Monkey See, Monkey Die
Updated 2007-01-28 16:00:00
It's six weeks since the Dean's apparent suicide, and Mindy O'Dell shows up at Mars Investigations and tells Keith that her husband didn't kill himself, which was the official pronouncement. Keith goes to talk to Weevil, who tells him that Dean Ed wrote a suicide note on his computer. Keith notices that the prize bottle of booze Dean Ed had was untouched, which he thinks bodes ill for the suicide idea. Also boding ill for the suicide theory is that the circumstances of Dean Ed's death were ripped off wholesale from Veronica's "Plan A Perfect Murder" paper. Shows what being an apple-polisher will get you. Mac gets a tech call from a lab on campus, which was ransacked, and soon has Veronica on the case of a missing monkey. The lab students tell Veronica that an animal-rights group abducted said monkey. Veronica and Mac infiltrate said group, and some of the more radical members challenge Veronica to impress them. Veronica isn't too happy to learn that the monkey is scheduled to end his part of the experiment with a visit to the Great Big Banana Tree In The Sky, but she still enlists Piz's help in booking this musical artist who's known for anti-animal-rights sentiment, and ropes Parker and Mac into playing bimbo groupies as part of the operation. Hee. Turns out, though, that Veronica and Mac's reward for the stunt they pull off is the chance to pose nude for an anti-fur calendar. The looks on their faces are priceless, but it's a big joke, and they're in. In ContinuityLand, we revisit the Around The World party. Mac and Veronica are unenthused, but a really-ready-to-get-back-into-action Parker argues for hosting a country. In BizarroContinuityLand, the show seems to have forgotten that Mac is a vegan. I'm happy enough to forget about it too, so let's move on to the part where Veronica, seeing that the leader of the animal-rights group is quite taken with Mac, invites him to visit them in "Canada." Veronica has a crap time, but Mac's admirer shows up, and they're cute, until Mac rebuffs his attempt at a kiss. Parker forces her to see the guy again, though, which leads to a discovery of the missing rats. Mac's boy (Bronson is his name) claims that the rats just showed up in a box at his door. Mac believes him and, what's more, comes up with a clue from the lab's hard drive, which needed some time to dry out. The clue leads Veronica to discover that the male lab student kidnapped the monkey to save him from his cruel fate, and Veronica, who was already sympathetic, refunds her fee to the meaner lab student, only to learn that she's probably doomed a different monkey. Ouch. Dick is staying with Logan, and tries to get his host out of his funk by taking him surfing and drinking with Chip. Beer and bimbos aren't any consolation to Logan, although he does partake of both. Veronica and Piz have a heart-to-heart loaded with subtext, but it turns out they're talking at cross-purposes, because Piz thinks they're getting closer, but in fact, Veronica goes running back to Logan. They're not the only ones who kiss, though, as Mac lays one on Bronson. Yay! And finally, Keith talks up Landry in a bar, but Landry knows who he is. Landry does suggest that Keith check out his book on profiling, though, and in the end, Keith takes Mindy's case, because he suspects MURDER MOST FOUL! (Well, he didn't say exactly that, but it's a good way to end a recaplet, no?)