His father was a pillar of society, a philanthropist; everyone believed that he was a family man… a real great guy. It wasn't hard for Logan to realize that some people still didn't want to see behind the lights, camera, and action perfect veneer… his Hollywood good guy façade and see the monster lurking underneath. He'd been hiding his true face from people for years… that people still had doubts about the recent revelations that he was an adulterer, a child abuser and a murderer shouldn't have surprised him. But it still hurt some little boy part of him deep down if he was honest with himself about it. How many times had he tried to speak up about the abuse… the cigarette burns and broken noses? Teachers, family friends… Not even his own sister Trina had believed him until that night Aaron Echolls had beaten her boyfriend in their backyard, until she had seen the violence up close and personal.

Logan had always known. His mother was gone… Richard and Kendall Casablancas were gone… Lilly…. And that monster was still breathing. He had never loved him, because how could he have done what he did, if he had ever meant anything to him?

Everyone who had ever loved him, his father had found a way to take from him, and he was still trying…

Logan paced the cell in frustration, where was Veronica? He wanted to get out of here.

"Death only gives us back to God…" his father had said during the Eulogy he had given for his mother.

Is that how he justified taking so many lives? How he slept at night? Lilly… all those kids on the bus…

If Logan ever had to pay for the sins of his father… he wasn't sure there was enough flesh on his bones to cover the cost.

"You know, I wanted to be a cop… but I figured I should finish high school instead" Logan said sarcastically as Sheriff Lamb walked into the interrogation room.

"You got a smart mouth on you kid" Lamb snarled.

"Funny… yours is stupid" Logan sighed before he was shot a weary glare by his Lawyer Cliff McCormack who sat in the seat beside him as the Sheriff took the seat directly opposite Logan and proceeded to stare him down.

"How has your stay been with us so far Mr Echolls? Missing your daddy, or do you feel like talking to us now?" he retorted in a mocking tone.

"Oh you know… shy but working through it" Cliff chided with fake enthusiasm before his client could answer as he took the file that the Sheriff handed him.

"You violated your bail conditions… you are going inside" Lamb told him gleefully.

"I was at home.. there's a witness, I was with Veronica Mars all night" Logan sighed, he would be freaking out if he didn't know that Keith Mars had officially joined his daughter in the investigation. He still didn't know how the fake witness in the Felix case was connected to all of this… or if the recent murder of Havier Alonso was connected to the stabbing, but he was sure that with the Mars Investigations Duo on the hunt for answers, that some of that Mars Magic would shake something loose soon.

"And yet your ankle monitor says that you actually broke into the impound lot and stole back your car… I can't imagine a guy like you has the intellects to pull something like that off on your own. But if as you say, you weren't alone last night… maybe I need to be hauling your little girlfriend in here and asking her some questions?" Sheriff Lamb threatened. "She really the brains behind this little outfit?" he suggested tauntingly. "I mean… fool me once, shame on her. Fool me twice and she goes to jail"

He wouldn't… he couldn't…

"You stay away from Veronica!" Logan snapped as Lamb flashed those pearly whites at him in a snide grin.

"Ms Mars was with her father yesterday evening… and Mr Echolls. Her presence at the Echolls family estate can be confirmed by your own Deputy's Owens and Briar at 11.22pm when they collected Mr Dick Casablancas… now I realize that intelligence and your department kind of has the same reaction as a peanut allergy… because if my client was at his home, with witnesses, including Mr Dick Casablancas whom has yet to be contacted for questioning then he couldn't possibly have been at the Sheriff's impound lot by the Neptune Plazza at 11pm" Cliff told him wryly.

"Yeah, well according to the data on his monitor… he was near the Serenity Inn at midnight, about two miles from where the body of yet another PCHer was found in the trunk of his car" the Sheriff informed him, his voice was thick with malice.

"And according to your own records, half of Neptune went Dark about 11pm yesterday evening" Cliff countered.

"You know in this job I have to do a lot of things I'm not qualified for… like be nice to idiots… but I can guarantee you, that little detail won't mean jack to Judge Dewberry when I send over the details of your case" he told Logan viciously. "So I'm sure you had a pretty good time with Ms Mars last night… but I'll hand you over the official police report and you can let me know" Lamb threatened.

"Yeah… you protect and serve the shit out of Neptune" Logan retorted angrily.

"Your car also had a busted tail light when it was found…" Lamb snorted.

"Do you need someone to spell out the big irrelevant words phonetically?"

"I truly believe this level of stupidity should be painful" Cliff sighed as he watched the verbal tennis match between his client and the Sheriff.

"I can legally hold your client here for 48 hours… so I'm going to. I've sent Deputy Ryan's out to collect Ms Mars… and given the sensitive timing of the recent losses to the Casablancas family.. it might take some time for your friend to be questioned to back up your alibi… as for using my deputy's as witnesses… well" he smiled in satisfaction. "It can't be confirmed exactly when they collected Mr Casablancas from the Echolls house… the dispatch records weren't exactly logged. There are some… issues with filing.. Computer issues" he sneered.

Logan wanted to reach across the table and smash the smug look off the man's face.

They had corrupted the paper trail that Keith Mars had been trying to use to help him…

"I've filed the necessary paperwork with Inga and the Balboa County Sheriffs districts office for the CCTV footage from the private security cameras from the Romestrad property that directly overlooks the Echolls family entrance. I believe it has been sufficiently upgraded after the arrest of Aaron Echolls last year" Cliff smiled. "There are also the phone records of both my client and his witnesses… which I believe are in the process of being tracked… but by all means. Please do contact Ms Mars, her statement would come in very helpful when I refer the case to Supreme Court Justice Kelvin Bancroft"

"Bancroft… that's right, great guy. He's a member of my country club.. Lousy poker face" Logan said to Cliff casually.

He really just wanted to get out of here. Where was Veronica? Had Dick said anything to Lamb or the wrong person about their theory that his father had been behind the bus crash?

"This the part where you think I should be thanking you for paying my Salary? It still doesn't explain why there was a gun in your car" Lamb snarled as he tapped his finger on the desk.

"Well… I was going to the gun range with my good friend Dick over at Neptune Target… then we wanted to go surfing, so he concealed his weapon in the glove compartment of my car" he replied sarcastically. He just hoped he could get word to Dick on time to back him up. Richard Casablancas had given him that gun to protect himself a few weeks ago, it wasn't even loaded.

"Conveniently in your car… where there was the body of another PCHer… starting to see a pattern here" Lamb drawled as he flicked through the crime scene pictures. He was becoming frustrated, Logan could see it, he was desperate to make this stick.. the question was.. why?

"The autopsy report that you gave me supplied by the County's Coroner's office states that the bullets found in Mr Alonso came from an unregistered Smith & Wesson Model 642 and the unloaded pistol found in my clients car was a Sig Sauer P226" Cliff pointed out. "There was no gunshot residue found on my client"

Logan felt something relax with this latest revelation. He had been worrying about the gun.

"It's not to say that it wasn't one that Ms Mars may have had in her possession, she has yet to be located and tested… she has been known to have those kind of contacts… and she certainly had the means to blackmail someone into giving her one" Lamb sibilated as he glared at the lawyer. "It's also very interesting that before we could get a search warrant… you invited a high end cleaning service to your home. Sunshine Cleaning Services? Were you aware that they are also provide specialist crime scene clean up services? Pretty suspicious if you ask me…"

"Are we done?" Logan sighed. "I have nothing left to say to you… my car was in the Sheriff's department possession, for 3 days. I have no idea how Havier ended up in my trunk, and given that he wasn't in there when you took my car… I've seen better cop work on Police Academy"

"If I wanted people to like me… I would have become a firefighter" Lamb mused. "Get him back to holding" he ordered Deputy Sacks. "and you, take your files and get out of here" he added to Cliff.

"And I'll just make time to go sit in my cell until Veronica disproves this garbage…" Logan grumbled. "I mean… if this is the best Neptune PD has to offer.. I am legitimately terrified of that little lady… she is not inclined to show you mercy" he smiled as he was hauled to the door.

"You should have gone to see the wizard, asked for a humility… because if she resists coming down for questioning… I might just tell my boys that she could be considered armed and dangerous" Lamb whispered in Logan's ear. "And I'm pretty sure that little sleuth doesn't wear Kevlar"