1x01 Pilot - Veronica Mars Episode Guide

Veronica Mars

- Episode 01x01

Episode: 01x01 (pilot)
Title: Pilot
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 475258
First Aired: Sep. 22, 2004

Season 1 » Episode #01 - Pilot

Summary: Still troubled by the events surrounding the murder of her best friend Lilly Kane, Veronica Mars returns to Neptune High for the start of her junior year. Veronica has to deal with the wrath of Weevil when she helps the new kid in town, sophomore Wallace Fennel, down from the school's flagpole he’s been duct-taped to. To save Wallace from further torture from Weevil and his biker buddies, Veronica strikes up a deal to help them out. She devises an intricate plan that helps the gang avoid trouble with the law. Veronica also discovers unsettling information about her mother, who abandoned Veronica and her father a year ago, while pursuing a case of adultery against billionaire Jake Kane.

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01x01 Pilot (40:13) (Full Episode)

Clip: Welcome to Neptune High (1:03)

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Duncan Kane	played by Teddy Dunn (II)
Sheriff Don Lamb	played by Michael Muhney
Lianne Mars	played by Corinne Bohrer
Lilly Kane	played by Amanda Seyfried
Celeste Kane	played by Lisa Thornhill
Jake Kane	played by Kyle Secor
Cliff McCormack	played by Daran Norris
Deputy Sacks	played by Brandon Hillock
Felix Toombs	played by Brad Bufanda

	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot Weevil: All right, all right, all right. Felix, we get it. You're a badass, okay? But for once, don't be stupid.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot Veronica Mars: [to Wallace] Congratulations sport. In your short time here, you already managed to piss off the motorcycle gang and the local sheriff.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: After Weevil smashes Duncan's friends headlights and hood, Duncan and friends drive off. When Weevil is then talking to Veronica, in the background we can see the car is still parked behind them, but in the next shot it's gone again.
CONT: During the flashback of Lilly's death, Veronica is seen running up behind Keith and then stopping next to him. In the next shot, Veronica is still running over.
CONT: It is critical to the entire storyline that Lily's shoes were in a photo taken the night of the murder. We see the new sheriff holding up the evidence bag on TV in the first episode of season one and the shoes in the bag are flip flops. The rest of the season they are graffiti-ed tennis shoes.
CONT: During Veronica's flashback of the morning after her rape, she fixes the left strap on her dress. In the next scene her strap is broken again.

TRIVIA

Amanda Noret, who plays Madison Sinclair, and the girl who plays Shelly Pomroy (who is not a working actress but has appeared in over eleven episodes), are cousins in real life.
In the original pilot, Lilly's body was dumped into a river and found later. The network found this a little too disturbing, especially because it involved Jake Kane disposing of his own daughter's body and had her body be left on the Kane property.
The scene during which Veronica wakes up after being raped was longer and more graphic, and was edited down by the censors.
Rob Thomas (II) was so impressed with Jason Dohring's acting that a scene of a tearful Logan confronting Veronica after Lilly's death was written and cut into the show after the actor was cast.
The pilot script describes Veronica the following way: "She is not cute. She is sexy. Tough. Prematurely jaded. Angelina Jolie at 17."