If you must surf the internet at work, don’t get caught.

IF???

If you do get caught, don’t let it be while reading Wikipedia on Chlamydia: Symptoms.

Oh, as usual, dear.

Maybe we can exclude Meg, who, when you've spent 5 months in a hospital with doctors all up in your business, you'd think they would have noticed.

I hadn't thought about that, but with Coma!Baby on the way that's probably right.

If you do get caught, don’t let it be while reading Wikipedia on Chlamydia: Symptoms.

Good to know. I was just about to go there.

So, if Chlamydia doesn't always show up in an obvious way, we can get Meg back in the mix.

Working backwards, I lay money on the chain being Veronica - Duncan - Meg - Lucky - Woody.

With an option to add Deputy Sax and Vinnie van "how low can you go" Lowe in there as the plot demands.

Chlamydia is known as the big silent STD. Way more than half the infected women are without symptoms, and about half the men as well. It's not uncommon for a woman to present years after the infection with an infertility problem and find that the pelvic inflammatory disease from Chlamydia was the culprit, for example. So, Duncan could have easily contracted the infection from Meg last season and passed it on to Veronica when they were sleeping together early this season.

Also, put me in the camp that thinks that Woody looks way too guilty. He's a bad guy, but I don't think he's THE bad guy. If he was involved in the crash, I'm gonna take a guess that it was inadvertantly (minion or associate acting independently) or tangentially (he, through Gia, was a target).

I was calling Aaron by this point last year, but I don't think he looked quite as guilty as Woody does. Plus if it is Woody who's the ultimate big bad, then we're going to all be putting our kittens on Judd Nelson (thank you random 80's icon generator) as the guilty party next year when he turns up as Veronica's college professor.

Ellen! So good to see you here.

Could Woody have given Chlamydia to Lucky to make the Lucky->Meghan->Duncan->Veronica chain even more disturbing?

If he was involved in the crash, I'm gonna take a guess that it was inadvertantly (minion or associate acting independently) or tangentially (he, through Gia, was a target)

I like that. It would be tragic and godawful if the culprit was one of Woody's victims, someone who's been so damaged and furious and vent on payback that he just wanted to lash back and hurt Woody through killing Gia, and damn the consequences. That'd make a nice parallel with Weevil's storyline, re. the price of vengeance. And if I'm continuing with that particular train of thought, the only potential suspect with that particular motive, enough brains to carry it off, and the requisite amount of screentime this season, would be Beaver.

But I LIKE Beaver, damnit! OK, someone talk me out of my theory. (But dude, this is the kind of outcome that'd actually have me majorly emotionally involved in the whole proceedings.)

But I LIKE Beaver, damnit! OK, someone talk me out of my theory.

No way. I've been on the "Beaver done it" train since "Ain't no magic mountain..."

I've been on the "Beaver done it" train since "Ain't no magic mountain..."

That is the one episode I missed this season. I saw only the tail end, with Logan and Hannah.

Since Chlamydia is the leading (preventable) cause of blindness, it’s obvious that Duncan got it from making sweet love with the woman who owned the green car (because the Fitzpatrics have to be involved in even the Chlamydia plotline). They had a bond because he didn’t always feel like she was judging his Argyll sweater-vests.

HEE! Ellen funny.

Chlamydia is known as the big silent STD. Way more than half the infected women are without symptoms, and about half the men as well.

What Vonnie said, though IIRC, it's one of the things they screen for at your first pre-natal exam, so Meg would have/should have been screened. But that's me applying reality to TV pregnancy, and really, I should have learned my lesson from Scully and the Alien Miracle Baby.

(Also, with Lucky, don't they screen you in the military? Or is that just when you sign up/once a year/whenever.)

(Which should still exclude Woody as the root of the not a flower chain.)