Trina Echolls
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| Trina Echolls | |
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| First appearance | Ruskie Business |
| Last appearance | My Mother, the Fiend |
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| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Family | Aaron Echolls (Father, Deceased) Logan Echolls (Brother) Lynn Echolls (Stepmother, Presumed Deceased) Mary (Biological mother) Alan Moorehead (Biological father) |
| Portrayed by | Alyson Hannigan |
| Created by | Rob Thomas |
Trina Echolls is a fictional character on The CW television series Veronica Mars. She is portrayed by Alyson Hannigan.
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[edit] Background
Trina was first mentioned offandedly by Aaron Echolls in the episode Clash of the Tritons in a conversation with Keith Mars about the fallout from his affair.
- AARON: But these stories are tearing my family apart - my daughter Trina is the only one who will talk to me anymore.
The next episode Lord of the Bling provided a thumbnail sketch of her character as seen by Logan Echolls, in a scene set at Lynn Echolls's funeral.
- AARON: Have you heard from your sister?
- LOGAN: Yeah. She sent a telegram. Heartbroken. Stop. Can't make it back from Sydney. Stop. Underwater scene shoot tomorrow. Stop. Entire crew said prayer for Mom. Stop. Love you. Stop.
Logan, unable to accept his mother's death, turned to Veronica and asked him to track his mother, who he believed to have faked her own death. After a couple of unsuccessful leads, Veronica discovered that one of Lynn's credit cards was being used. In the episode Ruskie Business, they tracked the user to the Neptune Grand, and by reporting the credit card stolen, forced the user to enter the lobby. But to Logan's disappointment, it was not his mother, but his sister, Trina. The film she had been shooting had not worked out, and she had decided to return home. She also didn't appear to care that much about Lynn's passing.
- TRINA: She was your mom, my step-mom. The lady who liked to parade though the house in a string bikini whenever I had a boy over.
Later, Logan, distraught over the realization that his mother truly was dead, showed up to a school dance drunk. Trina was the one who came to take him home, remarking it was "just like old times."
Trina did move back into the house, and soon after got into trouble with money. In the episode Hot Dogs she realized that she was not in Lynn's will, and so she decided to ask Logan for a loan, as he had received everything in Lynn's will. She told him that she had borrowed ten thousand dollars from her boyfriend.
- TRINA: Will you just hear me out, please. My boyfriend Dylan spotted me some cash a few months ago and…now he's bugging me about it. I-I can't get him off my back.
- LOGAN: Did you try standing up?
- TRINA: Thanks. Knew I could count on you.
That night, Trina arrived home with a limp and a large black eye. Logan, actually worried, tried to ask her about what happened, but Trina noted that he hadn't cared before, and skulked off. Later, after concealing her wounds, Trina begged Aaron to take a part in the film her boyfriend Dylan was producing. Aaron tried to explain he had retired from acting, but Trina pleaded. So Aaron invited Dylan over for dinner. Once Dylan had arrived, Aaron at first played along, but then revealed he could recognize the signs of abuse from a mile away, since his father beat him and his mother. He then, despite Trina's pleas, proceeded to beat Dylan to a bloody pulp.
What happened to Trina in the months following is never explicitly explained, but it is assumed she moved back out again and went back to work at some point before the Echolls home burned down in Rat Saw God.
In My Mother, the Fiend, Trina returned to Neptune as the "Special Celebrity Director" of the school play. She appeared to be taking her father's arrest in stride, and was more excited that Evan Rachel Wood had been cast as Veronica in "The Aaron Echolls Story." Around this time, Veronica had been investigating the case of a baby left in the bathroom of Neptune High during the prom of 1980. She believed Celeste Kane was the mother and wanted her to own up to abandoning the child.
Veronica eventually discovered Trina was the prom baby, and had Trina read a scene with her for her "audition." The scene entailed that Trina had to talk about how she was dying and needed bone marrow, and only a blood relative could help her. Veronica videotaped the whole exchange with the intent of sending it to the tabloids, but realized that while taking down Celeste she'd make a public spectacle of Trina. She told Trina the truth, and Trina was not only excited at the thought of inheriting some of Celeste's wealth, but even more excited at the thought of the publicity the tape would create for her.
- TRINA: You know, if we hurry, that tape can make tonight's "Entertainment News." Oh, it's the least Big Pat can do for me after leaving all those pervy messages on my voicemail.
The next day, during a rehearsal break, Veronica and Trina were walking around Neptune High, when Mary, the deaf lunch lady, began pointing to herself and then to Trina. She was Trina's mother. She hugged Trina, who was genuinely touched. It turned out then-student Mary had an affair with a teacher, and she left baby Trina at his doorstep. He knew if he took the baby to the hospital, suspicion would be drawn. So he left the baby in the bathroom at the prom, knowing they would think it belonged to a student. It turned out the teacher was the current principal, Alan Moorehead. Trina busted him in the middle of a staff meeting, in front of all the other teachers, and he was let go.
[edit] Appearances
[edit] Season 1
- 1x15 Ruskie Business
- 1x19 Hot Dogs
[edit] Season 2
- 2x09 My Mother, the Fiend
[edit] External links
| Veronica Mars | ||
| Episode List | Official Website | ||
| Current Main Characters | Veronica Mars | Logan Echolls | Wallace Fennel | Dick Casablancas Parker Lee | Stosh "Piz" Piznarski | Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie Don Lamb | Eli “Weevil” Navarro | Keith Mars |
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| Former Main Characters | Duncan Kane | Cassidy Casablancas | Jackie Cook | Mallory Dent | |
| Family | Kendall Casablancas | Terrence Cook | Aaron Echolls | Lynn Echolls | Trina Echolls Alicia Fennel | Celeste Kane | Jake Kane | Lilly Kane | Lianne Mars | Charlie Stone |
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| Neptune High | Van Clemmons | Vincent Clemmons | Corny | Gia Goodman | Hannah Griffith Rebecca James | Meg Manning | Madison Sinclair | Felix Toombs | Troy Vandegraff |
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| Residents of Neptune | Leo D'Amato | Woody Goodman | Abel Koontz | Vinnie Van Lowe Liam Fitzpatrick | Cliff McCormack | Clarence Wiedman |
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| Places | Neptune, California | Neptune Grand | Camelot Motel Neptune High | Hearst College |
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