Carl Bresk

In order to secure a job transporting cargo off-planet for a client, Mal attends a social event where a dance with Inara leads to him being challenged to a swordfight in defense of her honor.

In the shocking, action-packed season finale, Veronica solves the mystery of who murdered her best friend, Lilly Kane--but she betrays someone she cares deeply about in the process.

A popular online "purity test" provides the students of Neptune High School with entertainment until someone makes public everyone's private results, humiliating and embarrassing several students, including Meg (recurring guest star ALONA TAL), a nice girl with whom Veronica sympathizes. Veronica searches for the culprit along with computer geek Mac (recurring guest star TINA MAJORINO - "Napoleon Dynamite"). Meanwhile, Keith helps Wallace and his mom with their unruly tenant. Later, Veronica meets with condemned killer Abel Koontz (CHRISTIAN CLEMENSON) to get answers about Lilly's murder.

Determined to expose the person who drugged and assaulted her at a party the year before, Veronica questions her friends and many rivals about the events that occurred that night at Shelly Pomeroy's (MELISSA HOOVER) house. Meanwhile, when one of Veronica and Wallace's stunts affects Alicia's (recurring guest star ERICA GIMPEL) job at Kane Software, she confronts Keith about his daughter's behavior. Later, in an attempt to get closer to his son, Aaron (recurring guest star HARRY HAMLIN) hosts a birthday party for Logan that surprises everyone.

Following an emotional reunion with her mother, Veronica is hired to track down Neptune High's beloved mascot, Polly the Parrot, which was apparently kidnapped by a rival school on the eve of a big basketball game. Meanwhile, with her suspicions about the Kane family rekindled, Veronica attempts to gain access to her father's original interrogation tapes. Later, Veronica's relationship with Deputy Leo (recurring guest star MAX GREENFIELD) intensifies, as does Meg's (recurring guest star ALONA TAL) relationship with Duncan.

Veronica comes to the aid of Abel Koontz (recurring guest star CHRISTIAN CLEMENSON), the man originally convicted of Lilly Kane's murder, who is now looking for his missing daughter. Guest star JOSS WHEDON ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") makes his acting debut, and recurring guest star HARRY HAMLIN ("L.A. Law") returns as Aaron Echolls.