As I've always said, one of the things that I love about Veronica Mars is that the show is able to juggle so many story lines with a lot of skill. As you dig deeper into the mystery, it only gets more complicated. While this makes it very difficult to turn somebody onto the show this late into the season, watching how everything comes together gives those of us who have hung around since the beginning of the year a wonderful sense of accomplishment. If you thought things were going to get less complicated once Weevil got his revenge on Thumper, you don't know the writers very well. We know that when she was solving Lily Kane's murder, Veronica would see visions of her best friend, who would often give her advice on how things were going. This year, it looks like Veronica is once again playing medium as kids killed in the bus crash started visiting her dreams in order to provide some clarity, and that's a good thing After all, we only have five episodes left to get to the bottom of this thing.
Like I said, Veronica has been having dreams of her dead classmates. It has been bothering her enough that it is really starting to affect her schoolwork. Her teachers have noticed, and Veronica is sent to the counselor's office of Miss James to get straightened out. We know Veronica is consumed by the crash, but she tore down a poster that another student had put up while trying to raise money for a yearbook memorial of those who have died. Veronica is not above getting revenge on students, but usually she waits for people to do something a little more nefarious before putting the hammer down.
Veronica's bad dreams started a few days earlier after she received some more pictures from the bus. Her father had been inside just long enough to find the rat, but what he didn't notice was that there was some graffiti on the bus. Somebody wrote "I Am God" on the back of one of the seats along with nine tombstones. Eight people died on the bus, but Veronica was supposed to be number nine. She was sure that whoever drew that picture had to be involved with the bus crash.
A lot of Meg's thoughts centered on a janitor named lucky. He used to be a rich kid, but his parents filed for bankruptcy and he had to leave school. Lucky joined the army, got shot in the ass, and boy buys beer for people like Logan and Dick in order to relive his glory days vicariously through them. He does, however, keep himself on a tight schedule of smoking pot and playing Halo. But really, would Meg have caused the accident considering she was pregnant? She was worried the baby would be sent away, but was she THAT worried?
The only real reason for mentioning Lucky was so we could have a nice flashback of Veronica sucking face with Logan. By the way, any spark we thought we saw from that dance last week is all but gone, and these two were trading barbs once again.
Veronica's next clue to follow was the sound of Dick Casablancas' voice. One of the girls who died, Rhonda, left a message on another student's phone. While Veronica had heard the message on that student, Michelle Thompson’s, cell phone, Rhonda had left a message earlier on Michelle home answering machine. In the background, you can hear Dicky Casablancas using his charming moves on another crash victim, Betina(not Petina, thanks leenie). Obviously Dick wasn't on the bus at the time, so there had to be something more to all of this.
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Comments (13)
Wallace stuck up for Logan cause they teamed up to make Angie lose...and hopefully open the door for Veronica to win the scholarship.
1 of 13 | Posted by juxtapoeser
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Posted on April 15, 2006 6:05 PM
The comment that Beaver made to Veronica about getting harrassed b/c of what his brither did to that guy's new jeans seems to be a cryptic one. He said something to the effect of, If you can't get to Dick- you go for the younger brother. Our previous discusiion here about possible sexual abuse of Beaver by Woody seems to fit in with this statement. Maybe Woody also abused Peter and that's why he hates him. I agree that Woody is involved in the bus crash somehow.
2 of 13 | Posted by zoobabe
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Posted on April 15, 2006 7:02 PM
I haven't read all the recap, but I've skimmed it. I just wanted to add my two cents.
I agree with zoobabe, that when Beaver was talking about people messing with him, it was pretty interesting.
And I wasn't able to make the whole Peter-Woody connection, but that's really good, and I hope that's how it pans out, because that would be quite interesting.
I was just wondering about the very last scene. The one where a cell phone starts ringing and Cervando says "It's for you" and Veronica takes the phone and then looks down beside her and sees the bag of explosives. Maybe I was being a little dense, but I really didn't understand the scene. I assume there was more to it, does anyone have any theories? Is it supposed to represent the explosives being right next to Veronica while she was on the bus? And why did Cervando say "We died because of you"?
Again, I watched the episode while I was half-asleep so I have to rewatch it, but I think there were a lot of goodies in it for further mystery unravelling!
3 of 13 | Posted by Kit
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Posted on April 15, 2006 8:24 PM
Hey, J-Unit, not to be particular (or, well, to be particular), I think it's Bettina, not Petina.
4 of 13 | Posted by leenie
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Posted on April 15, 2006 9:01 PM
I thought this was another good episode, and I'm definitely interested in seeing which leads are correct. I don't mind the scenes where Logan talks about how tough his life is, but I've always liked Logan and his one-liners.
Two more great lines this week: Mr. Wu's comment, "not all well-dressed, articulate, detail-oriented men are gay; some of them are just Asian" and Dick's comment, "You think you can just wave your finger and make Dick come?" The writers never disappoint me with the number of dirty lines they can think up. The best dirty lines involve Weevil; it's hard to top "winning a trophy for rim jobs" and "Dirty Sanchez".
I was hoping that this season would be 2 episodes longer than last season, but I guess I'll just have to watch rewatch the first two seasons for a couple more weeks until season 3 starts.
Isn't Duncan supposed to return in one of the last four episodes?
5 of 13 | Posted by Elder Young
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Posted on April 15, 2006 9:45 PM
I thought that this episode was another good one. Really interesting and so mind-boggling.
I think that there definitely is more to the whole Beaver thing as well as Woody, but I don't think that they are tied together. To me, I really just can't picture it. But, you never know with the writers of VM. On a side note: I recently watched the episode "M.A.D." (I think that was the one) of season one and noticing how nice Aaron Echolls was to Veronica. But then it turns out he was the killer!
Haha, I love Mr. Wu. I always get excited when I see a fellow Asian on tv or in the movies.
6 of 13 | Posted by someonespecial
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Posted on April 15, 2006 10:10 PM
I too enjoy Logan, though it WOULD be interesting to see him in therapy, Sopranos-style.
My theories on why Wallace stuck up for him (other than yes, they had teamed up to help Veronica):
1. Thanks to Tinseltown Diaries, Wallace had gotten a little more insight into Logan's tawdry family background.
2. I think Wallace could tell that Logan cares about Veronica. When they were working on the project and Logan gave the whole "spirit of competition" excuse, Wallace smirked as if to say, "yeah right, there's something else going on here."
As for who engineered the bus crash, I have no idea. I think Woody is behind it somehow or knows something, but it's almost too easy to pin him as the perp. Beaver, maybe? He's got some kind of dark secret, and he's not the first person you'd suspect. Weevil is kind of like Woody in this respect: I wouldn't be surprised if he knew who did it or was involved somehow, but I doubt he's the real perp.
Someonespecial, I didn't guess Aaron Echolls either. Same with the rape storyline--I was convinced it was Logan (esp. when he and Veronica started dating), until the truth came out.
7 of 13 | Posted by maybeimamazed02
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Posted on April 16, 2006 2:03 PM
Let me clarify as to that last comment--sounds like I think Aaron raped Veronica. I mean that both of those mysteries (who killed Lilly and who raped Veronica) had me guessing until the very end.
8 of 13 | Posted by maybeimamazed02
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Posted on April 16, 2006 2:05 PM
I agree with the Peter-Woody connection. Does anyone still have the first episode recorded? Maybe we can go back and see if there is ever a moment that Peter and someone are not in the same room together?
Also, when Cervando mentioned that someone had to be close to the bus for it to blow up right around the cliff....wasn't the limo not far behind? This might link Dick or Cassidy to it...and since Woody told his daughter specifically not to get on the bus...perhaps he knew?
I don't know. I'm just theorizing here.
I'm still wondering about Kendall and that thing she put in Logan's bathroom...where has she gone? What happened with the business her and Cassidy were going to start?
I just think they are focusing alot on Dick and Cassidy this season...
9 of 13 | Posted by happytheatregeek
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Posted on April 16, 2006 3:49 PM
I think that Woody told his daughter not to ride the bus not because he was going to crash it but because he didn't want her to talk to Peter (because he knew Peter was upset and might tell Gia about he and her father.) Having Woody be the crash-culprit is too obvious.
Also, Weevil was with Veronica out of sight of the bus when it went over (if she couldn't see it go over, he couldn't either.) So if he triggered the explosion (which I don't buy) then he would've had to time when the bus left the gas station, how fast it would be going, and know when it got to the cliff. That would include a lot of assumptions on his part--what if the bus slowed down or sped up and therefore wasn't at the cliff when he triggered the explosion? If someone intended to put the bus over the cliff, they were watching. Of course, the other possible explanation is that the person didn't intend to send the bus over the cliff but merely intended to take out the driver and wreck the bus, injuring but not necessarily killing everyone onboard.
10 of 13 | Posted by AbbyAnn
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Posted on April 17, 2006 8:43 AM
@happytheatregeek
I have this entire season on tape so I can get my Veronica Mars fix until Season 3 starts. I'll try to rewatch the first episode on Wednesday.
Didn't Kendall put a shard of glass in the shower drain so that Logan would get stabbed in the foot? I figured this would happen when he was going at it with Hannah, but she's gone so no dice there.
11 of 13 | Posted by Elder Young
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Posted on April 17, 2006 4:32 PM
I don't know if nobody else noticed or if I'm overanalyzing but when Keith told Veronica that Natalie's family won the money in the lawsuit because the mom found a finger in her rib sandwich, they were eating chili. Shout-out the Wendy's debacle or coincidence?
12 of 13 | Posted by JerseyGirl
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Posted on April 17, 2006 8:18 PM
IMO it was a shout-out to the Wendy's thing.
But, although it can't quite compete with "You think you can just wave your finger, and make Dick come?" - I thought Logan's quote to Wallace of "Meet my fluffer!" was pretty adventurous. :D
13 of 13 | Posted by Johnathan
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Posted on April 18, 2006 8:24 PM