Veronica Mars S01 E14 – Sexual harassment chess

Previously: A girl Veronica used to be friends with (a long time ago) ran away from home, though her music mogul dad thought it was a kidnapping.
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Mars vs. Mars

Lorraine: The previouslies, the last five seconds of the last episode and the beginning of this episode bleed together, so that Veronica opens the door to find Logan, he asks her to find his mother, and then Veronica, with some genuine concern in her voice invites him into the Plush Poor People Apartment.

Democracy Diva: I like this show’s habit of picking up from where we left off when the episodes end on particularly cliffhanger-y notes. 

Lor: Inside, Logan insists that his mother isn’t dead, and can’t understand why everyone is assuming she is, since there is no body. Veronica asks about the lady who’s all over the news, claiming to have seen Lisa Rinna jump. “If she’s on the TV, she must be telling the truth.” You might be sassing us, Logan, but we have a tag for that. Anyway, all of Lisa Rinna’s credit cards were missing, and Logan says you don’t jump off a bridge with your platinum card. He says that must be a clue.

Veronica is using her patient, understanding voice as she points out that Lisa Rinna left a note. Logan sighs that she wants people to think she’s dead. If she were really going to kill herself it would be Chardonnay and sleeping pills, and definitely not jumping into a body of water where she would be found bug eyed and bloated.  CAN YOU IMAGINE HER LIPS MORE BLOATED? (D: PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME.)

No, neither can I.

Sweeney: This scene is also weirdly accompanied by this thing this show does to pretend that it’s really night time where they mimic lights reflecting off the pool only it looks insane and like their apartment is inside a giant lava lamp.

Lor: I never noticed that I’ve noticed that until you said something.

Veronica agrees to see what she can find out. Logan just wants to know that she’s okay.

Neptune High. Adam Scott! (D: !!!!!) is standing at the front of classroom where they are all stomping and beating their desks rhythmically. He’s divided the classroom into two teams to play a Family Fued-esque game about the fall of the Roman Empire. I would’ve been a total sucker for something like this in high school. Veronica looks like she agrees with me. Mr. Adam Scott asks his first question and calls on different members of Veronica’s team to answer. Finally, he spots Leighton Meester Blair Waldorf in the back, looking totally not into the game. (S: My love of Ben Wyatt finally helped me acknowledge that Adam Scott is Adam Scott but I don’t think LM will ever stop being Carrie Bishop for me. #veronicamarsforever) He calls on her for the next answer and she says she isn’t pregnant so Mr. Adam can stop dodging her calls, can keep his “take care of it” money, and can have his keys to the apartment back. That is not the answer anyone was expecting. Awkward.

Diva: This is not behavior worthy of the future Mr. Leslie Knope.

Lor: COME ON NOW SUGAR!

After class is dismissed, Veronica stays behind to ask if Mr. Adam is okay. He’s been better. Carrie Bishop is totally lying about the whole thing. He’s never touched that girl, but it won’t matter, because chances are the whole school has heard her accusation by now. All his life, all Mr. Adam wanted to do was teach, and now it’s over. He’s told his tale of woe to the right person, because Veronica is now on the case.

At lunch time, three girls sing Don’t Stand So Close to Me at Carrie. For her part, she just stands and walks away. (D: I don’t approve of bullying, but if I did, I would always bully via singing.) We find our way to Veronica and Wallace’s table. He feels bad for Carrie, but Veronica less so, because Carrie’s the reigning gossip queen at Neptune High. GOSSIP QUEEN YOU SAY?

Sweeney: Made all the more magical by the fact that Kristen Bell is actually Gossip Girl. And the fact that we’ve found an insane number of occasions to use this gif in spite of this not being one of our shows.

Lor: One of our many talents.

Veronica asks Wallace to borrow Carrie’s permanent file.

Next, V sees Duncan and tells him some lie about needing a new doctor. He sees Dr. Al Levine, and quickly adds that his doctor is kind of expensive. Veronica tells him she has insurance His face is all, “awk. I don’t understand poor people things.” and he leaves. Veronica Voice Over tells us she intends to find out what Duncan’s mystery illness is. By “mystery” she means “private” but unless that word is followed by “eye,” it’s not really in Veronica’s vocabulary.

It looks like a bright, sunshiny day in California, but Veronica is weirdly wearing an long-sleeved grandma sweater. It’s distracting me from the banter between her and Wallace as he gives her Carrie’s permanent file, which she checks in public. In the middle of the courtyard. To prove what a bad idea this is, Logan comes up to her all, “HEY IS THAT THING YOU HAVE THERE INTERESTING?” (Diva: Logan actually interrupts the VVO, which is a detail that makes me giggle excessively.) V gives Logan an update on his mom’s case: she’s put notices on all of Lisa’s credit cards and on her ATM card. Plus, the eyewitness that’s been all over the news is giving a statement at the sheriff’s office, and Veronica plans on being there when she does. Logan wants to go too, but Veronica jokes that you can’t actually beat the truth out of someone and walks away. Logan insists, as he’ll know if the eyewitness is lying, and Veronica won’t. She relents.

Diva: I know Logan knows his mom better than Veronica does, but he’s a little too close to the situation to know what the truth is. But Veronica has started making vaguely moony-eyes at Logan during this episode, so she lets him come along anyway.

Lor: Veronica sees Carrie and stops her, saying this is her chance to recant before V proves she’s lying. Carrie wonders why she cares. Veronica says there aren’t many good teachers and Mr. Adam Scott (Mr. Rooks, because see, Carrie Bishop and Mr. Rooks) is one of them. Carrie doesn’t care that Veronica doesn’t believe her, even when she points out that Mr. Rooks called her parents in for a parent/teacher conference recently. Hardly seems like the thing a illicit boyfriend would do. I don’t know. Pedzra Fitz on Pretty Little Liars was always getting himself into awkward situations with Aria’s parents. But also, he’s an idiot.

Sweeney: Pedzra Fitz taught me that pedophile teachers are, in addition to being disgusting, morons.

Lor: Mars Investigations. As soon as Veronica walks in, Keith asks her if she knows a teacher named Mr. Rooks. She does indeed and is in his class. Keith thinks that’s awesome news, because Carrie Bishop’s parents have hired them to investigate the sexual harassment charges.

Diva: Based on the sheriffs’ previous methods of dealing with sex crimes against teenage girls, I’d probably skip their office and go straight to Mars Investigations. 

Lor: After a Not Break, Veronica is weirdly upset with her father for doing dumb shit like taking cases and investigating stuff because this happens to be one of her favorite teachers ever, and a person that helps Veronica not hate Neptune High as much. That line is telling. I mean, they’ve sort of sold us Veronica’s isolation inconsistently, but you’ve got to figure that for a young girl who has very little to look forward to, to have someone trying to take down one of the things she actually likes must hit super close to home.

On the other hand, I can’t imagine Veronica not jumping to the aid of someone claiming to have been sexually harassed. Um, hello, girl. Remember what it felt like to have people not believe you? It’s also hard for me to believe because I would not be this person. It’s kind of like how on the ID Channel, there are always those family members who are always all, “but Timmy was a good boy, a model student and an excellent neighbor! He would never kill his wife, children and dog!” I’d probably be the bitch who was all, “I fucking knew Timmy had a weirdness about him.”

Diva: I once saw Timmy burning ants and laughing. I tell ya, he was always a little off, that one.

Sweeney: I hear Timmy pours his milk before his cereal. He’s a sick fuck.

Lor: Anyway.

Keith insists that this girl deserves to be heard, but Veronica doesn’t think so because there’s a chance she’s Gossip Girl. Keith isn’t going to drop the case so Veronica brats that he can answer his own phone then. That little temper tantrum projects her into a dewy flashback: Veronica is hiding out in a bathroom stall while Carrie gossips to a friend about how she can’t believe Veronica landed Duncan and also she heard that Duncan was recently brought into the hospital kicking, screaming and foaming at the mouth. (D: That’s seizures, right? I mean, or rabies, but I feel like it’s not going to be rabies.) 

Veronica flushes the toilet and walks out to confront the girls. “Carrie Bishop and Susan Knight. Go figure,” she says.  This flashback is convenient both for Veronica’s negative opinion of Carrie and to make us more curious about what the heck is wrong with Duncan! Plus, it introduces us to another new character, Susan Knight who joins Bishop and Rook in this episode. That was some heavy lifting, flashback! Thanks! (S: Carrie Bishop is wearing some insane beaded green slip ons which are truly insane but which I also owned at this time and feel validated by the fact that Blair Waldorf (sort of) wore them too.)

Diva: I was willing to keep my mouth shut when it was just Bishop and Rook, but now that we’ve added Knight, I feel compelled to say that this is dumb.

Lor: And a bit more obvious than this show tends to be.

Logan and Veronica sit in the Sheriff’s office waiting for Eyewitness. They watch as she leaves, and Logan wants to go after her, but Veronica stops him. She has a plan, remember? “White trash walking,” she says into her wrist as she hands Logan an earpiece. In the back of the scene, we see Cliff stop Eyewitness. He pretends to be with with some news thing that is interested in an exclusive story. Cliff asks if Lisa looked drugged up or intoxicated and Eyewitness says sure, if he wants that to be the story. That’s about all Logan can take, so he jumps up and screams at Eyewitness for making up lies about his mom. That chases Eyewitness away. Veronica thanks Cliff for helping out. She owes him one.

Sweeney: THANKS FOR DROPPING BY! Any/all Cliff McCormick scenes are a win for the audience.

Lor: Veronica sees Deputy Mumbler and leaves Logan to go talk to him. She wants a chance to explain why she used him, but Deputy Mumbler knows all about her connection to the Lilly Kane murder case. Veronica says he only knows half the story and starts rattling off all the new evidence she’s found. Mumbler asks how she knows all this and she admits that she’s done everything in her power to learn these things, including use him. But, she used him, then fell for him and not the other way around. Deputy Mumbler smiles because she said she fell for him. That was easy!

Diva: I mean, she thought he was cute, sure. “Falling for him” seems a little excessive, but high school girls are high school girls, so I’ll give Veronica a free pass on this one.

Sweeney: Yeeeeaaaaah it’s basically that which taints this for me after our time in Rosewood. See how Veronica’s acting like, you know, a high school girl? ‘Cause she is one. Deputy Mumbler’s only 20, I know, but I’m still side-eyeing him pretty hard.

Lor: He deserves it.

Veronica goes to see Mr. Adam Scott at home. He introduces her to his daughter, who completely ignores Veronica. “She must really dislike you,” Mr. Adam jokes. “There’s a club she can join,” Veronica replies. Mr. Adam shoos the kid off. Veronica asks him about the parent/teacher conference he called for Carrie a few months ago, and Mr. Adam is kind of uncomfortable with her knowing that. He appreciates V’s offer to help him, but thinks this is an adult matter. Veronica tells him that the Bishops have hired a private investigator to run a background check on him, and there will be a hearing. Apparently convinced he does need her help, he shares that the parent/teacher conference was just about a C he gave Carrie on a midterm. Veronica asks if he’ll have anyone representing him at the hearing, and since he’s the faculty union rep, Mr. Adam will be representing himself.

Mars Investigations. Things continue to be icy between father and daughter. Keith wants Veronica to always stand up for things she believes in, but Mr. Adam is a bad egg, and he doesn’t want her to get hurt when the whole truth comes out. Carrie kept a very detailed diary about her encounters with Mr. Adam, including times and places. Veronica points out that writing about things doesn’t make them true. As it turns out, though, Keith cross checked her stories with Mr. Adam’s credit card charges and they match up.

Veronica calls Dr. Levine’s office and makes an appointment. Logan overhears this, as he’s there to give Veronica another clue! It’s a tabloid story of a woman who claims to have seen Lisa get out of her car and into a van. Veronica doesn’t want him to get his hopes up about this, but he insists that he’s paying her to follow all the leads. Veronica wasn’t aware she was getting paid. She quickly finds the name of the woman in the tabloid, calls her and sets-up a meeting.

Sweeney: A major d’aww at the fact that Veronica mistakenly assumed that this was just a favor. And also it makes me a little sad for her.

Lor: Pretending to be a journalist, Veronica asks Tabloid Lady some follow-up questions. She turns out to be a crazy fan girl, who keeps a Lynn Echolls scrapbook handy. She says she saw Lynn get into the exact van used in one of her movies. Logan is sitting nearby, listening, and at that, he gets up and leaves. Veronica follows and says that if it were her mother, she would’ve believed the crazy tabloid story too. He stomps off and runs into Weevil on the way out. Weevil makes a wise crack, but Veronica says that was Logan losing his last ounce of hope that his mother is alive.

Diva: Poor Logan. I believed the Tabloid Lady right up until she whipped out that scrapbook. 

Lor: Plush Poor Apartment. Keith is cooking dinner and Veronica right away knows that it’s pity cooking. There’s more bad news on the Mr. Adam front: he was fired from his last job, and though his file is sealed, the complaint came from two young girls. Veronica asks to see Carrie’s diary, but his father won’t let her. She says pity cooking better come with dessert.

Diva: All cooking should come with dessert. Everything in the known universe should come with dessert.

Sweeney: One of the commandments of Snark HQ.

Lor: Mars Investigations. Veronica tries to get into Keith’s vault to get the diary, but he’s changed the combination. VVO tells us people rarely choose random numbers for a combination. V looks around to see if he’s written the number anywhere. He has it written on his calendar. VVO thinks this is totally unlike Keith, but she goes for it anyway, and inside the vault finds a box that says, “Bishop.” She opens it and it turns out to be a trick box. She gets blasted with blue ink.

Busted.

Diva: I gasped. And then laughed, mostly at Veronica but a little at myself for being TOTALLY SCARED for a second.

Lor: Veronica is cleaning herself up and Keith comes over. He’s gloating a little as he asks what she’s been up to. Veronica freaks out at him, like she wasn’t the one breaking into his stuff, because she needs to see that diary. She guilts Keith into giving her the dates and times Carrie claims she was with Mr. Adam.

Neptune High. Veronica investigates a trophy case when Weevil interrupts her.

Diva: AMAZING. I can’t even believe they got away with that line. Ten bucks says the Standards and Practices people didn’t know what it meant.

Lor: Weevil has some information for her, and she calls him her very own Deep Throat. Weevil doesn’t want to touch that line, so neither will I. Some kid has been bragging about having proof that Lisa Rinna jumped. Weevil asks if he should investigate it, and Veronica gives him the equivalent of a, “duh.”

Mr. Adam’s class lets out and Veronica asks him what he did to get fired from his last job. Mr. Adam is again shocked she would know that. Like a jerk, Mr. Adam says he should’ve paid more attention to the teacher’s lounge gossip.

 

You are delightful, V. Don’t let the haters tell you otherwise.

Diva: But please run away because the creepy look in Mr. Adam Scott’s eyes when he says “unsettling” is… well, unsettling.

Sweeney: It took me a really look time to get over how Adam Scott gave such good pedo. JUST LOOK AT THAT GIF.

Lor: I actually can’t look it in the eye.

Mr. Adam says he was fired for making a comment against US imperialism at a conservative, all girl’s school. A likely story.

In the hallway, Veronica confronts Carrie and gives her another opportunity to drop the complaint against Mr. Adam. She must not be too shook up over the events since she’s still in his class. That sounds like an awful decision on the part of the administration, but okay! (D: At least they’re not in the mood-lighting, pillow-lounging sexy-times classroom!) Carrie needs his class to graduate. Veronica can’t believe Carrie would destroy Mr. Adam over a C on a paper. Carrie: Destroy him? From where I stand he’s become more popular than ever. I’m the bitch that everyone hates. Such is rape culture. (D: A+.) 

Sweeney: This moment, especially, makes it hard to stomach Veronica backing Mr. Adam Scott. As someone whose sole enjoyment in the otherwise nightmarish shithole of high school came from a few good teachers, I get her dedication to this. I also get that she’s a teenager. But UGH. It hurts a piece of my soul to watch V not acknowledge what a big fucking problem this is.

Major points to the writers, though, for making that clear throughout. It wasn’t plot necessary to include Carrie being bullied right after the credits, but even in this episode with a lot of plot elements (Mars v. Mars A plot / Logan B plot / Duncan’s illness C plot / Deputy Mumbler D plot) they still managed to drive home the fact that the teenage girl accusing the teacher is suffering all the judgment and public shame.

Lor: Carrie offers Veronica some intimate details, including the color of Mr. Adam’s sheets and his mood music and the way he tears up when he talks about his ex-wife. Veronica snarks, “Yeah, I have that same Sweet Valley High book.” We’ve actually covered one in which a student accuses a teacher of attempted rape. I won’t tell you how it ends.  None of this matters to Veronica because she knows that on one of the days Carrie is claiming to have been with Mr. Adam, she was actually at an overnight track meet. V goes for the obvious low blow, calling her “fast” and leaves her alone in the hallway.

Doctor’s Office. Dr. Levine enters the exam room and tells Veronica her sniffles are just light allergies. We cut to Veronica sneaking into a restroom. Later, we see Dr. Levine leaving and the front desk lady packing up, and closing up shop. She does a final check inside the restroom, but finds it empty. Once she’s gone, Veronica climbs out of the beneath-the-sink-cabinet as VVO says being petite does come in handy every now and then.

 

Veronica goes through the files, finds Duncan’s and makes copies before replacing it.

Diva: I have an infinite amount of ethical issues with this. She’s not even trying to solve a case and save someone’s life. She’s just fucking curious, and that’s a really shitty reason to continuously invade your ex-boyfriend’s privacy to the point where he should absolutely have a restraining order against you. 

Sweeney: I’d only clarify, on V’s behalf, that she considers pretty much everything relevant to Lilly’s case. That said, yeah, she’s got some really fucked up notions about what’s acceptable in terms of privacy. Namely that she doesn’t really believe in it. At all. I imagine that some of that comes with how often she violates it in her quest to solve cases. She’s muddled the line so much now that she no longer has the soundness of mind to see when she’s crossing it. It doesn’t help that she keeps getting away with it. She’d do well to be forced to account for shit like this, but it would be really inconvenient for the plot…

Lor: As an unexpected privacy-invading bonus, Veronica finds that this doctor has a file on Abel Koontz. She sees someone approaching as VVO says that this is a coincidence worth getting caught for. She rushes back into an exam room so that once the lady, who might be part of the night time cleaning crew, finds her, she’s back in an exam gown and innocently asks if the doctor is around as she’s been waiting for an hour.

Rooks vs. Bishop Hearing. Mr. Rooks talks about how this accusation has ruined him. He thinks Carrie is making these accusations because she wasn’t getting the grades she wanted. We cut to Carrie giving her testimony, saying after her parents divorced, she was pretty lost. Mr. Adam started giving her rides home from mock UN, and they bonded over being abandoned by people they loved. Things escalated but when Carrie thought she was pregnant, he blew her off. The chairwoman asks for proof, other than her testimonies, and she says she has text messages from Mr. Adam. She reads a few aloud and then hands over the phone to the chairwoman. The text messages are addressed to “S.K.” and Carrie says it stands for “sweet knees.” (D: Seriously? Not “sex kitten?” Who the fuck would believe “sweet knees” as a plausible nickname?) The chairwoman hits the callback button on one of the messages and Mr. Adam’s phone starts buzzing. He scrambles to silence it.

Veronica is unimpressed by the evidence. She asks Vice Principal Clemmons for his cell phone, claiming her car broke down in the parking lot. She grabs it, and goes to do something in the hallway. When she comes back into the hearing room, Mr. Clemmons is telling the board that Mr. Adam is a very popular teacher. Veronica confers with Mr. Adam Scott. We see Veronica handing Mr. Clemmons back his cell phone. Mr. Adam asks the chairwoman to take out her own phone and read the last messages. The most recent one says, “vice principals make the best lovers.” The chairwoman hits the redial button and Mr. Clemmon’s phone rings. Mr. Adam’s point is that it’s extremely easy to create false messages on a person’s phone. Veronica smiles, smugly. (S: THE MOST SMUG OF SMILES.)

We cut to the chairwoman giving her verdict: the burden of proof is on the accuser, and in this case, it wasn’t enough. Mr. Adam will continue teaching at Neptune High.

Later that night, Veronica visits Mr. Adam at his house to return his phone which she’s now hooked up with password protection. Mr. Adam invites V in to have some pizza, because he hasn’t learned anything about setting himself up in inappropriate situations with underaged girls, but at least his phone is password protected now! V asks to use the bathroom, and as she heads down the hall, she sees that his sheets are black silk, just like Carrie said they were. Mr. Adam starts playing the Rolling Stones, which Carrie said was his mood music. This is too much for Veronica, who quickly gets the heck out of there.

Diva: Thank god. It made me nervous that she accepted his invitation to come in in the first place. I’m glad she booked it the second things got confirmed-creepy.

Sweeney: Also, this fucking guy. That’s some next level arrogant asshole shit to be inviting a student into your home the exact same night you went before the school board, accused of fucking a student.

Lor: In order to distract her from the possibility that Mr. Adam was trying to seduce her, Veronica starts researching her ex-boyfriend/possible half brother’s condition. He’s taking a drug used to treat type 4 epilepsy. Symptoms include outbursts that can’t be controlled and blackouts. (D: Like the one he had when Lilly died! DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN!) Veronica has to quickly click out of her Google search because Duncan is right behind her. He looks at a photo V took of Carrie, and she has to surreptitiously lay down another one, because she’s got his medical file right on the table. Out in the open.  (D: Come on, show. Veronica is so much smarter than this.) (S: Word. I call bullshit on the very idea she’d be looking into Duncan at school in the journalism room with him right there.) Since he’s there, Veronica asks him where they keep the old newspapers because she wants to look up who won an old extemporaneous speaking competition. Duncan asks why and she answers that she wants to know if the winner had “sweet knees.” Of course, that makes no kind of sense to Duncan, so he leaves.

Having done her research, Veronica pays a visit to Susan Knight, who is very surprised to see her. Turns out, Carrie’s story was true, it just wasn’t about Carrie. Mr. Adam was actually seeing Susan Knight. SK. Susan steps out from behind the door to reveal that she’s pregnant. (D: This poor girl.) Her parents disowned her because she wouldn’t tell them who the father was. (D: THEY ARE DICKS. YOU CAN LIVE WITH ME, SUSAN KNIGHT. WE WILL RAISE THIS CHILD TOGETHER.) When Susan told Mr. Adam about the pregnancy, he gave her $500 and told her to take care of it. Mr. Adam faces no consequences and she has to walk around town in shame. She admits that she isn’t brave enough to come forward.

Veronica tells her that this whole time, people have been putting Carrie through hell, and she just took it. Carrie told Susan that people were being supportive of her. “They weren’t,” Veronica says. “We weren’t.” She tells Susan that she can make everything right with one phone call, and she just so happens to have the school board president’s phone number on her cell phone. I think Susan should absolutely speak up, but I don’t think Veronica should be pushing her in this way. Chances are that phone call won’t make everything right. Susan will still be pregnant, and Mr. Adam will still be an asshole.

Diva: And her slut-shaming parents will probably still be dicks. 

Sweeney: Taking the parent out of parenting.

Lor: Neptune High for Well Meaning Liars. Veronica apologizes to Carrie who says that does her a whole lot of good now. Weevil brings Veronica the freshman who’s been shooting his mouth off about Lynn Echolls. We cut to Logan entering a classroom where the freshman says he was filming an amateur movie. (S: Played by an actual high school freshman and looking itty bitty when surrounded by the 20-somethings cast as high school juniors.) When they were editing it, they noticed something. The play the footage frame by frame and see someone jumping off of the bridge. Veronica tells Freshie that the video better never make out for public consumption, and Weevil threatens him properly for good measure before leading the kid out of the classroom. Alone, Veronica apologizes to Logan. He’s distraught as he stumbles out of the classroom.

Veronica’s phone chirps. She reads and runs after Logan. Someone just used his mom’s missing credit card.

In class, Vice Principal Clemmons announces that Mr. Adam resigned. Mr. Adam comes into the classroom to gather the last of his stuff and glare at Veronica and Carrie. They glare back and then exchange small smiles with each other.

Sweeney: I can’t imagine they’d let this man on campus with all the students there, but it was all extra dramatic this way.

Lor: Mars Investigations. Veronica tells Keith about Mr. Adam’s resignation. “Honey, if I were in trouble, I’d want you on my side.” “Well, that’s where I’d be,” Veronica answers. Their reconciliation is such that she took his messages and everything.

This was already a lot of episode, and yet, we have time for a visit to prison. Abel Koontz asks what Veronica wants to know now. Nothing. She just wants him to know what she knows. She flashes him his medical file. He’s dying. He knew he was dying when he confessed to Lilly’s murder. He didn’t kill Lilly. Veronica hangs up, not giving him a chance to respond, and we end with a very flustered looking Abel.

 

Diva: I loved this episode. A+ appearances by Ben Wyatt and Blair Waldorf, interesting investigatory-shenanigans-of-the-week, and my favorite thing of all the things, MORE LILLY BACKSTORY!

 

Next time: Meg asks Veronica to track down her secret admirer, which seems sufficiently high school like, but then she also tries to track down a Russian’s brides missing fiance in Veronica Mars S01 E15 – Ruskie Business.