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| {{Infobox Television episode | |||
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| | Title = Driver Ed | |||
| | Series = Veronica Mars | |||
| | Season = 2 | |||
| | Episode = 2 | |||
| | Airdate = October 5, 2005 | |||
| | Production = 2T7202 | |||
| | Writer = ] | |||
| | Director = ] | |||
| | Guests = ] (Duane Anders)<br>] (])<br>] (])<br> ] (Richard Casablancas)<br>] (Jesse Doyle)<br>Gregory Thirloway (Jeff Cotter)<br>Kristin Dattillo (Carla Cotter)<br>] (])<br>] (]) | |||
| | Episode list = ] | |||
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| | Next = ] | |||
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| "'''Driver Ed'''" is episode 2 of season 2 of the television show '']''. It had an estimated audience size of 3.07 million US viewers on its first airing.<ref>{{Cite web |work=] |date=October 11, 2005 |url=http://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=101105_07 |title=Weekly Program Rankings |accessdate=July 29, 2008}}</ref> | |||
| ==Plot== | |||
| The repercussions of the bus crash arrive with Jessie Doyle, the daughter of Ed Doyle, the bus driver. She wants ] to prove her father did not commit suicide by driving off the cliff deliberately in order to clear his name, and receive his life insurance. Veronica is able to do this, discovering that Doyle's 'suicide note' was actually a note of his plans to leave his seemingly erratic wife. However, the incompetent Sheriff doesn't care and make's no effort to reopen the case. ] also meets ], the spoiled new girl, whose father is ]. After someone hits Jackie's father's car in the school parking lot, Wallace, using the sleuth skills he's learned from Veronica, discovers that the perpetrator was a journalist going undercover as a student in order to get information about the crash. | |||
| ==Arc significance== | |||
| * The only survivor of the bus crash is ], but she's in a coma. | |||
| * Ed, the bus driver, had a history of ] and ] finds what appears to be a ] note. Veronica tries to prove that he was leaving his wife, however, but Lamb doesn't listen and closes the bus crash case. | |||
| * Baseball coach ] is running for the position of Balboa County Supervisor—a position more commonly known as 'Mayor of Neptune'—and he wants ] to run for Sheriff. After seeing Lamb refuse Jessie Doyle's pleas to reopen the bus crash case, Keith accepts. | |||
| * A dead body washes up on the shore. Sheriff Lamb searches it and finds written on its hand is the name "Veronica Mars". | |||
| ==Music== | |||
| * "The Minor Waltz" - ] | |||
| * "]" - ] | |||
| * "]" - ] | |||
| * "Little Miss Get Around" - Lukewarm Freeda | |||
| * "]" - ] | |||
| ==Writing and acting== | |||
| * This episode guest stars noted ] director ], who plays a convenience store clerk. Kevin Smith became famous for his 1994 film '']''. He was also an outspoken fan of the series when it originally aired. | |||
| * ] joins the cast as a series regular in this episode, though she was in the credits in the previous one. | |||
| ==References== | |||
| {{Reflist}} | |||
| ==External links== | |||
| * {{IMDb episode|0739522|Driver Ed}} | |||
| * {{tv.com episode|veronica-mars/driver-ed-450676|Driver Ed}} | |||
| * at Mars Investigations | |||
| * at ] | |||
| {{VeronicaMars}} | |||
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| ] | |||
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