Friday, January 4, 2013

Veronica Mars Re-Watch: Season One Episode Eleven

After this episode, I'll be halfway through Season One.

Silence of the Lamb: Two weekly mysteries.

Neptune's sheriff department hires Keith as a consultant on the E-string serial killer case. He had previously worked on the case as sheriff and doubted that the Oakland strangler committed the Neptune killings but was overruled. The investigation reveals a stark contrast between Keith's professionalism and Sheriff Don Lamb's posturing.

The episode also introduces Deputy Sheriff Leo who saves Keith's life as he is rescuing a young woman from the strangler. Leo flirts with Veronica when he first meets her; she uses his interest  to get access to the recording of the phone call that led Lamb to suspect Abel Koontz as Lilly's murderer. Leo is suspended for a week because the evidence room was found unlocked when he was on duty.

Meanwhile Veronica has started a side business digging up dirt on parents for fellow students. She is surprised to discover that her friend Mac was switched at birth with snobby 09er Madison Sinclair (seen in Return of the Kane cheating to ensure that Duncan won election as class president.)

Mac, Veronica and Wallace crash Madison's birthday party where Mac meets her biological sister. Later she meets her biological mother. A poignant moment at the end of the episode: Mac's biological mother is sitting in her car outside Mac's house as Mac's adoptive family is packing for a camping trip. Mac and bio mom symbolically touch hands through the car window.

Mac also helps Veronica strip the altered voice on the phone call. Veronica recognizes the voice as belonging to Kane Software's Head of Security, Clarence Wiedman. In retaliation of the photos he sent to her mother in You Think You Know Someone, she sends him photos that she's taken of him. The episode ends with a Veronica voice over saying, "Clarence Wiedman, game on."

Side note:

This episode was originally scheduled to air before An Echolls Family Christmas but was pulled because it was too dark for the holidays. 

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