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| “ | I know this might be a bad time to ask for a favor... How would you feel, now that you have nothing left to live for, about just rolling yourself off? It's just, I really don't want your DNA all over my shirt. | „ |
| ~ Cassidy preparing to kill Veronica. |
| “ | Logan: Beaver, don't! Cassidy: My name is Cassidy! Logan: Cassidy, don't. Cassidy: Why not? [silence] That's what I thought. |
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| ~ Cassidy to Logan before killing himself. |
Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas is a major antagonist of Veronica Mars, serving as a minor character in season one and the main antagonist of season two. He is the youngest member of the Casablancas family and a student of Neptune High, who was molested by Woody Goodman when he was a little boy. Since his trauma made him paranoid and unstable, he set out to prevent anyone from figuring out what had happened to him, even resorting to mass murder.
He was portrayed by Kyle Gallner, who also portrayed Cameron Coulter in Cold Case, James Heathridge in Criminal Minds and Shane Mills in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
History[]
Cassidy, known as "Beaver" (a nickname he despises), is a son of one of Neptune, California's richest men, Richard Casablancas, and younger brother of town bully Dick Casablancas. Cassidy hangs around with his older brother a lot, even though Dick victimizes him almost as much as his usual targets. Despite his unspoken reservations, Cassidy acts as accomplice when Dick and his friend Logan Echolls cause trouble in the community.
Cassidy is extremely needy as a result of the emotional neglect he suffers at the hands of his father, who openly favors Dick over him. In season three, a guilt-ridden Dick reveals that he and his father would have contests to see which one could make Cassidy cry. Dick also admits to duct-taping Cassidy's feet to the pedals of his bike, forgetting about it and a couple of hours later found him pedaling around desperately in circles.
Dick and Cassidy provide an alibi for Logan even though he had returned to Neptune the day of Lilly Kane's murder. Eventually, Cassidy tells Veronica Mars that they had lied to the police.
During Veronica's investigation of her rape at Shelley Pomroy's party, she discovers Dick had encouraged Cassidy to rape her while she was unconscious to lose his virginity. Cassidy tells Veronica that he ran out of the room and threw up, after realizing that he could not go through with it.
When his father marries a younger woman, Kendall Casablancas, Cassidy tells Veronica that he suspects she is having an affair and hires Veronica to find proof. In the process, Veronica exposes Cassidy's father's real estate scam. Cassidy's father quickly abandons his family and flees the country.
After a failed request to move back in with his birth mother, Cassidy and Kendall start a new real estate business to make money. With help from Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie as his tech assistant, he creates a company named Phoenix Land Trust, using Kendall as the on-paper "owner" of the company, as Cassidy is underage. The Trust buys up cheap properties outside the proposed borders for the City of Neptune, a risky move that bet heavily against passage of incorporation.
Cassidy and Mac soon begin dating, but their relationship falls apart when he refuses to become sexually intimate with her. When she mentions to Cassidy that she had gone to Veronica for advice, Cassidy abruptly dumps her for bringing Veronica into his personal life.
In the second season finale, "Not Pictured", it is revealed that he was among the boys molested by Woody Goodman. Veronica discovers that not only did Cassidy set up the bus crash to kill Woody's other victims, who intended to come forward, but he is also responsible for many of the events of the first two seasons such as orchestrating the exposure of his father's real estate fraud, and Goodman's fall from public favor. Veronica also discovers that he did rape her after all, giving her chlamydia in the process, which he had, in turn, contracted after being molested by Woody. After Cassidy blows up the plane bringing Goodman back to Neptune following his arrest, he tries to kill Veronica. Logan stops him, however, and Cassidy prepares to commit suicide by jumping off the roof of the Neptune Grand. Logan tries to stop him and calls him Beaver, and Cassidy screams, "My name is Cassidy!". Logan tells him to stop and Cassidy asks why he should. When Logan is unable to answer, Cassidy says, "That's what I thought," and jumps to his death.
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Trivia[]
- Some critics have interpreted Cassidy's characterization, especially in the second season, as indicating that he is a closeted homosexual. He is unable to perform sexually with Mac, and Veronica implies that he had to fantasize about men in order to achieve an erection and rape her.
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