Clash of Tritons
The guidance counselor, Rebecca James, forces her to come for a grief therapy session because of a study she is doing.
"I don't want to talk away my grief, I want to turn it into something else."
During the session, she places a stapler with a microphone on the desk.
She is called out of class for a locker check, Sheriff Lamb finds fake I.D.'s spilling out of her locker as well as four in her purse.
She is suspended for three days.
She is arrested just as class lets out and taking down to the station.
She calls Cliff, who posts her bail.
At the station, she confronts Rick, who told the cops that she was the one who sold him a fake ID.
Rick says that an unspecified "they" forced him to give up her up.
Wallace stops by the office to bring her bag to her.
She asks him to look into getting a fake ID.
They joke around a little bit until Eli and Felix show up.
"See ya later supafly, later Weevil, Felix."
"Now, what is this I hear about my girl being suspended and taken out of school in handcuffs." he says sitting down next to her.
"Planted fake IDs in my locker and a witness who claims I sold one to him."
"Need us to look into it Blondie." Felix asks.
"I'll let you know if this guy doesn't tell me the truth. I'm having Wallace ask around on how one gets an ID."
"Why ask him not us?"
"Because he looks innocent and doesn't have a record."
They boys just laugh.
Felix leaves when Weevil pulls he closer to him and they start to kiss.
"You don't need to leave, Felix." she tells him.
Weevil mouths "Yes you do."
'See the two of you later."
She parks her car in the parking lot and covers it with a trap. Getting in she tunes he radio to the station that will let her hear her bug in the guidance counselor's office.
"To tell you the truth, I don't really remember that week that much." Weevil says to her.
"You don't remember being in this office. You threw a chair at the wall."
"I was mad. You know the same day Lilly Kane died, a little girl went missing from my neighborhood. She was found three months later. Where were the cameras when she went missing."
"I know but for now I want to talk about Lilly. I want to read you something. it's a letter you wrote. You tore my heart out, you can act like what we had together meant nothing but you can't stop me from loving you for the rest of your life. I'll always be there just in the shadows."
"I don't remember ccing you on that."
"Lilly wanted to transfer out of her PE class last year she was having trouble with a boy she gave me these to prove it."
"I never would have hurt her. Look the cops already rubbed my nose in those."
"I didn't bring you in here to embarrass you. Why did you write these?"
"She and Logan had broken up and she swore that she wouldn't go back but she did. I was her secret once again. I though I could fall in love with her but what I felt for her is nothing like what I have now."
"With veronica, Lilly's best friend."
"You think I don't know that, she knows about my past with Lilly and we are still dealing with it."
"How did that come about?"
"Lilly actually."
'What do you mean?"
"Lilly asked me to look out for her before she died, at first I didn't want to but I promised her and I keep my promises. So I did and it lead to more. I loved Lilly Kane but ...I'm in love with Veronica Mars."
If I wasn't in love with him before I think I just fell for him more.
She meets with Rick in secret and he tells her that a secret society called the Tritons decided to blame her.
He is a recent inductee who was trying to get on their good side.
Rick also tells her that Duncan is part of the group.
She puts a tracker on Duncan's car.
She heads to meet with Cliff and her dad is back from going after the bail jumper.
"Dad..Their case is fuzzy and circumstantial."
"You know the odd thing those were her first words."
She tell the two of them about the Tritons.
They tell her that Rick's friend, Tim's family, is going to be suing her and every bar in the area.
She is doing her homework with Eli when Wallace comes over.
After telling her he got no whee at school but a guy from his biology class comes into his work and buys some beer. He tells them about a mystery locker at school.
You put your name and $250 in lover 110 in the morning and by afternoon a fake ID shows up in your locker.
She has Eli set up a camera to watch the locker in the morning.
She overhears some of Logan conversation with Ms. James.
"Lilly was pissed and stands me up. I get hammered and kiss some girl for like three seconds."
"Lilly saw you."
"No, someone else. I think you know her. Word is you're pretty close to her father. You can do better."
"Don't bring my personal life into this. You know it sounds like you blame Veronica."
"You know she was my friend too. If she hadn't ratted me out than Lilly and I would have stayed together. She wouldn't have been alone. So yeah, I blame Veronica...and I blame myself for being stupid and I blame Lilly for being a bitch that week."
Wallace comes over and the two of them track Duncan to a mysterious location, which it turns out is a club.
She tries to talk to Duncan, but he doesn't give anything up.
Just before they leave Duncan brings her a message from "The Great Triton," and she is forced to do karaoke onstage in order to elicit a response from the Triton leader.
After the song, she meets with the leader, but it is simply an impostor who was trying to make some money.
She stays late in the parking lot in order to hear Duncan's talk with the guidance counselor.
She finds out that he is on medication and that the day of Lilly's death and days after are a blank to him.
Suddenly thee is a knock on the window. Thinking it's one of the boys she opens the door only to be grabbed and placed in her trunk.
Luckily, her phone is in her back pocket.
"Eli, umm funny story."
He gets to the parking lot and finds her car with the keys still in the trunk.
He opens it up and helps her out.
"Who?"
"I don't know."
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, can you check the tacker I need to figure out where Duncan and the Tritons are tonight."
He gets in the car and hears chanting over the radio.
"Babe, what is this?"
"The bug in Ms. James office."
"Ms. James..." Oh we will be talking about this...Shit did she hear...
She sneaks into the school and sees a initiation meeting.
Waiting until the throw back their hoods, she reveals herself and takes photos.
They chase after her but she is able to stay ahead of them.
She jumps into her car which Eli has running and they peel out the instant she gets in.
They go to her house and she stats printing off the photos.
He gives her the camera that she had watching the locker.
She is unable to find any proof that a Triton is operating the locker.
She visits Lamb and makes him a deal if she doesn't catch the thief by that day, she will plead guilty to all charges.
She then asks Lamb to put a students' name into a locker and see what happens.
She calls Rick.
Rick shows up and is able to prove that he was in charge of it when she has Lamb read the money.
"Veronica Mars is smarter than me."
He had been running his own fake I.D.s and blamed the Tritons because he was angry at them for not being asked to join.
When she asks why Rick blamed her, he states that it was because of her dad's investigations last year made his family lose money and make his parents get a divorce.