Versatile Toppings

"Versatile Toppings" is episode 14 of season 2 of the television show Veronica Mars. It had an estimated audience size of 2.73 million US viewers on its first airing.^[1]

Plot

Veronica has to solve two mysteries simultaneously: who's mugging pizza boys and who is blackmailing gay students at Neptune High. She thinks it's the same culprit, but it turns out not to be.

Arc significance

• Logan tells Dr. Griffith that if he wants Logan to stay away from Hannah, he'll have to drop his testimony.
• Hannah's father tells her about what he "saw" Logan do on the bridge. Logan tells her that her father is a cokehead and lying for the Fitzpatricks, and implores her to "look around the house." Hannah finds coke in the bathroom and a number of calls to and from the Fitzpatricks and The River Styx.
• Keith finds out that Terrence Cook was at the Seven Rivers Casino at the time of the bus crash and couldn't have used his cell phone.
• Keith brings this information to Lamb and tries to blackmail him into letting Terrence off the hook by playing the recording of Lamb blackmailing Terrence. Lamb doesn't see the leverage as equal and refuses to drop the charges.
• At the end of the episode, Veronica finds explosives and detonators in the garage Terrence uses to keep his cars.
• During Veronica's investigation in the gay student blackmailings, a clue is brought up that makes sense in the end of the season. It is mentioned that Peter Ferrer was a member of the message board, and one of his last posts was about a very big outing to occur in Neptune.

Music

• "On the 54" - The Dandelions
• "This Machine Alone" - The Fighting Brothers McCarthy
• "Cinnamon Sky" - Karin Brennan
• "I Don't Know" - Starsailor

References

External links

• "Versatile Toppings" at the Internet Movie Database
• "Versatile Toppings" at TV.com
• "Versatile Toppings" at Mars Investigations
• "Versatile Toppings" at Television Without Pity