Man, deaths a-plenty! Fare thee well, Sheriff Lamb. Alas, we hardly saw ye without your shirt on.
I think I missed a little something. The coach’s son fled the country so the insurance would pay off? Is that right?
Ya know, I like having Keith back as sheriff, but I’m going to miss how Lamb looked in the uniform.
More plot involving secondary characters since…awhile ago! Wallace in more than one scene! A hint of snark between Logan and Veronica!
Otto - yup. As long as he’s a suspect, it’s ruled a murder. So after the statute on the money runs out, he comes back and shows the evidence and is a free man (I think).
Yup, because defrauding insurance companies for millions of dollars has absolutely no consequences. None at all.
(Not a dig at you, Achren, but rather at a kind of stupid plot point.)
Ah, but since when have legal realities had any sway over this show? (That it was.)
Finally, after almost three seasons, Keith Mars is back in his sheriff’s uniform. I guess Veronica has a “Get out of jail free” card for sure now and can sell all the cartons of cigarettes she hoarded while in the stir. (They are currency, ya know.)
Lamb is dead.
I can’t say I saw that one coming.
I actually did predict it, about five minutes before it happened. “Wouldn’t it be great if Lamb’s dumassery got him killed on one of these calls?” And then it did.
I wish they would have come up with a better plan for the Barry family. What’s that kid going to do in Mexico for four or five years? Lay on a beach and drink margaritas?
For pete’s sake, the family wasn’t going to be out on the street. He probably had some life insurance, Social Security would make payments for the boys until they were 18 (maybe longer, I’m not sure), mom could get a job, and that younger kid was pretty good on the piano – put him in the Neptune Lounge and let him rake in the tips!
When Josh comes back and proves his innocence, everyone in town will know they did it for the insurance. And wouldn’t it be a kicker if somebody recorded over that DVD, or lost it. And the guy who shot him – he’ll face charges, won’t he? Dumb dumb dumb.
The younger brother has some sort of disability - autism IIRC - and as anyone who has dealt with medical insurance claims knows, there is also some form that wasn’t filled out correctly (according to the Ins Co) that will delay or completely derail any or all claims.
The Coach Barry plot was truly convoluted, and seemed like “oh crap - we need a MotW! who shall we kill off now?”
I always enjoy this show, but I must admit I’ve COMPLETELY lost track of the main mystery, what all we know about it, etc. Heck, I even forgot who the guy with Mac was until my roommate reminded me.
Logan seemed out of character to agree to do something like a valentine’s day scavenger hunt… or had we seen evidence previously that he had the hots for whatsherface?
Glad to see Mac getting some, in any case. That little snippet of post-banging conversation was really well done.
Yeah, I was a little confused too. Still a great episode though.
So Mrs. Barry wasn’t about to kill Keith? She sure looked like it, the way she was carrying that gun. Kind of a disappointing fake-out.
Poor Lamb. “I smell bread.”
I missed the beginning. What was the prize for winning the scvenger contest.
Good to see Mac in love.
Brian
Well, yes it does have consequences but only as long as the statute of limitations allows for them. Now, the argument could be made that fleeing the country to evade the SoL prevents the SoL from tolling but AFAIK that would only be for criminal matters, not civil.
Same here. As soon as Lamb started smarting off to Keith I said, “Lamb is toast.” And then he smelled bread. Hee.
The prize was back-stage passes for a concert the radio station was having.
I love Veronica answering “I DO! I DO!” to the “Who wants to get out of jail…?” question.
This episode was very confusing to me. I’m confused as to why the Dean’s wife would be a suspect at all when she was the one who re-opened the case after it was already closed as a suicide. Also, what was up with the car? They moved it, then moved it back? Was there actually a Clippers game? Was the time-line off?
I sure wish I lived in Neptune. Every time Veronica wants to help a friend who does something illegal, she just sends them off to Mexico. So convenient.
Crutchfield-Jacob? They sure do go for the obscure. It seems it would have been easier to just give him Alzheimer’s.
But, no matter what, I love this show.
That should be spelled Creutzfeldt-Jakob. Not quite as phonetic as I recalled.
The timeline was off because of the clippers game. That would have pushed Space Ghost back an hour. The witness claims to have heard a gunshot while watching Space Ghost.
Is the ex-husband that was shot by the deputy dead too?
Didn’t the sheriff seem unusually sober and cooperative in this episode? He acted on Keith’s information about the Dean’s Xanax prescription. He also let Keith hear their fingerprints-on-the-keyboard evidence. Maybe they wanted to make him more sympathetic right before killing him off.
I love every single scene with Cliff.
Yeah - that kinda bothered me. IIRC they said the wife took out a “second” insurance policy on hubby just before the shooting. Really makes it seem like a blatant insurance scam - which significantly lessens their sympathy factor in my book.
As a dad, I was wondering exactly what it would be like to be Mr. Mars, and what kind of messages he was sending. I mean, however competent your kid is (what is she - 19-ish?), to have your kid arrested, find a gun in your fridge, find she made a phony ID to help an escapee. I mean, I know how incompetent “the law” is (or was) on the show, and how competent Veronica was. But just made me wonder how I would react to such things as a father.
I’m more interested in how he’s going to react to them as a sheriff. “Plausible deniability” is no longer going to cut it. Is he going to have to arrest his own daughter for making fake IDs and helping felons escape to Mexico? Is she going to con her own father to get into the evidence room? The dynamic, it is a changin’, and that’s pretty exciting.
Okay, instead of working, I’m typing a list of everything I can recall about the evidence concerning the Dean’s death.
- Weevil found the Dean in his office, dead from a gunshot to the head.
- There was a suicide note typed on the Dean’s computer. It said something like, “Farewell, cruel world.”
- The Dean’s wife hired Keith to prove the Dean was murdered, so she can collect his life insurance money.
- Keith doesn’t think it’s a suicide because the Dean wasn’t drinking his best liquor that night.
- Veronica’s paper on the perfect murder described the fictional murder of the Dean.
- The feminists, who were angry at the Dean because he re-opened the frat houses, were egging cars and windows on campus that night.
- Veronica found a witness who claims he heard a gunshot while watching Space Ghost, which we now know came on at around 3:30am instead of 2:30am.
- The Dean’s wife and Veronica’s criminology professor have been having an affair. They claim to have been together in a hotel room, alone, on the night of the murder.
- There was a pay-per-view movie purchased in the hotel room, I think at 2:00 am. The professor does seem to be familiar with the details of the movie.
- There was a phone call from the Dean’s wife’s cell phone to the professor’s cell phone that night (I forget the time). They claim that she went down to the lobby that night to buy some toothpaste, and called the professor from there.
- A hotel employee heard two men arguing in the professor’s hotel room on the night of the murder (I forget the time).
- Keith found egg residue on the Dean’s wife’s car, even though she said it was parked at the hotel all night.
- The Dean’s wife’s car was moved and then returned to the hotel parking lot. That seems to have happened before the murder took place.
- The Dean’s wife’s ex-husband’s fingerprints were found on the keyboard that was used to type the Dean’s suicide note.
- The Dean was out of his supply of Xanax, yet the drug was found in his body after his death. The Dean’s wife filled the prescription for him on the night of the murder.
- The Dean’s secretary says that Hearst’s patron (Stoltz?) came to visit the Dean on the day of his murder, and the two men argued.
- Weevil found a bloody shirt and gloves hidden in the building where the Dean died.
Does this sound right? Anything else?
Veronica’s paper described the fictional murder of the sheriff. Which, not so funny now, is it Veronica? However, her paper did include such details as a faked suicide note.
And the shirt bears the initials of Veronica’s criminology professor (although not his monogram, because the initials are in the wrong order).