Vinnie Van Lowe
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| Vinnie Van Lowe | |
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 Ken Marino as Vinnie Van Lowe |
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| First appearance | Kanes and Abel's |
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| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Private Investigator |
| Relationships | Debra Villareal (divorced) |
| Portrayed by | Ken Marino |
| Created by | Rob Thomas |
Vinnie Van Lowe is a fictional character on The CW television series Veronica Mars. He is portrayed by Ken Marino.
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[edit] Background
Vinnie Van Lowe is a private investigator in Neptune, California and is the main competition for Keith and Veronica Mars. Vinnie has more lax moral standards than the Mars family and is often willing to take on cases that the Mars Investigation team would refuse. It is because of this that he has a much larger caseload than the Mars family.
The cases that Vinnie Van Lowe takes on have sometimes helped the Mars family, but sometimes his work has been in opposition to the cases of Mars Investigations. In Kanes and Abel's Veronica Mars is attempting to find out who has been harassing Sabrina Fuller, the School Board President's daughter, and one of the top candidates for the Kane Scholarship. The Kane Scholarship is a full scholarship named in honor of Lilly Kane awarded to the valedictorian of Neptune High. In her investigation, Veronica discovers that one of the cars that was used during a harassment was owned by Vinnie Van Lowe's ex-wife Debra Villareal. From this she was able to figure out that Vinnie Van Lowe was the person hired to harass Sabrina.
In Donut Run Vinnie Van Lowe was hired by Celeste Kane to watch Veronica because Celeste suspected that Veronica knew where Duncan took the kidnapped Manning baby. Veronica was able to take advantage of Vinnie's willingness to change clients if he is offered a better deal ("The Vinnie Classic"). Veronica had Duncan offer Vinnie more money to drive the Manning baby and a Veronica look-alike over the Mexican border and to pick Duncan up in Mexico. It was because of this that Duncan was able to successfully escape authorities with the kidnapped baby.
In Not Pictured Vinnie and Keith team up to catch Woody Goodman. Vinnie had broken into the Goodman house and stole all their records. Vinnie was arrested, but got away with the records. Using his one phone call, he meets with Keith to get him to split the bounty. Vinnie gives the records and Keith gets the man.
In Welcome Wagon he almost gets Keith killed while working for Liam Fitzpatrick. He is currently on retainer for the Fitzpatrick family.
In Of Vice and Men, however, Vinnie helps Veronica and Meryl escape from the clutches of the Fitzpatricks' when the two girls wander into the River Stix while searching for Meryl's missing boyfriend.
[edit] Appearances
[edit] Season 1
- 1x17 Kanes and Abel’s
[edit] Season 2
- 2x11 Donut Run
- 2x15 The Quick and the Wed
- 2x22 Not Pictured
[edit] Season 3
- 3x01 Welcome Wagon
- 3x07 Of Vice and Men
- 3x14 Mars, Bars
[edit] External links
| Veronica Mars | ||
| Episode List | Cast | Official Website | ||
| Current Main Characters | Veronica Mars | Logan Echolls | Wallace Fennel | Dick Casablancas Parker Lee | Stosh "Piz" Piznarski | Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie Eli “Weevil” Navarro | Keith Mars |
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| Former Main Characters | Mallory Dent | Duncan Kane | Cassidy Casablancas | Jackie Cook | Don Lamb | |
| Family | Kendall Casablancas | Terrence Cook | Aaron Echolls | Lynn Echolls | Trina Echolls Alicia Fennel | Celeste Kane | Jake Kane | Lilly Kane | Lianne Mars | Charlie Stone |
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| Neptune High | Van Clemmons | Vincent Clemmons | Corny | Gia Goodman | Hannah Griffith Rebecca James | Meg Manning | Madison Sinclair | Felix Toombs | Troy Vandegraff |
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| Hearst College | Tim Foyle | Mercer Hayes | Hank Landry | Cyrus O'Dell | Moe Slater | |
| Residents of Neptune | Leo D'Amato | Liam Fitzpatrick | Woody Goodman | Abel Koontz Cliff McCormack | Mindy O'Dell | Vinnie Van Lowe | Clarence Wiedman |
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| Places | Neptune, California | Neptune Grand | Camelot Motel Neptune High | Hearst College |
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