Episode #02.06: Rat Saw God
Original Air Date: November 09, 2005
Written by: John Enbom and Phil Klemmer
Directed by: Kevin Bray
Report Card (Capsule Episode Review)
Yearbook (Recurring & Guest Stars/Character Statistics)
Drama Club (Performances: Highlights and Lowlights)
Chemistry (The Analysis of LoVe Scenes)
Journalism (The Mystery of the Week)
Study Hall (Miscellaneous Plot Details)
Extra Credit (Clues to the Season Mystery Arcs)
History (Flashbacks) (None)
Band Class (The Music of Veronica Mars)
Literature (LoVe Lines/In Memory/Quotable Quotes)
Social Science (In Reference To ... Pop Culture & The World)
Homeroom (On Second Viewing, Get a Clue)
Pep Squad Practice (Ambiguously (Or Not) Gay Logan Moments)
Detention (While the Censors Were Out to Lunch ...) (None)
Philosophy (Unanswered Questions)
Principles of Democracy (Hindsight is 20/20) (None)
Role Call (Written/Compiled By ...)
Grade: A
Membership Grade: A (56.4% / 39 votes)
Easily the strongest episode of season two thus far, Rat Saw God has much of the same elements that made the stellar episodes of season one stand out so: Strong supporting performances, compelling story threads, continuity and great quips, heart and angst. Admittedly the return of the season one mystery arc thread aids the affection for the episode, but were the acting, directing and writing not as strong as fondness of our memories, it would not hold up.
Credited Cast Non-Appearance
Percy Daggs III - Wallace Fennel
Kyle Gallner - Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas
Tessa Thompson - Jackie Cook
Recurring Guest Stars (Previous Episode Appearances)
Carl Bresk Neptune High School Teacher/Coach
- Season One Appearances
Christian Clemenson Abel Koontz
- Season One Appearances
Christopher B. Duncan Clarence Wiedman
- Season One Appearances
Harry Hamlin Aaron Echolls
- Season One Appearances
Brandon Hillock Deputy Sacks
- Season One Appearances
- Driver Ed
- Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang
- Blast from the Past
Michael Muhney Sheriff Don Lamb
- Season One Appearances
- Driver Ed
- Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang
- Green-Eyed Monster
- Blast from the Past
Daran Norris Cliff McCormack
- Season One Appearances
Krysten Ritter Gia Goodman
- Normal is the Watchword
Patrick Wolff - Hector
- Season One Appearances
Guest Stars
Greg Baine Mike
James Molina Thumper
Rick Peters Witness
Kim Stolz Stacy
Lisa Terry Dawn
Tracey Walter Motel Manager
Joss Whedon - Douglas
Who's Who in Neptune
Mike Amelia DeLongpre's ex-boyfriend whom she ditched in Ibiza.
Thumper One of Weevil's PCHer cronies that wanted to "thump" Dick for asking 'Since when did it become a crime to kill a Mexican!'
Witness Man that came forward stating that he was the anonymous caller that found Logan with the knife next to a dead Felix.
Stacy Employee at Lariat Rental Car that helps Veronica by giving her information on the whereabouts of the LeSabre rented by Amelia.
Dawn Amelia's friend and ex-roommate.
Motel Manager Night Manager at the Palm Tree Lodge Motel that has a penchant for porn and is immune to Veronica's feminine wiles as a form of persuasion.
Douglas Assistant Manager and Employee of the Month at Lariat Rental Car.
Hey! It's That Guy/Girl
Kim Stolz (Stacy) - Best known as America's Next Top Model Season 5 contestant and winner of the acting challenge.
Joss Whedon (Douglas) - Best known as the writer/creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly. He also recently made his feature-film writing/directing debut with the critically-acclaimed Serenity, based upon the latter television show. Whedon is also working on a the highly anticipated big-screen version of Wonder Woman
Tracey Walter (Motel Manager) - Character actor appearing in many movies and television shows, credits include Erin Brockovich, The Manchurian Candidate (where you can also briefly see Teddy Dunn as a soldier) and Independence Day.
Highlights
Jason Dohring (Logan Echolls) & Harry Hamlin (Aaron Echolls) - An actor's career tends to be a bit of a roller coaster ride. Most actors go through a period where they play bit parts, small roles in movies, guest star turns on episodic television before they finally get a break, achieve notice and become a name. They usually maintain that status until eventually through lack of offers or poor role choice or sometimes simply the advance of time, they drop out of the public notice.
Harry Hamlin's career followed that path in that he achieved a great deal of fame and notice as a member of LA Law in the 1980's and then slowly dropped off the public radar until his role as Aaron Echolls virtually resurrected his career. Jason Dohring has followed a similar career path with small roles in movies and guest star parts before achieving notice as Logan Echolls.
In Rat Saw God, both Hamlin and Dohring are at the top of their game and the result are Emmy award winning portrayals that are a feast for the eyes and a joy to behold. Both men bring depth and layers of emotion to every moment they are on screen together. This acting tutorial continues in all their other appearances in this episode whether it is Dohring doing a hilarious imitation of Sally Fields' infamous Oscar acceptance speech during the jail lineup or Hamlin's chilling confrontation with Keith Mars in prison.
Scene One: I See London, I See France, I see Logan Slap His Pants ...
... or not. Stupid UPN cutting off Logan slapping his ass (eh, pants rhymed better with France) in the televised airing (as opposed to the cold open presented on UPN.com last week). Ah well, at least we can live in the knowledge that Veronica was definitely watching the ass-slappage because when we should have been watching him, instead we saw Veronica watching him. Although, to be honest she didn't seem all too titillated by the action. Of course that could have been because he was getting arrested *again* for the murder of Felix Toombs *again* -- geez, not even 18 and the poor little rich boy has heard those fateful words three times now. "You are under arrest ..." Poor Logan.
And lo and behold, but Miss Veronica Mars actually looked like she might share that sentiment. She did look concerned as Deputy Sacks did his duty, which is much better than the bitchface she's had going on pretty much non-stop this season in regards to Logan.
See people, straws. We're still grasping those straws firmly. From Veronica Mars we actually got a glimmer of concern for Logan Echolls. She could have been smirking or laughing, but there was concern. Straws, I tell ya.
Scene Two: See the Argyle Stretch!
I won't go much into analyzing this scene, merely offer a few paragraphs before linking to a story that Signe wrote about this scene that effectively captures any significant, positive LoVe that could possibly be caught.
Now, you gotta think that Logan pulled this little act deliberately. He probably was waiting for her arrival, having earlier chosen the one item in Duncan's wardrobe that no one at Neptune High (or most places on the planet) aside from Duncan would wear and put a magazine over his face. And clearly, he wasn't asleep as his arms went around her as soon as Veronica laid down upon him. He didn't know that she would do what she did, but he most likely knew that it was a possibility.
So why did he so quickly speak? Because it was in the script. No, seriously, probably because he's been the victim of Veronica's afore-mentioned bitchface and wanted to head it off. If he had laid there any longer, she would have had every reason in the book to rail at him, pretty much justified for the first time since she dumped him and ripped his heart into a million pieces. By speaking right away, she had no justification to blame him -- not that such a thing has ever stopped her before. But hey, at least this way, he gave himself a fighting chance from the Veronica bitchface reprieve! And it worked, this time she turned it on Donut.
As for Veronica, well as soon as I saw Logan lying on the couch, I knew that it was him. I talked to a friend who was completely unspoiled and she wasn't sure it was Logan, but she knew damn well that it wasn't Duncan. Therefore, we can definitely fanwank that Veronica KNEW that it was not Duncan lying there and furthermore, as much time as she spent with Logan's body (yes, let's all take a moment to envy her greatly ~ a moment of silence wishing that we were the fictional Veronica Mars this past summer ~) ... Ahem, as much time as she spent with Logan's body in the past, she had to have known it was him.
So therefore, while Veronica told herself that she was laying down upon her "honest, adorable boyfriend" (excuse me, I just lost my lunch, foreshadowing or not), her subconscious knew that it was Logan. And if that is the case, her unreasonable anger about Logan's presence was anger at herself for allowing herself that moment in his arms, subconscious or not.
But don't just take my word for it. Signe wrote a brilliant little ficlet that beautifully captures a LoVe-biased reflection upon Veronica's thoughts during this scene. Do check it out: 'Optical Illusion in Black and White'
This week's mystery revisits the Abel Koontz storyline from last season. To recap, Able Koontz was a Kane Software employee who accepted money from Jake Kane to confess to being responsible for Lilly's death. Koontz was not the killer (obviously), but the Kanes wanted to protect Duncan from the possibility of being viewed as a suspect so they paid Koontz off. He accepted this offer because he was already dying of stomach cancer and their "reward" money could go to his daughter Amelia. Veronica figured this out and tried to get Amelia to reject the Kane offer and essentially help her prove that Koontz was not the murderer. Amelia was at first willing to help, but when she found out from Clarence Wiedman that her father was dying and that Veronica had not been honest with her, she signed the Kane Software settlement, taking three million dollars and agreeing to disappear.
Now onto this week's stuff After it is confirmed that Keith lost in his bid to become sheriff, Veronica goes to Mars Investigations to remove some celebratory balloons, not wanting the reminder of his defeat waiting for him at work the next day. When she gets to the office she finds a man practically passed out in the doorway. He looks like a transient. He is drunk and is wearing a trench coat and a stocking cap. Veronica doesn't know who it is at first. But the man then looks at her and calls out her name. When she looks at him again she realizes that it is Abel Koontz. Veronica is obviously surprised and confused by Koontz's presence. At the same time though, she seems concerned by his current state (and not at all afraid really, though given that she kind of blew his whole set up with the Kane's maybe she should have been ... just a little). So she helps him into the office.
It is clear as Koontz sits on the couch that his medical condition has worsened. He explains to Veronica that he wants her to find Amelia for him. He is dying and he wants to see her. Veronica is resistant at first, still resentful toward him for obstructing Lilly's case (That and Veronica had to feel the slightest bit (*cough* entirely) responsible for Amelia's disappearance). However, it's a little hard to be too snarky toward a man who is dying and alone, so she agrees to help him and gets him medical attention.
As Amelia was told to disappear, Veronica's task is a difficult one. There is no paper trail of any kind for Amelia. So Veronica begins her search by seeking out Amelia's old boyfriend, Mike. Somehow, she remembered his whole name and where his dorm was and she paid him a visit. Despite the circumstances under which Veronica knew Amelia and Mike had to subsequently know Veronica, he is very friendly and willing to give her any information about Amelia's whereabouts.
Veronica finds out that though, he also has not seen or heard from Amelia recently, he did know where she went to "disappear" and where she was last. It was a sad tale really. One as old as time. Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy and girl take settlement money from girl's father's pseudo-murder confession and booze it up in Ibiza. Boy eventually loses girl and all of his phone cards in a sea of foam and drunken club goers. Boy has to have parents pay for his trip home.
Veronica also tries to get information from Amelia's old roommate. But she had not heard anything from Amelia since she left. When Veronica told her that Amelia had gone to Ibiza, the girl is surprised, as she had never known Amelia to be a partier. Following upon the two clues Mike gave her after Amelia's not so BFF was a bust, she posts Amelia's picture and a "Have you seen this person?" message on an Ibiza people search message board, obviously hoping that someone can give her some clue as to Amelia's whereabouts.
Then she immediately contacts Cliff, who unbeknownst to Veronica is helping Logan with his murder charges at the time. She asks him to phone in some bogus story to WorldCom to find out whether the phone cards had been used.
He (whiningly) tells her that he doesn't wanna. He and Veronica then begin to recount various things they have done for each other (Cliff's cases and personal issues, Veronica's tendencies to play outside legal and ethical bounds in her work). Finally when she reminds him of a stripper who she proved was color blind (very important to Cliff for whatever reason), he concedes and agrees to call.
Throughout this exchange, Logan is sitting in front of Cliff, not knowing who was on the phone. He just watches with a sort of bemused expression on his face. When Cliff calls Worldcom and pretends to be looking for his daughter, whose woeful tale sounds remarkably like Geena Davis's in Thelma and Louise, Logan starts to laugh. Clearly, at this point, he is realizing his lawyer's true talents. His mirth is short lived, however, when he realizes that Cliff is calling for Veronica. As soon as he hears Cliff ask for any information to be sent to vmars@aol.com, Logan's smile fades ever so slightly. When Cliff gets off the phone, Logan comments, rather snarkily, that his [Cliff's] daughter sounds like a handful.
When the information from Worldcom comes through, Veronica sees that while most of the calls have been from Ibiza. One, the most recent, was placed from a payphone in Neptune. More specifically, the call was placed from a payphone outside of Kane Software.
Armed with her new information, Veronica breaks into Clarence Wiedman's office to talk to him and ask him about Amelia. She is full of snark and self righteous indignation at the man (and the Kane's) who covered up her best friend's death (someone forgot to tell Veronica that her boyfriend is a Kane and he was who Jake and Celeste were trying to protect). Anyhoo, moving passed my bitter VD rant ... Now where was I? Oh yes, Veronica wants answers. Clarence of course denies knowing anything about it and dismisses Veronica and the entire issue, telling her that he needed to get back to work and she needed to get back to minding her own business. Veronica leaves after taking a shot at his limited position of power.
At school, Dick and Duncan are planning some sort of plan to get trashed with their new fake ID's. This reminds Veronica that Amelia may have been using a fake ID as well (shocking, I know), so she calls Amelia's old roommate and asks her how Amelia got on a booze cruise the year before. It turns out that Amelia used her cousin's ID. When Veronica puts that name (Margot Schnell) into the search database, she finds that a car had been rented at the San Diego airport under that name within the last week.
To get access to the rental car, Veronica goes to the rental company for information. At first she approaches the man at the counter as a ditzy co-ed (a favorite Veronica disguise this season) wanting to rent the car her friend had the week before. He gives her the model and color of the car, but tells her that the car is already rented out. So Veronica leaves the store and in a Superman/Clark Kent moment, puts on glasses, lets her hair down, throws on a suit jacket, and re-enters the store as a different person.
This time she deals with a female employee (Kim from America's Next Top Model) who she had seen arguing with the first clerk and tries to appeal to the woman's disgruntled side. She explains that an evil male co-worker was about to steal her promotion if she was unable to retrieve her laptop from the white LeSabre she had rented the week prior. After some coercion, the woman activates the OnStar system and gives Veronica the last place the remote locks were used.
This takes Veronica to a shabby motel in the middle of nowhere. Inside the motel, she finds a pervy old clerk sitting at the desk looking up porn (though having some difficulty finding notty school girls). He tells Veronica that he had seen the girl but if she wanted to see the girl's room she would have to rent the room. When Veronica gets into the room she looks around but finds nothing, but does get a phone call from Keith demanded proof of her safe location. When she opens her laptop to send Keith an email falsifying her whereabouts or reassuring him of her safety (depending on how you look at it), she sees that Amelia's palm pilot is within range.
Veronica begins her search, renting four rooms. Finally, she sees an ice machine. She hesitantly opens the lid and looks inside looking for the palm pilot. Instead, she finds Amelia's dead body. As she turns away to call the police, Veronica runs right into Clarence Wiedman (who clearly, and not surprisingly, lied to Veronica during their previous conversation) who promptly follows her into one of the rooms and explains what he knows about Amelia. She had contacted him trying to get more money. He gave her a quarter of a million dollars in marked bills and told her to leave. She did. But then the marked bills started to show up in this small town that Veronica and Wiedman were visiting.
Clarence doesn't know what happened to her beyond that, so he and Veronica form an unlikely partnership. He accompanies her to the front desk and threatens the clerk into telling him who she was with. The man tells them that she was with her boyfriend. Veronica and Clarence then go back to get more information from Mike. She knocks at the door and when he answers, he seems happy to see her (happy like ... So are you going to search me now? Please). Alas, Veronica is not there for a social call.
When she begins to explain, Clarence bursts through, gags him, and proceeds to hang him out a window demanding answers about Amelia. Veronica is hysterically begging Clarence to stop, but he continues his interrogation until he is satisfied that Mike knows nothing. When they leave the room, they compliment one another on their acting abilities.
When Veronica gets home, she checks her email and a instant messenger box pops up. It is a girl from Ibiza who knew Amelia. She sends Veronica a picture of her with Mike and some friends. The girl asks Veronica if Amelia is still with her boyfriend, who was a total liar. It occurs to Veronica that Mike may not have been the boyfriend the girl was referring to, so she sends the picture to the hotel clerk and calls him asking him if the man Amelia was with is in the photo. He identifies another man. Veronica immediately calls Clarence with the new information.
Clarence in turn tells her that he is going to follow a lead on the marked bills. Apparently, they were showing up at a Las Vegas casino. Veronica asks him what he is going to do to the man who killed Amelia and is now spending the Kane's payoff. He explains that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas (in a show with so few cheesy moments, this was classic).
Veronica can't bring herself to tell Abel that his daughter is dead, as he had sacrificed everything for Amelia and he only had a day or more to live. So Veronica makes up a story about how Amelia was in the Himalayas and was trapped there because of snow. He asks her if Amelia seemed happy and Veronica tells him yes. Then she sits with Koontz in his hospital bed offering comfort in his final hours.
- It's election day in Neptune! Keith is having a small gathering at the apartment in order to watch the election results as he sweeps to vict-- um, as he loses with 49% of the vote. Bummer! Veronica is in attendance as well as Cliff. Yay! The next election will be held in 2010, pencil it into your calendar now! Veronica insists that Keith only lost the election due to Lamb's underhanded attempt to make Keith the scapegoat in the bus crash case. She questions Keith's decision not to publicly release the bus crash tape, but Keith still insists he made the right decision. When Keith calls to make his concession, Lamb tells Sacks to take a message. What a dickwad. I think that with his recent behavior he has lost his moniker of Sheriff Hottie.
- Woody Goodman wins as Balboa county supervisor, which used to be known as the Mayor of Neptune. Ha! Yeah, formerly as in before Rob Thomas and crew figured out that Neptune could not have a Mayor and a sheriff. Now that her father is the County Supervisor, Gia has set a few goals for herself as Neptune's First Daughter: public drunkenness, sluttiness and minor scandals. She also seems to have come to the conclusion that her partner in crime in these endeavors should be Dick Casablancas. Well, I am sure he would be more than happy to help in at least the first two. Maybe his father can webcam in to advise on the scandal part.
- Dick can't discuss the whereabouts of his father. He says that if his dad returns to the US, he could be looking at 10-15 years at "Club Fed." Is there communal soap there? Dick's been left in charge of taking care of Beaver (scary!) since their real mom lives in San Francisco with her new family.
- Dick and Logan very awkwardly kiss and make up regarding the Kendall affair. Dick, here's a pointer on friendship: Even if your best friend is boning your step-mom don't mention that his dead mom gave you several hard-ons. It's tacky.
- While talking to Logan, Cliff is interrupted by a phone call from Veronica, who needs a favor. This leads to an entertaining discussion about favors done in the past, including:
Logan seems amused by the conversation, unaware of whom the other party is until he hears Cliff mention the e-mail address: vmars@aol.com. He also seems impressed with Cliff's acting ability.
- Lamb puts Logan in a holding cell ... with his father! Evil bastard! Apparently, Logan hasn't been to visit Aaron except when he needed his emancipation papers signed. That must have been a cheery meeting. Aaron insists that he's not a murderer and gives some good fatherly advice to Logan for once. He tells him not to throw away his life just to spite him and encourages him to get a real lawyer.
- Cliff's suits are 2 for $500. He was able to get bail for Logan since he goes to the same gym as Judge Bloom. The deal included a case of Cohiba cigars and a four-handed Thai massage that Cliff is going to bill Logan for. I wonder if he will also be paying for a happy ending for the judge. Logan will also have to post a $200,000 bond. That Amex card is going to get quite a work out.
- Logan likes to watch Ellen DeGeneres' talk show.
- Logan has to be monitored by an ankle bracelet.
- Logan has bought Weevil's grandmother's house and has served the family with an eviction notice. Weevil and Logan almost come to blows, but a teacher separates them.
- Since Logan's house burned down, he's moved into Duncan's hotel suite. A fact, Duncan neglected to share with Veronica, which leads to an uncomfortable situation when she mistakes Logan for Duncan. Just for the record, the word "honest" is stressed an awful lot in the VMVO, but I am sure it will not be important in any way in the future.
- Weevil, looking very fit and very short, taunts Dick and Duncan about Logan's arrest. Dick (of course, not Duncan who is still perfecting standing idly by) fires back about whether or not it's even illegal to kill Mexicans.
- Hector informs Weevil that Logan made bail in about two minutes. Well it took a little longer than that; he did have time for a heart to heart with his father after all. Weevil is not happy to hear this. His mood does not improve when a random PCH dude has the most mind-blowing revelation, "These white boys get away with everything!" What?! No, you're kidding!?! I never noticed that before. Seriously RT, enough with that phrase! We get it already! *grumble*
Hector also informs Weevil that the PCHers are losing their street cred. The younger kids are referring to them as the Panty Club for Homos. I can see the matching hot pink leather jackets now. Weevil decides that maybe it is time for some payback to Logan Echolls.
- Keith visits Lamb who "accidentally" mentions the Curly Moran case. Keith does not seem pleased. He calls Veronica to question her about the incident. She fesses up about what she knows about Curly Moran, but continues to lie about her current whereabouts. She tells Keith she's at an art gallery and Keith tells her to prove it by sending a picture. Veronica manages to fake it by placing all the hotel room's pictures on one wall. Yeah, like there are ever that many pictures in a $30/night hotel room.
-Aaron has been passing the time in jail by getting a psychology degree and reading the Russian Masters. I guess reading Siddhartha did broaden his mind.
- Wallace is still in Chicago with his dad. Veronica has his e-mail and begins to compose a letter telling Wallace about all the latest news in Neptune. Veronica admits that the correspondence is one-sided, since Wallace never responds.
- Dick wants Duncan to go to Senor Shrimp so he can get a shirt with a shrimp on it that says, "Eat me." I can see the icons now ...
- Dick seems just as squicked by the VDage as the rest of us. However, he is nice to Veronica in front of Duncan, as opposed to when he was such a dick to her in Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang.
- John Enbom has apparently gotten fake ID's for the whole gang. For some reason, they're all from Rhode Island.
- The Abel Koontz settlement from Kane Software was $3 million. Amelia finalized the papers the previous spring in the episode Kanes and Abel's.
- Amelia is 21 years old.
- World-Telecom Phone cards stolen by Amelia:
- Cliff's drink of choice is gin, and he seems particularly attached to cocktail weenies.
- Sacks wears a silver ring on the middle finger of his left hand.
- Logan has a black American Express card that he can apparently put charges like bail on. Too bad Amex doesn't have a black card.
- Amelia went on the Greek booze cruise the previous year with her roommate.
- Crazy Girls had to discontinue its lunch buffet due to heath code violations. Cliff seems disappointed by this fact.
- Cliff! has at least one ex-wife, and a real fondness for his Lincoln.
- Veronica gets to call Cliff, "Cliffie." Ha!
- Cliff thinks that Lamb is mean, and he's right.
- Aaron has been held at County until he was moved for the tete a tete with his son.
- There is a payphone across the street from Kane Software.
- Clarence Wiedman still has his job as head of Security for Kane Software, and protecting the Kane name still seems to be part of the job.
- Clarence's office has a glass door now and his admin assistant no longer has a desk outside. Either he moved to new digs in the building, or they had to shoot in different interiors because it is totally off from what we saw previously.
- Clarence Wiedman wears a wedding ring.
- Amelia DeLongpre has a cousin named Margot Schnell. She used Margot's name for her fake id.
- Lariat Car Rental at the San Diego Airport can rent you a Regal with moon roof for $250 a week plus tax and liability. If you are really lucky, Joss Whedon will wait on you.
- The Palm Tree Lounge is the destination of choice for Waverly, California. For a mere $30 a night you can rent plush accommodations complete with mold, fungus and several new and exciting varieties of bugs. I would recommend bringing your own ice. The hotel clerk's e-mail address is nightman122@aol.com if you would like more information.
- The Long Haul was Aaron's first big hit.
- Veronica's laptop has a blue tooth connection.
- Wiedman went to Harvard.
- The bystander/witness from the Coronado Bridge shows up at the police station on election night with information on Felix's death. Lamb has Sacks show up to Gia's party and arrests Logan, who makes him do it in the center of the room. If anything, Logan seems a little excited by being in handcuffs. I hope Veronica is taking notes along with her deer in the headlights look.
At the police station Logan is practicing his Oscar speech during his line up. Lamb, who appears amused by the over the top antics pulls him out of the room and actually gives him some good advice to get a lawyer. Logan refuses to call his high priced legal counsel, instead asking for any sober, public defender who happens to be roaming the halls. When Logan tells Lamb to charge his bail on his credit card, Lamb tries to intimidate him by threatening to hold him without a hearing and telling him that if he does get a hearing, he will never make bail because Lamb will see to that.
When next we see Logan he is getting his wish when Cliff! walks into his interrogation room. He certainly fits the bill, well except for the sober part. Cliff informs Logan that he looks like an arrogant jackass. Logan insists that the witness is lying, and yet has no explanation when Cliff reads him his testimony from June 27th when he swore that he could not remember anything from that night.
The witness claims that Logan was holding the knife and ranting like a maniac over Felix's body. He also claims Logan threatened him by saying "The [expletive] [racial expletive] had it [maternal expletive] coming." (Guesses anyone? Hee.) The witness also claims that Logan threatened to have him killed. Cliff tells Logan to get a real lawyer, or three, leaving his client looking pensive. Hot and pensive, but pensive.
Lamb puts Logan in a holding cell with HIS FATHER, the jackass, and some dude who is obviously a mole whose sole purpose is to eavesdrop. And for the record, during their conversation both Harry Hamlin and Jason Dohring act the hell out of their line reads. Aaron claims that he did not kill Lilly. He tells Logan that he fought with Lilly and followed her home but Duncan overheard them and started ranting and raving. He insists that Lilly was alive when he left. And even though a part of me half-believed him, Logan seems unmoved. I guess those Oscar statues in the living room weren't a fluke!
Logan looks especially skeptical when he asks about Veronica and Aaron insists that he just snapped. He encourages Logan to get a real lawyer, a sentiment that Cliff echoes when he comes in to tell Logan he has made bail after all. Logan seems suitably impressed and seems inclined to keep Cliff as his counsel. Oh, more Loff scenes, goodie. Lamb drives Logan home and they find the Echolls mansion on fire. I guess those reindeer boxers are gone forever now.
- On Keith's tip, Lamb has had the bus brought up from the crash site. They are checking out the front end, brakes and anything else that might have caused the crash. Keith goes to Lamb asking for information on the bus which Lamb refuses to give him. Lamb then blabs about questioning Veronica regarding Curly and Keith begins to completely freak out and tightens Veronica electronic leash by calling and asking her to prove her whereabouts. I see a GPS tracker being surgically implanted into her pretty soon.
Keith then pays a visit to Aaron in jail, courtesy of a guard friend who he assures Aaron will swear he was never there. Keith questions Aaron on the crash and Curly, but Aaron plays dumb. His performance is not as good as earlier, though. It didn't scream Oscar nomination to me, maybe just a Golden Globe. Aaron continues to posture and Keith closes by threatening Aaron is anything happens to Veronica in the next 70-80 years. When Aaron scoffs at the idea, Keith points out to Aaron that his little visit proves that Aaron can be gotten to, a realization that seems to make him very nervous. And while I did not feel the truth from Aaron, Keith sold me and apparently Aaron as well if the look on his face is anything to go by.
- Keith breaks into the warehouse where the bus is being kept and almost gets caught by a security guard. To avoid detection he falls to the floor of the bus and sees rats duct taped to the underside of a seat.
"Girl on the Bus" (Kissinger)
Scene: Boys will be boys and Dick and Logan are such lovely boys as they discuss the merits -- negative and positive -- of banging your buddy's superhot stepmom!
LoVe Lines
Logan: It's the sweater, isn't it? Chicks can't resist argyle.
Veronica: Please let go of me!
Logan: Ever the tease.
Quotable Quotes
Cliff: (To Veronica.) You're out of cocktail weenies. And I'm out of cocktail.
Veronica: We're out of gin.
Cliff: I'm not particular. (Listens to TV reporter reporting race results.) Whatever it is, make it a double.
Dick: Dude, my stepmom?
Logan: I'm a total piece of crap.
Dick: (Play punches Logan.) Better you than the cable guy, I guess. And I'd be lying to say that I never perved on your mom while she was prancing around the pool in that hardly there bikini of hers.
Logan: (Less than thrilled.) Great. So, no hard feelings?
Dick: No, she gave me a few. (Laughs and play punches Logan again.)
Cliff: (To Keith.) Look on the bright side, 49% of Neptune still likes you.
Keith: (To Veronica.) I've got Cliff to keep me company. Right, Cliff?
Cliff: Right. I promise to hold his hair back if he has to make sick in the toilet.
Veronica: (To Gia.) Yeah, congrats on your old man. I guess that makes you like Neptune's first daughter. Are you ready for all the parade waving and ribbon cutting?
Gia: I thought I'd go more Bush twin style. You know public drunkenness, sluttiness, and minor scandals. Speaking of which, what do you think of Dick?
Veronica: (Slightly confused.) Casablancas, I presume. Well, what can I say? Dick is just ... Dick.
Deputy Sacks: The Sheriff would like to have a word with you.
Logan: And I'd like to be the cream filling of an Olsen twin sandwich, but ...
Sacks: Will you come with me, please?
Logan: If I'm under arrest, then do me the courtesy of making it all official like.
Sacks: Logan Echolls, you are under arrest for the murder of Felix Toombs.
Logan: I am having the weirdest dj vu thing right now.
Dick: (Arms in air.) Douche chill!
Logan: (Stepping forward in police line up.) Wow, I'm stunned. You like me. You really like me! Well first I'd just like to say the other nominees are all such wonderfully gifted criminals. And I want to thank my agent. (Mock tears.) And my publicist for always shooting me from the left side.
Logan: Ah well I'm stunned. You like me, you really like me. But first I just like to say that all of the other nominees are all such wonderfully gifted criminals. And I want to thank my agent and my publicist for always shooting me from the left side.
Mike: We're there, hanging out, the drop the foam, and that was the last I saw of her.
Veronica: Did you check under the foam?
Veronica: Ibiza, I'd follow up in person, but dad is pretty conservative about fact finding trips abroad.
Logan: So my tax dollars at work. Where were you? Getting thirds at the Crazy Girls lunch buffet?
Cliff: Actually they discontinued the buffet, some health code thing. Okay, my name's Cliff. I will be your 'if you can't afford an attorney,' attorney. So, what are you trying to prove?
Logan: Um, my innocence?
Cliff: No I mean with this poor little rich boy stunt. Having me represent you doesn't make you look innocent; it makes you look like an arrogant jackass. If the witness's story holds you are going to trial.
Logan: Hmm, the guy's lying.
Cliff: June 27th you gave testimony saying you couldn't remember a thing, now he comes forward saying he saw you, bloody knife in hand, ranting like a maniac over a dead body.
Logan: And what exactly did I say?
Cliff: 'The expletive racial expletive had it maternal expletive coming.' But wait there's more. You then threatened you use your father's money to have said witness killed. Is that true or not, Logan? The Echolls name won't bring you a lot of jury love.
Veronica: Cliff, come on, you owe me.
Cliff: I owe you? Who unconfiscated all of your fake college ID's?
Veronica: Who got the Lincoln out of your ex's name?
Cliff: Who helped put that lean against Lee's Wok and Donut?
Veronica: And who proved that stripper was color blind?
Cliff: Okay, who am I calling and what am I giving them.
Logan: That daughter of yours sounds like a real handful.
Cliff: This is what I'm good at. Marquee murder cases? Nah? Now Lamb says he wants to keep you here to ease community tensions, but really it's because he's mean.
Aaron: I guess our sheriff has a soft spot for family. Well, huh, at least I know what it takes to get a visit out of you. Those special times set aside for our emancipation paperwork doesn't really count.
Logan: I just need a little time to work through how you bashed my girlfriend's skull in.
Aaron: I'm not a murderer!
Logan: Oh, so you merely plowed my girlfriend and taped it for your home collection.
Logan: So you tried to kill another girl, also a girlfriend of mine. What? To maintain your innocence?
Aaron: Let me get you a real lawyer. Not some public defender with a mail order diploma and a $300 suit.
Cliff: Two for $500 actually, but your point remains valid.
Logan: Bail? How? I thought you said ...
Cliff: Judge Bloom and I schvitz at the same gym. I'll be billing you for a case of Cohibas and a four-handed Thai massage.
Veronica: I would have thought that helping your billionaire boss cover up his daughter's murder would have snagged you a better office. Or at least a plaque.
Clarence: Excuse me, I have to get back to work and you have to get back to minding your own business. Or do I have to ... (He trails off as he gestures toward the phone.)
Veronica: No need to call yourself to escort me out. You know I know the drill.
Dick: Wait, did I miss a state proposition or something? Is it now a crime to kill a Mexican?
Logan: The best thing about two days in jail? Two days of Ellen on the TiVo. That sweet feeling.
Lamb: (A few minutes later as they pull up to Logan's burning house.) That's going to mess up your TiVo.
Motel Manager: So you did find someone at the Gas 'n' Sip, and now you need a room.
Veronica: Was anyone else in here two nights ago, did you see anyone with her?
Motel Manager: Why? Is he missing a friend, too?
Clarence: Answer the question or I'll break all your fingers.
Aaron: (To guard.) What, just two chairs? (The guard nods.) Where's my lawyer going to sit?
Keith: Oh, it's an unofficial visit. Just me and the guard ... who will deny I was ever here.
Aaron: Ahh. Well, in that case I hope you won't mind carrying the conversation. (Sitting down.)
Keith: Nah, have it your way. You look good. What have you got going on? Some weights, some cardio?
Aaron: Well, I got a lot of free time. (Pausing.) I just got my psychology degree. And now I'm reading the Russian masters -- Tolstoy, Turgenev. You know. (Pausing.) So, did you come out here to talk self-improvement?
Keith: (Sitting down.) I'm here because of my daughter.
Aaron: Well, now that's funny, so am I. So, did you come here today to thank me, Keith? You know, for your fifteen minutes? 'Cause if it wasn't for me no one would've bought that hack book of yours. (With a laugh, he takes a beat before continuing.) No, I guess you didn't come to thank me. Maybe, maybe you just came here to gloat, hmm? Nooo, that doesn't seem like you much, either. Why did you come here, Keith?
Keith: Former employee of yours shows up dead, sabotaged school bus goes over a cliff, and I start to worry about Veronica's safety.
Aaron: Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute. You think I had something to do with the crash? Hoo, hoohoo, you are priceless, Keith. You know, they give you enough press you'd find a way to put me on the grassy knoll.
Keith: (Standing up.) Truth is I don't care if you were behind the crash or not. I just want you to know that if anything happens to my daughter in, say, the next seventy, eighty years, you're the one who's gonna pay for it.
Aaron: Did you come all the way out here just to give me that tough guy speech?
Keith: No. I came all the way out to here to show how easily I can get to you. So just ... file that away.
Logan: And the other sweet thing is I'm in constant video contact with Martha Stewart, right. Kinda like a Dick Tracy kinda thing.
Weevil: What the hell is this?
Logan: Esta? Una? What is their word for paper?
Dick: Umm, pa-par-o.
Logan: Okay, I'll translate. Just don't tell the ESL teacher I helped you cheat. That's an eviction notice.
Weevil: You bought my grandmother's house?
Logan: That's right. Su Casa is Me Casa. But in my defense, Weevil, I do need a new one. You might have heard my former domicile was burned, quite unexpectedly.
Weevil: If you kick my family out --
Logan: Oh, have it your way, we'll all live together in one big wacky sitcom family. On second thought, I'm kicking you out. And on third thought, I wouldn't live in that roach motel if you put a gun to my -- (Weevil shoves the piece of pizza Logan was eating in his face.)
Logan: You hear that? School is a place of learning.
Weevil: Yeah, you might want to think about what prison is a place of!
Rats Saw God ... (Referenced by the episode title, Rat Saw God.)
Rats Saw God is the title of Rob Thomas' first novel, aimed at young adults. When he has to write an essay on his life for English, the central character, Steve York, reflects on his four years of high school. He tries to figure out where it all went wrong, considering such issues as his relationship with his famous dad and his breakup with his ex-girlfriend (Wanda "Dub" Varner). Along the way he makes discoveries about himself and about life.
Chicago (Referenced by Veronica thinking about how Wallace is there with his dad.)
Chicago is the largest city in Illinois, as well as the third-most populous city in the United States (over 2.8 million). It is referred to as the "Second City" (second to nation's capital Washington, D.C. in importance), the "Windy City," the "City of Big Shoulders," and "Chi-town." The city is located along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. Chicago was founded in 1833 as a frontier town, and has since grown into one of the world's ten most influential cities. It is the financial, economic, and cultural capital of the Midwest, and is also recognized as a major center for transportation, business, and architecture.
Though there has been a decline in overall crime since the 1990s, the 1960s marked a period of intense gangland problems and saw a major rise in violent crimes. In 1974, with a population just over three million, the city had 970 murderers (resulting in a murder rate of 29:100,000). In 1992, the murder rate was 34:100,000. Chicago adopted crime-fighting techniques used by the NYPD and LAPD in 2004, and recorded a total of 448 homicides, the lowest on record since 1965. Organized crime has a long-standing place in Chicago's history, dating back to the 1910s, and boasting some of the most notorious crime lords and gangs, such as Al "Scarface" Capone and the Chicago Outfit, Bugs Moran, the Chicago Crime Syndicate, and the Chicago North Side Gang.
Chicago's theater scene is a major draw for aspiring actors, and is the birthplace of modern improvisation comedy. There is a major music scene in the city as well; it is the birthplace of the House music genre, had significant influences in Hip-Hop, and is home to a number of 90s Alternative, Punk, and Indie bands.
Club Med ... (Referenced by Dick when he tells Gia his dad would be facing ten to fifteen years at Club Fed.)
Club Med is short for Club Mditerrane, which is a French corporation of vacation resorts, found all over the world in mostly exotic locations. The resorts offer packages that include lodging, food, use of facilities, sports activities, games, and shows. Extra options like alcohol are often extra and require special beads or tickets. Additionally, the resort staff and the guests all eat, drink, and play together day and night. A Club Med resort is basically a one-stop vacation spot, with everything you would need all in one place. Just like Big Dick would get in Club Fed (aka prison). But somehow I don't think Big Dick would find the Club Fed staff quite as accommodating, and I doubt there would be a beach.
Frisco (San Francisco) (Referenced by Dick as he tells Gia that his mom lives there with her new family.)
The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth-largest city in California and the fourteenth-largest in the United States, with a 2005 population of 739,426. It is located on the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the focal point of the San Francisco Bay Area, whose population is seven million. San Francisco is the second most densely populated major American city, after New York.
The Spanish were the first Europeans to settle in San Francisco in 1776 and they named the settlement for St. Francis. When the gold rush hit in 1848, the city experienced rapid growth. Even the devastating earthquake of 1906 (one of the worst natural disasters in United States history) could not stop the San Francisco explosion. The city was quickly rebuilt and is today one of the most recognizable cities in the United States. Famous hallmarks and landmarks include the San Francisco cable cars, the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island.
"The Bush Twins" ... (Referenced by Gia to Veronica (prior to Logan's arrest) as the kind of first daughter she would like to be.)
Barbara and Jenna Bush rose to national prominence after they started stumping for their father, George W. Bush, during the 2000 presidential election. They have numerous websites dedicated to following their antics including www.thefirsttwins.com. The high-spirited girls quickly became the favorite of gossip mags for their underage drinking, smoking wild behavior and rotating male friends. They spoke at the Republican National Convention and practically brought the proceedings to a halt with a lame stand up comedy routine that poked fun at their Grandmother as well as other family members. I bet they were so off the Christmas list after that debacle!
In their father's first term they provided rich opportunity for headlines as they fully embraced their college experience and evaded their Secret Service details for parties on a regular basis. In the last several years their behavior has been more sedate if you don't count posing for the Maxim lingerie issue against them.
"Olsen Twins" ... (Referenced by Logan who wanted to be the cream filling in an Olsen Twins sandwich.)
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are fraternal twins born on 6/13/86. They made their television debut on the sitcom Full House at the age of 9 months old and appeared on this series from 1987-1995 playing the role of Michelle Tanner. They also made a series of movies where they were renowned for their wholesome appeal. Interestingly enough, the Olsen twins achieved their huge future -- currently estimated to be worth approximately $40 million dollars each, through a behind the scenes lawyer, named Robert Thorne.
Thorne started by renegotiating their salary and then turned their names into brand names by capitalizing on the untapped tweener market. Behind the scenes lawyer? Sounds like our favorite public defender Cliff. Though it's doubtful Logan had this in mind when he was anticipating being the lovely center between Mary-Kate and Ashley. But since Logan is now enjoying a Three's Company lifestyle with Duncan and Veronica maybe he could still play the cream filling in a slightly different sandwich. He has already managed to get Veronica on top of him. Does that mean we can anticipate Duncan underneath? Ack -- mental images. Excuse me a minute while I run screaming into the night.
"You like me " (Referenced by Logan while giving his acceptance speech in the police lineup.)
"You like me, you really like me!" This is a well known portion of actress Sally Fields' 1985 Academy Award acceptance speech. She won the award for her portrayal of Edna Spalding in the movie Places in the Heart. Although, the phrase is an oft-quoted, Oscar classic, it is actually not quite correct. Her exact speech is as follows: "I haven't had an orthodox career and I wanted more than anything to have your respect," she declared. "The first time [for her title role in Norma Rae, in 1980] I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me! Right now, you like me!"
Ibiza ... (Referenced as Amelia's last known whereabouts.)
Ibiza, known to locals as Eivissa, is one of the Spanish Balearic Islands located on the Mediterranean Sea, off the east coast of Spain. Ibiza is a very popular tourist destination, with beautiful vistas and rich history and island culture. Ibiza is especially well-known for its dozens of beaches, from hidden gems great for relaxing and sunbathing to the more popular stretches of sand, packed with beautiful half-naked people. Ibiza also boasts a legendary and somewhat notorious club scene, serving as Mecca to serial partygoers like the Hilton sisters and Tara Reid. Ibiza Town, the island's capital on the eastern shore is largely regarded as a clubber's paradise, considered to have some of the best and most diverse clubs in existence.
Tara Reid ... (Referenced when Amelia's ex says that he and Amelia were in Ibiza -- no doubt referencing Taradise. Snerk!)
Born November 8th, 1975, in Wyckoff, New Jersey, Tara Reid is an American actress best known for starring in the 1999 film American Pie and for her role as Bunny Lebowski, the trophy wife, in the film The Big Lebowski (1998). Reid began her career in show business in 1982 at the age of six when she was a contestant on the CBS children's game show, Child's Play. As a child, she attended New York's Professional Children's School and appeared in numerous commercials for such products as McDonald's, Crayola and Jell-O.
In 1994, Reid landed a role on the television sitcom, Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and, the following year, was given a recurring guest role in the soap opera Days of Our Lives. It wasn't until 1998 that she broke through to the big-screen by landing roles in such films as I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, Urban Legends, Around the Fire and the aforementioned The Big Lebowski. She is, however, probably best known for her role as the girlfriend of one of four high school guys who make a pact to lose their virginity in American Pie.
Although Reid has starred in several other films and television series' throughout the years, she is most often recognized thanks to her reputation as a wild, party girl that whose face is often seen on the cover of tabloid magazines. She is famous for a highly publicized photo shoot in November of 2004 in which Reid experienced a wardrobe malfunction that exposed her left breast for the world to see and starred in her own reality show, Taradise which publicizes her party-girl image. After a very short run, the show has been cancelled.
Girls Gone Wild ... (Referenced by Amelia's roommate when talking to Veronica about Ibiza.)
Girls Gone Wild is a series of videos depicting young women removing their clothing (and engaging in lesbian sexual intercourse) for the camera, usually in exchange for a t-shirt. The videos have themes: Sexy Sorority Girls, Spring Break Girls, et al. The videos are sold online as well as via late night TV infomercials and are a multi-million dollar boom, making the "creator" of the brand, Joe Francis, a multi-millionaire sleaze artist.
"Fred McMurray" ... (Referenced when Veronica calls Cliff while he is questioning Logan in jail.)
Fred McMurray was born in 1908 and died in 1991 after a long successful career in both television and movies. One of his most famous movies was Double Indemnity, which was released in 1944, and is considered one of the best film noirs ever produced. The movie is about an insurance rep who lets himself be talked into helping the luscious blonde femme fatale (played by Barbara Stanwyk) commit an elaborate murder/insurance fraud scheme. Nothing and nobody are quite what they seem to be in this movie which features greed, unbridled lust and betrayal of the seemingly innocent and beautiful. Things not what they seem, conspiracy, betrayal, shocking death -- just another episode of Veronica Mars.
Interestingly enough McMurray is also fondly remembered for his portrayal of a kindly and wise father in the television series My Three Sons which ran from 1960-1972. In a series where fathers play such a prominent role (Keith, the good father; Wallace's dad, the prodigal, unknown father; and Aaron, the evil father) -- are we being led to another key father figure playing the role of Murderer Number 1?
Mexico (Referenced by Cliff as he pretends his daughter is missing.)
Mexico is a country located in North America, approximately 753,665 square miles in size, bordered at the north by the United States, and at the south with Guatemala and Belize in Central America. It is the northernmost and westernmost country in Latin America and with a population of 106.5 million, Mexico is also the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world. The official name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos, which translates as the United Mexican States. The term State of Mexico (Estado de Mexico) does not refer to the country, but only to one state within Mexico, located near the center of the country adjacent to the Federal District.
U.S. citizens have been known to cross the border into Mexico to evade U.S. authorities and skip tracers. Most often, these individuals cross the border into Tijuana due to its proximity to the world's busiest border crossing. What is interesting is that criminals continue to cross into Mexico to evade criminal prosecution despite the extradition treaty that has been in place between the U.S. and Mexico since 1980.
According to EscapingJustice.com, the Treaty provides for extradition of a party who has been charged with or found guilty of an offense committed in the United States, who has fled to Mexico. An offense is extraditable if it is a crime in both countries and punishable by incarceration for a period of one year or more. The Extradition Treaty further provides that where the offense for which extradition is sought is punishable by death, extradition may be refused unless assurances are given that the death penalty shall not be imposed, and if imposed, shall not be executed.
Thelma and Louise (Referenced by Logan while meeting with Cliff in prison.)
Thelma and Louise is a 1991 Ridley Scott directed movie starring Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise. It's the story of two women who decide to break away from their hum-drum lives by taking a two-day road trip. Their journey takes a tragic turn when Louise shoots and kills a man who attempted to rape Thelma. They proceed to flea the scene and lead the authorities on a manhunt across the county. Along the way, they rediscover the strength of their friendship and the strength they each carry within. Thelma and Louise also featured a very young Brad Pitt in a star-making role as the hot stud hustler.
Conjugal Visit ... (Referenced by Logan to Lamb right before he realizes he's sharing a cell with Aaron.)
A conjugal visit is an allowance granted to prisoners in the United States to have sexual intercourse with a visitor (generally their spouse). The concession is primarily allowed as a protection of the spouse's rights rather than the prisoner's - the idea is that s/he should still be allowed sexual intimacy without having to consent to divorce or adultery once his/her spouse is incarcerated. The prisoner is usually required to undergo a background check (check for STD's) as well as meeting other qualifications (history of good behavior).
Most prisons have small rooms or trailers set up for conjugal visits, and while the meetings are private, the setting is hardly romantic. The rooms are supplied with minimal materials (condoms, soap, sheets, pillows) and both the prisoner and spouse are searched before and after the meeting to ensure that no items were transferred.
Cohiba Cigars ... (Referenced by Cliff when telling Logan how he made bail.)
Cohiba cigars are simply expensive Cuban cigars. Originally, these cigars were used as presentation cigars to Cuban government officials. Now the brand, which includes the Lancero, the Corona Especiale, the Panetela, the Esplendido, the Robusto, the Exquisito and the Siglo series, is produced for commercial use. A box runs anywhere from $40 to $500 (Cliffy knows how to give a good bribe, err, gift).
Four-Handed Thai Massage ... (Referenced by Cliff when facing the older and younger Echolls sharing quality jail time.)
The traditional Thai massage focuses on stretching and loosening the body using the principles of Yoga, Shiatsu and Acupressure. The person being massaged lies on a mat or firm mattress on the floor, while the massage therapist leans on the body, applying firm and rhythmic pressure to all parts of the body with their hands and forearms. Sometimes legs and feet are also used to give the massage. The massage includes deep pressure compression, stretching, pulling and bending. A four-handed massage would, naturally, be administered by two therapists, each beginning at opposite ends of the body and working their way to meet up in the middle.
The term "Thai massage" is often confused with the sexual services offered in brothels masquerading as "massage parlors" in Thailand.
J.Lo Calendar ... (Referenced by Weevil to Hector on why he looks so upset in the hallway.)
J.Lo is the self appointed nickname for the actress/pop superstar Jennifer Lopez. Lopez hit the big time when she won the role of slain Tejano singer, Selena. She began her career as a dancer in stage musicals and music videos. Her first job in Hollywood was as a "Fly Girl" on the television show In Living Color. She has since starred in over twenty feature films and has released three pop albums.
Shawshank Redemption ... (Referenced by Weevil when asking about his friend's J. Lo poster being torn down.)
In the movie Shawshank Redemption, prisoner Andy Dufresne (played by Tim Robbins), would receive posters of women and hang them on the walls of his prison cell. These pictures of Raquel Welsh, Rita Hayworth, and others certainly weren't uncommon as these women represented the feminine ideal. However, Andy was using them, not only for their aesthetic allure, but, more importantly, to hide a hole that he was burrowing through the prison walls to make his escape.
The film is based upon Stephen King's 1982 novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, which was published as part of Different Seasons.
PCH (Referenced by Hector as he tells Weevil that his little brother has heard people call their gang "Panty Club for Homos.")
Pacific Coast Highway refers to sections of California's Route 1, beginning at San Juan Capistrano, south of Los Angeles, and ending where Route 1 merges with Highway 1 at Leggett, in Northern California. Route 1 is one of the longest (644 miles) and most scenic routes in California, providing breathtaking views of a large part of the Pacific Coast. It travels past dozens of historical landmarks and through such cities as San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
San Diego (Referenced by Veronica as she traces Amelia's fake ID to a car rental place at the airport.)
It is believed that the first humans settled in the San Diego area some 20,000 years ago, along the coast, and 12,000 years ago in the desert area. However, it was in 1542 that Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sailed from Mexico into the Bay and claimed the area for Spain, naming it San Miguel. At the time, there were 20-30 thousand of the Kumeyaay tribe living there. In 1602, explorer Sebastian Vizcaino arrived on his ship, San Diego, and named the area for the Spanish Catholic saint, San Diego de Alcal. Then, in 1769, the first of a chain of twenty-one missions along the California coast was founded by Father Junipero Serra and the California Governor Gaspar de Portola. It was built on Presidio Hill and named Mission San Diego de Alcal. The first colonists arrived in 1774, and San Diego came under Mexican rule in 1821 when Mexico won its independence from Spain. Following that, in 1848, a treaty ending the war between the U.S. and Mexico set the official international border and declared San Diego an American city. Two years later, San Diego County was created and the City of San Diego was incorporated.
Today, with a population of around 1.25 million, San Diego is the second largest city in California and the seventh largest in the nation. According to the San Diego city website, more than 96 percent of the residents are employed, with a median family income of almost $40,000. The top industries are manufacturing, defense, tourism, and agriculture, with an additional focus on biotechnology/biosciences, electronics manufacturing, software, telecommunications, financial and business services, and defense and space manufacturing.
Located only seventeen miles from the Mexican border, with seventy miles of coastline and an overall land area of 342.4 square miles, San Diego is also home to many popular tourist attractions, such as Sea World, the San Diego Zoo, San Diego Wild Animal Park, Legoland California, and the Del Mar Thoroughbred Races. Professional sports teams include the San Diego Chargers (football), the Padres (baseball), and the Gulls (hockey). In addition to ten community colleges located throughout the county, the city is also home to San Diego State, the largest California State University campus, and the University of California, San Diego.
TiVo ... (Referenced by Lamb in regards to the fire messing up his Ellen-watching plans.)
TiVo is a type of digital video recording device that automatically records your favorite television programs. Other features include pausing live TV, rewinding up to 30 minutes of an unrecorded show, and super slow-mo (perfect for watching those super speedy previews of Veronica Mars.) Everyone at home should save their pennies and nickels to treat themselves to TiVo.
It gives you the freedom to watch obsessively insane amounts of TV, without having to rearrange life to accommodate the network schedules. Or it allows you to only watch the TV that you want. No more watching soap operas and boring talk shows when you are sick, "because nothing else is on." Now you get to be in charge! It is a must have for any parent, student, party-goer, and worker. Um, do I sound too much like a commercial? Sorry. But it really is the best! Also, you can fast forward through commercials or boring parts of your favorite ensemble shows (Kirk and Taylor from Gilmore Girls, I am looking at you.) TiVo is truly a gift from the heavens, and I can't remember life before it. So, thank you TiVo fairy!
Ellen ... (Referenced by Logan while Lamb was driving him home from jail.)
Ellen DeGeneres, born on January 26, 1958, is considered one of the funniest women in America. She is currently hosting her own talk show, the award winning Ellen DeGeneres Show, where she is renowned for her exuberance, funky dancing with the guest stars and likeable amiability. Ellen has had a long career including the sitcom, Ellen, which included a famous episode where she came out as a lesbian. A fascinating bit of trivia though is the fact that Ellen was offered the Sandra Bullock role in the movie Speed. Speed is a movie about a bomb on a bus. Coincidence? Probably. But very interesting.
Staind (Referenced by Veronica while talking to Douglas, the rental car agent.)
Staind is a hard rock music group from Springfield, Massachusetts. They released their debut album, Tormented, in 1996. But it was their second album, Dysfunction (which was produced by Limp Bizkit front man Fred Durst), which really put them on the map. They followed this success by touring with Limp Bizkit on their Family Values Tour in 2000. The following year, they released their smash album Break the Cycle, which includes the hit song, "It's Been Awhile." In 2003, the band embarked on a headlining, worldwide tour to promote their album 14 Shades of Grey, which was considered softer and more mainstream than any previous efforts. Their latest album, Chapter V, was released in August of 2005 and the first single, "Right Here," spent 2 weeks at #1 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock charts.
OnStar ... (Referenced when Veronica works the rental clerk.)
This is a subscription-based communications, monitoring, and tracking service provided by General Motors, that utilizes both communication through mobile phone networks and GPS technology. Drivers and passengers can use its audio interface to contact OnStar representatives for concierge and emergency services; representatives can also initiate contact when vehicle telemetry indicates an emergency (like airbag deployment). Touted by manufacturers as an essential safety feature, as of 2005, it is currently standard for many GM vehicles (but unfortunately for Veronica Mars, not Nissan Xterras), and it will be standard on all sold in North America by 2007.
GPS (Referenced by Stacy to Veronica as she locates Amelia's rental car.)
GPS, or the Global Positioning System, is the only fully-functional satellite navigation system. A constellation of more than two dozen GPS satellites broadcasts precise timing signals by radio to GPS receivers, allowing them to accurately determine their location (longitude, latitude, and altitude) in any weather, day or night, anywhere on Earth.
GPS has become a vital global utility, indispensable for modern navigation on land, sea, and air around the world, as well as an important tool for map-making, land surveying and tracking your teenage daughter. GPS also provides an extremely precise time reference, required for telecommunications and some scientific research, including the study of earthquakes.
The United States Department of Defense developed the system, officially named NAVSTAR GPS (Navigation Signal Timing and Ranging GPS), and launched the first experimental satellite in 1978. The satellite constellation is managed by the 50th Space Wing. In late 2005, the first in a series of next-generation GPS satellites was added to the constellation, offering several new capabilities, including a second civilian GPS signal called L2C for enhanced accuracy and reliability.
In the coming years, additional next-generation satellites will increase coverage of L2C and add a third and fourth civilian signal to the system, as well as advanced military capabilities. The Wide Area Augmentation System, available since August 2000, increases the accuracy of GPS signals to within six feet for compatible receivers. GPS accuracy can be improved further, to about half an inch over short distances, using techniques such as Differential GPS.
Although the cost of maintaining the system is approximately $400 million per year, including the replacement of aging satellites, GPS is available for free use in civilian applications as a public good -- something for which both Keith and Veronica are eternally grateful. Low cost GPS receivers are often combined with PDAs, cell phones, car computers, or vehicle tracking systems. A GPS tracking system uses GPS to determine the location of a vehicle, mark, mobile teenager, or pet and to record the position at regular intervals in order to create a track file or log of activities. The recorded data can be stored within the tracking unit, or it may be transmitted to a central location, an Internet-connected computer, a teenage sleuth or a concerned father with a hand-held device using a cellular modem, 2-way radio, or satellite. This allows the data to be reported in real-time, using either web browser based tools or customized software.
Palm Pilot ... (Referenced as Amelia's toy (and clutched in her dead, cold hand!).)
Although there are many personal digital assistants (PDAs) sold by different manufacturers, the terms "Palms" or "Palm Pilots" are often used as genericized names for the handheld electronic devices.
The first personal "Palm Pilot" was manufactured by Palm Computing (a division of 3Com) in 1996. While working to create handwriting recognition software, Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubrinksy and Ed Colligan built a handheld personal electronic organizer, which they called "Pilot." Hawkins reportedly carried a block of wood around in his pocket for a week, roughly the same size as the device the trio was creating, in order to determine if the size was suitable. The next generation of the "Pilot" was renamed "PalmPilot" due to a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by the Pilot Pen Corporation.
In 1998, the founders of the PalmPilot left 3Com and founded Handspring and, in 2000, Palm Computing was spun off into a company called Palm, Incorporated. Merging in 2003, Handspring and Palm Computing became palmOne, which eventually changed its name back to Palm again in 2005.
Over the years, PDAs have progressed to include many features such as task lists, address books, calendars, memo pads, clocks, calculator software, color screens and audio capabilities for multimedia content, and access to Internet, Intranet or Extranets via Wi-Fi, cellular or Wide-Area Networks (WANs) or Bluetooth technology (used by Veronica when her Sidekick device detected Amelia's Palm.)
"The Russian Masters" ... (Referenced by Aaron during his discussion with Keith in the jail cell.)
Leo Tolstoy is a Russian author whose classic novels include War and Peace. War and Peace, which is considered one of the greatest novels ever written, is a look at 5 aristocratic families set against the background of the war against Napoleon. The novel sparkles with humor, wit, exquisite narration and individuals indulging in both great self-sacrifice and self-indulgence. Tolstoy concludes that there is a minimum of free choice in society and that life is ruled by a historical determinism.
Class warfare is clearly one of the themes this season and like Tolstoy, Veronica Mars sparkles with humor, wit and, while not exquisite - we do occasionally get to peek inside Veronica's complicated brain during her voiceovers. Are we too looking at the lives of five families set against a background of class warfare in Neptune?
Kanes, Echolls, Fennels, and Mars clearly fit this picture. But what family belongs in slot number 5? Weevil's family who has just been served an eviction notice by a member of the Echolls family, Jackie's family - whose father is now being blackmailed, Gia's family - with a newly elected supervisor/mayor lurking in the background? The overall theme of war in War and Peace is ultimately sublimated to the theme of family existence and while fathers seem to be becoming an endangered species this year, it is the glue of Veronica and Keith's family relationship that ultimately provides the warmth and heart to the show.
The other Russian Master mentioned by Aaron was Turgenev. Turgenev preceded Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Turgenev's most famous work is Fathers and Sons. This novel had, as major themes, an examination of how fathers and sons war, a focus on how class struggle influences history, and most especially the idea of nihilism as a philosophy. Turgenev didn't invent the concept, but was the first writer to explore it. "A nihilist is a man who does not bow to any authorities, who does not take any principle on trust, no matter with what respect that principle is surrounded." (from Fathers and Sons, 1862)
Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence. A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy.
Grassy Knoll ... (Referenced by Aaron when he was talking to Keith.)
When President Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas, witnesses claimed that they saw gunshots fired from both the Texas school book depository, where police deduced the assassin shot from, and also from behind a concrete wall on a grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza. No shooter was ever tied to this locale. Like much of the Kennedy assassination, this aspect of the case remains shrouded in mystery.
Harvard University ... (Referenced by Clarence as where he learned his interrogation technique.)
A member of the Ivy League, Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The oldest institution of higher education in the U.S., Harvard was founded in 1636. Simply called "the New College" until 1639, it was renamed Harvard College after its first principal donor, the clergyman John Harvard. One of the original reasons for the creation of the university was so that the Puritan colony would be able to educate and train their own clergymen instead of having to rely on the immigration of English pastors. Another purpose of the university was to educate American Indians so they could act as ministers to their tribes. In fact, the first bible published in North America was printed at Harvard in the Indian language, Massachusetts, for the Harvard-educated Indians to use while converting other people from their tribes.
As of 2005, the school has the world's largest university library collection, the largest standing financial endowment of any school ($25.9 billion), a faculty of 2,300 professors, 6,650 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students. With its famed Business, Law and Medical Schools and an undergraduate acceptance rate of only 9.1% in 2005, Harvard is one of the most competitive universities in the country. Famous alumni include: President John F. Kennedy, philosopher Henry David Thoreau, author Ralph Waldo Emerson and civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois.
Martha Stewart ... (Referenced by Logan while showing off his ankle bracelet and the video conferencing with Martha that it allows.)
A well-known magazine and TV personality, whose expertise in cooking, gardening, etiquette, arts and crafts projects and homemaking have resulted in her own television shows, magazines, websites and books. Born Martha Helen Kostyra on August 3, 1941 in Nutley, New Jersey, Martha was part of a large Polish-American middle class family that included five brothers and sisters. A straight-A high school student, she received a partial scholarship to Barnard College in New York City and helped to pay the rest of her tuition with money earned from modeling jobs, in both TV commercials and print ads. Martha graduated from college with a major in History and Architectural History and soon after married Andy Stewart. (They would divorce in 1990.) She continued her modeling career until the birth of their daughter, Alexis, in 1965. Martha tried her hand as a stockbroker from 1967-1973, at which point she and her family moved to Westport, Connecticut, where they bought and restored the 1805 farmhouse that has been seen in the background of her television shows.
Running a catering business out of her basement, Martha received a publishing deal to co-write a book on the subject, called "Entertaining." The book was a massive success and thus began a career that would include dozens of books and newspaper columns on homemaking, a spokesperson job for K-Mart's home department, and the magazine and talk show called Martha Stewart Living. In order to fully control all her various projects, she created "Martha Stewart Living Omnipedia" in 1997.
Logan's mention of Martha Stewart in this episode refers to her arrest and subsequent conviction in 2004 on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements, all related to a December, 2001 sale of 3,928 shares of ImClone Systems the day before an FDA announcement of its rejection of ImClone's application for a new cancer drug. Her sentence was for five months in prison, five months of home confinement (wearing an ankle monitor like Logan's), a $30,000 fine and two years probation. She began serving her prison sentence on October 8, 2004 at a minimum security prison in Alderson, West Virginia and was released the following March. She maintained her innocence throughout the investigation, trial and conviction, but on January 6, 2006, her legal appeal was denied by the court.
Dick Tracy ... (Referenced by Logan while eating pizza with Dick.)
Dick Tracy is a legendary cartoon character that was created in 1931 by cartoonist Chester Gould. Tracy is a dashing, daring detective who assumed his career after witnessing the murder of his fiance Tess Trueheart's father by mobster Big Boy. Tracy was renowned as an innovative detective who used modern technology and gadgets like a two way wrist TV, to track down villains and rogues while keeping the streets safe for democracy. This delayed his marriage to Tess for over 20 years as he toiled in his profession. Wait a minute -- 20 years? 20 years? Rob please tell us you don't plan to keep Veronica and Logan apart that long.
And while Veronica is a detective who loves her electronic gadgets, she doesn't really seem a shining example of the old-fashioned values Dick Tracy stood for. Tracy is considered one of America's most famous detectives, but it is really the villains that gave the comic strip flavor and character. And last year's villain, Aaron Echolls, certainly fits that description as he continues to be compelling, mesmerizing and controlling as he assumes the limelight in this episode once again.
ESL (Referenced by Logan as he taunts Weevil about the eviction notice.)
ESL is the common abbreviation for English as a Second Language and refers to the use or study of English by speakers of other languages. This term is most often used in relation to teaching and learning English, but it may also be used in relation to demographic information or as a jibe from an elitist rich boy talking down to a Latino gang member.
Caesar's Palace ... (Referenced when Clarence Wiedman discusses Las Vegas.)
Nothing epitomizes Las Vegas quite like Caesars Palace. Caesars is one of the preeminent hotel and casinos on the Vegas strip, owned and operated by casino giant Harrah's Entertainment, which also operates Caesar's sister hotels in Lake Tahoe and Atlantic City. Themed on the grandeur and majesty of the Roman Empire, Caesar's boasts extraordinary fountains, Roman-style pools, multiple restaurants, gaming opportunities tailor made for high rollers and accommodations that combine modern conveniences with classic opulence. Since Caesar's opened its doors in 1966, its entertainment Colosseum has hosted many popular artists such as Celine Dion and Elton John.
Argentina (Referenced by Veronica as she tells Clarence that Amelia's killer is a diplomat's son.)
Argentina is the second-largest country in South America and the eighth-largest country in the world. It occupies a continental surface area of 1,078,000 square miles and is located between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south. It is bordered by Paraguay and Bolivia in the north, Brazil and Uruguay in the northeast, and Chile in the west and south. The country is formally named the Argentine Republic (Spanish: Repblica Argentina), but for purposes of legislation, the form Nacin Argentina (Argentine Nation) is used.
The name Argentina derives from the Latin argentum (silver). The first Spanish conquistadors discovered the Ro de la Plata ("River of Silver"). Indigenous people gave silver gifts to the survivors of the shipwrecked expedition, who were led by Juan Daz de Sols. The legend of Sierra del Plata -- a mountain rich in silver -- reached Spain around 1524. The source of the silver was the area where the city of Potos was to be founded in 1546. An expedition that followed the trail of the silver up the Paran and Pilcomayo rivers finally reached the source of the silver only to find it already claimed by previous explorers that had reached it from Lima, the capital of the Viceroyalty. The name Argentina was first used in Ruy Daz de Guzmn's 1612 book Historia del descubrimiento, poblacin, y conquista del Ro de la Plata (History of the discovery, population, and conquest of the Ro de la Plata), naming the territory Tierra Argentina (Land of Silver).
The first signs of human presence in Argentina are located in the Patagonia (Piedra Museo, Santa Cruz), and date from 11,000 BC. In 1480, the Inca Empire, under the rule of emperor Pachacutec, launched an offensive and conquered present-day northwestern Argentina, integrating it into a region called Collasuyu. In 1502, Europeans arrived and Spain established a permanent colony where Buenos Aires rests today in 1580. The Viceroyalty of the Ro de la Plata was set up in 1776 (the same year as American independence!). On May 25, 1810, after the confirmation of the rumors about the overthrow of King Ferdinand VII by Napoleon, the most prominent citizens of Buenos Aires took advantage of the situation and created the First Government Junta. Independence from Spain was declared on July 9, 1816. Centralist and federationist groups were in conflict until national unity was established and the constitution promulgated in 1853.
"What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas" ... (Referenced by Clarence to Veronica in not explaining what would happen to Amelia's killer.)
Ah The Vegas, where prostitution and gambling are legal and the drinks are free as long as you spend money and like a lot of water with your vodka. Vegas has earned its nickname as Sin City the hard way and that is what people love about it. In 2003 the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority began a $58 million, 20 month marketing campaign with the tag line: "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." Two men working for R&R Partners, the ad agency responsible for the campaign, are credited with coming up with the slogan, which has since been trademarked by a woman of Placerville, California.
Even though the campaign is long over, the tag line is here to stay, becoming symbolic for all the trouble that you can get into in this desert hot spot. Whether you come to pray at the shrine of designer goods, fabulous meals or blackjack, Vegas is betting that you won't want your wife, husband or mother to know exactly what you do under the neon lights. So go crazy, but remember: What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
Himalayas ... (Referenced by Veronica when lying to Amelia's dying father about where Amelia is vacationing.)
The Himalaya is the planet's highest mountain range, crossing five nations: Bhutan, China, India, Nepal and Pakistan. The climate ranges from tropical at the mountain bases to permanent ice and snow at the higher elevations. Home to the world's 14 highest peaks, including Mount Everest, the Himalayas have over 100 peaks exceeding altitudes of 7,200 m., three of the world's major river systems (the Indus, Ganga-Brahmaputra and Yangtze Basins) and hundreds of lakes. A large number of glaciers can also be found in the Himalayas, including the Siachen Glacier, the largest one in the world found outside of the polar region.
The name "Himalaya" comes from Sanskrit with "hima" meaning "snow" and "alaya" meaning "abode."
Argyle ... (Referenced by Logan as the type of sweater that chicks dig.)
The knitted argyle pattern consists of colored diamond shapes arranged in a diagonal checkerboard pattern on a solid background, usually alternating in two or three colors. This design is often used for socks, sweaters and vests. The term "argyle" is derived from "Argyll", a town in Western Scotland and home to the Clan Campbell, whose tartan is said to have originated this pattern.
- The witness who steps forward at the Sheriff's department is a completely different actor than the guy we saw on the bridge in Logan's flashback in Normal is the Watchword.
- Logan looks at Veronica when he gets arrested.
- County supervisor vs. Mayor in news show hee.
- Duncan's dumbquizzled look when Logan is arrested.
- Logan looks very impressed by Cliff's acting skills.
- The writer of the episode also provided the kids with fake ID's. He's multi-talented!
- Joss Whedon's Employee of the Month picture Ha!
- Besides World-Telecom, Veronica has received e-mails from:
- Nit-pick: Apparently Alicia Roldan also starred in The Long Haul. They have to stop re-using the same names all the time.
- The date on the World-Telecom e-mail is November 2nd. The date on the e-mail Veronica sends to the hotel clerk is November 9th. I guess this case took an entire week? That seems longer than I thought.
- Dick has a "dick!" sticker in his locker.
- Stacy, the car rental lady, tells Veronica she hopes her boss gets canned, but Veronica referred to the man as a colleague vying for a promotion. Hmmm ... script change?
- Logan does manage to make that fugly shirt look pretty good.
- How does Veronica know that Wallace is in Chicago with his dad if he won't e-mail back? Is he using his regular e-mail account? Does Alicia know where he is?
- Why did the bystander from the bridge pick now to come forward?
- Why is Gia having a party for her father in Duncan's hotel suite? And why isn't Duncan with his girlfriend and her losing father?
- How have Dick and Logan not seen each other since Dick senior was exposed? And why isn't Beaver at the party?
- Is Dick really okay with Kendall and Logan, or was he being purposefully spiteful with the talk about Lynn?
- It seemed like Cliff and Keith were friends at the party. Did they know each other when Keith was still Sheriff, or is this a relatively new thing?
- Is Kendall on the lam with big Dick? What are Dick and Cassidy using for money? Will they be moving in with Duncan next?
- Will Gia and Dick be as perfect for each other as they seem? What will her father think of her dating a criminal's son?
- How did Sacks know where Logan was?
- Why did Aaron sign Logan's emancipation paperwork?
- Why did Veronica seem to forget that Logan was in trouble as soon as he left the party? I would have thought that she would have at least attempted to see him, called his lawyers from the arraignment or even called Trina. But as far as we can see, bubkus.
- How did Lamb get the bus raised without it making the papers or the news? I would think that somehow Keith would have found out without Sacks having to tell him in passing.
- Did Veronica get the office cleaned up before her father saw it? And who helped her set that up? That was more than a one woman job.
- How did Abel know that Amelia was missing?
- What does Lamb gain by holding Logan without bail? And when Cliff gets him out, why doesn't Lamb fight it?
- Did Mike know that Amelia was seeing the other guy?
- If Amelia had three million dollars, why take Mike's phone cards?
- Is the dark haired roommate the same girl from the previous episode with Amelia? She looks different to me.
- Did Logan and Cliff recognize each other? If so, it didn't show.
- How long was Logan held without a lawyer?
- How did Lamb arrange to have Aaron moved so quickly? There could not have been that much time between the Samaritan walking in to the police station and Logan going into the holding cell.
- With his injuries, how could Logan have been standing over Felix? He could barely stand outside Veronica's door!
- What was Logan hoping to see in the witness's statement that caused him to try so hard to read it while Cliff was on the phone?
- Does Cliff always interrupt consultations with clients to do Veronica favors?
- When did Logan figure out that Cliff was talking to Veronica? Because, he did not seem all that surprised when he had the information e-mailed to Veronica.
- For some reason, Veronica does not seem like an AOL girl to me. Gmail maybe, yahoo definitely, but AOL?!
- Who is the guy in the cell with Aaron and Logan and what does Lamb think he will gain by having an observer in the cell?
- Anyone else surprised to hear Logan call Lilly his girlfriend? I am thrown every time by the lack of the word ex in front it.
- Was Aaron just trying out his defense on Logan, or did he really not kill Lilly?
- Will we see more of Weedy in future episodes? Maybe bailing Duncan out of any trouble Meg might cause when she wakes up?
- Will Cliff marry me? He can keep the Lincoln in his name.
- Duncan and Dick are friends? Who knew?
- When did Weevil get the new ink? And who picked the colors, because yuck.
- Is Dick wearing Logan's S1 puka necklace?
- Who is keeping Dick in line in regards to Veronica? It seems that he is nice to her when Logan or Duncan are around and a jerk when they are alone. Logan, I can understand, but why would he care about pissing off Duncan?
- Logan was in jail for two days?! That seems like along time. And why is Lamb driving him home? Do all suspects get such posh treatment?
- Did Weevil really burn down Logan's house? Because if he did, oh shit!
- So, apparently Amelia and her killer went together to Waverly and got a room. Why there? And why didn't Amelia insist that they stay at a nicer place?
- Why did Veronica think that Keith wouldn't find out about Moran? And what is this crap about investigating being the only thing keeping her sane? Now that Keith knows about the lead, will that help him to solve the bus crash? And more importantly, when will Veronica stop lying to her father?
- How did Veronica hang the pictures? Did she have nails and a hammer in her car? And how many $30 a night rooms have six pictures in them?
- Why was Amelia's palm pilot still on? In the two or three days since she died, wouldn't the batteries have run down?
- Where is the rental car? If the killer took it to Vegas, he is going to have a hell of a bill.
- How much cash does Veronica travel with? She was handing out a lot of $30 payments.
- Did anyone eat ice out of that machine? Because yuck. And, how did no one notice a body in it? She wasn't that far down.
- Was Wiedman following Veronica? How did he find her?
- Why is it that when Wiedman was in his office suit he looked okay, but in the black turtleneck and leather jacket he looked hot? Ah, the clothes do make the man.
- Will Wiedman and Veronica work together again in the future? I hope so, they were awesome together.
- Was the second Russian Master Aaron threw out supposed to exist, or show that he was lying because he doesn't exist?
- What school in their right mind would give Aaron a psychology degree? And in only six months? What's that all about?
- What dorm room has a full size refrigerator in it?
- What is Wiedman going to do to Amelia's boyfriend? And is his sole purpose to get the Kane money back? Because if he was avoiding publicity, he never would have called the cops to investigate Amelia's corpse.
- Why did the nurse give Veronica health information on Abel? She is not family.
- Did anyone else tear up when Veronica lied to Abel?
- How the hell could Veronica not tell that it was Logan on the sofa? Did you see those guns? And who sleeps with a magazine over their face? When did she realize that it wasn't Duncan because she started to move before he spoke. Well at least the ugliest argyle shirt ever had a plot purpose. I thought that the costume people just really, really hated Teddy.
- Did Duncan really think that Logan living with him would not be an issue with Veronica? He really is dumb, isn't he?
- Logan can afford to buy Letty's house, but can't afford his own hotel room? Dumb!
- Wasn't the bus a little clean? I know that water would have washed away most of the nastiness, but still! And, duct tape really does hold the universe together. Even after being underwater, it still is holding the dead rats in place.
- Who put the rats under the seat? Was the purpose to get the 09ers off the bus for the return trip? If so, how did the killer know that his target wouldn't get off as well?
- Okay, seriously, what red-blooded seventeen-year old boy is going to quote Sally Field and talk about his "good side" with a flirtatious smile and not have even his ambiguity questioned? Well, considering Logan's also been proven to be a hot-blooded, woman-pleasin' sex machine, I guess, this seventeen-year old boy.
- For the first time in engaging Logan in some mutual ambiguously gay interaction, Lamb gives Logan a quickie massage on his way to holding, and after said "massage," Logan slapped his own shoulder in the same spot that Lamb had just been touching.
- Continuing the interaction, Logan asks the Lamb when exactly he'll be getting his conjugal visit whilst sliding his hand in a very phallic manner up the prison bar. In return, Lamby-poo does an eyelash flutter worthy of Scarlett O'Hara.
- Martha Stewart. A reference to video conferencing with Martha Stewart. A reference to video conferencing with Martha Stewart that is not negative. 'Nuff said.
- Logan once again shows that he learned how to fight from Trina, or well, maybe Lynn. Hands were a'waving in the air when Logan and Weevil had their little tiff. With the girlfight these two were having, one expected hair pulling to come next. (Well, if Weevil had any hair and Logan had more than an inch.)
ameriott45 (Amy): Journalism; Social Science; Literature
CandiceH04 (Candice): Literature
duchessjms (Jayne): Literature
holly96 (Holly): Social Science
JenniferH: Report Card; Yearbook; Chemistry; Band Class (Scene Description); Literature; Homeroom; Pep Squad Practice
Krissy215 (Krissy): Social Science
Mastermia (Maria): Social Science; Study Hall; Extra Credit; Philosophy; Homeroom; Pep Squad Practice
Pixigal (Gerrie): Drama Club; Social Science
PolarTruckin (Belinda): Pep Squad Practice
ramwitz (Margarita): Yearbook
samwg (Shannon): Social Science
SeluciaV (Alli): Social Science
Tar Frimmer (Joanne): Band Class (Song Identifier); Social Science
TLP70 (Tracie): Study Hall; Literature; Social Science; Homeroom
Original Air Date: November 09, 2005
Written by: John Enbom and Phil Klemmer
Directed by: Kevin Bray
Grade: A
Membership Grade: A (56.4% / 39 votes)
Easily the strongest episode of season two thus far, Rat Saw God has much of the same elements that made the stellar episodes of season one stand out so: Strong supporting performances, compelling story threads, continuity and great quips, heart and angst. Admittedly the return of the season one mystery arc thread aids the affection for the episode, but were the acting, directing and writing not as strong as fondness of our memories, it would not hold up.
Credited Cast Non-Appearance
Percy Daggs III - Wallace Fennel
Kyle Gallner - Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas
Tessa Thompson - Jackie Cook
Recurring Guest Stars (Previous Episode Appearances)
Carl Bresk Neptune High School Teacher/Coach
Christian Clemenson Abel Koontz
Christopher B. Duncan Clarence Wiedman
Harry Hamlin Aaron Echolls
Brandon Hillock Deputy Sacks
Michael Muhney Sheriff Don Lamb
Daran Norris Cliff McCormack
Krysten Ritter Gia Goodman
Patrick Wolff - Hector
Guest Stars
Greg Baine Mike
James Molina Thumper
Rick Peters Witness
Kim Stolz Stacy
Lisa Terry Dawn
Tracey Walter Motel Manager
Joss Whedon - Douglas
Who's Who in Neptune
Mike Amelia DeLongpre's ex-boyfriend whom she ditched in Ibiza.
Thumper One of Weevil's PCHer cronies that wanted to "thump" Dick for asking 'Since when did it become a crime to kill a Mexican!'
Witness Man that came forward stating that he was the anonymous caller that found Logan with the knife next to a dead Felix.
Stacy Employee at Lariat Rental Car that helps Veronica by giving her information on the whereabouts of the LeSabre rented by Amelia.
Dawn Amelia's friend and ex-roommate.
Motel Manager Night Manager at the Palm Tree Lodge Motel that has a penchant for porn and is immune to Veronica's feminine wiles as a form of persuasion.
Douglas Assistant Manager and Employee of the Month at Lariat Rental Car.
Hey! It's That Guy/Girl
Kim Stolz (Stacy) - Best known as America's Next Top Model Season 5 contestant and winner of the acting challenge.
Joss Whedon (Douglas) - Best known as the writer/creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly. He also recently made his feature-film writing/directing debut with the critically-acclaimed Serenity, based upon the latter television show. Whedon is also working on a the highly anticipated big-screen version of Wonder Woman
Tracey Walter (Motel Manager) - Character actor appearing in many movies and television shows, credits include Erin Brockovich, The Manchurian Candidate (where you can also briefly see Teddy Dunn as a soldier) and Independence Day.
Highlights
Jason Dohring (Logan Echolls) & Harry Hamlin (Aaron Echolls) - An actor's career tends to be a bit of a roller coaster ride. Most actors go through a period where they play bit parts, small roles in movies, guest star turns on episodic television before they finally get a break, achieve notice and become a name. They usually maintain that status until eventually through lack of offers or poor role choice or sometimes simply the advance of time, they drop out of the public notice.
Harry Hamlin's career followed that path in that he achieved a great deal of fame and notice as a member of LA Law in the 1980's and then slowly dropped off the public radar until his role as Aaron Echolls virtually resurrected his career. Jason Dohring has followed a similar career path with small roles in movies and guest star parts before achieving notice as Logan Echolls.
In Rat Saw God, both Hamlin and Dohring are at the top of their game and the result are Emmy award winning portrayals that are a feast for the eyes and a joy to behold. Both men bring depth and layers of emotion to every moment they are on screen together. This acting tutorial continues in all their other appearances in this episode whether it is Dohring doing a hilarious imitation of Sally Fields' infamous Oscar acceptance speech during the jail lineup or Hamlin's chilling confrontation with Keith Mars in prison.
Scene One: I See London, I See France, I see Logan Slap His Pants ...
... or not. Stupid UPN cutting off Logan slapping his ass (eh, pants rhymed better with France) in the televised airing (as opposed to the cold open presented on UPN.com last week). Ah well, at least we can live in the knowledge that Veronica was definitely watching the ass-slappage because when we should have been watching him, instead we saw Veronica watching him. Although, to be honest she didn't seem all too titillated by the action. Of course that could have been because he was getting arrested *again* for the murder of Felix Toombs *again* -- geez, not even 18 and the poor little rich boy has heard those fateful words three times now. "You are under arrest ..." Poor Logan.
And lo and behold, but Miss Veronica Mars actually looked like she might share that sentiment. She did look concerned as Deputy Sacks did his duty, which is much better than the bitchface she's had going on pretty much non-stop this season in regards to Logan.
See people, straws. We're still grasping those straws firmly. From Veronica Mars we actually got a glimmer of concern for Logan Echolls. She could have been smirking or laughing, but there was concern. Straws, I tell ya.
Scene Two: See the Argyle Stretch!
I won't go much into analyzing this scene, merely offer a few paragraphs before linking to a story that Signe wrote about this scene that effectively captures any significant, positive LoVe that could possibly be caught.
Now, you gotta think that Logan pulled this little act deliberately. He probably was waiting for her arrival, having earlier chosen the one item in Duncan's wardrobe that no one at Neptune High (or most places on the planet) aside from Duncan would wear and put a magazine over his face. And clearly, he wasn't asleep as his arms went around her as soon as Veronica laid down upon him. He didn't know that she would do what she did, but he most likely knew that it was a possibility.
So why did he so quickly speak? Because it was in the script. No, seriously, probably because he's been the victim of Veronica's afore-mentioned bitchface and wanted to head it off. If he had laid there any longer, she would have had every reason in the book to rail at him, pretty much justified for the first time since she dumped him and ripped his heart into a million pieces. By speaking right away, she had no justification to blame him -- not that such a thing has ever stopped her before. But hey, at least this way, he gave himself a fighting chance from the Veronica bitchface reprieve! And it worked, this time she turned it on Donut.
As for Veronica, well as soon as I saw Logan lying on the couch, I knew that it was him. I talked to a friend who was completely unspoiled and she wasn't sure it was Logan, but she knew damn well that it wasn't Duncan. Therefore, we can definitely fanwank that Veronica KNEW that it was not Duncan lying there and furthermore, as much time as she spent with Logan's body (yes, let's all take a moment to envy her greatly ~ a moment of silence wishing that we were the fictional Veronica Mars this past summer ~) ... Ahem, as much time as she spent with Logan's body in the past, she had to have known it was him.
So therefore, while Veronica told herself that she was laying down upon her "honest, adorable boyfriend" (excuse me, I just lost my lunch, foreshadowing or not), her subconscious knew that it was Logan. And if that is the case, her unreasonable anger about Logan's presence was anger at herself for allowing herself that moment in his arms, subconscious or not.
But don't just take my word for it. Signe wrote a brilliant little ficlet that beautifully captures a LoVe-biased reflection upon Veronica's thoughts during this scene. Do check it out: 'Optical Illusion in Black and White'
This week's mystery revisits the Abel Koontz storyline from last season. To recap, Able Koontz was a Kane Software employee who accepted money from Jake Kane to confess to being responsible for Lilly's death. Koontz was not the killer (obviously), but the Kanes wanted to protect Duncan from the possibility of being viewed as a suspect so they paid Koontz off. He accepted this offer because he was already dying of stomach cancer and their "reward" money could go to his daughter Amelia. Veronica figured this out and tried to get Amelia to reject the Kane offer and essentially help her prove that Koontz was not the murderer. Amelia was at first willing to help, but when she found out from Clarence Wiedman that her father was dying and that Veronica had not been honest with her, she signed the Kane Software settlement, taking three million dollars and agreeing to disappear.
Now onto this week's stuff After it is confirmed that Keith lost in his bid to become sheriff, Veronica goes to Mars Investigations to remove some celebratory balloons, not wanting the reminder of his defeat waiting for him at work the next day. When she gets to the office she finds a man practically passed out in the doorway. He looks like a transient. He is drunk and is wearing a trench coat and a stocking cap. Veronica doesn't know who it is at first. But the man then looks at her and calls out her name. When she looks at him again she realizes that it is Abel Koontz. Veronica is obviously surprised and confused by Koontz's presence. At the same time though, she seems concerned by his current state (and not at all afraid really, though given that she kind of blew his whole set up with the Kane's maybe she should have been ... just a little). So she helps him into the office.
It is clear as Koontz sits on the couch that his medical condition has worsened. He explains to Veronica that he wants her to find Amelia for him. He is dying and he wants to see her. Veronica is resistant at first, still resentful toward him for obstructing Lilly's case (That and Veronica had to feel the slightest bit (*cough* entirely) responsible for Amelia's disappearance). However, it's a little hard to be too snarky toward a man who is dying and alone, so she agrees to help him and gets him medical attention.
As Amelia was told to disappear, Veronica's task is a difficult one. There is no paper trail of any kind for Amelia. So Veronica begins her search by seeking out Amelia's old boyfriend, Mike. Somehow, she remembered his whole name and where his dorm was and she paid him a visit. Despite the circumstances under which Veronica knew Amelia and Mike had to subsequently know Veronica, he is very friendly and willing to give her any information about Amelia's whereabouts.
Veronica finds out that though, he also has not seen or heard from Amelia recently, he did know where she went to "disappear" and where she was last. It was a sad tale really. One as old as time. Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy and girl take settlement money from girl's father's pseudo-murder confession and booze it up in Ibiza. Boy eventually loses girl and all of his phone cards in a sea of foam and drunken club goers. Boy has to have parents pay for his trip home.
Veronica also tries to get information from Amelia's old roommate. But she had not heard anything from Amelia since she left. When Veronica told her that Amelia had gone to Ibiza, the girl is surprised, as she had never known Amelia to be a partier. Following upon the two clues Mike gave her after Amelia's not so BFF was a bust, she posts Amelia's picture and a "Have you seen this person?" message on an Ibiza people search message board, obviously hoping that someone can give her some clue as to Amelia's whereabouts.
Then she immediately contacts Cliff, who unbeknownst to Veronica is helping Logan with his murder charges at the time. She asks him to phone in some bogus story to WorldCom to find out whether the phone cards had been used.
He (whiningly) tells her that he doesn't wanna. He and Veronica then begin to recount various things they have done for each other (Cliff's cases and personal issues, Veronica's tendencies to play outside legal and ethical bounds in her work). Finally when she reminds him of a stripper who she proved was color blind (very important to Cliff for whatever reason), he concedes and agrees to call.
Throughout this exchange, Logan is sitting in front of Cliff, not knowing who was on the phone. He just watches with a sort of bemused expression on his face. When Cliff calls Worldcom and pretends to be looking for his daughter, whose woeful tale sounds remarkably like Geena Davis's in Thelma and Louise, Logan starts to laugh. Clearly, at this point, he is realizing his lawyer's true talents. His mirth is short lived, however, when he realizes that Cliff is calling for Veronica. As soon as he hears Cliff ask for any information to be sent to vmars@aol.com, Logan's smile fades ever so slightly. When Cliff gets off the phone, Logan comments, rather snarkily, that his [Cliff's] daughter sounds like a handful.
When the information from Worldcom comes through, Veronica sees that while most of the calls have been from Ibiza. One, the most recent, was placed from a payphone in Neptune. More specifically, the call was placed from a payphone outside of Kane Software.
Armed with her new information, Veronica breaks into Clarence Wiedman's office to talk to him and ask him about Amelia. She is full of snark and self righteous indignation at the man (and the Kane's) who covered up her best friend's death (someone forgot to tell Veronica that her boyfriend is a Kane and he was who Jake and Celeste were trying to protect). Anyhoo, moving passed my bitter VD rant ... Now where was I? Oh yes, Veronica wants answers. Clarence of course denies knowing anything about it and dismisses Veronica and the entire issue, telling her that he needed to get back to work and she needed to get back to minding her own business. Veronica leaves after taking a shot at his limited position of power.
At school, Dick and Duncan are planning some sort of plan to get trashed with their new fake ID's. This reminds Veronica that Amelia may have been using a fake ID as well (shocking, I know), so she calls Amelia's old roommate and asks her how Amelia got on a booze cruise the year before. It turns out that Amelia used her cousin's ID. When Veronica puts that name (Margot Schnell) into the search database, she finds that a car had been rented at the San Diego airport under that name within the last week.
To get access to the rental car, Veronica goes to the rental company for information. At first she approaches the man at the counter as a ditzy co-ed (a favorite Veronica disguise this season) wanting to rent the car her friend had the week before. He gives her the model and color of the car, but tells her that the car is already rented out. So Veronica leaves the store and in a Superman/Clark Kent moment, puts on glasses, lets her hair down, throws on a suit jacket, and re-enters the store as a different person.
This time she deals with a female employee (Kim from America's Next Top Model) who she had seen arguing with the first clerk and tries to appeal to the woman's disgruntled side. She explains that an evil male co-worker was about to steal her promotion if she was unable to retrieve her laptop from the white LeSabre she had rented the week prior. After some coercion, the woman activates the OnStar system and gives Veronica the last place the remote locks were used.
This takes Veronica to a shabby motel in the middle of nowhere. Inside the motel, she finds a pervy old clerk sitting at the desk looking up porn (though having some difficulty finding notty school girls). He tells Veronica that he had seen the girl but if she wanted to see the girl's room she would have to rent the room. When Veronica gets into the room she looks around but finds nothing, but does get a phone call from Keith demanded proof of her safe location. When she opens her laptop to send Keith an email falsifying her whereabouts or reassuring him of her safety (depending on how you look at it), she sees that Amelia's palm pilot is within range.
Veronica begins her search, renting four rooms. Finally, she sees an ice machine. She hesitantly opens the lid and looks inside looking for the palm pilot. Instead, she finds Amelia's dead body. As she turns away to call the police, Veronica runs right into Clarence Wiedman (who clearly, and not surprisingly, lied to Veronica during their previous conversation) who promptly follows her into one of the rooms and explains what he knows about Amelia. She had contacted him trying to get more money. He gave her a quarter of a million dollars in marked bills and told her to leave. She did. But then the marked bills started to show up in this small town that Veronica and Wiedman were visiting.
Clarence doesn't know what happened to her beyond that, so he and Veronica form an unlikely partnership. He accompanies her to the front desk and threatens the clerk into telling him who she was with. The man tells them that she was with her boyfriend. Veronica and Clarence then go back to get more information from Mike. She knocks at the door and when he answers, he seems happy to see her (happy like ... So are you going to search me now? Please). Alas, Veronica is not there for a social call.
When she begins to explain, Clarence bursts through, gags him, and proceeds to hang him out a window demanding answers about Amelia. Veronica is hysterically begging Clarence to stop, but he continues his interrogation until he is satisfied that Mike knows nothing. When they leave the room, they compliment one another on their acting abilities.
When Veronica gets home, she checks her email and a instant messenger box pops up. It is a girl from Ibiza who knew Amelia. She sends Veronica a picture of her with Mike and some friends. The girl asks Veronica if Amelia is still with her boyfriend, who was a total liar. It occurs to Veronica that Mike may not have been the boyfriend the girl was referring to, so she sends the picture to the hotel clerk and calls him asking him if the man Amelia was with is in the photo. He identifies another man. Veronica immediately calls Clarence with the new information.
Clarence in turn tells her that he is going to follow a lead on the marked bills. Apparently, they were showing up at a Las Vegas casino. Veronica asks him what he is going to do to the man who killed Amelia and is now spending the Kane's payoff. He explains that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas (in a show with so few cheesy moments, this was classic).
Veronica can't bring herself to tell Abel that his daughter is dead, as he had sacrificed everything for Amelia and he only had a day or more to live. So Veronica makes up a story about how Amelia was in the Himalayas and was trapped there because of snow. He asks her if Amelia seemed happy and Veronica tells him yes. Then she sits with Koontz in his hospital bed offering comfort in his final hours.
- It's election day in Neptune! Keith is having a small gathering at the apartment in order to watch the election results as he sweeps to vict-- um, as he loses with 49% of the vote. Bummer! Veronica is in attendance as well as Cliff. Yay! The next election will be held in 2010, pencil it into your calendar now! Veronica insists that Keith only lost the election due to Lamb's underhanded attempt to make Keith the scapegoat in the bus crash case. She questions Keith's decision not to publicly release the bus crash tape, but Keith still insists he made the right decision. When Keith calls to make his concession, Lamb tells Sacks to take a message. What a dickwad. I think that with his recent behavior he has lost his moniker of Sheriff Hottie.
- Woody Goodman wins as Balboa county supervisor, which used to be known as the Mayor of Neptune. Ha! Yeah, formerly as in before Rob Thomas and crew figured out that Neptune could not have a Mayor and a sheriff. Now that her father is the County Supervisor, Gia has set a few goals for herself as Neptune's First Daughter: public drunkenness, sluttiness and minor scandals. She also seems to have come to the conclusion that her partner in crime in these endeavors should be Dick Casablancas. Well, I am sure he would be more than happy to help in at least the first two. Maybe his father can webcam in to advise on the scandal part.
- Dick can't discuss the whereabouts of his father. He says that if his dad returns to the US, he could be looking at 10-15 years at "Club Fed." Is there communal soap there? Dick's been left in charge of taking care of Beaver (scary!) since their real mom lives in San Francisco with her new family.
- Dick and Logan very awkwardly kiss and make up regarding the Kendall affair. Dick, here's a pointer on friendship: Even if your best friend is boning your step-mom don't mention that his dead mom gave you several hard-ons. It's tacky.
- While talking to Logan, Cliff is interrupted by a phone call from Veronica, who needs a favor. This leads to an entertaining discussion about favors done in the past, including:
- Cliff unconfiscated all of Veronica's fake college IDs.
- Veronica got a Lincoln out of Cliff's ex's name.
- Cliff got a lien against Lee's Walk-In Donut. (Yeah, I don't get that one, either.)
- Veronica proved some stripper was colorblind.
Logan seems amused by the conversation, unaware of whom the other party is until he hears Cliff mention the e-mail address: vmars@aol.com. He also seems impressed with Cliff's acting ability.
- Lamb puts Logan in a holding cell ... with his father! Evil bastard! Apparently, Logan hasn't been to visit Aaron except when he needed his emancipation papers signed. That must have been a cheery meeting. Aaron insists that he's not a murderer and gives some good fatherly advice to Logan for once. He tells him not to throw away his life just to spite him and encourages him to get a real lawyer.
- Cliff's suits are 2 for $500. He was able to get bail for Logan since he goes to the same gym as Judge Bloom. The deal included a case of Cohiba cigars and a four-handed Thai massage that Cliff is going to bill Logan for. I wonder if he will also be paying for a happy ending for the judge. Logan will also have to post a $200,000 bond. That Amex card is going to get quite a work out.
- Logan likes to watch Ellen DeGeneres' talk show.
- Logan has to be monitored by an ankle bracelet.
- Logan has bought Weevil's grandmother's house and has served the family with an eviction notice. Weevil and Logan almost come to blows, but a teacher separates them.
- Since Logan's house burned down, he's moved into Duncan's hotel suite. A fact, Duncan neglected to share with Veronica, which leads to an uncomfortable situation when she mistakes Logan for Duncan. Just for the record, the word "honest" is stressed an awful lot in the VMVO, but I am sure it will not be important in any way in the future.
- Weevil, looking very fit and very short, taunts Dick and Duncan about Logan's arrest. Dick (of course, not Duncan who is still perfecting standing idly by) fires back about whether or not it's even illegal to kill Mexicans.
- Hector informs Weevil that Logan made bail in about two minutes. Well it took a little longer than that; he did have time for a heart to heart with his father after all. Weevil is not happy to hear this. His mood does not improve when a random PCH dude has the most mind-blowing revelation, "These white boys get away with everything!" What?! No, you're kidding!?! I never noticed that before. Seriously RT, enough with that phrase! We get it already! *grumble*
Hector also informs Weevil that the PCHers are losing their street cred. The younger kids are referring to them as the Panty Club for Homos. I can see the matching hot pink leather jackets now. Weevil decides that maybe it is time for some payback to Logan Echolls.
- Keith visits Lamb who "accidentally" mentions the Curly Moran case. Keith does not seem pleased. He calls Veronica to question her about the incident. She fesses up about what she knows about Curly Moran, but continues to lie about her current whereabouts. She tells Keith she's at an art gallery and Keith tells her to prove it by sending a picture. Veronica manages to fake it by placing all the hotel room's pictures on one wall. Yeah, like there are ever that many pictures in a $30/night hotel room.
-Aaron has been passing the time in jail by getting a psychology degree and reading the Russian Masters. I guess reading Siddhartha did broaden his mind.
- Wallace is still in Chicago with his dad. Veronica has his e-mail and begins to compose a letter telling Wallace about all the latest news in Neptune. Veronica admits that the correspondence is one-sided, since Wallace never responds.
- Dick wants Duncan to go to Senor Shrimp so he can get a shirt with a shrimp on it that says, "Eat me." I can see the icons now ...
- Dick seems just as squicked by the VDage as the rest of us. However, he is nice to Veronica in front of Duncan, as opposed to when he was such a dick to her in Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang.
- John Enbom has apparently gotten fake ID's for the whole gang. For some reason, they're all from Rhode Island.
- The Abel Koontz settlement from Kane Software was $3 million. Amelia finalized the papers the previous spring in the episode Kanes and Abel's.
- Amelia is 21 years old.
- World-Telecom Phone cards stolen by Amelia:
- - 09732261
- 09736555
- 09731183
- 09746102
- Cliff's drink of choice is gin, and he seems particularly attached to cocktail weenies.
- Sacks wears a silver ring on the middle finger of his left hand.
- Logan has a black American Express card that he can apparently put charges like bail on. Too bad Amex doesn't have a black card.
- Amelia went on the Greek booze cruise the previous year with her roommate.
- Crazy Girls had to discontinue its lunch buffet due to heath code violations. Cliff seems disappointed by this fact.
- Cliff! has at least one ex-wife, and a real fondness for his Lincoln.
- Veronica gets to call Cliff, "Cliffie." Ha!
- Cliff thinks that Lamb is mean, and he's right.
- Aaron has been held at County until he was moved for the tete a tete with his son.
- There is a payphone across the street from Kane Software.
- Clarence Wiedman still has his job as head of Security for Kane Software, and protecting the Kane name still seems to be part of the job.
- Clarence's office has a glass door now and his admin assistant no longer has a desk outside. Either he moved to new digs in the building, or they had to shoot in different interiors because it is totally off from what we saw previously.
- Clarence Wiedman wears a wedding ring.
- Amelia DeLongpre has a cousin named Margot Schnell. She used Margot's name for her fake id.
- Lariat Car Rental at the San Diego Airport can rent you a Regal with moon roof for $250 a week plus tax and liability. If you are really lucky, Joss Whedon will wait on you.
- The Palm Tree Lounge is the destination of choice for Waverly, California. For a mere $30 a night you can rent plush accommodations complete with mold, fungus and several new and exciting varieties of bugs. I would recommend bringing your own ice. The hotel clerk's e-mail address is nightman122@aol.com if you would like more information.
- The Long Haul was Aaron's first big hit.
- Veronica's laptop has a blue tooth connection.
- Wiedman went to Harvard.
- The bystander/witness from the Coronado Bridge shows up at the police station on election night with information on Felix's death. Lamb has Sacks show up to Gia's party and arrests Logan, who makes him do it in the center of the room. If anything, Logan seems a little excited by being in handcuffs. I hope Veronica is taking notes along with her deer in the headlights look.
At the police station Logan is practicing his Oscar speech during his line up. Lamb, who appears amused by the over the top antics pulls him out of the room and actually gives him some good advice to get a lawyer. Logan refuses to call his high priced legal counsel, instead asking for any sober, public defender who happens to be roaming the halls. When Logan tells Lamb to charge his bail on his credit card, Lamb tries to intimidate him by threatening to hold him without a hearing and telling him that if he does get a hearing, he will never make bail because Lamb will see to that.
When next we see Logan he is getting his wish when Cliff! walks into his interrogation room. He certainly fits the bill, well except for the sober part. Cliff informs Logan that he looks like an arrogant jackass. Logan insists that the witness is lying, and yet has no explanation when Cliff reads him his testimony from June 27th when he swore that he could not remember anything from that night.
The witness claims that Logan was holding the knife and ranting like a maniac over Felix's body. He also claims Logan threatened him by saying "The [expletive] [racial expletive] had it [maternal expletive] coming." (Guesses anyone? Hee.) The witness also claims that Logan threatened to have him killed. Cliff tells Logan to get a real lawyer, or three, leaving his client looking pensive. Hot and pensive, but pensive.
Lamb puts Logan in a holding cell with HIS FATHER, the jackass, and some dude who is obviously a mole whose sole purpose is to eavesdrop. And for the record, during their conversation both Harry Hamlin and Jason Dohring act the hell out of their line reads. Aaron claims that he did not kill Lilly. He tells Logan that he fought with Lilly and followed her home but Duncan overheard them and started ranting and raving. He insists that Lilly was alive when he left. And even though a part of me half-believed him, Logan seems unmoved. I guess those Oscar statues in the living room weren't a fluke!
Logan looks especially skeptical when he asks about Veronica and Aaron insists that he just snapped. He encourages Logan to get a real lawyer, a sentiment that Cliff echoes when he comes in to tell Logan he has made bail after all. Logan seems suitably impressed and seems inclined to keep Cliff as his counsel. Oh, more Loff scenes, goodie. Lamb drives Logan home and they find the Echolls mansion on fire. I guess those reindeer boxers are gone forever now.
- On Keith's tip, Lamb has had the bus brought up from the crash site. They are checking out the front end, brakes and anything else that might have caused the crash. Keith goes to Lamb asking for information on the bus which Lamb refuses to give him. Lamb then blabs about questioning Veronica regarding Curly and Keith begins to completely freak out and tightens Veronica electronic leash by calling and asking her to prove her whereabouts. I see a GPS tracker being surgically implanted into her pretty soon.
Keith then pays a visit to Aaron in jail, courtesy of a guard friend who he assures Aaron will swear he was never there. Keith questions Aaron on the crash and Curly, but Aaron plays dumb. His performance is not as good as earlier, though. It didn't scream Oscar nomination to me, maybe just a Golden Globe. Aaron continues to posture and Keith closes by threatening Aaron is anything happens to Veronica in the next 70-80 years. When Aaron scoffs at the idea, Keith points out to Aaron that his little visit proves that Aaron can be gotten to, a realization that seems to make him very nervous. And while I did not feel the truth from Aaron, Keith sold me and apparently Aaron as well if the look on his face is anything to go by.
- Keith breaks into the warehouse where the bus is being kept and almost gets caught by a security guard. To avoid detection he falls to the floor of the bus and sees rats duct taped to the underside of a seat.
"Girl on the Bus" (Kissinger)
Scene: Boys will be boys and Dick and Logan are such lovely boys as they discuss the merits -- negative and positive -- of banging your buddy's superhot stepmom!
LoVe Lines
Logan: It's the sweater, isn't it? Chicks can't resist argyle.
Veronica: Please let go of me!
Logan: Ever the tease.
Quotable Quotes
Cliff: (To Veronica.) You're out of cocktail weenies. And I'm out of cocktail.
Veronica: We're out of gin.
Cliff: I'm not particular. (Listens to TV reporter reporting race results.) Whatever it is, make it a double.
Dick: Dude, my stepmom?
Logan: I'm a total piece of crap.
Dick: (Play punches Logan.) Better you than the cable guy, I guess. And I'd be lying to say that I never perved on your mom while she was prancing around the pool in that hardly there bikini of hers.
Logan: (Less than thrilled.) Great. So, no hard feelings?
Dick: No, she gave me a few. (Laughs and play punches Logan again.)
Cliff: (To Keith.) Look on the bright side, 49% of Neptune still likes you.
Keith: (To Veronica.) I've got Cliff to keep me company. Right, Cliff?
Cliff: Right. I promise to hold his hair back if he has to make sick in the toilet.
Veronica: (To Gia.) Yeah, congrats on your old man. I guess that makes you like Neptune's first daughter. Are you ready for all the parade waving and ribbon cutting?
Gia: I thought I'd go more Bush twin style. You know public drunkenness, sluttiness, and minor scandals. Speaking of which, what do you think of Dick?
Veronica: (Slightly confused.) Casablancas, I presume. Well, what can I say? Dick is just ... Dick.
Deputy Sacks: The Sheriff would like to have a word with you.
Logan: And I'd like to be the cream filling of an Olsen twin sandwich, but ...
Sacks: Will you come with me, please?
Logan: If I'm under arrest, then do me the courtesy of making it all official like.
Sacks: Logan Echolls, you are under arrest for the murder of Felix Toombs.
Logan: I am having the weirdest dj vu thing right now.
Dick: (Arms in air.) Douche chill!
Logan: (Stepping forward in police line up.) Wow, I'm stunned. You like me. You really like me! Well first I'd just like to say the other nominees are all such wonderfully gifted criminals. And I want to thank my agent. (Mock tears.) And my publicist for always shooting me from the left side.
Logan: Ah well I'm stunned. You like me, you really like me. But first I just like to say that all of the other nominees are all such wonderfully gifted criminals. And I want to thank my agent and my publicist for always shooting me from the left side.
Mike: We're there, hanging out, the drop the foam, and that was the last I saw of her.
Veronica: Did you check under the foam?
Veronica: Ibiza, I'd follow up in person, but dad is pretty conservative about fact finding trips abroad.
Logan: So my tax dollars at work. Where were you? Getting thirds at the Crazy Girls lunch buffet?
Cliff: Actually they discontinued the buffet, some health code thing. Okay, my name's Cliff. I will be your 'if you can't afford an attorney,' attorney. So, what are you trying to prove?
Logan: Um, my innocence?
Cliff: No I mean with this poor little rich boy stunt. Having me represent you doesn't make you look innocent; it makes you look like an arrogant jackass. If the witness's story holds you are going to trial.
Logan: Hmm, the guy's lying.
Cliff: June 27th you gave testimony saying you couldn't remember a thing, now he comes forward saying he saw you, bloody knife in hand, ranting like a maniac over a dead body.
Logan: And what exactly did I say?
Cliff: 'The expletive racial expletive had it maternal expletive coming.' But wait there's more. You then threatened you use your father's money to have said witness killed. Is that true or not, Logan? The Echolls name won't bring you a lot of jury love.
Veronica: Cliff, come on, you owe me.
Cliff: I owe you? Who unconfiscated all of your fake college ID's?
Veronica: Who got the Lincoln out of your ex's name?
Cliff: Who helped put that lean against Lee's Wok and Donut?
Veronica: And who proved that stripper was color blind?
Cliff: Okay, who am I calling and what am I giving them.
Logan: That daughter of yours sounds like a real handful.
Cliff: This is what I'm good at. Marquee murder cases? Nah? Now Lamb says he wants to keep you here to ease community tensions, but really it's because he's mean.
Aaron: I guess our sheriff has a soft spot for family. Well, huh, at least I know what it takes to get a visit out of you. Those special times set aside for our emancipation paperwork doesn't really count.
Logan: I just need a little time to work through how you bashed my girlfriend's skull in.
Aaron: I'm not a murderer!
Logan: Oh, so you merely plowed my girlfriend and taped it for your home collection.
Logan: So you tried to kill another girl, also a girlfriend of mine. What? To maintain your innocence?
Aaron: Let me get you a real lawyer. Not some public defender with a mail order diploma and a $300 suit.
Cliff: Two for $500 actually, but your point remains valid.
Logan: Bail? How? I thought you said ...
Cliff: Judge Bloom and I schvitz at the same gym. I'll be billing you for a case of Cohibas and a four-handed Thai massage.
Veronica: I would have thought that helping your billionaire boss cover up his daughter's murder would have snagged you a better office. Or at least a plaque.
Clarence: Excuse me, I have to get back to work and you have to get back to minding your own business. Or do I have to ... (He trails off as he gestures toward the phone.)
Veronica: No need to call yourself to escort me out. You know I know the drill.
Dick: Wait, did I miss a state proposition or something? Is it now a crime to kill a Mexican?
Logan: The best thing about two days in jail? Two days of Ellen on the TiVo. That sweet feeling.
Lamb: (A few minutes later as they pull up to Logan's burning house.) That's going to mess up your TiVo.
Motel Manager: So you did find someone at the Gas 'n' Sip, and now you need a room.
Veronica: Was anyone else in here two nights ago, did you see anyone with her?
Motel Manager: Why? Is he missing a friend, too?
Clarence: Answer the question or I'll break all your fingers.
Aaron: (To guard.) What, just two chairs? (The guard nods.) Where's my lawyer going to sit?
Keith: Oh, it's an unofficial visit. Just me and the guard ... who will deny I was ever here.
Aaron: Ahh. Well, in that case I hope you won't mind carrying the conversation. (Sitting down.)
Keith: Nah, have it your way. You look good. What have you got going on? Some weights, some cardio?
Aaron: Well, I got a lot of free time. (Pausing.) I just got my psychology degree. And now I'm reading the Russian masters -- Tolstoy, Turgenev. You know. (Pausing.) So, did you come out here to talk self-improvement?
Keith: (Sitting down.) I'm here because of my daughter.
Aaron: Well, now that's funny, so am I. So, did you come here today to thank me, Keith? You know, for your fifteen minutes? 'Cause if it wasn't for me no one would've bought that hack book of yours. (With a laugh, he takes a beat before continuing.) No, I guess you didn't come to thank me. Maybe, maybe you just came here to gloat, hmm? Nooo, that doesn't seem like you much, either. Why did you come here, Keith?
Keith: Former employee of yours shows up dead, sabotaged school bus goes over a cliff, and I start to worry about Veronica's safety.
Aaron: Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute. You think I had something to do with the crash? Hoo, hoohoo, you are priceless, Keith. You know, they give you enough press you'd find a way to put me on the grassy knoll.
Keith: (Standing up.) Truth is I don't care if you were behind the crash or not. I just want you to know that if anything happens to my daughter in, say, the next seventy, eighty years, you're the one who's gonna pay for it.
Aaron: Did you come all the way out here just to give me that tough guy speech?
Keith: No. I came all the way out to here to show how easily I can get to you. So just ... file that away.
Logan: And the other sweet thing is I'm in constant video contact with Martha Stewart, right. Kinda like a Dick Tracy kinda thing.
Weevil: What the hell is this?
Logan: Esta? Una? What is their word for paper?
Dick: Umm, pa-par-o.
Logan: Okay, I'll translate. Just don't tell the ESL teacher I helped you cheat. That's an eviction notice.
Weevil: You bought my grandmother's house?
Logan: That's right. Su Casa is Me Casa. But in my defense, Weevil, I do need a new one. You might have heard my former domicile was burned, quite unexpectedly.
Weevil: If you kick my family out --
Logan: Oh, have it your way, we'll all live together in one big wacky sitcom family. On second thought, I'm kicking you out. And on third thought, I wouldn't live in that roach motel if you put a gun to my -- (Weevil shoves the piece of pizza Logan was eating in his face.)
Logan: You hear that? School is a place of learning.
Weevil: Yeah, you might want to think about what prison is a place of!
Rats Saw God ... (Referenced by the episode title, Rat Saw God.)
Rats Saw God is the title of Rob Thomas' first novel, aimed at young adults. When he has to write an essay on his life for English, the central character, Steve York, reflects on his four years of high school. He tries to figure out where it all went wrong, considering such issues as his relationship with his famous dad and his breakup with his ex-girlfriend (Wanda "Dub" Varner). Along the way he makes discoveries about himself and about life.
Chicago (Referenced by Veronica thinking about how Wallace is there with his dad.)
Chicago is the largest city in Illinois, as well as the third-most populous city in the United States (over 2.8 million). It is referred to as the "Second City" (second to nation's capital Washington, D.C. in importance), the "Windy City," the "City of Big Shoulders," and "Chi-town." The city is located along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. Chicago was founded in 1833 as a frontier town, and has since grown into one of the world's ten most influential cities. It is the financial, economic, and cultural capital of the Midwest, and is also recognized as a major center for transportation, business, and architecture.
Though there has been a decline in overall crime since the 1990s, the 1960s marked a period of intense gangland problems and saw a major rise in violent crimes. In 1974, with a population just over three million, the city had 970 murderers (resulting in a murder rate of 29:100,000). In 1992, the murder rate was 34:100,000. Chicago adopted crime-fighting techniques used by the NYPD and LAPD in 2004, and recorded a total of 448 homicides, the lowest on record since 1965. Organized crime has a long-standing place in Chicago's history, dating back to the 1910s, and boasting some of the most notorious crime lords and gangs, such as Al "Scarface" Capone and the Chicago Outfit, Bugs Moran, the Chicago Crime Syndicate, and the Chicago North Side Gang.
Chicago's theater scene is a major draw for aspiring actors, and is the birthplace of modern improvisation comedy. There is a major music scene in the city as well; it is the birthplace of the House music genre, had significant influences in Hip-Hop, and is home to a number of 90s Alternative, Punk, and Indie bands.
Club Med ... (Referenced by Dick when he tells Gia his dad would be facing ten to fifteen years at Club Fed.)
Club Med is short for Club Mditerrane, which is a French corporation of vacation resorts, found all over the world in mostly exotic locations. The resorts offer packages that include lodging, food, use of facilities, sports activities, games, and shows. Extra options like alcohol are often extra and require special beads or tickets. Additionally, the resort staff and the guests all eat, drink, and play together day and night. A Club Med resort is basically a one-stop vacation spot, with everything you would need all in one place. Just like Big Dick would get in Club Fed (aka prison). But somehow I don't think Big Dick would find the Club Fed staff quite as accommodating, and I doubt there would be a beach.
Frisco (San Francisco) (Referenced by Dick as he tells Gia that his mom lives there with her new family.)
The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth-largest city in California and the fourteenth-largest in the United States, with a 2005 population of 739,426. It is located on the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the focal point of the San Francisco Bay Area, whose population is seven million. San Francisco is the second most densely populated major American city, after New York.
The Spanish were the first Europeans to settle in San Francisco in 1776 and they named the settlement for St. Francis. When the gold rush hit in 1848, the city experienced rapid growth. Even the devastating earthquake of 1906 (one of the worst natural disasters in United States history) could not stop the San Francisco explosion. The city was quickly rebuilt and is today one of the most recognizable cities in the United States. Famous hallmarks and landmarks include the San Francisco cable cars, the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island.
"The Bush Twins" ... (Referenced by Gia to Veronica (prior to Logan's arrest) as the kind of first daughter she would like to be.)
Barbara and Jenna Bush rose to national prominence after they started stumping for their father, George W. Bush, during the 2000 presidential election. They have numerous websites dedicated to following their antics including www.thefirsttwins.com. The high-spirited girls quickly became the favorite of gossip mags for their underage drinking, smoking wild behavior and rotating male friends. They spoke at the Republican National Convention and practically brought the proceedings to a halt with a lame stand up comedy routine that poked fun at their Grandmother as well as other family members. I bet they were so off the Christmas list after that debacle!
In their father's first term they provided rich opportunity for headlines as they fully embraced their college experience and evaded their Secret Service details for parties on a regular basis. In the last several years their behavior has been more sedate if you don't count posing for the Maxim lingerie issue against them.
"Olsen Twins" ... (Referenced by Logan who wanted to be the cream filling in an Olsen Twins sandwich.)
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are fraternal twins born on 6/13/86. They made their television debut on the sitcom Full House at the age of 9 months old and appeared on this series from 1987-1995 playing the role of Michelle Tanner. They also made a series of movies where they were renowned for their wholesome appeal. Interestingly enough, the Olsen twins achieved their huge future -- currently estimated to be worth approximately $40 million dollars each, through a behind the scenes lawyer, named Robert Thorne.
Thorne started by renegotiating their salary and then turned their names into brand names by capitalizing on the untapped tweener market. Behind the scenes lawyer? Sounds like our favorite public defender Cliff. Though it's doubtful Logan had this in mind when he was anticipating being the lovely center between Mary-Kate and Ashley. But since Logan is now enjoying a Three's Company lifestyle with Duncan and Veronica maybe he could still play the cream filling in a slightly different sandwich. He has already managed to get Veronica on top of him. Does that mean we can anticipate Duncan underneath? Ack -- mental images. Excuse me a minute while I run screaming into the night.
"You like me " (Referenced by Logan while giving his acceptance speech in the police lineup.)
"You like me, you really like me!" This is a well known portion of actress Sally Fields' 1985 Academy Award acceptance speech. She won the award for her portrayal of Edna Spalding in the movie Places in the Heart. Although, the phrase is an oft-quoted, Oscar classic, it is actually not quite correct. Her exact speech is as follows: "I haven't had an orthodox career and I wanted more than anything to have your respect," she declared. "The first time [for her title role in Norma Rae, in 1980] I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me! Right now, you like me!"
Ibiza ... (Referenced as Amelia's last known whereabouts.)
Ibiza, known to locals as Eivissa, is one of the Spanish Balearic Islands located on the Mediterranean Sea, off the east coast of Spain. Ibiza is a very popular tourist destination, with beautiful vistas and rich history and island culture. Ibiza is especially well-known for its dozens of beaches, from hidden gems great for relaxing and sunbathing to the more popular stretches of sand, packed with beautiful half-naked people. Ibiza also boasts a legendary and somewhat notorious club scene, serving as Mecca to serial partygoers like the Hilton sisters and Tara Reid. Ibiza Town, the island's capital on the eastern shore is largely regarded as a clubber's paradise, considered to have some of the best and most diverse clubs in existence.
Tara Reid ... (Referenced when Amelia's ex says that he and Amelia were in Ibiza -- no doubt referencing Taradise. Snerk!)
Born November 8th, 1975, in Wyckoff, New Jersey, Tara Reid is an American actress best known for starring in the 1999 film American Pie and for her role as Bunny Lebowski, the trophy wife, in the film The Big Lebowski (1998). Reid began her career in show business in 1982 at the age of six when she was a contestant on the CBS children's game show, Child's Play. As a child, she attended New York's Professional Children's School and appeared in numerous commercials for such products as McDonald's, Crayola and Jell-O.
In 1994, Reid landed a role on the television sitcom, Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and, the following year, was given a recurring guest role in the soap opera Days of Our Lives. It wasn't until 1998 that she broke through to the big-screen by landing roles in such films as I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, Urban Legends, Around the Fire and the aforementioned The Big Lebowski. She is, however, probably best known for her role as the girlfriend of one of four high school guys who make a pact to lose their virginity in American Pie.
Although Reid has starred in several other films and television series' throughout the years, she is most often recognized thanks to her reputation as a wild, party girl that whose face is often seen on the cover of tabloid magazines. She is famous for a highly publicized photo shoot in November of 2004 in which Reid experienced a wardrobe malfunction that exposed her left breast for the world to see and starred in her own reality show, Taradise which publicizes her party-girl image. After a very short run, the show has been cancelled.
Girls Gone Wild ... (Referenced by Amelia's roommate when talking to Veronica about Ibiza.)
Girls Gone Wild is a series of videos depicting young women removing their clothing (and engaging in lesbian sexual intercourse) for the camera, usually in exchange for a t-shirt. The videos have themes: Sexy Sorority Girls, Spring Break Girls, et al. The videos are sold online as well as via late night TV infomercials and are a multi-million dollar boom, making the "creator" of the brand, Joe Francis, a multi-millionaire sleaze artist.
"Fred McMurray" ... (Referenced when Veronica calls Cliff while he is questioning Logan in jail.)
Fred McMurray was born in 1908 and died in 1991 after a long successful career in both television and movies. One of his most famous movies was Double Indemnity, which was released in 1944, and is considered one of the best film noirs ever produced. The movie is about an insurance rep who lets himself be talked into helping the luscious blonde femme fatale (played by Barbara Stanwyk) commit an elaborate murder/insurance fraud scheme. Nothing and nobody are quite what they seem to be in this movie which features greed, unbridled lust and betrayal of the seemingly innocent and beautiful. Things not what they seem, conspiracy, betrayal, shocking death -- just another episode of Veronica Mars.
Interestingly enough McMurray is also fondly remembered for his portrayal of a kindly and wise father in the television series My Three Sons which ran from 1960-1972. In a series where fathers play such a prominent role (Keith, the good father; Wallace's dad, the prodigal, unknown father; and Aaron, the evil father) -- are we being led to another key father figure playing the role of Murderer Number 1?
Mexico (Referenced by Cliff as he pretends his daughter is missing.)
Mexico is a country located in North America, approximately 753,665 square miles in size, bordered at the north by the United States, and at the south with Guatemala and Belize in Central America. It is the northernmost and westernmost country in Latin America and with a population of 106.5 million, Mexico is also the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world. The official name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos, which translates as the United Mexican States. The term State of Mexico (Estado de Mexico) does not refer to the country, but only to one state within Mexico, located near the center of the country adjacent to the Federal District.
U.S. citizens have been known to cross the border into Mexico to evade U.S. authorities and skip tracers. Most often, these individuals cross the border into Tijuana due to its proximity to the world's busiest border crossing. What is interesting is that criminals continue to cross into Mexico to evade criminal prosecution despite the extradition treaty that has been in place between the U.S. and Mexico since 1980.
According to EscapingJustice.com, the Treaty provides for extradition of a party who has been charged with or found guilty of an offense committed in the United States, who has fled to Mexico. An offense is extraditable if it is a crime in both countries and punishable by incarceration for a period of one year or more. The Extradition Treaty further provides that where the offense for which extradition is sought is punishable by death, extradition may be refused unless assurances are given that the death penalty shall not be imposed, and if imposed, shall not be executed.
Thelma and Louise (Referenced by Logan while meeting with Cliff in prison.)
Thelma and Louise is a 1991 Ridley Scott directed movie starring Geena Davis as Thelma and Susan Sarandon as Louise. It's the story of two women who decide to break away from their hum-drum lives by taking a two-day road trip. Their journey takes a tragic turn when Louise shoots and kills a man who attempted to rape Thelma. They proceed to flea the scene and lead the authorities on a manhunt across the county. Along the way, they rediscover the strength of their friendship and the strength they each carry within. Thelma and Louise also featured a very young Brad Pitt in a star-making role as the hot stud hustler.
Conjugal Visit ... (Referenced by Logan to Lamb right before he realizes he's sharing a cell with Aaron.)
A conjugal visit is an allowance granted to prisoners in the United States to have sexual intercourse with a visitor (generally their spouse). The concession is primarily allowed as a protection of the spouse's rights rather than the prisoner's - the idea is that s/he should still be allowed sexual intimacy without having to consent to divorce or adultery once his/her spouse is incarcerated. The prisoner is usually required to undergo a background check (check for STD's) as well as meeting other qualifications (history of good behavior).
Most prisons have small rooms or trailers set up for conjugal visits, and while the meetings are private, the setting is hardly romantic. The rooms are supplied with minimal materials (condoms, soap, sheets, pillows) and both the prisoner and spouse are searched before and after the meeting to ensure that no items were transferred.
Cohiba Cigars ... (Referenced by Cliff when telling Logan how he made bail.)
Cohiba cigars are simply expensive Cuban cigars. Originally, these cigars were used as presentation cigars to Cuban government officials. Now the brand, which includes the Lancero, the Corona Especiale, the Panetela, the Esplendido, the Robusto, the Exquisito and the Siglo series, is produced for commercial use. A box runs anywhere from $40 to $500 (Cliffy knows how to give a good bribe, err, gift).
Four-Handed Thai Massage ... (Referenced by Cliff when facing the older and younger Echolls sharing quality jail time.)
The traditional Thai massage focuses on stretching and loosening the body using the principles of Yoga, Shiatsu and Acupressure. The person being massaged lies on a mat or firm mattress on the floor, while the massage therapist leans on the body, applying firm and rhythmic pressure to all parts of the body with their hands and forearms. Sometimes legs and feet are also used to give the massage. The massage includes deep pressure compression, stretching, pulling and bending. A four-handed massage would, naturally, be administered by two therapists, each beginning at opposite ends of the body and working their way to meet up in the middle.
The term "Thai massage" is often confused with the sexual services offered in brothels masquerading as "massage parlors" in Thailand.
J.Lo Calendar ... (Referenced by Weevil to Hector on why he looks so upset in the hallway.)
J.Lo is the self appointed nickname for the actress/pop superstar Jennifer Lopez. Lopez hit the big time when she won the role of slain Tejano singer, Selena. She began her career as a dancer in stage musicals and music videos. Her first job in Hollywood was as a "Fly Girl" on the television show In Living Color. She has since starred in over twenty feature films and has released three pop albums.
Shawshank Redemption ... (Referenced by Weevil when asking about his friend's J. Lo poster being torn down.)
In the movie Shawshank Redemption, prisoner Andy Dufresne (played by Tim Robbins), would receive posters of women and hang them on the walls of his prison cell. These pictures of Raquel Welsh, Rita Hayworth, and others certainly weren't uncommon as these women represented the feminine ideal. However, Andy was using them, not only for their aesthetic allure, but, more importantly, to hide a hole that he was burrowing through the prison walls to make his escape.
The film is based upon Stephen King's 1982 novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, which was published as part of Different Seasons.
PCH (Referenced by Hector as he tells Weevil that his little brother has heard people call their gang "Panty Club for Homos.")
Pacific Coast Highway refers to sections of California's Route 1, beginning at San Juan Capistrano, south of Los Angeles, and ending where Route 1 merges with Highway 1 at Leggett, in Northern California. Route 1 is one of the longest (644 miles) and most scenic routes in California, providing breathtaking views of a large part of the Pacific Coast. It travels past dozens of historical landmarks and through such cities as San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
San Diego (Referenced by Veronica as she traces Amelia's fake ID to a car rental place at the airport.)
It is believed that the first humans settled in the San Diego area some 20,000 years ago, along the coast, and 12,000 years ago in the desert area. However, it was in 1542 that Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sailed from Mexico into the Bay and claimed the area for Spain, naming it San Miguel. At the time, there were 20-30 thousand of the Kumeyaay tribe living there. In 1602, explorer Sebastian Vizcaino arrived on his ship, San Diego, and named the area for the Spanish Catholic saint, San Diego de Alcal. Then, in 1769, the first of a chain of twenty-one missions along the California coast was founded by Father Junipero Serra and the California Governor Gaspar de Portola. It was built on Presidio Hill and named Mission San Diego de Alcal. The first colonists arrived in 1774, and San Diego came under Mexican rule in 1821 when Mexico won its independence from Spain. Following that, in 1848, a treaty ending the war between the U.S. and Mexico set the official international border and declared San Diego an American city. Two years later, San Diego County was created and the City of San Diego was incorporated.
Today, with a population of around 1.25 million, San Diego is the second largest city in California and the seventh largest in the nation. According to the San Diego city website, more than 96 percent of the residents are employed, with a median family income of almost $40,000. The top industries are manufacturing, defense, tourism, and agriculture, with an additional focus on biotechnology/biosciences, electronics manufacturing, software, telecommunications, financial and business services, and defense and space manufacturing.
Located only seventeen miles from the Mexican border, with seventy miles of coastline and an overall land area of 342.4 square miles, San Diego is also home to many popular tourist attractions, such as Sea World, the San Diego Zoo, San Diego Wild Animal Park, Legoland California, and the Del Mar Thoroughbred Races. Professional sports teams include the San Diego Chargers (football), the Padres (baseball), and the Gulls (hockey). In addition to ten community colleges located throughout the county, the city is also home to San Diego State, the largest California State University campus, and the University of California, San Diego.
TiVo ... (Referenced by Lamb in regards to the fire messing up his Ellen-watching plans.)
TiVo is a type of digital video recording device that automatically records your favorite television programs. Other features include pausing live TV, rewinding up to 30 minutes of an unrecorded show, and super slow-mo (perfect for watching those super speedy previews of Veronica Mars.) Everyone at home should save their pennies and nickels to treat themselves to TiVo.
It gives you the freedom to watch obsessively insane amounts of TV, without having to rearrange life to accommodate the network schedules. Or it allows you to only watch the TV that you want. No more watching soap operas and boring talk shows when you are sick, "because nothing else is on." Now you get to be in charge! It is a must have for any parent, student, party-goer, and worker. Um, do I sound too much like a commercial? Sorry. But it really is the best! Also, you can fast forward through commercials or boring parts of your favorite ensemble shows (Kirk and Taylor from Gilmore Girls, I am looking at you.) TiVo is truly a gift from the heavens, and I can't remember life before it. So, thank you TiVo fairy!
Ellen ... (Referenced by Logan while Lamb was driving him home from jail.)
Ellen DeGeneres, born on January 26, 1958, is considered one of the funniest women in America. She is currently hosting her own talk show, the award winning Ellen DeGeneres Show, where she is renowned for her exuberance, funky dancing with the guest stars and likeable amiability. Ellen has had a long career including the sitcom, Ellen, which included a famous episode where she came out as a lesbian. A fascinating bit of trivia though is the fact that Ellen was offered the Sandra Bullock role in the movie Speed. Speed is a movie about a bomb on a bus. Coincidence? Probably. But very interesting.
Staind (Referenced by Veronica while talking to Douglas, the rental car agent.)
Staind is a hard rock music group from Springfield, Massachusetts. They released their debut album, Tormented, in 1996. But it was their second album, Dysfunction (which was produced by Limp Bizkit front man Fred Durst), which really put them on the map. They followed this success by touring with Limp Bizkit on their Family Values Tour in 2000. The following year, they released their smash album Break the Cycle, which includes the hit song, "It's Been Awhile." In 2003, the band embarked on a headlining, worldwide tour to promote their album 14 Shades of Grey, which was considered softer and more mainstream than any previous efforts. Their latest album, Chapter V, was released in August of 2005 and the first single, "Right Here," spent 2 weeks at #1 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock charts.
OnStar ... (Referenced when Veronica works the rental clerk.)
This is a subscription-based communications, monitoring, and tracking service provided by General Motors, that utilizes both communication through mobile phone networks and GPS technology. Drivers and passengers can use its audio interface to contact OnStar representatives for concierge and emergency services; representatives can also initiate contact when vehicle telemetry indicates an emergency (like airbag deployment). Touted by manufacturers as an essential safety feature, as of 2005, it is currently standard for many GM vehicles (but unfortunately for Veronica Mars, not Nissan Xterras), and it will be standard on all sold in North America by 2007.
GPS (Referenced by Stacy to Veronica as she locates Amelia's rental car.)
GPS, or the Global Positioning System, is the only fully-functional satellite navigation system. A constellation of more than two dozen GPS satellites broadcasts precise timing signals by radio to GPS receivers, allowing them to accurately determine their location (longitude, latitude, and altitude) in any weather, day or night, anywhere on Earth.
GPS has become a vital global utility, indispensable for modern navigation on land, sea, and air around the world, as well as an important tool for map-making, land surveying and tracking your teenage daughter. GPS also provides an extremely precise time reference, required for telecommunications and some scientific research, including the study of earthquakes.
The United States Department of Defense developed the system, officially named NAVSTAR GPS (Navigation Signal Timing and Ranging GPS), and launched the first experimental satellite in 1978. The satellite constellation is managed by the 50th Space Wing. In late 2005, the first in a series of next-generation GPS satellites was added to the constellation, offering several new capabilities, including a second civilian GPS signal called L2C for enhanced accuracy and reliability.
In the coming years, additional next-generation satellites will increase coverage of L2C and add a third and fourth civilian signal to the system, as well as advanced military capabilities. The Wide Area Augmentation System, available since August 2000, increases the accuracy of GPS signals to within six feet for compatible receivers. GPS accuracy can be improved further, to about half an inch over short distances, using techniques such as Differential GPS.
Although the cost of maintaining the system is approximately $400 million per year, including the replacement of aging satellites, GPS is available for free use in civilian applications as a public good -- something for which both Keith and Veronica are eternally grateful. Low cost GPS receivers are often combined with PDAs, cell phones, car computers, or vehicle tracking systems. A GPS tracking system uses GPS to determine the location of a vehicle, mark, mobile teenager, or pet and to record the position at regular intervals in order to create a track file or log of activities. The recorded data can be stored within the tracking unit, or it may be transmitted to a central location, an Internet-connected computer, a teenage sleuth or a concerned father with a hand-held device using a cellular modem, 2-way radio, or satellite. This allows the data to be reported in real-time, using either web browser based tools or customized software.
Palm Pilot ... (Referenced as Amelia's toy (and clutched in her dead, cold hand!).)
Although there are many personal digital assistants (PDAs) sold by different manufacturers, the terms "Palms" or "Palm Pilots" are often used as genericized names for the handheld electronic devices.
The first personal "Palm Pilot" was manufactured by Palm Computing (a division of 3Com) in 1996. While working to create handwriting recognition software, Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubrinksy and Ed Colligan built a handheld personal electronic organizer, which they called "Pilot." Hawkins reportedly carried a block of wood around in his pocket for a week, roughly the same size as the device the trio was creating, in order to determine if the size was suitable. The next generation of the "Pilot" was renamed "PalmPilot" due to a trademark infringement lawsuit filed by the Pilot Pen Corporation.
In 1998, the founders of the PalmPilot left 3Com and founded Handspring and, in 2000, Palm Computing was spun off into a company called Palm, Incorporated. Merging in 2003, Handspring and Palm Computing became palmOne, which eventually changed its name back to Palm again in 2005.
Over the years, PDAs have progressed to include many features such as task lists, address books, calendars, memo pads, clocks, calculator software, color screens and audio capabilities for multimedia content, and access to Internet, Intranet or Extranets via Wi-Fi, cellular or Wide-Area Networks (WANs) or Bluetooth technology (used by Veronica when her Sidekick device detected Amelia's Palm.)
"The Russian Masters" ... (Referenced by Aaron during his discussion with Keith in the jail cell.)
Leo Tolstoy is a Russian author whose classic novels include War and Peace. War and Peace, which is considered one of the greatest novels ever written, is a look at 5 aristocratic families set against the background of the war against Napoleon. The novel sparkles with humor, wit, exquisite narration and individuals indulging in both great self-sacrifice and self-indulgence. Tolstoy concludes that there is a minimum of free choice in society and that life is ruled by a historical determinism.
Class warfare is clearly one of the themes this season and like Tolstoy, Veronica Mars sparkles with humor, wit and, while not exquisite - we do occasionally get to peek inside Veronica's complicated brain during her voiceovers. Are we too looking at the lives of five families set against a background of class warfare in Neptune?
Kanes, Echolls, Fennels, and Mars clearly fit this picture. But what family belongs in slot number 5? Weevil's family who has just been served an eviction notice by a member of the Echolls family, Jackie's family - whose father is now being blackmailed, Gia's family - with a newly elected supervisor/mayor lurking in the background? The overall theme of war in War and Peace is ultimately sublimated to the theme of family existence and while fathers seem to be becoming an endangered species this year, it is the glue of Veronica and Keith's family relationship that ultimately provides the warmth and heart to the show.
The other Russian Master mentioned by Aaron was Turgenev. Turgenev preceded Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Turgenev's most famous work is Fathers and Sons. This novel had, as major themes, an examination of how fathers and sons war, a focus on how class struggle influences history, and most especially the idea of nihilism as a philosophy. Turgenev didn't invent the concept, but was the first writer to explore it. "A nihilist is a man who does not bow to any authorities, who does not take any principle on trust, no matter with what respect that principle is surrounded." (from Fathers and Sons, 1862)
Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence. A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy.
Grassy Knoll ... (Referenced by Aaron when he was talking to Keith.)
When President Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas, witnesses claimed that they saw gunshots fired from both the Texas school book depository, where police deduced the assassin shot from, and also from behind a concrete wall on a grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza. No shooter was ever tied to this locale. Like much of the Kennedy assassination, this aspect of the case remains shrouded in mystery.
Harvard University ... (Referenced by Clarence as where he learned his interrogation technique.)
A member of the Ivy League, Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The oldest institution of higher education in the U.S., Harvard was founded in 1636. Simply called "the New College" until 1639, it was renamed Harvard College after its first principal donor, the clergyman John Harvard. One of the original reasons for the creation of the university was so that the Puritan colony would be able to educate and train their own clergymen instead of having to rely on the immigration of English pastors. Another purpose of the university was to educate American Indians so they could act as ministers to their tribes. In fact, the first bible published in North America was printed at Harvard in the Indian language, Massachusetts, for the Harvard-educated Indians to use while converting other people from their tribes.
As of 2005, the school has the world's largest university library collection, the largest standing financial endowment of any school ($25.9 billion), a faculty of 2,300 professors, 6,650 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students. With its famed Business, Law and Medical Schools and an undergraduate acceptance rate of only 9.1% in 2005, Harvard is one of the most competitive universities in the country. Famous alumni include: President John F. Kennedy, philosopher Henry David Thoreau, author Ralph Waldo Emerson and civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois.
Martha Stewart ... (Referenced by Logan while showing off his ankle bracelet and the video conferencing with Martha that it allows.)
A well-known magazine and TV personality, whose expertise in cooking, gardening, etiquette, arts and crafts projects and homemaking have resulted in her own television shows, magazines, websites and books. Born Martha Helen Kostyra on August 3, 1941 in Nutley, New Jersey, Martha was part of a large Polish-American middle class family that included five brothers and sisters. A straight-A high school student, she received a partial scholarship to Barnard College in New York City and helped to pay the rest of her tuition with money earned from modeling jobs, in both TV commercials and print ads. Martha graduated from college with a major in History and Architectural History and soon after married Andy Stewart. (They would divorce in 1990.) She continued her modeling career until the birth of their daughter, Alexis, in 1965. Martha tried her hand as a stockbroker from 1967-1973, at which point she and her family moved to Westport, Connecticut, where they bought and restored the 1805 farmhouse that has been seen in the background of her television shows.
Running a catering business out of her basement, Martha received a publishing deal to co-write a book on the subject, called "Entertaining." The book was a massive success and thus began a career that would include dozens of books and newspaper columns on homemaking, a spokesperson job for K-Mart's home department, and the magazine and talk show called Martha Stewart Living. In order to fully control all her various projects, she created "Martha Stewart Living Omnipedia" in 1997.
Logan's mention of Martha Stewart in this episode refers to her arrest and subsequent conviction in 2004 on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements, all related to a December, 2001 sale of 3,928 shares of ImClone Systems the day before an FDA announcement of its rejection of ImClone's application for a new cancer drug. Her sentence was for five months in prison, five months of home confinement (wearing an ankle monitor like Logan's), a $30,000 fine and two years probation. She began serving her prison sentence on October 8, 2004 at a minimum security prison in Alderson, West Virginia and was released the following March. She maintained her innocence throughout the investigation, trial and conviction, but on January 6, 2006, her legal appeal was denied by the court.
Dick Tracy ... (Referenced by Logan while eating pizza with Dick.)
Dick Tracy is a legendary cartoon character that was created in 1931 by cartoonist Chester Gould. Tracy is a dashing, daring detective who assumed his career after witnessing the murder of his fiance Tess Trueheart's father by mobster Big Boy. Tracy was renowned as an innovative detective who used modern technology and gadgets like a two way wrist TV, to track down villains and rogues while keeping the streets safe for democracy. This delayed his marriage to Tess for over 20 years as he toiled in his profession. Wait a minute -- 20 years? 20 years? Rob please tell us you don't plan to keep Veronica and Logan apart that long.
And while Veronica is a detective who loves her electronic gadgets, she doesn't really seem a shining example of the old-fashioned values Dick Tracy stood for. Tracy is considered one of America's most famous detectives, but it is really the villains that gave the comic strip flavor and character. And last year's villain, Aaron Echolls, certainly fits that description as he continues to be compelling, mesmerizing and controlling as he assumes the limelight in this episode once again.
ESL (Referenced by Logan as he taunts Weevil about the eviction notice.)
ESL is the common abbreviation for English as a Second Language and refers to the use or study of English by speakers of other languages. This term is most often used in relation to teaching and learning English, but it may also be used in relation to demographic information or as a jibe from an elitist rich boy talking down to a Latino gang member.
Caesar's Palace ... (Referenced when Clarence Wiedman discusses Las Vegas.)
Nothing epitomizes Las Vegas quite like Caesars Palace. Caesars is one of the preeminent hotel and casinos on the Vegas strip, owned and operated by casino giant Harrah's Entertainment, which also operates Caesar's sister hotels in Lake Tahoe and Atlantic City. Themed on the grandeur and majesty of the Roman Empire, Caesar's boasts extraordinary fountains, Roman-style pools, multiple restaurants, gaming opportunities tailor made for high rollers and accommodations that combine modern conveniences with classic opulence. Since Caesar's opened its doors in 1966, its entertainment Colosseum has hosted many popular artists such as Celine Dion and Elton John.
Argentina (Referenced by Veronica as she tells Clarence that Amelia's killer is a diplomat's son.)
Argentina is the second-largest country in South America and the eighth-largest country in the world. It occupies a continental surface area of 1,078,000 square miles and is located between the Andes mountain range in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east and south. It is bordered by Paraguay and Bolivia in the north, Brazil and Uruguay in the northeast, and Chile in the west and south. The country is formally named the Argentine Republic (Spanish: Repblica Argentina), but for purposes of legislation, the form Nacin Argentina (Argentine Nation) is used.
The name Argentina derives from the Latin argentum (silver). The first Spanish conquistadors discovered the Ro de la Plata ("River of Silver"). Indigenous people gave silver gifts to the survivors of the shipwrecked expedition, who were led by Juan Daz de Sols. The legend of Sierra del Plata -- a mountain rich in silver -- reached Spain around 1524. The source of the silver was the area where the city of Potos was to be founded in 1546. An expedition that followed the trail of the silver up the Paran and Pilcomayo rivers finally reached the source of the silver only to find it already claimed by previous explorers that had reached it from Lima, the capital of the Viceroyalty. The name Argentina was first used in Ruy Daz de Guzmn's 1612 book Historia del descubrimiento, poblacin, y conquista del Ro de la Plata (History of the discovery, population, and conquest of the Ro de la Plata), naming the territory Tierra Argentina (Land of Silver).
The first signs of human presence in Argentina are located in the Patagonia (Piedra Museo, Santa Cruz), and date from 11,000 BC. In 1480, the Inca Empire, under the rule of emperor Pachacutec, launched an offensive and conquered present-day northwestern Argentina, integrating it into a region called Collasuyu. In 1502, Europeans arrived and Spain established a permanent colony where Buenos Aires rests today in 1580. The Viceroyalty of the Ro de la Plata was set up in 1776 (the same year as American independence!). On May 25, 1810, after the confirmation of the rumors about the overthrow of King Ferdinand VII by Napoleon, the most prominent citizens of Buenos Aires took advantage of the situation and created the First Government Junta. Independence from Spain was declared on July 9, 1816. Centralist and federationist groups were in conflict until national unity was established and the constitution promulgated in 1853.
"What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas" ... (Referenced by Clarence to Veronica in not explaining what would happen to Amelia's killer.)
Ah The Vegas, where prostitution and gambling are legal and the drinks are free as long as you spend money and like a lot of water with your vodka. Vegas has earned its nickname as Sin City the hard way and that is what people love about it. In 2003 the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority began a $58 million, 20 month marketing campaign with the tag line: "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." Two men working for R&R Partners, the ad agency responsible for the campaign, are credited with coming up with the slogan, which has since been trademarked by a woman of Placerville, California.
Even though the campaign is long over, the tag line is here to stay, becoming symbolic for all the trouble that you can get into in this desert hot spot. Whether you come to pray at the shrine of designer goods, fabulous meals or blackjack, Vegas is betting that you won't want your wife, husband or mother to know exactly what you do under the neon lights. So go crazy, but remember: What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
Himalayas ... (Referenced by Veronica when lying to Amelia's dying father about where Amelia is vacationing.)
The Himalaya is the planet's highest mountain range, crossing five nations: Bhutan, China, India, Nepal and Pakistan. The climate ranges from tropical at the mountain bases to permanent ice and snow at the higher elevations. Home to the world's 14 highest peaks, including Mount Everest, the Himalayas have over 100 peaks exceeding altitudes of 7,200 m., three of the world's major river systems (the Indus, Ganga-Brahmaputra and Yangtze Basins) and hundreds of lakes. A large number of glaciers can also be found in the Himalayas, including the Siachen Glacier, the largest one in the world found outside of the polar region.
The name "Himalaya" comes from Sanskrit with "hima" meaning "snow" and "alaya" meaning "abode."
Argyle ... (Referenced by Logan as the type of sweater that chicks dig.)
The knitted argyle pattern consists of colored diamond shapes arranged in a diagonal checkerboard pattern on a solid background, usually alternating in two or three colors. This design is often used for socks, sweaters and vests. The term "argyle" is derived from "Argyll", a town in Western Scotland and home to the Clan Campbell, whose tartan is said to have originated this pattern.
- The witness who steps forward at the Sheriff's department is a completely different actor than the guy we saw on the bridge in Logan's flashback in Normal is the Watchword.
- Logan looks at Veronica when he gets arrested.
- County supervisor vs. Mayor in news show hee.
- Duncan's dumbquizzled look when Logan is arrested.
- Logan looks very impressed by Cliff's acting skills.
- The writer of the episode also provided the kids with fake ID's. He's multi-talented!
- Joss Whedon's Employee of the Month picture Ha!
- Besides World-Telecom, Veronica has received e-mails from:
- mrkavalos... re: assignment extension
Jessica.peale English homework
Alicia Roldan Fwd: CUTE pics
- Nit-pick: Apparently Alicia Roldan also starred in The Long Haul. They have to stop re-using the same names all the time.
- The date on the World-Telecom e-mail is November 2nd. The date on the e-mail Veronica sends to the hotel clerk is November 9th. I guess this case took an entire week? That seems longer than I thought.
- Dick has a "dick!" sticker in his locker.
- Stacy, the car rental lady, tells Veronica she hopes her boss gets canned, but Veronica referred to the man as a colleague vying for a promotion. Hmmm ... script change?
- Logan does manage to make that fugly shirt look pretty good.
- How does Veronica know that Wallace is in Chicago with his dad if he won't e-mail back? Is he using his regular e-mail account? Does Alicia know where he is?
- Why did the bystander from the bridge pick now to come forward?
- Why is Gia having a party for her father in Duncan's hotel suite? And why isn't Duncan with his girlfriend and her losing father?
- How have Dick and Logan not seen each other since Dick senior was exposed? And why isn't Beaver at the party?
- Is Dick really okay with Kendall and Logan, or was he being purposefully spiteful with the talk about Lynn?
- It seemed like Cliff and Keith were friends at the party. Did they know each other when Keith was still Sheriff, or is this a relatively new thing?
- Is Kendall on the lam with big Dick? What are Dick and Cassidy using for money? Will they be moving in with Duncan next?
- Will Gia and Dick be as perfect for each other as they seem? What will her father think of her dating a criminal's son?
- How did Sacks know where Logan was?
- Why did Aaron sign Logan's emancipation paperwork?
- Why did Veronica seem to forget that Logan was in trouble as soon as he left the party? I would have thought that she would have at least attempted to see him, called his lawyers from the arraignment or even called Trina. But as far as we can see, bubkus.
- How did Lamb get the bus raised without it making the papers or the news? I would think that somehow Keith would have found out without Sacks having to tell him in passing.
- Did Veronica get the office cleaned up before her father saw it? And who helped her set that up? That was more than a one woman job.
- How did Abel know that Amelia was missing?
- What does Lamb gain by holding Logan without bail? And when Cliff gets him out, why doesn't Lamb fight it?
- Did Mike know that Amelia was seeing the other guy?
- If Amelia had three million dollars, why take Mike's phone cards?
- Is the dark haired roommate the same girl from the previous episode with Amelia? She looks different to me.
- Did Logan and Cliff recognize each other? If so, it didn't show.
- How long was Logan held without a lawyer?
- How did Lamb arrange to have Aaron moved so quickly? There could not have been that much time between the Samaritan walking in to the police station and Logan going into the holding cell.
- With his injuries, how could Logan have been standing over Felix? He could barely stand outside Veronica's door!
- What was Logan hoping to see in the witness's statement that caused him to try so hard to read it while Cliff was on the phone?
- Does Cliff always interrupt consultations with clients to do Veronica favors?
- When did Logan figure out that Cliff was talking to Veronica? Because, he did not seem all that surprised when he had the information e-mailed to Veronica.
- For some reason, Veronica does not seem like an AOL girl to me. Gmail maybe, yahoo definitely, but AOL?!
- Who is the guy in the cell with Aaron and Logan and what does Lamb think he will gain by having an observer in the cell?
- Anyone else surprised to hear Logan call Lilly his girlfriend? I am thrown every time by the lack of the word ex in front it.
- Was Aaron just trying out his defense on Logan, or did he really not kill Lilly?
- Will we see more of Weedy in future episodes? Maybe bailing Duncan out of any trouble Meg might cause when she wakes up?
- Will Cliff marry me? He can keep the Lincoln in his name.
- Duncan and Dick are friends? Who knew?
- When did Weevil get the new ink? And who picked the colors, because yuck.
- Is Dick wearing Logan's S1 puka necklace?
- Who is keeping Dick in line in regards to Veronica? It seems that he is nice to her when Logan or Duncan are around and a jerk when they are alone. Logan, I can understand, but why would he care about pissing off Duncan?
- Logan was in jail for two days?! That seems like along time. And why is Lamb driving him home? Do all suspects get such posh treatment?
- Did Weevil really burn down Logan's house? Because if he did, oh shit!
- So, apparently Amelia and her killer went together to Waverly and got a room. Why there? And why didn't Amelia insist that they stay at a nicer place?
- Why did Veronica think that Keith wouldn't find out about Moran? And what is this crap about investigating being the only thing keeping her sane? Now that Keith knows about the lead, will that help him to solve the bus crash? And more importantly, when will Veronica stop lying to her father?
- How did Veronica hang the pictures? Did she have nails and a hammer in her car? And how many $30 a night rooms have six pictures in them?
- Why was Amelia's palm pilot still on? In the two or three days since she died, wouldn't the batteries have run down?
- Where is the rental car? If the killer took it to Vegas, he is going to have a hell of a bill.
- How much cash does Veronica travel with? She was handing out a lot of $30 payments.
- Did anyone eat ice out of that machine? Because yuck. And, how did no one notice a body in it? She wasn't that far down.
- Was Wiedman following Veronica? How did he find her?
- Why is it that when Wiedman was in his office suit he looked okay, but in the black turtleneck and leather jacket he looked hot? Ah, the clothes do make the man.
- Will Wiedman and Veronica work together again in the future? I hope so, they were awesome together.
- Was the second Russian Master Aaron threw out supposed to exist, or show that he was lying because he doesn't exist?
- What school in their right mind would give Aaron a psychology degree? And in only six months? What's that all about?
- What dorm room has a full size refrigerator in it?
- What is Wiedman going to do to Amelia's boyfriend? And is his sole purpose to get the Kane money back? Because if he was avoiding publicity, he never would have called the cops to investigate Amelia's corpse.
- Why did the nurse give Veronica health information on Abel? She is not family.
- Did anyone else tear up when Veronica lied to Abel?
- How the hell could Veronica not tell that it was Logan on the sofa? Did you see those guns? And who sleeps with a magazine over their face? When did she realize that it wasn't Duncan because she started to move before he spoke. Well at least the ugliest argyle shirt ever had a plot purpose. I thought that the costume people just really, really hated Teddy.
- Did Duncan really think that Logan living with him would not be an issue with Veronica? He really is dumb, isn't he?
- Logan can afford to buy Letty's house, but can't afford his own hotel room? Dumb!
- Wasn't the bus a little clean? I know that water would have washed away most of the nastiness, but still! And, duct tape really does hold the universe together. Even after being underwater, it still is holding the dead rats in place.
- Who put the rats under the seat? Was the purpose to get the 09ers off the bus for the return trip? If so, how did the killer know that his target wouldn't get off as well?
- Okay, seriously, what red-blooded seventeen-year old boy is going to quote Sally Field and talk about his "good side" with a flirtatious smile and not have even his ambiguity questioned? Well, considering Logan's also been proven to be a hot-blooded, woman-pleasin' sex machine, I guess, this seventeen-year old boy.
- For the first time in engaging Logan in some mutual ambiguously gay interaction, Lamb gives Logan a quickie massage on his way to holding, and after said "massage," Logan slapped his own shoulder in the same spot that Lamb had just been touching.
- Continuing the interaction, Logan asks the Lamb when exactly he'll be getting his conjugal visit whilst sliding his hand in a very phallic manner up the prison bar. In return, Lamby-poo does an eyelash flutter worthy of Scarlett O'Hara.
- Martha Stewart. A reference to video conferencing with Martha Stewart. A reference to video conferencing with Martha Stewart that is not negative. 'Nuff said.
- Logan once again shows that he learned how to fight from Trina, or well, maybe Lynn. Hands were a'waving in the air when Logan and Weevil had their little tiff. With the girlfight these two were having, one expected hair pulling to come next. (Well, if Weevil had any hair and Logan had more than an inch.)
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