Andrea. There's a big press gathering outside the academy, and Andrea's there, writing "Look Stern" into her tiny notebook. She watches McPointy call Fearless over for the walk-and-talk we saw earlier. Andrea can somehow hear their conversation, and writes down that everyone liked Joy, and that she didn't have any enemies. Then two girls walk past McPointy and Fearless, toward Andrea. Somehow, Andrea knows that if she follows these girls, she'll find out even more about Joy. So she does.
Coffee shop. Andrea pretends to spill some coffee so she can bum napkins from the prep girls' table. As she does, she lies that she used to attend the school. She makes small talk about one of the teachers, and then asks the girls if they knew the girl who died. The girls lie awkwardly, and the blonde insinuates that Joy knew what she was getting into. Apparently she was "freaky" and "not too shy." The redhead is more awkward, so Andrea moves in for the kill (heh), slipping her card, fessing up her identity, and asking the redhead to call her and tell her everything. Those high-school girls? Let's just say their combined age was something around forty-seven. Now it sounds like her name was Joey. It's really hard to tell what these actors are saying sometimes, and I shouldn't have to used closed captioning just to know everyone's names. Andrea gives that bullshit line about how she just wants to tell the victim's story, but she's not around to "give her side." What is wrong with this show? What happened? "Do you have email?" the redhead asks, sounding like a come-on.
McPointy's boxing in his office, yelling into his cell phone, not bothering to take off his jacket before his sweaty workout. What day is it? Andrea walks in and awkwardly asks, "Can I talk to you?" McPointy hangs up the phone and quips, "For someone who's lost interest, you can't seem to stay away from me." Can you just focus on work for one second in your life, McPointy? It's really annoying, the way your dick talks constantly. Andrea walks over to McPointy's laptop while commenting that she can't stop looking at those three-car pile-ups on the 405, either. "May I?" she asks, as she sexily pulls back her hair before pulling up the porn site, as McPointy makes that same porn-site joke. This time, we see more of the sex file, enough to see that Andrea has downloaded the .mpeg to the laptop (that's some kind of T1 connection, right there). The file is named: "love_you_long_time.mpg". If you watch the window at the bottom of the screen, you can see that it's about four seconds long, and we just keep seeing the same footage looped. They're not even naked. It's hardly scandalous, anyway. McPointy asks why Andrea's showing this "jewel" to him. Andrea says she thought he'd like a heads-up. McPointy thanks her and gets on the phone to call the cops. Andrea asks why he's not running it past Fisher first, since Fisher's his boss and gets major cash from Berman Sr. McPointy hangs up the phone and points: "Look, I don't answer to Fisher and I sure as hell don't answer to Berman. I answer to the people of Los Angeles." Andrea doesn't believe him. McPointy asks if that was too noble. He sighs and says he doesn't like Berman or his lying kid. He says Zach Berman said he didn't know Jo(e)y, but from the looks of it, it seems they knew each other "pretty damn well." If you're going to repeat lines, why choose the bad ones? Andrea stands in front of a picture of President Clinton and says, "I thought you were going to ask me to sit on it." Luckily, she leaves and we fade to black before McPointy can show her what he'd really like her to sit on.









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