Veronica Mars Recap: There’s Got to be a Morning After Pill

Title: “There’s Got to be a Morning After Pill”
Original Airdate: February 7, 2007
Was last week’s episode of Veronica Mars so good that this one pales in comparison, or was last night’s episode just boring? “There’s Got to be a Morning After Pill” wasn’t my favorite episode of this season. I actually thought it was a little bland. Kristen Bell was perfection per usual. Dick Casablancas had some classic lines. Logan got all whiny and quippy and I loved it. But on a whole, I didn’t love the episode. Hmm.

Anyway, on to a recap of last night’s events:

Remember Bonnie? She was the Slutty McSlut that was sleeping with Dick but dating Tim “Lucky I had a bad wig” Foyle? Yeah, she’s not that memorable to me, but for some reason she seems to have more screen time than Wallace this year. Well, Bonnie had gone and got herself knocked up by either Tim or Dick (one can never be sure?). But it seems no baby will be born as someone has slipped Bonnie RU486 (aka the morning after pill) which caused her to miscarry. Bonnie enlisted Veronica’s help to find out who did this to her.

Roni started with the obvious…the possible fathers. Dick, being the gentleman that he is, offered to pay for an abortion as soon as Bonnie could take a paternity test and prove the kid was his. Tim on the other hand stepped up and asked Bonnie to marry him – not the gesture one would make if they were planning on forcing her to have a miscarriage.

During the course of her sleuthing, Veronica discovers that Bonnie is the daughter of one of those TV preachers. The minister’s daughter gets knocked up? That can’t be good for ratings. But as is turns out, Bonnie’s parents were pretty excited about being grandparents. I personally thought it was a bit odd for them to send congratulation balloons to their college aged knocked up daughter, but to each their own.

Veronica visited the Neptune Women’s Clinic, the only place in the area where RU486 is administered. She figures that maybe Dick got someone to sneak a pill out of the clinic so he could slip it to Bonnie. Unfortunately, with all those pesky privacy laws she wasn’t able to get much information. But she was lucky enough to be photographed ‘sniper style’ walking out the clinic. Keith is a little concerned a few days later when those photos show up in his mail. But Veronica lets him know she was there on a job and she isn’t and never has been pregnant. Keith is relieved and Veronica is pissed that someone is out there taking these shots. If I were Keith I’d be bummed Veronica wasn’t pregnant – that Echoll’s kid is LOADED!! Keith would be set for life.  (I kid, I kid.)

Father and daughter Mars use their Mars’ing ways to track down the guy that took the photos of Veronica at the clinic. Seems he’s with Neptune’s most vocal Pro Life group. In addition to taking pics of women coming out of the clinic they also hand out Pro life literature (brochures, bookmarks, etc).

Later, still on the case, she decides to attend church with Bonnie so she could sneak into the offices of one of most outspoken Pro Life members of Bonnie’s father’s church. She meets up with Bonnie in her dorm room, just as Bonnie’s father shows up too. As they gabbed on Veronica spied one of the Pro Life bookmarks she saw earlier in the day. The bookmark was in the ‘What to Expect While You’re Expecting’ book. A book that Bonnie’s roommate Phyllis had said that Tim gave to Bonnie. Well as it turns out, Tim never gave the book to Bonnie….Phyllis did.

Yes, Phyllis broke down and confessed that she didn’t want her best friend’s life ruined with a baby. She managed to get her hands on the RU486 and she slipped it to Bonnie. Whoa, nice friend. With the case solved Veronica can get on to her other issues…namely Logan Echolls.

The Ballad of Veronica and Logan…
Long story short, Veronica can’t stop thinking about Logan and Madison going at it in Aspen. Every time she closes her eyes, that’s all she sees. Veronica finally confronts Logan who admits that he lied to her when she asked if he were with anyone while they were ‘on a break’. She’s upset about the lying, and upset about him sleeping with someone else, but she’s downright pissed to know he slept with Madison Sinclair. He should have known how much Madison, of all people, hurt Veronica. Veronica and Logan are over…well at least for now.

Veronica is having a hard time with the break up and once again Logan has retreated to eating bon bons and washing it down with Johnnie Walker. Oh and once again we are forced to see Logan looking out on to the cheesy, fake backdrop outside his apartment. (sidenote: Rob Thomas – didn’t we talk about that last week.  Either lose the fake backdrop or stop having Logan look outside.  Because it’s bad…really bad.) Between the drunk voicemails he leaves for Veronica and the wallowing in self pity in the darkness of his room, Logan is in rough shape. But this time he doesn’t have his friend Dick to pick him up and dust him off. See for some ODD reason, Dick is pissed that Logan slept with his ex. Come on now…Dick is pissed. Yeah, right?! I’m personally preparing myself for weeks of Logan’s self destructive behavior. God that kid needs some MAJOR therapy.

Also in a world of hurt is Veronica, who instead of turning to booze turns to stalking to ease the pain (it works…it does). After discovering that Madison was given a brand new Mercedes convertible for her birthday, Veronica goes a little mental and asks Weevil to help her steal the car and then crush it in a cube. Whoa, harsh…deserved but harsh. In the end, she can’t go through with it because deep down she’s better than that. Good girl Veronica. I am proud.

The Case of the I Could Care Lee…
While digging for clues in Bonnie’s case, Veronica was able to hack her way into Tim Foyle’s computer. Just as she was about to log off she saw a case file that indicated that Tim too was investigating the murder/suicide of Dean O’Dell. He didn’t have much, but one document said that there was a drunk frat boy who said he heard a gun shot late night but he had no idea what time it was. Veronica tracked him down, and worked with him to get a sense of a time line for the gun shot.

Keith learns that Dean O’Dell was driving the minivan and not the Volvo the night of his death. So how did Nish throw eggs at the Volvo then? Wait, didn’t we find this out last week? The Dean’s wife tops my lists of whodunits (for this week).  I think Nish did see the Volvo on campus. – the Volvo the Mrs. had.  Yeah, I think she was on campus after all.

Anyway, Mrs. Dean O’Dell is becoming a little clingy with Keith. When she hears someone in the house she calls Keith rather than the police. Yeah, that’s sketchy right there.

Keith comes over only to find out that it’s Mrs. D. O’D’s ex, 21 Jump Street (Richard Grieco). He’s dead broke and a meth addict which lands him on the list of possible murder suspects. Way to go Jump Street.

…and yet another episode without Wallace. This is getting ridiculous!!!

Sooooo….what did we think of last night’s eps? Come on, this is where you spill it all.