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(birds chirping)

(rock music)

- Josie, you can't cut another class.

You skipped four classes this week.

Z doesn't care if I don't show.

- That's so not true.

Besides Durst is teaching science today

which you'd know if you'd been to class yesterday.

- She is?

- Rumor is she thinks Professor Z is too slack.

So she's coming in to whip us into shape.

Anyway, if you're not there.

- I suggest you take this day to re-familiarize yourself

with the Blake Holsey code of conduct.

- No spitting or throwing cabbages?

These rules date back to 1879.

They're not relevant to teaching today.

- Rules not relevant?

(Durst slurps)

Professor Zachary, that is precisely

where your problem lies.

As an educator, you must discourage delinquent behavior.

- With all due respect, if we motivate students,

if we reach out to them, if we act as good role models,

then students will naturally behave.

(rock music)

- You see right there?

There is a perfect example of why we need rules.

If Ms. Trent is not in my science class in three minutes,

haul her in here.

Show no mercy.

(dramatic music)

Chiralic,

gee, you're late Miss Edwards, detention.

Chirality, from the Greek word for hand.

A basic principle of chemistry.

Posture. (Lucas whines)

For example, our left and our right hands look the same

but we cannot put our left hand on top of our right

and have them match.

Ms. Baxter.

- They're mirror opposites.

- Very good.

Why should we care?

Because some molecules

in their left-handed chiral form

can be harmless while their right-handed chiral form

can be poisonous.

Responsible scientists must know what form

they're dealing with

or (Durst sniffs)

risk producing deadly results in the laboratory.

What do you smell? (Marshall sniffs)

- Caraway seeds.

- Yes, the molecule Carvone smells like caraway

in its right-handed form.

(Vaughn sniffs)

We shall find out today what happens

when we convert it to it's left-handed form.

(quirky music)

(pipettes clinking)

(liquid burbling)

So what do you smell?

- Now the carvone smells like mint.

(Vaughn sniffs)

- Hmm, it's glorious. (Durst sniffs) (Durst laughs)

It's, (Durst sniffs)

marvelous. (Durst laughs)

It's, (Durst sniffs)

Oh, it's, (Durst gasps)

mintalicious.

(Durst laughs) (lips smack)

(vapors zap)

- Principal Durst, responsible educator,

could only have one response to your code of conduct.

And that is to, (vapors zap)

show no mercy.

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

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

Students,

teachers, principal,

you know, like normal schools.

But it's not.

Weird stuff happens here.

Really weird stuff.

And what's this guy doing here?

Is this floating sphere the key to the mystery?

Something's going on and someone's behind it

and we are gonna get to the bottom of it.

- There is nothing wrong at Blake Holsey High.

(girl screams)

(dramatic music)

- Thought you didn't care

if my bum wasn't in the chair every class.

I mean, I'm getting A's.

- You thought wrong.

Attendance is the cornerstone of the educational system.

- Are you feeling alright?

You seem a little uptight today.

- Your truancy an infraction

of the Blake Holsey code of conduct

bylaw 28-A. (stick thuds)

- Fine, I won't do it again.

Can I have my ride back?

- No.

- Z, English is so boring.

Emma Bovary, Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Why are we reading about all these pathetic women?

Who cares about them?

Yours is the only class I ever learn anything in.

(paper crinkles) (paper rips)

Are you listening to me?

- [Professor Z] You'll be serving two weeks detention.

- You're kidding me?

You can't do this.

(paper rips)

- Add one more for questioning my authority.

- What?

(paper crinkles) (paper rips)

- One more.

(dramatic music)

- I think there's something wrong with Professor Z.

- He's mad at Durst, but she has been awesome.

We did the coolest experiment

with samples of our DNA in class today.

Fingernails and hair.

Did you know that everybody's DNA helices

twist in the same direction, to the right.

- Did you know that Professor Z gave me 11 detentions.

- Well, you were cutting classes.

- So stupid.

- [Josie] You guys get busted by Professor Z?

- Yeah, did you know throwing a football

around in the hall was an infraction?

- So apparently is singing in the hall.

- Miss Edwards, infraction, stop.

- (Miss Edwards scoffs) You're giving me a detention

for carrying my pompoms.

- They're not part of the official school uniform

as laid out in bylaw number 1265.

(paper rips)

- I guess we'll all be seeing each other in detention.

(paper crinkles) (paper rips)

- I don't think so.

- Josie not going to detention

is just gonna make things worse.

If you want to do something positive,

just go talk to Z.

- [Girl] Ew, that's so disgusting.

I think that,

- Okay, who let one go?

- All right, which one of you, - Ew.

Ew, what is that smell?

Okay, that is disgusting.

- I'd say the smell's coming from the science room.

(liquid burbling)

(students cough)

- [Student] Oh, did something die in here?

- Professor D, you okay?

- Professor D? (Durst cackles)

- I was trying to convert �-Santalol

to its chiral opposite form. (Durst laughs)

It's supposed to smell like sandalwood.

- Sorry, but that is definitely sulphurous.

(Durst laughs)

- Yeah, I really blew that experiment, didn't I?

Whoo.

(Durst laughs) (students laugh)

It was a real trouser cough.

Whoo. (students laugh)

Oh, oh. (dramatic music)

- [Professor Z] Miss Durst,

may I see you in my office please?

- Why?

What's all the stink about?

(Durst laughs) (students laugh)

- Now?

- All right.

Someone take care of that.

- Where in the Blake Holsey code of conduct, does it suggest

that educators should discuss bodily functions

with their students?

- Zachary, we all have gas,

even you, so lighten up.

It's important to reach out.

You said so yourself.

- [Professor Z] I also said we should be proper role models

which you clearly no longer are.

Victor Pearson.

- Pearson.

You emailed him?

- [Professor Z] Yes, and he responded.

- [Durst] He's made you acting principal

until further notice.

- You backstabber.

- We both thought it would be for the good of the school.

- Your bullying is good for nothing

except possibly your overbearing ego.

(electricity zaps)

- Your dad wouldn't make Z principal forever, would he?

- He's totally impressed with him.

I mean, he thinks a new Blake Holsey High

could be the best school in the country.

- Z and Victor buddies.

This is so not connecting.

- Is it any weirder than Durst being

the life of the party teaching science class?

- Can we get back to Z?

He just sentenced me to cleaning up the grounds

for not serving my detention.

What is that?

- All right, so we'll all pitch in and help you out.

- I'm not cleaning the school, okay?

School sucks.

Z has turned it into a total nightmare

and I am not taking it anymore.

(dramatic music)

- [Lucas] Josie.

(hand knocks)

- Professor Z, I'm not cleaning the school.

- [Professor Z] Principal Zachary.

Miss Trent,

I had hoped by giving you detention

that you would learn a willingness

to uphold the school rules.

But this flouting

of my orders.

- What's happened to you?

I thought we were,

that you understood me.

- Well, I wish I could, Josie,

but your flagrant abuse of this institution and its rules,

- leaves me absolutely. - I'm out of here.

- I'm talking to you.

Missy, if you are not careful, I will fail you.

- You failed me already.

(dramatic music)

- No, no, no, not another word out of you.

- Or what?

- Everybody just chillax.

- Or what?

- I'll expel you. - You can't expel me.

- You're expelled. - 'Cause I quit.

- [Vaughn] What? - No way.

- You can't throw her out.

- I just did.

And I can do the same to every one of you.

(door slams)

- I'm so out of here.

- Give me a C, (pompoms rustling)

give me an H, give an I, R, A, and L.

'Cause chiral means it doesn't match.

Chiral means?

- Mirror opposite.

- Yes, and mirror me, baby.

- I get it, I think. - Yes.

(Durst laughs) - Thank you for helping.

- Well, anytime I could use a pompom.

(Durst laughs) (door creaks)

- Professor D, Zachary expelled Josie.

- What?

- You have to make him change his mind, see reason.

- You're right.

- [Corrine] Okay, Z has become a tin-pot dictator.

And Durst is chill like Z used to be.

It's like they've traded personalities or something.

- I was thinking is it possible

that D and Zachary have chiral forms?

- Like molecules, which have a harmless

and poisonous form?

- Zachary is Z's poisonous form

and Professor D is Durst's harmless form, makes sense.

- Black Hole sense.

- So how do we turn them back and get Josie unexpelled?

- Children thrive on discipline.

They learn when controlled,

- [Durst] Learning isn't about control.

It's about freedom.

Freedom to have crazy thoughts

and to search for answers and not feel stupid.

It's freedom, not control that leads to invention

and to maturation and to producing

responsible, creative, loving adults.

- You're fired.

- Fired?

(Durst laughs)

That's a good one. (Durst laughs)

Fired, yeah, right.

(pen clicks)

(liquid bubbling) - I hope this works.

- Well, Durst turned weird the moment she smelled the mint.

So if we can reverse the mint back to the caraway form

that should logically change them back.

- Making those two normal again

is our only chance of getting Josie back.

(objects thud)

- This place is going crazy.

- Yep.

Do you want my Fremont Park cd?

- [Vaughn] No.

- How about my unabridged guide to navigating wormholes?

I want you to have something to remember me by.

- [Vaughn] Don't say that.

Look, Josie, you can't leave.

There's so much for you here.

You're friends,

the science club. (bag zipping)

Josie, I like you.

- I know.

- A lot.

- This is something I really have to do.

I'm not gonna say goodbye.

(rake scraping)

(crow caws)

- This may not be the answer to what's troubling you.

- Maybe it's not.

But, it feels pretty good right now.

(dramatic music)

- I'd give you a lift but my car's on the front.

- I thought I was gonna walk.

- Ugh, I think I'll join the Peace Corps.

- I think I'll get a job then I'll never have

to read Emma Bovary again.

- Oh, she bored the pants off me.

- Tess of the d'Urbervilles?

- Worse, victims, all of those women.

Weak, quitters.

Blasted. (suitcase thuds)

- What?

- We're acting just like them.

Those fictional women we loathe.

- We are? - They gave up.

They let themselves get kicked around

without fighting back.

- I hate school too much to fight back.

- Why do you hate school?

- I'm sick of being force fed other people's thoughts.

Sometimes I'm scared

that I'll never have an original thought again, ever.

- I suppose we could use some of that anger

of yours to change things.

Nah, we'd have to kick way too much butt.

I'm certainly not up to it.

- Wait, you're saying we could fight

to make things better around here?

You and me together?

Did you do some kind of reverse psychology thingy?

- Come on, Josie.

The revolution's this way.

- What are we gonna do about Z?

- I'm not entirely sure.

- Maybe we can help out with that.

(Durst sniffs)

(Z sniffs)

- Mr. Wheeler, I'm sure you have an explanation

for conducting science experiments in the hall.

Perhaps you'd like to talk it over with me in detention,

- Actually, Principal Durst I'd really rather not.

- I'd beg your pardon.

(Marshall stammers)

All right, then.

See to it that I never catch you again

in my halls with a test tube.

Understood?

- Durst winked, she hasn't changed back.

- She has to be.

- Oh, oh.

- Where's your rule book, Principal Zachary?

- I left it where it belongs

in another millennium.

- Guys, it did work.

- Uh, I'm sorry.

- I'm sorry too.

- You know,

I do care if you're not in my class.

- Care as in personally,

or care as in I'll be punished if I cut again.

- Both.

- So why didn't the conversion work with Durst?

- Maybe there is no D and no Durst, not really.

Maybe deep down she really does have

this impulsive, rebellious side.

I wonder if we'll ever see that side of her again.

- You are to attend every class from now on.

Is that clear Miss Trent?

- Yes. - Good.

Otherwise, you forfeit the privilege

of taking this course.

- An independent study?

- Some challenging reading to fuel your original thoughts.

- Women who changed the world.

- Madame Curie, Amelia Earhart,

Elizabeth I

and Rosa Parks.

- Thank you.

- Miss Trent?

- You wanted me to help you change the school.

That's where you start.

- Oh, yeah.

(sentimental music)

(electricity zaps)

- Well, you messed up my DNA experiment.

Boy, I've got a lot of catching up to do.

- You followed my notes from science class?

- Well, I thought I did.

But you said that DNA was chiral.

That all the helics twisted to the right.

- Yeah, that's what we learned.

- Well, mine goes to the left.

- You know, maybe you did your experiment correctly.

Look at this.

I didn't want to tell the other guys.

- Your DNA helix twists to the left too?

- [Vaughn] Yeah.

We're not brother and sister.

- No, our DNA doesn't match.

We just share this genetic trait.

Could we be the only ones on Earth?

- Like this?

I don't know.

- I guess we're gonna find out together.

(dramatic music)

(upbeat music)

? Ooh, oh, oh ?

? Oh, yeah ?

? Oh, oh, oh, yeah ?

? Oh, oh, oh ?

? Oh, yeah ?

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