This is not told in traditional story-format; it's more like an outline of the whole season as it would appear on TV. I plan to add character storylines for all the main characters, several mysteries-of-the week, and two major mysteries (similar to the format used in Season Three). I know it's different but I hope you enjoy it!

Veronica Mars – Season Four

Characters

Main Characters Returning from Last Season (In Opening Credits)

Veronica

Logan

Keith

Mac

Dick

Wallace

Weevil

Secondary Characters Returning from Last Season

Vinnie

Max (only in first few episodes)

Leo

Characters Not Returning from Last Season

Piz: His internship turned into a job offer; now goes to college part-time and works in NYC; Veronica and Piz drifted apart over the summer; is mentioned in a voiceover in the first episode.

Parker: In the first episode of the season Logan asks Mac if Parker is back at school yet. Mac explains she got back together with her high school boyfriend and transferred to a state university near her hometown.

Returning Characters from Other Seasons

Hannah: Logan's new love interest; more confident/less innocent than she was in Season 2, but still very sweet; main character this season; in opening credits

New Characters

Matt: Veronica's new love interest; junior at Hearst; cute with brown hair and eyes; math major but not dorky; normal guy: likes sports, has had relationships before but is currently single; lives in an apartment off-campus with a friend, Casper, who is a very minor character; Matt is a main character this season; in opening credits

Sarah: Keith's new love interest; around Keith's age; smart, professional, but subtly sexy with a sense of humor; not in opening credits but has more screen time than the other secondary characters

Kate: Hannah's roommate; tall and brunette; secondary character

Allison: Hannah's other roommate; petite and blond; secondary character

Bret: Hannah's boyfriend; blond and semi-pretty boy; secondary character

Manny: Client of Veronica's; dorky and baby-faced; peripheral character

Scott: Manny's roommate; good-looking and smooth; peripheral character

Derek: Fellow math major who has classes with Matt; lanky with dark hair; peripheral character

Marcus: Senior at Neptune High who interacts with Wallace; tall and athletic; peripheral character

Oz: Gang member who interacts with Weevil; kind of slimy with spiky hair; peripheral character

Many other new and returning characters appear throughout the season but the ones above are the most fleshed-out ones that appear in multiple episodes.

Character Storylines

Keith

– He lost the election. Now he's a PI again.

– He and Veronica bond again throughout this season.

– There are lots of funny situations where he goes head to head with Vinnie Van Lowe (the newly elected sheriff). Sometimes Keith wins, sometimes Vinnie wins. Leo often helps out Keith by secretly giving him information that Vinnie would prefer Keith not have.

– One episode: Max moves out of Mac's (details to follow) just as Keith gets romantically involved with Sarah (details to follow). Keith secretly wants Veronica to move out so he can bring Sarah back to his place sometimes. Veronica secretly wants to live with Mac and enjoy the "college lifestyle." Eventually they confide in each other and Veronica moves in with Mac, but they agree to one father-daughter, home-cooked (or at least ordered-in) meal each week.

Sarah

– She is a successful police detective who is transferred to the Neptune precinct to help them solve cases because they are always so inept. (She is reminiscent of the female characters found on shows like NYPD Blue and CSI.)

– Vinnie and Keith compete for her affections and Keith eventually wins.

– Veronica is a little prickly with Sarah at first (typical Veronica) but after Sarah helps out with the Weevil situation (details to follow), Veronica warms to her.

– She becomes a subtle mother-figure for Veronica towards the end of the season. (details to follow)

Veronica

– Works for Dad again as a PI. There is some humorous friction between them as she now thinks they are equals since she has her PI license, while he thinks she's still got a lot to learn.

– There is a scene in the first episode where Veronica tries to apologize for everything that happened which led to Keith losing the election but Keith stops her and proves, once again, that he is the best dad ever. He tells her that what happened in the past should stay there and he makes a joke about how he prefers to be "the underdog" among crime-solvers in Neptune anyway. He also expresses how happy he is to have his daughter working for him again, to which Veronica replies, "Don't you mean with you?"

– Veronica has a geology class with Logan during the fall semester. There is a scene in the first episode of her walking into class on the first day while the she does a voiceover about having to take required classes-since she never loved bio, chem, or physics in high school, she chose Geology 101. Veronica's Voice: "Who do you find in a class about rocks?" Camera pans from a stereotypical group of jocks, to a group of stoners, to…Logan.)

– She and Logan are uncomfortable at first. They slowly become friendlier over the first half of the season (kind of like in parts of Season 2-the chemistry is there but it is way below the surface).

– Veronica moves into an apartment with Mac. (details to follow)

– She meets Matt (details to follow) on a case. They are not romantic at first but the romance builds slowly. It is a healthy, appropriate, realistically–timed romance.

Matt

– He meets Veronica in the second episode when she is investigating a mystery-of-the week. (details to follow)

– Veronica does not have romance on her mind when working with Matt on the case so she is taken by surprise when he asks her if she'd like to get together some time at the end of the episode. She says she'd like that, but they leave it vague.

– Matt is slowly integrated into Veronica's life more and more throughout the next few episodes. They go on a few casual dates and eventually have a very hot first kiss. They do have sex but not until they have been together for awhile.

Matt/Veronica's Friends: Matt easily earns Mac's approval as his math expertise makes him somewhat of a techie as well. When he meets Wallace, he shows his sports-fan side because he recognizes Wallace from the basketball team and gets super excited to meet and talk to him. Being a math guy, he's good with statistics and rattles off Wallace's stats to him. Of course, Wallace immediately thinks he's awesome. Logan is very reserved around Matt when Logan first finds out Matt and Veronica are dating. However, they slowly become, not necessarily friends, but at least friendly acquaintances over time.

Matt/Keith: In the episode when Veronica finally decides to introduce Matt to Keith, she is very scared as Keith has not been a fan of her boyfriends in the past. However she is stunned to find that Keith and Matt immediately begin to get along with each other. Her surprise turns to horror later in the episode when Matt and Keith become "best buds." Eventually she confides to Matt that the fact that he and her dad get along so well freaks her out and Matt laughs at her. He continues to be well-liked by Keith but their "buddy-buddyness" only lasts for the one episode.

Logan

– Logan has a house on the beach with Dick.

– He is not mopey this season!

– He interacts with Veronica as a friend throughout the season. Although this season is not about LoVe, their chemistry is still always apparent. Viewers should get a sense that this pair will find their way back to each other before the series ends. However, having steady, romantic relationships with other people is the right thing for Logan and Veronica this season.

– He runs into Hannah in the first episode and is immediately intrigued by her again. However, this time around he really has to win her over (details to follow) which makes him even more interested. His feelings for her are sincere and deepen throughout the season.

Hannah

– Bumps into Logan in the first episode. (She had no idea he went to Hearst.) Hannah is friendly but reserved with Logan. He asks what she has been up to and she tells him that she got a good therapist to deal with her issues about having a drug-dealing jerk for a father and she graduated a year early from boarding school. Now she is happily living with her two friends, Kate and Allison, and is beginning her freshman year at Hearst.

– Logan is clearly happy to see her and asks to go for coffee sometime. Hannah says that's probably not a good idea. When Logan asks why, Hannah explains that there are two reasons: 1) She hasn't forgotten that he used her to get at her father and 2) She has a boyfriend. She quickly says goodbye and walks away.

– In the next episode Logan and Dick run into Hannah and her new boyfriend, Bret. Logan immediately dislikes him but it is clear that Hannah thinks he's perfect.

– The Hannah and Logan relationship continues throughout the first half of the season with Logan pursuing her and Hannah slowly beginning to relent. Eventually, there is a mystery of the week about stolen exams and Bret becomes one of Veronica's suspects. Although he ends up not being the culprit, Veronica's sleuthing does reveal that he is an ass who is two-timing Hannah and Veronica catches it on camera. She is stuck with the uncomfortable task of telling Hannah the truth about her boyfriend. Hannah is obviously upset, although her and Logan's continuing interactions make it clear to the audience that this will pave the way for a Logan/Hannah reconciliation.

– Hannah and Logan become friendlier and flirtier the next episode and the episode after that there is a scene where Logan says something sweet and Hannah just looks at him and smiles. Without saying a word, she grabs him and pulls him in for a great kiss.

– They begin dating but they are not a sappy couple like Logan and Parker were (no cakes with their faces imprinted on them!). They might hold hands in public but they are not huge on the PDAs. In private, although their repartee is not up to par with the snarky fabulousness of Veronica and Logan's, Hannah can hold her own with Logan and has a goofy sense of humor that makes him laugh.

– Of course when Logan and Veronica find out about each other's respective romances with Hannah and Matt, there is a certain amount of awkwardness, but it is shown in a humorous way.

– Hannah often brings her roommates, Kate and Allison, with her to hang out with Logan, Dick, Wallace, etc. Mac, Veronica and the boys get along well with Kate and Allison, although they are only peripheral characters. Veronica and Allison, in particular, bond around the time when Hannah and Logan's romance becomes public as Veronica ends up confiding in Allison that even though she's happy with Matt, and she's happy for Logan and thinks Hannah is a great girl, it's still kind of weird for her. Allison is sympathetic and gives her the advice that it's just going to take time. Unfortunately, Allison's joke that "at least they won't be going on any double dates" is partially overheard by Hannah and Matt who love the idea which leads to a double date plot that occurs in the last episode before the midyear break. (details to follow)