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“Weevils Wobble But They Don’t Fall Down”
Old-school Veronica Mars was back just in time to get absolutely no sendoff from the CW of any kind. Weevil’s back (yay!) and he’s accused of making fake student IDs for Hearst students. Turns out everyone knows about Weevil’s ex-con status, making him an easy target, because he spoke to Veronica’s criminology class. Veronica’s on the case and flashing her P.I. badge at anyone who will look. The group of kids actually responsible hold a meeting in the library and invite Veronica. They invite her into their circle of criminals and she catches their confession on her phone. Using this as leverage, she has them go to the campus police and drop the charges against Weevil.

Meanwhile, Wallace gets tapped for a secret organization and Dick takes a moment for Show and Tell. His item? A video of Veronica and Piz fooling around in the nude he got in an email. Logan heads down to the radio station, beats the crap out of Pi, than shows up at Mars Investigations to tell Veronica there’s something she needs to know.

“The Bitch is Back”
In the second episode, Veronica’s on the hunt for the person who released the video. She quickly establishes that Piz had no idea there was even a camera in the room. She traces the email back to a member of The Castle, the secret organization on campus. When she finds out that Wallace has been tapped, she sends him in with a hidden camera. He’s caught and kicked out, but he knows one of the other pledges. Veronica trails him to a mansion. She breaks in through the doggy door and comes face-to-face with a ginormous portrait of Lily Kane. The Castle’s current leader is none other than Jake Kane. Veronica steals Jake’s hard-drive.

Keith gets a call about a break-in at the Kane’s. He heads over and not only spies a sweater fiber on the doggy door, but spots Veronica on the neighbor’s security camera. He trashes her room to find the offending sweater and accuses her of breaking into the Kane’s. She spends the night at Mac’s, unable to tell her father about her sex tape woes. Jake Kane has figured out it’s Veronica too, and demands the DVR of the security footage for the prosecutor. Keith demands a court order and under the cover of darkness, unscrews the woofer from a speaker and places it on top of the DVR. I guess this is destroying the evidence or something.

Veronica and Mac use the university’s super computer to crack Jake’s password, revealing not only all the members of The Castle, but their secrets as well. Using this information, Veronica blackmails Jake into dropping the charges against her and leaveing her dad alone. Jake cryptically says that it’s a little too late for the last one. Veronica figures it out when the next morning, the paper reports that charges have been filed against Keith for destroying evidence. In the last moments of the series, Veronica goes to the polls and votes for her dad while it rains.

I have nothing to say to the CW. We’re no longer on speaking terms.