History Recap / VeronicaMarsS03E01WelcomeWagon

Veronica then walks around campus when she notices an advertisement for an all-ages music show, including a band called "Unwashed". A little later, she goes to Mac's room, and is greeted by Parker Lee (Creator/JulieGonzalo), Mac's roommate, who invites her in. Veronica's a little put off by Julie's energy, but makes nice until Mac shows up. Veronica invites the two of them to the music show, and they agree to come...

Later, after Veronica's criminology class gets out, she goes to Tim and asks him about the mentoring program. He shows her to his office, and offers her a few choices. Veronica objects to having to mentor a girl because she's one, but before they can get into it, Mac "happens" to drop by and tells Tim Landry needs him. When Tim leaves, Veronica smiles at Mac before Mac leaves, and Veronica finds Donald's file. Sure enough, the kids he's mentoring are the ones who claimed to have seen Piz getting robbed.

* {{Bishonen}}: Some of the female students in Dr. Landry's class see him as this, including Veronica.

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...[[DescriptionCut and they find Moe (Andrew [=McClain=]) in his room]]. He sympathizes with Piz's loss, but informs the three of them there is no "Welcome Wagon" committee at Hearst. He offers them [[SpotOfTea tea]].

Veronica walks through the quad of Hearst college and looks around. A little later, she's in her criminology class, where her professor, Dr. Landry (Patrick Fabian), welcomes the other students and talks about Neptune's [[ChekhovsGun mentoring program]], where students work with at-risk kids. He says his TA, Tim Foyle (James Jordan), will take down the names of any volunteers for the program. Landry shows his reading list to the class and then suggests they play a role-playing game called "Murder on the Riverboat Queen". Tim hands out envelopes to the class as Landry explains the game; people who get envelopes are either witnesses or the murderer, and those who don't are detectives investigating the case, and they question the witnesses until they solve it. He then challenges the class to beat Tim's record of solving the case in 16 minutes. Veronica doesn't get an envelope, but instead of questioning anybody, she looks something up on her laptop. A few moments later, she's reading a magazine when Tim comes up to her and patronizingly suggests she's in the wrong class. Veronica, however, says she's solved the case. Tim is thrown, but calls for Dr. Landry, who asks Veronica [[ExactWords who she'd send away for the rest of his natural life]]. Veronica points to the "blind but not really blind fiddle player". Landry is impressed, and tells the class Veronica has beaten the record. Veronica then confesses she knew the game was taken from an 80's board game, and she merely looked it all up on the computer. Tim is upset, but Landry is amused.

Meanwhile, back at Hearst, Wallace is shooting Nerf basketball while sitting on a bean bag when Stosh "Piz" Piznarski (Chris Lowell), his new roommate, arrives. They greet each other and Piz says he has more stuff in his car, but when they go outside to his car, everything's been stolen. Piz is in shock, but Wallace says he knows someone.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The case Vinnie claims to need help on involves someone named "Lucky Pierre."