According to plan, Veronica gives Wallace the phone. If Monty was involved in getting that White Castle kid to shut up, there will be evidence of a phone call. He might even know where this Guy Abrutti character is. Even better, Jackie comes up to apologize to Wallace about being a huge bitch, or so I thought that was going to happen. Jackie was in on the whole thing. Rashard has a weakness for the ladies, and Wallace knew she had enough influence (not to mention a tight looking ass) to get Rashard to follow her wherever she went. Wallace lets uncle Monty know where they'll be, and he has the magic phone. Jackie actually sort of apologizes, saying that she has always been good at seducing guys, but holding on to the good guys is always tricky. Awwww. I am sure Wallace is waiting to kiss and make up, but just at that moment, another girl comes by, and asks Wallace if they are still on for the big game. Wow, Wallace actually did have plans, and they involved another floozy. You can't stop him; you can only hope to contain him.

Wallace does give the phone numbers to his dad, who is able to track down this Guy Abrutti, who is living it up off of Monty's dime at a fancy hotel with a couple of girls that look like they don't want to be there. I am not sure, but perhaps it is the sight of this guy in his tighty whities that's preventing them from getting too damp at the thought of an evening with him. Luckily for them, Wallace's dad breaks up the party, and Guy is going to have to speak.

One project completed, Veronica only has to get her video from the church. It looks like Weevil was right; the confessional at St. Mary's was being used to exchange money and drugs, but there Father Patrick had nothing to do with it. Instead, a Fitzpatrick would come to confessional, put a Bible inside, and later on, a PCHer would come in and take it, or vise versa. On Veronica's tape, she had Liam Fitzpatrick and Thumper making the exchange.

With this evidence in hand, Weevil decides that he is going to have to teach his boys a lesson. How could they take money from the Fitzpatricks? The crew that killed Reaper? How could they make a deal with the enemy? Weevil's speech is not having quite the proper effect that it should. In fact, Thumper said so what if he is making a little extra money running some drugs, except the way he said it, you could see that he was not the only one. Oh, and that part about not making deals with your enemies? Why should they follow advice that Weevil doesn't think is good enough for himself? That's right, Hector's cousin, who works for the hotel where Logan is staying, saw Weevil leaving Logan's room. Oh, and I know this is Southern California, but any time the writers want to have a Mexican character who isn't in a gang and doesn't work cleaning a house or a hotel or at a chop shop, that would be great. I mean, even a greasy burrito stand is stereotypical, but at least it's an honest wage!

Anyway, Weevil probably thought that he would be getting some good vengeance on, but instead he is forced to take a beating himself. Afterwards, when it is just him and Thumper, Weevil asks if Thumper killed Felix. Thumper basically admits to doing so, but if Felix should ever think about going to the police, Thumper conveniently made a video of Weevil beating up another old member of the gang within an inch of his life, and says that he will take that evidence to the police if Weevil ever thinks about saying something. Perhaps the final insult to all of this was that the PCHers drove Weevil's bike into the ocean. That means that Weevil needs to take the bus to get to school, a fact not lost upon all of the people who used to find him so fearsome. Now, I would have thought that Weevil doesn't care enough about school to take the bus to get there, but the effect is still good nonetheless.

Wallace is having a much better day than Weevil. After his dad found Mr. Risky Business, things started getting better. Monty Rucker called him, and Wallace gave him plenty of dripping sarcasm about keeping his mouth shut to last the rest of the season. But for now, all that is on Wallace's mind is the big pep rally for the game against Pan High. There are no mascot wars this year, and Veronica didn't make him any cookies, but the ladies can't get enough of him, and that seems like it will work out just fine.

So, the only thing we haven't wrapped up is Keith and his bus investigation. They were analyzing the rat too much. He heard testimony from all of the kids who weren't on the bus that it smelled horrible, and there was no way that they were going to ride it back. Hence, the rich kids got a limo, the poor kids died. What if whoever wanted to the bus to crash was not interested in killing Veronica, but just making sure the rich kids didn't die? Veronica thought that Curly Moran, the person who we now think rigged the bus to crash, had a special connection with Aaron Echolls, having worked on a film together, but it turns out that every kid on that bus had a parent who knew Curly, thanks to his skill with fixing exotic cars. Then Keith hears the mother lode.

Posted by J-Unit on February 2, 2006 11:28 AM