Meg Manning

Meg Manning
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Meg Manning was a student at Neptune High and was the former girlfriend of Duncan Kane. She was also the only survivor the Neptune High Bus Accident.

Biography

She was first introduced in the episode Like a Virgin. Despite being one of the popular 09er girls, Meg was kind to Veronica, lending her a spare cheerleading uniform when Veronica's clothes were thrown into a toilet as a prank. When Mac sent a purity test to the entire school, Kimmy, a girl jealous of Meg's success stole Meg's computer login and took the test for her, publishing her fake score for all to see. Veronica helped Meg find the person responsible, and the two became friends. In the episode Ruskie Business, Meg asked for Veronica's help to find a secret admirer. Veronica was initially keen to help, until she found out that the secret admirer was none other than Duncan Kane, Veronica's ex-boyfriend. Eventually, Veronica accepted Meg's and Duncan's relationship.

However, after finding out that he and Veronica were not in fact half-siblings, Duncan broke up with Meg, who blamed Veronica. In the opening episode of Season Two, Normal Is the Watchword, Meg's attitude towards Veronica was openly hostile. On the way back from a field trip to a baseball ground, while Veronica was talking to Weevil during a rest stop, Meg deliberately implied that Veronica had returned to the bus, causing it to leave without her. However, the bus subsequently careered off a cliff and into the ocean. Meg was the only survivor, but she remained in a coma for much of the second season.

Meg has two younger sisters, Lizzie and Grace. While Meg was in a coma, Lizzie brought Duncan Meg's laptop, asking him to remove Meg's personal files from the system before her parents were able to check them. Duncan and Veronica found that Meg had compiled information about a child whom she often babysat. The young boy was being abused by his parents. Soon, the two uncovered that the abused child (who was referred to by Meg as a boy) was actually Meg's youngest sister Grace. Meg's parents are religious zealots who lock Grace in a closet when they are out, and make her fill out exercise book after exercise book with the phrase: "The path of God is paved with righteousness." Duncan and Veronica found dozens of these books in Grace's room.

In the episode My Mother, the Fiend, Veronica visited Meg in the hospital and discovered that Meg was pregnant. Shortly after she left, Meg awoke from her coma. Meg apologized to Veronica in One Angry Veronica for her harsh treatment and then asked Veronica to make sure that her baby wouldn't fall into her parents' hands should anything happen to Meg.

Meg: Veronica? Can you stay a second? Veronica, I just hope you can forgive me for being such a b—

Veronica: Meg, you don't have to—

Meg: It's just that I knew that I was pregnant and seeing you with Duncan...

Veronica: You don't have to say anything.

Meg: And is it too much to ask for just one small favor?

Veronica: No.

Meg: (starting to cry) If anything happens to me, don't let them do it. Don't let them send the baby away. And no matter what, don't let them keep it.

Later that same episode, Meg died of a blood clot to the heart, but not before giving birth to her daughter Faith, who was later renamed Lilly by the child's father Duncan Kane.

However, in an alternate ending for My Mother, the Fiend featured on the season 2 DVD of Veronica Mars, Meg's mother is implied to have killed Meg by smothering Meg with a pillow.

Meg appeared in Veronica's dreams in the episode I Am God, along with the other kids who died on the bus. At point she wore a t-shirt with "Baby on Board" written on it and in another dream she and Veronica discussed Lucky.

Appearances

• Veronica Mars
  •  Season One
    • Like a Virgin
    • Ruskie Business
    • Betty and Veronica
    • Weapons of Class Destruction
    • A Trip to the Dentist
  • Season Two
    • Normal Is the Watchword
    • Ahoy, Mateys!
    • My Mother, the Fiend
    • One Angry Veronica
    • I Am God
  • Veronica Mars (film)
    • Is mentioned during the In Memoriam scene at the reunion.