M.A.D. (Veronica Mars)

"M.A.D."
Veronica Mars episode
Seth Rafter arguing with Tad.
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 20
Directed by	John T. Kretchmer
Written by	Phil Klemmer John Enbom
Production code	2T5719
Original air date	April 26, 2005
Guest stars
Daran Norris (Cliff McCormack) Tina Majorino (Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie) Christopher B. Duncan (Clarence Wiedman) Jeff D'Agostino (Tad Wilson) Erica Gimpel (Alicia Fennel) Natalia Baron (Carmen Ruiz) Kyle Gallner (Cassidy Casablancas) Robert Clark (Seth Rafter) Ryan Hansen (Dick Casablancas) Harry Hamlin (Aaron Echolls)
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"M.A.D." is episode 20 of season 1 of the television show Veronica Mars.

Plot

When Carmen is blackmailed by her boyfriend Tad with an obscene video of her sucking a popsicle in a jacuzzi, she goes to Veronica who devises a scheme to solve her problems. Unfortunately, Tad's a little too obsessed and he has a secret that will shock Veronica.

Arc significance

• Keith discovers the Kanes are offering $50,000 to find Duncan.
• Mac finds out for Veronica and Keith that Duncan bought an Argentinian passport for himself.
• Keith runs a missing persons notice in the paper for Lianne Mars, so that he will be eligible for divorce, which Veronica notices.
• Clarence Weidman shows Alicia Fennel the bug Veronica planted in his office and tells her to break-up with Keith or she will be fired.
• Carmen can't remember the night of the party where Tad taped her. It was the same night that Veronica was raped.
• Tad, while taped to the flagpole, admits that he used GHB on Carmen and that he got it from Logan.

Music

• "Gold Rush" - Kissinger
• "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" - Lobo
• "Finding Out True Love Is Blind" - Louis XIV
• "Tu Abandono" - X. Herrera
• "Let's Sail Away" - Josh Kramon and Jeff D'Agostino
• "Love Is Here to Stay" - Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
• "Crimson and Clover" - Tommy James & the Shondells

Production details

• This episode was originally called "Tit for Tad".
• "M.A.D." stands for Mutually Assured Destruction; a term used by Veronica throughout the episode.

External links

• "M.A.D." at the Internet Movie Database
• "M.A.D." at TV.com
• "M.A.D." at Mars Investigations
• "M.A.D." at Television Without Pity