Prodigal Thug - 
by J-Unit
Although I have enjoyed the last couple of weeks, I was starting to get worried about Veronica Mars. It has been as funny and clever as ever, but some things were troubling, and they go far beyond my dread at having to hear all the gushing should Logan and Veronica get together. No, I was starting to wonder if perhaps the writers didn't have a plan. You know, perhaps, they were too busy putting a bunch of twists and "gotchas" into the episodes that the wonderful mystery of all the conspiracies would come tumbling down because there wasn't enough to keep them all going at once. Oh how very wrong I was. It looks like the writers had a great plan, and the only thing I am worried about now is whether I'll feel worse having to wait three more episodes for it all to wrap up, or the fact that after those three episodes, I will have to wait another four or five months for them to get started again. But enough about that because I have already taken too much away from this week's episode, which was, as I used to say when I was a kid (and to be honest still do), so f-ing dope.
At the beginning of the episode, Veronica is giving a deposition in the relating to the Aaron Echolls murder case. Being a big fan of Basic Instinct, I liked the little shout out they gave to that very famous interrogation scene. Veronica was being asked to describe what she saw on tape between Lilly Kane and Aaron Echolls. For those of us who have watched Season 1 (and if you haven't, go out and get the DVD - you can thank me later), it was not hard to see that Aaron Echolls having sex with her or had discovered an accurate way to tell body temperature with his penis. Although Aaron's lawyer attempted to question Veronica's ability to judge a sex act without actually seeing copulation, she assured him that she had not only passed Sex Ed, but watched enough Animal Planet to know what sex looked like.
The only thing really difficult about the deposition was when the lawyer asked if she was still keeping in touch with Duncan Kane. Veronica didn't have to answer, of course, but it did seem to ruffle her up a little bit.
Returning home, Veronica learned that her father discovered something that would really blow her mind. For the last month, we have been fed a lot of clues that Woody Goodman was involved in the crash. Last week, we learned of a few more scenarios that were possible, some including Woody, but others that fingered the Fitzpatricks and even Weevil. This week, we learn that Richard Casablancas was using the life insurance policies of his sons as a tax shelter, but more interesting than that was the payout. If both children died at the same time, Kendall Casablancas would be the beneficiary. Now the only thing left to prove is that Kendall Casablancas was smart enough to pull this off and not get caught.
The next day at school, Clemmons is doing one of those "random locker searches" in order to catch all sorts of various paraphernalia considered dangerous or disruptive at school. Unfortunately, Mac was a victim of one of the searches. She had purchased a cell phone interceptor so she could listen on Cassidy Casablancas' phone conversations, putting her a few dangerous steps closer to official crazy ex-girlfriend psycho bitch territory.
Veronica is more than happy to help her friend, but quickly learns that Clemmons has changed his locks. This means Veronica is going to have to act a little more creative, and so she asks Clemmons' son Butters whether he will help her out. Butters agrees, but only because he needs a prom date. This was perhaps a little bit more than Veronica wanted to sacrifice to help out her friend, but when she learns that Butters wants to go with Mac, she agrees to the deal. Unfortunately, Veronica neglects to tell this to Mac, leaving her very confused as they are in Clemmons office and Butters is telling her that he is a good dancer. When he asks what sort of dress she is wearing because he doesn't want to look like an idiot and buy the wrong corsage, Mac figures is out. By that time, Veronica had found Mac's cell phone interceptor, and decides that it is best to leave before Mac stars asking Butters questions like, "Can you please shut up about the prom?" or "Do you want me to kick you in the nuts?"/
Smell It Bitch!
Among the items confiscated, a few caught Veronica's eye, like the fake vomit and an ironic t-shirt, although I am not sure how it is ironic. Oh, and the Anarchist's Cookbook, which was found in Weevil's locker, but confiscated many years ago. For those of you too young to remember, the Anarchist's Cookbook is a real document that contains instructions on various methods to get back at the government for various wrongs they may have committed. Some methods include making explosives to get back at the evil capitalist pigs that run the government, while others include making drugs which you would take to make yourself to debilitated to fight for the capitalist pigs or too wasted to get jobs and make money for the capitalist pigs. With the advent of the Internet, the cookbook got a little more traction because it became more widely available, and there are still places where it is banned. The only problem is that it was written in the 1970s, so many of it's method probably aren't useful, especially since most of the drug recipes are for substances kids no longer take to piss of their parents.
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