There's Got to be a Morning After Pill
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| “There's Got to be a Morning After Pill” | |
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| Veronica Mars episode | |
 Veronica at the Women's Clinic |
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 12 |
| Guest stars | James Jordan Jaime Ray Newman Chris Ellis Carlee Avers Toni Trucks Vince Grant Juliette Jeffers Johnny Kastl Richard Grieco |
| Written by | Jonathan Moskin (teleplay & story) Phil Klemmer (teleplay) John Enbom (teleplay) David Mulei (story) |
| Directed by | Tricia Brock |
| Production no. | 3T5812 |
| Original airdate | February 6, 2007 |
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"There's Got to be a Morning After Pill" is episode 12 of season 3 of the television show Veronica Mars.
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[edit] Plot
Veronica is hired by Bonnie, a promiscuous classmate, to find out who secretly slipped her the morning after pill, causing her to have a miscarriage. The investigation leads her to the office of Bonnie's boyfriend, Tim Foyle, and while searching his computer, Veronica discovers Tim has uncovered a witness to Dean O'Dell's death. When questioning the new witness Veronica discovers the shooting occurred around 2:20 am. Posing as a pregnant teen, Veronica visits Bonnie's father, well-known televangelist Reverend Capistrano. Veronica confronts Logan about sleeping with Madison Sinclair while they were broken up.
Dick was not pleased to hear that Logan hooked up with Madison Sinclair and was deeply disappointed in him. Logan and Veronica break up yet again because of the Madison incident, and Logan leaves Veronica a drunken though heartfelt voicemail apologizing, which she deletes without listening to. Veronica asks Weevil to steal Madison's latest birthday present, a new Mercedes convertible, and crush it.
When Keith receives photographs in the mail of Veronica at Neptune Women's Clinic together with religious pamphlets and a bookmark, Veronica tracks down the printers of the bookmark, who are a pro-life group. When Veronica visits Bonnie, she discovers the same bookmark inside a book about pregnancy in Bonnie's room, and Bonnie's roommate confesses to slipping her the drug. Bonnie is comforted by her father, and his message of forgiveness is taken to heart by Veronica, who manages to stop Weevil from crushing Madison's car, instead settling for a can of tuna to be placed in the air conditioning system.
[edit] Arc significance
- Mindy O'Dell, due to not having the insurance money from Dean O'Dell's death, has stopped payments on her ex-husband's Porsche, so he broke into the O'Dells' house.
- Keith discovers that Mindy's car was egged the night the Dean was murdered which suggests that she was lying about her whereabouts at the time of the murder.
- Keith finds a small piece of possible evidence underneath the windshield wiper of O'Dell's Volvo.
[edit] Music
- Western Meadowlark - Brown Recluse Sings
- I'll Take Care of You - Mark Lanegan
- No Direction - Longwave
[edit] Writing and acting
- Veronica's comment that witnessing Madison's birthday has reminded her to get a birthday gift for Mac is a callback to the season 1 episode "Silence of the Lamb". In that episode, Veronica discovered that after Madison and Mac were born only days apart in the same hospital, they were accidentally switched and sent home with the other's parents.
[edit] Quotes and trivia
- The title is a reference to the theme from The Poseidon Adventure, "The Morning After" sung by Maureen McGovern.
- When visiting the pro-life printing office, Keith and Veronica introduce themselves as Carson and Nancy Drew.
- When Veronica visits Reverend Capistrano's office she gives the false name Hester, which may be in reference to the Hester Prynne from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
- Tim Foyle's password is Dick Tracy and his computer background is a shadow of Sherlock Holmes holding a pipe.
- Veronica tries to get more information from Dick while he's reading a fake magazine called "Monomania", a term that means that a person is overly obsessed with one idea, in this case girls. The cover has a fake model by the name of "Ashley Findly". Dick is reading an article with the headline words: the hottest and universe. You can also see this magazine under the bookmarks in Tim Foyle's computer, which gives an additional title: Monomania Magazine - If You're Going to Catch...(not shown).
- Veronica finds out the time of O'Dell's murder after a witness says he watched Space Ghost Coast to Coast at 2:30am. The episode title is Explode, the 20th episode, which stars Terry Jones, a member of Monty Python, and was written by Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas.
- Eli recalls that Madison had accused him of stealing her hubcaps for drug money in high school.
- A quote appears on Bonnie's dorm board: "Complacent Reasoning establishes unrealistic reasoning" by Tom...(last name not shown).
- Veronica convinces a janitor to let her into Tim Foyle's locked office by saying "No! This is like the worst day ever in my entire life, I was supposed to meet my brother at his office and he's not here, and he's not picking up his cell, and he's not even my brother anyway because my parents just told me I'm adopted."
- When Veronica is using Tim Foyle's computer, we can see his links history. While the majority of the mentioned sites are fake, some of them aren't. The legitimate sites include ASC - The American Society of Criminology, Books Beyond Borders, Green Apple, Inc., t r u t h o u t and Apple - Movie Trailers. "The Smoking Nun" is an obvious parody of the site The Smoking Gun (link), and "ZowiePedia" of Wikipedia.
- Dick pursues Nadia Fisano, who had earlier told him her name is Nadia Comaneci.
[edit] External links
- MI.net's Roundtable Review.
- Soulful Spike Society's Open Case.
- Television Without Pity Recap.
