A young woman comes to Mars Investigation to hire them to see if her new fiancé is secretly after her fortune that she believed he knew nothing about. Veronica takes on the case even after her dad refused to accept the case. Veronica goes sifting through his background and tests his loyalty by posing as an available coed in need of help. After being stalked by a mysterious stranger Alicia turns to Keith for help, who soon finds out he is not so mysterious after all. Later, Weevil admits to Veronica that he received an anonymous phone call concerning the school 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.