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S DA FOUNTAIN Odyssey archive · est. 2000
Episodes 703 of 1,068
0683 9 Apr 2011 26 min Part 5 of 12

The Green Ring Conspiracy

A counterfeiting scheme is closing in on Odyssey, and Skint means to pin it on somebody else. He and Buck dump worn-out printing equipment at Haggler's Junkyard to frame Wally, then stage an empty rental house to look like Buck's home - but a suspicious Wally plants a tracker on their truck and secretly follows them all the way to a gated road near Trickle Lake. Meanwhile, Whit and Detective Polehaus trace the mysterious heart-covered disc to Uncle Archie's carnival poster and question Penny, who admits a bearded stranger hired her to design it. And Matthew still has the lost Appleberry phone... so Eugene hooks it to a password-cracking program that could take minutes, hours, or days. Nobody knows the phone is exactly what both sides of the investigation are desperately hunting. The pieces of the Green Ring conspiracy are moving - and everyone is chasing a different one.
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Buck tells Skint that Katrina wants to meet his guardian before allowing him to work at Whit's End. Because Skint is afraid to enter town, they arrange to meet her at Uncle Archie's carnival. Skint then prepares another part of his plan: he will dispose of old printing equipment at Haggler's Junkyard and anonymously direct Polehaus toward it, making Wally look like the counterfeiter while the real operation continues elsewhere.

At the junkyard, Matthew keeps trying to unlock Dirk's Appleberry. Jay mocks the project, but Matthew is more interested in the challenge than in any possible reward. Wally announces that a large delivery of equipment is coming and temporarily sends Matthew's tinkering club away. Matthew decides to ask whether the club can use Whit's workshop instead. After he leaves, Jay tries to learn why Polehaus mentioned Wally's prison record. Wally explains that he made one mistake long ago and feels that people never stop judging him for it.

Skint and Buck arrive in a semi and unload the worn printing equipment. Their evasive answers make Wally suspicious. He secretly sends Jay to attach a magnetic tracking device to their truck, then follows them after they leave.

Whit, Monty, and Polehaus inspect the heart-covered disc from the boathouse. It contains the printing file for Uncle Archie's carnival poster, linking the mysterious man from the dock to the carnival. Whit and Polehaus visit the company that printed the poster and learn that the artwork was delivered by Penny Wise, one of Benjamin Trask's students.

Meanwhile, Matthew brings Dirk's phone to Eugene and asks for help. Eugene has written a program that can test combinations of letters and numbers until it finds a password. He connects the phone to a computer in Whit's locked workshop, warning Matthew that the process could take minutes, hours, or days. Matthew still intends to identify the owner and return the phone himself, unaware of how urgently both sides of the investigation are searching for it.

Skint takes Buck to an empty rental house in Brentwood Estates. Because Buck listed the address on his application, they remove the protective sheets and arrange the furniture so the place will appear occupied if Katrina or Whit checks on him. Skint promises that the Green Ring operation will soon make them rich enough to own several homes. From a distance, Wally and Jay watch the deception and become even more certain that the pair are hiding something.

Connie continues to astonish Penny and Trask with her ability to copy famous artwork. Penny again urges her to turn that talent into a business. Their conversation is interrupted when Whit and Polehaus arrive to question Penny. She explains that a long-haired, bearded man with a southern accent hired her to design the carnival poster. She met him three times at Hal's Diner and gave him the electronic file on the heart-decorated disc. Trask received payment by check from the carnival, but Polehaus refuses to explain why the details matter.

Wally tracks Skint's truck from the false home to the carnival and then toward a gated road near Trickle Lake. He does not yet know what Skint is planning, but he is determined to uncover it.