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“Not Pictured”
Veronica Mars episode
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 22
Written by Rob Thomas (teleplay & story)
John Enbom (teleplay)
Directed by John Kretchmer
Guest stars Harry Hamlin
(Aaron Echolls)
Michael Muhney
(Don Lamb)
Tina Majorino
(Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie)
Ken Marino
(Vinnie Van Lowe)
Amanda Seyfried
(Lilly Kane)
Christopher B. Duncan
(Clarence Wiedman)
Corinne Bohrer
(Lianne Mars)
Jeremy Ray Valdez
(Marcos Oliveres)
Luke Fryden
(Peter Ferrer)
Erica Gimpel
(Alicia Fennel)
Charisma Carpenter
(Kendall Casablancas)
Steve Guttenberg
(Woody Goodman)
Production no. 2T7222
Original airdate May 9, 2006
Episode chronology
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List of Veronica Mars episodes

"Not Pictured" is episode 22 and the season finale of season 2 of the television show Veronica Mars. It had an estimated audience size of 2.42 million US viewers on its first airing.

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[edit] Plot

This is the graduation episode. Veronica, Wallace, Mac, Logan and the rest of their classmates all graduate with the exceptions of Weevil who was arrested by Sheriff Lamb just before walking across the stage at graduation and Dick who failed his science project in the episode "I Am God" and has to attend summer school in order to graduate. Keith catches Woody, who insists he didn't crash the bus; and Veronica proves him right when she finds that Cassidy was on his Little League team. She puts the pieces together and realizes that Cassidy blew up the bus to silence Peter and Marcos. Everything comes to a head at the Neptune Grand, where Cassidy threatens Veronica with a gun before secrets come out and he commits suicide. Also, Clarence Wiedman kills Aaron Echols under the orders of Duncan Kane.

[edit] Arc significance

  • Weevil is arrested at graduation for the murder of Eduardo "Thumper" Orozco.
  • Veronica finds a picture of Woody's Little League team and sees that Cassidy Casablancas' name was on it but was not on the picture. She calls Cassidy's friend Hart Hanson and finds out that when they filmed their war movies, Cassidy was in charge of explosives, which he got from his dad's mechanic, Curly Moran.
  • Veronica texts Mac to stay away from Cassidy, but he intercepts it and texts back to Veronica as Mac to meet him on the roof. On the roof, Cassidy points a gun at Veronica and she figures out that he killed Curly Moran because Curly had figured out Cassidy had crashed the bus and then wrote Veronica's name on his hand to divert attention.
  • Veronica also figures out that Cassidy raped her at Shelly Pomroy's party two years ago; she got chlamydia from him, and he got it from Woody Goodman.
  • Cassidy detonates a bomb in Woody's plane, killing all on board. Veronica briefly thought Keith was on the plane, but Sheriff Lamb requested that Keith be removed at the last minute, saving his life.
  • Veronica is able to send a text message to Logan and he arrives on the roof and tackles Cassidy. Veronica is able to get Cassidy's gun, but Logan talks her out of killing him.
  • Logan tries to stop Cassidy from jumping from the roof of the hotel by shouting "Cassidy, don't", but when Cassidy asks "Why not?" Logan cannot think of anything to say so Cassidy jumps off the roof, killing himself.
  • Aaron goes to the Neptune Grand after his acquittal and has sex with Kendall. When she goes to take a shower, Aaron begins to watch one of his old movies. Clarence Wiedman appears and kills Aaron with a silenced pistol. Wiedman calls Duncan, who is hiding in Australia with Meg's baby, to tell him that "It's a done deal."
  • Kendall gets more than $8 million from the Phoenix Land Trust. She shows up at Mars Investigations and tells Keith she wants to hire him. She opens up a briefcase to show him something.
  • Veronica and Logan begin dating again.
  • Veronica is left waiting at the airport for Keith. He never shows up.

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[edit] Production details

  • Kristen Bell and Amanda Seyfried couldn't both be there to film their scene together at the same time, which is why Amanda is wearing a wig. Amanda was busy filming Big Love during the weekdays and Kristen was filming Fanboys on the weekend. They both had to have stand-ins to film their parts.

[edit] Quotes and trivia

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Veronica: So how's the Sheriff business?
Keith: Pretty sweet. We got Otis sleeping it off in cell one and Lamb has to wear the Clete the Crime-Fighting Canine costume to all the elementary schools this week.
Dick: Guess who's going commando?
Duncan: Must we?
Veronica: Tell me about everything! Tell me about this new guy, tell me about Vassar...
Lilly: Guy is gone. There was a little disagreement about fooling around with his ex.
Veronica: That bastard.
Lilly: Oh, no no, it was um, it was me. I kinda fooled around with his ex. I mean, you'd think that guys would dig that, right? ...What? It's college, it's expected. You'll see.
Mac: Guess what?
Veronica: What?
Mac: Beaver got us a room at the Neptune Grand for tonight.
Veronica: Ooh la la.
Mac: Any advice?
Veronica: Close your eyes and think of England?
Veronica: Where's your brother?
Dick: I think he took Ghost World up to his room. They're probably up there makin' love. Or playing Dungeons and Dragons. Or both. At the same time. They're both, like, twelfth-level dorks. Just sayin'.
Veronica: [Veronica's pointing the gun at Cassidy] Logan, move away from him.
Logan: Veronica, don't.
Veronica: He killed my father. He killed all the kids on the bus...he raped me!
Logan: Don't do it. You're not a killer, Veronica. Give me the gun. You're not a killer.
Logan: Beaver, don't!
Cassidy: My name is Cassidy!
Logan: Cassidy, don't.
Cassidy: Why not? [silence] That's what I thought. [He jumps commiting suicide]
Logan: So.....
[As Veronica is walking out, Logan puts her bags down and starts to kiss her.]
Veronica: [laughing] What are you doing?
Logan: I'm not going to see you for a whole week. That's like...a month.
Veronica: Yeah, but then I'll be back and everything will be fine.
[Logan kisses Veronica on her neck.]
Logan: You say that but I don't know.
Veronica: I know. I can feel it.
Logan: And you're never wrong?
[Veronica shakes her head.]
Logan: No?
[Kendall turns on the light and walks in]
Kendall: Aw, young love. No, no, hold that position. Norman Rockwell wants to come in and paint you two. Did he pin on his pin, or was he too shy?
Veronica: Why are you here?
Logan: Yeah, I didn't know you could come out during daylight hours.
Kendall: I have a business proposition for your father.
Veronica: Okay, but I'm warning you: he doesn't carry much cash.
  • When receiving the call from Clarence Wiedman, Duncan answers the phone asking, "C.W.?" Wiedman replies, "It's a done deal." At the time of this episode's airing, Veronica Mars had not yet been confirmed in most media outlets for its third season renewal. The dialogue prompted some fans, such as those on the Television Without Pity message board, to consider it a thinly-veiled reference that a fall pickup of the series on The CW was certain.
  • Mayor Goodman is staying at the Quail Creek Lodge under the name "Mr. Underhill," a reference to Frodo Baggins' undercover name in The Fellowship of the Ring.
  • The name of Cassidy's friend, Hart Hanson, may be a reference to the writer of Bones and Joan of Arcadia, also Hart Hanson.

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Ratings are based on Nielsen Media Research data and are obtained from Mediaweek.[1]

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