Note: The screen caps for this episode are from Jason-Dohring.com
Sorry, Logan's remarks taunting Weevil are pretty unforgivable.
"Yeah. You wanna know why [the Echolls' house is so clean]? It's because Weevil's grandma keeps it that way. She-she is a good little worker, your grandma, yeah, spick and span."
"Ummm," Weevil counters. His cousin Chardo retorts: "Yeah. It's tough job, you know. Grandma says you go through a box of tissue a day. Your room alone."
Logan laughs: "I know, what can I say? She's a very sexy lady. Thank you".
What's worse is in this scene we meet his new girlfriend Caitlin, the hideously appalling Paris Hilton. Is it because I'm a girl that I can't she what the deal is with Paris Hilton? She's like Skank Barbie or something - really hideous and such a bad actress. Logan gets a big thumbs down in this scene for having such appalling taste. Nothing more to add here sorry. I still disliked Logan at this point so he deserved Skank Barbie.
Also, Troy who I absolutely loathe was in this scene. Ewwww, Troy I can't help how much I dislike him.
Veronica is sitting at a computer screen. I don't like how she looks in this scene. Very blonde and princessy with her hair in a weird society flip. Anyway, in the background Logan is lounging back in his chair, arms behind his head talking to Skank Barbie, who is sitting on the desk in front of him. The two are clearly just baiting Veronica.
"No seriously, how difficult is it to find good help these days."
"What are you going to do about your housekeeper situation?"
I'm surprised Logan didn't say: "I'm glad you asked" before he says: "We had to let her go. If you can't trust your domestics, you don't feel safe in your own home." He is looking right at Veronica when he says this, not at Caitlin.
Don't read too much into that Logan Look though because Caitlin also glances at Veronica when she recites woodenly: "I won't miss her. She was totally rude to me every time I was over there."
Without looking at them, Veronica asks: "Did you guys know that 90% of all identity theft is committed by relatives of the victim?" Logan looks at her but doesn't say anything and just crosses his arms and listens. "That's an interesting fact. At least I think so".
"But you know what? No one cares what you think Veronica Mars. Not any more. Not since you stabbed all your friends in the back," Caitlin recites, hoping that people will buy that she's a 17 year old high school student.
"You seem to care a bit what I think," Veronica says with a faux frown.
"Tell the truth Veronica. Did you just sign up for newspaper so you could be around Duncan?" Logan taunts her, his arms still crossed.
"No. I'm here so I can be closer to you," she says with a simper and a faux-cute little smile.
"Oooh," Logan smirks back at her.
"In fact they're thinking of putting me in your 4th period government class."
"We've got computer lab 4th period." Caitlin tells her.
"Oh shoot," Veronica says insincerely, slanting a look at Logan. "My loss," she says returning her attention to the computer screen.
In the background, although Caitlin is unaware that she's provided Veronica with information, something about the way Logan brings his hand to his face contemplatively suggests that he is aware of what has just taken place. Veronica just smiles.
I still disliked Logan in this episode but it is clear that Logan's attention is almost always heavily focused on Veronica even when he's with his girlfriend. Logan is staring at her through most of the scene - his chair is facing her profile.
Furthermore, their back and forth dialogue has a certain snappy pace and flavour of arch badinage. I'm not going to call it flirting but the way they talk to each other could almost be mistaken for teasing rather than taunting.
To quote the wonderful LoVe Shack:
.....And then there is the look in their eyes, this little sparkle, not to mention that Logan is playing his favorite game of 'I must stare intently at Veronica as if I want to ravish her any second.' Fun!
Veronica goes to her car to drive out to the interview. Logan walks up from behind, tossing an apple back and forth with a friend. As he passes her car, he rolls his apple on the boot and pauses when he sees her examining the flat tires. She looks up at him.
"Bummer," he says insincerely and walks away, making an okay gesture with his fingers before he tosses his apple to a group standing around his car. Veronica watches him go, frustration evident on her face.
Icky wicky Troy comes up to "rescue" her a little later. Please excuse me while I gag. Of note though is the fact that while she and Troy are talking, Logan is standing by his car watching, watching, watching her again.
I don't think Logan was responsible for the flat tire but he probably knew who did it and he was certainly enjoying her frustration. Yes, he was still a jerk here. The only thing I'll comment on is that again they're showing interaction between Veronica and Logan. Why so much interaction? Yes Duncan makes an appearance but it's not a very newsworthy interaction.
Veronica confronts Logan.
"I know it was you."
Logan laughs. "What was me?"
"You stole your mom's credit cards but you made a mistake when you went to the Hotel Neptune Grand because you let Caitlin sign for the room service tab."
"Well that's great. Prove it," Logan says as if he doesn't care. As he walks away from her though, his face betrays that Veronica's words have struck a chord.
This is the first of many times that Veronica accuses Logan of something that he did not do.
When she's accusing him, Logan gives nothing away but when she walks away, you can see that he's realized that Caitlin's cheating on him.
This scene is kind of hard to describe. It's lunch, Veronica's talking so sleazy disgusting ugly Troy who thinks he's charming. Can you tell I hate him? Logan walks past, his face looks a little tense but he makes a taunting hand signal at Veronica. Note that when Logan is looking at Caitlin and wondering what she's up to, his hand is at his head again - his customary tell sign for when he's troubled.
In a nutshell, Veronica has the credit card bill from the hotel and Logan has Caitlin's phone because he is purse-sitting. Both are trying to track down the identify of the person Caitlin's been seeing. Both use the same method to track the person down - Veronica runs down the list of phone numbers on the bill calling them all. Logan runs through Caitlin's"called" numbers, focusing on the person whom Caitlin phoned at 1am. Great minds think alike.
Logan calls the 1am number at the same time Veronica is but he beats her and she gets an engaged signal. Again, Logan's calling and his hand at his head gives away he's stressed.
Logan hears a male voice, a male who is surprised that he's being called during school. Logan gets up and looks around.
Veronica, because she's just so smart and kick-ass, doesn't give up because she got an engaged signal, she instead calls her dad and asks him to check the phone number for her.
Logan looks around to see who is on the other line. The male voice keeps talking. Logan finally sees that it's Chardo and a faintly mocking smile curves his mouth. It's not a real smile though. We all know Logan's fake smile. It's only with Veronica that we ever see his genuine 'happy' smile.
Chardo says: "I miss you momma". Ewwww. Logan hangs up and looks deeply pissed off, giving the fake smile he gives when he's angry.
I didn't feel sorry for him because I still didn't like him in this episode and wasn't really paying much attention to him yet.
In the halls, you see Logan and some flunkeys stalking down the hall after Chardo, looking like a scene from Westside Story or "BtVS: Once more with feeling". Veronica gets to Chardo first and drags him into the girls' toilets. Basically she tries to warn him to 'fess up, he's in trouble because Logan knows but Chardo isn't listening. He thinks it's wuv, twue wuv .....
I'm not worthy, I'm going to quote those guys at LoVe Shack again:
Maybe it's stretching to say that this scene bodes well for LoVe, but then again, I just don't think it is. (Of course, I'm an optimist! Totally Logan at the Door!) Here we have both Veronica and Logan using the same method (to a degree) to track down Caitlin's Neptune Grand rendevous-partner. Both are using sneaky means and are using their intellect to get to the bottom of it.
I especially loved how we got the cut between Veronica calling the numbers on the credit card bill before her and Logan running down the numbers on Caitlin's phone. It showed an almost symbiosis between the two and one can imagine that as a team they would work remarkably well together.
But before the game of phone tag, we had another (yes, another!) bout of Logan staring, with Veronica doing a wee bit of staring of her own. Okay, okay, hers was in the determined, 'I'm gonna nail that sucker!' kind of way (and I'm thinking that's the correct description because she tells Wallace about Logan: "I'm gonna nail that sucker!"), but she still stared! And Logan did his patented finger-circling-pointing hand gesture that he uses oh so often on Miss Mars. Oh and while he did it, he stared at her. And while he walked by her, he stared at her. And while he did a turn to change direction, he -- you guessed it! -- stared at her. Lots of staring.
VERONICA: I need you to copy all of Weevil's attendance records
from this past month and get them to me.
WALLACE: Do I look like James Bond to you?
VERONICA: Am I asking you to retrieve a nuclear warhead? No. Just copy
the attendance records. It's cake. Facile.
MALLORY: Can I help you with something?
VERONICA: Ah, yeah. The counselor stuck me in here. She says
I'm disconnected and passionless.
Just something about the way Kristen Bell delivers it. She does sound a little pratty though when she's bragging to Miss Dent about her photography abilities - also I have to join the "how does she afford such expensive gear when they are poor".
This is also a thing of beauty:
CAITLIN: Miss Dent?
MALLORY: Caitlin?
CAITLIN: I'm gonna go down to the gym to talk to people for
the student poll.
MALLORY: Be back by the end of the period. And remember that
we are a multicultural school with a diverse population of students from a wide
range of socio-economic backgrounds.
CAITLIN: Meaning?
MALLORY: Meaning don't just interview your friends.
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