Logan Echolls
Encyclopedia : L : LO : LOG : Logan Echolls
| Logan Echolls | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||
Background
Described as Neptune High's "obligatory psychotic jackass" by Veronica's voice-over narration in the show's pilot, Logan was originally conceived as the school's main bully and teenage nemesis for Veronica Mars. However, as the show progressed during the first seasons, Logan Echolls quickly proved to have further depths beyond that of being a generic rich kid bully.
The abused son of superstar movie actor Aaron Echolls, Logan was the on-again, off-again boyfriend of the deceased Lilly Kane and close friends with Veronica Mars and her then boyfriend Duncan Kane. Logan's life was torn apart when his then off-again girlfriend Lilly was murdered and Veronica's father publicly accused Lilly and Duncan's father for the crime. Logan was horrified at the notion that Veronica's father would blame Lilly's father of killing her and when Veronica refused to renounce her father, quickly moved to blackball Veronica from the popular "09er" crowd.
Family life
Logan Echolls is the youngest child of the Echolls family. His older sister Trina left the family to pursue an acting career without much success.While Logan cared deeply about his mother Lynn Echolls, Logan's relationship with his father was a much more hostile one due to the Aaron's abusive behavior towards his son. Logan found little comfort from his mother, who turned to alcohol to keep her distracted from her husband's abusive behavior and rampant adultery while Trina, ever her father's favorite, meanwhile took a crueler attitude by calling Logan a liar who made up his charges of abuse to slander her father.
Ultimately Logan's mom would try and leave Aaron when a deranged, rejected lover of his stabbed him in the middle of a Christmas party the family was throwing for their friends. Humiliated at the way Aaron's adultery was made public knowledge, she retaliated by leaking additional information about Aaron's other affairs to the tabloids in order to shame her husband. Aaron confronted his wife and when she proclaimed that she was leaving her husband, he threatened to destroy her life if she left. Lynn Echolls responded by running off and jumping to her death off of the Coronado Bridge.
His wife's death shamed Aaron so much, that he decided to retire from acting and concentrate his energies instead on his family and in particular, his disintegrating relationship with his son. But this fell apart when it was revealed that Aaron was the one who had murdered his son's girlfriend Lilly Kane. The two had an affair and when Lilly found out that Aaron recorded them having sex, she fled with the tapes. Aaron confronted her outside the Kane estate and used a heavy ashtray to kill Lilly, which he admits to in the second season finale.
Aaron went on trial and with help from con-artist turned trophy wife Kendall Casablancas, successfully mounted a defense that blamed Duncan for Lilly's murder, denied the affair between Aaron and Lilly, and accused Veronica of lying about Aaron's attempt to kill her when she found out the truth about Lilly's murder. Aaron was helped by Logan, accidentally, when Logan acquired the sex tapes from the police evidence room and destroyed them (Logan did so to keep his remaining memories of Lilly pure, not to protect his father).
In spite of Aaron's request he did not admit to destroying evidence, Logan did so and to his surprise, Aaron did not have his lawyer crucify Logan on cross examination. Acquitted, Aaron made a last ditch effort to reconcile with his son by reminding him that as a free man, he now controlled the Echolls family fortune again, which meant that Logan could be financially cut off by his father if he was not careful. Sadly, Aaron would never get to carry out this threat as Duncan Kane arranged for Aaron to be murdered by Clarence Weidman (the head of security for Kane Software) in the hotel room he was staying in at the time as payback for the murder of his sister.
Relationship with Veronica
It has been implied, but never stated, that the combination of his abusive home-life, the traumatic death of his girlfriend, and the decision of close friend Veronica Mars to stand by her father led to Logan's anti-social behavior. Logan confessed to Neptune High's guidance counselor that he blamed not only Veronica Mars for causing Logan and Lilly's relationship to be "off" when Lilly died (as Veronica had caught Logan kissing another girl prior to Lilly's death and told her about it, leading to Lilly dumping Logan) but also blamed Veronica for Lilly being dead in the first place. Had she not told Lilly about Logan kissing another girl, then Logan (in his mind) would have been with Lilly the night of her death and would have been able fight off her attacker and save her from being murdered.Logan and Veronica's relationship softened when she agreed to investigate his mother's apparent suicide and the two began dating. They became an unofficial couple towards the end of season one. In the episode "A Trip to the Dentist", their relationship went public when Logan's father made a cheesy attempt to make up for lost time with his son by throwing a surprise birthday party. Logan and Veronica walked into his house kissing, only to find their friends (including Duncan) waiting for them.
Veronica began to suspect Logan of murdering Lilly when she found video cameras in his pool house, where he had taken Veronica in order to make out. At the time, she did not know that they were Aaron's cameras and that Logan had no knowledge of them. In the episode "Leave It to Beaver", Beaver revealed to Veronica that Logan had left the trip to Tijuana he was on early to go see Lilly after learning that Lilly was seeing another guy. This disclosure invalidated Logan's alibi. When Logan confronted Veronica after being arrested, the two had an emotional conversation in which Logan pled his innocence:
- Logan: You know... I... I knew Lilly was seeing someone. It was driving me crazy. When I left for Neptune, I didn't know if I was gonna scream at her for treating me like dirt or beg her to take me back. And I saw her at the car wash.
- Veronica: I didn't see you there.
- Logan: Well, I just parked across the street and watched her. And this feeling came over me, you know, I don’t…I don’t know how to describe it but I just knew it was over. So I sat in my car and I wrote this note to her, explaining it.
- Veronica: Did you give it to her?
- Logan: Yeah, I left it in the car.
- Veronica: With the shot glass.
- Logan: Yeah, with the shot glass. You know, if you read that letter, you'd know I'd never hurt her.
While Veronica carries out a dangerous plan that ultimately leads to the arrest of Aaron Echolls for the death of Lilly Kane, a complicated scheme hatched by disgruntled PCH biker Thumper goes off as Logan is ambushed by the PCH Biker Gang on the Coronado Bridge. Weevil and the motorcycle gang came to beat Logan up, while he was drunk and contemplating suicide, because they believed Logan had caused the death of Lilly Kane (whom Weevil had been romantically involved with).
In the final scene of the first season, a tired Veronica is met by a stranger who she was hoping would visit her. Fans eagerly wondered who the person was, and as season two opened Veronica was greeted by a horribly beaten Logan. He didn't remember much about what had happened to him that night, except that he had been fighting for his life and not succeeding. When he came to he found that there was a knife in his hand and Felix (one of the motorcycle gang members) lying dead on the ground. Logan said that he didn't kill Felix and Veronica believed him. Logan's case went to trial was tossed out by the grand jury due to lack of evidence. The grand jury's decision set off class warfare inside Neptune, as Logan was vilified in the media as being a murderer who went free because he was white and rich. Logan responded by living up to Veronica's earlier description of him as a "obligatory psychotic jackass" by burning down the public pool in Neptune so as to punish the poor residents of the town who still persecuted him as if he had been found guilty.
Later in the episode "Normal Is the Watchword", it is revealed through a flashback that Veronica broke up with Logan in an emotional scene:
- Logan: Are you breaking up with me?
- Veronica: I can't stay with you. Not with you and your toadies cruising around at night and hatching plans, refusing to let everything get back to normal. Someone's gonna get killed, Logan.
- Logan: Someone already has, did you forget that already? And most of the people in this town think I did it.
- [Logan shifts up to sit on the arm of the couch, becoming increasingly emotional.]
- Logan: Those people you call "toadies" are my friends; they've got my back.
- Veronica: [urgently] It's not about protection, Logan. It's about pride.
- [Logan puts his hand to his forehead as if pained.]
- Veronica: And, the thing that I can't stand is that…I'm pretty sure there's a part of you that's having fun with all of this.
- Logan: Fun? Fun?!
- [He gets up to leave, then spins back around, smashing a lamp.]
- Logan: [angrily] My mom is dead! My girlfriend is dead! My dad is a murderer! And the only person I still care about is dumping me. You think I'm having fun?
Logan and Veronica began to mend their fences after the end of her relationship with Duncan (he run away with his infant daughter from his relationship with Meg Manning). On the night of the alterna-prom Logan had thrown for his classmates, he drunkenly confessed his feelings of love for Veronica and compared their relationship to an "epic" romance "spanning years and continents" with "lives ruined" and "bloodshed". Veronica fled from the party in shock. When she returned the next morning, realizing her mutual feelings, she met a hung-over Logan, who did not remember his heartfelt speech, Kendall Casablancas. Later, when she confronted Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas for blowing up a school bus and sexually assaulting her two years prior, she sent a frantic S.O.S. call to Logan. Logan saved Veronica's life and kept her from shooting Beaver, who had also detonated a bomb that she thought had killed her father moments earlier. After the murder of Logan's father and the revelation that Veronica's father was alive, Logan and Veronica began dating again, and in his final scene in season two, Logan dropped Veronica off at the airport. The two still have many issues to work through (Logan's affair with Kendall, Veronica's father's disapproval of Logan as a boyfriend for his daughter, Veronica's rape at the hands of Beaver, and the fall-out from the death of Logan's father) but the two promise to spend time working through these problems when Veronica returns from the trip to New York City with her father.
Appearances
Season 1
- 1x01 Pilot
- 1x02 Credit Where Credit's Due
- 1x03 Meet John Smith
- 1x04 The Wrath of Con
- 1x05 You Think You Know Somebody
- 1x06 Return of the Kane
- 1x07 The Girl Next Door
- 1x10 An Echolls Family Christmas
- 1x12 Clash of the Tritons
- 1x13 Lord of the Bling
- 1x14 Mars vs. Mars
- 1x15 Ruskie Business
- 1x17 Kanes and Abel's
- 1x18 Weapons of Class Destruction
- 1x19 Hot Dogs
- 1x20 M.A.D.
- 1x21 A Trip to the Dentist
- 1x22 Leave It to Beaver
Season 2
- 2x01 Normal Is the Watchword
- 2x02 Driver Ed
- 2x03 Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang
- 2x04 Green-Eyed Monster
- 2x05 Blast from the Past
- 2x06 Rat Saw God
- 2x07 Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner
- 2x08 Ahoy, Mateys!
- 2x09 My Mother, the Fiend
- 2x10 One Angry Veronica
- 2x11 Donut Run
- 2x12 Rashard and Wallace Go to White Castle
- 2x13 Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough
- 2x14 Versatile Toppings
- 2x15 The Quick and the Wed
- 2x16 The Rapes of Graff
- 2x17 Plan B
- 2x18 I Am God
- 2x19 Nevermind the Buttocks
- 2x20 Look Who's Stalking
- 2x21 Happy Go Lucky
- 2x22 Not Pictured
References
- Veronica Mars: The Complete First Season, Warner Home Video, 2005, UPC 01256972774.
External links
| Veronica Mars Episode List | [Official Website'''] | ||
| Current Main Characters | Veronica Mars | Keith Mars | Wallace Fennel | Logan Echolls Eli "Weevil" Navarro | Dick Casablancas | Sheriff Don Lamb | Cindy “Mac” Mackenzie | |
| Former Main Characters | Duncan Kane | Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas | Jackie Cook | Mallory Dent | |
| Family | Kendall Casablancas | Terrence Cook | Aaron Echolls | Lynn Echolls | Trina Echolls Alicia Fennel | Celeste Kane | Jake Kane | Lilly Kane | Lianne Mars | |
| Neptune High | Van Clemmons | Vincent Clemmons | Corny | Gia Goodman Hannah Griffith | Rebecca James | Meg Manning | Madison Sinclair | |
| Citizens of Neptune | Leo D’Amato | Woody Goodman | Abel Koontz Cliff McCormack | Vinnie Van Lowe | Clarence Wiedman | |
| Places | Neptune, California | |
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.