Veronica Mars the show is off to a fresh start on a new network, but Veronica Mars the girl, or young lady rather, is about to get a fresh start at a new school. Her first goal? Trying not to piss anybody off. Yeah, good luck with that Veronica. Veronica has many qualities, but patience for idiots is not one of them. One of the reasons I think Veronica hated high school so much was that she was never challenged academically, and if her first class, Criminology 101 natch, is any indication, things aren't going to get any more difficult. Her professor even encourages them to skip class, just not his. But not that he has to worry. With his laid-back style and neatly shorn goatee, all of the ladies in the class are swooning.

Veronica's first assignment was an interesting one. Instead of shocking everybody with a "lecture" Professor Landry decides to have the class play a murder mystery. I shit you not. It wasn't like he got out a couple of boxes of Clue, but it was close. "Murder on the Riverboat Queen" is a murder mystery. The TA of the class Timothy Foyle, also known as Lucky to his friends. OK, he might not be known as Lucky to his friends, but they literally had the same guy who played Lucky, the batshit crazy, gun wielding janitor last year, play Foyle, and thought that some longer hair, a patchy beard, and some glasses would throw us off.

Mr. Foyle handed out cards to the students in the class. Some people were passengers, some were murderers, and the people who didn't get a card were Pinkerton's, who were like Magnum PI before Ferraris and Tom Selleck were an item. Everybody is hard at work except for Veronica. The TA sees that she is not working, and believes that her lack of participation signifies that the class is too hard. When Veronica tells him that she already knew the answer, the TA is amazed, and calls the teacher. Now, the record for solving the crime was sixteen minutes, and Foyle held that record, and now Veronica solved the puzzle without getting out of her chair!

She guessed that it was the (not really) blind fiddle player Rutherford Styles, and she was correct, but how did she get the answer? Google of course! She looked up "Murder on the Riverboat Queen", found out it was a murder in a box game developed in the late eighties, looked at the fan message boards, and found the answers. Were the writers giving a shout out to message boards that post spoilers? Perhaps, but it wasn't very flattering. Veronica said that she ignored the spoiler warnings and called it "kind of douchebaggy". Hey, I kind of agree.

Oh, you're a rascal Veronica Mars!