Men Are Pigs...
Updated 2006-11-18 16:00:00
Wow. Another really good one. We start the day after we ended last episode, and let's just say Veronica is not so much enamored of the male gender at the moment. She starts off by giving Keith what for about his affair, and ditches him to go to stay in Wallace's room, as he and Piz are renting a motel room for a hard-core cram session. However, Piz can't take Wallace's studying tunnel vision, so he comes back, and Veronica chooses to stay with him instead of going back to her dad's, which ouch. Going back to Harmony, she comes to see a guilt-ridden Keith, and tells him she's going to leave her husband, which sways him to go away with her for the weekend. This wouldn't feel good even if Vinnie Vanlowe didn't walk in and see them together. And it's way worse than that, as Vinnie, who mentions he's still working for the Fitzpatricks, then blackmails Keith with photographic evidence of the affair, because he's working for Harmony's husband, who suspected her of stepping out on him. Believe it or not, I saw this one coming, although I didn't think it would be quite this soon. I love that Vinnie is this much of a bastard, though. Keith tries to make nice with Veronica, and she world-wearily throws Jake and Lianne back in his face. Ouch, again, but not out of bounds, and Keith tearfully ends up turning Harmony away. Back in the dorm, once Piz has safely returned, some girl shows up who claims to be the girlfriend of Piz's next-door neighbor, and she's worried he's missing, so Veronica agrees to look for him. We learn that Moe, who shows up this episode, has keys to all the rooms, not that that should be a complete surprise. After some stuff involving a phone call from some other girl, the boyfriend's incredibly repellent roommate (played by Ben of Ben-is-Glory Buffy Season 5 fame), and Piz sleeping on the floor of his own room, Veronica tracks the boyfriend's cell phone to...the River Stix. Uh-oh. The girl makes an ill-advised entry into the bar, and Veronica and the girl have a scary encounter with our old friends Danny Boyd and Liam, but they're saved by...Vinnie, in a cool twist I would not have seen coming. Vinnie points them in the right direction, and they find the boyfriend at the sheriff's station and have a nice little reunion. Meanwhile, Landry gives his class their final assignment: to plan a perfect murder. After class, he calls Veronica up and tells her he's recommending her for an internship with the FBI that summer in lieu of her final assignment, and that latter part is perhaps overplaying his hand, as Veronica concludes that he's trying to buy her silence about the affair with Dean Ed's wife. She confronts him, but he denies caring about whom she tells, and reiterates that she should take the internship. It still doesn't sound like she's going to, though. Veronica runs into Logan, and he begs her to trust him that his secret is better left untold. They have a rather broken conversation, Veronica goes to see Mercer in jail, and he tells her that the GHB wasn't his, and the cologne he was wearing was a sample from an issue of GQ that was all over the campus, so it's hardly damning evidence against him. He suggests two people who might want to set him up -- Chip and Dean Ed, the latter of whom is in some gambling debt to Mercer. Mercer's alibi is complete when Piz covers Mercer's Club Flush show, which, by the way, is the show that was playing on the radio when Parker was raped. Moreover, it's a call-in request show, so Mercer's exonerated. Of course, it's not clear why he didn't just tell the law this when he was arrested, but whatever. However, the damage is done, as Veronica tells Logan she needs to know where he was on the night in question, August 13th. Logan tells her they were in Tijuana, and Mercer accidentally set his motel room on fire, and he and Mercer bailed from the burning building without even checking to see if everyone was okay. Not anything like what I expected the secret to be, which is kind of awesome. Keith leaves Veronica a message telling her that he ended things with Harmony and he wants her to come home. But Veronica leaves her drink in the cafeteria alone for a minute, and ends up with a bad case of the spins. She makes it to her car, but collapses, and the rapist catches up to her. However, Logan is in the area, and rescues her none too soon, as the rapist had already started in on her hair with the clippers. You'll forgive me one joke about the close shave, won't you?