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  • Blake Holsey High was constructed by Jacob Holsey under the direction of Mr. Avenir. Mr. Avenir later changed the school's name, New Chichester Preparatory, to Blake Holsey, Jacob Holsey's son, in honor of him.

    Wormhole:

  • Introduces Principal Durst, Victor Pearson, Professor Zackary, Marshall, Lucas, Corrine, and Josie as major characters.
  • Introduces Vaughn and Professor Middleton as minor characters.
  • Professor Middleton disappears.
  • Josie arrives at Blake Holsey High.
  • Professor Zackary replaces Professor Middleton as the science professor.
  • Josie is confronted by a former Pearadyne Industries worker.
  • Josie, Corrine, and Professor Zackary go back in time through the wormhole to October 4, 1987. They return back to the present.

    Invisible:

  • Vaughn becomes a major character.
  • Vaughn takes Josie's journal.
  • Marshall turns invisible.
  • Corrine finds Josie's journal. There are pages missing.
  • The Janitor takes pictures of pieces of paper, assumed Josie's missing journal pages.

    Magnet:

  • Introduces Madison and Cassie as minor characters.
  • Josie becomes "magnitized."
  • Vaughn is forced to join the Science Club.

    Thursday:

  • Corrine repeats the same day over and over.

    Lifetime:

  • Principal Durst's first seen moment questioning her involvement in what is wrong with Blake Holsey High.
  • Lucas ages 65 years.

    Fate:

  • Vaughn's mother, Sarah Lynch, from 1977, is introduced.
  • Josie and Vaughn go back to 1977. One of Josie's Chi Gong balls loses its gravity field.
  • Vaughn alters the timeline by taking Sarah Lynch's hairclip.
  • The Janitor tells josie to put something which she has taken (Sarah's hairclip) back to where it belongs.
  • Josie goes back to 1977 and has Vic Pearson give Sarah the hairclip.
  • Vic takes Josie's floating Chi Gong ball.
  • The story of how Vaughn's parents met is revealed. Vic Pearson picked up Sarah Lynch's hairclip and returns it to her.
  • How Professor Z got the teaching job at Blake Holsey high is revealed.

    Culture:

  • Josie's mother, Dr. Kelly Trent, is introduced.
  • A clone of Josie is accidently created.
  • Victor Pearson invites Kelly Trent to return to work at Pearadyne Industries.
  • The Janitor sends Josie2 through a wormhole.

    Radio:

  • Victor Pearson achieves successful connection with a Pearadyne satellite in space.
  • Lucas connects a Pearadyne Industries satellite dish to his computer.
  • The science club hears a message from the future: Blake Holsey High is going to disappear.
  • The Janitor takes Lucas' satellite dish.

    Storm:

  • Victor has Vaughn use a tie pin to listen in on the Science Club's conversations.
  • Vaughn attracts thunderstorms.
  • Vaughn confesses taking Josie's journal.

    Who?:

  • Professor Z loses some of his memory. He later gets it back.
  • Information about Professor Z's life is revealed, including that he worked as an intern for Pearadyne Industries for a short time.
  • The Janitor is in the picture of the employees of Pearadyne Industries.

    Lost:

    Robot:

  • Josie's robot goes out of control.
  • An investigator is sent to Blake Holsey High.
  • The investigator reports his findings to Victor Pearson.

    Shrink:

  • Wendy is introduced as a minor character.
  • Josie's mother returns.
  • Victor reveals to Principal Durst that he sent the inspector.
  • Victor has Principal Durst close the front of the school for an experiment.
  • Josie sees her mother working for Victor.

    Wormhole2:

  • A piece of equipment Josie's mother is holding explodes, opening a wormhole which Josie is sucked into.
  • Josie goes back in time to earlier the same day.
  • Kelly Trent goes through Victor's briefcase while he isn't looking (seen while Josie is back in time)
  • Josie is able to unsuspiciously warn her mother of danger. (while Josie is back in time)
  • Josie's mother tells Victor she no longer wants to work with him and Josie returns to the timeframe.
  • Victor believes someone is sabatoging his equipment.

    Pheromones:

  • Introduces Tara and Stew as minor characters.
  • The school's honeybee colony escapes.
  • Madison is able to make the school worship her.
  • Josie compromises ethics to win against Madison.

    Cold:

  • Introduces Tyler as minor character.
  • Marshall is installing wireless network cards in students' computers to raise money for college.
  • The school catches Marshall's cold.

    Genome:

  • Introduces Katya and the gym teacher (Coach Kennedy, who is also the football and wrestling coach) as minor characters.
  • In Science, the class looks at samples of DNA.
  • Lucas is interested in Katya.
  • Lucas is irritated with Stu's bullying.
  • A gene of Lucas is altered, making him more assertive. It is later reversed.

    Brainwaves:

  • Lucas's dad is shown.
  • Lucas and Vaughn switch bodies by accident. They are later able to switch back.
  • In a practice of Romeo and Juliet, Vaughn, in Lucas's body, kisses Josie.

    Chemistry:

  • Introduces Grant (Marshall's older brother), Jarrod, and Will as minor characters.
  • Introduces Magnet 360, a band of Blake Holsey High.
  • Marshall and his brother, Grant, take the characteristics of chemical elements.
  • Grant goes to work for Victor Pearson.

    Ecosystems:

  • Sponges rapidly multiply throughout the school.
  • Josie and Corrine deal with each others personal space.

    Technology:

  • Marshall integrates a smiley code into cell phones text messages.
  • Tyler makes Marshall help him on a midterm.
  • Marshall becomes

    Equation:

  • Corrine's parent's are introduced.
  • Josie, Lucas, Marshall, and Vaughn take the characteristics of their equations.

    Hemispheres:

  • Corrine is trapped in a mirror-universe.
  • Corrine and Mirror-Marshall kiss.

    Nutrition:

  • Introduces Lefler as a minor character.
  • A nutrition bar becomes the new fad at the school.

    Echolocation:

  • Josie's hearing becomes super-sensitive.
  • Josie and Vaughn go into Pearadyne Industries though a hallway connecting the school and the lab.
  • Victor believes Vaughn was the one who tripped the alarm, he doesn't suspect Josie.

    Stopwatch:

  • Josie and Vaughn almost kiss.
  • Josie's watch gains the power to speed up time for Josie.
  • Victor shows Vaughn the floating Chi Gong ball.
  • Josie takes the floating Chi Gong ball back from Victor. She is sorry for trusting Vaughn.
  • Josie's watch breaks, trapping her in "hypertime." Lucas is able to help her out of it.
  • As Josie shows Lucas the floating Chi Gong ball, Josie2 (Josie's clone from Culture), in "hypertime" walks in and takes the floating Chi gong ball from Josie.

    Transference:

  • Josie's mental energy is being sapped from her mind and transfered into Vaughn's mind.
  • Vaughn successfully builds a cold fusion machine, but later distroys it.
  • Josie2 returns the floating Chi Gong ball to Victor.
  • Lucas has an increasing distrust of Vaughn.

    Nocturnal:

  • Josie becomes cathemeral and begins to experience Vaughn's memories.
  • Josie sees Vaughn's mother.
  • In one of Josie's visions, Vaughn's mother tells Vaughn, who is still a abay, that she is going to give a pendant, meant for Vaughn, to Victor for safe keeping until Vaughn is ready for it.
  • Lucas still tries protecting Josie from Vaughn.
  • Vaughn moves out of his dorm and lives back at his home.

    Allure:

  • Corrine and Marshall try to figure out their friendship
  • A new girl has captured the attention of the school's male population.
  • Lucas continues to pursuade Josie of a need to not trust Vaughn.

    Tesseract:

  • Lucas' mistrust of Victor and Vaughn grows.
  • Lucas stumbles across a device which turns the school into a tesseract. The school begins to fold in on itself.
  • Lucas talks with Professor Middleton who confirms Lucas' suspicions of Vaughn and others. Professor Middleton says someone may be coming for him.
  • The Janitor sends the "tesseract" device back through a zipper, saying that Lucas has seen it and to advise him.

    Camouflage:

  • Lucas creates a gravity sensor device.
  • Tyler overhears the Science Club talking about a vortex
  • Tyler gains the ability to turn into other people.
  • Tyler goes through the wormhole and comes back.
  • Under the condition that if Vaughn is to be invited back into the Science Club, Lucas leaves.
  • Josie2 returns. Her and the Janitor say they must prepare.

    Nanotechnology:

  • Vaughn is conflicted by Lucas withdrawing from the club.
  • Tyler has been sneaking into the woods everyday at 5:00pm.
  • A videocamera, cellphone, and labtop shrink to nanosize.
  • Josie attempts to place the nanosized videocamera on Tyler to find out his activities. Josie instead accidently swallows the videocamera.
  • Lucas is able to save Josie before the videocamera returns to its normal size.
  • Tyler is offered a internship at the Avenir Institute and he leaves Blake Holsey High.

    Vision:

  • Lucas cheats at Hearts by marking the deck and using treated glasses to see the markings. The glasses soon allow Lucas to see through objects.
  • Lucas uses the ability to go over to Vaughn's house and try to find the Chi Gong ball.
  • Lucas almost becomes blind by his ability.
  • This episode starts the end of the Lucas distrusting Vaughn story arch as Lucas accepts that there are some things about Vaughn they may never be able to understand.

    Hologram:

  • Marshall launches a rocket into the sky. What falls instead of the rocket is a device of unknown origon and purpose.
  • The device appears to be meant for Josie and Vaughn since it only reacts to them.
  • Using the pendant as a key, a hologram is unlocked from the capsole. Vaughn's mother is apparently still alive.
  • Vaughn addresses the fact that they are going to have to trust each other.
  • Lucas believes that he may have been wrong about thinking that Vaughn is a bad person.

    Probability:

  • Marshall writes horoscope predictions that spite probability and come true; Josie's mother and Josie will be going on a trip to Europe for vacation, Corrine has an "off day," Lucas gets $2,500 from his dad after his dad wins a fishing tournament, Vaughn saves Josie and Lucas from being killed by Stew's poorly aimed javelin; and Principal Durst receives a phone call from an old friend.
  • Marshall's carelessness in writing the predictions leads him to believing that he may die.
  • Professor Z is a member of the Science Club.

    Chirality:

  • Principal Durst becomes "the life of the party" and teaches Science Class while Professor Z becomes an authoritatian.
  • Professor Z and Principal Durst come into conflict on how to be an appropriate role model in teaching.
  • Professor Z, who is made acting Principal, expels Josie after she rebels against him. He later fires Principal Durst.
  • Josie deals with her frustration towards the ways of school. She and Principal Durst vow to change things.

    Friction:

  • Vaughn sees Corrine in old security tapes recorded during the Paradyne explosion. When he questions her about what she said to his mother, arguing insues and the two become molecularily attached to each other.
  • Josie and Marshall feel insecure about what Corrine and Vaughn are talking about and if anything more is going on.
  • Corrine gets flashbacks of erased memories, which were erased by Sarah Pearson.
  • Sarah is revealed to not be an innocent victim of the accident but more like it was her that was in control of the experiment.

    Past:

  • Introduces Headmistress Durst, Mr. Avenir, Blake Holsey, and Mr. Eastman as minor characters.
  • Josie is sent back to 1879 in an attempt to chase Vaughn after she believes that he went through the wormhole without telling her his plans.
  • Josie meets Blake Holsey who reveals the school's origins and the strange specifications of Mr. Avenir.
  • Vaughn becomes trapped in 1987.

    Inquiry:

  • Professor Z, Lucas, Marshall, and Corrine use scientific methods of inquiry to analyze the wormhole, how it works, and its destinations.
  • To find Vaughn, Josie goes back through the wormhole and ends up in 1977 only to find the Janitor acting against her.
  • Josie and Vaughn discover that Sarah Pearson knew of the floating Chi Gong ball's arrival in the past before Vic showed it to her.
  • Josie no longer trusts in the Janitor.
  • Victor makes an effort to plea with Josie to stop her from doing something disasterous.
  • After feeling threatened by the Janitor, Josie goes to 1987 to get back the Chi Gong ball from Victor. Her attempt is successful but it results in the condemming of the school. All is lost.