1x09 Drinking the Kool-Aid - Veronica Mars Episode Guide

Veronica Mars

- Episode 01x09

Episode: 01x09
Title: Drinking the Kool-Aid
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 2T5708
First Aired: Nov. 30, 2004

Season 1 » Episode #09 - Drinking the Kool-Aid

Veronica Mars - 01x09 Drinking the Kool-Aid

Summary: Keith and Veronica investigate a cult-like group after they are hired by the wealthy parents of a Neptune High senior who left home to live on the group’s collective farm. Meanwhile, Veronica investigates Abel Koontz’ claim that her real father is Jake Kane.

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01x09 Drinking the Kool-Aid (42:22) (Full Episode)

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Duncan Kane	played by Teddy Dunn (II)
Casey Gant	played by Jonathan Bennett
Holly Mills	played by Amy Laughlin
Josh	played by Chris William Martin
Rain	played by Megalyn Echikunwoke
Debbie	played by Megalyn Echikunwoke
Juanita Gant	played by Rebecca Kitt
Django	played by Farhang Pernoon
Darcy	played by Courtnee Draper

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

SYNC: At the end of the initial interview with Keith Mars, Mr. Gant's mouth is clearly moving, though he has finished speaking.
CONT: When Veronica see Casey being shoved into the car, from behind, we see her running quite fast and quite a distance down the road when she gets out of her car. From the front, she is barely walking fast and is still at the top of the road, very close to her car.
FAKE: When Veronica is taking a shower and jolts at the sudden loss of hot water, her waist is briefly visible, and she is clearly wearing a black swimsuit or some other garment on her lower body.
CONT: Throughout the early scenes of this episode, Veronica's nail color inexplicably changes between shots. In the street outside the prison gates, her hands rest on the steering wheel as she cries; her nails are painted a light white or heavy clear coat. In the next scene as she drives home from the prison, her nails are unchanged, but when she stops to vomit and later when she continues driving, her nails are suddenly dark red, brown or black. When she arrives home and her hands are seen in closeup, her nails are unpainted. In subsequent scenes, although she is wearing the same costume, her nails are black.
CONT: At the funeral, Veronica is wearing a black coat that buttons right below the neck, but after hurrying back to her father's office, she's wearing a standard double breasted, black pea-coat. She would have had no time to change coats.

TRIVIA

The episode title is a nod to the widely-used phrase "drinking the Kool-Aid," which refers generally to the act of buying wholeheartedly into a belief, preference, or idea, and specifically to the 1978 Jonestown cult suicides in Guyana, in which cult leader Jim Jones (IV) poisoned (or convinced to self-poison) over 900 of his followers with a mixture of grape Flavor Aid, Valium, chloral hydrate, and probably cyanide.

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