ORBzine - Veronica Mars TV Review
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Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 1]
Pilot
Shown 8th January 2006 [Sunday]
This is a very impressive intro into a hot new series. It fills the void left by Buffy - a smart, tough teenage girl in modern-day California. She's not a Slayer, but a part-time Private Eye [she helps her dad out]. Kristen Bell [most notable for a memorable 2-ep role in Deadwood] decried the lack of strong female roles when she took the job - hmm ... Alias, Buffy, Charmed, Dark Angel ... Xena ?
Veronica is a schoolgirl - the actress is 25, acting 10 years younger, but that's standard in the US TV industry. And anyway, she's so short she looks the part.
She's too mature, though. I mean, Veronica spends the ep getting petty revenge on people who dissed her [latino biker kids, the rich asshole of a school bully and the scumbag redneck sheriff] ... but she's too mature, too smart and well-adjusted for a teenage girl.
The plot is great, though. Not only do we meet the main characters, but we get a glimpse of a plot arc. Daddy lost his job as sheriff for apparently bungling a murder investigation. However, it might be safe to assume that the afforementioned redneck lawman framed an innocent man, who is currently on Death Row ...
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 2]
Credit Where Credit's Due
Shown 15th January 2006 [Sunday]
The school bully faces off with the biker thug. The sheriff is on interested in confiscating their beer so hecan hold a party with it. However, the latino house-keeper grandma is busted for credit card fraud, and it looks like the biker grandson is responsible.
Veronica is hired to clear granny's name, even if it means her biker acquaintance gets jailed. She has other issues to deal with - the new boy takes an interest in her, but his best buddy [her ex] wants her too.
Paris Hilton guest-stars as a spoilt rich-bitch. Not exactly acting, is it? Though she's more realistic here than in The Simple Life.
Veronica discovers an interesting fact about her best pal's murder. The sheriff may know what she is up to ...
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 3]
Meet John Smith
Shown 22nd January 2006 [Sunday]
Veronica is hired by one of the nerds at her school to find his missing father, the John Smith of the title. This resonates with her own runaway mother.
The ex-BF, under pressure from his pushy dad [Kyle Secor - Philly] secretly goes off his meds. Not only does he get self-destructively jealous when he sees Veronica hotting up with his buddy, he also halucinates about his dead sister.
Veronica's dad seems to be hotting up for the school guidance counsellor lady. She looks a bit young for him, but who cares?
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 4]
The Wrath of Con
Shown 29th January 2006 [Sunday]
The token black guy's girlfriend was conned out of 3,000 dollars. Veronica goes undercover, in some sexy disguises, to out-con the con-men. And unlike Syd in Alias , she kinda pulls it off!
Since her new BF has asked her to the Homecoming Dance, Veronica has flashbacks to last year's one. She video'd herself, Lilly, Duncan and Logan on their night out together. Which coms in useful, since Loganb is compiling a memorial video for Lilly.
Not only do we get more of Lilly, but we begin to see Logan's human side. Also, we get a hint about Weevil's role in their past.
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 5]
You Think You Know Somebody
Shown February 2006 [Sunday]
Veronica's BF, her arch-enemy Logan and a third guy take a trip to Mexico. On their way back, the car gets stolen. They hire Veronica to steal it back.
Turns out the BF has something to hide.
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 6]
Return of the Kane
Shown 24th February 2006 [Saturday]
Veronica's fellow outsider-girl runs for Student President. Her ex-BF runs too, put up to it by his selfish buddy Logan. Veronica suspects there has been vote-tampering.
Logan has problems of his own. His new sport, bum-fighting, has led to public embarassment for his family. His dad, an apparent nice-guy Hollywood actor, is Harry Hamlin [ Clash of the Titans ]. And it's a mark of the show's greatness that Hamlin, excellent as always, does not manage to entirely steal the show.
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 7]
The Girl Next Door
Shown 4th March 2006 [Saturday]
The ep starts with an ambulance crew stretchering an injured person from the apartment upstairs from Veronica and her dad. She blames herself. The rest of the ep is shown in flashback.
Veronica is worried about the girl living upstairs from her. The girl's pregnant, fights with her boyfriend, and is alarmed when she hears her parents are coming to visit. Then she disappears ...
Veronica gets some business for her dad. She even does most of the work for him. But she misses the most blatantly obvious clues!
Veronica also discovers that her MIA mother was the GF of the father of Veronica's ex-BF.
Meanwhile, rival thugs Logan and Weevil get put in detention together. They start to bond. Logan's not such a bad guy. And they have someone in common, though Weevil makes sure not to say that.
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 8]
Like a Virgin
Shown 11th March 2006 [Saturday]
Veronica is on the receiving end of the school's female bully. Logan's nowhere to be seen, but she's an 09er like him.
Someone posts a Purity Test on-line, and everyone at school does it. Then someone leaks the supposedly confidential results. Veronica gets hired to find out who did the dirty deed.
Veronica's dad helps her buddy's single mom evict an irritating lawyer.
Veronica manages to visit the death-row convict. He's a cross between Philip Seymour Hoffman and Hannibal , and he manages to impart some scary info to her!
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 9]
Drinking the Kool-Aid
Shown 18th March 2006 [Saturday]
Veronica is hired to go undercover at a hippy cult that a classmate has joined. The regular school chums - Logan, Weevil and so on - are strangely absent.
The hippies seem like OK people. The kid's actual relatives, OTOH, are money-grubbing types.
The subtext, naturally, concerns Veronica's own parentage. Will she open the DNA test results, to face the possibility that Kyle Secor might be her real dad?
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 10]
An Echolls Family Christmas
Shown 25th March 2006 [Saturday]
Mr Mars is hired by Logan Echolls' mother. Someone is stalking Echolls Senior [Harry Hamlin].
Veronica volunteers her services to discover who stole the cash from a 5k-USD poker match. Weevil won, but took Veronica's ex-BF's Laptop as compensation. And since the laptop has intimate info about her on it, she works for free to get it back!
The cases come together at the Echolls Annual Xmas Do. Veronica makes the guys play another hi-stakes Poker game ...
Veronica corners Kyle Secor with her info on him, but it's more complex than she thought.
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 11]
Silence of the Lamb
Shown 1st April 2006 [Saturday]
There's a serial killer on the loose. The Mayor is so worried, he hires Mr Mars to help the Sheriff's Department.
Veronica starts a business checking up on the parents of teenagers. But when she dishes the dirt on a schoolmate's fossils, she discovers that the schoolmate was swopped at birth!
As the schoolmate wrestles with the fact that she should have a different family, this is mirrored by Veronica's suspicions that she is not a blood relative of the man she has always regarded as her father.
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 12]
Clash of the Tritons
Shown 8th April 2006 [Saturday]
Veronica is framed for selling fake IDs at school- a grade 2 felony. She investigates a secret society callled The Tritons. her ex-BF is a pledge member!
Veronica spies on the School Guidance counsellor, bugging the office. She listens in on confidential confessions from Weevil, Logan and Duncan. Nice exposition of their arcs, delivering to her what we the viewers have picked up over the last 12 eps. This leaves more unanswered questions - what are Duncan's pills for?
Logan's life is screwed up as ever, thanks to the events of An Echolls Family Christmas . His dad's being bad-mouthed in the tabloids. Harry Hamlin guest-stars, ironic since the title is a pun on his most famous film, Clash of the Titans .
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 13]
Lord of the Bling
Shown 15th April 2006 [Saturday]
Hip-Hop music producer Anthony Andrews [ Kangaroo Jack ] discovers that his daughter Yolanda is missing, so he hires Mr Mars to get her back.
Veronica remembers the good old days. She and Lilly Kane used to hang out with Yolanda. Until Veronica saw Logan kiss Yolanda at a party ...
Logan is under a lot of stress. His mother's car was found abandoned at the end of the last ep, just as Yolanda's was in this ep. And everyone writes Mrs Echolls off as dead. They even have a funeral for her, without a body.
Logan tends to be whiny and self-pitying. If we didn't know what a scumbag his dad [Harry Hamlin] is, we might easily side against him.
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 14]
Mars vs. Mars
Shown 22nd April 2006 [Saturday]
Veronica's favourite teacher is accused to screwing the school's scheming bitch. Veronica takes the case on its merits - she likes one, hates the other.
Unfortunately, Mr Mars is hired to investigate the Teacher. Now, Veronica must outsmart daddy.
As always, the case isn't automatically open and shut. Veronica loves to get petty revenge on people she takes a dislike to, even if her victim has a young child to support.
Logan asks Veronica to help him find his mother. Weevil helps out.
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 15]
Ruskie Business
Shown 29th April 2006 [Saturday]
Veronica helps a Russian Mail-Order Bride find her missing fiance. Missing persons and soul-mates is the theme of the ep.
Veronica helps a skool-pal, Meg, find out who her mystery Valentine is. And the deputy is still interested in her, jailbait though she is.
Someone's using Mrs Echoll's credit cards. Alyson Hannigan guest-stars as Logan's bitchy step-sister.
Veronica discovers her mother. This might not be a good thing ...
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 16]
Betty and Veronica
Shown 6th May 2006 [Saturday]
Veronica recovers from meeting her mom. The encounter is shown in flashback, so we get arc exposition peacemeal. The paternity test bit is resurrected ...
Deputy luurve interest smuggles Veronica out the interrogation tapes from the Lilly Kane murder case.
Someone kidnapped Polly the Neptune school mascot. Veronica goes undercover at the rival school as Betty. Someone's fixing the gambling odds - is Weevil the villain?
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 17]
Kanes and Abel's
Shown 13th May 2006 [Saturday]
Veronica is hired to help an academic over-achiever whose study sessions are being sabotaged. At stake is a Kane scholarship to the college of their choice.
Veronica discovers Abel's daughter, and hides her away from Kane's security goon. Logan is oddly supportive of Veronica.
Turns out that there's another PI in town. A low-down fellow, who has no truck with ethics.
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 18]
Weapons of Class Destruction
Shown 20th May 2006 [Saturday]
Veronica investigates a bomb threat at the school. It's potentially quite dangerous, but luckily she has Logan to protect her. He's becoming quite close to her ...
Wallace's widowed mom is cosying up to Veronica's seperated dad, which leads to friction between them. Worse, Duncan is less than happy to discover that Veronica regards his family as suspects in the death of his sister!
The BATF get involved in the bomb threat. Veronica has to make a tough decision.
Joey Lauren Adams guest-star. .
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 19]
Hot Dogs
Shown 27th May 2006 [Saturday]
Veronica helps a girl find her lost dog. Someone's dognapping them, and claiming large lost and found rewards.
Weevil gets caught breaking into Lilly's bedroom. And Veronica remembers that Lilly had a secret message-pen. Weevil wants Veronica to get him out, but her dad disapproves of the friendship.
Logan's half-sister claims that her BF wants help with making his movie. She manipulates Logan and his dad, with unexpected consequences. Turns out the old man loves his widdle pwincess, no matter how bad he treats his own son!
Logan now has cash of his own, since his mother's will was read. And Veronica tells the deputy that she can't date him.
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 20]
M.A.D.
Shown 26 Apr 05
A Latino babe decides to dump her 09er BF. He blackmails her with a digital video of her mastubating - but he's a twit and she's frigid, so Veronica helps the girl using her own brand of petty revenge.
This parallels Veronica's own relationship with Logan. Things look like they're going on okay, but there's a sense of uneasiness ...
Mr Mars tracks down Duncan Kane.
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 21]
A Trip to the Dentist
Shown 3 May 05
Veronica ties up the Season's loose ends as she tracks down whoever she lost her cherry to. This involves interrogating 09ers [including Logan's chums, who we discover are named Dick and Beaver]. There's lots of petty revenge, which is what she excells in.
Her relationship with Logan comes under a lot of strain, as he is a major suspect.
Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 22]
Leave It to Beaver
Shown 10 May 05
Lots of loose ends are tied up, as we discover the results of Veronica's paternity test. Veronica has to sort out her father's love life, and her own. Her mother's back in town ...
Veronica closes in on Lilly's killer. Logan's pal Beaver ruins his alibi, making him a suspect. Duncan, Lilly's brother is the other main suspect ...
As in Murder One, there's actually a secret videotape showing the murderer. But Veronica has to get the tape away from the kller ...
There's some real physical jeopardy in this ep, unusual for this show - which gives the ep a real climactic feel. This isn't Veronica's usual petty revenge stuff, it's life-or-death!
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 1]
Normal is the Watchword
Shown 28 Sep 05
Shown 8th June 2006 [Thursday]
3 months after the end of S1, Veronica is getting on with her life. She has a new job, at a restuarant, and a rich BF. But the town is now split along a vicious divide, ever since Logan escaped prosecution for allegedly killing a PCH biker!
Dick and Beaver are now in the credits. Logan is having a secret affair with their stepmom [ Charisma Carpenter ], who looks great in a bikini!
Mayoral candidate Steve Gutenberg [ Short Circuit ] arranges for the schoolkids to have an outing. The 09ers ride in a limo, while the poor kids ride in a school-bus. Lilly's ghost wants Veronica to reconcile with Weevil. This also leads Veronica to have a near-miss ...
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 2]
Driver Ed
Shown 5 Oct 05
Shown 15th June 2006 [Thursday]
Veronica's pretty tramatised about her near-miss. She tries to get over it by solving the mystery of why the crash happened. Kevin Smith guest-stars as a Clerk!
Logan's affair is on the verge of being discovered.
Wallace helps a girl discover who dented her dad's car. She's gorgeous, her dad's rich, and she's in the credits so she must be his love interest!
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 3]
Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang
Shown 12 Oct 05
Shown 22nd June 2006 [Thursday]
Beaver hires Veronica to investigate his stepmom, Kendal [ Charisma Carpenter ]. It turns out that she's not just a pretty face.
Veronica discovers the reason behind the bus crash.
Wallace's new girlfriend has her own agenda. And his mother, on vacation with Veronica's dad, has a mysterious admirer ...
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 4]
Green-Eyed Monster
Shown 19 Oct 05
Shown 29th June 2006 [Thursday]
Veronica fills in for her dad, and takes a case without his knowledge. The client is an ultra-jealous rich-girl who wants her fiance checked out. Veronica plays out the honeypot routine ...
Wallace's mom has a stalker. Mr Mars involves the Sheriff, who mistakenly starts to fight dirty in the election campaign.
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 5]
Blast From the Past
Shown 26 Oct 05
Shown 6th July 2006 [Thursday]
Veronica uncovers clues as to how the bus crash was arranged. But the Sheriff doesn't want to investigate, instead preferring to blame Mr Mars.
Veronica helps Wallace's GF. Given the complex relationships involved, this could be very good or very bad.
Wallace's relationship with his dad starts.
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 6]
Rat Saw God
Shown 9 Nov 05
Shown 13th July 2006 [Thursday]
Abel Koontz asks Veronica to find his daughter.
Logan is arrested for killing the biker. This time someone claim to be a witness. And Weevil's gang is out to get him. But at least he gets to confront his dad.
Joss Whedon [ Buffy, Angel, Firefly ] is manager of a car-rental place.
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 7]
Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner
Shown 16 Nov 05
Shown 20th July 2006 [Thursday]
Veronica and Duncan settle down, as do Logan and Kendal [ Charisma Carpenter ]. And everything looks nice for Ms Carpenter. Apparently she's only 25! But she's cut off from her fugitive husband's fortune, so she has to earn a living somehow ...
Logan hires Veronica to check out the witness who accused him of murder. But something fishy's goingon, and it may be drug-related.
Duncan and Veronica investigate comatose Meg's allegations of child abuse. Veronica starts as a babysitter for neurotic teachers and the Mayor. But the revelation about the sheriff is shocking indeed.
Wallace is still not answering his e-mails.
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 8]
Ahoy, Mateys!
Shown 23 Nov 05
Shown 27th July 2006 [Thursday]
A couple whose son died in the bus crash are being harrassed. They think the school authorities are behind it, and hire Keith Mars to prove it.
Computer-chick introduces Veronica to the local Pirate Radio station, Ahoy, Mateys!.
Veronica and Logan track the murder frame-up back to Rodney Rowland [ Space: Above and beyond ], a coke-dealing Irish-American.
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 9]
My Mother, the Fiend
Shown 30 Nov 05
Shown 3rd August 2006 [Thursday]
The School VP puts Veronica in detention, so she checks her mother's school file. Turns out that even before mom hit the bottle she was in trouble with the authorities. Veronica digs deeper, to find out why.
The two bitchy Slayerettes, Charisma Carpenter and Allyson Hannigan , go head to head.
Computer-chick has a crush on Beaver, who starts his own company and uses his step-mom as CEO.
Logan and Weevil have a long-awaited confrontation.
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 10]
One Angry Veronica
Shown 7 Dec 05
Shown 10th August 2006 [Thursday]
Veronica's on Jury Duty. Like in the movie 12 Angry Men, the lawyers did a bad job so the Jury must solve the crime themselves. A Couple of 09ers are accused of beating up a Mexican woman, and while they appear innocent there are some unexplained facts.
The Echolls sex tapes are missing from the Police lock-up. The mayor hires Mr Mars to find out who stole them.
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 11]
Donut Run
Shown 25 Jan 06
Shown 17th August 2006 [Thursday]
Duncan disappears with Meg's baby. FBI Agent Lucy Lawless is called in to track him down. She and Lamb try to pressure Veronica into betraying him.
Logan and Weevil close in on the rogue PCHer.
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 12]
Rashard and Wallace Go to White Castle
Shown 1 Feb 06
Shown 10th April 2007 [Tuesday]
Wallace tries to come clean about what happened between him and buddy Rashard, but Rashard's uncle [and Manager] does everything possible to stop this. And Jackie is back in Wallace's life.
Logan and Weevil figure out the link between the PCHers and the Fitzies. But they need Veronica's help to prove it!
Mr Mars investigates the crash. He digs up some evidence, and a new suspect is revealed.
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 13]
Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough
Shown 8 Feb 06
Shown 11th April 2007 [Wednesday]
The school holds a carnival to raise funds for a class trip to Magic Mountain. But someone steals the cash-box while it's in Veronica's care. Her arch-enemies this week are a bitchy teacher and a swotty classmate - who were remarkably absent from previous eps!
Jackie is a suspect - worse, she's blacklisted because her dad is now a murder suspect. And while Veronica is investigating, the 2 dads get drunk together.
Beaver is hanging out with the Willow type. And Logan spends the whole ep flirting with a blonde girl ...
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 14]
Versatile Toppings
Shown 15 Mar 06
Shown 11th March 2007 [Sunday]
Someone's mugging pizza delivery boys and blackmailing the secret gang of closet-gay high-school pupils. Veronica is hired to find the perp!
Logan Echolls gets a new GF - a generic pretty blonde. Her dad's a familiar face ...
The sports player is now the main suspect in the bus explosion. Keith Mars is hired to prove his alibi, which involves a seedy casino ...
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 15]
The Quick and the Wed
Shown 22 Mar 06
Shown October 2006 [Saturday]
Kendal [ Charisma Carpenter ] is plotting.
Wallace's new GF's sister has gone MIA before her wedding. They hire Veronica to hire her.
Logan is enacting an eevil plan, to stop the frame-up against him. Unfortunately, he may have outsmarted himself.
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 16]
The Rapes of Graff
Shown 29 Mar 06
Shown 14th April 2007 [Saturday]
Veronica visits the local College, where she will be attending next year. She meets her old BF, Troy - who later gets accused of Date Rape. She has to prove his innocence, and takes the opportunity to disempower every heterosexual male she meets.
Logan rethinks his decision regarding his love life. Unfortunately, other people have opinions on the subject too.
Mr Mars helps the lawyer track down a hooker who stole the Logan murder case files. They also discover the Sheriff's secret.
It turns out that the Fitzpatricks may have had the opportunity to steal some C4, such as was used in the bus bomb and the frame-up.
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 17]
Plan B
Shown 5 Apr 06
Logan wins an essay competition [he plagiarises Easy Rider] and gets to be temporary honorary Deputy Mayor. He gets to spend quality time with Mayor Woody, who has a few skeletons in his closet. A stalker has sent Woody a DVD, and Mr Mars is hired to find out who did it.
Weevil gets Veronica to help prove who really killed his cousin.
Beaver prefers interior decorating to sexual contact with his GF. Disturbingly, this is actually foreshadowing!
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 18]
I Am God
Shown 11 Apr 06
Shown 16th April 2007 [Monday]
Veronica's having nightmares about the bus crash. This leads to references to Ghost Whisperer and Season One co-star, Paris Hilton.
It turns out that someone, possibly the killer, scrawled I Am God on the back of one of the seats. Veronica investigates a janitor named Lucky.
Mr Wu, science teacher, assigns Wallace and Logan as lab partners!
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 19]
Nevermind the Buttocks
Shown 18 Apr 06
Shown 17th April 2007 [Tuesday]
Weevil is now Veronica's main suspect. Can he convince her to help him against the Fitzpatricks?
Mr Mars investigates Kendall, who is also a major suspect.
Meanwhile, Veronica is hired to catch a dog-killing driver. This turns out to link into another investigation ...
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 20]
Look Who's Stalking
Shown 25 Apr 06
Shown 11th November 2006 [Saturday]
The Mayor's daughter hires Veronica to find out who's stalking her.
The Mayor's Incorporation idea is up for a vote. Veronica's dad suspects there's a conspiracy afoot.
The Prom's cancelled, so Logan Echolls holds his own. Wallace and Jackie finally get their relationship sorted out. Meanwhile, Veronica and Logan have to sort theirs out ...
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 21]
Happy Go Lucky
Shown 2 May 06
Shown 19th April 2007 [Thursday]
Exam time, and Weevil hires Beaver and Mac to tutor him in maths.
Woody the Mayor always seemed like such a nice guy, but now his evil secret is uncovered.
The verdict is out on the Aaron Echolls trial!
Veronica Mars [Season 2, Episode 22]
Not Pictured
Shown 9 May 06
Shown 20th April 2007 [Friday]
Mr Mars goes after Mayor Woody. There's a reward financed by Meg's parents - that's hypocrisy if anything!
Veronica uncovers a new suspect, and gets a rooftop confrontation with him. It's a bit cliched, but the suspect's acting is so incredible it makes the scene worthwhile.
If anything, this ep just feels like it's tying up a lot of loose ends. Nothing was foreshadowed for more than a couple of episodes, and everything else seems retrofitted.
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 1]
Welcome Wagon
Shown 3 Oct 06
To mark that this is a new Season, we get new intro credits. The theme song is slowed, not a good sign!
Veronica goes to College. Her supervillain arch-enemy was dealt with in Season 2, but she's keen to make new enemies.
Her dad tries to tie up some of last Season's loose ends. He escorts Kendal [ Charisma Carpenter to sort out her dodgy deals with the Fitzgeralds ...
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 2]
My Big Fat Greek Rush Week
Shown 10 Oct 06
Shown 10th May 2007 [Thursday]
Veronica's roomie is the new victim of the shaver-raper. Naturally, Veronica goes undercover in a Sorority. This allows her to bump into a few familiar faces, and further the Newspaper Editor's scheme to destroy the Frats and Sororities!
Logan and Wallace engage in a battle of wits during a Psychology roleplaying session.
Pa Mars gets chased by the eeevil Fitzies. Nothing too surprising ...
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Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 5]
President Evil
Shown 31 Oct 06
Shown 26th July 2007 [Thursday]
Veronica is still looking for the shaver-raper. His newest victim was photographed standing near an Asian man, so he is her new suspect.
Weevil is working at the College, as a maintenance man. Like in Good Will Hunting. Then a couple of thugs in Nixon and Carter masks (as in Point Break) and rob the on-campus illicit casino. All they do is scare a few spoilt Frat-boys ... and steal Lilly's necklace from Veronica. She's out for payback, and Weevil is her main suspect.
Mr Mars and the sleezy lawyer are hired by College Dean Ed Begly Jr to track down his wife's ex, Richard Grieco [ Teen Agent ].
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 6]
Hi, Infidelity
Shown 7 Nov 06
Shown 3rd August 2007 [Thursday]
Veronica is accused of plagiarising her class essay. Her accuser is a nerdy guy, angry at her for always dating rich, powerful guys.
Veronica helps Parker, the raped room-mate, get on with her life. This leads to a new suspect.
Veronica discovers that a bunch of men are being deceptive.
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 7]
Of Vice and Men
Shown 14 Nov 06
Shown 10th August 2007 [Thursday]
Veronica has a couple of cases to solve. She must find an alibi for Logan's friend, the suspected Raper. Secondly, she must solve a missing persons case. A college boy didn't turn up to meet his GF at the airport ...
Veronica is still judging all the men in her life. Many offer to help her - Logan, her father, her Prof, Vinny the Human Tripod ...
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 8]
Lord of the Pi's
Shown 21 Nov 06
Shown 19th June 2008 [Thursday]
Veronica is still shaken by the events of the previous ep. Logan gets over-protective, which could be the beginning of the end for their relationship.
Chip, the ep's title character (a Frat boy and former rape suspect) is found - drugged, stripped, shaved and sodomised with an easter egg! Veronica is curious, but doesn't bother punishing the Feminazi coven responsible.
Mrs Rose Hearst (played by RL infamous heiress Patty Hearst) goes MIA at a College function. She had the casting vote on whether to remove the Fraternities from the Campus. Veronica has to find her in order to maintain the status quo - all the wealth and power in the hands of the Female elite.
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 9]
Spit & Eggs
Shown 28 Nov 06
Shown 24th august 2007 [Thursday]
The Dean reinstates the Greek System, and the Frats are back in business. They decide to have a big party to celebrate. However, the shaver-raper makes an announcement that he will get his next victim at the party. Veronica goes on the hunt, with Wallace and Logan to help.
We get to find out who the raper is. He's smug and arrogant - as well as making the public (albeit anonymous) announcement, he also monologues his victim. What a moron!
Meanwhile, Keith Mars discovers the Dean's wife's secret, and tells his client. This may be a setup for the rest of the Season.
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 10]
Show Me the Monkey
Shown 23 Jan 07
Shown 30th August 2007 [Thursday]
Veronica is called in to recover a research monkey, after the campus animal experimentation lab is trashed. She, Mac and Parker go undercover as Animal Rights activists. They also do a bit of socialising, to help get over their turbulent love-lives.
Logan Echolls does some socialising of his own, surfing with Dick.
Keith Mars investigates the apparent suicide. It's out of character for the victim, and resembles Veronica's plan for the Perfect Murder.
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 11]
Poughkeepsie, Tramps & Thieves
Shown 30 Jan 07
Shown 6th September 2007 [Thursday]
Max, the exam-cheat expert, hires Veronica to trace a girl he fell in love with. Finding the girl is actually quite easy - but she brings unforseen complications to everyone's life!
Keith Mars digs out his Sheriff's uniform, and investigates the Dean's death. Some Feminazi activists egged his windows ...
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 12]
There's Got to Be a Morning After Pill
Shown 6 Feb 07
Shown th July 2008 [Thursday]
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 13]
Postgame Mortem
Shown 13 Feb 07
Shown 20th September 2007 [Thursday]
Logan is plumbing the depths of depression and self-pity. So naturally, Dick takes his GF to Vegas and leaves Logan to babysit her kid sister, Heather.
Keith Mars is close to solving the Dean's murder. He's so busy on it that he gives the newest murder case to Veronica. Yes, there's yet ANOTHER murder in that tiny little town.
The College Team's coach is dead. His son is in the frame. Can Veronica solve the murder? As well as solving the Dean's murder at the same time, that is.
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 14]
Mars, Bars
Shown 20 Feb 07
Shown 27th September 2007 [Thursday]
Veronica is in clink, suspected of helping a murder suspect escape. When she gets out, she has to solve the murder. The problem is, because the suspect fled there's a good chance he's guilty!
Mr Mars helps Veronica solve the Coach's murder. But he also tries to solve the Dean's murder. The sheriff closes in on a suspect, with help from Mr Mars.
Mac and her boyfriend take Parker and Logan on a treasure hunt. Both couples get along well ...
Weevil, trainee janitor, pops up briefly to discover a clue ...
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 15]
Papa's Cabin
Shown 27 Feb 07
Shown 4th October 2007 [Thursday]
So, who killed the Dean? The Professor, his girlfriend or the GF's ex-husband? Well, the layers of frame-ups and red herrings are peeled away.
Logan and Parker continue bonding. However, they feel uncomfortable about carrying on without Veronica's approval ...
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 16]
Un-American Graffiti
Shown 1 May 07
Shown 11th October 2007 [Thursday]
A College student gets so drunk he can hardly walk, and gets hit buy a car while crossing the road! Sheriff Mars is shocked - the student was 19, underage for drinking ... as if a 21-year-old getting hit by a car would be acceptable! He starts a crackdown on the local bars, which leads to a crackdown on police corruption!
Veronica is hired to find racists who put graffiti on the restaurant of her Arab school-friend. She does some gun-control stuff, and acts all Feminazi. Apparently teenage girls develop relatively worthless skills like Maths faster than boys do. She mocks boys for being potential Firefighters - you know, useful members of society!
Logan organises a party for Parker, and invites Veronica. Dick invites a couple of MySpace babes, and the supporting characters start to hook up with each other.
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 17]
Debasement Tapes
Shown 8 May 07
Shown 18th October 2007 [Thursday]
The Deputy who got fired in Season 2 brings Sheriff Mars a tip. They come across a heist scheme of the Fitzpatricks - and Vinny Van Lowe is involved.
Piz babysits a singer who the college radio station has imported to perform live on stage. Unfortunately the backing tapes have gone missing, so Veronica is hired to find them!
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 18]
I Know What You'll Do Next Summer
Shown 15 May 07
Shown 25th October 2007 [Thursday]
Veronica does her PI exam, but she's still waiting to hear if she got the FBI Internship. Never mind that she's a known associate of the convicted leader of the PCHers, she was a suspect in an FBI kidnapping case, and that her main referee was last seen under arrest for murder ...
While she's waiting, she takes on another case. A Ugandan student at her college has written a book about his experiences as a boy-soldier conscript in the LRA. Veronica's client claims to be the boy's father, and Veronica must validate the claim.
Parker wants to spend the summer break with Logan. However, Logan has pre-booked a surfing holiday in Brazil with Dick. Things get yet more complicated, and Dick finally reveals some depth to his personality.
Vinny Van Lowe is making progress as Mars' competition in the election for Sheriff. And the Fitzgeralds are still in business ...
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 19]
Weevils Wobble But They Don't Go Down
Shown 22 May 07
Shown 1st November 2007 [Thursday]
Weevil gets accused of selling fake IDs at Hearst College. Worse, since the ID cards are linked to payment accounts it's technically a felony. Sheriff Mars arrests Weevil, and Veronica tries to find the real fraudsters. Turns out there are some rich brats who like to con people. Totally motiveless, really, but it's the kind of 09er bashing this show loves to do.
Parker's only presence is via phone-calls to Logan. Logan is comforting Dick, who's actually feeling bad about his brother's demise.
Veronica Mars [Season 3, Episode 20]
The Bitch is Back
Shown 22 May 07
Shown 8th November 2007 [Thursday]
Veronica's back at what she does best - petty revenge! Someone made a vid of her sexing Piz ... and posted it on-line! She tracks the conspiracy down. It's The Castle, the local equivalent of secret uber-Frat Skull and Bones. Hey, didn't we see all this in Season One, with Veronica Mars [Season 1, Episode 12] Clash of the Tritons?
Veronica's investigations lead to a natural conclusion - the return of the handful of characters from Season One who are still alive! This also affects the election of the new sheriff ...
We get some closure for the supporting characters as well. For example, Dick finally stops acting like himself, and actually apologises to Mac for being such a git.
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