Yeah. This was definitely not the Sam she'd met before. Because that Sam would never, ever have thought about that smile he'd just given her. He'd been very nice, and obviously very cute, but the Sam she'd met before... that just didn't seem like it was in the playbook for some reason.
"Huh," she said. "Y'know, I heard that this happens. That sometimes people show up here, and some other them was already here."
The investigator in Veronica wanted to pick his brain. Right now.
She sighed, and offered Sam a tiny hand to shake.
"Hi. I'm Veronica Mars," she said. "And other... you..." Veronica chuckled. "...God, that's weird to say... and I investigated this library a while back."
She gave him her brightest smile. "I'm a private investigator and I work for the FBI. Or I did, and now I work at the City's bureau."