
Veronica Mars
I need your help, Veronica.
- You can't tell anyone.
- I need your help.
I need to know.
Trust me, I know how
dumb that sounds.
But it's not like I found a decoder
ring at the bottom of a cereal box...
and thought,
"That sounds like fun. "
I wish. That would've
been adorable.
Nope. My best friend was
murdered when I was 15.
Trying to figure out who
did it was how I coped.
My dad was sheriff at the time.
And when he went after the
most powerful man in town...
he turned us both into pariahs.
Dad lost his job and
I lost my friends.
Kids can be cruel, after all.
The cruelest was Logan Echolls,
my dead friend's boyfriend.
Like me, Logan was fueled
by rage and distrust.
He wanted to make someone pay.
are what drew us together.
They're absolutely
what tore us apart.
After my dad was run out of office, he
got his PI license and opened an agency.
I hung out there to learn
the tricks of the trade.
There was plenty of work for both of us in
the seedy beach town of Neptune, California.
Neptune as glamorous.
captains of industry.
But when the class war comes,
Neptune will be ground zero.
It's a Springsteen song:
Get out while you're young.
I got out when I was 19, leaving a
trail of destruction in my wake.
I've grown up, though.
That was the old me.
Angry me. Vengeful me.
New me? People say
I'm a marshmallow.
So a year at Hearst College.
BA in Psychology from Stanford.
Near the top of your
class at Columbia Law.
You're due to take the
bar in six weeks.
We're a multinational firm.
Fifty lawyers in New York.
Our clients here at Truman-Mann are
primarily Fortune 500 companies.
Our job is to make sure that frivolous lawsuits
disappear before they reach the courtroom.
We're looking at a
number of candidates.
All with impressive rsums...
but none quite as unique as yours.
You were issued a private investigator's
license for your 18th birthday?
Heh. Is that something
California kids do?
My dad is a Pl. I worked for him.
It was more answering phones and
handling his travel than anything else.
Really? Before you were 20, your name
popped up on LexisNexis in 14...
Fifteen.
Fifteen separate
articles or briefs...
in cases ranging from multiple
homicides to dognapping.
You have a degree in
psychology, Miss Mars.
What do you think that
says about a person?
Compulsive, clearly.
Addictive personality.
Possible adrenaline junkie.
But that's not me anymore.
I haven't worked a case since
I transferred to Stanford.
And why is that?
The price was too high.
It ruined friendships
and relationships.
Cost me a lot of
opportunities along the way.
So your decision to
transfer wasn't related...
- The sex tape? No need to be coy.
- Leonard.
It's fine. As lawyers, we are often
put in adversarial situations.
Opposing counsel will seek to
exploit any perceived weakness.
All I'll say about that tape, is it was made
and distributed without my knowledge.
And I'll ask you:
Do I look ruffled?
Rebuilding her life took time.
More time than you'd think.
Zhi Howes was broke. And worse,
people considered her passe.
She thought about restarting her moribund
career with a Kickstarter campaign...
but the potential for further
humiliation was daunting.
They brought up the sex tape?
I think I handled it okay. I have another
meeting tomorrow with one of the partners.
I hope we talk STDs.
- What?
- Wallace.
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