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One of my readers here asked: Why did Veronica fake an escape? Was she trying to send a signal to Logan that she was ok; was she trying to see what they where going to do to her to give her some clue to what they did to Hannah; or was she hoping that someone would tell Logan about the last girl who escaped?
If I've confused you too, read the following explanation.
Here's why I had Veronica fake an escape in the story. Veronica has to provoke them at the school because she is gathering legal evidence of their abuses for the court case that is planned. So she needed to do something drastic enough for them to sentence her to restraints. Usually, the schools' damaging effects are primarily due to the long duration of constant psychological pressure rather than actual physical abuse (which occurs but is not the worst part of the experience for most of the students). Since Veronica can't go undercover indefinitely, she has to really act out in order to gather legal evidence in a timely fashion. Many students spend years in an institution like this, year-round, separated from their parents and friends, subjected to attack therapy and brain-washing techniques honed in cults like est, Landmark Education, Synanon, and cough, cough Scientology. They don't get a good education and are often seriously damaged psychologically when they are released. Many colleges do not accept credits earned at tough-love schools.
Veronica really has no opportunity to investigate Hannah's time at Briar Hill while she is there, since she is continually observed and/ or physically restrained or confined. Logan has to do the leg work of the investigation. Logan rightly took advantage of Veronica's successful escape ruse to question Tony about other escape attempts, in the hope that Tony might say something about Hannah, who we know escaped three years earlier.
If they are successful in shutting down the school and Klein is arrested, more information might be gained by questioning Klein and any students, including Maria, who might have been there when Hannah was. Since the students are supervised so closely and prohibited from having unobserved conversations, they cannot be questioned with any hope of accuracy while they are still at the school. There are things to be learned about Hannah's time at the school, but the school has to be shut down first.