Veronica Mars S01 E02 – 1 Episode in Paris

Previously: We met Veronica Mars and in the last year of her life, her friend was murdered, her dad was fired, her mother abandoned them, her boyfriend broke up with her and she was raped. Also, now she’s a private investigator.
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Credit Where Credit’s Due

Lorraine: Wallace asks Veronica what her big Friday night plans are. All she’s got so far are taking Backup for a run and possibly renting a PG-13 movie. If you take away the “going for a run” part you have a good representation of most of my Friday nights. No shame, V.

Wallace isn’t on board with these plans, though, and aspires to a live a life inspired by a Nelly rap video. LOL. Nelly.

Sweeney: “Step back, wild child,” is a favorite phrase of mine in life. It’s another one of those, “TV informs how I engage with the other humans,” moments.

Lor: Wallace hands Veronica a flyer he found. Veronica looks at it and asks, “you want to crash an 09er party?” She further exposits that an 09er is anyone who lives in the prestigious 90909 zip code. The whole flyer is in code (moons means the party starts at night, hour glass and a “K9” mean the party is at the dog beach. Stealthy.) so that poor people won’t come and stink up the party.

Cut to the Dog Beach Party later that night. Duncan’s sitting in his car and you are thinking that Iceman from X-Men is sitting in the car next to him. Or, if you are really cool, you thought, “hey that’s the Disney Channel kid who was in Cadet Kelly opposite Hilary Duff, or in that oft forgotten TV show In a Heartbeat!” Maybe your remember him from Animorphs. Well, anyway, all of that is wrong because it’s actually that guy’s twin brother, who was apparently Jimmy Olson on Smallville. I never made it that far on Smallville, so I had no idea. By the way, I am aware that this was the most convoluted, “hey, it’s that guy from that thing!” we’ve had yet.

tl;dr – Duncan is sitting in a car with a guy named Troy, played by Aaron Ashmore. They use really outdated slang to joke about how it was Troy’s idea to come to this party. After the banter, Duncan asks Troy if he wants to meet the locals or not? They smile and head for the party.

Democracy Diva: Two rich white boys trading “getting jiggy wit it”s and “raise the roof”s back and forth is as hilariously cringeworthy as it sounds.

Lor: Party shots. There’s a bonfire and a keg and Logan Echolls with… wait? Was that…? No, it can’t be.

Duncan and Troy grab drinks and then we see? YES. OUR EYES DO NOT DECEIVE. Paris Hilton is standing between Logan’s legs. Logan greets Duncan and asks who his “date” is. Paris Hilton does the honors of woodenly delivering the exposition: Troy Vandergraff’s dad is a big shot architect and Troy was supposed to head back east for school, but a change of plans have him enrolling in Neptune High. That all out of the way, Duncan asks how the party is going. His question is immediately answered by some squealing as Weevil and his biker bros have crashed the party.

Diva: I could not understand what Paris Hilton was doing on my screen until I remembered that it’s 2004. And seriously, I cannot exaggerate how little she emotes during this episode. You’d think she could at least be believable as a filthy rich socialite, seeing as how SHE IS ONE, but nope.

Sweeney: True story, when our Diva Snow finished this episode she emailed us to say that it’s a good thing we didn’t warn her about Paris Hilton, because she probably would have given us a, “Thanks, but I’ll be too busy shaving my hands to watch.” BUT PARIS HILTON’S INABILITY TO EMOTE IS SO ENTERTAINING!

This show is fantastic because for all the amazing actors who will go on to do great things later, there are also a few appearances from people like Paris Hilton who wanted to pretend they could act and who this show was willing to use for the publicity.

Lor: And all these years later, we get to just laugh and laugh.

Logan tells Weevil that it’s a private party. Weevil says that this is their beach. Logan points out that Weevil and his Knievils are technically outnumbered tonight. It’s mostly drunk party girls, but like, in straight numbers this is true. Logan then makes a big show of announcing that his house is kept “spic and span” by Weevil’s grandmother. (D: He hits the word “spic” extra hard, in case we weren’t getting that this shit be racist.) One of the biker bros says Grandma Weevil says Logan goes through “a box of tissue [sic] a day.” Before things get any uglier, the party is broken up by Sheriff Lamb and one of his deputies. Everyone starts running and the deputy asks if they are going to go after those underaged drinkers. Lamb is all, “nah. Grab the kegs and cookout at my place tomorrow.” I hate him but, legit plan.

The next day, Weevil and the bro who made the tissue comment (I’m just going to call him Tissue…) are playing video games when there is a knock on the door. (D: Weevil’s general adorableness around the kids in this scene gives me Jesse Pinkman-esque feelings. #thugswithfamilyvalues) Grandma Weevil freaks out because it’s the police. Weevil and Tissue pause their game and say they’ll take care of it. Turns out, though, that Sheriff Lamb is here to arrest Grandma Weevil for credit card fraud. It seems someone took some credit card offer letters out of the Echoll’s trash. Lamb heavily implies that he thinks Weevil did it even though it’s Grandma in the back of that cop car at the moment. And no one even read her her rights.

Diva: Psh. Miranda rights are, like, so passé. Unless you’re rich. That’s how this town works, right?

Sweeney: You’re so good at TV already!

Lor: Cut to Cliff McCormack at Mars Investigations. Cliff is going through the list of charges on the fraudulent credit cards. Basically it’s the stereotypical wish list of someone in a biker gang. Also, Weevil’s real name is Eli Navarro. Cliff confirms that Lamb doesn’t think Grandma Weevil did it, but that the PO Box where all the purchases were sent was in her name, and she was also wearing a diamond necklace purchased with the cards. Veronica thinks maybe Lamb set Weevil up, but Keith points out that Weevil has been in trouble with the law before. Cliff says whatever the case, he’s got a grandma in jail and he wants to get her out.

Once Cliff is gone, Keith asks Veronica to take point on the investigation.

Later that night, Veronica shows up at Weevil’s house. Veronica’s Voice Over (VVO) tells us that she highly doubts Grandma Weevil was purchasing video games and paint jobs for a motorcycle. Veronica checks out Weevil’s bike. He comes out to tell her that he’s hospitalized people for less than what she’s doing. V explains that she’s working with Cliff. Weevil’s already met him and Cliff wants him to confess. Veronica asks if he will. Weevil is upset she’s even asking him that. Veronica says that with his reputation, he can’t blame Cliff for thinking what he does.

Weevil: My reputation? Oh, well, then I guess what everybody says about you is true too, huh? That you, you like it a little freaky, don’t you? That you spy on Duncan Kane. That you send him pictures of yourself. Be honest, Veronica. You think you’re this big outsider, but, push comes to shove, you’re still one of them. You still think like one of them.

Rough.

Diva: But valid life advice: don’t assume reputations are true, especially if you know first-hand how much that sucks.

Sweeney: Word. This is also a fantastic bit of Veronica introduction — that her outsider status is complicated, that she still holds certain privileges, and that in spite of her many virtues, she can be super judgmental.

Lor: Weevil tells Veronica to GTFO. Why?

Because A LONG TIME AGO, WE USED TO BE FRIENDS.

(That was a really long teaser.)

After the credits, Veronica and Keith are at a diner. Keith is eating and Veronica is writing in a notebook. He asks her if she’s going to wear her cap inside, as a matter of etiquette. It’s such a little throw-away moment, but it’s grand in building the characters, because isn’t that just a dad thing to say? Veronica takes off her cap just as Sheriff Lamb and Deputy Sacks enter the diner to offend me.

Diva: Are those seriously their names? Alright, show, so you really don’t want us to take these dudes seriously.

Lor: Lamb sits at the booth with the Marses. He asks Keith how the “dirty picture biz” is and Keith snarks that it’s better than being Sheriff at the moment. He reads a front page article about a killer at large. Lamb is quick to point out that happened under the watch of two deputies Keith hired. “Way to stand up on your own two feet, Lamb and say, “hey, the buck stops…there.”

Out sassed, Lamb falls back on his go-to dick move: remind them about the Lilly Kane case. He asks Keith if he’ll commemorate by dressing up like a sheriff and crucifying a grieving father. This is like watching a volleyball set or a ping pong match. Keith volleys back by asking how Lamb solved the murder again? That’s right, an anonymous tip after which no one came forward to collect the $100,000 incentive. Lamb says that Keith’s theory that Lilly’s father killed her is no better, since all the Kane’s had alibis for the time of the murder. Keith stays quiet and just smiles. Lamb thinks he’s won and stands up. Veronica calls “smell you later!” after the departing sheriff. Keith is all, “REALLY?” Fair, Keith. You did a lot of great verbal sparing and “smell you later,” just downgraded your overall game.

Diva: Yeah, that was disappointing. The Veronica Mars sass machine was silent during this little pissing contest, and that farewell “smell you later” was super-lame.

Lor: Veronica has to be off as well, because she’s got an appointment with her counselor, who wants to see her about her schedule and her attitude. Keith looks a less than pleased about this news but Veronica kisses him goodbye and takes off.

We cut to Veronica leaving her counselor’s office. Troy is nearby and he does a pretty wicked sizing up of our girl and decides to go with, “giv’ us a smile, luv,” in a fake British accent as his introduction. Hmmm. Look, there is nothing I like better than occasionally annoying the shit out of people with my horrific, fake accents. I don’t know how I’d feel about a guy hitting on me with a fake British accent though. It’s a little weird. Maybe what I’m really taking issue with is the “give us a smile,” thing. NO, FUCK YOU. I DON’T WANT TO SMILE, DON’T TELL ME TO SMILE. Maybe it’s the “luv” and some residual Spike hate. Maybe it’s all three. Point: Troy Vanderaff? So far not a fan.

Diva: My immediate reaction to his “give us a smile” line was “NO PART OF MY BODY BELONGS TO YOU,” because feminism. I might have also referred to him as “Troy the Street Harasser” in my notes. So, yeah, not a fan as of yet.

Lor: Troy gets called away and the next person who files into the scene is Wallace. One of his classes got cancelled so he gets to be an office aide instead. Veronica thanks her lucky Contrivance Spirits and puts Wallace right on the case: she needs copies of Weevil’s attendance records. Wallace waffles a little bit, but Veronica charms him out of the favor. After she leaves, he smiles after her, because the dubious obtainment of evidence is COOL.

Veronica walks tentatively into a classroom. The teacher, a Ms. Dent played by title credited actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier, asks Veronica what she needs. (D: As in THE Sidney Poitier? This made me excited, so I consulted Wikipedia, and apparently she’s his daughter!) Veronica was placed in this class by her counselor, who called her disconnected and passionless. That would make her counselor kind of an idiot, or maybe she just didn’t watch the pilot. (D: She can recite Pope from memory while half-asleep! Screw you, high school counselors.) This conversation is interrupted by Paris Hilton who is also in newspaper! Joy. They exchange useless lines and, hey, look, a Paris Hilton gif.

Diva: Sadly, this gif captures Paris Hilton’s finest acting moment of the episode.

Lor: Special Guest Star moment all done, Ms. Dent welcomes Veronica into newspaper class. Veronica asks to just take pictures, and though Ms. Dent says she’ll have to do more than that, she can certainly start there. Dent gives Veronica her first assignment: a student named Bodie Chang if winning a bunch of surfing competitions and he’s got another one the next day. (D: Is there anyone in the universe named Bodie who is not a surfer? I mean, who else can pull off a name like that?) Ms. Dent introduces her to the guy who is writing up the story, and it’s none other than Duncan Kane. Dent suggests they ride to the event together but Veronica quickly shoots that idea down.

Over lunch, Veronica examines Weevil’s attendance record. Whoever made the credit card purchases consistently did it during fourth hour, but Weevil has auto shop during fourth hour and auto shop doesn’t have an internet connection and sneaking out of class all those times seems unlikely.

Mars Investigations. Keith and Cliff are chatting and Veronica comes in, excitedly communicating her auto shop findings. They stop her because Grandma Weevil has been released on account of Weevil confessing to the crimes.

Diva: Still loving the gangster-with-a-heart-of-gold thing this show is doing with Weevil. He might be my favorite non-title character so far. 

Lor: They brought the Weevil on a little strong in the pilot, so this is definitely doing him favors.

After a Not Commercial Break, we’re back in newspaper class. Logan is talking loudly about firing Grandma Weevil. Veronica shares with them that 90% of all identity theft is committed by relatives. Paris Hilton says no one cares about what Veronica Mars thinks. (1) – It’s kind of hilarious that people call her her  government name all the time and (2) – Paris Hilton is a high school student in the same world that Jenna is. Anyway, banter, banter, banter in which Veronica sneakily confirms that Logan and Paris Hilton have computer lab during fourth period. Suspicious.

At lunch that day, Veronica informs Wallace that she’s got Logan’s browser history and it only proves he’s guilty of wanting to see Alyssa Milano naked. There is a visit to the Neptune Grand Hotel website and there was a charge for the honeymoon suite to the credit card in question. Also suspicious.

Diva: It was Alyssa Milano, in the honeymoon suite, with a credit card! There. I solved it. 

Sweeney: 1430.

Lor: After school is over, Veronica finds her car has a flat tire. Logan conveniently happens by to give grade A jerk face and proclaim her flat tire a bummer. Veronica keeps the dickpunch you know she’s dreaming of to herself and gets to work on the flat.

 

I love her.

Troy asks if V’s always this “persnickity” which seems like a dumb thing to ask a girl struggling with a flat tire. She’s tells him about having to be at the surfing event soon. Troy offers his help and his name and Veronica returns in kind. Paris Hilton pulls up to Logan and friends on a giant, obnoxious pink scooter. She says it’s new and then spots Troy talking to Veronica. She wonders if anyone’s told him. Duncan walks into the scene and offers to give Veronica a ride to their event. Veronica is speechless as Troy offers to finish fixing her tire and it all seems settled.

Diva: I want to say Troy is growing on me, but his niceness seems highly suspicious. Maybe I’ve been watching too much Whedon. Also, Paris Hilton, I hereby reject your pink moped and the eight thousand different shades of pink in your outfit. 

Lor: We cut to Veronica and Duncan riding in silence and VVO tells us how uncomfortable it is. “In five seconds, I’m just going to do the Charlie’s Angel roll right out of the moving car. Five… four… three-” Duncan interrupts Veronica’s inner narrator by noting that Lilly loved the song playing on the radio. That seems like the most uncomfortable subject to broach at the moment, but it does send Veronica into a super convenient Lilly-back! Long Hair, Don’t Care Veronica and Lilly are in a car listening to the same song. They are talking about the reasons they joined pep squad. Lilly’s reason is basically, “boys.” Talk soon turns to Lilly’s mother and why she hates Veronica. Lilly says, “she’d hate anyone she thought that Duncan might love as much as her,” and suggests Veronica keep an eye on her, less she break them up. End Lilly-back.

Sweeney: It’s been mentioned that this show abuses the flashback. This is true, but a thing I will never fault it for because the Lilly-backs are generally so wonderful. I also love the whole Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind thing they’re doing with all this tracking-the-timeline-by-Veronica’s-hair business.

Lor: Duncan and Veronica pass some guys in orange jumpsuits, doing trash pick-up. Weevil is amongst them. Veronica watches him with lots of emotion and wind in her hair.

Set to music, we get a quick scene of Duncan interviewing the surfer and Veronica taking pictures. Then, we join them on the car ride back to school. Veronica gazes at Duncan almost longingly for a moment, right before they are pulled over by a cop. The officer asks Duncan for his license and registration. He explains that there is an impound notice on the car, due to a bunch of parking tickets and a moving violation dated October 3rd. Thanks to the flashbacks we’ve seen so far, we know that as the date of Lilly’s murder and that they are in Lilly’s car.

We cut to Duncan making a call, and telling whoever is on the other line that the tickets are Lilly’s. On the passenger’s side, Veronica is also making a call.

Diva: The Snow didn’t realize that this was Lilly’s car, so she thought it was highly uncool of Duncan to blame his parking tickets on his dead sister. The Snow is supremely glad that’s not actually what happened.

Sweeney: Definitely would have been a dick move.

Lor: Jake Kane arrives at the scene and tells the officer to call the moving violation into stupid Sheriff Lamb. He says so confidently. Jake notices Veronica and they greet each other stiffly. Keith arrives and gives his daughter a little reassuring shoulder squeeze as VVO tells us that the last time Jake and Keith were together was in an interrogation room. FLASHBACK! VVO tells us that Keith was convinced that Jake Kane was involved in his daughter’s murder, so Jake took to the media and cried about the false accusation. The town ran Keith out of office and everyone gave Veronica a choice: her friends or her dad. She chose her dad, though she tells us that she doesn’t even know what’s true anymore and she may have given up her friends for an error in Keith’s judgement.

When the VVO is over, the officer comes over to apologize to Mr. Kane and says they aren’t going to tow his car after all. (D: Poor people: no Miranda rights. Rich people: cars miraculously un-impounded.) Keith and Veronica walk to their car. During the drive, Keith asks for the the story as VVO snarks about how she’ll talk when Keith explains why he accused Jake Kane. Keith presses and Veronica explains that she was with Duncan for a school assignment. Veronica asks him stop at the Neptune Grand because she needs his help with something for the Weevil case.

Diva: Keith: “I thought they had the confessed criminal in jail.” Veronica’s nonverbal response: “Like they did in the Lilly Kane case, you mean? WAKE UP AND SMELL THE DUH, DAD.” To Keith’s credit, he immediately realizes what a dipshit thing that was to say given his own history.

Lor: Points for that, Papa Keith.

Neptune Grand. Keith is dragging Veronica in and he yells at the front desk clerk that he needs to speak someone RIGHT NOW. Veronica stages whispers to her dad that she’ll handle it. Enrico Colantoni is killing at acting like a bad actor right now. Veronica feeds the front desk clerk a story about coming in with a guy a month ago, but not remembering his name or face, and now she’s pregnant. She provides a copy of the credit card bill and asks if there is anyway she can see surveilance video. The clerk says she’ll go talk to her manager. Veronica and Keith cutely banter about how Keith should tone it down a tad. Presh. (D: Super-duper adorable father/daughter moment.) (S: THEY’RE THE BEST FOREVER.) The clerk comes back and says they have no video and Veronica falls into a fake cry. However, the clerk does have a detailed bill and thus ends the fake cry. On the way out of the hotel, Veronica shares with her father that the room service bill was signed by Paris Hilton.

Diva: Dammit, Paris Hilton, you just had to have that basket of fresh muffins, didn’t you? It was almost the perfect crime. (Except not at all.)

Lor: (Except not even a little bit.)

Newspaper. Veronica can’t help but mention to Logan that she knows it was him who stole the credit cards, but that he slipped up when he let Paris Hilton sign for the bill. Logan doesn’t flinch and just says, “prove it.” His face when he walks away, though, is worried.

Keith returns the escaped murderer to the sheriff’s department lost and gloats accordingly.

Neptune High. Troy joins Veronica and Wallace at their table and invites them both but especially “sexy” and “sassy” Veronica to a party he’s throwing. Veronica is noncommital but she doesn’t say no which seems to be enough encouragement. VVO wonders if all it would take to get her old life back would be to admit she was wrong. Before she lingers too long on that thought, Logan douches by (he makes douche a verb, sometimes) and Veronica springs into action.

 

Logan sits next to Duncan and asks him questions about Troy, who is sitting and chatting with Paris Hilton. Duncan leaves to get something to eat and hands Logan Paris Hilton’s purse. In a classroom where learning is second priority, Veronica is sitting around dialing a list of numbers off the credit card bill (?) and crossing them off as she reaches dead ends. Meanwhile, Logan is snooping through Paris Hilton’s phone.

Veronica reaches the last number on her list just as Logan discovers that Paris has been dialing someone at 1am. Veronica gets a busy tone, but Logan gets through. The person on the other line is all, “hey baby,” and Logan looks around like the Pretty Little Liars do anytime they get a text message, like they don’t understand that people can text you from pretty much anywhere. In Logan’s case, though, this works out because the person on the other line is Tissue, Weevil’s cousin. Logan hangs up and chuckles humorlessly.

After a cut to black, we see Tissue walking in the hallway with Logan and his Brogans just behind him. Before Logan reaches him, though, Veronica pushes Tissue into a nearby bathroom, You Drive Me Crazy style. (You know what I’m talking about. You know.) Veronica talks Tissue’s (whose real name is Chardo, pfft) whole illegal dealings back to him: he stole the pre-approved cards, applied for them, used them to take out Paris Hilton on fancy dates and is now letting Weevil take the fall for it. Apparently, Tissue plans to run away with Paris Hilton and he’s going to write a confession once he does and mail it to the sheriff. He thinks they are in love and his plan is totally going to work.

Diva: Dream on, Tissue. Literally no part of this plan has any basis in reality. Have you MET Paris Hilton?!

Lor: House of Weevil. Veronica sits with Grandma Weevil, who apparently knows that Tissue is to blame for the stolen credit cards, but is okay with Weevil taking the fall because he’s underaged and Tissue is 18. Damn, Grandma. That’s some bullshit. Veronica thinks so too, and points out to Grandma that Tissue was using the stolen credit cards to take out Paris. freakin’. Hilton. After about one second of thinking about that, Grandma Weevil is all, “YOU ARE SO RIGHT.”

Diva: Respect to Veronica for straight up telling Grandma Weevil, “He’s spending all this money on a spoiled white girl.” And 1430 for Grandma being all, “Wait, THAT BITCH? NUH-UH.”

Sweeney: Spending stolen money on Paris Hilton is an unforgivable sin.

Lor: I think that’s in the Bible. Gluttony, sloth and Paris. Hilton.

Later, Weevil is being dropped off at home by an officer. Grandma hugs him and runs off to make him some food. Weevil gets a hug from Veronica too, and it’s pretty cute and aw. These two. V gives him the heads up that both the Sheriff’s department and Logan and his Brogans are looking for Tissue.

Diva: I did not see the Weevil-Veronica hug coming and it made me supremely happy.

Lor: Glad I wasn’t the only one.

Cut to Tissue parking outside of Paris Hilton’s house. He’s all, “time to run away now!” It’s a set-up, though, because Logan and his Brogans roll up. Logan only gets one punch in before Weevil and the Knievils arrive. Weevil asks Logan to talk and he pulls him aside for a conversation we aren’t privy to. They come to some sort of understanding and the Brogans release Tissue, who gives a Paris Hilton a long, last look.

Sweeney: ALSO. This scene was the introduction of Dick Casablancas. He’s still a nameless character at this point, with his one line of, “Logan!” and having been cast solely because Rob Thomas thought Ryan Hansen had nice hair. BUT HEY THERE, DICK! #triviatime

Lor: Later, Tissue is thanking all the Knievils for coming to his rescue. Weevil breaks the news though: he’s out of the club and out of his life. Weevil walks away as we watch the bikers beat Tissue up. Weevil tells Felix to pull the guys off before they go to far and then he rides away.

Diva: This gave me feels, but I was impressed by how realistic it felt. I would have definitely called some contrivance bullshit on Weevil letting Tissue get away with having him take the fall for this, especially since the money was going to the Paris Hilton Basket of Fresh Muffins Fund. But the most painful part of this episode was watching Paris try to emote by woodenly staring out a window at Tissue.

Lor: It hurt me too. In my soul.

Mars Investigations. Veronica asks her dad what made him go after Jake Kane. He doesn’t really want to talk about it, saying it’s ugly and she should try to forget it. He admits that he wouldn’t have gone after Jake Kane if he knew that her mom would leave and school would get tougher. I know what he means, but that probably isn’t the conviction Veronica is looking for. She insists that she wants to know, and Keith just answers that he knows she does.

Diva: Tough moment for Keith. He wants Veronica to know that he never meant for any of this terrible fallout to happen, but it comes off sounding like, “I really fucked up and you maybe shouldn’t have listened to me.” And that’s the last thing Veronica needed to hear.

Sweeney: Or, you know, she did for the sake of plot, so that she could come to her big conclusion all on her little old loyal lonesome.

Lor: Cut to Veronica visiting the sheriff’s department on a Sunday, VVO telling us that she had fake IDs made for herself and Lilly, and they arrived at her house days after she was discovered dead. She’d forgotten about them until she found out about the October 3rd ticket. VVO further tells us that all the people working on the Sunday are new and don’t recognize her. To prove her point, there is a young girl who is decidedly not Inga working at the front desk. V tells not!Inga that she needs to pay off a ticket. She hands her the ticket number and her ID. Unfortunately, Sheriff Lamb has no life and is also here on a Sunday. Veronica says she’s paying a ticket and then mocks him about not having found Tissue yet. He heads off into this office to escape the snark. Not!Inga comes back with her ticket and says there is no getting out of paying. Veronica grabs it and runs off, but the girl calls her Ms. Kane loudly. Lamb peaks his head back out of his office, but Veronica is already gone.

Neptune High. Veronica is staring at the ticket. It’s a red light cam and it was taken at 6:02pm, almost two hours after the supposed time of death, effectively ridding all the Kanes of their alibis. Keith was right about the case not adding up.

Diva: The Snow’s money is on Duncan either being the killer or knowing that his dad is the killer. I felt this way the first time we saw his dead-eyed reaction to his sister’s death in the pilot, and I felt it even more so during this episode. Something about that scary, silent stare says “I’ve seen way too fucking much.”

Lor: Troy sits down and mentions that Veronica never showed up to the party and then says some bullshit about how “a “No” is like a “Yes” except with different letters and arranged in a different order,” which sounds like something a rapist would say. WTF. (D: I am not afraid to go back to calling you Troy the Street Harasser, buddy. Watch your step.) Wallace joins them with the news that a Golden Tee was added to the Sac N Pack and they should all go there to play free games. Veronica directs their attention to the 09er table shunning Paris Hilton. Thanks for stopping by for your guest starring role, girl. Smell ya later.

Sweeney: Doubling back to V’s ending conclusion – she says that she made a choice to stick by her father and she tells Troy that she decided she was neither wrong nor sorry. It’s great in the context of this whole Paris Hilton thing, with the clear reminder of what that conviction has cost her, while choosing to stand by it anyway.

Lor: Veronica has feels for a second about having once been there but shakes herself out of it and heads off with Troy and Wallace to go play some games.

Diva: Wait, are they now all friends? I know Troy fixed Veronica’s car, but this still seems a little sudden, since he’s a Rich Kid. And Wallace is totally game to share Veronica with this dude? WHO AM I SUPPOSED TO BE SHIPPING, YOU GUYS?

Lor: Patience Diva Snow. Patience.

 

Next time: Veronica tries to locate a classmate’s father, but his name is “John Smith” and there isn’t much more to go on in Veronica Mars S01 E03 – Meet John Smith.