Plot
When Wallace gets kicked off the basketball team for failing his drug test, Veronica starts up with her old hobby: investigating. She successfully solves the case her first time back on the job, uncovering a plot by several wealthy parents to get their children starting positions by rigging false positive drug tests for the competition. While doing so, Veronica looks back on how her relationship with Logan fell apart over the summer. The same night Aaron Echolls was arrested, Logan was jumped by Weevil and the rest of the PCH gang who believed that he was Lily's killer. After being knocked out, Logan wakes up next to the dead body of PCP biker Felix with a knife in his hand. Logan is accused of the murder, but he is quickly dismissed of the charges. Because of his continued self-destructive behavior, Veronica breaks up with him. She and Duncan don't officially get back together till Veronica's eighteenth birthday, where Duncan gives her a fortune cookie with the message "True love stories never have endings". She also tries to deal with the new hatred between her and former friend Meg, who was dumped by Duncan on the last day of school.
In the end, Veronica goes on a school field trip with a large number of classmates and during a rest stop, is distracted by the ghost of Lilly. As a result, Veronica is left behind while she and Weevil verbally spar over Veronica's decision to attempt to return to her old life as a member of the 09er clique at school, and her belief that Logan was innocent. However, Veronica soon finds out being left behind was a good thing when she and Weevil (who decides to give Veronica a ride home) discover that the bus containing Meg and a half-dozen of Veronica's classmates has crashed off the cliff and into the ocean.
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