yuppie-weenie squeeze comes in for a plate of food, which sets L.J.'s mom off again. She's all, "Where is this coming from, L.J.? Last semester, you were getting almost all As, and now --" And now, he's a few weeks away from his dad getting the chair, so he's acting out. L.J.'s mom finally realizes this. She is not that quick on the uptake, what with having had an entire appeals process to anticipate this, is she? So she decides that a visit to Linc will scare L.J. straight, or resolve his issues in re: his dad's impending death. Riiiiiight.
It's visiting day at the prison. Veronica is there, and not because she's hoping for Michael's expert opinion on which invitation she should choose for her impending nuptials. She asks him what would have happened if he had been sent anywhere else, and Michael smart-mouths, "I think I'd be doing the same thing I'm doing here: eating Jell-O, drinking Kool-Aid..." He smiles. Veronica is not amused; she's figured out that "it's not luck of the draw that you're in here with Lincoln. You forget that I know you, both of you. You two have the most dysfunctional idea of love I've ever seen. What, he beats you up to get you off the streets, and you get yourself tossed into Fox River with him? To what? Save him? I deserve to know. I loved him as much as you did." Michael says, "Past tense for you, maybe. Not me." Oh, Michael, I'm sure Victor Von Doomed would be happy to work with your on your verb tenses in re: Veronica and Linc.
For some reason, instead of telling Michael to cram it and that the details of her relationship with Linc are between her and Linc, Veronica says, "I gave him a shot when I got back from college. I did. Even with all the stuff that was going on with him, I did everything I could to make it work, and he threw it away." Michael rebuts, "You ever think maybe he was hurt that you left in the first place?" "Ever think that healthy, functional people don't begrudge their loved ones opportunities?" Veronica shoots back. I wish. Veronica shifts the conversation back to Michael's case; he's not at all happy about this, and says, "You want to do something, find out who's trying to bury [Linc]."
Visiting hours end, and these two go into a long hug. From the depths of the couch, Mr. Sobell bellows, "No touching!" Yeah, I'm not sure this prison is anything like the one George Bluth, Sr., was in. As they hug, Michael whispers, "Someone wants him dead, Veronica. There's more to this going on here." Veronica's not buying it yet. Michael says, "I'm not watching him die. I won't do that." Veronica stalks out, just in time for Linc to fix her with a stare of what I presume is unrequited longing.