Veronica Mars (season 2) | |
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Starring | |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 22 |
Release | |
Original network | UPN |
Original release | September 28, 2005 – May 9, 2006 |
Season chronology | |
Next → Season 3 | |
List of Veronica Mars episodes |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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23 | 1 | 'Normal Is the Watchword' | John Kretchmer | Rob Thomas | September 28, 2005 | 2T7201 | 3.29[3] |
After breaking up with Logan during the summer and resuming dating Duncan, Veronica tries to rebuild a normal life. When several athletes—including Wallace and Meg—fail their drug tests, Veronica uncovers who faked the results. Logan is accused of murdering PCH biker gang member Felix Toombs, however the charges are dropped because of a lack of evidence. While on a school tour of the home ground of the professional baseball team Neptune Sharks, Veronica meets Woody Goodman, the team's owner. Veronica is thrust into a larger mystery when the school bus that she had just missed mysteriously plunges off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean. | |||||||
24 | 2 | 'Driver Ed' | Nick Marck | Diane Ruggiero | October 5, 2005 | 2T7202 | 2.73[35] |
Veronica discovers that Meg is the only survivor from the bus crash, but is in a coma. When the bus driver is blamed for the crash, his daughter Jessie asks Veronica to clear his name. Wallace meets the new rich girl Jackie Cook, and tries to impress her. Woody is running for the position of Balboa County Supervisor, more commonly known as the 'Mayor of Neptune'. He asks Keith to run for Sheriff, and Keith accepts after seeing Sheriff Lamb's investigation of the bus crash case. Kevin Smith guest stars as Duane Anders. | |||||||
25 | 3 | 'Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang' | John Kretchmer | Phil Klemmer & John Enbom | October 12, 2005 | 2T7203 | 3.03[36] |
Cassidy hires Veronica to prove that his stepmother, Kendall, is cheating on his father Richard. During the investigation, Veronica discovers that Richard is stealing money entrusted to his real estate company. She decides to go expose Richard's crime, which forces him to flee the country before the SEC can arrest him. Keith and Alicia, Wallace's mother, spend the weekend in Chicago, where Alicia runs into a man from her past. | |||||||
26 | 4 | 'Green-Eyed Monster' | Jason Bloom | Dayna Lynne North | October 19, 2005 | 2T7204 | 3.05[37] |
Veronica investigates a woman's fiancé, but finds that the only secret he has been concealing is that he is independently wealthy. Meg's sister asks Duncan to help retrieve information from Meg's laptop before her parents find it. The man who Alicia met in Chicago comes to Neptune, and Keith finds out that he is Alicia's former husband and Wallace's father. | |||||||
27 | 5 | 'Blast from the Past' | Harry Winer | Phil Klemmer & Cathy Belben | October 26, 2005 | 2T7205 | 3.58[38] |
Wallace confronts his mother about his father, Nathan Woods. Wallace confides in Veronica, but she is preoccupied with the crash and helping Jackie find out who stole her credit card. Wallace decides to leave with his father for Chicago. Veronica learns that Terrence Cook, Jackie's father, has a large gambling debt. Terrence tells Veronica that he is being blackmailed by Sheriff Lamb, who has threatened to reveal Terrence's address to the men he owes money to. Veronica later finds a voice mail message left by a student on the bus, which suggests that an explosion immediately preceded the crash. When she plays the message for Keith, he gives it to Sheriff Lamb rather than revealing it to the public. | |||||||
28 | 6 | 'Rat Saw God' | Kevin Bray | John Enbom & Phil Klemmer | November 9, 2005 | 2T7206 | 3.07[39] |
Keith loses the election for Sheriff to Lamb, and Logan is arrested for Felix's murder after a witness testifies that Logan was on the bridge. Abel Koontz reappears and asks Veronica to track down his daughter Amelia so he can see her before he dies. Keith breaks into the area where the bus is kept and finds a rat taped under one of the seats. Joss Whedon guest stars as a rental car supervisor. | |||||||
29 | 7 | 'Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner' | Nick Marck | Diane Ruggiero | November 16, 2005 | 2T7207 | 2.94[40] |
When Duncan learns from Meg's emails that she had been babysitting an abused child, Veronica takes on a series of babysitting jobs to help Duncan try to find the victim. Logan asks Veronica to prove that the witness to Felix's murder, Dr. Tom Griffith, is lying and that he was not on the bridge the night of the killing. Woody wins the election and is named the Balboa County Supervisor. He tells Keith of his plan to incorporate the wealthy part of Neptune, which would widen the gap between the rich and the poor. Woody promises Keith that if his plan for incorporation passes, he will make Keith the Chief of Police. | |||||||
30 | 8 | 'Ahoy, Mateys!' | Steve Gomer | John Enbom & Cathy Belben | November 23, 2005 | 2T7208 | 2.50[41] |
Veronica and Keith try to uncover who is tormenting the Oliveres family, whose son Marcos died in the crash. Veronica learns that the witness who saw Logan on the bridge, Dr. Griffith, has ties to the 'Fighting Fitzpatricks', a Neptune crime family. Thumper, one of the PCHers, tells Weevil that the last people on the bridge with Felix were Hector and Bootsy. | |||||||
31 | 9 | 'My Mother, the Fiend' | Nick Marck | Phil Klemmer & Dayna Lynne North | November 30, 2005 | 2T7209 | 2.82[42] |
After reading her mother's high school permanent record, Veronica investigates her mother's suspension for spreading 'malicious lies' and a possible relation to Neptune High's deaf cafeteria lady. Weevil tells Logan that he no longer believes that Logan killed Felix, and they agree to work together in secret while publicly continuing their feud. Cassidy uses his trust fund money to start a real estate holding company, Phoenix Land Trust, with Kendall as the figurehead CEO. Veronica surreptitiously visits Meg in the hospital and discovers her still comatose and visibly pregnant. | |||||||
32 | 10 | 'One Angry Veronica' | John Kretchmer | Russell Smith | December 7, 2005 | 2T7210 | 3.42[43] |
Veronica is selected to be a juror for a case between two 09er boys and a poor Hispanic woman, and Keith investigates the disappearance of sex tapes from the evidence locker in the police station. Meg awakes from her coma and tells Veronica that she does not want her parents to receive custody of her baby. She apologizes to Veronica for her attitude towards her after Duncan dumped her, and although she dies shortly afterwards, her baby survives. Wallace returns from Chicago. | |||||||
33 | 11 | 'Donut Run' | Rob Thomas | Rob Thomas | January 25, 2006 | 2T7211 | 1.62[44] |
Veronica helps Duncan, who kidnapped his daughter, escape the country under the noses of Sheriff Lamb and the FBI. Logan and Weevil, working together in secret to avoid the wrath of the PCHers, try to figure out which PCHer is working with the Fitzpatricks. Wallace reveals that he left Chicago because he was in the car when his teammate Rashard Rucker ran over a drunken homeless person in a hit-and-run accident. | |||||||
34 | 12 | 'Rashard and Wallace Go to White Castle' | John Kretchmer | John Enbom | February 1, 2006 | 2T7212 | 2.12[45] |
When Wallace reveals Rashard's hit-and-run, Rashard and his uncle turn the tables by producing witnesses who will testify that Wallace was the driver. Weevil investigates the Fitzpatricks with Veronica's help, and finds out that it was Thumper who was working with them. However, Thumper organizes a coup against Weevil, and the PCHers beat him and throw his motorcycle into the ocean. Veronica discovers that Woody told his daughter Gia not to ride the school bus the day of the bus crash. | |||||||
35 | 13 | 'Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough' | Guy Bee | Diane Ruggiero | February 8, 2006 | 2T7213 | 2.05[46] |
At the winter carnival, the cash box with the money for the senior class trip is stolen and Veronica must find it to clear her name. Logan flirts with Hannah, the sophomore daughter of the bridge witness Dr. Griffith. Terrence is accused by Sheriff Lamb of planting the explosive device on the bus and detonating it with a cell phone. He hires Keith to prove his innocence, and reveals that he is a gambling addict. | |||||||
36 | 14 | 'Versatile Toppings' | Sarah Pia Anderson | Phil Klemmer | March 15, 2006 | 2T7214 | 2.73[47] |
Veronica is hired to capture two criminals; a person stealing from pizza boys and another who blackmails gay students at Neptune High. Logan uses his relationship with Hannah to put pressure on her father to drop his testimony against Logan. Keith finds out that Terrence was at a casino at the time of the bus crash, and could not have used his cell phone. Keith uses this information as an alibi and Terrence is released, but Lamb refuses to drop the charges. Veronica finds explosives and detonators in the garage where Terrence keeps his cars. | |||||||
37 | 15 | 'The Quick and the Wed' | Rick Rosenthal | John Serge | March 22, 2006 | 2T7215 | 2.34[48] |
Veronica must find a missing bride-to-be who disappeared after her bachelorette party. Dr. Griffith agrees to drop his testimony after Logan stops seeing Hannah. Sheriff Lamb issues a warrant for Terrance's arrest, charging him with eight counts of murder. Kendall visits Aaron in prison, and she asks him to invest in Phoenix Land Trust. Aaron agrees to give her money if she can retrieve some of Duncan's hair. | |||||||
38 | 16 | 'The Rapes of Graff' | Michael Fields | John Enbom | March 29, 2006 | 2T7216 | 2.15[49] |
On a visit to Hearst College, Veronica runs into ex-boyfriend and drug dealer Troy Vandergraff, who claims to have reformed from his old life. The very next day, Troy is charged with a brutal date-rape and asks Veronica to help prove his innocence. Despite achieving his goals through the relationship, Logan feels guilty for hurting Hannah. | |||||||
39 | 17 | 'Plan B' | John Kretchmer | Dayna Lynne North | April 5, 2006 | 2T7217 | 2.85[50] |
Weevil, Veronica and Logan try to prove that Thumper killed Felix. Woody receives a video of the inside of his own home, and asks Keith to investigate. When they discover it was filmed months before Woody announced his controversial incorporation plan, he asks Keith to stop searching for the stalker. Veronica and Logan contact the real caller from the bridge, and Veronica convinces him to tell Sheriff Lamb what he saw on the bridge. Weevil believes that the Fitzpatricks ordered Felix's murder because they found out about his relationship with Molly Fitzpatrick, and that Thumper was the one who killed him. | |||||||
40 | 18 | 'I Am God' | Martha Mitchell | Diane Ruggiero & Cathy Belben | April 11, 2006 | 2T7218 | 1.76[51] |
The victims of the bus crash and a mysterious phrase haunt Veronica's dreams as she continues to search for the person responsible for the crash. Veronica finds out that Meg's parents had been trying to set her up with a Neptune High janitor named Tommy 'Lucky' Dohanic. Keith discovers that the family of a bus crash victim won two million dollars from a secret settlement with Woody. Richard took out an insurance policy on his sons a few days after his marriage to Kendall, which makes them worth more dead than they are alive. | |||||||
41 | 19 | 'Nevermind the Buttocks' | Jason Bloom | Phil Klemmer | April 18, 2006 | 2T7219 | 1.91[52] |
Veronica tries to discover who is responsible for a hit-and-run that killed a classmate's dog. Veronica and Keith find out that Kendall was Cormac Fitzpatrick's partner-in-crime, and that if Cassidy and Dick die simultaneously, she stands to receive more than ten million dollars. Desperate to be free of the brutal Fitzpatricks, the PCHers come to Weevil for help. Construction workers find one of Aaron Echolls' Oscars buried on Kane property, covered with Lilly's blood and Duncan's hair. | |||||||
42 | 20 | 'Look Who's Stalking' | Michael Fields | John Enbom | April 25, 2006 | 2T7220 | 1.85[53] |
Gia asks Veronica to discover who is stalking her after she receives a video of her brother's soccer game, which is similar to the one received by Woody. The video turns out to be from Lucky, the janitor at Neptune High who used to be the batboy for the Neptune Sharks. Although he is arrested, his bail is paid by the Mannings. Woody enlists Keith to help cover up an unconscious sex worker who was in a hotel room with him. | |||||||
43 | 21 | 'Happy Go Lucky' | Steve Gomer | Diane Ruggiero | May 2, 2006 | 2T7221 | 2.09[54] |
Aaron finally goes to trial for his crimes, and Veronica and Logan are the key witnesses. Keith and Veronica discover that Woody molested two boys who died in the bus crash. Jackie's father Terrence is cleared as a suspect, but must work off his casino debt. Lucky shows up at Neptune High and threatens Gia Goodman, and is killed by security. Sheriff Lamb tries to arrest Goodman, and Aaron is acquitted at his trial. | |||||||
44 | 22 | 'Not Pictured' | John Kretchmer | Story by: Rob Thomas Teleplay by: Rob Thomas & John Enbom | May 9, 2006 | 2T7222 | 2.42[4] |
It is Graduation Day for Veronica and her classmates, but Sheriff Lamb arrests Weevil during the ceremony for his involvement in Thumper's murder. Veronica continues to seek Woody's third victim, who she identifies as the bus bomber and a Neptune High student. Keith searches for Woody himself with the help of Vinnie Van Lowe. Aaron is assassinated by Clarence Wiedman, on orders from Duncan, who is shown relaxing on a beach in Australia. Veronica and Logan resume their romantic relationship. |