Tim as his first name as a play on "tin foil." Jordan reprises his role in the fourth season episode "Heads You Lose," where Veronica visits him in prison. Max Adam Rose portrays Max, a geeky student who provides test answers for cash. While he started as a one-time guest star, he turned into a recurring character due to his likability. He makes a profit with his business and does not care when he is expelled from Hearst, planning to make his living from it anyway. Max comes to Veronica with the task of finding his dream girl whom he met at ComiCon and had an instant connection with, who left telling him she'd left her details in his hotel room, for him to return and find the hotel cleaners had already been and it had disappeared. It turned out that this girl was a hooker hired by his friends so that Max could lose his virginity; he decides to continue trying to find her even when he finds this out. Max convinced Chelsea to leave the prostitution business for him, and he pays off her $10,000 debt to her pimp. However, things are not the same when her past keeps being brought up; he finally asks whether she left her information, and Chelsea is heartbroken when he realizes she didn't – "But I really wish I had." She leaves but promises to pay him back – it is implied that she is making her money by stripping. Max comes back into the series as Mac's new boyfriend after she breaks up with Bronson for him. Rose reprises his role in the fourth season episode "Heads You Lose." Mercer Hayes Ryan Devlin recurs as Mercer Hayes, a friend of Logan and Dick, who runs an illegal casino out of his dorm room called the Benetian. Parker suspects him of being the rapist due to him wearing the same cologne she smelled the night she was raped, and Veronica investigates and finds he owns an electric razor. She reports this to Lamb, who agrees with her for once, due to seeing the same date rape drugs inside Mercer's money box. However, Logan provides Mercer with an incriminating alibi – they accidentally burnt down a Tijuana motel the night of one of the rapes – but Veronica finds other proof that he didn't do it (his live, call-in radio show being on