Troy and Veronica’s relationship is going well; even Keith doesn’t seem to dislike him, and they have plans to go to the Homecoming dance. Troy is even willing to go mini-golfing with the Marses (although this goes somewhat awkwardly when Keith discovers Troy’s plans for the dance and cancels Troy’s hotel reservation).
Wallace brings Veronica her [...]
Troy and Veronica’s relationship is going well; even Keith doesn’t seem to dislike him, and they have plans to go to the Homecoming dance. Troy is even willing to go mini-golfing with the Marses (although this goes somewhat awkwardly when Keith discovers Troy’s plans for the dance and cancels Troy’s hotel reservation).
The Kane family is dedicating a memorial fountain to their murdered daughter, and the town is invited for the ceremony. Logan takes it upon himself to prepare the video tribute for his ex-girlfriend; meanwhile, Veronica remembers last year’s homecoming dance, with her, Lilly, Duncan and Logan renting a limo and avoiding the dance altogether to get drunk. Lilly proves to have been the leader of the group–the vivacious, adventurous type–and provides an evening memorable enough that nobody really minds when they get in trouble for showing up, hungover, the next day. Eventually, seeing Logan struggle with making a tribute video that captures Lilly’s true spirit, she gives him the camcorder footage of the homecoming dance to use instead of Lilly’s more generic childhood home movies.
Posing as a vacant student, Veronica sets up a sting on Carl, the supposed e-mail scammer; Georgia doesn’t recognize the man who meets with Veronica, posing as the trust fund kid, but he is wearing the same clothes as the man she met. They track his car to a local theater, where “Carl” (actually an actor named Jimmy Spain, which now that I think of it probably isn’t his real name either) is starring in a Beckett play and, upon confrontation, under the impression that the money transfers are part of a Punk’d-style reality show. Jimmy is horrified (mostly because he really needed the work), and gives up the number of his employer; it’s a pay phone near a gaming club, which Veronica decides to check out. Despite a certain cultural mismatch between a bunch of gaming nerds and a girl, Veronica manages to find Grant, a gamer whose nickname matches Georgia’s email, steal his ID, and track him and his friend to San Diego State.
Veronica and Wallace crash a party on campus in order to dig up more information; Veronica learns that Grant is a computer genius using his ill-gotten funds (along with his enforcer friend) to finance a computer game he is working on (and the impressive security system that foils her investigative attempts), while Wallace has a discussion about math with a man in a Viking helmet. Undaunted, Veronica enlists Keith to bug the dorm room; Veronica uses the bug to crack the security code, and the security code to get into the dorm room and steal Grant’s files, which she exchanges in return for Gloria’s money. For their hard work, Veronica gets a nice commission, Wallace gets a kiss from Georgia, and Grant gets a call from the FBI’s anti-fraud division.
At the memorial service, Celeste gives the dedication speech for the fountain and introduces Logan’s memorial video. The unexpectedly raunchy video still manages to win over the crowd, including the Kanes (even Celeste, eventually), Veronica, and a surprisingly emotional Weevil. Later, on the way to the homecoming dance, Veronica passes the beach she spent last year’s dance at, and memorializes Lilly in her own way.
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