Veronica Mars/Weevils Wobble But They Don't Go Down

Weevils Wobble But They Don't Go Down
Season 3, Episode 19
Airdate	May 22, 2007
Production Number	3T5819
Written by	Phil Klemmer
Directed by	Jason Bloom
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Veronica Mars — Season Three

Weevils Wobble But They Don't Go Down is the nineteenth episode of the third season of Veronica Mars, and the sixty-third episode overall. Weevil is fingered for identity card fraud and Veronica attempts to back him up once again, even though he seems guilty.

Starring: Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars), Jason Dohring (Logan Echolls), Percy Daggs III (Wallace Fennel), Ryan Hansen (Richard "Dick" Casablancas), Julie Gonzalo (Parker Lee) (credit only), Chris Lowell (Stosh "Piz" Piznarski), Tina Majorino (Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie), Michael Muhney (Sheriff Don Lamb) (credit only), Francis Capra (Eli "Weevil" Navarro)

and Enrico Colantoni (Keith Mars)

Guest Starring: Ken Marino (Vinnie Van Lowe), Saige Thompson (Abigail Montgomery), Tangie Ambrose (Jalisa Jones), Patrick Fischler (Russell Marchant), Lauren Bowles (Karin Mackay), Michael B. Silver (Prof. David Winkler), Dianna Agron (Jenny Budosh), Travis Van Winkle (Patrick Nickerson)

Co-Starring: Lenny Schmidt (Officer Wozowski), Orestes Arcuni (Honus Wagner), Nathanael Johnson (The Guy), Jerry Shea (Leon), Anna Rose Hopkins (Lauren Goff)

Plot Overview

Piz isn't happy about Veronica going away for the summer to work with the FBI, this matter she attempts to rectify by calling him and being the good girlfriend by displaying that they can hold a long-distance relationship over 12 weeks with the promise of sex. Meanwhile, several Hearst students have been caught using fake ID cards and fake money to buy food and other goods on campus. Several of them attend a line-up where they finger Weevil as the man who sold them the cards. This occurred soon after he filed for workman's comp on the count of busting his knee while moving heavy appliances across campus. He calls Veronica to help him out because he has no idea how he would commit the fraud they're accusing him of. He claims that he was an easy target and the kids must have remembered him from Veronica's criminology class.

Veronica takes the case and gets information from the bursar on how the ID card machine works. While getting a rundown of how the system functions, she also gets some unsolicited information from the human-resources representative who tells her that he thought Weevil's workman's comp filing was bogus. The bursar points Veronica in the direction of a food court worker who kept a list of the suspicious names, which were all famous philosophers and mathematicians. "Sylvia Plath" and "Honus Wagner" were both caught and the others stopped paying with their fake cards. Veronica next interviews Abigail Montgomery and "Honus Wagner," who both claim to have met Weevil in the history building's basement at 1:00. Weevil doesn't have an alibi and deputies found an identical ID card machine in the locker next to his at Hearst. Keith suggests that he talk with his public defender because he won't be getting a better deal.

But, Veronica is not yet out. She talks with the engineering professor about how the identification cards actually work and how difficult it would be to write new information on them without the bursar's computer. He refers him to Leon, who is "part vampire" and won't be in the lab until nightfall. She winds up being further bogged down when Keith tells her that Weevil's fingerprints (and only his) are all over the box. She goes to talk with Leon, but all of his research materials have been stolen.

The next morning, Keith and Vinnie sit down at the KRFF radio where Keith is slaughtered on the air by irate college students still unhappy over his crackdown on college drinking. On the other side of campus, in the library, Wallace catches his stalker in the act and discovers that the mystery man has kept a whole dossier on him including pictures, schedules and sports stats. The man taps him on the shoulder and invites him into "The Castle," a secret society. While Keith is being thrashed on air, Veronica and Weevil retrace his steps to see if he could have possibly touched the box without knowing it. They arrive in a room where he fixed the sink and find one of Veronica's criminology classmates. She takes a picture of the woman in order to get a picture of a ski trip photo featuring two people who fingered Weevil as the fraud, Leon and the criminology girl.

With that mystery almost entirely behind her, Veronica accompanies Wallace, Piz and Mac to the beach where he's going to test his mechanical engineering final— a functioning model plane that works in both the air and water. They wind up meeting with Logan and Dick, who are both acting oddly out of character. Dick is still distraught over his brother's death and Logan is doing what he can to give Piz crap for being with Veronica instead of him. The two are saved from further torment when Wallace gets the plane working again, allowing them to slip away.

Back at the library, Veronica discovers more and more ties between Hearst, the Aspen frauds and the ID card company in Marietta, GA. One of those frauds happens to be the child of the CEO of that very company. Veronica's sleuthing is interrupted by Patrick Nickerson and Abigail Montgomery, who escort her into a room full of people behind a large table. She takes a seat, tells them what she's figured out and prepares to call her father when they offer to make her "one of us." They offer her an ID card that has unlimited cash on it, allowing her to skate through college without having to pay for anything ever again. Of course, she recorded this whole conversation as proof of their fraud and tells them that if charges against Weevil aren't dropped soon, she'll go to the cops with her evidence. They turn themselves in (despite her "evidence" being cut off by the cheap answering machine) and Weevil gets off free... but not before he makes off with that third pre-programmed machine.

In Logan's apartment, Dick discovers a video of Veronica and Piz having sex on the internet. Logan doesn't take too kindly to people videotaping his former girlfriends having sex and he assaults Piz in his radio booth the next morning. He comes to the Mars Investigations office to alert her to the video.

Arc Advancement

Referbacks

• 3x05 - President Evil: Veronica used Weevil as something of a show and tell case study in her Criminology class as an example of a rehabilitated criminal. He spent the rest of the class telling them stories about when he was the leader of the PCHers and some of is other unsavory exploits as a criminal.

Weevil: Only in your criminology class when you asked me to.

• 2x22 - Not Pictured: Cassidy Casablancas jumped to his death when Veronica attempted to confront him about causing the school bus accident mystery that dominated the previous year. He threatened her with a gun, but Logan stopped him and gained the upper hand. When he discovered that there was no other way out, he leaped to his death. Logan did not try to stop him and may have caused his death by being a threat to him in that instant.

Dick: The night my brother jumped off the roof, did you, like, try to stop him?

Trivia

Allusions and References

• Martha Stewart: Martha Stewart, a business woman and homemaking advocate, severed several months in prison after being convicted of white collar crime charges, most notably insider trading. Stewart was sent to prison in October 2004 and was released in March 2005. She was also required to wear an ankle bracelet for a five months afterwards and kept under house arrest.

Weevil: So did Martha Stewart, does that mean I'm not getting my benefits?

Quotes

• Mac: He wants to date you and to be near you? Greedy little bugger.

• Mac: What's with the food police?
  Veronica: She has the right to remain famished.

• Veronica: I think I read in Teen People that a clean leg shave will make that special boy sit up and take notice.

Mac: I read in FHM that boys like bare breasts.

• Mac: Hey, did anyone else hear there's gonna be a Matchbox 20 reunion show?

Piz: So? Rob Thomas is a whore.