For us, though, it's a little less of a tragedy than we might have thought, since Meg is alive!  And somewhat well, considering she plunged off a cliff (and you know no one wears a seat belt on the school bus). Duncan visits Veronica at the coffee hut and informs her that Meg is still unconscious. Maybe she'll wake up with amnesia! People on television never seem to get amnesia anymore. Veronica feels guilty, because if she hadn't been there Meg would have gotten in the limo, but that's Meg's own damn fault for being stubborn. No girl-feud is worth choosing a smelly school bus over a limo. As Veronica and Duncan chat on her break, a very rude young black girl gets pissy when V won't make her a drink, and tells Duncan he can do better. This girl isn't funny bitchy, like, say, Coral from The Real World, she's just nasty bitchy. Unfortunately, we already saw her in the credits, so she's sticking around for awhile.

At the police station, Sheriff Lamb pretty much tells reporters that the bus driver drove off the cliff on purpose. He wasn't taking his anti-depressants, he had marital trouble, and he had tried to kill himself before, plus there were no skid marks on the road. Meanwhile, even more reporters congregate at Neptune High, trying to interview anyone who knew the dead students.

In the bathroom, a scary blonde girl, who we learn is the bus driver's daughter, tries to get Veronica to help her. Jessie needs proof of non-suicide for the insurance, but Veronica is still pretending like she's not a detective anymore. Two 09ers walk in, mocking Jessie, who responds by punching one of the girls in the face. Luckily, she wasn't very attractive anyway. This impresses Veronica, who finally agrees to help.

At a Little League game, Steve Guttenberg is still trying to convince Keith to run for sheriff. A group of poor kids shows up, and apparently the rich and poor kids have worked out some kind of baseball field timeshare that the baby 09ers are not observing. A fight breaks out (class tension! just in case you forgot!) and Guttenberg breaks it up.

At the Mars apartment, Veronica is also trying to convince Keith to run. On the television (the Mars family eats their dinner in front of the television, as all good families do), Kevin Smith catches their attention as the convenience store clerk who served the bus driver minutes before the accident. Well, we know who Veronica will be visiting a few scenes from now.

The next morning, we see that the bitchy girl from the first scene is the daughter of the baseball player from last week. She's still bitchy, she's just moved from New York to live with her dad - who she seems to hate - and she calls her period her "monthly" (who does that?). Blah blah blah bitch bitch bitch. I hate her already, and not in a good way. She shows up in Wallace's class, and he volunteers to take her to the attendance office. He's already in love with her, and I can see that, because she is pretty hot, and she hasn't revealed herself to be evil to him just yet. She also likes "bad boys." Gag me.

Logan and Charisma do it at the Casablancas mansion. He's on top, but I don't think he's giving her the shocker quite yet. (P.S. Thanks to everyone who told me what that was last week. Though after you all told me, I still had it wrong in my head, and was all "damn, this show is so dirty!" for the rest of the day until I got a more detailed explanation. I'm not that good with the innuendo, apparently.)

The Casablancas boys (all 3 of them) return home suddenly, and Logan quickly retreats upstairs. He can't leave because his truck is in the driveway, which was not very smart. You would think the adults in this town would stop sleeping with the teenagers, what with how it ended up last time. Let's hope Logan doesn't end up with his very own amateur porn and an ashtray to the head. Big Dick invites Logan to target practice with him and Dick Jr, and Beaver says, "well, I guess I'll go knit something." You know, Beaver's kind of cute. I never noticed that before he started talking about knitting.

Wallace sees Jackie in the parking lot, and, not surprisingly, she's pissed. She has reason to be this time though, because someone hit her dad's Porsche (which she took against his wishes) and left a note that said "Lots of people are watching. It sure looks like I'm leaving my insurance info, but I'm not." Not that I condone hitting-and-running, but that note is kind of awesome. Wallace offers to help Jackie find out who did it, by which he means that he's going to call Veronica and ask her to do it. He gives her the classic Veronica head tilt and corresponding "whatcha doin'?", but she's not in the mood for mockery, so he decides to take care of it himself.

Veronica is at the convenience store, surrounded by school bus memorabilia. Kevin Smith is there, and I want his sweatshirt (well, his would be a little bit big, but you get what I'm saying). It's a flying school bus with angel wings and a halo, and at the bottom it says "We'll never forget."



He wonders if he looked fat on TV, and Kevin, the answer is yes, oh god yes. But thank god Jay is nowhere to be found. Veronica pretends to be a creepy goth chick who gets off on the macabre. Because yes, creepy goth chicks are always cute and blond and wearing smart little blue blazers. Blazers are the new Nine Inch Nails T-shirts. Kevin tells Veronica she's the Marilyn of the Munsters who've been hanging around. I've always secretly wanted them to remake the Munsters, only not as a comedy. Steve Guttenberg's TV daughter can play Eddie.

Veronica asks to be served the last meal the bus driver ate, which was a cherry Slurpee (or "Monster Glug") and a bag of peanuts. He also bought a St. Christopher medal, and at this point Veronica realizes that he bought it to get change for a phone call. Later, she goes down to the police station to pretend to apply for a receptionist job. Using their phone, she calls someone to trace the calls made from the convenience store pay phone.

Veronica drinks iced tea at Jessie's house, and tells her that her dad's last phone call was to the Cotter residence, conveniently located in their apartment complex; but the Cotters later say they don't know him. The police show up to search the house.

At target practice, the two Dicks show off their shooting prowess, and if I were Logan, I might not want to be around the guy whose wife I'm banging when he's got a gun in his hand. Dick tells Logan that his dad and stepmom will be out at a party at the Neptune Grand, and that they should invite some girls over, but not to Casa de Killer, aka Logan's house. Well, rich people's houses often do have names.

While Veronica's over at the Cotters, Jessie calls to let her know that the police found a suicide note on her dad's computer. To anyone with half a brain, it sounds like a note he wrote to give to his wife upon leaving her, but as we all know Sheriff Lamb only has, at most, one-third of a brain.

At the Sac n Pac, a creepy pedophile-ish guy makes conversation with Wallace. Turns out he's a reporter, and he's trying to get a story out of Wallace, who is only interested in the reporter's stenography pad. It's also worth noting that the reporter is wearing a very ugly patterned shirt.

The steno pad is important, because it clues Wallace in to the fact that it was a reporter (a female reporter, not ugly shirt reporter), incognito as a student, who hit Jackie's car. Wallace gets her insurance information, and Jackie gives him a thank-you kiss on the cheek. Aw, Wallace did such a good job. He solved the case and no one got hurt.

Veronica heads back to the Cotters, where Mrs. Cotter (alone this time) admits to their affair.  V sets up a meeting between her and Jessie, who doesn't seem too thrilled to be there. Still, it does seem to do her some good to hear that her dad wasn't planning to kill himself (at least based on the phone call he made to Mrs. Cotter) and that he loved her.

This very bittersweet moment sends Veronica straight to the Neptune Grand to have sex with Duncan. Pretty convenient when your boyfriend's parents have escaped to their house in Napa because all the pressure from their obstruction of justice charges related to the murder of your boyfriend's sister and your best friend so that you two can do it for the first (sober) time in private.

Once they're done, V and Duncan hear some very loud lovemaking going on in the room next door, and we can safely assume that theirs was not nearly as vigorous. Because that might have required Duncan to show some emotion, and we all know he doesn't do that unless he's a) having an epileptic fit or b) being accused of rape. Once Duncan falls asleep, Veronica gets dressed and leaves (way to f--k and run, Veronica, though I guess Duncan once did the same to her. Still, he had the excuse of thinking she was his sister), and runs into their next-door neighbor--Logan. He seems to know what just happened, telling her, "FYI, if the cuddling was the best part, he didn't do it right." After he leaves, Veronica calls his room. She hears Charisma pick up, but we don't know if she recognizes the voice. Duncan hears her and opens the door, but she makes up some excuse to run off, and he looks after her longingly, thinking "damn, I should really slip her some GHB next time."

At the Casablancas home, Beaver is passed out in front of the TV when Charisma (fresh from Logan-sex) and Big Dick come home. Picking up some popcorn from the floor, he notices a mysterious condom wrapper under the couch.

Keith turns down Guttenberg's offer to run for sheriff, but then changes his mind and accepts it after seeing Lamb be a jerk to Jessie, despite her tearful pleas to him to reopen the case on her dad. When Veronica hears, she's pretty excited, at least until her dad tells her she looks different. Sex different. If he couldn't tell before, why would he be able to tell now? I know that she may not want it to count, but Veronica did have sex before.

On the beach, the police search a dead man in a loud-patterned shirt. I think it's the same reporter who was bugging Wallace at the Sac n Pac, but I'm not sure. And he's got "VERONICA MARS" written on his hand. Oh, that's not good.

So, why could this guy possibly have Veronica's name on his hand? Do you think he's heard she's having sex now? Because you know, everyone can tell.
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Posted by on October 10, 2005 2:41 PM