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We pick up where we left off, and Logan tells Veronica about the sex (or Everything But) tape. She can't process it, especially with her dad in the office, but once he's gone, she sees the recording, and she goes to break the news to Wallace and a battered Piz. Parker deduces from Logan's actions that he's still in love with Veronica, and she tearfully dumps him right before Veronica comes by and rips Logan a new one, telling him he's out of her life forever. After that, she learns from Dick that the video came in an e-mail -- from Chip Diller. She intimidates him enough to get a name out of him -- some random named Dominick. When Dominick's a douchebag to her, she makes his life miserable in several ways, so he gives her the link in the chain -- another douchebag named, no lie, "Gory." She bugs his place, and it turns out he's organizing a rush -- for the Skull And Bones-esque society Wallace got invited to pledge. Wallace figures Piz and Veronica got accidentally caught on tape by surveillance meant for him, so Veronica has him go underground for her. Meanwhile, Veronica reunites with Nish, who knows a little something about the secret society, and that's some Girl Power I could really get behind. Wallace is upsettingly forced to confess his secrets while wearing a shock collar, and the fact that he's only wearing boxers in the scene makes it no less disturbing, if quite a bit sexier. Wallace doesn't deal with it too well, but he does figure out who one of the other pledges is. She follows him to a fancy party, wherein she comes face to face with A GIANT PORTRAIT OF LILLY KANE. And that completely shocked me even having seen that Kyle Secor was in the guest credits. Yup, Jake Kane is one of the elders of the society (and that's a more apt description than you might have guessed). Keith investigates the disappearance of Jake's hard drives, which he claims contained five years of product development, but when he discovers that Veronica was responsible, he ransacks her room. Meanwhile, Veronica goes to Mac for help cracking Jake's password, and soon the two of them, with Weevil's help, are enlisting the aid of the most powerful computer in Hearst. But Clarence Wiedman has figured out that Veronica was responsible, and he and Jake confront Keith. Feeling cornered, Keith erases the security footage that showed a blonde girl scaling Jake's wall, and now he and Deputy Leo REALLY have a lot in common. But finally, Veronica and Mac decrypt the disks and get the names of everyone in the secret society, along with the confessions of all their deepest, darkest secrets. She turns the membership list over to Nish, which is pretty awesome. Logan apologizes to Veronica, beats the shit out of Gory, and then apologizes to Piz, and between all of those actions, the door to reconciliation is open. Veronica then returns the hard drives to Jake, but not before telling him she knows the contents. However, Keith gets charges filed against him as a result of his actions, and we end with a teary-eyed Veronica casting a futile vote for her dad and walking off into the rain. I know it wasn't meant to be a series finale, but as a two-part episode, or even a season finale? That pretty much rocked. Good night, sweet show. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
We pick up right where we left off, as Logan tells Veronica that there's a video floating around of her and Piz having sex. Veronica tries to hide behind the fact that she and Piz have actually only done Everything But, but of course that's not the point, and Logan produces a CD of the video. Which he burned before or after he beat Piz to a bloody pulp? Neither seems particularly likely, I'd have to say. Also, Logan running off half-cocked to take Piz on just makes his "I need to process things" speech to Parker seem even more bullshit, which is saying a lot. Veronica finally asks about the blood, and Logan confesses that he and Piz "kind of had it out," which is about as accurate as saying that you kind of drew pistols at dawn. You ambushed the kid, Logan, and I'm not saying I wouldn't understand the instinct in your shoes, but you'll forgive me if, in the last episode of the series, I'm not going to have much time for you to play spin doctor. Veronica cannot deal with any of this, especially with Keith still around, and shoos Logan out. Keith then appears and heads out, and when he's gone, Veronica pops in the CD...
...and then she's knocking on Piz's door when he appears in the hallway, half-carried by Wallace. He tells her she should see the other guy. "His hands, particularly -- I tore those things up." Heh, but that's not even true, kid. Logan's knuckles have hardened with time and lots of use.
Inside, Veronica ministers to Piz as Wallace expresses his anger, calling Logan's attack a "drive-by." Piz thinks this has to do with what happened on the beach: "I think he still likes you." At least we know he doesn't have a concussion. Veronica tells them about the video and asks Piz if it was his doing, with a little more conviction than she used with Weevil, but still far from her usual accusatory tone of this season. Piz asks if she really thinks he would do that, and her voice quavers a bit as she says no, but she just doesn't understand how it happened. Wallace is loaded for bear, and he starts to leave to talk to Logan, but Veronica firmly tells him she'll handle Logan...
...and then there's a knock on Logan's door. But it's Parker, who busts in and accuses Logan of still being in love with Veronica. Logan tries to dig himself out with platitudes about how things are complicated, but Parker had her mind made up before she entered the room, and she tearfully dumps him. On the one hand, this is maybe a little convenient -- I wouldn't have expected Parker's views on relationships to be quite this inflexible -- but on the other, Logan's an open book here, and he's clearly been mooning after Veronica ever since the Piz kiss, so this is probably for the best.
By the elevator, Parker runs into Veronica and tells her Logan's all hers. Veronica: "Trust me. Not why I'm here." If I'm Logan, this is where I figure jumping off the balcony yields the best odds of survival. Parker disappears. Bye, girl. You went out with a whimper, but you sure came in with a bang. (What?)
Veronica barges in, tells Dick not to go anywhere, and then informs Logan that Piz had five stitches. Logan asks who else could have taped her, but Veronica tells him that it wasn't Piz, and besides, it's none of his business. Logan: "Aren't we trying to be friends?" The individual words in that sentence go off to shower, feeling very dirty that their collective use could be so disingenuous. I have to say, I actually like, story-wise, that Logan beat up Piz. It's consistent -- even though I liked him being more mature earlier in the season, the sex tape is still enough provocation for his loss of control to be consistent. But I think it would have been far more interesting if instead of the emo My Heart Still Pines For You crap from the last few episodes, Logan and Veronica were actually getting along as friends; it would have made the aftermath of the fight a lot more unpredictable. There have been some lazy, clichéd choices in this plotline up to this point. Veronica tells Logan in no uncertain terms that he's out of her life forever, and she shuts the doors to his room.
6. "Two words for you, Clarence Wiedman. Game. On." Was this a smart thing to do? Not by a long shot. Was it a bad-ass thing to do? Oh my GOD, yes.
Veronica then summons Dick, who tells her that from a guy's perspective, her "stock just went up." She calls him a "jackass piñata" (hee) and orders him to get his computer. When he balks, she asks, "Do you not instinctively fear me?" I agree that he should, but you have to make allowances for the left hand of the bell curve. (Ooh, tell me I just didn't find the name for the comedy troupe I have yet to put together.) Anyway, Dick opens himself up in the cyber sense, and he finds that the email came from Chip Diller. Veronica is horrified to note that Dick forwarded the video to his whole address book (and it's titled "Emission To Mars," which HA), but Dick tells her that's de rigeur for him with porn. "When it's good." Hee.
Outside, Weevil is limpingly trying to catch up to Veronica, but she says she's busy. Weevil: "Yeah, that figures." Um, hee. Veronica blanches and stops, asking Weevil to shiv her. He tells her he didn't watch the whole video, and offers to help her in whatever way she needs. She says that she most likely will indeed take him up on that. Veronica and Weevil, teaming up in anger. I hope people still have fallout shelters in Neptune.
Veronica enters the cafeteria to rampant whispering and snickering. She tells herself, "Aaand I'm back in high school!" I understand the sentiment, Veronica, but I won't agree until I see Casey Gant or Carrie Bishop. Preferably both. Veronica finds Chip sitting with "a cluster of morons," to use Veronica's words. He's unforthcoming, so she threatens him with scary revenge...
...and then he's chasing her down the hall, eventually catching her and telling her that some guy named Dominick sent him the e-mail. She turns away, and he calls, "So we're cool, right?" She smiles to herself. Hee. Might as well make him shit a brick, Veronica. He's used to that sort of thing.
Veronica finds this douchebag Dominick, who's a complete asshole to her...
...and then he's walking out of a restaurant on a botched date, as his credit card was declined and the girl had to pay. Moreover, his car's up on blocks, and Weevil appears to tell him that he "must have some bad karma." Or in even simpler terms, payback's a bitch...
...and Dominick returns to find that Payback's in his room, in the form of a tiny blonde girl singing a few bars of Daniel Powter's "Bad Day." Hee. He starts toward her, but she fires up Mr. Sparky, so he gives up the name of a guy, "Gory." No, seriously.
Veronica's knocking on the guy's door, and then he appears from the shower. He's even more of a dick to her than Dominick was, and he's also not easily intimidated, even dropping his towel and inviting her to stay for a drink. She's disgusted, and the disgust isn't tempered by the slightest bit of "Well, I have to admit I'm a little impressed." Maybe the hot water was out.
Piz is strumming his guitar and making up a song about his bruised eye. Veronica, for her part, planted a bug in Gory's room, and she's listening to him give pledgemaster-esque directions about picking up instructions at some newspaper stand. She asks if any frats do a late spring rush, but Piz says he doesn't think so. Like any frat guys would recruit Piz. He was just brought in by the writers to make them look bad!
Veronica's photographing the guys who use the machine in question. And as it turns out, Wallace is one of them. So from Veronica's point of view, he's either involved with a dickhead like Gory, or he reads the news. You have to admit that it's a puzzling problem.
7. "You didn't kill Lilly Kane. You're just somebody's patsy." The first time Veronica faced off with Koontz, she was soundly defeated and left the prison a quivering mess. This time, she turned the tables hard.
Veronica catches up to Wallace, they chat, and she tells him she's taking surveillance photos of anyone who takes a paper out of the machine. Wallace gets an "uh-oh" look on his face, but gives away nothing away to her. Veronica then takes a call, leaving Wallace to look pensive...
...and then a professor of his stops him and gives him an envelope, which the professor says he found taped to his front door. Er.
Veronica enters Keith's office at the Sheriff's station with a change of uniform for him. I'm at least glad to see he has one. Keith gets up, revealing the fact that he has no pants on -- he spilled vinaigrette dressing on himself on the day that he's getting pictures taken for an article in the Neptune Register. This scene is completely unnecessary, but the salient point is that Veronica lays the big hex on Keith's campaign by saying that when he wins, "the sun will be shining, birds will be singing, they'll be dancing in the streets." Well, I guess now we know predisposition to jinxing is inherited.
Wallace shows up at Veronica's house and comes clean about The Castle -- it's Hearst's version of Skull And Bones, and they tapped him to join. Some people on the boards wondered why an old-boy organization like The Castle would want Wallace, given that he's not the greatest student and isn't rich or anything, but given their affinity for knowing their members' secrets, it makes sense to me that they'd only pick people who have real skeletons in their closets so as to keep tight control, and it's clear from what happens later that they have a bead on the whole Rashard thing. Wallace tells Veronica that a few days ago, he blew off some girl with an excuse about studying at his professor's house, and as it turns out, the envelope his professor gave him was from The Castle -- they knew where he was supposed to be. Because of this, he suspects that the camera that recorded Veronica's session with Piz was actually there to catch his movements. Veronica takes a breath that's a mixture of relief (that Piz wasn't involved) and anger at the newly-defined enemy, and says she'll need names, but Wallace hasn't met a single person -- even the guy who gave him the invitation isn't a member. Of course, it seems pretty clear that Gory is, so I don't know why Veronica doesn't start there. Maybe she's afraid he'll flash her again. Wallace says he's not pledging, but Veronica asks him to go undercover for her. When he balks, she realizes she's asking a lot and retracts the request, but Wallace says he'll do it. He expresses concern that he won't be able to get names, so Veronica gives him a pen with a hidden camera in it, and tells him to take pictures. Wallace then takes out a newspaper and says that he looked up everything the library had on The Castle. Veronica looks at the one article he found and smiles as she recognizes the byline...
...and then she walks into the library and meets the author -- Nish. Nice. Nish tells her that Hearst's founder was a Skull and Bones member at Yale. He started The Castle, modeled after Skull and Bones, at Stanford, where his son went, and at Hearst. So even if Veronica hadn't blown the Kane Scholarship, she still might have ended up a YouTube feature. She goes on that being in The Castle is a ticket to wealth, power, and privilege. "They're treated like rock stars." Ooh, maybe Piz can interview them! Although, given the circumstances, that might be a little awkward. Nish says that her women aren't happy about the society. That is indeed a shift in tone. She adds that they would have sued for admission if they could have figured out who to bother. "No one knows who the members are."
At night, Wallace is waiting in an empty parking lot when a guy wearing all black, including a ski mask, drives up. You'd wonder what the guy would say were a cop to pull him over, but given The Castle's influence, I'm guessing that's not going to happen. Wallace, seemingly by prior arrangement, gets in the trunk. However, Veronica is hiding in her car nearby, and she takes off in pursuit.
The car stops, and Wallace gets out in front of some kind of warehouse. An electronically-modified voice directs him down a corridor, and once he gets into the appointed room, in which there's a chair, a speaker, and a camera on a tripod, he's told (being addressed as "Three") to strip to his underwear, toss his clothes outside, shut the door, and sit in the chair in the room. As he complies, he hears a pained scream over the speaker. He then sees there's a collar on the chair, and is instructed to put it on. The voice tells him what he does now will dictate the course of his future. Specifically, how much voltage it will contain. The voice tells him that if he tells the truth, everything will be fine, but they have no secrets within The Castle, so if he lies to them, one of his brothers will pay the price. Wallace agrees to play, so the voice asks him to tell them about the night he and Rashard ran over the homeless man. Wallace is like, "What, no warm-up? I'm an athlete, here!"
Veronica pulls up outside, concern all over her face.
The voice concludes that Wallace's father committed a crime for him. Wallace says that's true, and immediately gets shocked. The voice duhs that one of his brothers lied, and asks what item he was carrying in his pocket. Wallace says it was a pen, and hears a scream as a result. "You want to try answering that one again?" Well, you could argue that it was a pen, even though it's a camera as well, but I'm guessing these guys are too trigger-happy for technicalities.
8. "Wallace Fennel has a killer crossover. But it's really his sweetness and purity of spirit that makes him unbeatable." Wallace was a great friend to Veronica from the beginning, but early on, the relationship often seemed kind of one-sided. This moment did a lot to change that.
Veronica's still waiting when Wallace comes out of the door, looking a little dazed and with his clothes not having been returned. She rushes to him and gets him into the car. Cut to her house, where she brings him some food as she tells him, "If you ever need a kidney, I've got one with your name on it, no questions asked." Aw. Wallace is still shaken up from his ordeal, and Veronica tells him how sorry she is. The good news, however, is that the voice messed up -- he once called Wallace "2400" (instead of "Three," his basketball number). He says that there's a freshman at Hearst who got a perfect 2400 on the SAT, so that must be him. Wallace saw his picture in the paper -- "he looked kind of like Josh Groban." That's not quite the image I'd expect for an S&B-esque society, but maybe Josh Groban has a secret deal with the devil. I kind of doubt it, but it would explain the Ally McBeal thing. Veronica gets her laptop, shows Wallace the surveillance pictures she took, and gets a positive ID.
In the cafeteria, Veronica sees Dominick, who seems to have a broken wrist. I'm guessing this was the price of him telling Veronica who sent the e-mail? He gives her a look that's equal parts baleful and scared, and Veronica's answering "You make me feel like a natural woman" look is priceless. Hey, I'm glad something does in this episode. She joins Piz, and they share a quick smooch until some super-dorky kid starts harassing her. Veronica gets out the taser, but Piz prevails on her to go outside and eat, although he has to hold her back when the dork makes a comment about "looking even more familiar from behind." Piz tells her karma will get the guy. Veronica: "Oh, I know! I'm gonna run him over with my karma." Hee.
Logan's playing a video game when Dick enters and congratulates him on his ass-whipping of Piz. "That's one messed-up Polack!" I suppose I should be offended, but "Polack" seems so retro and toothless at this point that I'm just going to laugh at Dick instead. Logan flatly says Piz didn't make the video. Dick: "Whoops. Your bad!" Hee. Dick leaves Logan to process things, which I see now is code for "Getting Emo On The Couch." Hey, I don't blame him for the euphemism. It's shorter.
Long pan over the grounds of a large estate, and then we see that a hatted Veronica is watching from her car as VMVO exposits that she followed "2400" there. It's a dress-up event, sans blindfolds, so I'm betting the pledges are in at this point. Veronica scans the place for a means of entry...
...and then we cut to her scaling a wall. Not bad for five-foot-one, although I'm betting from the appreciative response to the video that she's pretty limber. She goes to the window and snaps some more pictures, but the faces aren't clear enough, so she climbs in through the doggy door. And what will she say when she runs into the long-lost Backup? Awkward. (Hey, once more for old times' sake.) Veronica sneaks down the hallway until she turns to her left...and sees a giant portrait of Lilly Kane. Veronica looks stunned, and I'm betting she's hoping to start smelling bacon right about now.
9. You use Mandy again to convince yourself that you're not a loser, I will ruin your life. Got it? Veronica has often been a friend to the downtrodden, but this is the loudest and most awesome example.
Veronica's snapped out of her shock by nearby voices, prompting her to find a room and hide. She takes cover behind some curtains ahead of a rather haggard-looking Jake Kane coming into the room with some underling. I'm not saying it's that unlikely Jake would have come back to Neptune, especially if he was always a member of this secret society, but would he have bought a spread like this without it getting around the grapevine? I know it's the 09, but still. The underling says they got some great confessions this year (giving credence to the idea that they want people with nasty secrets), and Jake asks about the pledge gone awry, prompting the guy to show him the camera pen. Jake chuckles: "New age, isn't it?" Says the man who developed streaming video. Veronica observes Jake conducting some business with files on his computer, babbling something at the window, and then heading back to the "induction." When he and the flunky are gone, Veronica slips out and starts in on some thievery, but stops when she looks up at the painting of Duncan on the wall. I think we're meant to take that she sees a moral cautioning in his face, but all I'm viewing is a goofy smile. I guess it's consistent that even his portrait can't act. We stay on him...
...and the light shifts to indicate that night has become day, and we pan left to see that we've switched Marses, as Keith is hearing from Jake that Jake's hard drive went missing. It just so happens to have been the most valuable item in the house, as it had "five years of programming that will revolutionize the industry." Keith expresses surprise that Jake doesn't have a massive security system, and on cue, Clarence Wiedman (Yes!) walks in and says, "It's coming." I'd say it actually just arrived. Wiedman greets Keith, who says there was no forced entry, but Keith has a look around and discovers a thread on a nail in the doggy door. Wiedman: "You're looking at a tiny thief." I think Tiny Thief is on the CW's fall lineup. It practically writes itself!
Keith's stop is the -door neighbor's house. Keith says he understands that "Mr. Harvey" has security cameras in his yard...
...and they're looking at the footage as Harvey tells Keith the cameras are all hooked up to a DVR. Keith quickly zeroes in on the right footage, and Harvey asks, "Is that a girl?" Well, Harvey, how many five-foot-one guys with long blonde hair do you know? (If the answer isn't "zero," consider it a rhetorical question anyway.) But actually, it's a good thing Veronica has that internship, because hopefully somewhere in the twelve weeks she'll learn how to COVER HER HAIR UP. Keith, having some idea that this particular girl is a dependent of his, asks to take the DVR into evidence. Oh, Keith.
Keith pulls up to talk to someone who's presumably working security for the gated community. Unfortunately, it's Deputy Gills (Bloated Craig Bierko from "Un-American Graffiti"), who's still understandably pissed at Keith for firing him, and is therefore supremely unhelpful in identifying strange cars that might have passed through the night before. He wishes Keith luck in the election. From his sarcastic tone, it's almost like he doesn't know Keith is a mortal lock!
Mac is telling Veronica that she owns the most powerful PC on campus, and it would still take her twenty years to crack Jake's password. She references Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan, and Veronica says that when Mac does that, she sounds like one of the nerds in Revenge Of The Nerds. That seems harsh, but Veronica's popularity has soared of late, so I guess it's only natural that she start looking down on the geeks. Mac has some potential good news, however -- there is a computer on campus that might be up to the challenge.
Keith, rather frenzied, enters Veronica's room and starts tearing it up. He quickly finds a sweater that's recently lost a thread. Well, at least he didn't stumble across the condoms or the naked pictures of Blake Lewis. (Oh, you didn't know about those? They're everywhere!)
Wiedman comes to see Bloated Craig Bierko about a license plate. Uh-oh.
Weevil lets Mac and Veronica into the supercomputer, and they get it working on the problem.
Wiedman goes to see Harvey.
Veronica arrives home to find her room ransacked, and then Keith appears and confronts her. He says that if she's in trouble, now's the time to tell him, but VMVO says Keith would never look at her the same. I don't really think that's true, but I'm not really in the mood to pick a fight. She says she's going to spend the night at Mac's, and she sweeps out.
Jake is livid: "Veronica Mars? VERONICA MARS?" That's her name, dude. And with the satin smoking jacket, the rapid aging, and the quickly loosening grip on reality, Jake is fast becoming Neptune's Hugh Hefner. No wonder all these horny guys want to hang out at his house. He basically tells Wiedman to rub Veronica out, but Wiedman evenly opines that that might not be their best option. Jake collapses into a chair, and he's lucky it's still there, because he ate every other bit of scenery in the room. As pointed out on the boards, I don't know what's up Jake's ass in regard to Veronica here -- he always seemed to like her. Maybe they should have made Celeste the leader of the secret male society. I mean, would anyone really have said anything?
Keith is giving a female reporter an interview, which is going well enough until Jake busts in all "MY DAUGHTER!" Oh, sorry, that was a different overblown speech of his. This one is about "YOUR DAUGHTER" Veronica being the thief, and Wiedman, with Harvey in tow, smoothly details all the evidence -- her in and out times with the car match up with the robbery, she's small enough, and there's the security footage. Keith looks at the reporter, who's doing her best not to make her note-taking too obvious. Harvey says he wants his DVR back, but Keith says they'll need a judge's order. Harvey asks Keith if he knows what this looks like. Keith: "Like I don't kowtow to the rich and powerful?" Keith, nice try in front of the reporter, but I didn't buy Logan's spinning before, and it sounded a lot more convincing than this. The three of them leave, and we cut out before Keith's all, "So where were we?"
Veronica screens a call from Keith, and says to Mac that they don't have a lot of time, as there's a class scheduled at 9:00 AM...
...and we cut to Keith leaving a voicemail for Veronica, saying things have "hit the fan," and he's desperate to talk to her. He hangs up and looks defeated for a moment, but then snaps up, opens a drawer, and takes out a screwdriver. No, not the good kind, but that sure gives me an idea.
Keith opens the evidence room. He shuts himself in...and degausses the DVR. No, Keith! He had the unaired pilot on there!
10. "I could never." This one speaks for itself.
The computer cracks the password, and it spits out the names of everyone who's ever been in The Castle. Veronica: "This is a beautiful thing." No, Veronica, shirtless Rob Lowe is a beautiful thing. This is merely pretty cool.
Harvey returns with a judge's order. Keith asks Deputy Leo (in uniform again, yay!) to get the DVR. I'm guessing he would have recurred in the fourth season had the show remained in Neptune, but it's just too bad he didn't get more than two seconds of screentime after his triumphant return. Also, apparently Harvey is a County Prosecutor. With the job he's going to do on Keith's campaign, maybe I should start referring to him as Harvey Oswald.
Veronica's looking at the treasure trove of information, which includes many years of audio and video confessions. Veronica clicks on the video for Gory, or "Gorya Sorokin," and if people couldn't figure out why The Castle would want Wallace, I'd be really interested to know what they think they see in this assface. Gory is jauntily telling a story about how he once surreptitiously saw his dad and his uncle dismembering a couple of people they had apparently already killed. Veronica and Mac are wigged, and Veronica says that perhaps she'll let Gory keep his secrets. She can skip Week Four at the Academy: When To Back Away Slowly.
Veronica catches Nish and hands the list over, and Nish is thrilled. "You're gonna make some very powerful men very unhappy." Veronica says it won't be the first time. Nor the 4,879th, but who's counting?
Veronica passes by Gory, who sees her, but she's then accosted by Logan, who tries to apologize. She brusquely accepts, and she tells him to go, as she's meeting Piz, "who, by the way, is the one you should be apologizing to." She's not wrong there. But then, Gory pops over and sits down. He returns the bug she planted, and he menacingly pulls her chair toward him as he says he's glad they caught her on camera, because she's a real bitch. "You know what you should do with your sudden popularity? Just lay back and enjoy it." He leaves, and Logan gets an "Oh, HELL no" look on his face, and he starts in Gory's direction, but Veronica grabs him and says not to, as Gory is "connected connected." Logan gets it, saying he was wondering why she just took what Gory said to her. He apologizes again, saying he can be pretty dumb sometimes, but Veronica says that she's going to need some time. She sits down, but a few seconds later is stirred by the sounds of Logan beating the shit out of Gory. He sends him to the ground, and then asks Veronica if she'd like an apology. She's not interested, and then Gory is like, "Whoever you are, you're gonna die." It's just lucky for Logan that he doesn't come from any sort of money or notoriety. The Castle keeps tabs on that stuff, you know! It actually does make you wonder why they didn't recruit Logan. Maybe they realized that by the time he was done with his confession, half the current membership would have died of old age. Logan smiles big and agrees he'll die someday, then he turns to go and runs right into Piz. He sincerely apologizes and bails, leaving Piz to look confused, but then a little happy. Veronica, however, looks worried for Logan.
Wiedman lets Veronica in, and Veronica returns the drive to Jake. He starts to call to have her arrested, but she tells him that if he does, she'll make everything on the drive public. He doesn't believe she could have cracked the code, so she rattles off a couple randoms' secrets, leading to: "Then there's that steamy boarding school incident of yours!" Of course, we know Jake went to Neptune High, so was the steamy scene in middle school? Because either way, I'm thinking all-male shower. She says that he has to leave her dad out of it, but he tells her it's too late for that. Veronica looks floored...
...and then she arrives home, to find Keith making gumbo. By way of apologizing for what she's cost him, she tells him she loves him more than anything, and he says he never doubts it.
In the morning, Veronica gets up, and is devastated to read in the paper that charges have been filed against Keith for his evidence tampering...
...and then, she enters the voting booth and casts her vote for her dad. As "It Never Rains In Southern California" fittingly plays, she leaves the building, and walks down the street in the pouring rain, with her family just as popular as it was in the series premiere.
I just want to thank everyone involved with the show for doing such a great job, and for being so accessible, to me personally and to the fans in general. Big shout-outs to Rick Pickett, Phil Klemmer, Dan Etheridge, and of course, Rob Thomas. Also, thanks to the TWoP users for faithfully reading. Hopefully we'll catch each other again sometime.