mother mother ninth episode second season american mystery television series mars thirty episode overall directed episode written episode shown november upn series depicts adventures mars deals life high school student private detective episode finds mother old high school records starts digging mother past discovering information kane family process beaver proposes business plan help mother features final appearance crew found difficult work episode schedule projects episode accompanied alternate ending publicity executive producer upn promotions department episode initially viewed million viewers received positive reviews example wrote intrigued decisions pure time disappointed synopsis health class class starts taking care fake babies vice calls office gives detention having keys file cabinet beaver walks mac asks favors detention files finds mother permanent file figures troubled high school logan punches logan beat talks teacher finds teacher spread false rumors school got suspended gets taped asks vice known mom high school talks tells mom vicious coming perform play neptune high tries seduce duncan meets interaction looks mom eventually tracks mother old friends provides information love triangle jake asks suspension thinks spreading rumor pregnant keith says doesn know slips falls play rehearsal beaver meets confronts selling father possessions little money beaver gives plan involves face business idea keith checks birth records finds baby born kane maiden time finds mysterious baby found girl bathroom neptune high bad mouths duncan room comes learns duncan told parents relationship insults mother cleaning lady probably daughter confronts logan angrily fight despite agreeing need team find actually killed mac shows work beaver involves new business project disguise meets baby temporary foster mom learns baby foster mother committed suicide father jail baby talks tells news actually wants story deaf lunch lady storms says actually mother lunch lady says friend covered pregnancy protect father confronts leaving faculty finds dead rat keith picked bus finds deliberately gave detention task find mother permanent file frame picks belongings walks room discovers pregnant production directed mother written episode marks eighth writing credit fifth penultimate writing credit north seventh directing credit despite credited wallace dick appear episode episode guest stars portray respectively previously starred playing carpenter portraying characters appeared previously shared scene portrays logan stated special connection set punches total don know sister brother thing going kind connection actress totally works noted responded strongly given filming episode mother marks final guest appearance open appearing episode unsure busy schedule allow felt character arc come natural close episode interview said busy schedule difficult write episode featuring role episode future availability thomas commented work schedule difficult hard plan write episode don know exactly free days episode huge actually slide story line episode originally wrote loved having sure day willing lot fun booked right episode features recurring character season second season dvd includes alternate ending episode released airing episode promotional tool alternate ending starts way regular ending discovering pregnant instead episode ending mom comes room hides bathroom mom leaves dead face indicating takes nurse comes thomas commented alternate ending going actual conclusion episode said seriously considered having ending endings subtly different like enter room idea promote alternate ending joint venture upn promotions department executive producer thomas learned wanted alternate ending decided different episode actual conclusion different alternate ending thought let rock beauty having alternate ending don play episode reception ratings original broadcast mother received million viewers marking increase ranking weekly rankings reviews episode received positive reviews gave episode positive review writing episode reveal simultaneously shocking heartbreaking plus took annoying characters sympathetic heartbreaking praised information found mother nice got better mother usually chicago_tribune called episode better use viewer time lost aired time mars lauded characterization episode discussed times behaved ways certain ethical blatant case intrigued decisions pure time disappointed television pity gave episode alan_sepinwall singled scene carpenter logan subplot particular points praise sepinwall called alternate ending interesting little feature going state glad real didn direction ranked episode 48th ranking mars episodes writing viewer bored similar list line ranked episode 19th
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