8. Like a Virgin

Veronica looks at photos of Lilly Kane's murder site that she found earlier. Cliff McCormack (Daran Norris) enters and Veronica asks for his help to visit Abel Koontz (Christian Clemenson) but Cliff refuses. Veronica sends a letter to Abel, pretending to be a criminology student who wants to interview him.

At school, after gym class, Veronica finds that her clothes have been stolen and stuffed into a toilet. A kind cheerleader, Meg Manning (Alona Tal), loans her uniform to Veronica and then finds her friends at lunch.

Her friends are discussing a popular purity test that has been circulating online. Meg, a virgin, is pleased to hear that her boyfriend scored high on the purity test. Later, Veronica and Wallace (Percy Daggs III) also discuss the test at his home. Wallace's mom, Alicia (Erica Gimpel), isn't pleased to see Veronica and privately discourages Wallace from being friends with her. While on the purity test website, Veronica notes there is an option to buy other people's test results and predicts school will be very interesting the next day.

Chaos erupts at school after people post each other's results on their lockers. Meg's test results are leaked, indicating that she cheated on her boyfriend. Meg swears she never even took the test and Veronica promises to help clear her name. She enlists Mac (Tina Majorino) to help with the case. Mac suggests that Renny DeMoue, the school's IT person, might provide a lead.

Meanwhile, Meg is bullied for the false test results and is heckled during her school musical audition. Meg suggests her sister Lizzie may have entered a false test on her behalf but Lizzie denies it when Veronica interrogates her. Veronica goes to Renny to try to access the student passwords but Renny refuses her.

Alicia is harassed by her tenant Jeremy (Joel Bissonnette) and Wallace sleeps over at Veronica's for peace. Keith offers to help Alicia deal with her tenant but she refuses his help. Jeremy escalates his harassment and turns on the gas at the Fennel home to force the family out. Keith visits Jeremy at night and scares him into moving out and finally leaving the Fennels alone.

At school, Veronica notices Meg isn't at school and goes to visit her home. Meg admits the bullying has become too much for her and asks Veronica how she deals with it. Veronica advises her to "get tough and get even."

With help from Mac, Veronica discovers someone has been logging into Veronica's student account and they sent an email to Duncan while pretending to be Veronica, telling Duncan that she was still in love with him and that she gave him an STD. They also see the imposter was IMing with another person right before class ended. Based on the user name and messages, Veronica pieces together that the imposter was corresponding with Renny. She follows him and catches him having sex with Kimmy (Annie Abrams), a friend of Meg's.

The next day at school, Veronica confronts Kimmy. Kimmy confesses that she asked Renny to give her Meg's password and entered a fake test result to humiliate Meg because Kimmy was jealous of her. She also admits that her friend Pam (Shanna Collins) hacked into Veronica's account because Pam has a crush on Duncan but worries that he still has feelings for Veronica. Veronica reveals she captured their conversation on tape and hands it over to Meg to slip into the morning announcements. Kimmy and Pam are exposed and they turn on each other. Meg thanks Veronica for her help and warns her that people are afraid of her, but that she also has friends.

Veronica tells Duncan that the email Pam sent was fake and he believes her. They part on friendly terms. Similarly, Alicia thanks Keith for his help and agrees that their children can still be friends. Veronica sees Mac driving a new car and realizes that Mac created the purity test website to extract money from her fellow students.

Abel accepts Veronica's visit request but when they meet in person, he recognizes her. He insists that he killed Lily and implies to Veronica that her biological father is actually Jake Kane (Kyle Secor). Shaken, Veronica gets into her car and breaks down sobbing.