Rah! What a fun, exciting episode! Absolutely filler but still a good ep.
It starts with a shot of the school. the janitor is up some scaffolding. Then there is a shot of a crystal ball in front of a page of printed horoscopes. Z is saying "Scientific prediction has nothing to do with horoscopes or crystal balls." He looks up to see the whole class immersed in reading their horoscopes
(except for marshall who is fiddling with some promotional M360 graphics) he clears his throat to regain their attention. "Scientific probability has everything to do with this" He pulls down a thing in front of the board: The Bell curve. Stew asks if it's a picture of a hill. Z then gets everybody to stand up, asking if they'd wondered why he had them sit in different seats that say "Oh no..." says Josie, she knows what's coming. All of the class are in height order with Josie and one end and Stew at the other. Z explains how most of them are grouped with in the normal height range but at either sides there are the abnormally tall (he walks towads stew) and the.. uh... um (Josie is glowering) the er (he winces) a-typically short... "No offence to either."
he says that the bell curve can be used to predict all sorts of things. From the length of lima beans (oh, alliteration) to CD sales... "Which you should be dealing with
after class." he says to Marshall.
The class ends and the science club minus Vaughn are talking about their community service. Josie says she's surprised that she actually enjoys helping out with the child literacy programme "And if you ever need a closed text recitation of the Velveteen Rabbit, I'm your gal!" And Lucas shows off the shiny badge 'Keep holsey green' gave him for helping save some endangered species. Marshall complains about his, saying he can't beleive Durst expects him to write an essay for the Blake Holsey Howler (that's the school newspaper rather than one of those shouting letters from Harry Potter
:
. He hasn't started it and soesn't want to - besides, he says, nobody reads it. "I do!" pipes up Corrine. He rolls his eyes "Yeah but you're the only one."
The scene is much later. We see Lucas all curled up in bed, fast on his way to dreamy dream land. marshall is still messing around with his band thing and it looks like it's finally finished. "Hey Lucas!" Lucas grunts "Check this baby out!" he glows with pride at his finally completed Magnet360 promotional pack. Lucas prods him about his essay on 'The Blake Holsey of the future'. marshall casts around for inspiration and picks up the sheet of horoscopes "Horoscopes are easy..." he says. Lucas tells him that Durst will have his guts if he does what he thinks he's going ot do. Marshall says it's tough, it's all he has time for.
He starts to type, pulling predictions from thin air.
"A maths wizz will have an off day.
A skater girl will take an unexpected trip.
A conspiracy freak will gain a reward from an unexpected source.
A football star will save the day.
A wise leader will meet an old friend.
And for the grand finale... a member of the science club will..."
He says Diet... but in his careless rush he makes a typo and drops the T. A member of the science club will die...
Marshall goes to bed and a wave of energy shivers over the diagram of the bell curve, when it clears the curve is inverted.
[Opening credits and minor panic attack]
Marshall walks down the corridor, talking and laughing on his phone. he's trying to sell Magnet360 to somebody "Seriously, Magnet360 is the
only band you'll ever need to hear. Don't bother booking time with any other bands, we ROCK!" He comest to a halt in front of the stairs - Corrine appears, walking down them. She's a mess. Her hair is everywhere, her shirt is half untucked, her tie is on backwards and she looks stressed.
"What happened to you?!"
She's been having a terrible day. her alarm didn't go off, she overslepped, had no time to get ready and went to the wrong class
twice. It's the worst day of her life, apparently.
Josie bounces up behind Marshall. "Guess what! My mom just called and this summer we're going on a trip around Europe!" she grins. She catches sight of Corrine "What happened to you?!" "It's a long story." sighs Corrine, as they enter the lounge.
Lucas is there and his phone rings. It's his daddy ^_^ His dad apears on screen, in full fishing gear and waving a fish about (we wonder if Lucas's dad does
anything but fish! He's
obsessed!
) He caught the marked bass in the bass fishing contest, and it's all thanks to the new fly Lucas designed.
Lucas, after congratulating his pappa, gets off the phone and crows about it - his dad won $5000 dollars on it... and is giving him half.
"I'm rich! Oh yeah! I'm rich!" he sings and dances ;D "And it's all thanks to you!" he tells Marshall.
He picks up the Howler and shows them all the part where it says "A conspiracy freak will get a reward from an unexpected source". Eveybody's sceptical until he points out the skater girl's trip prediction and the math wizz's off day. Corrine turns on Marshall "Oh yes, that's right! Give everybody else something good and me the worst day of my life!" Marshall says it can't be his fault, it must all be a mistake - he just made it all up! They tell him that Durst will have something to say about that and sure enough "Marshall Wheeler! Report to the Principal's office immediately!"
Marshall sits in Durst's office sheepishly. She says that not only has he blatantly ignored the terms of his community service but he's also written some horrible things about his friends. She's outrage and can't even think of a suitable punishment. The phone rings, cutting her off mid-rant. She picks it up "Hello? Marvin? Lipschitz!" her face now a picture of delight "How long
has it been?" She sends Marshall away until she can think of a suitable punishment. He asks, on his way out, if the man on the phone is an onl friend of Dursts, she says it's none of his business but as it so happens, yes. Things are begining to get creepy.
Back in the lounge, he finds his friends clustered around the paper. They yell at him for writing that one of them will die.. he says he wrote diet, not die (hey, who does he think needs to diet? Cheeky boy...). Corrine says it just goes to show that he was being careless and sloppy. Lucas asks why he didn't check his work.
Outside we see the team practicing feild events. Stew has a javelin. We gulp. Stew runs, throws the javelin and Vaughn sees that it's heading straigt for Josie and Lucas in the lounge, going goodness knows how fast. "JOSIE! LOOK OUT!" he yells at the top of his lungs. Josie looks up and sees several feet of pointy metal doom speeding towards her. Lucas and Josie dodge, the javelin strikes the dartboard, about level with where Josie's face had been seconds before. The team race over as the science club stare, stunned, at the javelin. "You okay?" Stew asks. "No!" yells Josie "You nearly killed me and Lucas! one inch either way and we'd be sis kebab!" "Sorry..." says Stew, looking rather frightened. "You're a real recking machine today, Stew" Vaughn says in good humor "You nearly had my head off with that shot-put before. Try to be a bit more careful, huh?" and the team jog off again.
"We need to see Z!"
Z, of course, is logical about things. He says that while sometimes horoscopes may seem spookily accurate, there is no way Marshall can be psychic. He says that no matter how organized Corrine is, she's bound to have bad days from time to time. And that as Josie's mum wants to spend more time with her, planning a trip is actually statisically probable. Lucas asks about his dad's win. Z says that as an entrant in the competition, he had a 1 in X chance of winning which was improved by one of Lucas's patented lure. So while the odds aren't really strong, they're not disturbingly unlikely and it's nothing to worry about. Then they ask about the javelin and he says that it must have been a freak accident. just because some things are happening, it's not a cause for concern and nobody is marked for death.
We see Marshall filing through some stuff on his desk and he finds the bell curve diagram. "Wait, this wasn't inverted last night..." a look of horror dawns on his face and he rushes out to catch up with the rest of the club who are on their way down stairs. "Corrine!" He shouts, waving the diagram in the air. She looks, over balances and falls in the direction of the bannister, it looks like she's fallen over!
[shock! Horror! Adverts!]