Okay, this episode is a)
great and b)
importantso I'll be re-capping as I re-watch on my computer so I can get the facts as accurate as possible (so please be patient with me! I'll also be posting in little bits because I do not trust this computer...)
The episode starts with Z quoting Shakespear and talking about lightning. He asks about one of the earliest and probably most famous experiments with electricity ever done. Corrine puts on her knowledge hat and... well there's no way I can tell you what exactly it is she says
(Why do smart people speak so fast?) After she's finished spouting like a little fountain of scientific joy, Stew says he thinks Z meant 'the kite guy'. Z is ashamed to admit that Stew is right, he did mean 'the kite guy' aka Benjamin Franklin and his famous experiment where he flew a kite in an electrical storm "which passed an electrical charge down his damp string to a key tied to the end of the string causing sparks to jump from the key into Franklin's other insulated hand.
While Z is talking we see Josie looking intently at something. vaughn is doodling - a long wormhole shaped squiggle and a little stick figure at one end, going into the wormhole. Vaughn sees Josie staring and shuts his folder to stop her from seeing. Meanwhile Z says something about electircal power having the ability to create as well as destroy.
The scene changes to Pearadyne labs where Victor is running another test. he places the Quiong ball into the machine and it starts up.
The scene changes to a bedroom (Lucas and Marshall's at a guess) where Josie is telling Lucas, Marshall and Corrine that ever since Vaughn found out that Corrine spoke to his mother at Pearadyne, he's been acting strange. Josie tells them about the doodle and how he tried to hide it - she scared he's going to go into the wormhole to search for more answers. Corrine says Josie is jumping to conclusions. Suddenly there's a bleeping and Lucas's gravity sensor, which is stitting on a bedside table, starts to show activity: the wormhole is opening. Josie runs out, followed by the others.
"Vaugh! Don't go!" she shouts as she runs down the corridor towards Z's office. She bursts in and finds the room empty... "He already went through..." she says, sounding defeated, she walks further into the room. Marshall advises she doesn't stand there. She rolls her eyes and turns around "guys..." she begins, exhasperated, but OOOPS! The wormhole opens and she dissapears. That must have been embarassing...
She lands with a bump in the sceince office. "Guys?" But it's different, very different (there's a similar colour effect to Fate here. A sort of biscuity hue that tells us she's in the past) There are stuffed animals, really old fashioned bottles with written labels and there are packing crates. She picks up a newspaper and sees that the date is Octber 4th 1879
[opening credits]
"this
can't be 1879..." she says, she tiptoes to the door and opens it. Cue twee music and a bunch of men in victorian clothing being bossed around by a man in more expensive looking clothes. One of the crates has "New Chichester Prepratory Academy" on the side of it. "What's a Chichester?" Josie wonders aloud, clearly finding this all extremely strange. A woman with a chicken walks past (this is totally irrelevant but made me laugh very hard XD) "I have to ge out of here..." Josie says (well, a woman with a chicken has just gone past, you'd be worried too!) She turns sharply and bumps into... Principal Durst?! But no, she's wearing Victorian clothing...
"Miss Turner! We've been expecting you! You are Miss Lesley Turner of the Kansas City, aren't you?" (we resist the urge to tell you that Josie turns to her little dog and says 'I don't think we're in Kansas anymore...'
) Josie makes the mistake of calling
Headmistress Durst, Principal Durst and gets an icy glare. Durst remarks upon the unsiutability of Josie's outfit and send her to get changed "Before Mr Avenier sees [her]". Josie wants to go to the science teacher's office but Durst refuses unless she first goes to get dressed properly. "What an odd child" Durst remarks, shaking her head as Josie heads upstairs.
Josie goes to her room and fins a trunk full of clothes. She holds up a corsette "
what am I supposed to do with
this?"
Scene change. We see Josie coming downstairs in her Victorian getup with some difficulty. She's trying to look prim and proper and failing. She goes to the science office. She stands where the vortex ought to be. She taps her foot. She tries jumping. She jumps up and down, round and round and then somebody walks in.
"Are you alright miss..."
"Tre... Turner." SHe tells him. It's a young man (tEh purrrdyyy...) who introduces himself as Blake Holsey (I was NOT expecting that..." He says she must be one of the new students, he overheard his father telling Headmistress Durst that one of them had arrived early.
"I arrived unexpectedly!" He tells her that the other students will not be long. She mutters that that means she doesn't have much time.
"For what?"
"To find a friend of mine..." she asks if he's seen a boy of her age wandring around lookin lost. He says he hasn't. he offers to show her around and when she tries to protest he says "and I shan't take no for an answer" and (very charmingly) takes her arm and leads her out. (HailStorm is now giggling. Indigo thinks HailStorm is nuts
(what?! he's nice... he's very nice indeed *blushes*))
We see outside the school now. There are horses and carts and a lot of activity. Blake is telling Josie that the architecture of the school is modeled after the country estate of a typical Genleman of Britain (woo!) because Mr Avanier thinks that'll be more condusive to a good education. Mr Avanier paid for the construction of the school, he tells her "My father is the architect. Although Mr Avanier gave him some very odd plans to execute." josie quizzes him on this. He says that Mr Avanier insisted that certain rooms are south-facing, that air vents go
here and not
there and that the science office floor was to have a sub-floor made of palladium (sp?) underneath the tiles
"Palladium? Underneath the science office? That's the least dense metal on the planet!" (we go "hmmmmm..." and stroke our chins at this intriguing development).
"Blast!" says a voice from off screen. there's a man with a camera "You just stepped into my photograph!" he tells them crossly "Film is very expensive, you know!" (bound to happen, eh?) His name is Mr Easton, which probably isn't important.
There is a rumble of thinder and Blake says there is a storm coming, and takes Josie inside (the shot of the school pulls back so we can see it is very isolated, surrounded by fields.
Durst enters Miss Turner's room and is displeased with the mess. She then notices Josie's clothes... she picks up the T-shirt "Nuclear Death Weasel...?" she is puzzled. She spots Josie's digital watch, she picks it up and it beeps, she jumps in shock, dropping it like it has just bitten her. "What on earth?!"
Josie and Blake are walking in the corridors. Josie asks if he's noticed any strange events centred around the science office.
"Other than finding a pretty young woman jumping up and down on the floor?" he flirts (we squeal) She says noooo, unexplainable scientific phenomena. He says that she's not much like the other girls of their age - they're all interested in art but she's very scientific. She says " think you'll find that I'm
not like most girls..."
"I can see that..."He grins (aaaaaww! He likes her... like she needs
another admirer
They should start a fanclub... or a support group
)
He tells her that he was never really one for science "All that peering into microscopes and flying kites in storms... It's not for me." There is that familiar vortexy noise and some flashing lights in the science office. The door flies open and Vaughn, Lucas, Corrine and Marshall, all in Victorian style clothes (looking very dapper) step out. "Josie! Come on!" Vaughn yells over the noise of the still open vortex.
"Who's Josie?" asks Blake
"She is! And she's coming with me!" yells vaughn, grabbing Josie's arm.
"She's Miss Turner." Blake is still hloding Josie's other arm "Un-hand her!"
"unhand her yourself!" Josie's had enough by now
"BOTH OF YOU UN-HAND ME!" and she yanks her arms away. Lucas says they have to get back throught the vortex before... and it closes. Dun dun dun! Adverts! (and I'm going to get my dinner)