Even though I am pretty much fully indoctrinated into the Veronica Mars cult, I have to say there are still some things that escape me. It has to do with the whole Veronica-Logan thing. I know, I know, you are going to say that I hate Logan unfairly, yada, yada; but I just don't understand how people think that theirs is the greatest love of the century. That's not to say that I like Duncan more, but I do think that the reason that she is never going to be truly happy with either one of them is that they possess the two things she is looking for, but neither of them possess enough of the other quality to be worth all of the trouble. I guess what I am saying is that I don't understand why she puts up with so much shit. I will say that the LoVe mashup is better than Veruncan or Dunconica, and even Loronica would work, but not Verogan. My point? Uh, get back to me on that one.

Veronica finally confronts Duncan about Meg's baby. It turns out that letter that he read a couple of weeks ago was from Meg's aunt. Meg wanted to live with her in Seattle, and her aunt was saying yes. Apparently Meg's aunt is scared to e-mail or call people on their cell phones. Maybe Meg's parents had them bugged, which may be why she was so cryptic in her e-mails to the social worker about her sister. Veronica was nearly in tears, and Duncan was trying to tell her that it didn't concern her. You could kind of see what he meant; he didn't know that Meg was pregnant when she broke up with her, so Veronica shouldn't think about it. Then there is Veronica's view which is it is crazy to think that "your secret illegitimate child gestating in the womb of your comatose ex-girlfriend affects neither you nor me."

Is this complicated enough for you yet? It's only five minutes in, and we're only getting started. Dick Casablancas comes by to invite the two of them to his boat party, and he has a little news. Meg just woke up! Of course Duncan wants to see her, and since Veronica still has her visitor's pass from picking up the stuff for Abel Koontz, she uses it to create a couple of fake passes so she and Duncan can visit Meg.

Although she has been in a coma, when Meg wakes up to see Duncan and Veronica, she is actually really happy, and more apologetic than anything else. She tells the whole story, how she wanted to live with her aunt in Seattle because her parents were going to force her to put the baby up for adoption, and not by wrapping it in a blanket and leaving it outside of a fire station or in the bathroom at the prom. The baby was going to be sent to the Levi-Stinson sanctuary house. I don't know about this Levi guy, but Stinson's was a sanctuary for me for four years. The place Meg was talking about was all about the religious indoctrination and tough love discipline, and by Meg's parents' standards, that pretty much assures this kid is going to be caned if his dimples are too big.

Normally, you would think that Duncan would have a say, since he is the father, and I am not sure what sort of custody battle would go on with one or both people under 18, but with all of Duncan's playing fast and loose with things like pre-marital sex, her parents wouldn't approve. Meg is so worried about what might happen to the baby that she tells Veronica that if anything happens to her, don't let her parents take the baby away. Come on Meg! You just got out of a coma! You are going to be around for a while. Sure, an embolus could find its way into your lung or brain and kill you, but again, you beat a coma; consciousness is half of the battle.

So the Meg mystery is kind of wrapping itself up, but Keith Mars is working on another mystery. Woody Goodman asked Keith to his office in order to discuss a little investigation he wants Keith to do. Somebody stole the Aaron Echolls sex tapes from police evidence room, and wants Keith to find out who it was. He has the full backing of the county, and he'll have all the resources he needs to go all Ken Starr on Neptune's finest. Those tapes are central to the prosecution's case, and if Neptune was to mess this up, it would only bring more ridicule to the town.

Posted by J-Unit on December 11, 2005 1:29 PM