Loading ...fter finally being nailed on sneaking into the school and removing private school property, Veronica was threatened with suspension by Vice-Principal Van Clemmons. However, instead of going that far, he sent her to detention, where she was sent to work organizing and filing permanent records. While toiling in the filing closet, she found her mother’s [...]
fter finally being nailed on sneaking into the school and removing private school property, Veronica was threatened with suspension by Vice-Principal Van Clemmons. However, instead of going that far, he sent her to detention, where she was sent to work organizing and filing permanent records. While toiling in the filing closet, she found her mother’s file which said that she had been suspended, with Deborah Drummond (now Ms. Hauser), for spreading malicious rumors about another student.
However, most of the information was blacked out of the report. After being shot down by Clemmons and Hauser, Clemmons cuts her a break and lists the teachers who were at the school during the incident who are now faculty members. She first confronts the lunch lady, a deaf woman who tells her in sign language that her mother was a “fiend.” Seeing this as a dead-end, Veronica goes to Principal Moorehead, who doesn’t remember what exactly was said but does remember that Lianne was “vicious.” After meeting several dead ends, she meets a friend of Lianne’s for coffee where she is overwhelmed with 20 year old gossip. Veronica learns that either Lianne spread a rumor about Celeste Kane being pregnant because Jake Kane left her, or Celeste made up the pregnancy to break up Lianne and Jake. Keith reluctantly gives up details about a Jane Doe baby being left in a bathroom at the prom, a detail which is appears significant when Celeste drops by with her assistant, a 25 year old woman who looks remarkably like Celeste. To find out if the woman really is Celeste’s abandoned daughter, Veronica finds the woman’s former temporary foster parents. The foster mother tells Veronica that her presumption was totally wrong, the adopted child was none other than Trina Echolls. Veronica and Trina hatch a plan to shame Celeste into going public. But, all of these things are cast aside when Mary, the deaf lunchlady from earlier in the episode signs to Veronica that Trina is her child and that Lianne was not a “fiend” but a “friend.”
The mystery concludes in a completely different way, in that Mary was having an affair with a faculty member and had gotten pregnant. Lianne, mistakenly, went to Deborah for advice about the matter – she spread the story across school. Lianne recanted and said that she made the entire thing up in order to protect Mary. After having the child, Mary left the baby with the father who dumped the child at the prom to avoid suspicion. The father was actually Principal Alan Moorehead and Veronica’s uncovering of the mystery was orchestrated by Clemmons to usurp Moorehead’s position as Principal.
