Ahoy, Mateys!
Duncan is startled awake.
He looks over as he hears Logan, Felix, Weevil and Ronnie talking.
"So according to Mac he went into a cigar shop and bought some cigars, than left." Felix says.
"Yup but my dad said that the shop is a font for drugs."
"That could mean something, right?" Logan asks.
"Not necessarily." she tell them.
"Do you think that he might be selling prescription drugs. That's how my pediatrician lost his license."
"That's easy to check." she says turning to he laptop.
Duncan leaves them talking and goes into his bedroom.
Sitting on the bed, he looks at the letter he took from Meg's air vent.
He debates what to do, but then opens a drawer in a table and sticks the letter in.
"I found something."
She shows them a website.
The website lists any disciplinary actions taken against its members and Dr. Griffith was reprimanded for an inappropriate off-site practice.
The patient's name was Danny Boyd.
"He works for the Fitzpatricks." Felix tells them. "Molly told me about him."
"Fuck." Logan whispers.
She and Eli pull into the school parking lot.
"Hey, has my stuff come in yet?" some random 09er asks as he comes over.
"And what stuff would that be?" Eli asks.
"Do I need to take my business some where else?" the 09er asks looking around.
"What the hell are you talking about?" she asks.
"I order and eight ball from you."
"I don't sell coke."
The 09er looks at the two of them confused.
He grabs the kids and pulls his shirt up, sure that there must be a wire on him.
"I paid one of you biker dudes."
"Describe, now." she nearly snarls at the kid.
"I don't know, all of you look alike to me."
Eli just shakes his head and looks over at the 09er's car. "You know those rims don't look half bad. I've been thinking that V needs some new rims for her car."
Taking the hint, he hits the car alarm button on his keys and runs off.
"Who the hell would..." she starts.
"I don't know, querida. I'm praying it's not who we both are thinking."
"Marcos died in the crash. We are trying to grieve and put our lives back together. Someone isn't letting us. This person has been breaking into our house and leaving toy buses around the house. There have been times we've come home and the house will smell like the cologne Marcos use to wear. His pictures disrupted. The worst thing are the voice mail messages." Carlos Oliveres told Kieth as he and his wife sit in front of him.
"Messages."
"Yes, I don't believe in ghosts, Mr. Mars. These have to be recordings." Mr. Olivers tells him.
"We've been offered to good deal to sell the house and part of me wants to take the offer." Maria Oliveres says. "There's no reason to stay there any longer."
"I won't run away from my own home."
"So, you want me to find out who is harassing you." he states.
"I know who is doing this. I want you to prove it." Mr. Oliveres states.
Logan, Cassidy, and Felix pull up To Danny Boyd's place.
"Now why am I here?" Cassidy asks.
"We need to check out his guy before Ronnie gets it into her head to come check him out." Logan states.
"Weevil would kill us if something happens to her or the baby so we..." felix starts.
Cassidy whirls around in his sit, "Veronica is pregnant!"
"Nice one man. Yes, she is so the thought of her coming down here is a bad idea. We figured it would be safer for everyone if another guy checked him out."
"Okay but why me?" Cassidy asks again.
"No PCHer would survive in this area so they are out. Duncan is dealing with stuff and Dick is an idiot so they are out. Wallace is in the wind. Niether one of us can talk to the guy without it looking weird so that leaves you. Ronnie trust you okay."
"Didn't trust me enough to tell me about the baby." he mutters getting out of the car.
He knock on the door and a guy answers.
"What do you want?"
"You Danny Boyd?"
"Yeah, who wants to know."
"Okay, my girl is trying to go to a Dr. Tom Griffith to get some surgery down and I want to make sure this guy is one the up and up."
"Dr. Griffith is good."
"Okay but he was reprimanded for something he did on you..."
"He got in trouble that?"
"Yeah, could you tell me about that?"
"Come in." he says walking into the building.
Looking over at Logan's jeep, he follows.
Looking around he sees a sign for the River Stix. Home of the Fighting Fitzpatircks.
Danny walks over to a pool table and tells him to come over there.
He points to a large stain on the pool table, laughs, and says that's his blood.
"What happened?"
"I got in a bar fight but the other dude got worse." He pulls up his shirt to show a huge scar,"I got 45 stitches."
"I'm surprised that a plastic surgeon did that."
"The doc wasn't trying to make it look pretty, just stop the bleeding." he seems at a lose for words so he turns to one of the other guys. "Hey Liam, is Dr. Griffith a friend of the family?"
Liam looks over an joins them.
"Molly over there saw the blood, freaked out and called an ambulance. I spent three months in county and according to this kid the doc got in trouble too."
"Who is this?" Liam asks.
"I..."
"His girl is thinking about going to Dr. Griffith so he's just checking him out."
"His name is Beaver. He's friends with Veronica Mars. Keith mars daughter." Molly says from her corner.
"Why are you really here kid? If you lie, you are the one that's going to need a plastice surgeon." Liam says grabbing him by the throat.
"Hey does anyone know the address here? I have 9-1-1 on the line." Logan calls out.
Everyone looks over in Logan's direction.
"No one. Hmmm I see a sign that says River Sitx does that help. It does...yeah you might want to hurry there is blood everywhere." Logan says closing his phone.
"Time to go." he says looking at Cassidy.
"Let's see how much damage we can do in a couple minutes." Liam orders his men.
"I don't think so." Logan says pulling out a gun.
Liam stares at him.
"It's been a bad year, you really want to take that chance." Logan snarks.
Liam slowly lets go of Cassidy.
He runs out.
Logan follows behind him not taking his eyes off Liam.
Logan and Felix stare at him.
He shakes his head as to hopefully clear it.
"Son of a bitch." he mutters.
"What the hell happened?" Felix asks.
"Seems that doc was called after a bar fight to come fix him up. It was going okay until that girl, Molly, told them that I was friends with Ronnie." Cassidy tells them.
"She outed you?" Felix asks confused.
"Yeah, seems almost happy to let them know that I was friends with the old Sheriff's daughter." he snarks. "Where the hell did you get a gun?" he asks turning to Logan.
"Your dad gave it to me over the summer. Figured with everything going on with my dad, I should have something to feel safe." he explains.
"I can see him doing that." he says getting out of the car when they get to his house. "You know it's a good thing that it was me in there. Who know's what they would have done to Ronnie."
They watch him walk away.
"Your girlfriend is a fucking piece of work." Logan says looking at Felix.
"Yeah, I'm starting to get the same idea." Felix whispers.
She and Mac sit at her desk at the office and do homework.
She keeps glancing at her phone.
"Okay, what is going on?" Mac asks.
"Logan and Felix took Cassidy to check out Danny Boyd so that I wouldn't. I am waiting for one of them to call me so I can stop worrying."
"Ahhh, look at you already a mommy." Mac jokes.
"Honey, do you know a Marcos Oliveres?" her dad asks coming out of his office.
"Ummm, his name sounds familiar." she says and Mac agrees.
"He was on the bus."
"Oh...what's going one?"
"Seems his parents just hired me..us. They are in the process of suing the school district for negligence that lead to their son's death. Now they are being harassed."
"How?" Mac asks.
He tells them about what has been going on.
She offers to ask about Marcos.
"Thanks honey." he says "Oh, don't forget your pill." he says going into his office.
She groans and grabs her bag to take out her prenatal vitamins.
"Damn, those things a huge." Mac says getting her a glass of water as she stares at the size of the pill.
"Yup, I need to take it." she says taking the glass of water a taking her pill.
"You know, I bet the school is doing the harassment to get them to drop the suit."
"As my dad would say that most things like this a personal not business." she mumbles.
Mac is about to say something else when her phone starts ringing.
"Cassidy, are you okay?" she says standing up to take the call.
Mac just smiles and mouths "So already a mommy."
At school, she asks about Marcos, pretending to be doing a article for the paper but no one knows anything about him.
She sits on her bed with last years yearbook in her lap, trying to find a photo of Marcos but can't find any.
She closes the book and lays back. What would it be like to be completely forgotten.
Eli walks in just as her laptop alerts her to a new email.
"From you other boyfriend." he jokes.
"I would like it to be from Wallace but alas its not." she says reading the email from someone that heard about the article that she is doing. They figured that she didn't get much information but says that Marcos was great once you got to know him. They left it unsigned do to a jealous boyfriend.
"Interesting." she mumbles.
Eli comes over and reads over her shoulder.
"You hear from Felix." she asks.
"He and Opie called me. Cassidy was lucky that his dad gave Opie that gun otherwise I doubt the two of them would have been able to get out of there."
"Yeah, I want to say I can't belive Molly but..."
Her voice cuts off when the hear her dad yelling at someone from the kitchen.
"I sent it back two weeks ago." seeing her and Eli, he motions for them to stay quiet and continues his tirade before hanging up.
He places a MP3 player on the counter. "That was taped under Mrs. Oliveres' car. It would play a loop of her son's voice over her radio. Get this, it was paid for by the Neptune School District."
"Mind if I talk to Clemmons or Moorehead about this? I can also bring this to Mac and see if she can figure anything out."
"Glad for the help, honey." he says. "What's for supper?"
She looks over a Eli with puppy dog eyes.
"Don't worry Sheriff. You're invited over for supper." he says with a knowing grin.
She goes to talk to Clemmons and is automatically sent to the Principal Moorehead the instant she mentions the crash.
He tells her that it's a horrible tragedy, and he really sympathizes with the families.
They made settlement offers, but Marcos' family insists on suing. If they win at the sum they're asking for, Neptune won't have any band or art classes and will have fewer staff. So they are taking this seriously.
"Are you aware that an MP3 player registered to the school was found broadcasting Marcos' voice in his mother's car?"
"This school would never do anything like that. If you have further questions of that nature you will have to direct them to the district lawyers." he says handing her a business card for 'Simon and Stern'.
She and Mac are staring at the computer.
"Is it possible to figure out when and where this was made." she asks handing her the MP3.
Mac plays the recording. "I know who this is."
'What do you mean?"
"This is Cap'n Krunk. One of the host to 'Ahoy, Mateys'. Its this pirate radio show. Cap'n Krunk and Imitation Crab talked a lot of smack about Neptune High."
Mac loads up the 'Ahoy Mateys' website.
Mac downloads a couple of old episodes for her.
"What happened here?" she asks pointing to the four week gap in episodes.
"They went on a sabbatical. The problem was Cap'n Krunk didn't return when the show did so I stopped listening."
"Any way to find out where they broadcast from?" she asks.
"I love being Q to your Bond but I'm going to need cash for the equipment I would need." Mac says holding out her hand.
"Expense it, keep the reciepts and I'll talk to dad." she says as Mac hands her an iPod with the downloaded episodes on it.
At lunch she listens to the episodes.
"Hey Blondie." Felix says sitting down with her. "What you listening to?"
"Ahoy Mateys. Seems the case my dad is working just got interesting." she says."How are you doing?"
"Single. I love her but...things are weird between us right now and what she pulled with Cassidy was wrong on so many levels."
"I'm sorry."
"Well at least only you, Opie and Weevil knew that I was seeing her."
"True." she says putting the headphones back in to finish listening to the show.
Logan and Eli sit down with them.
"So our witness happens to belong to the Fitzpatricks."
"Anyone piss them off lately." Logan says looking out the corner of his eye at Felix.
"I just ended things thins morning due to what happened when Cassidy went in. She didn't seem to care at all. Maybe I didn't know as well as I thought. even if her family is involved it doesn't mean that she is." he tries to defend.
"Not accusing her, man. Just trying to figure this out." Eli tells him.
"What do they have to gain for putting an 09er kid and a PCHer in jail for an attempted murder of another PCHer?" she asks.
"No, fucking clue." each boy says.
"Okay, how does this work again?" she asks to Mac over the phone as she walks around.
She holds a radio signal detector in her hand.
"The detector only has a two mile radius. So walk in the direction that has the strongest signal."
The PCHers are hanging out on Dog Beach.
"We need to talk." Weevil says standing up.
They all quiet down an look at him.
"A couple days ago, some random 09er comes up to me, while I have V with me, to ask me about the coke that he ordered. Now i found out that the so called witness against Felix for 'running down' Hector is in the Fitzpatricks pocket. Did one of you actually go into business with those meth heads?" he asks looking at his boys.
No one says a word.
"Get out of here." he says.
All of the bikers leave except Thumper and Felix.
"Someone's selling for the Fitzpatricks?" Felix asks.
"I hope not." he says.
"You thought it was me, didn't you?" Felix asks.
"The though crossed my mind but I dismissed it as quick as I thought it."
"Because of Molly, right?"
"Felix..."
"What about Molly?" Thumper asks.
"Until this morning I was dating Molly Fitzpatrick."
"Shit, does Blondie know?" Thumper asks looking at him in shock.
"She's the one that told me." Weevil tells him. "Her telling me caused that fight before summer."
"Felix, that girl is loco. She sent one of Liam's guys after a guy that refused to go out on a date with her becuase he wasn't interested."
"We need to get to the bottom of this." he tells the two of them.
She is walking on a sidewalk, her detector blinking. She meets with Mac, who sees that the signal is strongest where they are standing.
"It has to be coming from the house behind us." Mac states.
They decide to move in for the kill and go over to the front entrance.
She knocks on the door and any plan she had goes out the window when Clemmons opens the door.
"Girls."
"Could we use your phone." she says quickly.
Clemmons does not appear to be too impressed and begins closing the door on them when she shouts, "We're here to see Vincent."
Clemmons reacts positively.
"I told you that an excuse wasn't going to work." she says looking at Mac.
"Wait, what..no,no. noooo" Mac says.
"She has been going on and on about him."
"Come in." he says moving out of the way so that they can come in.
He leads them to Vincents room.
Behind his back, Mac slaps at her for the story and is having a hard time to stop from bursting out laughing,
At the door, Clemmons knocks and calls out to his son.
After a second knock Vincent answers that this is his private basement time.
Both of them are desperately trying to keep a straight face.
Smiling paternally at Mac, Clemmons "Veronica Mars and a friend have come to visit him."
"Tell them that I'm not here." he calls out.
"They are standing right here son."
Frustrated, Vincent opens the door a little, only to be pushed aside by her.
"What are you doing here?"
"Well we came to bust a move but seems like the song is almost over." she says taking a small radio out of her pocket.
"You know this is a bad time. I was painting my models and everything will be ruined if I let the paint dry."
"Hmmm, wonder why they haven't started a new song." she says looking at her radio.
"Get out. Now." he demands.
"Why so crabby?"
Vincent is momentarily distracted and is unable to prevent Mac from moving past him into the rear end of the room.
"Your blanket is blinking." Mac snarks.
She moves froward and moves the blanket to reveal a small radio station.
Busted, he turns off the red light.
"So does your dad know that you rag on his school is your spare time?" she snarks.
"My dad has no idea about his okay. What do you want?"
"Why did Marcos quit the show before he died?"
"He went away to some camp and when he came back he just up and quit. He completely changed."
She pretends to put some files away while eavesdropping on her explaining Marcos's secret hobby to his father.
He actually seems rather proud that his shy son has found something as enterprising as a radio show to express himself.
"It's possible that he offened the wrong person." her dad tells him.
"I doubt a student would take revege on grieving parents." he replies.
"Veronica mentioned that numourous people said that Marcos changed after going away to summer camp. Is it possible that something happened there?"
Carlos brushes him off by stating that this isn't kids' stuff and has nothing to do with summer camp. He again insists that the school district caused the situation to prevent him and his wife from continuing their lawsuit.
"I'm just looking at every possibility." he states.
"It is the school district. I know it is. We just need to find the proof."
They leave the office and her dad tells her that he will be doing a stakeout at the Oliveres' house while they are out.
They instant, the door closes behind them she goes into her dad office for the file to find their credit card bill.
She finds out the name of the camp, SelfQuest, and researches it on the net.
She finds the website of a organisation claiming to be able to re-program teenagers who are struggling with their sexual identity.
Marcos was gay.
She sits down next to Vincent.
"What do you know about Camp SelfQuest?"
"Never heard of it."
"It is a deprogramming camp that Marcos' parents sent him to, to make him straight."
"Marcos wasn't gay."
"You sure about that."
"He talked about chicks all the time. He was a playboy-loving booty hound not some..."
"Don't finish that sentance if you want to live."
"Marcos talked about girls all the time. He nearly got his ass handed to him for it once."
"By the girl?"
"No. Her jealous boyfriend."
"Okay." she says stealing a fry before she leaves.
She sends out a email to the one that she had reciveded about Marcos.
It's about free concert tickets for doing a Radio Broadcast Alliance survey in concert promoting and whoever is interested should call (619) 555-0127 immediately.
She sits in class writing with one hand and holding her cell phone in the other when it rings.
She answers it, pretending to be the Radio Broadcast Alliance, but the person on the other end has hung up immediately.
She looks at her phone knowingly.
She walks down the sidewalk, looking at houses. With Mac's help she was able to reverse phone book the call and now knew that Marcos admirer lived at 8875 Crescent.
Felix sits on his bike waiting for her.
She knocks on the door and a girl answers.
She's about to ask her about the email when the girl leans out the door to call to her brother, "Ryan did you remember my milkshake?"
Ryan notices her and quickly walks to hand his sister the food.
"We can talk later." he mentions to her.
"We will talk now." she says pulling him to his car as his sister disappears into the house.
They sit on the hood of his car.
"I use to listen to Ahoy Mateys religiously but didn't know Marcos. I keep track of the equipment for journalism. Butters and Marcos checked out a reverb mic. I heard it used on the show and knew it was them. I told them that I was a fan. That was the start of a beautiful friendship."
"Were the two of you a couple?"
"I was in love with him and am 100% gay but he just wanted to be friends. He was on the fence about what he was. I pushed and I was giving him a back rub when his parents caught us. next thing i know he's off to Camp 'Homophobe'."
"Than he died."
"After being forced to do normal teenage boy things. Like going on a field trip for baseball. He was trying to win back his parents approval. That's why he died."
"They lost their son. What you were doing hurt them."
"They were meant to."
She walks away and gets on Felix's bike and they leave Ryan still sitting on the hood of his car.
Duncan gets out of bed and retrieves the letter from the drawer and turns on the light.
He contemplates it for a second, then opens it, removing the paper within.
He reads it, concerned, "Oh my god."