1. She still had hangups over her rape/whatever. And girls without daddy issues tend to wait longer to become sexually active. VM has the fewest daddy issues of a fiction character ever.

2. Um. He didn't hit him that hard, and the fall killed Curley? (VM's fantasy wasn't right in the details.) He washed off what blood there was.

3. Depending on how well time of death can be established, Veronica and Logan have a pretty good "I was busy fighting for my life on the roof" alibi. Keith's is even better.

4. It's not clear to me Duncan is on the run without parental permission. Surely after he left they would be in character to accept his past crimes and send him money; they were willing to keep him out of jail for the murder of his sister, after all. But the real answer is that he didn't pay CW a dime. Wiedman was willing to fake evidence for the family, rather beyond his job description, and we know he probably killed Delongpre's murderer out of a sense of justice or professional courtesy. Agreeing to kill Aaron at Duncan's request is perfectly in character.

5. Your real question is "who is Susan"? (Or whatever the girl's name was he used to chase Dick off during Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough. Clearly he has a past history of vicious revenge that scared Dick off. What was it?)

6. Kendall used tweezers to get hair out of Duncan's drain. She went left into Duncan's room, not right into Logan's.

7. Kendall. It was part of her implied deal with Aaron. The real question is were they got Lilly's blood (or something DNAish), which was also supposed to be on the statue.

8. This was the dumbest red herring of many in the story line for far too many reasons. However, the hangar wasn't obviously locked when Jackie and Veronica dropped by to get a car. The cars are locked, and presumably whatever minimal security is at the air field should deter most vandals. What random kids would be out looking in the hangar, anyway?

9. I agree it made no sense, but presumably all three were molested at the same time (they were on the team together), so the other two knew without him telling them. Denial doesn't erase the stigma. Still, I agree it's a thin reason to kill two people, let alone accept the collateral damage of the other kids. More problematically, why did they write him as a wholly evil criminal mastermind who was unbelievable, rather than a tragic figure who got too deep? They could have made the final confrontation 20x more believable and more meaningful if they'd gone that direction.

10. He wanted his father to have to flee, but not in prison? This is hardly as bad a retcon as having Beaver be Veronica's rapist, though. Complain about that!

11. The gun is incase he's attacked in the car where he's vulnerable (and has already faced a drive by), not in the town's fanciest and most secure hotel. Furthermore, the utility of physically carrying around an unloaded gun that's good only for a threat is low; he probably just tossed it in the glove box, forgot about it, had a moment of inspiration at the River Stix, then tossed it back in the glove box and forgot about it. And Veronica said "come to the roof," not anything about danger.

The Fitzpatrick's were a red herring as far as the main story, but obviously not for the Logan/Weevil storylines. The thing I most hated was reopening the rape resolution, which had been nicely done. That past excellent episode is now substantially weakened.

I never thought the rape episode was all that neatly wrapped up; it struck me at the time that VM was taking the alibis of her potential rapists and dismissing them as suspects awfully quickly, and it was actually the thing that bothered me most about the first season. Thus, the Cassidy-was-the-rapist retro-mystery-solution didn't bother me so much as the whole trial sequence (how does chlamydia enter into witness credibility?), which I also didn't complain about.

Kendall going to the drain now makes sense. But you don't hit a 200+-pound guy hard enough to bounce him off your windshield without doing serious damage to your car. I had enough low-speed collisions backing into poles and other parking garage protrusions in my old Chevy Malibu in California to know that.

Oh, and I'm waiting for a full throated blasting of One Angry Veronica. Juror tampering, total disregard of reasonable doubt, and the worst prosecutor of all time, apparently. Ugh. The TWOP recaps are wrong on a lot of their legal complaints, but they were dead right on the awfulness of that episode.

Regarding 10, Beaver wanted to see the look on his father's face when he (the father) realized he was in trouble.

Well, of course "One Angry Veronica" was ludicrous, but the show's conception of the legal system has been ridiculous since the very beginning; if I was going to get upset about that, I'd be upset that Veronica Mars hasn't been sued into bankruptcy and jailed several times over for various HIPAA and wiretapping and computer-crime violations.

I'd also get upset that the show seems to think that jewelry is easily fungible, when in fact it depreciates about 70% the minute it leaves the store. And Dylan correctly notes the surprising lack of rape exam kits in the greater Neptune area.

Kendall wasn't popping up in the Grand suite until after Veronica broke up with Logan, so the Logan-Kendall affair doesn't explain why Logan and Veronica never slept together; if anything, it demonstrates why it's so unlikely that he didn't push the issue.

The prior-to-the-start-of-the-series Veronica was 16 with a stable family life who was dating a virgin, as opposed to an independent 18-year-old with a car who had caught her mother having an affair and a sexually-active boyfriend who lives alone in a mansion, which is what we're talking about in the relevant timeframe with Logan. (Cf. also VM following in the footsteps of Lily to go skinny-dipping in S1.) That VM isn't having sex in the context of the first situation is much more plausible than the latter situation; even Hannah jumped into bed with Logan pretty quickly, and she was more inexperienced than VM was. (NB also Meg's sexual relationship with Duncan in a relatively short timeframe, and she had severely strict parents.)

It's not impossible for their relationship to be non-sexual, to be sure, but one would think it a source of relationship tension; that it was never explored just made me surprised when everyone else interpreted the scenario as unconsummated.

During Aaron Echolls' trial, as Veronica was on the stand and her medical record was admitted, was that not also a violation of HIPAA? It seemed implausible to me that it would be admissable or that Echolls could get it through legal channels. Don't get me wrong, as Ted points out, Veronica's no bit-player in the privacy-invasion business.

I think the conceit of Private Investigators on television is that they get away with everything as long as nothing goes to court, which is generally the case with PI shows, because otherwise they'd be court shows. Philip Marlowe may have called the cops when the time was right, even though they beat him up half the time, whereas TV detectives either have a friend on the force (Rockford) or spent their lives butting heads with credit-seeking cops who made a lot of threats and bluster but occasionally acknowledged that it was the PI wot solved the case. Veronica has (had? I forget if he was on the plane) Lamb, who is somewhere in between, but more than willing to lock her up if the evidence comes in.

I noticed that the actor who plays Sheriff Lamb was in the JAG episode that introduced the NCIS squad, as a Marine prosecutor. Not sure if his character was intended to be a series regular, but they shuffed the cast before the first episode either way. He's great on VM.

I always saw Logan/Veronica as a product of that sweet rush of chemicals coming from their constant conflicts, but if it didn't put them into bed immediately, I suspect it might not've at all. Plus both of them were a bit traumatized in between-- she was attacked by a murderous actor and nearly burned to death, while he was beaten by bikers and accused of murdering one. Probably soured the relationship a little. Meanwhile Duncan spent plenty of time getting on her mind before they were dating again.

I've seen spoilers that Keith has some new love interests planned. I recognized the actress, vaguely. So not Alicia.