Adam Hendershott

Ducky gets a new assistant, who should come in useful when the team find themselves up to their necks in an investigation involving a marine found impaled on a tree stump.

When Lois finds her new red dress in the toilet, she tries to extort a confession from the boys.

Malcolm is guilt-ridden after beating up a school bully who turns out to be just a seven-year-old brat.

After the summer "fireworks" caused by a dangerous confrontation with Lilly Kane's murderer and a surprising visitor at her door, high school sleuth Veronica Mars (series star KRISTEN BELL) attempts to settle into "normal" life, complete with a new after-school job and a return to the popular crowd at Neptune High. But she gets pulled back into the investigation business when her good friend Wallace (series star PERCY DAGGS III) is kicked off the basketball team for testing positive for drugs. Meanwhile, Veronica's private investigator father, Keith (series star ENRICO COLANTONI), meets with reporter JULIE CHEN to discuss his new book on the Lilly Kane murder, Big Murder, Small Town. Later, after seeing his father arrested for murder and being charged and tried for murder himself, troubled teen Logan Echolls (series star JASON DOHRING) seeks refuge from the paparazzi and relaxes poolside at the Casablancas' mansion with buddies Dick and Beaver and their sexy stepmother, Kendall.

When Veronica takes the apparently easy case of finding the person who maliciously ran over a senior's dog, she uncovers some startling facts. Meanwhile, she is so desperate for a geek's help breaking into the principal's office that she persuades Mac (recurring guest star TINA MAJORINO) to go to the prom with him. Also, Jackie catches Veronica off guard when she asks for her help getting a job at the coffee place.