You'd think the episode in which we finally get rid of Troy (... for now) would score higher. Alas.

1.5 You Think You Know Someone

Score: 9

Characters: 1

• Troy (-1)

• Logan (+1)

• Backup (+1)

Plot relevance: 3/5

There's no movement in the Lilly Kane murder case this episode, but we get some backstory. Veronica finds a key for her mother's safe deposit box, in which there are large photos of Veronica with a target over face. Veronica surmises that these constitute a threat, which frightened Lianne into leaving. Keith and the school counselor's relationship proves too much for Veronica, triggering memories of her mother and putting her in a pissy mood. After a big fight about it with Veronica, Keith ends up breaking up with the counselor.

Story quality: 5/5

FINALLY we are rid of Troy and he gets an epic comeuppance. He gets his dad's car stolen on the way home from a trip to Tia Juana, which is bad because he's already on his last strike. Next stop: boarding school. It's also bad for his friend, because he was smuggling home steroids in a piñata in the back seat of the car. Now the dealer he was running them for is going to kill him. Veronica wants to find the car so that her boyfriend doesn't get shipped off, but Troy seems pretty blasé about it. That's because he's a terrible person and stole the car himself. But Veronica outsmarts him in the end, as she does everyone, and destroys the drugs before he can sell them to finance his new life with his other girlfriend and also getting the drug dealer arrested.

Iconic lines/memes: +2

• Nice car. God, it must have been a huge cereal box. This is a quip about Veronica le Baron, not Trent's Dad's BMW 740i. (That's a luxury car!)

• You'd think if hell had frozen over it'd be on the news.

Cringe: -2

• You're Veronica Mars. You know everything. The grotesque sneer on Troy's face when he says this makes me want to punch him even more than usual. And it gets worse when you realize that he's completely making up this "I'm a better person than you" excuse for not telling her about his previous troubles. He isn't ashamed of it and he hasn't changed. He is just an abusive piece of shit.

• I'm getting so close, baby, your panties oughtta burst into flames any minute now. GROSS

  
  

Outfit of the episode:

There's nothing truly outstanding in this episode, but I'm going to give the honor to the super long scarf that Veronica is wearing for part of the episode. It's jauntily striped in pink and orange, and wrapped so tightly around her throat that it conceals her choker. NOTE: This is a completely different extra-long scarf than she was wearing in the previous episode.

Song of the episode:

The New Kid by Old 97s. You might think this should go to Such Great Heights, which plays twice in this episode and is a great song. But everyone knows Such Great Heights. The New Kid is the perfect song for Troy. He's got the goods, but he's not good for his word.

Anachronistic reference of the episode:

Brigadoon. Logan makes a joke about Brigadoon when Troy's car is stolen: Maybe it's like Brigadoon. If you come back in 100 years, it'll be right back in this spot. Brigadoon is a musical from 1947 (movie version 1954). There is no way that Logan is familiar with the storyline of Brigadoon. And even if he were, it's a really weird thing to say.

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