I need to be vague here because I don't want to give anything away, but last night's Veronica Mars unmasked the serial rapist at Hearst College. Without mentioning who this person is, let me just say that they turned out to be the scariest villain the show has had so far. It was tres suspenseful, and the new mystery introduced at the end of the episode seems pretty interesting as well.

Also, a poster in an on-line message board pointed out earlier that the Veronica writers gave us a very subtle, but very clever clue to the rapist's identity in the Halloween episode. Again, it would give away too much to mention the clue here, but if you're curious, you can e-mail me at tom.coombe@mcall.com, and I'll let you know.

Tom Coombe