After a sleepless night in which Veronica keeps picturing Logan and Madison together, she is approached by Bonnie, Tim's girlfriend that he dumped the night Mercer was caught. She wants help: she was pregnant, by either Dick or Tim, but someone drugged her with RU-486
, causing an abortion. She's gotten confirmation from the doctor that it happened, and wants Veronica to figure out who did it. She's pretty sure it's not Tim—she didn't even tell him; he only found out after she received a balloon bouquet from her parents ("Congratulations from Grandma and Grandpa!"), and after that he offered to marry her. She doesn't want him to know she's doubting him, and Veronica promises to be discreet.
Veronica confronts Logan about his fling with Madison, and he admits to not admitting it. Veronica explodes in fury that he would sleep with someone who drugged her and who then wrote "SLUT" on the windshield of her car. Logan apologizes desperately, asking what he can do to make it right, and she asks if he can make her forget it ever happened and end her recurring nightmares. This task delivered, she leaves.
Veronica checks in with Dick, who confirms that he refused to help Bonnie unless she takes a paternity test. She refused, so presumably he's had no further involvement in the subject. When he is less than helpful at assisting with the case, she blurts out, "Logan slept with Madison while you guys were in Aspen." Even she admits that was a low blow, but Dick shrugs it off before sauntering off with his latest conquest, the redheaded Nadia. Veronica then visits Bonnie's best friend and roommate, Phyllis (Toni Trucks), who knows the whole story. She was opposed to Tim when he first started dating Bonnie, but admits that she's changed her tune since this whole pregnancy thing—he bought her What To Expect When You're Expecting, and was preparing to ask Mr. Capistrano for her hand in marriage—or rather, Reverend Ted Capistrano, the televangelist.
Whilst walking Backup, Keith checks in with Mindy O'Dell—it's a mere ten blocks away. He confirms that she took the Volvo and drove off with the minivan the night he died. He then asks Veronica who she thinks was lying: Mindy or Nish. Veronica, pre-occupied with her break-up with Logan, asks, "Both of them?"
The only place Tim could have gotten RU-486 in person is at a women's clinic, so Veronica breaks into his office to see if he ordered any online. Unfortunately, he's smart enough to have password-protected his desktop, so she hides a tiny video camera under his lampshade, where it has a view of his keyboard, and then comes up with a bullshit question about her grade in order to get him to log in. (His password is "DICKTRACY.") All she finds is the location of the local Neptune women's clinic, the only place nearby to get the drug, as well as Tim's own investigations into the O'Dell death. The only two witnesses are Eli Navarro (who found the body) and an Anthony Martin, an "ear witness" who claims to have heard the fatal gunshot.
Veronica has also taken to stalking Madison, obsessive and unhappy. When she sees Madison getting a new Mercedes for her birthday—license plate "GOTZMINE"—she decides enough is enough, and confers with Weevil over a prank he once discussed, in which he stole and had cubed someone's car. She'd like him to repeat it.
Dick confronts Logan, who has not moved from his room since Veronica dumped him. He informs Logan in no uncertain terms that neither his current squalid state nor his sleeping with Madison was a cool thing to do—shocking viewers by being, for perhaps the first time in the show's history, the sympathetic character of the scene.
Veronica next scopes out the parish of Rev. Ted Capistrano. She first meets Thurman Randolph (Vince Grant), who tries to deflect her with smarmy comments, but when Father Ted (Chris Ellis) himself takes note, she's invited in to talk about her "personal problem." She claims to be pregnant, that her parents will disown her and she doesn't know what to do. Rev. Capistrano is clearly pro-life, but he surprises her by claiming that her parents might surprise her. Veronica counters that he would scarcely react that way if it was his pregnant unwed teenage daughter, but he says, No, he and his wife were happy at the thought, until his daughter miscarried. He's so sad that Veronica takes his hand across the desk.
Next Veronica checks out the clinic, where a sympathetic doctor confirms that no man would have been allowed to take any RU-486 out of the clinic—or, indeed, be provided it at all; it's given only to women who take it right there on the spot. She then manages to get in touch with Anthony Martin (Paul Galliano), who repeats more or less what he already said to Tim: that he was walking home drunk and heard the gunshot at an indeterminate time. However, at Veronica's coaxing, he's able to provide a time frame: when he got home to his dorm room, he turned on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, with special guest Terry Gilliam. The Cartoon Network website claims that the show aired at 2:30 AM, putting the fatal O'Dell gunshot at somewhere between 2:10 and 2:20.
Veronica returns home to find Keith mulling over some photos that were sent him: Veronica emerging from the women's clinic, bundled with various pro-life Christian literature. Together they hunt down the source, Good Word Press, where the receptionist lets them look at all the photos they've taken of women emerging from the clinic. Veronica has barely noticed a shot of Dick's friend Nadia when the firm's president arrives: Thurman Randolph, who recognizes "Hester." Keith and Veronica escape with their dignity.
Veronica confronts Dick over his friend Nadia, whom she believes is his accomplice, but is stymied when he claims her last name is Comanici. Eventually she has to track down Nadia on her own, who explains that she "made out with him for like five seconds" at a party and then gave him a fake name. Veronica cannot deny the sense of this.
Keith is called by Mindy O'Dell: there's an intruder in her house and she'd rather he sort it out than the police. The intruder is none other than Steve Botando, who claims to be taking what is owed: Mindy has canceled the payments now that she's short on money. Mindy lets Keith help himself to a drink, and Keith takes the opportunity to check their garage. The white Volvo is there, with a fragment of eggshell under the windshield wiper.
Logan leaves a drunk answerphone message for Veronica, apologizing for his indiscretion with Madison. Unfortunately, Veronica is distracted whilst listening to it (in fairness, it is rambling and takes a while to get on-topic) and deletes it. She asks Bonnie to help her get into the Thurman's office, and Bonnie asks her to dress as if for church and meet her on-campus in fifteen minutes. There, they unexpectedly run into Father Ted, who refers to Phyllis as "my other daughter" and greets her with a hug. Meanwhile, Veronica examines Bonnie's bookshelf and suddenly deduces that Tim was the culprit: Bonnie's copy of What To Expect While You're Expecting has a Good Word Press bookmark in it. But Bonnie claims that Tim actually didn't get her that book: Phyllis did.
Phyllis breaks down in tears, pointing out that Bonnie's way too good for Tim, and would have had to give up her education and dreams. Bonnie screams at her in rage, but her father counsels her to let go: "She didn't mean to hurt you, she didn't mean to. Try to be forgiving. It's the only way. Anger will tear you down, it will make you less of the person that you want to be. Anger will tear apart your soul."
Veronica meets Weevil, who has indeed succeeded at procuring Madison's car. But Veronica, having apparently listened to the preacher, decides to let it go.
- Berserk Button: Madison is one for Veronica.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Dick's treatment of Bonnie's pregnancy is quite reasonable, even if also self-serving.
- The Fundamentalist: defied. Father Capistrano is a pretty reasonable guy, and urges forgiveness even when faced with the person who robbed him of the grandchild he was clearly happy about.
- Shout-Out:
- After The Reveal of Bonnie's dad's occupation, Veronica muses, "How very Footloose."
- When meeting Rev. Capistrano, Veronica claims her name is Hester.
