Eli “Weevil” Navarro
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Eli "Weevil" Navarro is a fictional character
on the UPN
/The CW television series Veronica Mars
, which debuted during the fall 2004 season on UPN
. Portrayed by Francis Capra
, Weevil was the head of the local PCH biker gang and ally of the show's title character
.
delights in tormenting him. Weevil is 20 at the time of the final episode, a Gemini
and his hometown is Neptune, Californiahttp://www.myspace.com/vmarsweevil. (Weevil's age is in question here, though, since in the beginning of the first season Mrs. Navarro mentioned that Weevil was 17, though the series closed two years, both onscreen and in the series progression, after it is revealed in season 1 episode 19: Hot Dogs that he was 18).
As leader of the PCH Biker Gang, Weevil is often in trouble with the law. This led to his introduction in the series when he has the new transfer student Wallace Fennel
duct-taped to the flag pole after Wallace reluctantly turned over a security camera tape showing several members of the PCH Biker Gang stealing from the mini-mart where Wallace worked. Vowing further punishment for Wallace, it was only the intervention of Veronica Mars who saved Wallace. She arranged for the video tape to be switched with a tape of a Neptune deputy receiving oral sex from an escort. The case against Weevil's underlings was subsequently dropped, and Weevil agreed to seek no further revenge against Wallace.
Weevil wants to make his grandmother proud and receives tutoring in order for her to be able to see him graduate. However during the second season finale, Weevil is arrested for Thumper's death during the graduation ceremony.
The third season begins with Weevil released early from jail on parole, on the condition that he get and keep a job which proves to be difficult for a man of his temperament. With Veronica's help Weevil is able to get a job working as a maintenance man at Hearst College. He was the primary suspect in a robbery of an on-campus underground casino, but Veronica was able to prove that he did not commit the crime.
Weevil endeavors to stay on the straight and narrow but is asked by Veronica to steal Madison Sinclair's car (in exchange for a tidy fee), and to arrange a meeting between her and the new leader of the PCHers. He agrees to both, despite the fact that, if caught, either offence would result in his parole being revoked. In the series' penultimate episode, he is accused of selling illegally manufactured Hearst student cards worth $1000 to students for $100. Veronica clears his name, but not before tipping him off to the location of a third machine that would manufacture the student cards. Weevil takes the machine, but it is uncertain whether he uses it or not.
In the third season Veronica helps Weevil stay on parole (and therefore out of prison) by landing him jobs. First with her father's detective agency, and, after he loses that job, as a repairman at her college. He even risks a return to prison by stealing Madison Sinclair's car for Veronica to cube, though he does charge Veronica's own going rate - $500.
no longer holds the position of Sheriff, Weevil still calls him that whenever they meet. And despite having arrested him several times in the past when he actually was sheriff, Keith is reluctantly persuaded by Veronica into giving Weevil a job so he can stay out of jail. Keith finds Weevil to be a good detective and hard worker, but is forced to fire him after Weevil assaults a suspect he saw beat a child.
The conflict between the two intensified when Logan's family fired Weevil's grandmother as their maid and had her arrested for obtaining credit cards in the Echolls family name and using them online. While the police believed that Weevil was the true culprit, his cousin was really behind the credit card fraud as part of a bid to steal Logan's girlfriend away from him. Weevil agreed to plead guilty to the fraud to save his grandmother in exchange for a four month stint in juvenile hall, but Veronica uncovered the truth and cleared Weevil's name. Weevil then expelled his cousin from the PCH Biker Gang and had him beaten for betraying both Weevil and their grandmother, a punishment that Logan agreed to let Weevil carry out.
The relationship would reach a turning point when the two were forced to serve a lengthy detention sentence together. When Weevil convinced Logan to destroy the car of the teacher who put them into detention, Weevil was expelled. But to Logan's shock, Weevil refused to incriminate Logan for his part in the destruction of the car. As a result, Logan confessed to his part of the crime and with bribery (in the form of a pair of his father's boots, to be sold at auction to benefit the school) Logan was able to get Weevil reinstated.
As a result of this, the two teens agreed to a truce, though both still took pleasure in the occasional sarcastic jibe. However, in spite of the truce between them, Weevil had a dark secret: Weevil had a brief fling with Logan's former girlfriend, Lilly Kane, during one of the periods when Logan and Lilly had broken up. Weevil continued to love Lilly, (even getting a tattoo of her name) but reluctantly kept their brief relationship a secret so Lilly could save face with her fellow '09ers.
Ultimately this would lead towards a complicated series of events, where a disgruntled member of the PCH Biker gang named Thumper used the friendship between Weevil and Logan to usurp Weevil's control over the PCH Biker gang. Thumper murdered Felix, a PCH Biker who was Weevil's second-in-command and framed Logan for the murder. At first, the incident sparks off a bitter feud between Logan and Weevil, but eventually Weevil realizes that Logan may have been framed by members of his own group when Veronica Mars provides information that several members of the PCH Biker Gang had begun to sell drugs for the Irish mob. Ultimately, Weevil and Logan joined forces to find the real killer, but Thumper exposed their alliance and used it to oust Weevil from the gang.
Ultimately Weevil would get his revenge, arranging for Thumper's Irish mob backers to turn against Thumper and lock him in the bathroom of a local sports stadium that was scheduled to be destroyed. In an ironic twist, Logan (who Thumper had framed for murder) had won a contest that allowed him to be the one who pushed the button destroying the stadium. As a result, Logan kills Thumper (unknowingly) and allows Weevil to avenge his friend's death.
Fictional character
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on the UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
/The CW television series Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars
Veronica Mars is an American television series created by Rob Thomas. The series premiered on September 22, 2004, during television network UPN's final two years, and ended on May 22, 2007, after a season on UPN's successor, The CW Television Network. Veronica Mars was produced by Warner Bros...
, which debuted during the fall 2004 season on UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
. Portrayed by Francis Capra
Francis Capra
Francis Capra is an American actor. Some of his best known roles are a young Calogero Anello in A Bronx Tale, Max Connor in Kazaam, and Eli "Weevil" Navarro in the TV series Veronica Mars.-Personal life:...
, Weevil was the head of the local PCH biker gang and ally of the show's title character
Veronica Mars (character)
Veronica Mars is a fictional character in UPN/The CW the television series, Veronica Mars, which aired on the UPN and CW networks from 2004 to 2007. She is portrayed by Kristen Bell.- Background and details of plot :...
.
Background
A member of Neptune, California's underclass, Weevil lives with his grandmother and younger siblings and for a time, his cousin. Weevil's grandmother was a maid who worked for the Echolls family; as a result, Logan EchollsLogan Echolls
Logan Echolls is a fictional character on the UPN/The CW television series Veronica Mars, which debuted during the fall 2004 season on UPN.He is portrayed by Jason Dohring.- Background :...
delights in tormenting him. Weevil is 20 at the time of the final episode, a Gemini
Gemini (astrology)
Gemini is the third astrological sign in the Zodiac, which spans the Zodiac between the 60th and 89th degree of celestial longitude. Generally, the Sun transits this area of the zodiac between May 21 to June 20 each year...
and his hometown is Neptune, Californiahttp://www.myspace.com/vmarsweevil. (Weevil's age is in question here, though, since in the beginning of the first season Mrs. Navarro mentioned that Weevil was 17, though the series closed two years, both onscreen and in the series progression, after it is revealed in season 1 episode 19: Hot Dogs that he was 18).
As leader of the PCH Biker Gang, Weevil is often in trouble with the law. This led to his introduction in the series when he has the new transfer student Wallace Fennel
Wallace Fennel
Wallace Fennel is a fictional character on UPN/The CW television series Veronica Mars, which debuted during the fall 2004 season on UPN. He is portrayed by Percy Daggs III.- Background :...
duct-taped to the flag pole after Wallace reluctantly turned over a security camera tape showing several members of the PCH Biker Gang stealing from the mini-mart where Wallace worked. Vowing further punishment for Wallace, it was only the intervention of Veronica Mars who saved Wallace. She arranged for the video tape to be switched with a tape of a Neptune deputy receiving oral sex from an escort. The case against Weevil's underlings was subsequently dropped, and Weevil agreed to seek no further revenge against Wallace.
Weevil wants to make his grandmother proud and receives tutoring in order for her to be able to see him graduate. However during the second season finale, Weevil is arrested for Thumper's death during the graduation ceremony.
The third season begins with Weevil released early from jail on parole, on the condition that he get and keep a job which proves to be difficult for a man of his temperament. With Veronica's help Weevil is able to get a job working as a maintenance man at Hearst College. He was the primary suspect in a robbery of an on-campus underground casino, but Veronica was able to prove that he did not commit the crime.
Weevil endeavors to stay on the straight and narrow but is asked by Veronica to steal Madison Sinclair's car (in exchange for a tidy fee), and to arrange a meeting between her and the new leader of the PCHers. He agrees to both, despite the fact that, if caught, either offence would result in his parole being revoked. In the series' penultimate episode, he is accused of selling illegally manufactured Hearst student cards worth $1000 to students for $100. Veronica clears his name, but not before tipping him off to the location of a third machine that would manufacture the student cards. Weevil takes the machine, but it is uncertain whether he uses it or not.
Veronica Mars
The relationship between Weevil and Veronica Mars is a complicated one. Weevil is often willing to help Veronica out when she needs it but is always quick to remind Veronica that, in spite of her fall from grace, he still considers her an '09er and that she'll never be a true "outsider" like him. He occasionally refers to Veronica as "V" and "Mars". It's shown that Weevil does consider Veronica a good friend when he takes deep offense to her accusing him of a crime in "President Evil". However, Veronica eventually cleared his name and has remained loyal towards Weevil. She is one of the few people who has seen Weevil's softer side.In the third season Veronica helps Weevil stay on parole (and therefore out of prison) by landing him jobs. First with her father's detective agency, and, after he loses that job, as a repairman at her college. He even risks a return to prison by stealing Madison Sinclair's car for Veronica to cube, though he does charge Veronica's own going rate - $500.
Keith Mars
Despite the fact that Keith MarsKeith Mars
Keith Mars is a fictional character on UPN/The CW television series Veronica Mars, which debuted during the fall 2004 season on UPN. He is portrayed by Enrico Colantoni....
no longer holds the position of Sheriff, Weevil still calls him that whenever they meet. And despite having arrested him several times in the past when he actually was sheriff, Keith is reluctantly persuaded by Veronica into giving Weevil a job so he can stay out of jail. Keith finds Weevil to be a good detective and hard worker, but is forced to fire him after Weevil assaults a suspect he saw beat a child.
Logan Echolls
Originally the two were sworn enemies due to the class warfare that existed throughout Neptune; Weevil's legal guardian, his grandmother, worked for Logan's family and was constantly taunted by Logan over this fact. The feud between the two escalated when Weevil befriended Veronica and came to her aid when Logan began smashing her car up with a crowbar as payback for Veronica planting a bong inside his locker (which caused him to have his father take his car away from him as punishment).The conflict between the two intensified when Logan's family fired Weevil's grandmother as their maid and had her arrested for obtaining credit cards in the Echolls family name and using them online. While the police believed that Weevil was the true culprit, his cousin was really behind the credit card fraud as part of a bid to steal Logan's girlfriend away from him. Weevil agreed to plead guilty to the fraud to save his grandmother in exchange for a four month stint in juvenile hall, but Veronica uncovered the truth and cleared Weevil's name. Weevil then expelled his cousin from the PCH Biker Gang and had him beaten for betraying both Weevil and their grandmother, a punishment that Logan agreed to let Weevil carry out.
The relationship would reach a turning point when the two were forced to serve a lengthy detention sentence together. When Weevil convinced Logan to destroy the car of the teacher who put them into detention, Weevil was expelled. But to Logan's shock, Weevil refused to incriminate Logan for his part in the destruction of the car. As a result, Logan confessed to his part of the crime and with bribery (in the form of a pair of his father's boots, to be sold at auction to benefit the school) Logan was able to get Weevil reinstated.
As a result of this, the two teens agreed to a truce, though both still took pleasure in the occasional sarcastic jibe. However, in spite of the truce between them, Weevil had a dark secret: Weevil had a brief fling with Logan's former girlfriend, Lilly Kane, during one of the periods when Logan and Lilly had broken up. Weevil continued to love Lilly, (even getting a tattoo of her name) but reluctantly kept their brief relationship a secret so Lilly could save face with her fellow '09ers.
Ultimately this would lead towards a complicated series of events, where a disgruntled member of the PCH Biker gang named Thumper used the friendship between Weevil and Logan to usurp Weevil's control over the PCH Biker gang. Thumper murdered Felix, a PCH Biker who was Weevil's second-in-command and framed Logan for the murder. At first, the incident sparks off a bitter feud between Logan and Weevil, but eventually Weevil realizes that Logan may have been framed by members of his own group when Veronica Mars provides information that several members of the PCH Biker Gang had begun to sell drugs for the Irish mob. Ultimately, Weevil and Logan joined forces to find the real killer, but Thumper exposed their alliance and used it to oust Weevil from the gang.
Ultimately Weevil would get his revenge, arranging for Thumper's Irish mob backers to turn against Thumper and lock him in the bathroom of a local sports stadium that was scheduled to be destroyed. In an ironic twist, Logan (who Thumper had framed for murder) had won a contest that allowed him to be the one who pushed the button destroying the stadium. As a result, Logan kills Thumper (unknowingly) and allows Weevil to avenge his friend's death.
Season 1
- 1x01 Pilot
- 1x02 Credit Where Credit's Due
- 1x04 The Wrath of Con
- 1x05 You Think You Know Somebody
- 1x06 Return of the Kane
- 1x07 The Girl Next Door
- 1x09 Drinking the Kool-Aid
- 1x10 An Echolls Family Christmas
- 1x11 Silence of the Lamb
- 1x12 Clash of the Tritons
- 1x14 Mars vs. Mars
- 1x16 Betty and Veronica
- 1x17 Kanes and Abel's
- 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
- 2x04 Green-Eyed Monster
- 2x06 Rat Saw God
- 2x08 Ahoy, Mateys!
- 2x09 My Mother, the Fiend
- 2x11 Donut Run
- 2x12 Rashard and Wallace Go to White Castle
- 2x13 Ain’t No Magic Mountain High Enough
- 2x17 Plan B
- 2x19 Nevermind the Buttocks
- 2x21 Happy Go LuckyHappy Go Lucky (Veronica Mars episode)"Happy Go Lucky" is episode 21 of season 2 of the television show Veronica Mars. It had an estimated audience size of 2.33 million US viewers on its first airing.- Plot :...
- 2x22 Not Pictured
Season 3
- 3x03 Witchita Linebacker
- 3x05 President Evil
- 3x09 Spit & EggsSpit & Eggs"Spit & Eggs" is episode 9 of season 3 of the television show Veronica Mars. It had an estimated audience of 3.5 million viewers on initial viewing. It was the highest rated episode of the third season.- Plot :...
- 3x10 Show Me the Monkey
- 3x11 Poughkeepsie, Tramps and Thieves
- 3x12 There's Got to be a Morning After Pill
- 3x13 Postgame Mortem
- 3x14 Mars, Bars
- 3x19 Weevils Wobble But They Don't Go Down
- 3x20 The Bitch Is Back