Ruskie Business

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“Ruskie Business”
Veronica Mars episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 15
Written by	Phil Klemmer John Enbom
Directed by	Guy Norman Bee
Guest stars	Alyson Hannigan (Trina Echolls) Alona Tal (Meg Manning) Max Greenfield (Leo D'Amato) Corinne Bohrer (Lianne Mars) Christopher B. Duncan (Clarence Wiedman) Cynthia Lamontagne (Yelena Sukarenko) Zachery Bryan (Caz Truman)
Production no.	2T5714
Original airdate	February 22, 2005
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"Ruskie Business" is episode 15 of season 1 of the television show Veronica Mars.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Arc significance 3 Music 4 Quotes and trivia 5 External links

[edit] Plot

Veronica is hired by a Russian Internet order bride that got cold feet to find her husband that she left, but Veronica has other things on her mind, like Meg, who is trying to find her secret admirer and Logan, who, instead of finding his mom, found that his sister Trina was back in town. The Russian "bride" turns out to be part of the Russian mafia, who are trying to find the "husband," to kill him, since he is actually hidden because he's in a witness protection program. Veronica and Keith manage to figure this out just in time to save him and arrest some of the mafia.

[edit] Arc significance

• It was Trina who was using Lynn's credit card, suggesting that Lynn is indeed dead.
• Veronica learns that Logan is brutally abused by Aaron Echolls, his father.
• Veronica finally finds her mother in a bar in Barstow. Clarence Wiedman followed her.
• In a deleted scene found on the DVD, we learn that Veronica's client actually loved Tom Cruz and he broke her heart.

[edit] Music

• "Just Another" - Pete Yorn
• "Waiting" - Taxi Doll
• "Ballade for piano No. 2 in F major, Op. 38, CT. 3" - Frédéric Chopin
• "One Thing Leads to Another" - The Fixx
• "Time After Time" - Cyndi Lauper
• "True" - Spandau Ballet
• "Warm Breeze" - Jeff Tatum

[edit] Quotes and trivia

Veronica: Hey, you're on the basketball team right?

Wallace: You obviously haven’t seen us play, I am the basketball team.

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Wallace: What is it with you girls and your girly-girl drama? What are you now? A love detective?

Veronica: Wallace, if you do this for me, we'll be best friends forever. Come on! Don't you want us to be BFF?

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[Wallace gets burned doing Veronica's favor.]

Wallace: About this secret mission.

Veronica: What'cha got?

Wallace: A reputation as a jock-sniffer. You can B your own FF. I'm retired.

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Wallace: Damn. This dog is a freakshow. He oughta be in show biz.

Veronica: You think that's some kind of a rare breed or something?

Wallace: That, or a drunk dingo had a three-way with a ocelot and a porcupine.

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Meg: Well? What do you think?

Veronica: I look like Manila Whore Barbie.

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Trina: [to a drunk Logan, who is dressed up as Tom Cruise in Risky Business] Logan, when did you stop wearing pants?

• The title Ruskie Business is a play on the film Risky Business which starred a young Tom Cruise.

[edit] External links

• Soulful Spike Society's Open Case.
• Television Without Pity Recap.