Mars, Bars
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| “Mars, Bars” | |
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| Veronica Mars episode | |
 "Sheriff Mars." |
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 14 |
| Guest stars | Jonathan Chase Matt McKenzie Tracey Needham Robert Ri'chard Patrick Fabian Jaime Ray Newman Ken Marino Michael Mitchell Daran Norris Richard Grieco |
| Written by | Phil Klemmer (teleplay & story) John Enbom (teleplay & story) Joe Voci (story) |
| Directed by | Harry Winer |
| Production no. | 3T5814 |
| Original airdate | February 20, 2007 |
| Episode chronology | |
| ← Previous | Next → |
| "Postgame Mortem" | "Papa's Cabin" |
| List of Veronica Mars episodes | |
"Mars, Bars" is episode 14 of season 3 of the television show Veronica Mars.
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[edit] Plot
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Without any evidence to hold her, Sheriff Lamb releases Veronica from jail. Josh makes contact with Veronica and insists that he is being framed for his father's murder and, though Veronica has sympathy for him, she doesn't know if she believes him. Keith learns that the coach's wife, Kathleen Barry, hired Vinnie Van Lowe to find out if her husband was having an affair. Meanwhile, Logan joins Mac and Parker on a Valentine's Day scavenger hunt. Later on, Veronica notices Logan and Parker having a nice lunch together.
[edit] Arc significance
- Sheriff Lamb is killed by Mindy O'Dell's ex-husband, Steve Batando, while investigating a breaking and entering at Mindy's house.
- Josh is proven innocent by a DVD made by his father. The person Mason saw with the coach was not Josh but the assistant coach, who helped Josh's father with his suicide. Josh leaves the country to ensure that his family gets paid the insurance money from his father's death.
- Weevil finds bloody clothes belonging to Professor Landry.
- Dean O'Dell's death is now believed to be at 3:30AM instead of 2:30AM.
- Keith is reinstated as Sheriff.
- Professor Landry claims that someone bugged his phone line. Keith and Veronica did not do it.
- Mindy picked up the Dean's antidepressant prescription the night he died. Some pills are missing. Mindy claims that she took some herself.
- Steve Batando's fingerprints were found on the Dean's keyboard.
Spoilers end here.
[edit] Music
- Solfeggietto - Carl Philip Emanuel Bach
- Undone - Todd Deatherage
- Lovers Who Uncover - The Little Ones
- All I Need - Billy Martin
- Get It Right - Mink
- Lost to the Lonesome - Pela
- Swimmers - Broken Social Scene
[edit] Writing and acting
- Wallace calls Lamb a "true friend of Dorothy," insinuating that Lamb is gay.
[edit] Quotes and trivia
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
- A plot point is made about basketball (Clippers) pushing the regular programming back. In many markets, Veronica and other network programming is bumped back several hours to accomodate basketball games.
- This episode is reference to the candy bar Mars Bar.
- In the jail cell scene, Veronica has a drawn-on tattoo of a My Little Pony with the words "Thug Life" written over it.
- Bronson mentions he's "not a strong swimmer", an allusion to the SNL Male Synchronized Swimmers Sketch.
[edit] External links
- MI.net's Roundtable Review.
- Television Without Pity Recap.
