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Ever wondered why Lamb says, "Go see the wizard, ask him for…." Here's my take.
The first time he'd said it was after Veronica's school production of 'The Wizard Of Oz.' She'd been Dorothy. Lamb, Keith, Cliff and Lianne had sat in the front row, cheering like lunatics. They hadn't known, but Jake had been there too, sitting in the back, watching the girl who may be his daughter. As he watched the blonde recite her lines and the group at the front whooping at the front he fully understood that even if Veronica was his daughter, he wasn't her family. After the play, Lianne, Keith and Lamb had taken Veronica to the nearby diner for ice cream. Veronica had been more than happy with that, and Lamb had even dared her to wear the Dorothy costume for the rest of the night- which she did. It was so bizarre to look down and see Veronica Mars wearing a dress, with pigtails in her hair. Back then, Veronica Mars was the name attached to the young tomboy. Occasionally she would wear pink, but only out of respect for her mother, whose presents were always girly. Lianne knew that tomboys were not treated well and she wanted people to like her daughter. Veronica scoffed down her ice cream and when everyone was done, Lianne suggested that they all go shopping. Being a Friday night, the shops were open late. Keith reluctantly agreed, and Lamb would much rather shop with this family then go home, so they headed off to the nearby mall. Veronica whispered to Lamb. "I just want to go home, how can I get out of this?" Lamb looked at her in her cute outfit and chuckled.
"Why don't you go see the wizard, ask him for an excuse?" He walked off laughing as Veronica glared evilly at the deputy. He turned back around. "Or maybe just click your heels three times and say 'there's no place like home.'" Veronica slugged him in the arm but laughed slightly. It was their own personal joke for a while, something only they used. But things, as we all know, change.
"I'll tell you what Veronica Mars, why don't you go see the wizard, ask him for a little back bone?" Things certainly change and people change with them. Lamb used that quote constantly. It was almost his motto. He never asked himself why he was so obsessed with saying that. He didn't want the flow of memories that arrived with those words. At least he thought he didn't. The first time he said those words in a cruel way was the day Veronica arrived at the station in her god-damn white dress. He said it then to be mean, because he knew that it was their thing. It was their joke, something they laughed at. It was his own way of laughing at her. From then on the saying stuck. It was a reminder of sort. A reminder of how friends can become enemies, how good times can become tainted, and how things change. It was his own way of never forgetting, both the good and the bad.
When Wallace said, "…He told me you were the only Sheriff in America that he considers a true friend of Dorothy" Lamb wasn't even thinking about how the kid had just implied he was gay, he looked at Veronica and saw it in her eyes she was thinking the same as him. And he was thinking back to that day, when she was Dorothy and he was her friend.
The photo taken on the night of the play still sits in his desk. He looks at it often, and whenever he does he asks himself – 'Why don't I go see the wizard, ask him for a brain, a heart, courage, and to go home.' Home was the Mars house with the Mars family, it was the closest thing he'd ever felt to content – when he'd been there, with them. He needed a brain to think things through. A heart to plug the emptiness. And courage to admit he was wrong, and he's sorry. He needed to see the wizard.