A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS:

• Veronica’s BUSY: serving coffee, investigating whether the driver crashed the bus deliberately, and ruining post-coital moments with Duncan.

• So Detective Wallace handles a case all by himself, and guess what, it’s all in the hope of winning over the gorgeous but hostile Jackie - played by Tessa Thompson!

• Logan fires guns with Mr Casablancas, and has sex with Mrs Casablancas - not at the same time.

• Sheriff Lamb sucks SO much that Keith Mars decides to run for sheriff.

• Kevin Smith shows up, as an opportunistic convenience store clerk selling bus crash souvenirs.

• And a dead body washes up on the beach, on his palm is written VERONICA MARS - drink!

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 2 episode 2: Driver Ed, and to probe such mysteries as whether it’s legal for journalists to pose as high school students, whether it’s wise to go to a shooting range with someone if you’re sleeping with their spouse, how many styles they can make Jackie wear at once, and why Duncan would offer to put Veronica on a ‘strict Nelly diet’ because she’s been listening to Radiohead.

CONTENT NOTE: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning suicide, mental health, murder, sex and vehicular crash.

See more about this episode, and read the transcript, at the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/2-02.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; 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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