A LONG TIME AGO, ON VERONICA MARS:

• There’s a secret society! Because where there are rich white boys, there are secret societies.

• Someone is trying to pin a fake ID racket on Veronica. She didn’t do it!

• What she is guilty of is being great at karaoke.

• Duncan, however… not so much.

• And even though you thought the Echolls family couldn’t get any bleaker, it gets a ton bleaker.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars Season 1 Episode 12: Clash of the Tritons, and consider such mysteries as whether Cliff is a good lawyer, whether Miss James is the worst grief counsellor, and what the range is of a spy stapler with a bug in it.

See more about this episode, and a transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/1-12. Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning violence, murder and suicide.

This episode was edited and mixed by Zach McNees; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; the logo is by Hrishikesh Hirway; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown.

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