She leaves and tells her father about Veronica, who asks her to go home so that he can take care of the business. Just as they’re talking, several people dressed in black in a yellow truck drive by and shoot them all with paintball guns. Even though the license plate was removed, Veronica caught a glimpse of a bumper sticker indicating that the owner has a student at Neptune Middle School. She goes forward on the investigation.

Meanwhile, across town, an incredibly drunk man is sent packing by the bartender and is struck by a car in a hit-and-run. Keith arrives on the scene to talk with the bartender, who sold alcohol to a minor with an obvious fake ID. He implies that the bartender shares some of the blame for why the kid won’t be able to walk anymore. He gets information from Veronica that all of the campus-area bars are lax on making sure they aren’t serving underage drinkers and decides to crack down on them, much to the dismay of the deputies.

The next day, Veronica pays a visit to the honors class at Neptune Middle under the ruse of doing a survey for her criminology class. The poll asks students (including a particularly obnoxious one who doesn’t believe a girl could be in the FBI) first if they or a family member own B.B. or pellet guns, then if someone they know owns a paintball gun. When the numbers don’t narrow down to one person, she asks who has a “big yellow pick-up truck,” which tips off the teacher that the poll might not be quite what she expected. Veronica follows the one hand, a young Arab boy, to his home where she finds the truck and a couple of kids playing video games. She sneaks in, grabs a gun and shoots both the TV and the boy from the classroom. She confronts him, but he says that they had nothing to do with the vandalism. He shows her a video of the night before and their assault of everyone, not just Arabs. She accepts their defense and puts them to work on cleaning up their carnage. While they clean, Veronica sets up hidden cameras at Babylon Gardens to catch the real perpetrators.

Back to the bar crawl, none of the deputies issued any citations, which Keith finds highly suspect considering the information Veronica gave him. While he’s questioning them, Veronica watches the surveillance video for Babylon Gardens and finds one suspicious guy skulking about with a shirt reading “Sneed Batmen.” She tries to get Mac to help her with the phrase, but winds up getting roped into agreeing to go to Parker’s birthday party. She goes off to get reinforcements from Piz and Wallace, but just as they agree to be her wingmen, she spots the Sneed Batmen shirt and runs off. She gets the name “Jason Cohen” from a member of the softball team.

Jason Cohen lives at the Zeta Epsilon house, a Jewish fraternity. When Veronica pulls up, she sees a flash go off in the trees and, with the aid of her binoculars, a man in the tree next to a window. A woman screams, he stumbles out of the tree, hops on his bike and rides away. When two people open the door, Veronica finds Jason and Amira. Amira explains that the man in the tree was Nasir, a man who she was arranged to marry, but she’s more interested in her Jewish boyfriend Jason. Nasir hopes to take the pictures to her father and have her disowned as retribution. There’s only two one-hour photo places in town that are open so late, so Veronica goes to the closest one.

At the drug store, Veronica poses as Nasir’s girlfriend to pick the photographs up before he can get them. She walks away with the full photographs, but Nasir does manage to come away with a couple of the half-developed proofs. Her father only needs half of the picture to decide that this is why they have been targeted and that the vandals must be from either the Jewish or Arab communities.

Meanwhile, across town, Wallace is trying to get Piz into the game, so to speak, by being hustled by a woman playing pool in a bar. As this is going on, Keith is in the back office of “The Brig” with a particularly hostile bartender who suggests that if the police don’t back off of his customers, he’s not going to buy an especially high number of police raffle tickets this year. He turns this threat into a bribe, but Keith isn’t in the mood for the bartender’s insinuations and finds Wallace and Piz drinking at the bar. They hand over their IDs, which were made for them by Veronica.

The next morning, Keith confronts his daughter about Wallace and Piz (even though he does give something of a backhanded compliment, saying that her fakes were leagues better than any of the others he confiscated). She broods for a moment but is called into service by Sabirah, whose restaurant has been vandalized again. Veronica caught the offender’s face on camera plus he took the Arabic scroll with a tracer stitched inside, making him easier to find. She discovers the scroll in a trash can and the perpetrator driving a beat up van. He starts shouting about the restaurant being a terrorist front, but his wheelchair bound brother tries to calm him down. The source of his vitriol is a political cartoon showing soldiers going into Iraq and coming out in coffins, which was apparently being handed out by Nasir at the mall. Veronica goes back to Babylon Gardens and explains the situation; Derrick’s brother was shot in Iraq and the flier set him off. Instead of pressing charges, Rashad asks to meet the vandal.

Keith isn’t quite done with Wallace and Piz yet, however. He comes to their dorm room (which has been adorned with the cover of the latest Lampoon, showing a cartoon Keith yelling at two students with their faces pasted over the cartoon bodies) and hands them two obviously fake IDs, featuring Jon Bon Jovi and The Notorious B.I.G. as the pictures. He sends them to the campus bars and has them drink non-alcoholic beer at the bar when the lazy deputy from before does a random check. He barely looks at any of them, only stopping briefly at Wallace and Piz, before ending his search and leaving. In the morning, Keith fires the deputies who didn’t bother to check IDs.

The Krimanis are taken by Veronica to meet Derrick at his home so that the two can engage in a dialogue instead of carting him off to prison in retaliation. Despite an impassioned speech, Derrick doesn’t care what he has to say, but he decides not to report him to the police after all. He also decides that perhaps Amira can date a Jewish boy and that he doesn’t need to support Nasir anymore. Because the cartoon pissed him off, he calls INS on Nasir and has him deported due to his expired student visa.

With all of the investigations at a close, Veronica has no choice but to face Parker’s party. She shares an elevator with Dick and winds up trying to calm her nerves with a flask of whatever alcohol Dick had on him. She struggles with digging in and preparing for battle as a single person at the party, but winds up dismissed by both Mac and Wallace. But, Dick winds up worse for wear and gets stuck in the ice machine room by the girls he was trying to nail from MySpace. Veronica tries to use Piz as a “break glass in case of emergency” go-to guy, Wallace informs her that Piz does, in fact, have a thing for her and she needs to put him out of his misery already. She tries to break them off as “just friends” on the balcony, but he kisses her before she can get the rest out. He starts to leave and, just when she catches and kisses him, the elevator doors open and Logan sees the entire thing.

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