A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: 

• Well after last episode where people told each other the plot, things are actually happening! Penn is, at last, the suspect for three of the bombings.
• Hot on his trail, the Marses interrupt his sexy minibreak with Carol to grab him and get that $250,000 reward - but Dodie and Alonzo show up to take out Veronica!
• But then, the PCHers turn up! and Weevil calls off the killing with a bat of his very powerful eyelashes. 
• Richard Casablancas buys Matty a car to persuade her to sell him the Sea Sprite, but he might regret it because here she is breaking into his house.
• He also might regret fucking over Clyde, who made the mistake of taking a Casablancas’s word as a binding agreement. Never again!
• Heartbreak too for Veronica as she admits to Nicole that she bugged her office, and Nicole immediately ends their friendship.
• Heartbreak for us as Veronica has sexy sex with Leo but it’s all just a dream! With Wallace watching, weird.
• The shootout with Dodie and Alonzo prompts the Marses to make big changes. Keith wants out of the PI life before Veronica gets hurt. 
• And Veronica accepts Logan’s proposal. 

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 4 episode 7: Gods of War, and get stuck into such mysteries as how long Big Dick and Clyde been working together, what other careers Dodie and Alonzo could thrive in, and why they tell us about the nails So. Many. Times!!!

Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning murder and violence. 

For more about this episode, and to read the transcript, visit the podcast’s official site http://VMIpod.com/4-07. 

The end of the season is looming, so go to vmipod.com/investigations to send us questions for Special Agent LaToya Ferguson to deal with in the impending end-of-season loose-ends-tying episode, as well as for Lo about legal stuff, and Jenny and Helen about any other business you are curious about.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs. Lo Dodds brings us the LoDown.

Find the show @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

We also have MERCH - get your pins to show your love for Weevil or non-love for milk at hellomerch.com/collections/veronica-mars-investigations.