Veronica is driving and Meryl is holding the tracker as Veronica tells her that there was a lot of activity on Sully's credit cards the night before, and that they were all in service of various vices. Meryl says that at least Sully's okay, but her tone suggests she's finally stepping out of her Voltaire paperback. They get to their destination, which is...the River Stix. Niiiice, and scary. Veronica brazenly makes a Casablanca reference, which I don't really buy given everything she's been through with the Fitzpatricks. Meryl starts to get out of the car, but Veronica stops her and says that they'll call the sheriff. Meryl asks whether she means the moron. Veronica: "He's a well-armed moron." Hee. Meryl, however, takes the opportunity afforded by Veronica's being on the phone to run out of the car and into the bar. Veronica: "Oh, crap." In deference to the fact that, as your line reminds me, this is network TV, Veronica: no effing kidding.
Inside, Meryl is describing Sully to...Danny Boyd. This is not good. Veronica bustles in and tries to get Meryl out of there without drawing attention to them, but Danny recognizes her: "You're Keith Mars's little girl." When Veronica has time, she'll probably ponder the irony that being Keith's daughter got her into mortal peril right at a time when she would happily have disclaimed her relation to him. Danny asks why she thinks "Billy Sullivan" was there, and seeing Danny resting against several cases of beer, Veronica snaps, "You're sitting on it, Potsie." Hee. Between the Horshack and the Potsie, we're building up the hit parade of '70s TV. Which makes me realize that I could definitely see Veronica on The Mod Squad. Anyway, Veronica calls Sully's cell phone, which rings very nearby, so she's proven that Sully was in fact in the bar! Unfortunately, she's also proven that she forgot why she wanted to get out of there so quickly in the first place, so it's nice of Liam to grab her in a bear hug from behind and remind her. Meryl looks scared for the first time as Liam lurches around the bar while seemingly drunkenly but nonetheless menacingly keeping hold of Veronica, and Meryl even grabs a bottle with the intent of breaking it over Liam's head until Danny stops her. Just as well -- I bet that's happened to him a million times before. There's so much scar tissue up top that a hungry mosquito landing on his head would be like, "Is this a joke?" However, someone drunkenly shambles toward them and takes their picture on a camera phone, and as he slurs, "Say cheese!," we see it's Vinnie. Awesome. He tells Liam that Keith is going to love the email, which is enough to cause Liam to release Veronica and back away. So Vinnie is feigning misguided drunken sycophantic horseplay here, just in case it's unclear why Liam didn't kick his ass. Veronica and Meryl hustle out...













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