
Airdate: Thursday 26th October 2006
Time: 8PM
Channel: Living TV
As Aaron Echolls' trial is about to conclude, tensions rise as Veronica, Keith and Logan take the witness stand to testify against him. Meanwhile, terror reigns at Neptune High, leaving Veronica and the other students stunned.
Lucky (James Jordan)
Terrence Cook (Jeffrey D. Sams)
Aaron Echolls (Harry Hamlin)
Gia Goodman (Krysten Ritter)
Woody Goodman (Steve Guttenberg)
Sheriff Don Lamb (Michael Muhney)
Ethan Lavoie (John Prosky)
Leonard Lobo (Gil Birmingham)
Cindy "Mac" MacKenzie (Tina Majorino)
Keith: When you get your chance to testify, it's important you keep yourself in check, okay? Aaron's lawyer's gonna use everything in his bag of tricks to rile you.
Veronica: Ah, but here's the thing. I'm unrile-able. Easygoing Veronica Mars. That's what the kids at school call me.
Keith: You sure you don't want to go over your testimony with the lawyers again?
Veronica: You know what I want? More than anything in the world? I wanna be there, in court, watching Aaron at the moment the jury reads the verdict. I wanna see that smirk wiped from his face. I wanna see his expression at the exact moment he realises he'll never be a free man again.
Keith: Easygoing Veronica Mars, huh? You know how fat men are sometimes called Tiny?
Veronica: Do you know how long I've wanted to go to Stanford?
Wallace: Since middle school.
Veronica: Elementary, my dear Wallace.
Veronica: Could you guys tone down the adorable? Western Civ isn't gonna learn itself.
Jackie: I'm gonna need some milk to go with those cupcakes. Anyone want anything?
Veronica: Uh, peace? With a side of quiet?
Keith: I'm thinking about getting you some sort of...giant hamster ball so you can roll everywhere in this protective sphere.
Veronica: It'd just draw attention to me. Nobody likes a blonde in a hamster ball.
Veronica: So, if you have his password...
Keith: Which I do. I looked over his shoulder once when he was signing on.
Veronica: He should know: you never log in with a Mars nearby.
Veronica: The password. Give it.
Keith: You'll remember it. It's "Mr. Goodwood."
Veronica: I'm so not touching his keyboard.
Aaron: We both know the D.A.'s gonna ask what you saw on those tapes. I think it's in your best interest that you don't tell him.
Logan: What, because I want so desperately for you to be free so we can be a family again?
Aaron: Logan, the moment that you say you saw those tapes, you will be admitting to destroying State's evidence. I'm gonna win this, son. And there's no sense in you being convicted of a felony.
Logan: Aw gee, Dad. You're always lookin' out for me. Thanks for the advice.
Weevil: If this is your idea of terms I'll understand, I'm going to kill you. Or myself. It's a toss-up. Screw it, man, I'll just cheat.
Keith: Veronica?
Veronica: Yeah?
Keith: Can you fly to New York, stop by NYU real quick, find Rick Pickett, and see if he was one of the batboys Woody molested?
Veronica: You know I don't fly coach.
Keith: I'm not a fifteen year-old boy, Woody. You don't scare me.
Veronica: After a week of forced smiles and the occasional "hey," it's time for business as usual. Ain't epic love grand?
Lavoie: Well, doesn't it stand to reason that your daughter, who clearly had this deputy wrapped around her finger, manipulated him in whatever way that pretty young girls manage to manipulate older men, once again?
Keith: You want to be careful there, Mr. Lavoie.
Lavoie: She knew the tapes didn't show what she said they showed. So, she convinced one "boyfriend" to give them to another "boyfriend," who she knew would destroy them, thus deflecting blame from yet another "boyfriend," Duncan Kane!
Keith: Any more air quotes and I'll break those fingers off.
Lamb: You wanna hear my theory on the whole situation? You are trying to get me to arrest the mayor. You wanna turn me into a laughingstock, again. And it ain't gonna happen.
Keith: Is your ego really that enormous that you can take the murder of eight people and make it about you?
Wallace: I just wanted to say...it was worth getting taped to a pole. Gonna miss you.
Veronica: And my stupid-ass face?
Judge: Foreman, has the jury reached a verdict?
Foreman: We have, Your Honour. On the count of murder in the second degree, we find the defendant not guilty. On the count of aggravated assault, we find the defendant not guilty. On the count of statutory rape, we find the defendant not guilty.
This episode was originally entitled Manning The Ship.
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