The criminology professor doesn't seem to be in the IMDB credits. Huh.

Read back through the thread, and thought some more about the episode.

I thought Dick's "I messed up" was kind of meta. At least that's the way I read it. Yeah, he possibly said it because of something he'd done that night, but also that he'd fucked up with Cassidy, as well as his life in general.

I'm not buying Dick as a suspect for the rapes. I suppose he could have been hanging around the Hearst campus last year, but why? Also, Dick is lazy. He may be an opportunist when it comes to sex, but I kind of don't see him as even motivated enough to roofie all those girls, and then shave their heads. Why would he? (Unless, of course, Dick turns out to have uncharted depths -- or shallows -- the way Cassidy did.)

I'm also not buying Piz as a love interest for Veronica, at least not from her perspective. I can buy him falling hard for her, and maybe pursuing it past when he should get the "not interested" message, and thereby causing conflict, but them together? No. Just...no.

The more I thought about the Keith/Kendall/Cormac thing, the more confused I got. And then I got pissed off. I don't get it. I love Keith. But like Teppy said, that storyline needs to be over.

Reading back through the comments before the broadcast...who was the TA? Why was he wearing a wig?

I thought Dick's "I messed up" was kind of meta. At least that's the way I read it. Yeah, he possibly said it because of something he'd done that night, but also that he'd fucked up with Cassidy, as well as his life in general.

Totally. Also agree that I don't see Dick being motivated enough, or frankly, smart enough.

Concur, with the "Waitaminnit, if it were Dick, he would have been caught by now." The shavey-rapist has forethought and planning, which Dick really really does not.

I don't think Piz is going to turn Veronica's head. I think he's going to pine for Veronica while Mac deals with the whole "my last boyfriend was a psycho!" stuff.

Also, I want to know what the deal is with his name being Piz. What is that short for??

I've decided it's short for Pizanski.

Don't know why.

Also the hackeysack scene had me laughing LIKE A LOON.

"It's a white man's game."

Heeee. I think it's "sport," but I loved that scene as well.

I've decided it's short for Pizanski.

Don't know why.

It's short for Piznarski. He's named after the director of the pilot, Mark Piznarski.

Reading back through the comments before the broadcast...who was the TA? Why was he wearing a wig?

The TA is played by James Jordan, who played Lucky. I knew they were bringing him back because Rob was so impressed with his acting skillz, so I immediately recognized all the hair as a disguise.

Oh, I thought people were implying Lucky was the professor...or something. That wig needs to go; he looks nast.

So I was close, in that it begins with a Piz has an n and a k and ends in i.

The rapes started the previous year. So I always assumed a college student (or students) was doing them the whole time. Which would probably leave Dick out of it.

I would think even if Dick did this one he wasn't last year's rapist.