History Recap / VeronicaMarsS01E22LeaveItToBeaver

On the first tape, dated for the day Lilly died, it shows her in the Echolls' pool house, telling someone off-camera: "Come here, lover. Come earn your keep." Then, on the tape, Lilly notices something on the ceiling, and runs off camera.

Veronica sleeps, and in her dream, finds some closure with Lilly, who tells her "Don't forget about me, Veronica." Veronica is then awoken by a knock at the door. She answers it with a serene smile, saying "I was hoping it would be you." The screen fades to black before we realise who it is.

At the Kane household, the Kanes are preparing for a dinner with the governor, then Duncan confronts his parents about the proof Abel didn't kill Lilly. Jake then tells him the "truth" - he had an epileptic fit and killed Lilly. Jake tries to comfort his son, saying it wasn't his fault, and Celeste gives the news Keith Mars is suing.

At the office, Veronica tells Keith this, as well as the fact Beaver said Logan bought Lilly a shot glass saying "I got baked in Esenada." Keith remembers that the shot glass was in Lily's car, proving "Logan found Lilly."

At the party she sneaks off, into Lilly's room. Duncan finds her, and starts to scream about his "guilt", near-hysterical. Then Veronica tells him she doesn't think it was him, she thinks it was Logan. She tells him she's looking for Logan's letter, but in the air vent, the only find some tapes. They go off to play them.

Duncan and Veronica check the other tape, and see Lilly having sex with someone. It takes a few seconds, but they eventually the identity of this someone: ''Aaron Echolls.'' In shock, Veronica says she knows what happened.

At school, Wallace and Veronica discuss the now-public proof that Abel Koontz didn't kill Lilly - as do Dick and Beaver. Beaver is starting to panic, and Dick tells him to chill out, saying: "To the grave man. That's what we said."

Back at Kieth's office, he has to break it off with Alicia, due to Lianne's reappearance. Veronica enters and sympathises, but says Alicia has to understand.

At school, Beaver tells Veronica something important - the weekend Lilly was killed, he, Dick and Logan all went to Mexico, but the day she died, Logan was sure she was seeing somebody new, so he got up early, and drove back to Neptune to see her.

At the office, Veronica tells Keith this, as well as the fact Beaver said Logan bought Lilly a shotglass saying "I got baked in Esenada." Keith remembers that the shotglass was in Lilly's car, proving "Logan found Lilly."

At school, Veronica runs into Logan, and pretends he's not a suspect. She apologizes for her freakout last episode, and they talk of Lilly's murder - Logan says that he doesn't want to think it could have been Duncan, but "it's the only thing that makes sense." Logan leaves, and Veronica calls her father, telling him about Logan trying to pin it on Duncan. Keith tells her the border control people caught Logan coming back from Tijuana hours before Lilly's death. Veronica hangs up, and Weevil's appears. He heard everything, and now is going to go after Logan.

At the office, Keith gives Veronica the choice - she signs away her claim to their estate immediately. Keith then breaks the news to her - he ''is'' her father. The hug and rejoice, but then they bring up Lilly's murder - they decide to go to the authorities with the blowing of Logan's alibi.

On the beach, Logan confronts Veronica, who tells her he could never have hurt Lilly - and that he wrote Lilly a note that would prove it. Keith runs up, yells at Logan, and takes Veronica home. Veronica thinks about this letter, and thinks if Lilly kept it, she'd have kept it in her air vents.

On the first tape, dated for the day Lilly died, it shows her in the Echolls' poolhouse, telling someone off-camera: "Come here, lover. Come earn your keep." Then, on the tape, Lilly notices something on the ceiling, and runs off camera.

In flashback; we see Lilly notice the cameras on the ceiling, and find the tapes. The steals them and leaves, and Aaron starts to panic when he sees the tapes gone. At her house, a clearly amused Lilly puts the tapes in her air vent, and goes outside to sun bake. Aaron storms in, and demands she give him the tapes back. She refuses, he loses his temper and whacks her over the head with an ashtray. She dies, and he throws the ashtray in the pool and runs. Duncan finds Lilly's body, and goes near-catatonic. Celeste and Jake find Lilly and Duncan, seeing Duncan covered in Lilly's blood and in the state which is generally the aftermath of one of his "episodes." They assume he killed her, and become hysterical.

Aaron runs, and tries to escape in Keith's car - but is stopped by backup. In the middle of the road, he is hit by a truck, and then Veronica shows up and pulls a gun on him. The police, an ambulance, and the fire department are called.

* DangerTakesABackseat

* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Daughter]]

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* AxCrazy - Aaron.
* BigBad - Aaron.
* CallingTheOldManOut - Veronica to Lianne. Duncan to both his parents.

* DrivenToSuicide - Logan

* MistakenForMurderer - Poor Duncan. Even ''he'' mistakes himself for the murderer.
* PapaWolf - Keith literally ''runs through fire'' for Veronica.

* SeriesFauxnale - After solving Lilly's murder, fans wondered how they could pull off a season two if they got picked back up. Turns out they got a whole new mystery.
* ShoutOut - The method of revealing the culprit is very similar to how it was done in the first season of ''Series/MurderOne'', one of the first shows to experiment with a season-long story arc.
* TurnsRed - The rather ridiculous amount of punishment Aaron Echolls soaks up even before his fight with Keith makes you wonder why Keith, trained to actually fight and bring down people quickly as a cop and who would have kept his skills sharp by chasing down bail-jumpers as opposed to just making it look good on camera, like Echolls, didn't make shorter work of him. Oh, right. Aaron was angry.

* TurnsRed - The rather ridiculous amount of punishment Aaron Echolls soaks up even before his fight with Keith makes you wonder why Keith, trained to actually fight and bring down people quickly as a cop and who would have kept his skills sharp by chasing down bail-jumpers as opposed to just making it look good on camera, like Echolls didn't make shorter work of him. Oh, right. Aaron was angry.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - the test proving Veronica's paternity. Aww!

* ShoutOut - The method of revealing the culprit is very similar to how it was done in the first season of ''MurderOne'', one of the first shows to experiment with a season-long story arc.

* TurnsRed - The rather ridiculous amount of punishment Aaron Echolls soaks up even before his fight with Keith makes you wonder why Keith, trained to actually fight and bring down people quickly as a cop and who would have kept his skills sharp by chasing down bail-jumpers — as opposed to just making it look good on camera, like Echolls — didn't make shorter work of him. Oh, right. Aaron was angry.

* MostlyNarmless - Jake's whole "YOU KILLED MY DAUGHTER!" spiel is so OTT, but the damn thing's so sad it works anyway.

*CharacterizationMarchesOn - [[spoiler:Beaver's a mass-murderer. Why does he ''care'' that Logan might have killed Lilly.]]