When Jackie fears her credit card has been stolen Veronica decides to try and help her. Although she has not taken a liking to her she is trying to give her the benefit of the doubt sense she means so much to Wallace. Leading Veronica to appear on a psychic's community access show to pursue a lead, only to learn that her detective work might not be the only part of this situation she is a part of. Wallace confronts his mother Alicia about who his real father is. In her on going search for the truth about the buss crash, Veronica learns of a voice mail recording from one of the students that died, made at the moment 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.