Good god, shrift, that sounds like a nightmare.

What's worse is that I had to take 10 minutes before the form to "talk about what I do."

And why is it that every single time I take five minutes to scarf down lunch at my desk, someone snippily calls me with a request that I probably can't charge for and will take five hours of searching to figure out?

I was a little pissier on the phone just now than I should have been.

Brilliant. If the weather wasn't so spectacularly beautiful today, I'd call for a do-over.

Sorry, wrong Tom!

I meant that obviously, Weevil knew who was throwing the game, but not necessarily how it was going to be thrown this time around.

Also, Project Trainwreck: do you think that they're going to fire him? And Navi Rawat !!!

JZ, if you're around, the Quaker romance I cited is Laura Kinsale's Flowers From The Storm.

Aurelia, if you're around, insent to your aol account re: TAR!

No, Weevil doesn't make money if the game doesn't go as planned. He'll lose big, and that's what started Veronica's suspicion. I just thought he came off as more innocent than he actually was. Of course, it might just have been a charade to keep Veronica happy -- he's a bright enough guy. It'd take him about ten minutes to work out why and who. The stuff about the mascot-napping was public news, as was, I thought, the ultimatum.

No, Weevil doesn't make money if the game doesn't go as planned.

Yes, he will. Presumably, everybody who bet on Neptune (at advantageous odds) was enough to balance out the big bet against Neptune that the cheater made. All Weevil has to do is pay out the bets (minus his commission). He's just a broker.

Plus the penguin is wearing sunglasses.

So we need to call you tommyrot tomorrow then, eh?

Didn't Veronica suspect Weevil in the first place because the odds/line/betting structure didn't make sense unless the game turned out one specific way? If that's not true, why did she go to him?

I may be vague on some of the details, because it's been a couple weeks since I saw it, but I thought it was a key point of her investigation.

There were a lot of people with potential motives in the episode. The odds didn't make sense unless the game was fixed, but Weevil didn't fix the game, and he didn't throw off the odds.

Besides, if Weevil WERE the one who was fixing the game, he would have come up with a better plan than stealing a mascott and/or relying on a benchwarmer to throw the game.

Tell me a Buffista got laid while I was away.

How long were you away, I sorta just got back myself.

The answer, however, is probably "YES! So very very VERY laid."