A Quick Fix

Trey Calhoun has big plans for his brand-new lawn business: mow enough yards to buy the fancy $1,500 cooking machine of his dreams, paid for with sweat, grass stains, and blisters. But when Sophie's dad Keith rolls up in a shiny convertible talking about "making money while you sleep," Trey ditches the mower to film an online cooking course as "Top Shelf Trey" - and bets everything on it. His grand total? One sale... to his own dad. Then a stranger starts hauling away Keith's convertible, and it turns out quick money hasn't been paying Keith's bills either. On the drive to rescue Sophie's pottery timeline from the repossessed car, Keith finally admits he's been chasing shortcuts for years, and both he and Trey decide it's time for honest work - Keith in construction, Trey back behind the mower. Though if the new company shirts are any clue, Sophie may be the real boss now.

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1031 Now Hiring With Whit heading out of town, Connie is promoted to manager of Whit's End and must make her first big decision: choosing the shop's newest employee from a very unlikely pool of candidates.

1032 As Iron Sharpens Iron When a Bible lesson about friendship sends Wyatt searching for the perfect companion, he turns to an AI app that tells him everything he wants to hear - while his sister Bridget's new friend turns out to be more trouble than she seems.

1 of 2 1033 The Prodigal Twin When Wooton Bassett's estranged twin brother vanishes without a trace, he flies to Alaska to play detective - and discovers that finding Wellington may mean finally facing his father.

2 of 2 1034 The Prodigal Twin When Wooton's estranged twin brother vanishes amid accusations of a multimillion-dollar theft, the Bassett family must decide whether some relationships are truly beyond repair.

1035 Word in the Hallway When a hallway rumor about her spirals out of control, a middle schooler must decide whether staying silent to help her best friend is worth the harm it causes.

1036 What's the Catch? A high schooler starting college classes gets roped into a friend's scheme to flatter a student teacher for fundraiser money - and finds the plan harder on her conscience than she expected.

1037 A Quick Fix When a get-rich-quick promise lures a young lawn-mowing entrepreneur away from honest work, two families in Odyssey learn what fast money really costs.

1038 Accountability, Please On the same day a mom returns to the police force under a difficult partner, her daughter's friends must decide whether caring about someone means confronting her about a secret.

1039 The Great Yellowstone Heist A know-it-all kid's obsessive vacation planning becomes his family's only hope when a Yellowstone camping trip takes a criminal turn.

1 of 2 1040 The Measure of a Patriot When two classmates use the Imagination Station to settle whose American patriot is most inspiring, meeting their heroes face-to-face proves far more complicated than the history books let on.

2 of 2 1041 The Measure of a Patriot Two kids time-travel through American history hoping to find a flawless founding father to write about - but every patriot they meet keeps disappointing them.

1042 You're in Good Hands When a class assignment asks fourth graders what they want to be when they grow up, one kid launches an insurance company and another chases stand-up comedy stardom - and both discover their shortcuts come with a price.

1043 Suggestion Box

Featured characters

Trey Calhoun Paul-Mikél Williams

Minor characters & crew 4 more roles

4 supporting roles

Joseph Calhoun Phil Morris Sophie Hatcher Emerson Dory Keith Hatcher Actor Unknown Car Towman Actor Unknown

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Chris Anthony Host Abigail Geiger Writer · Director Zach Schneider Sound Designer Nathan Hoobler Producer Dave Arnold Executive Producer

The story

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On the first morning of summer vacation, Trey Calhoun is up at dawn loading his mower, because he is now the proud owner of Trey's Lawn Spa, a neighborhood lawn-care business with six weekly customers. His dad, Joseph, is impressed, and Trey explains his goal: he is saving up for a professional sous vide machine, a fancy $1,500 slow cooker recommended by his favorite chef, plus a set of chef knives. He plans to earn it all himself, "paid for with sweat, grass stains, and blisters" - though he does hint that a birthday gift would be faster.

While Trey mows, his nine-year-old helper Sophie Hatcher counts his mosquito bites and shares alarming facts about famous explorers. Her dad, Keith, pulls up in a shiny new convertible and clucks at Trey's thirty-dollars-a-lawn earnings. He tells Trey about passive income, things like reselling and online courses: "Making money while you sleep." Keith himself has just started an online t-shirt store with Sophie. The idea hooks Trey, and that afternoon he begins filming an online cooking course as "Top Shelf Trey," with Sophie appointing herself director, producer, videographer, and set designer. Joseph gives permission to film in the kitchen once he is sure no personal information will appear on camera, and he suggests Trey hand out flyers at the church potluck in three weeks.

That deadline changes everything. Trey wants to make pulled pork with the sous vide machine at the potluck, but mowing lawns would take all summer to earn the money. So he rushes to finish his videos, growing impatient with Sophie's perfectionist directing, publishes the course for $11.99, and quits the lawn business entirely to bet everything on video sales. When his phone chimes with his very first sale while he is brainstorming t-shirt slogans in Keith's garage, Keith congratulates him on earning money without lifting a finger - though Keith has to admit his own t-shirts are not selling yet.

Later, as Trey perfects his pulled pork recipe at home, Joseph gently questions whether the course will really pay for the machine in time. Then comes a surprise: the one course sold so far was bought by Joseph himself, who genuinely enjoyed it. Before the conversation can go further, Sophie bursts in crying, "Someone's stealing my dad's car!" But the man is no thief; he is repossessing the convertible because Keith has fallen behind on his loan payments. Worse, Sophie's hand-made timeline of Mesopotamian pottery, which the library planned to display, is still in the back seat.

Joseph drives Keith to the repossession lot to rescue it, and on the way Keith opens up. He grew up poor while his father worked eighty hours a week, and ever since Sophie's mom left, he has been chasing quick-money schemes - two jobs and four failed businesses since coming to Odyssey - trying to give his daughter the life he never had. His uncle has let them live rent-free on the condition that Keith find steady income, and the deadline has already passed. A local contractor has offered him a real job, but the hours would leave Sophie coming home to an empty house. Joseph shares his own worry about Trey abandoning the lawn business the moment a faster payday appeared, and decides to let his son learn from the mistake, since thankfully the only thing at stake is a potluck dinner. He also quietly promises to look into helping with Keith's after-school problem.

Keith comes home a hero, timeline safely in hand, and announces two decisions: the bank can keep the impractical convertible, and he is going back to work in construction, keeping the t-shirts as a side project so he can take care of his girl.

Some time later, Trey is back to mowing lawns with Sophie, who has quietly renamed the company Sophie's Lawn Spa by "accidentally" printing her own name on their new company shirts. Trey has won back four of his six customers and plans to keep making cooking videos too, building a following slowly, because now he knows that is okay. Since Keith will be working late, Sophie joins the Calhouns for a steak dinner, and Joseph, a brain surgeon, promises to recommend Trey's videos to all his patients - but, he adds, "I'll wait until the anesthesia wears off."