Leave It to Beaver (Veronica Mars)

Infobox Television episode


Caption = Veronica and Lilly in a dream.
Title = Leave It to Beaver
Series = Veronica Mars
Season = 1
Episode = 22
Airdate = May 10, 2005
Production = 2T5721
Writer = Rob Thomas (teleplay & story)
Diane Ruggiero (teleplay)
Director = Michael Fields
Guests = Amanda Seyfried
(Lilly Kane)
Erica Gimpel
(Alicia Fennel)
Corinne Bohrer
(Lianne Mars)
Lisa Thornhill
(Celeste Kane)
Daran Norris
(Cliff McCormack)
Michael Muhney
(Don Lamb)
Kyle Gallner
(Cassidy Casablancas)
Jennifer Gareis
(Deborah Collins)
Steve Rankin
(Lloyd Blankenship)
Harry Hamlin
(Aaron Echolls)
Kyle Secor
(Jake Kane)
Episode list = List of Veronica Mars episodes
Prev = A Trip to the Dentist
Next = Normal Is the Watchword

"Leave It to Beaver" is episode 22 and the season finale of season 1 of the television show "Veronica Mars".

Plot

Dick's brother Beaver comes clean to Veronica Mars about Logan's whereabouts the day of Lilly's murder, leading to the startling conclusion where Veronica finds out who killed Lilly and why. A terrifying series of consequences unfolds.

Arc significance

* Keith gets back the test results and tells Veronica that he is definitely her father.
* Logan wasn't in Mexico the day of Lilly's murder. He came back to Neptune to talk to her, but just left a note and a shot glass in her car.
* Lilly and Aaron Echolls were having an affair. She found tapes of them having sex and stole them. He chased after her and when she refused to give him the tapes, he hit her with an ashtray, killing her.
* Aaron tries to escape but is hit by a flower truck with a picture of a lily on the side.
* Veronica confronts her mother. She knows her mother left rehab, so she asks her to leave. Lianne steals Keith's $50,000 check.

Music

* "Where the Boys Are" - Connie Francis
* "La Bamba" - Mariachi Vargas De Tecalitlán
* "Bad Boyfriend" - Garbage
* "Wannabe" - Spice Girls
* "Lily Dreams On" - Cotton Mather

Quotes and trivia

:Wallace: My "blonde pulling me into the girls bathroom" fantasy? Ruined.:Veronica, Wallace: " [simultaneously] " Do me a favor?

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:Aaron: Whoa, whoa, whoa. You can't just barge in here!:Lamb: Now, come on now. What? You've been in like, what, thirty cop movies?

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:Veronica: Isn't it better, like this?:Lilly: So much better.:Veronica: This is how it's supposed to be.:Lilly: Totally.:Veronica: This is how it's gonna be. From now on. Right? Lilly?

* The episode's title is a reference to the late 1950s/early 1960s sitcom Leave It to Beaver.

External links

* Soulful Spike Society's [http://www.soulfulspike.com/vmars/VMep22.htm Open Case] .
* Television Without Pity [http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/articles/content/a2309/ Recap] .