Veronica investigates when a blackmailer threatens to out gay students at Neptune unless they each pay $5,000. Meanwhile, Keith learns that Terrance was at a casino on the day of the bus crash and couldn't have made the call that triggered the explosion, but Sheriff Lamb doesn't buy the alibi. Meanwhile, Dr. Griffith discovers that his daughter, Hannah, is dating Logan, and Veronica finds some shocking evidence in an airplane hangar that could implicate someone in the bus crash.
Veronica Mars is set in the wealthy, seaside community of Neptune, where the rich and powerful make the rules, own the town and the high school and desperately try to keep their dirty little secrets just that secret. Unfortunately for them, there's Veronica Mars, a smart, fearless 18-year-old apprentice private investigator, who negotiates the halls of Neptune High each day like any average teenage girl, while at night helps her private-eye father uncover some of the California beach town's toughest mysteries.