[Takes place during S1E2 The Dark Road]
Vic was fuming. Ordered to check fingerprints while Walt took Branch with him back to the strip club with the parting shot that Oden had seen enough of her for one day! Was he ashamed of her and how she got Davis Turner's name? Walt had an old-fashioned sense of propriety but he wasn't prudish. Anyone in law enforcement saw too much of the dark side of life to be easily shocked.
Vic had the impression that Walt enjoyed her sometimes provocative conversation. On their way to Oden the first time, after calculating how much money she could be making as a stripper, she'd joked about being able to dance and that she had a nice ass. She'd thought he was amused, not embarrassed. Had she got that wrong and this was his way of punishing her? She didn't think so, but what the hell was going on?
She hadn't minded Branch telling the rest of the office; it was a funny story and he told it well. Coming from her it would have sounded pretentious even though all she had done was take off her jacket and uniform shirt and swing around the pole a few times. She was wearing a tank top under the shirt so her bra hadn't even been on display. If Walt had been there he would have seen that it wasn't a big deal. A thought tickled Vic's mind: maybe he was sorry that he missed the show.
Walt wasn't sure why he had been unreasonably irritated when Branch told how Vic got the name at the strip club. He thought strip clubs were sleazy and exploitive but that was a personal opinion, not a moral judgment that everybody involved was going to hell. He knew Vic was wearing a top under her uniform shirt so no one had seen anything and it didn't sound like her moves had been very suggestive. The patrons wouldn't have expected her to go any further; it was a playful way to make it all right for someone to give up the name. Maybe some wish fulfillment on Vic's part as well, based on her talk while they drove to Oden the first time. He'd been a little uncomfortable listening because he started picturing it and those were not images a widowed sheriff of 49 should have about his 33 year-old married deputy.
Still, he wished he had seen the actual performance.