Veronica Mars

Season 3 

Episode Guide

S03E01 Welcome Wagon

Veronica and Logan are still going strong; Veronica is still living at home with her dad, Mac and Wallace each have new roommates, Veronica helps Wallace's friend who has had his possessions stolen, and there is a serial rapist on the large Hearst campus.

S03E02 My Big Fat Greek Rush Week

Guilty over not having helped the latest victim, Veronica sets herself to catching the Hearst serial rapist and starts by going undercover at the Theta Zeta sorority during rush week. Parker's parents arrive and try to convince their daughter to come home.

S03E03 Witchita Linebacker

In order to help Weevil stay out of prison, Veronica convinces her father to give him her old job at Mars Investigations. A Hearst football player loses the team playbook and, through Piz, hires Veronica to find it. The Dean of Hearst threatens to expel Veronica unless she reveals her sources on the sorority expose story.

S03E04 Charlie Don't Surf

Logan asks Veronica and Keith to help him discover why his trust fund money is disappearing. With a court hearing coming up Dick and the Pi-Sigs hire Veronica to prove their innocence, much to the chagrin of Parker and the other the rape victims, and Veronica uses the opportunity to do some digging.

S03E05 President Evil

Veronica attends a Halloween party at the campus casino, but before Logan arrives, the party ends up getting robbed, Point Break-style. Weevil is arrested for the crime, but Veronica suspects he has been framed when it comes to light that the loot was dumped and the guns weren't even real. Keith Mars looks for the ex-husband of the dean's young wife so her son can receive a bone marrow transplant.

S03E06 Hi, Infidelity

Veronica is accused of plagiarizing her paper for Professor Landry's criminology class. In trying to clear herself, she discovers that her mentor is not who she thought he was. Wallace is pardoned by Dean O'Dell for cheating on his exam, but makes a decision that could affect his college career. Piz invites Veronica to a night of bowling and she decides to bring Logan and Parker, unaware Piz wanted the evening to be more of a date.

S03E07 Of Vice and Men

Increasingly frustrated by what she sees as the deceits of Keith, Logan, and Professor Landry, Veronica withdraws from her support network. While staying at Wallace and Piz's dorm room, she meets a girl trying to locate her missing boyfriend. Their search leads Veronica to some old adversaries. Meanwhile, one suspect in the rapes is apparently cleared and, after being drugged at the food court, Veronica has a frightening encounter with the culprit.

S03E08 Lord of the Pi's

Keith and Veronica are hired to help find the missing grand-daughter of the founder of Hearst College, whose swing vote could spell the end of fraternities and sororities at Hearst. Meanwhile, Logan fears for Veronica's safety as she gets closer to the truth regarding the campus rapes.

S03E09 Spit & Eggs

Logan offers Veronica a choice, with neither option a good one for their relationship. Under pressure, Dean O'Dell reinstates the Greek system. Veronica discovers the identity of the Hearst rapist after a Pi Sig frat party, but also finds herself in dire peril. Keith tells the Dean about his wife's affair. Weevil finds O'Dell dead from a gunshot wound.

S03E10 Show Me the Monkey

Mac and Veronica go undercover as animal rights activists in order to find a missing lab monkey. Meanwhile, Mindy O'Dell asks Keith to investigate the Dean's death because she believes he was murdered.

S03E11 Poughkeepsie, Tramps and Thieves

A classmate asks Veronica to locate the woman he loves, who turns out to be a hooker. Keith continues his investigation of Dean O'Dell's murder by visiting the Lilith House girls. Veronica asks Logan some difficult relationship questions, and learns he was with someone else while they were split up.

S03E12 There's Got to be a Morning After Pill

Veronica is asked by a classmate to find out who slipped her RU-486, the abortion pill, causing her to have a miscarriage. Veronica finds out from an 'ear witness' that the dean was murdered at around 2.20am. She and Logan break up again, with the choice this time being Veronica's.

S03E13 Postgame Mortem

Wallace rejoins the Hearst basketball team, when the basketball coach, Tom Barry, is found dead. The coach's widow, Kathleen Barry hires Keith to investigate the murder of her husband and to clear her son, Josh, who is Sheriff Lamb's prime suspect. Logan is wallowing in self-pity after his breakup with Veronica, so Dick invites two girls over to cheer Logan up, but Logan gets stuck entertaining Heather, who is only 11 years old.

S03E14 Mars, Bars

Without any evidence to hold her, Sheriff Lamb releases Veronica from jail. Josh makes contact with Veronica and insists that he is being framed for his father's murder and, though Veronica has sympathy for him, she doesn't know if she believes him. Keith learns that the coach's wife, Kathleen Barry, hired Vinnie Van Lowe to find out if her husband was having an affair. Meanwhile, Logan joins Mac and Parker on a Valentine's Day scavenger hunt.

S03E15 Papa's Cabin

Sheriff Mars interrogates Mindy O'Dell, who reveals that the third man in her hotel room the night of the Dean O'Dell's murder was in fact Dean O'Dell himself. Veronica and Tim Foyle head out in an investigation to prove Professor Hank Landry is innocent, but the tables are turned on Veronica when she learns Hank Landry didn't murder Dean O'Dell.

S03E16 Un-American Graffiti

Veronica is hired by a Middle Eastern restaurant owner to find out who has been vandalizing their business with ethnic slur. While investigating the case, Veronica and the restaurant owner are attacked in a drive-by paintball shooting. Meanwhile, Logan decides to throw a birthday party for Parker. Veronica's love life takes a turn when she kisses Piz at Parker's birthday party.

S03E17 Debasement Tapes

Piz is put in charge of escorting his idol, Desmond Fellows, a singer/musician from a 1990's pop band who arrives on the Hearst campus to perform at a benefit concert for the radio station. When tapes of Fellows' back-up vocals and tracks go missing, Piz recruits Veronica to help locate them. Keith believes he will be running unopposed in the race for Sheriff, until an unlikely candidate throws his hat into the ring.

S03E18 I Know What You'll Do Next Summer

Veronica passes her exam to be an official Private Investigator, while Piz lands an interview with Apollo Bukenya, an African student at Hearst who wrote a book about his years as an orphan child-soldier in Uganda's rebel army. Veronica is hired by an African man, Kizza, to help prove that he is Apollo's father, but her investigation leads to information that might expose Apollo's story as a fake. Parker comes to Veronica for advice about Logan after learning he planned to spend the summer surfing with Dick.

S03E19 Weevils Wobble But They Don't Go Down

Weevil is arrested for selling fake debit cards to Hearst students, but claims he is being framed because of his criminal background, and asks Veronica to clear his name. On Piz's radio show, Keith debates Vinnie about the upcoming election, while a tipsy Dick apologizes to Mac for the way he has treated her in the past. Veronica and Piz make up after their argument about spending their summer apart, and a mysterious sex tape of the two finds its way to the internet.

S03E20 The Bitch Is Back

Furious that Logan attacked Piz, Veronica tells Logan she wants nothing to do with him. Parker confronts Logan about still having feelings for Veronica, while Piz assures Veronica that he had nothing to do with the sex video. Veronica, with Weevil's help, investigates how the tape originated and discovers a person from her past is linked to The Castle and pays them a visit.