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[Greeting of many greetings.]

[OPENING THEME MUSIC: Vancefurd- Pirate Song]

THEO: Aargh! And welcome to the podcast this week, VM fans. This is one of your hosts, Theo, and with me today we have Bailey and Scarlett.

BAILEY: Yay!

SCARLETT: Woo!

THEO: Say hello everyone.

SCARLETT: Hello!

BAILEY: Hello!

THEO: And we will be your fearless leaders for the week because Sandy is taking a week’s break. So while the cat’s away we mice are going to play.

[Laughter]

BAILEY: A well-deserved week’s break.

THEO: That’s right. That’s right. A well-deserved one. But we have lots to talk about this week including the big news, drum roll please…

[Bad drum rolls]

THEO: We’ve got seven more episodes!

BAILEY: Woo!

SCARLETT: Woo!

THEO: The CW has increased the order from 13 episodes to 20. And I’m actually really confused that- I mean I’m not saying I’m not grateful that we’ve got almost a full season, but why not the 22 like they did for the past two seasons?

BAILEY: I don’t understand either if it’s only 2 more episodes. You know?

THEO: Yeah.

BAILEY: I don’t understand either.

SCARLETT: Some people said they might be trying to save on budget overall so that, you know, because it’s a new network. And then next year there’s a possibility.

THEO: That’s a good point. I can understand that.

SCARLETT: That’s kind of an upbeat look at it.

THEO: Yes. I was gonna say that’s a very optimistic look and we appreciate that because I remember I was a little scared when I saw it. But hopefully it bodes well. Hopefully we’ll pick up a little bit in the ratings and the show will continue. I guess that’s the good news for this week. We’ve got what I’m gonna call a full season. But anyway. The episode this week: amazing. Very good. I was very impressed with it.

BAILEY: Very good.

SCARLETT: So much to talk about.

THEO: I know! There is so much to talk about. And finally, some real action there at the end.

BAILEY: Oh my God.

SCARLETT: Dun, dun, dun!

THEO: Dun, dun, dun! Yeah. So this, we’re going to uh, we’re going to talk about the episode this week and then we’re gonna talk about the music this week, and finally I will talk about how uh, the listeners responded to the challenge from Theo Investigates last week. I got quite a few emails and most of them- you know what? Not most of them. Every single one of them berated me for not mentioning one major suspect. And I’m not gonna tell you who that is until the Theo Investigates segment this week.

BAILEY: Bad Theo!

THEO: No!

BAILEY: What kind of investigator are you?

THEO: A very incomplete one, apparently. Because I thought this person was a suspect as well. Literally, every single email I got, sometimes two or three from the same person, they were like, how could you have missed this person? It’s so clear that this is the person. You didn’t even mention him. So I was like, wow. And I thought I had, but apparently not. So anyway. We’re gonna take a quick break and we will be back to talk about Of Vice and Men. So stay tuned and keep listening, Pirates.

[Welcome to the first break. It is musical.]

[Every Shade of Grey by Brothers Faloon]

BAILEY: Welcome back, Pirates. Now it’s time for the episode discussion. What an episode it was!

THEO: Yes. It ended with quite the bang. Or more of a whimper, I guess you would say.

[Laughter]

THEO: But we’ll get to that. But I think one of the biggest things was the breakup between Keith and Harmony.

BAILEY: Yeah.

THEO: I know. I guess he did the right thing. Um. I don’t know.

SCARLETT: It made me sad though.

THEO: Yeah. That’s the thing. He did the right thing on paper, if you’re looking at it from what’s right and wrong in the sort of third grade way.

BAILEY: Right. Black and white.

THEO: It’s probably not a good idea to sleep with married women.

BAILEY: Yeah.

THEO: Something to avoid, kids. Listeners out there. Uh. But still you want him to be happy, and it’s so clear that he likes her a lot.

BAILEY: Yeah. The thing is I can understand Veronica’s point of view. But Keith basically made a good point. We’re both adults. And Keith basically needs to start looking out for himself. I know what she said hurt him, but he can’t go on being unhappy and throwing away relationships because his daughter’s not happy, because I don’t think she’s ever gonna be happy.

THEO: Yeah.

BAILEY: No matter who it was. You know?

THEO: Right.

SCARLETT: Even if it was her mom I don’t think she’d be happy.

THEO: No, it’s true.

BAILEY: Yeah. I think she has a very- because of her relationship with her dad she kinda wants him all to herself because she’s very close to him. And I don’t mean it in that weird Freudian way, you know?

THEO: No, I know. Well they’ve only had each other, really.

BAILEY: Exactly.

THEO: So it’s completely normal to be a little jealous of someone moving in because you see that with Keith and Logan I think. And I just- I don’t know. I think the overriding thing of, you know, this is why we hate mom, you know. The whole cheating aspect kind of comes in and kicks in.

BAILEY: Right.

THEO: But I don’t know. Bottom line, do you think he should have left Harmony or do you think he should have stayed and just stood his ground?

[Cameron, the transcriber, cannot believe this line of questioning. There is no middle ground here, especially based on Keith’s entire life history and line of work. Leave the soul-sucking cheater and find a woman who is SINGLE.]

BAILEY: I don’t know. See it’s a very hard thing to talk about because it is a complicated situation.

THEO: Sure.

BAILEY: Yes, he deserves to be happy and it is a good thing. But it is wrong, regardless of the fact that her relationship with her husband is basically nonexistent.

[CAMERON: According to her. The lying, cheating skank.]

THEO: Right.

BAILEY: I think that it should- it shouldn’t have been done in such a final way, maybe, because he does deserve a relationship.

THEO: Right.

BAILEY: But it should have been done in a “Let’s put it on hold until…”

[CAMERON: WHAT? NO! WHAT?]

THEO: I think you’ve said that very well. I would have said the same thing. I think I would have said, you know what? I am interested in having a relationship but that’s not even on the table until you’re a single woman.

BAILEY: Exactly.

THEO: You know. Because you don’t want to be that guy, you know?

BAILEY: No.

THEO: And furthermore if a woman- I’ve always thought, you know, call it the Jerry Springer principle of marriage, but if someone’s going to cheat on their husband with you, then they’re gonna cheat on you with someone else.

BAILEY: Yeah.

THEO: I mean, and I just think that’s bad news for him because even if, you know, now at this point even if he does continue the relationship there is always going to be a trust factor.

BAILEY: Exactly.

THEO: He doesn’t have the sort of basic, you know, she wouldn’t do this, because she has done it. You know? When he gets jealous and when he doesn’t know where she is, let’s say three years down the road if they’re married and happy, you know. He’s never gonna feel that degree of trust that he has in someone that hasn’t cheated on their husband.

BAILEY: Well exactly. And Keith is a marginally jaded person because of his profession and he knows what happens, and he’s seen it all. So there’s gonna be a minimal amount of trust issues, period.

THEO: Right.

BAILEY: But I- I just think- I don’t think it’s the last we’ve seen of her, personally.

THEO: I do not.

BAILEY: Which is a good thing-

BAILEY: Oh I love her.

THEO: What do you think, Scarlett? Right or wrong.

SCARLETT: Right for Keith. Wrong for Harmony. She should have left her husband.

BAILEY: Yup.

THEO: I think that makes sense.

[CAMERON: WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?]

THEO: So I think we are all in agreement.

[Cameron falls into a stroke-induced coma.]

SCARLETT: Yeah. The part of me that was brought up on Just Shoot Me though wants them together.

THEO: I agree. I agree. Those uh, 2:00am reruns of Just Shoot Me have a special place in my heart somewhere.

[Laughter]

THEO: So anyway, moving on. Where are Wallace and Mac? You know, Wallace is on scholarship so he doesn’t have- I mean clearly he doesn’t have a lot of spending money and he gets a hotel room for a week? Hmm.

SCARLETT: Oh no. I want Wallace to stay away forever. I want Piz and Veronica to be roomies forever and ever and ever. And ever. And ever.

THEO: I agree.

[Laughter]

BAILEY: Yes.

THEO: So I’m thinking you like them together. They would make really good roommates though. They really are. They really are.

SCARLETT: They were the most perfect roomies ever. She kicks him out of his bed. Makes him egg sandwiches.

THEO: If you play your cards right: on the floor.

BAILEY: That scene was so great. That scene was so great.

THEO: It was great.

BAILEY: But yeah, I really miss Mac. I’m missing Wallace, but I really miss Mac.

THEO: I miss Mac too.

BAILEY: Because I want to see more of what’s going on. Because we got a taste of it in the first episode, the aftermath of the Cassidy situation. And then it was just kind of like let’s move right along without really digging into it.

THEO: Yeah.

BAILEY: I wanna see more interactions between her and Dick. Yeah. And I just want to dig a little-

[They talk at the same time.]

THEO: Where’s Dick either?

BAILEY: Yeah! Where’s Dick?

THEO: Where’s he gone?

BAILEY: They all ran off together.

THEO: We demand our regular characters back. We demand our regular characters back.

BAILEY: Yeah.

THEO: We want Weevil. We want Mac. We want Dick. We want Wallace. And we want them all on the show.

BAILEY: At the same time.

SCARLETT: At the same time in the same place.

THEO: At the same time in one scene. They should all go bowling together.

BAILEY: Yes!

THEO: We demand it. You know, it was also fun to see Vinnie Van Lowe back again. Getting to see the full effects.

SCARLETT: I love Vinnie.

THEO: I love him too, but you gotta love how ruthless and uh… is it unethical? Yeah, I’d say it was pretty unethical, the Vinnie Van Lowe Special, where he uh, kind of blackmails Keith a little bit.

BAILEY: Vinnie will always have a special place in my heart. He can do no wrong.

THEO: I know.

BAILEY: It’s just we’ve heard about the Vinnie Van Lowe Special. It was really nice to see it in action.

THEO: Yeah. Well you kind of- I kind of saw it coming.

SCARLETT: Oh yeah.

BAILEY: Yeah.

THEO: As soon as he walks in that room with the manila folder you’re like, there are photos in there and you know exactly what’s going on.

SCARLETT: But then he saves Veronica so you know, fair is fair.

THEO: Yeah.

BAILEY: That’s the thing about Vinnie is you can’t hate him even if he acts like a jackass and does everything, because he does- I mean he is unethical and he might not have many morals but he does have some redeeming qualities.

[CAMERON: Wait, are we talking about Vinnie here?]

THEO: Yeah. He does. But I was kind of surprised to see him blackmail Keith. I would think, you know- I would consider it- I think it was more about the leverage to find out where the Fitzpatricks’ money was than getting a quick buck from Keith.

BAILEY: Yeah.

THEO: Because that was clearly what he wanted and he just sort of, you know. You know I’m sure if Keith had been like, listen. She got… I don’t know where she is. Blah, blah, blah. This is where I saw her last. I’m sure he wouldn’t have… I think- I don’t think Vinnie really cares about the money. I think he really cares about finding out where Kendall is and where all the money went.

BAILEY: Yeah.

[CAMERON: Which… will make Vinnie more money. Right?]

THEO: Still. I was kind of disappointed ‘cause I thought he and Keith had a weird buddy system.

BAILEY: A weird repertoire, yeah.

THEO: Yeah.

[They agree with each other a lot.]

BAILEY: Yeah. I was gonna say that.

THEO: Well I beat you to it. Or interrupted you saying it and then took it, I think.

BAILEY: No, that’s okay. I’m glad you took it because I was about to say the completely wrong phrase. I said honesty or something.

THEO: Yeah. It’s alright.

BAILEY: You saved me from making an ass out of myself.

THEO: I am a public service all unto myself, aren’t I? Um. It was also- I was also interested in seeing the um, the aftermath with the cheating, the professor’s cheating thing, where he sort of offers her, offers to give her the FBI internship, basically on a platter. And what really- what really confounded me was that she sort of bristled at it.

BAILEY: Yeah.

THEO: And she sort of got this holier-than-thou, sort of I can’t accept this. This is bribery. I’m like, you IDIOT.

BAILEY: Yeah. No kidding.

THEO: Literally. I was so frustrated. It was like, you complete idiot. Take it and run.

SCARLETT: But to be honest, she’s not really used to authority figures, especially in education, offering her chances without their being some kind of, you know… something in it for them.

THEO: TT.

BAILEY: That’s what I was going to say. I think it was- I don’t want to say it’s a confidence problem but if it was anybody else and the professor had bigged ‘em up from the beginning before anything shady was discovered, they wouldn’t have even thought that this is blackmail. They would have said, yeah. Well he already showed an interest in me. He already wants me to do this. He already wants me to do that. This is obviously the next step.

THEO: Right.

BAILEY: But Veronica automatically goes to that place in saying, okay. This is what he’s doing. She is jaded. She sees that and she doesn’t, you know.

THEO: Yeah.

BAILEY: I don’t know. I would’ve jumped at the chance. I wouldn’t have cared.

THEO: Yeah I wouldn’t have either.

BAILEY: If she wasn’t gonna say anything anyway; I would’ve been like, hey.

THEO: Getting me out of writing a 20-page paper? I would’ve been like, thank you and done!

BAILEY: Yeah.

THEO: And I mean done.

BAILEY: He’s not buying her off if she wasn’t gonna say anything in the first place.

THEO: TT. Yeah. So the interesting- I thought the final term paper was pretty interesting. The uh, 20 pages on the perfect murder.

BAILEY: Yeah.

THEO: I wonder, you know, I wonder what I would have written? Hm. I’m gonna be thinking about that all weekend now.

SCARLETT: Aaron Echolls wouldn’t be getting an A.

[Laughter]

THEO: TT. No. Clearly not. Step number one: Kill Veronica Mars.

[Laughter]

THEO: Sorry. Yeah. I thought that was an interesting premise.

BAILEY: Definitely.

THEO: So I guess we can get to the good part this week. The good part this week was the whole uh, Veronica and Logan sort of revelation of what he did, you know, and at the very end coming to save her from the evil rapist shaver guy.

SCARLETT: That’s the best name ever. That would be a super-villain name.

THEO: Evil rapist shaver guy.

[CAMERON: An evil guy who shaves rapists?]

THEO: You know what? I think we need to challenge the listeners to come up with- remember how we had Mayor McCreepy last year?

BAILEY: Yes.

SCARLETT: Oh yeah.

THEO: We need a nickname. We need a nickname for the rapist shaver guy.

SCARLETT: How are they gonna be evil rapist shaver guy?

THEO: That, my dear Scarlett, is the challenge. I think we’re throwing down the gauntlet here.

BAILEY: That is your challenge.

THEO: We want to hear good names for whoever our evil rapist shaver guy is.

BAILEY: Yes.

SCARLETT: Or girl.

BAILEY: Or girl.

THEO: Yes. Or girl. Or girl. But uh, yeah.

SCARLETT: Who knows?

THEO: Who knows? TT. They could write anything at this point. We’d be like, oh, I never saw it coming. And then we’d get like, 30 emails from people being like, oh my God I wrote this to you like three years ago. Crap.

[Laughter]

THEO: Anyway. So I have to say, I’m really disappointed in the whole Veronica and Logan thing. And I know we’re gonna get tons of hate mail from the lovers out there, but I wanna see Veronica with Piz.

BAILEY: Ah, seconded. Seconded. I so agree.

SCARLETT: NO! No, no, no.

THEO: I know. This needs to be a good discussion because I’m in a lot of trouble.

SCARLETT: No naked roomies.

THEO: Not naked roomies. Just roomies. But I’m okay with the naked roomies. So.

BAILEY: Well the thing is, I’ve always been a Veronica/Logan fan. Always. Through and through. Loved their relationship. I love it whether they’re friends or enemies or together. I just love their chemistry together.

THEO: Mhm.

BAILEY: This season I’m just like, you know, take it or leave it.

THEO: They seem to be butting heads a lot more than they have in the past and that’s not good if they wanna keep this up. Furthermore it’s sort of… how stupid is- and this is really gonna get me in trouble. But how stupid is he to say that to Veronica and not expect her to pull every stop to, to like, find out what he did.

[Noises of agreement.]

THEO: And that- he knows of anyone on the planet, she’s the least likely, she’s the least… she’s the person least likely to not ask questions about something that she’s interested in. And not go far out of her way to find out.

SCARLETT: I think it was sort of a test on his part.

BAILEY: That’s what I was just gonna say. It just occurred to me.

SCARLETT: He really, really, really wants her to trust him though.

THEO: Yeah.

SCARLETT: And he keeps giving her chances. And she keeps kind of knocking them. So I think it was just another of them. He’s just gonna kind of helplessly keep trying.

THEO: Yeah.

BAILEY: Yeah. I think that’s it too-

SCARLETT: But it’s sad!

BAILEY: -but he should just get over it because it’s not gonna happen. I don’t think Veronica’s ever going to completely trust anyone.

THEO: Well why can’t he trust her to tell her and not have her freak out about it?

BAILEY: Exactly.

THEO: Why did he keep this from her? So it shows that in as much as he’s sort of giving her little tests, she’s- I mean he’s not trusting her at the same time. I don’t think.

BAILEY: Well it’s just a really unhealthy relationship, and it’s becoming- I think what it is… even when I was like, oh Veronica/Logan love, dadadadadada-

THEO: Yeah.

BAILEY: -I’ve always been able to recognize that it was not the most healthy relationship out there.

THEO: Yeah.

BAILEY: But I think it’s becoming blatantly obvious this season how unhealthy it is.

THEO: Yeah. Yeah well I should mention first if anyone wants to yell at me for uh, coming out against the whole Veronica/Logan thing, or if they want to submit their idea for a nickname for the Shady McRapesalot or whatever we’re calling him, please do so at the site email.

BAILEY: Send my complaints there too.

THEO: Send my complaints there too. Sandy will be happy to get those and be like, what the hell did you guys do?

[Laughter]

THEO: It’ll be a great little welcome back for her.

BAILEY: No. But I think just what it is basically is that you have Piz and you have Logan, and Logan – love the guy – but he’s acting like an idiot this season.

THEO: Yeah.

BAILEY: And you put them together in the same episode and you can compare them, and you see- and Piz is just I think, at the place Veronica is now, is a much more healthy- it would be a healthier relationship. He’s a better person for her where she is right now.

THEO: Yeah.

BAILEY: Until she can resolve some of her own issues she cannot be with someone who has just as many issues deep or darker, as her.

THEO: Oh I agree. I think so too.

BAILEY: They have more baggage than frickin’ the whole [mumbles]

THEO: Oh God. That’s good. I like that. Do you know who would be good at helping her carry that baggage?

BAILEY: Who?

THEO: Piz. Piz.

BAILEY: That’s what I’m saying!

THEO: I know! You know what? Let’s just leave it there and we’ll take a short little break, and then we’ll come back and we’ll talk about the music since we have Bailey here with us right now.

BAILEY: Ooh!

THEO: That means we finally get to talk to her about the music. I’m very excited. All right. So give us a few minutes and we’ll be right back, Pirates. Thanks for listening.

[Not a musical break!]

[I made this!]

THEO: Okay. Welcome back, everyone. And now this is Theo, and Scarlett is here as well. And we’re being joined by Bailey, live and in person, to talk about the music this week.

SCARLETT: Woohoo!

BAILEY: Yeah. I haven’t been here live for a little while.

THEO: I know. Well I guess we’re not really live.

BAILEY: Semi-live. We’re live to each other.

THEO: You’re here in person. We’re live to each other and you’re here in person.

BAILEY: Well, not really here in person either. If you want to get technical about it.

THEO: You know what? Why don’t you just talk about the music, all right?

[Laughter]

BAILEY: Okay um this week we only had…

[Laughter]

BAILEY: We only had three songs and two of them have been identified. If you happen to know the one that hasn’t been identified, please email me with that information and I will talk about it as soon as I get it. This week the first song that we have that’s been identified, was A Pair of Brown Eyes by the The Pogues. And that is in the scene where crazy girl Meryl talks to Danny at the River Styx bar and there’s that very disturbing scene with Liam and Veronica. It was a really good song, kind of fitting for the scene.

THEO: You know we didn’t mention that scene earlier-

SCARLETT: It was creepy.

THEO: -but I kind of wanted to smack Meryl when she rushed into the River Styx, didn’t you?

BAILEY: Yeah. What an idiot.

THEO: Yeah. I just wanted to be like, she just told you not to do this. I wouldn’t have gone in after her. I would have been like, bye. Enjoy your abduction or whatever they’re gonna do to you.

BAILEY: Well that scene was really disturbing for me to watch with Liam and Veronica. It was just so creepy to me. I was like, that’s not… not a good thing.

THEO: That’s not good.

BAILEY: No. Um. The next song is the song at the cafeteria as Veronica’s getting drugged, which we all kind of… it was hinted- it was definitely foreshadowed with the close shot of the glass as she got up to fix her food.

THEO: Yeah.

BAILEY: But um, this song is by Shapes of Racecars, and it’s called Captain. And you can hear it at their MySpace, which is www.myspace[dot]com/shapesofracecars. It’s an excellent song.

THEO: Very good. And what was the unknown song? Which scene was that in?

BAILEY: Okay. It was the first song that we heard this week and again, it’s where Meryl and Veronica are in the cafeteria to find Scarlett, and not our very own Scottish Scarlett but the trampy one.

SCARLETT: Ooh!

THEO: I know. I know. I was so- I think that’s a clear shout-out. Don’t you?

BAILEY: Oh, totally.

THEO: Scarlett. You should be honored.

SCARLETT: I am. I am. I am.

THEO: And not only that, but you have been defended. Your virtue has been defended.

SCARLETT: It has. No trampy Scarlett.

THEO: I know. That’s right. None of that for us, please. And maybe this time, I just have to say; I’m waiting for my shout-out. And I think Sandy and Bailey are also waiting for theirs. So. If anyone sees a character in an upcoming episode named Theo, Bailey, or Sandy, we will be jumping up and down somewhere.

BAILEY: Yes.

THEO: Anyway. All right. So is that it for the music this week?

BAILEY: That is it.

THEO: Excellent. Well, we are gonna take another short, short break and come back, and when we do I’ll reveal the identity of the mystery suspect that was not on the list last week, and I’ve been getting emails about. So uh, stick around. We’ll be back in a few minutes.

[Cameron loves the musical breaks. Bailey is verbose.]

[Upside Down by Bob Gentry]

[These great song choices redeem Bailey again.]

BAILEY: Okay, Pirates. We’re back. And Theo! Now you need to tell us the person who you left off. Bad, bad, bad Theo!

THEO: I will. I wanted to thank some people by name, but then I started getting like, dozens of emails with the same thing like, berating me. So you know what? I just wanna thank everyone that wrote in and suggested that I was an idiot for having forgotten Mo the R.A. Apparently I did not mention him last week even though I thought about him and he was on my little list. In fact, I have a copy of my little list here and at the very bottom it says “Mo the R.A.” question mark, question mark.

BAILEY: Uh huh. He wrote that in about five minutes ago.

THEO: I did and you can’t prove it.

BAILEY: How could you leave off the creepiest character that you’ve been introduced to this season, Theo?

THEO: Well I thought he’d been exonerated or sort of cleared from everything at the end of My Big Fat Greek Rush Week. But then I realized he didn’t.

BAILEY: Nobody is ever exonerated on VM.

THEO: That’s so true. And then people started writing in and asking me, how could you not have thought this? And it makes so much sense because I don’t understand what his deal with the tea is.

[Laughter]

THEO: He keeps on offering- and I thought it was just a little quirk. But then I realized in Neptune there are no quirks. You know? There’s nothing random. There is, you know- he’s been in more episodes than Mac has this season so far.

BAILEY: Yes.

THEO: Hm. Very interesting. And I just think that it’s sort of a little fishy the way he acts. Then again, we found out this week he has keys to all the rooms.

BAILEY: They made a point of, of um, Veronica asking, you have keys to all these rooms?

THEO: Absolutely. And he said, yes. Every R.A. does. And I’m like, aha. That explains a lot. So I think that he is clearly at the top of my list.

SCARLETT: So he’s drugging tea?

THEO: He could be. I think that’s one of the things we have to think about. And um-

BAILEY: Come to my room for a little Earl Grey.

THEO: I mean I’d hate to like… I’d hate to like, reveal this and then either be completely wrong or really right.

BAILEY: Yeah.

THEO: But you know he gives the girls a ride home, and maybe not even, you know, maybe on the way home they’re too drunk to realize he’s offering them some tea. Maybe he says it’s, you know, this will help avoid a hangover.

BAILEY: Sober you up.

THEO: Sober you up or even it’ll help you avoid a hangover. And God knows I’ve been so inebriated sometimes I will drink anything to avoid a hangover. And uh, you know so they take a sip and it’s laced with the date rape drug. And you know he doesn’t even have to follow them in. He can just sort of wait until his shift’s over so he has an alibi, and then sneak back into the room with the key he has.

SCARLETT: And I guess the key he could’ve used to set up Mercer.

THEO: Yeah.

SCARLETT: He could’ve put in like, the GHB.

THEO: Someone actually pointed out though, how would he get it into the safety deposit box? Or not the safety- the safe. The safe in the gaming room. You know, how would he have actually gotten into that. So I don’t really know if that explains that, but maybe Mercer just, you know, had some GHB lying around. Who knows?

BAILEY: Yeah.

THEO: I think that’s definitely a good point, Scarlett.

SCARLETT: Hm.

THEO: Anyway. So did anybody else have any ideas of who they think the rapist shaver guy could be?

BAILEY: I think evil raper shaver guy- raper, what is his name?

THEO: Yeah. Yeah. You know what? You make up a new name whenever you want ‘cause at this point it’s just sort of a free-flowing line of thought.

BAILEY: I’m gonna call him ERSG.

THEO: Evil raper shaver guy. I like it. ERSG. Got it.

BAILEY: Ersg? Ersg? I think Ersg-

THEO: Can we just call him Gary?

[Laughter]

SCARLETT: Yeah. Okay.

THEO: That’s an evil-sounding name isn’t it?

SCARLETT: Gary.

BAILEY: Oh, Gary.

SCARLETT: You’re gonna get hate mail from people called Gary now.

THEO: Aren’t I though? Bring it. Bring it on.

SCARLETT: Hey, Theo. Are you calling me a rapist?

THEO: I’m calling you an evil rapist shaver guy. That’s right.

BAILEY: I think Gary is another R.A. that we haven’t met yet.

THEO: Yeah.

BAILEY: Maybe.

THEO: That could be it. That’s a good point. That’s a very good idea. The point was um, that all the R.A.’s have keys.

BAILEY: Yeah.

THEO: And I can’t really see… well, I suppose. You know another idea that’s been pointed out is maybe it’s more than one person.

BAILEY: Could very well be.

THEO: Maybe it’s two people working in concert, or maybe even more than that. Maybe there’s a group of people.

BAILEY: Copycats.

THEO: It could be copycats. That’s so true.

BAILEY: It could be. I think- I’m thinking that it’s… I want, I don’t know. I want to think that it’s not a student. Like, I think that I’m getting this feeling that it’s not a student at the school.

THEO: So you think it’s-

BAILEY: It could be a student from somewhere else but I-

THEO: So you don’t think it’s a student.

BAILEY: At Hearst.

THEO: It could be the professor or the Dean, even.

BAILEY: Yes. It could be the professors. It could be the Dean. It could be someone that we haven’t met yet that doesn’t go to Hearst. I don’t know.

THEO: Yeah.

BAILEY: I don’t know.

THEO: I don’t either. It’s all up in the air right now. But we’ve only got, I think it’s two more episodes until we find out, so.

BAILEY: Isn’t that crazy? I keep forgetting that.

THEO: I know. I kind of like that.

SCARLETT: I know, rather than the whole 22.

THEO: Yeah. It develops quickly. And it’s sort of- I remember in the last two seasons there were whole episodes that didn’t really advance the uh, the big overarching mystery. I kind of like it that this one is sort of forced to move a little quicker.

BAILEY: Yeah. Well because some mysteries deserve more time than others.

THEO: Yeah.

BAILEY: And some mysteries would be dragged out if they were forced to drag it out for the whole season and it would get tedious.

THEO: Yeah I agree.

SCARLETT: Not last year. God.

THEO: Yeah.

BAILEY: I want to know if in these last two episodes we’re gonna get introduced to the next mystery or it’s going to come up in the first episode of the new arc.

THEO: I believe I read somewhere, and I don’t think this is gonna be- I think we find out what it is in the last episode of this arc. But it’s not gonna be something-

SCARLETT: That would seem more free flowing, you know?

THEO: Yeah.

SCARLETT: It would go better.

BAILEY: Yeah.

THEO: And I think it’s sort of- it’s gonna be sort of a teaser for it. You know how we have the season ending cliffhangers that, you know, you have to wait until next season to find out more about this event?

BAILEY: Right.

THEO: I think it’s gonna be like that. But fortunately we only have to wait a few weeks. So.

BAILEY: Yeah.

SCARLETT: Excellent.

THEO: Well. I think that wraps it up for my Theo Investigates segment this week. I want to thank everyone that sent mail. Remember if you have any more ideas about who Gary, our evil rapist shaver guy is, please email me.

BAILEY: Yes.

THEO: All right. So we’re gonna have one last break and then we’ll say our goodbyes for the week. So stick around.

[Not musical! Sort of.]

[Many changing channels of radio static and songs. Kyle Gallner greeting.]

THEO: Welcome back, Pirates, and thanks for listening to another podcast. Join us next week. We’ll have another one for you, and this is Scarlett with your inspirational message.

SCARLETT: No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is suppose that they are like himself. –John Steinbeck

SCARLETT: See you Pirates.

BAILEY: Bye!

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