Maybe Gia's the killer. There's something really off about her. The motive may have something to do with the Cassavetes, or more specifically, Dick.

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Possible. Although she comes across as too self-absorbed and vapid to me to be a successful blackmailer.

She did manage to come up and execute a somewhat complicated plan just to humiliate Veronica, so I think she is quite capable of a blackmail scheme.

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She did manage to come up and execute a somewhat complicated plan just to humiliate Veronica, so I think she is quite capable of a blackmail scheme.

that was Jackie, not Gia.

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I'm trying to forget Jackie.

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me too. sadly, we have not seen the last of her. if the suits just had to have V with a gal pal, why couldn't Tina Majorino have been made a regular? yeahyeahyeah...i know. she had a pilot she was testing. still! i want Mac as a regular!

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I'm just coming up short on motive. Why would he want her dead?

Good question, and alas, I don't have a good answer. (And of course, I don't expect to have a complete picture only eight episodes in.) All we know is that there's something wrong in that dynamic, but we haven't been given any insight into it. Just glimpses -- we know she was away, we know she's a partier, and we know she likes, err, Dick.

That being said, it could have been someone else and meant as a message: Jackie's father, for example, seemed to resent Woody's hold on him. But that doesn't feel right. We've sen his gambling debts come up twice, and have yet to get a picture of their significance.

I wanted to say, Why would he kill a bus full of kids just to off his daughter, but I guess that's the thing with hard-hearted killers -- to deflect attention, you would, conceivably, go with the method that doesn't lead back to you very obviously.

All true. Which gives means and opportunity, but again, no clear motive. There's something we're not seeing, and I'll bet good money it's tied into real estate and property values.

Maybe Gia's the killer. There's something really off about her. The motive may have something to do with the Cassavetes, or more specifically, Dick.

Maybe, but she had no way to know she WOULDN'T be on that bus.

So the question remains, even before who the killer is, is who was the intended victim. Our choices are:

• Veronica
• Gia
• Meg
• Duncan
• Logan
• Dick and/or Beaver

I've gone into Gia, and while it's an incomplete picture, it's where my gut lies. Meg doesn't seem quite right, although there may well be a tie to her pregnancy and the mystery letter -- someone didn't want the pregnancy to be revealed?

Veronica's got Aaron Echols, of course, but that would be getting a little into "I'll get you, my pretty" territory. Logan? Logan was supposed to be on the bus, but he's already being framed for murder. The real murderer wanting to get rid of him? I'd put that in the possibility category.

Duncan? Nah. Not seeing it. I can see a lot of reasons why someone would want him dead -- really, the argyle alone is reason -- I think we'd have more.

Dick and-or Beaver? That one's got possibilities. I can think of all sorts of reasons Kendall would want them out of the way, in which case, my fear for Beaver continues. Especially now that he has a love interest -- that may well make him a marked man.

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If the suits just had to have V with a gal pal, why couldn't Tina Majorino have been made a regular?

I believe the very specific network request was for a young African American female. Something about Veronica Mars having a COMPLETELY different demographic from the rest of the network. Somehow, I don't think Jackie was doing much to draw in the young black females demo they were looking for, so maybe they've given up. Or maybe she reappears when Wallace does. WHICH WILL BE SOON DAMN IT.

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That being said, it could have been someone else and meant as a message: Jackie's father, for example, seemed to resent Woody's hold on him. But that doesn't feel right. We've sen his gambling debts come up twice, and have yet to get a picture of their significance.

I suspect they're significant, because they've come up, and because so much of Jackie's storyline seems to have something to do with money. But they could just be significant where Woody Goodman is concerned, rather than where Terrance and Jackie Cook are concerned. Still (re: Jackie) there was the whole credit-card thing in the episode where she punk'd Veronica. She was introduced when the Jag she wasn't supposed to take got smashed at school, and most of her lines had to do with getting the insurance money to pay for the repairs. She's also talked like she's used to having money: telling stories about meeting movie stars; flying to Europe; having show biz boyfriends; generally living the high life. Also in this vein, although the athlete featured in that autographed photo with Curly Moran was not Jackie's dad, it made it clear Curly knew lots of different kinds of famous people.

Maybe Gia's the killer. There's something really off about her. The motive may have something to do with the Cassavetes, or more specifically, Dick.

Maybe, but she had no way to know she WOULDN'T be on that bus.

I don't think it is safe to assume that she had no way to know she wouldn't be on the bus. Sure, the bus took them there, and sure, Dick offered her a ride home so she took it, but we never had to see her deciding to get on the bus. Dick called daddy for a limo, before Gia would have had to make an obvious choice that would tip off anyone. Had the Casablancas limo not been on its way, Gia could have then taken any number of steps to stay off the bus. She could have told her dad she wanted to hang with him for the rest of the day, or hired a limo herself.

That said, I don't think it makes sense (so far) that Gia's the killer (or mastermind). I can't see a motive, because she didn't really know anyone, yet.

Dick and-or Beaver? That one's got possibilities. I can think of all sorts of reasons Kendall would want them out of the way

Sure. Kendall had no funds in her own name. Who knows how their trusts were structured? We know their mother is the trustee, but we don't know who their beneficiaries were have been, nor do we know any of the specifics of her pre-nup with Big Dick, except for the adultery-nulification clause.

Also? If it Kendall were to be the killer, it's possible we've seen a clue hiding in plain sight. When Veronica was first investigating Curly Moran, AND when she first took on Beaver's assignment of tailing Kendall, she (Veronica) was doing a search on the computer. At one point, we saw a screen shot with a picture of Curly, and a separate (unrelated) head shot of Kendall. I think Veronica then went on to do a full photo search on Kendall, and Curly was forgotten for the moment. Veronica (and the VMVO) didn't say anything to tie the two. It seemed more of a case of having two web pages open at once, but it still seemed funny to me to see it. For a split second, I thought we were going to see some tie between Curly and Kendall, but that's not where the story went, at all.

I asked yesterday, but kind of buried the question at the bottom of a long post (much like this statement), the name of Weevil's cousin--the one who committed the credit card fraud on the Echolls and let the grandmother and then Weevil take the fall, for a while. I found his name, it is Chardo.

We don't really know what happened to Chardo. Weevil & the PCHers took him to the beach, and Weevil kicks him out of the PCHers. It's clear the PCHers are going to give him a beating, but Weevil's final instructions to Felix are to pull them off, before they go too far. It's not out of the realm of the possible that Chardo has somehow fallen in with the Fighting Fitzpatricks.

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It's not out of the realm of the possible that Chardo has somehow fallen in with the Fighting Fitzpatricks.

It's not, but as with Marcos' boyfriend, I think I'd (mostly) discount Chardo because he feels (again, not defiinitive) like he was meant just for that story, not to be a lasting presence. We don't get reminded of those two, and if there's one thing I've the VM staff does, it's that they keep relevant details in frame without drawing attention to them.

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