A hooker would be one thing, but Madison?

Oh Logan. Now you’ve made Veronica two degrees sexually of Lamb and Dick. She’ll never forgive you, or so the evil bastards at the CW’s promo department would have us believe.

This week’s mystery involved Max, the dude who sold Wallace (remember him?) the answers to that engineering test. Seems he met the love of his life at Comicon, and now she’s getting married and he has no way of getting in touch with her, so he hires Veronica. And judging from the way our teen sleuth in throwing around Battlestar references, I think someone borrowed Mo’s box sets before he tried to murder her.

It turns out that the chick from Comicon was actually a hooker that Max’s friends (one of whom looks distractingly like Piz) hired to help him lose his virginity. When he kept moping about her, they made up the wedding story to help him get over her. I tell ya, these guys with their “helping.” Anyway Max still wants to find her, Veronica does and it appears she’s totally into him and against all odds, he was right about their connection. But then her friend shows up all beaten to hell by their pimp and drags Wendy back into the sordid life she was leaving behind for Max. When she leaves (with $1000 from Max to pay the piper…er pimp) Veronica realizes that Beat-Up Ho was wearing make-up bruises. Dun dun dun!

Then V gets the genius (and by “genius” I mean, “Holy crap, that’s stupid!”) idea to bribe a judge, who is one of Wendy’s kinkier clients, in order to get back at her and recoup some of Max’s expenses. This leads them to the real pimp, a smooth talkin’ lady with huge goons, who lets Max buy Wendy out of the biz for a cool $10K. Apparently selling term papers is hella lucrative. But all is not well for the happy couple. Everywhere they go, they’re reminded of her past life. They break up and she goes back to stripping, which is better than sex for money, at least.

In “The A story was a metaphor for our relationship” land, Veronica wants to know Logan “warts and all” so they can achieve true intimacy. BS: Veronica’s pathologically nosy. So when Logan finally submits to questioning, we find that he’s never been with a hooker, but that he hooked up with an “awful” girl while they were apart. V takes this in good stride until she finds out that the girl in question was Bizarro Max, that’s right: Madison Freaking Sinclair.

Regarding the dean’s murder, we learned:
1. Lamb’s still an idiot.
2. The Lillith girls egged O’Dell’s office and Nish got his Volvo. Only problem is, Cyrus was driving the mini-van so Mindy had the Volvo. That means that she, or someone driving her car, was at the office around the time he received the mysterious visitor. My totally random guess: his bitter older son.

In hmm… news: Veronica asked Logan how Mercer was able to leave TJ to commit a rape and get back without Logan knowing he was gone. Excellent question. He says he was out for what he thought was minutes, but may have been hours. So maybe Mercer drugged him, but why wouldn’t he just rape someone in TJ? Either this is a sloppy continuity point or Logan lied for Mercer when Veronica insisted on knowing the alibi. Hooking up with Madison is atrocious, but lying for Mercer? That’s something even I couldn’t forgive.