The Cruelest Cut of Them All - 
by J-Unit
Our sassy, angst-ridden, teenage crime fighting machine Veronica Marshas plenty of talents, one of them being the uncanny ability to create enemies. Now although there are several times when Veronica has made an enemy because she was too quick to judge somebody or they grow tired of how she acts like she is the smartest girl in the whole town, most of the time people dislike her because she has foiled some nefarious crime or exposed some sort of rampant hypocrisy. Oh, and I shouldn't forget the people who want her dead because they believe she is responsible for the bus crash that killed their loved ones, or because she accused half the town of killing Lily Kane. Veronica has had a very difficult time in high school, but like a lot of teenagers, she is going to get a second chance at everything once she graduates and starts college.
When Veronica was on the jury, she was approached by a faculty member of Hearst College, the local liberal arts enclave. It would probably be exactly the type of place that Veronica would be interested in, except that it is so very close to home, and she wants to put as much distance as possible between herself and Neptune. One person who is interested in Hearst is Wallace. His SAT scores are a little low, but he's a baller and when you factor in the points, the boards, and the dimes, he should be able to get in and if they decide to give him one of the final scholarships available, he will almost certainly join. Since Wallace was interested, Veronica says that she will go with him when he goes to Hearst to take a tour. She may not want to go there full time, but if it lets her sip school this year, why not?
Everybody who was still in school learned that the town was sponsoring an essay contest. The winner would get to spend a day with Woody Goodman and would have a chance to push the detonator when they tear down Shark Stadium. That may have excited a few people ( after hearing about the demolition, Dick Casablancas was upset that he "didn't write good", maybe he should try to speak much gooder too), the person getting all of the high fives was Logan Echolls, who just had his case dismissed.
Since Logan had his case dismissed, that meant that he must have broken up with Hannah, right? Well, not quite. When she saw Logan outside to congratulate him on the good news and tell him how much all of her girlfriends were jealous of her on the track team, Hannah got some bad news. Logan said that they couldn't see each other anymore. Hannah wasn't sure what was happening. She is younger than Logan, and so she wondered if it was some weird joke that went over her head, like she had changed her name to Dick Casablancas. Logan said that she's a sweet girl, but he's not a sweet guy, but that wasn't enough for Hannah. She didn't care about that, and as Logan walked away, she could only stand there, wishing that she would get a punch line.
When I heard that Wallace and Veronica were going to go to Hearst for a tour, I thought that it would be a one-day thing, maybe an overnighter. Instead, it sounded like things were going to get very immersive, since the tour guide said that it was going to be a three-day tour. I could only imagine the writers were trying to make a joke about Gilligan's Island, because I would imagine that any college that was going to let students in on a three day tour would at least make sure that they had applied to the school. But this isn't The OC, so I am sure that the writers have a point.
In order to get the prospective students feeling a little more comfortable, the student tour guide had everybody play the "two truths and a lie" ice breaker used by ever summer camp and ropes course across the country. People were required to participate with people that they didn't know, so while Wallace went over to flirt with a young woman, Veronica was left to play the game with the tour guide. After some banter involving old Johnny Cash lyrics, another person joins the party, giving Veronica a chance to share some passive-aggression with a new face, or at least that is what we thought. The new applicant was none other Troy Vandergraff.
If you don't remember, Veronica and Troy had a little thing going for a while in the first season. Although he was one of the rich kids, he didn't ignore Veronica like everybody else who was friends with the Kane family. In the end, we learn that Troy was just using Veronica, and although Veronica got him back and was responsible for him being shipped off to military school, it did hurt her. Troy said that he had changed, and Veronica pretended not to care, saying it was all water under the bridge. Duplicitous, evil water under the bridge.
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