Hard Facts: Vandalism and Vulgarity

Hard Facts: Vandalism and Vulgarity is the first episode of Season 1 American Vandal.

Synopsis
When senior class clown Dylan Maxwell is expelled for vandalism, sophomore Peter Maldonado begins an investigation that questions Dylan's guilt.

Plot
On March 15, 2016, at Hanover High School in Oceanside, California, 27 faculty cars at the school parking lot were found with phallic images drawn on them. The school board accuses senior class clown, Dylan Maxwell, relying on a consistent testimony from witness Alex Trimboli, which results in Dylan's expulsion.

However, Dylan claims that he didn't draw the penises on the cars. An investigation led by sophomore Peter Maldonado and his friend Sam Ecklund takes place to exonerate Dylan from his expulsion. Peter claims certain points that the board used to expel Dylan, including his history as a known phallic drawer were true, but counterargues against them with contrasting evidence, such as the phallic drawings on the cars lacking ball hairs—one little detail that Dylan always drew on his previous phallic drawings. Peter and Sam start to question Trimboli's integrity of his testimony and his previously over-exaggerating comments on a sexual encounter with popular girl Sara Pearson and binge-drinking at a party thrown a few weeks earlier.