President Evil

Season 3, Episode 5, Aired
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When the illegal casino Veronica frequents is robbed, she must track down the thief to recover the necklace Lilly gave her years before.

Meanwhile, Dean O'Dell's stepson is dying of cancer and needs Keith to track down his biological father for a transplant (with Cliff's help), and Wallace fears he may flunk out of his most important class.moreless
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  • Too many far-fetched storylines in this episode, and somehow most of them get tied up neatly.

    7.9
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    By emerald999, Jun 26, 2007 Report Abuse
    I liked this episode, but it wasn't one of the better ones. Of coure, I like seeing Veronica get the best of the bad guys, but it was just too neat and easy for her to find out who pulled the casino robbery. And the little touch of having the crooked campus guard's uppity little daughter being nasty to Veronica was a bit too much for me.

    As for Wallace's little cheating episode, I found most of this impossible to believe. First of all, it's hard to believe a little liberal arts college like this would have a serious engineering program. Second, no freshman takes any engineering classes, you have to take chemistry and physics and math first and maybe in your second year you would take a general engineering class. There is no way a freshman would be in a mechanical eng class. Sorry. Third, if you got caught buying a test, you would be expelled! Then they would go after the guy that sold it, but nothing happened to Max. They didn't even force Wallace to give up the guy's name, as far as we can tell.

    I won't even go into the storyline of the guy who wouldn't donate bone marrow to save his son....

    But, I will say I enjoyed it for what it was, Super Veronica saves the day. Again.moreless

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  • Still trying to track down the campus rapist, Veronica gets slightly sidetracked when she winds up in the middle of a robbery and has a very special gift stolen.

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    By Liria, Apr 01, 2007 Report Abuse
    This was a great episode. I liked that we got to see more of Weevil, and a little more of Wallace. Seeing more of Keith and the entire thing with the Dean was entertaining. The robbery mystery was a good one, especially by bringing in the sentimental value of the necklace and the mention of Lilly. At the end of the episode, when Veronica finally manages to track down the guy on the ATM photo with Claire, I was really surprised by the info, hehe. Can't say I can tell where exactly this is going, but that's why I love this series, always keeps you guessing.moreless

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  • I don\\\'t think that was one of the best...

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    By andrada_charmed, Feb 22, 2007 Report Abuse
    This eppy was kinda interesting but it wasn\\\'t what I was expecting from a show like veronica mars. Thinking at the other two seasons I thought that it\\\'ll be fantastic but ... hey not everything can be perfect. In the beginning when that girl doesn\\\'t tell veronica that the guy was her boyfriend, and the fact that they couldn\\\'t get another actor for the substitute so they had to put to Lucky( from season 2) a wig and some glasses it\\\'s just extremely weird thinking at this show. Veronica doesn\\\'t trust weevil even if he\\\'s her friend, when she got crazy about \\\"oh, the necklace that lily gave to her\\\" I was just \\\"girl get a pillow and choke yourself\\\". When the father of the dean\\\'s stepson was acting so incredibly awful; it was so unbelievable since the man said that he wanted to be part of his son\\\'s life. Maybe the only thing that made me keep watching this episode was the sceriff Lamb; when he arrested weevil he was so funny. In conclusion, even if Veronica Mars is one of my favourite shows I\\\'ll have to give it an eight(just because there was logan in the episode too) and this shoul seriously make the writers start thinking to improve the storyline maybe.moreless

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  • Veronica's working her mojo again

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    By diecaro, Jan 01, 2007 Report Abuse
    I missed the typical Veronica Mars private eye style in the first episodes of this season, but finally she's back and kicking ass again.
    Too bad that the guy had to steal Lily's necklace, of course Veronica was gonna go off and hunt him until she got him.

    I agree with what another review said: There needs to be more Weevil this season, we haven't seen enough! And it was sad that Veronica thought he had something to do with the robbery and turned her back on him after they had been working together so great since the beginning of the show...

    Also, I loved Veronica's obsession with Lily's neckless and the scene when she ripped it off that stupid kids' neck was great!moreless

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  • Solid, but this show's done better.

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    By singme_tosleep, Nov 22, 2006 Report Abuse
    While the \"mystery\" for this show is really nothing special, and while there is some completely out of chacter behavior on Wallace\'s part, this is still a solid episode.

    It\'s always nice to see the Weevil and Veronica characters work together/collide, but the plot the writers devised for his appearance in this episode seems a little forced. However, I love that the writers reminded us of Lily again. Without her murder, Veronica would be a very different person now, and the necklace getting stolen really revealed to us how much she meant to Veronica. The redeaming moment for me in this episode? The use of Johnny Cash\'s song Busted. The finest use of music on this show yet this season.moreless

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    • When Veronica goes to see Weevil at the station, Sheriff Lamb pretends to be a robot while talking to her. You can hear an off-stage extra say "Hey, Sheriff's doing the robot. I'm gonna get my camera phone." Edit
    • Veronica and Keith engage Cliff's help to "act" a casting audition. Daran Norris, who plays Cliff, is actually a well-accomplished voice actor. Edit
    • When the poker game is first held up, Veronica turns to face the masked robbers. As she does, her black hair falls over her neck. When they cut away and back to Veronica again, her hair is pushed back over her shoulder, revealing her necklace. Edit

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    • Lamb: (to Weevil) Hey, what do you say we do your Miranda Rights in harmony this time? I'll take lead. You take tenor? Logan: Is it still called déjà vu when something happens more than twice, or is that something different? I'll have to look that up. Edit
    • Veronica: (to Weevil) Hope you don't mind. One of the cockroaches let me in. Edit
    • Claire: You're that girl, the girl who made a scene in the quad. You cleared the Pi Sigs. Veronica: Yeah, that's me. Claire: So, what's this to you, anyway? Veronica: Crimes against women? It's a hobby. Edit

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    • Detective Sanchez: You presented yourself as an Adrian Monk? Adrian Monk is the lead character in USA Network's Monk, a show about a detective in San Francisco with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Enrico Colantoni himself had guest starred in Monk in the episode Mr Monk and the Employee of the Month. Edit
    • During the Halloween party, Mercer was dressed up as Alex de Large from A Clockwork Orange. Edit
    • The casino thieves wear masks of American presidents. The same thing was done in the movie Point Break with Keanu Reeves. Edit

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