The Rapes of Graff
24 weeks
Mrs. Murphy announces that the class will be taking part in an essay competition run by Woody Goodman.
The subject is freedom.
The winner gets a week-long internship with Woody and a chance to stand with him, on live TV, when they demolish Old Shark stadium.
"Well you should be able to write an awesome essay. no wthat your and Felix's case has been dismissed." she snarks walking with him out of class.
"Ronnie..."
"How's Hannah dealing with the break up?" she asks narrowing her eyes at him.
"I haven't seen..."
"Logan." she growls.
"I know, lower than pond scum." Logan states and walks off.
"Man, that guy's like a cat." Wallace states coming up to her.
"You mean useless and selfish?"
"I mean like nine lives. Just wish I knew how he does it." he says looking up from the pamphlet he is reading.
"That's funny. I do know how he does it, and I wish I didn't."
"So, you coming with me to Hearst tour?"
"Que?"
"Supafly, you promised. It's a good school."
"Fine."
"Don't worry, mama. You'll have more than Wallace to keep you company." Eli says coming up behind her, wrapping his arms around her waist.
"You coming too?" Wallace asks.
"Yup." he says with a smile.
"Cool." Wallace says.
People high five Logan as he comes out of the school.
Hannah raises her hand but he ignores her.
"Come on, don't leave me hanging." Hannah jokes walking with him.
"I wanted to congratulate you on your big news, but I couldn't find you. I ended up telling the janitor that your locker was mine and I forgot my combination so he'd open it up and I could leave you a little surprise. But I made it before I heard they dropped the charges, so keep that in mind." she says.
"You lied to a janitor?" Logan states.
"I've resigned myself to burning in hell. You know, all the girls on track are jealous of me."
"I'm sure they could burn in hell, too, if they'd just, uh, put in the effort."
"Well, I think it has more to do with me going sailing with this hot senior this weekend."
"We can't see each other anymore."
"What?"
"I'm sorry." he says walking off.
"If this is a joke this isn't very funny." she calls after him.
The tour guide introduces himself as Dean and informs them that they will be playing a getting to know you game.
He tells them to pair up, She and Eli partner up while Wallace goes over to a pretty girl.
Dean tells them that they can't know their partner.
Eli drops a kiss on her head and teams up with some random guy.
Dean pairs up with her.
"Okay, so, we're gonna play a game called "Two Truths and a Lie." he calls out.
"You have to tell your partner two facts and one lie and they have to guess which one is the lie, all right? Okay, so, um, go ahead." Dean tells her.
"Okay, I'm Veronica, I'm from Neptune, and I once shot a man in Reno just to watch him die." she says.
"How'd that go?" Dean jokes.
"It was a bit of a letdown." she snarks.
"Hmm. Well, uh, I don't believe that you're from Neptune." Dean says.
"Wrong. Is that the end?"
"Um, okay, well, uh, my name is Dean, I'm from Wheaton, Illinois, my father owns a Ford dealership, and I also shot a man in Reno, but it was not to watch him die. It was for other issues."
"Your father doesn't sell Fords."
"That's right. Toyotas. How did you know?"
"It's all in the eyes."
"All right, well, I guess I'll have to watch out for you next year."
She just smiles.
They finish playing their game and when someone joins the group.
Dean suggests they pair up, and she turns to find Troy Vandergraff.
Eli stiffens from where he is standing.
"Uh, so, this is weird. How you been, Veronica?" Troy says.
"Lie. I don't believe you're really interested. Next statement." she states.
"Yeah, okay, I can understand that after what I did, but I'm s..." Troy says.
"I don't think you understand the rules of this game. You only get one lie."
"Uh, let me start over. Three statements, one false. Uh, my name is Troy. I was a bad boy when I was here, but after a year of private school, therapy, quitting drugs, and dumping my loose-cannon ex-girlfriend, I've changed into a more or less good boy. And I communicate telepathically with all denizens of the sea."
"Right. So, how long before I catch you talking to a manatee?" she snarks.
" And you have changed not at all. Than again." he says his eyes dropping to her stomach.
"You know me. Same-old, same-old." she says turning away from him.
"I'm not lying to you, Veronica. I just wanted you to know that."
"Do I care? Really, Troy, you're just water under the bridge."
"So you and...?" he says.
"Goodbye, Troy." she says walking over to Eli.
Logan opens his locker to find the 'get out of jail free' cake from Hannah.
Keith is receiving directions from someone on a phone and asks why he couldn't open the door himself.
He lets himself in, only to reveal Cliff handcuffed to a bed.
Cliff explains he was at an OB/GYN convention, as they are the most sued medical profession, and he uses it to give his card out.
He met a woman at the bar and took her to the hotel, only for her to handcuff him and steal his briefcase.
She and Eli are sleeping in his bed when her cell starts ringing.
"Ignore it."
"I can't..." she says untangling herself from him to answer the cell.
"Veronica..." Troy says when she answers.
Her eyes go wide as he talks to her.
"Querida?" he whispers.
She hangs up.
"Troy was just arrested..for rape."
As much as she hates the guy, she knows that is something he wouldn't do.
The two of them get dressed and head to the Sheriff department.
"What are you doing here?" she asks as she and Eli enter the station.
"The usual. Hair and blood samples, cheek swab. You know the party that you skipped out on, I met a girl, Stacy. Well, I guess she got date-raped." Troy says.
"Actually, no. When they use roofies to knock them out, then shave them afterward, we drop the "date" part." Lamb snarks from his office doorway.
"Why do they think you did it?" Eli asks.
He explains that people saw him leaving with her and that he was the last guy she remembered seeing. His hair and fibres were all over her room, and the clothes he was wearing the night before had just been washed.
Troy explains that they were having 'PG-13' fun, when she got sick. He helped her into bed and went to the laundrette to clean his clothes, as he didn't have any others with him.
After exchanging a look with Eli, she agrees to help but if she finds that he did it, she will help nail him to the wall.
Troy says he got trouble from a guy that was hitting on anything in a skirt, and mentions he was wearing a Pi sweatshirt.
Veronica enters the office and stops in shock. She says the girl is someone she goes to school with - Madison Sinclair.
"So, Daphne registered under a false name and credit card. Dead end there, so I got the elevator security tape from last night." Keith says as he puts a security tape into the video player.
"Well, you must be on good terms with the Neptune Grand security people." Cliff states.
"When my daughter and her boyfriend start spending nights with a billionaire's kid living alone in the president's suite, me and the security guys got pretty tight." he tells him. "At 10:15 you're on your way up. My god, Cliff, you're like a wild animal. Is that what the kids call motorboatin'?" he jokes as they watch the video.
"I have a zest for life. So sue me." Cliff says.
"What was in the briefcase?" he asks.
Cliff tells him of numerous cases, an address book, keys, an Elle magazine, and Logan's case files. They start to fast forward.
"Look."
"Lamb?" the put the speed back on normal as Lamb and a random woman get on the elevator. They start making out and stop when they elevator comes to a stop. The woman they are looking for, Daphne, joins them.
"It appears Lamb has a bit of a zest for life himself. 2:11, there's your briefcase. Lamb appears to know your gynecologist." he says as lamb talks to Daphne.
They watch Daphne leave and Lamb and his mystery lady go back at it.
"Don't mind me. Just keep doing whatever that is." Veronica says as she and Eli enter the office.
"Uh, just work. I thought you had that Hearst thing."
"On my way. I just need an address." she turns to leave when she sees the screen. "Oh. My. God. I know her. "
Eli looks at the TV.
"She goes to our school. Her name is Madison Sinclair." she and Eli smirk.
Wallace and Eli look through the pictures on the wall to find the guy that wasn't happy with Troy is named Gordon Peters.
A frat guy, who introduces himself as Chip, tells them they can only be in the house by invite.
"Sorry, man was just looking for Gordon. He around?" Wallace asks.
"Dude is in the hospital. Needed to have his stomach pumped. Too much vodka."
"Lightweight." Eli snarks.
Eli meets up with her and they see Dean still doing the tour.
They notice Troy apart from the group.
"Bad news. Gordon couldn't have raped Stacy." she says sitting down next to him.
"Really, why not?" Troy snarks.
"He was in the hospital having his stomach pumped." Eli tells him.
"Fuck." Troy mutters.
"Anything else you can tell me."
"I left my name and number on her message board. I wouldn't have done that it I had raped her."
"I'll check."
"You know you could trust me that it is there." Troy states.
"We'll check." Eli tells him.
Dick, Felix and Logan are sitting on the sofa playing a video game.
Logan pauses it and grabs a drink of beer.
Dick, hungry, goes to look for something to eat and finds the cake Hannah baked. He cuts into it, only to a find a file in it.
They finds Troy's name and number on the board, almost half covered by CCC in a circle.
The door opens and Stacy steps out, wearing a hat.
"Can I help you?" Stacy asks.
"No.." Eli says and starts to pull her away.
They turn to leave when she notices a box by Stacy's door.
Stacy grabs the box and opens it to reveal a box of hair.
She goes to a wig shop and is able to find out that a Hawaiian girl got a wig after having her head completely shaved.
She and Eli go to talk to Dean about if there are any Hawaiian students at Hearst.
He tells them that they have a lunch group at the student union.
As they leave, she spots a board with CL on it.
Dean explains it's a Pi Sigma score and the rumour is their full score board is in their basement. The pledges need to have sex with girls with a certain amount of points, or they will be punished by having their head shaved.
"Don, would you have time for a question?" Kieth asks as he and Cliff enter the station.
"For the two of you? Always." Lamb says.
"We're just looking for a little help. Do you know this woman?" he asks showing him a photo of Daphne.
"No. We got to do this again some time." Lamb snarks.
"You're sure?" he says, showing him a still from the elevator.
"You got me. I rode an elevator with her. She asked the time, and I tell it."
"Uh, Sheriff? Just a couple more shots...I want to emphasize, this should not be construed as coercion. We're just showing you a picture." Cliff says and shows him and Madison making out.
"That's Madison Sinclair, who I believe takes World History with my daughter." he remarks.
"So, what, this is blackmail? She's 18. That's legal." Lamb states.
"Sounds like a swell campaign slogan for the next election. We just want to know who this first woman is."
"She's an escort. I've busted her a few times. She hires out as a Sugar Jones."
"Great. Thanks, Don." he says slapping him on the back as he and Cliff leave.
Wallace is being given a tour of the frat house.
As the guy showing him around goes into the next room, Wallace quickly unlocks a window, and Eli climbs in.
"Where's V?" Wallace asks.
"At the doctor...where I would rather be." he states before heading down to the basement. Using V's phone, he takes photos of the score board. He finds that someone named ice Man got the score that they saw on Stacy's message board.
Ice Man and another guy stumble across him.
The other guy says that Ice Man got the points for nailing the dean's wife.
"Look. This is our business. I don't have to apologize." Ice Man claims.
"For being a rapist? Nice. I admire a principled stand." he states.
"What?" both the frat boys exclaim.
"I'm talking about 300 points, exactly the score you goons wrote on Stacy's door the night she was roofied and raped. But the jury will understand. After all, you had to do it or your frat brothers would shave off your awesome Ryan Seacrest hairdo."
"I didn't get those 300 points for Stacy Wells."
"Yeah, he nailed the Dean's wife." the other dude says.
"Zip it, Gordo."
He starts to stalk out when Gordon tries to claim that Stacy got what she desevred for coming onto on him all night before leaving with someone else.
"You are unlucky that my girl isn't here."
"Oh, why is that?" Gordon states.
"There's no one to stop me from killing you." he states turning around.
"Weevil." Wallace exclaims coming down the stairs. "V, can not worry about getting you off a murder rap right now. Besides do you really want you kid to spend their first birthday visiting you in Chino?"
He growls and leaves, Wallace following.
"Be thankful." is all he says before leaving the two frat boys to stare at each other.
She approaches the Hawaiian students and spots a girl with pink hair.
She walks over and asks her where she got her wig from. The girl, deeply offended, says it is her own hair.
Just as she turns to leave, a girl quietly suggests a place on Pacific.
Stacy is talking with the Dean of Student Affairs, when she, Eli and the girl with the wig, Dawn come up to them.
Dawn reveals she was raped and had her hair shaved as well, as she removes the wig.
"Troy was on the other side of the country when this happened." Eli tells them.
"What about the hair?" Stacy asks.
"Gordon Peter sent it to you. It's his hair, he's bitter about not scoring with you." she says taking out her phone and showing the Dean of the score board.
"I am so coming here." Wallace tells them as the tour comes to an end.
She just smiles.
Troy comes over to them.
"So, they dropped the charges. Thanks, Veronica. Really, I'm not sure that I deserve it, but you're a real friend." Troy says to her.
"How about we just call me an acquaintance with reservations?" she says.
"Hey. Did you guys hear about the Pi Sigs?" Dean says as he joins them.
They all shake their head, no.
"They got a semester probation. No mixers, no parties, no sports. It was your photo that nailed them. You don't mess around, do you?" he asks her.
"That's Veronica Mars. Making friends and influencing people wherever she goes. See, if you come here next year, you've already got enemies. Just feel right at home" Wallace jokes.
"Hannah.." Logan starts running after her in the school parking lot. "This started because I was trying to get your dad to drop his so-called testimony."
"I figured that out. What do you want me to forgive you?" she asks.
"I stopped seeing you as part of the agreement but I don't want to stop being your boyfriend. I want you to forgive me for being..myself."
She just nods.
"You're back early." her dad says when she and Eli come in.
"Yeah, I ditched the goodbye hugging. Can you believe it?" she jokes putting her bag on the couch.
"You? Miss hug? So, you must be tired. Why don't you lie in your..." he starts on for there to be a knock at the door.
Eli opens it.
"Is Keith here?" Daphne asks coming into the apartment.
"Dad. Your hooker's here." she says turning to him.
"Escort, honey. So, why don't you and Eli go to your room and do whatever you kids do." he states having them leave the room.
Before Daphne can sit down Cliff comes into the room.
"Well shit." Daphne says.
They find out that she was payed triple her usual rates to take the briefcase. She has no clue who the guy was thought.
Hannah and Logan make out on the sofa.
Her father bursts in and makes Hannah get dressed.
"We had a deal." Griffith says as e starts pulling Hannah out of the room.
"We had a deal. Now we don't. You can't stop us from seeing each other."
"We'll see." Griffith says as he and Hannah leave the suite.
"My mom just can't stop grinning." Wallace tells her, showing off the scholarship letter to Hearst.
Logan approaches some of Hannah's friends and they tell him that she has been sent off to a boarding school in Vermont.
Sitting in her car, she watches and listens as Cassidy and Mac talk with the foreman.
He tell him that they use C4, it's the same stuff in Terrance's hanger.
Just then, the construction worker calls to a man named Danny.
Cassidy looks over to see Danny Boyd working.
She wonders if it is a coincidence he works there, or whether she should add the Fitzpatrick's to the list of people that could have framed Terrance...or crashed the bus.