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(funky synth music) (cell phone beeping)

(funky synth music)

(cell phone ringing)

(funky synth music)

(phone ringing and beeping)

(funky synth music)

(phone ringing) (phone beeping)

- Is it just me,

or did people suddenly develop mutant growths

on their hands?

(upbeat music)

Billions of dollars worth of research, (phone ringing)

just to make pointless chit-chat more convenient.

(phone ringing)

No one talks anymore.

(upbeat music) (phone clicks open)

- [Unknown Girl] Four o'clock? Shopping? Great!

- If you wanna say something to Lucas, just say it.

He's five feet away.

- Look, texting is like developing a new language.

We can communicate more quickly and efficiently.

- If you like mangled speech.

- Plus selling phones is developing Marshall's college fund.

(upbeat music)

- I guess that would explain his new best friends.

- Come on. He needs help to boost sales,

and like it or not, Tyler's the man.

- Hmm? Like it...

not.

(whooshing noises) (upbeat music)

(phone beeping)

- Watch this Tyler.

(upbeat music)

Wanna see something cool?

(phone ringing)

- Cool!

- [Vaughn] (chuckles) How'd you do that?

- Voice recognition software. When I speak,

it encrypts what I say as an emoticon.

I can send that emoticon to another phone

with the same software, which decrypts it. Watch.

(phone ringing) (phone beeping)

- Sweet!

- The best part is, you could send messages to me,

and nobody would know what we're saying.

- Hmm.

Anyone else have this software?

- Just me, and you. (chuckles)

Yeah, I stumbled on a source.

Let's just say, the price was right. (chuckles)

- As in you didn't have to pay for it?

- No, I... (chuckles)

- Did you... steal it?

- Technically, no.

- Dude, you are amazing.

I would have no trouble recommending these phones.

My brother, and all his senior friends

would definitely go for them too.

- Really? Well, if you could send them all my way,

that would be so great.

- Done. Once the right kids start using these,

not just your science club friends,

I think you're going to experience a big surge in sales.

- Awesome, Tyler, thanks.

Consider your phone paid for.

- Well actually,

maybe you can help solve a little problem of mine.

- Name it.

- It's the science midterm.

I need your help passing it.

- Sure, but it's in like an hour, not much time to study.

- Yeah, that's my problem, not enough time to study.

But, you came up with a way to get me answers,

that'll make me a whole lot smarter.

You help me Marshall, and I'll help you,

but if you don't, I'll ruin you... for good.

(slow dramatic music)

(clears throat)

(slow dramatic music) (singer scatting with music)

- And... pencils down.

All right everyone, please pass your papers

to the front and have a nice day.

(students shuffling) (slow dramatic music)

- You having lunch?

- I had no choice.

- About lunch? Are you all right?

(slow suspenseful music)

- Yeah, I will be in a minute.

(suspenseful music)

- He's not doing what I think he's doing.

(suspenseful music)

- Professor Z, I gotta talk to you.

- Sure Marshall, what is it?

- Don't say a word, or else.

(phone ringing) (phone beeping)

(bell rings) (whooshing noise)

(electronic whirring) (electricity zaps)

- Yes Marshall?

- (speaking gibberish)

(slow dramatic music)

- [Josie] Okay, so my mom drops me at this boarding school,

(upbeat rock music)

and I'm thinking it's like all the other places I've gone.

Students, (upbeat rock music)

teachers, (upbeat rock music)

principal, you know, like normal schools.

(electricity crackling)

But, it's not. Weird stuff happens here.

Really weird stuff.

? Oh yeah ?

- [Josie] And what's this guy doing here?

Something's going on and someone's behind it.

We're gonna get to the bottom of it.

? Oh yeah ?

- There's nothing wrong at Blake Holsey High.

(kid screaming)

(upbeat rock music)

- I'm sorry, Marshall, what did you say?

- (speaking gibberish)

- Oh! I get it.

Invented language.

- (scoffs) (speaking gibberish)

- That's very good Marshall, very inventive,

but I can't decipher your code right now

because (speaking pig Latin).

(footsteps receding)

(dramatic rock music)

- (speaking gibberish)

(dramatic rock music)

- Marshall always eats with us.

- Maybe he's hanging with Tyler and Madison.

- You don't, you don't think he likes Madison?

- Of course not.

- Of course not. (chuckles)

(phone ringing)

(phone clicks open)

Marshall, where are you?

- [Marshall] (speaking gibberish)

- Marshall?

- [Marshall] (speaking gibberish)

- Whoa, whoa. Slow down. Slow down.

What's wrong?

- (speaking gibberish)

(phone beeping)

- Okay, you're coming out all scrambled, I-

- (speaking gibberish)

- Okay, meet us at the lounge. (phone clicks)

Something's up with Marshall, come on.

(slow rock music) (papers shuffling)

- [Principal Durst] Something amiss, Professor Zachary?

(papers shuffling)

- Principal Durst, uh, I'm not sure.

(footsteps approaching)

- Is it me, or is half the school suddenly

texting each other via cell phone?

We need to develop a policy regarding the use of the things,

and I want your input.

Students seem to use them constantly.

- Using them constantly.

(birds chirping)

Will you excuse me a moment?

(suspenseful music)

- Mr. Wheeler, three mistakes.

That's not like you.

Mr. Jessup, only three mistakes.

That's not like you.

(suspenseful music)

Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Jessup.

(suspenseful music)

How could you?

(suspenseful music)

- I dunno (indistinct).

(footsteps approaching)

- Marshall (snaps), think you and I need to talk.

- Okay, that's his teacher face.

- This is more than something's up, something's wrong.

- I have a pretty good idea what.

I think it has to do

with the phones Marshall and Tyler are using.

- What about them?

- I found out Marshall's powering their encryption systems

with these.

(suspenseful music)

- Pearadyne?

- [Lucas] I found a whole box of these up in our room.

(suspenseful music)

- Tyler Jessup just received the best grade of his career

on his science midterm.

He only had three answers wrong.

The last three, let me finish,

the same three that you also had wrong.

Not yet. Now I,

I know for a fact that you know the answers

to these questions because they were part of your project

on the the Doppler Wave Theory last month.

I'm almost done.

I happen to see, both you and Tyler with cell phones.

(footsteps approaching)

I was wondering if you used them during the test

to exchange answers?

(water bubbling)

You have something you want to say to me?

- (speaking gibberish)

- Marshall, please, this is very serious.

(suspenseful music) (chalk squeaking)

- (repeating gibberish)

(suspenseful music)

If you tell me what's going on now,

I'll do whatever I can to help.

(suspenseful music)

You're not talking like this on purpose, are you?

- (speaking gibberish)

- Does what you were going to tell me,

have something to do with Tyler Jessup?

- (speaking gibberish)

- Tyler did something using a phone?

(door clicks open)

- A phone powered by one of these.

It's a Pearadyme computer chip.

(fast paced music)

(blows) (water dripping)

(box thumps) (chips shuffling)

- You should have known better than

to use something made for Pearadyne.

- We never know what kind

of effect Pearadyne technologies will have.

- (speaking gibberish)

- I don't need a translation for that.

They were free.

- Looks like your garden variety,

silicone semiconductor, only dusty.

You put these in all the phones?

- All the phones have the chips,

but Marshall is the only person we know talking

in gibberish.

- So, maybe it's not the SIM chips after all.

- If not the chips, then what?

- (speaking gibberish)

(slow suspenseful music)

- Tyler chews a pen like that!

- I'm fairly certain that Marshall is telling us

that Tyler did, or, or caused something

to happen to him, via Tyler's phone.

- Did Tyler text something to you?

(slow suspenseful music)

An emoticon!

We're all texting them to each other.

Marshall's incoming call list

can show the emoticons his phone received.

(slow suspenseful music)

(phone clicks open) (phone beeping)

Okay, got it.

The last emoticon Tyler sent to Marshall.

- And that one was the trigger.

If Tyler sent an emoticon that made this happen,

I wonder if there's another one that can stop it.

- Where did you get the software

from to generate the emoticons?

- (sighs) (speaking gibberish).

(speaking gibberish).

(upbeat music)

- There you are Mr. Wheeler.

Professor Zachary, may I have a moment please?

(upbeat rock music)

I found their exam papers on your desk.

It became as obvious to me what happened,

as it must have to you.

- [Professor Zachary] Before you draw any conclusions,

I've spoken with Marshall and I-

- To get more facts about the apparent cheating

by he and Mr. Jessup?

Tyler, please,

please tell Professor Zachary exactly what you just told me.

- Marshall made me an offer.

He'd help me with the midterm,

if I'd help him sell phones to all my friends.

- Tyler confessed when I presented him

with the evidence of his cheating.

Thank you Tyler. That'll be all.

(suspenseful music)

As I said, Tyler confessed willingly.

As cheating is an offense punishable

by suspension or expulsion.

I just hope,

that Mr. Wheeler was as forthcoming when you spoke to him.

(upbeat music)

(fast paced music)

(upbeat music) (muffled talking)

- And, did you know that it has been widely reported

in the Journal of Teenage Issues,

that there are myriad possibilities,

predicaments, and perturbans,

that the average adolescent faces,

which require him, or her, to take time

in silence to contemplate before responding?

It may further interest you to learn that-

- Mr. Wheeler,

I think I've waited long enough for your answer.

(phone ringing)

I've had quite enough of these.

(phone beeping) (phone smacks)

(sighs) In consideration of Professor Zachary's eloquent,

if over long intervention,

I'm going to put a proposition to you Mr. Wheeler.

If you confess to what transpired today,

I will take into account your high academic standing,

and your otherwise unblemished scholastic record.

You have one hour to decide.

(soft emotional music) (chair squeaks)

(phone beeping)

- May I take Tyler's cell phone please?

Thank you.

(electronic whirring noise)

- So?

- We have less than one hour to restore Marshall's ability

to speak in his own defense,

or Durst will expel him from Blake Holsey.

- Oh no.

- Okay, we've been going over what we know about Marshall.

Could he be speaking in some kind of code?

- It's possible.

All messaging software is based on code.

A message is written, encrypted, sent,

then decoded, or decrypted.

In this case, there seems to be an embedded code,

the one that's affecting Marshall.

So, when Tyler sent the emoticon,

the software decrypted the embedded code.

- A code within a code. Sweet!

- Maybe, maybe not.

Cell phone technology, like all innovation,

was meant to make communicating more efficient.

But, new technologies can have unexpected consequences.

- No one anticipated anyone could use cell phones,

and texting to cheat on a test.

- Exactly, Corrine, but it happened.

It's up to us to use technology responsibly,

or face the consequences.

- Why would someone have created this code

within a code in the first place?

- It's the ultimate insecurity,

revolutionary way of ensuring

two people's conversation isn't understood,

even if it is overheard.

- Who else would need that kind of security?

- Where did you get that software from?

(soft suspenseful music) (keyboard clicking)

Okay, show me the path

to the website where you got the software.

(soft suspenseful music) (keyboard clicking)

It's an old site, with the file transfer protocol

from the dark pages.

I'm gonna try emoticon.

(soft upbeat music) (keyboard clicking)

(computer beeping)

Here we go, "decrypt", that's gotta be it!

Okay, downloading.

(keyboard clicking) (computer beeping)

Got it.

Now all we have to do, is transfer the file to Tyler's phone

through the IR port, pick undo,

and zap it over to Marshall's phone.

- But, we don't have Tyler's phone,

Durst does.

- No she doesn't. (shoes clicking)

We do.

- [Josie] Way to go, Z!

(soft suspenseful music) (electronic beeping)

- Got it.

(soft suspenseful music)

(sighs) (phone beeping)

Undo.

(soft suspenseful music)

Here it comes.

(soft suspenseful music) (phones beeping)

(soft suspenseful music)

- (speaking gibberish)

(soft suspenseful music)

- Oh no.

(soft suspenseful music)

(cheeks blubbering) (phone beeping)

- Oh.

(cheeks blubbering) (phone beeping)

- Marshall, what did I do?

- Use the same command again.

Maybe it's like a three way light switch: low, high, off.

- What happens if it doesn't work, or makes it twice as bad?

(cheeks blubbering)

Just, forget I said that.

- Undo!

(cheeks blubbering) (phone beeping)

(gasping)

- Well?

- (speaking gibberish)

(laughing) Just kidding guys. Thanks.

- Don't ever do that Marshall.

(footsteps approaching)

- So, let's have the full story.

- Decrypted this time.

- Tyler offered me connections, not the other way around.

He said all his brother's friends would buy phones from me.

- That's no excuse for cheating.

- I said no, but he threatened to ruin my business.

It just seemed like there was no way out.

Then I thought that if, if, if Tyler,

and I both got the same answers wrong,

answers that you knew, that I knew...

- You were sending me a help messaging code!

Clever, but you should have come to see me first.

- Or one of us.

- We would've understood.

- You can trust us.

- I know that now.

- Unfortunately, we now have to explain that

to Principal Durst.

(slow rock music)

- So as soon as the test ended,

I went to tell Professor Z what I did, but-

- But, I didn't fully understand what Marshall was trying

to tell me, until I discovered he was speaking in code.

- I see. (sighs)

You do know,

we have a zero tolerance policy regarding cheating?

And you came very close

to almost ruining an illustrious record?

- Yes.

- Tyler Jessup's record has been permanently blemished

by this incident, and his subsequent behavior.

He's also being given a week suspension

for bullying you into cheating.

- How about me?

- May I recommend community service,

say tutoring students in science before and after class?

- Ah, very well.

I suppose you'll be wanting your phone back.

(drawer slides) (metal clinks)

That's funny, it's not here.

(ominous music)

- Grant, come in here please.

(ominous music)

Do you know what this is?

- The obvious answer?

(ominous music)

It's a SIM chip.

(ominous music)

(electronic whirring) (electronic beeping)

- (speaking gibberish)

- (speaking gibberish)

(ominous music)

(electronic whirring) (dramatic music)

- Install it in all Pearadyne communication systems.

And Grant, immediately.

(ominous music)

(fireworks exploding)

(upbeat rock music)

? Oo, oh, ah ?

? Oh yeah ?

? Oh, whoa, whoa, ah, yeah ?

? Oh, whoa, oh, oh ?

? Oh yeah ?

(upbeat rock music)

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