A Trip to the Dentist

"A Trip to the Dentist" is episode 21 of season 1 of the television show Veronica Mars.

Plot

Veronica finally investigates what happened to her the night of Shelly Pomroy's party when she was drugged and date-raped. She then arrives home to find that her mother is back. Veronica ditches Logan after finding out that he brought GHB to Shelly's party, but they later reconcile. Aaron, who wants to show Logan that he's reformed, throws a surprise party for his son, where everyone discovers that Veronica and Logan are now together. He tells everyone that if they have a problem with his girlfriend, they can leave; Duncan does, showing that he still has feelings for her. Veronica discovers cameras in Logan's poolhouse and leaves, not knowing they were Aaron's.

Arc significance

• Logan and Luke got GHB (also known as "Liquid X") from Mexico and brought it to Shelly Pomroy's party. Luke lent some to Dick, who wanted to use it on his girlfriend, Madison Sinclair. He drugged her drink, but she, seeing Veronica, spat in it and surreptitiously handed it to her (the "trip to the dentist" of the title). Veronica got drugged from the drink, and Dick brought her upstairs so Beaver could take advantage of her in her unconscious state. Logan decided to create a salt lick when Veronica passed out, but Duncan stopped them. However, his drink had been drugged with GHB by Logan to loosen him up and Veronica and Duncan ended up having sex while in their drugged state. When Veronica confronted Duncan, he told her what had happened. Eventually Duncan, crying, told Veronica that he woke up remembering the fact that she was his sister. At this point Veronica realizes that Duncan's mom was right there. As she leaves, Duncan crumples to the ground, crying.
• Duncan left Veronica alone the next morning because his mother, Celeste, had told him she was his sister.
• Keith goes to Las Vegas to talk to a prostitute who was with Abel Koontz at the time of Lilly's murder.
• Everyone discovers that Logan and Veronica are going out.

Music

• "Creation" - Atash
• "Kingdom of Chemicals" - Sean Dailey
• "The Other Side" - BoDeans
• "This Is Not a Game" - B.A.S.K.O.
• "I Touch Myself" - Saucy Monky
• "I Like That" - Houston with Chingy and Nate Dogg
• "Cemetery Party" - Air
• "Give You More" - Taxi Doll

Production details

• This episode was originally called "Up on the Roofie".
• This episode has the return of possibly the most one-shot characters in the show. There was Casey Gant from "Drinking the Kool-Aid", Luke from "You Think You Know Somebody", Sean Friedrich from "An Echolls Family Christmas", Carrie Bishop from "Mars vs. Mars", and Cole from "Like a Virgin".

Quotes and trivia

• At the start of the episode, Keith Mars finds Duncan in Cuba. Later in the episode, we see a conspicuous poster of Cuba on Veronica's wall in her room.

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Veronica: Remember when I saved you from drug dealers and I said I may call upon you for a favor someday?

Luke: You didn't say that.

Veronica: It was implied.

Veronica: You wrote "slut" on my car last year at Shelly's party. Why?

Madison: Because "whore" had too many letters.

Veronica: So Shelly Pomroy and I were thinking of getting together later for a little girl-on-girl, you wanna come with? Wow. You know, when you're about to soil yourself, you get a little twitch right in your eye.

Veronica: It's kinda a bad time.

Logan: Okay, so I should come back when, never? Would that work for you?

Logan: We were just going to have some fun.

Veronica: Fun, like sex with unconscious people fun?

Veronica: [voiceover] As a rule people who don't like you most likely won't help you. There were 100 people at Shelly's party. 98 of them would walk over my corpse for a piece of free gum.

Dick: Perfect piece of ass, ready and willing.

Beaver: She's not willing, Dick, she's unconscious.

Veronica: I just learned that the dream I had where you and I were in a bedroom alone was reality. Care to share some details, lover?

Beaver: Nothing happened.

Logan: Get out of my house. You have a problem with Veronica, you leave. Actually, you have a problem with Veronica, you're pretty much dead to me, so just, like, evaporate or something, I dunno.

External links

• "A Trip to the Dentist" at the Internet Movie Database
• "A Trip to the Dentist" at TV.com
• "A Trip to the Dentist" at Mars Investigations
• "A Trip to the Dentist" at Television Without Pity