Two's Company, Four's a Crowd

Suzu shows up at Emily's door needing backup: popular Carrie Daniels wants her stolen math award found, and a caller with a distorted voice is demanding Carrie's extra credit homework by morning... or the prized autograph burns. But at Carrie's house the clues are all wrong - footprints that wander, shoe marks despite a no-shoes rule, "homemade" cookies that taste stale and store-bought - and when Emily suspects Carrie herself, Suzu angrily sends her away. Blocks later, Emily discovers the whole evening is being livestreamed: it's a trap to humiliate Suzu in front of the school. Still stinging from everything Suzu once did to her, Emily nearly walks away and lets it happen. Instead she turns back just as a planted phone and the "stolen" award tumble out of Suzu's backpack, and helps her partner unravel the whole scheme on camera - this time on Emily's own livestream, with half the school watching. Back at Whit's End, Emily and Whit trade long-overdue forgiveness, and Suzu quietly admits she may finally have a friend.

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0959 Dose of Virtual Reality When her best friend backs out of the school's parent-child video game tournament, Molly recruits her seemingly hopeless grandfather - a police detective whose odd habit of studying the game's mysterious signs might be more than a distraction.

0960 The Jacobs Report: Robert Smalls A slave and boat pilot in Confederate Charleston risks everything on an audacious plan to sail his family and crew toward freedom in plain sight.

0961 Survivor Boy A boy's plan to film helpful wilderness survival videos spins out of control when a fame-hungry classmate transforms him into a fake expert called Survivor Boy.

0962 The Fast and the Ridiculous When a teenager buys a fifty-dollar car rigged with pranks by a high school shop class, her scheme to hide its problems from her older sister puts more than the car to the test.

0963 Mile 151 After a storm leaves Odyssey feeling gloomy, Zoe Grant rallies her friends to adopt a mile of highway - but her simple cleanup project balloons into something far bigger than she ever intended.

0964 As Far As It Depends on Me When the sister of the man who once deceived and kidnapped her asks Penny to help settle his estate, sorting through his belongings uncovers far more than old paintings.

0965 Two's Company, Four's a Crowd When a nervous Suzu asks Emily to help investigate a popular classmate's stolen award, the mismatched detectives uncover clues that don't add up - and Emily must decide what kind of partner, and person, she really wants to be.

1 of 4 0966 The Best Is Yet to Come A world-changing memory breakthrough and a secret teenage romance both hinge on how much the people of Odyssey are willing to risk - and reveal.

2 of 4 0967 The Best Is Yet to Come Eugene's dream job in another city forces the Meltsner family to weigh a world-changing opportunity against the life their son has finally built in Odyssey.

3 of 4 0968 The Best Is Yet to Come With the Meltsners' move to Baltimore looming, Buck fights to hold onto Jules while Connie refuses to accept that goodbye is the only option.

4 of 4 0969 The Best Is Yet to Come As the Meltsners' farewell party fills Whit's End, a heartbroken Jules races against weather, distance, and her own hurt feelings to reach Buck before his family leaves Odyssey for good.

1 of 2 0970 Precious Lord When Trey's worries about an uncertain future bring him to Whit's End, a talking portrait of a legendary musician shares how a life that felt like "a song with no tune" found its melody.

2 of 2 0971 Precious Lord A legendary musician recounts how love, faith, and heartbreak pulled him between the nightclub stage and the church piano - and shaped the song of his life.

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Nicole Victoria Grace Carrie Daniels Madeleine Curry

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Chris Anthony Host Abigail Geiger Writer Phil Lollar Director Luke Guenot Sound Designer Nathan Hoobler Producer Dave Arnold Executive Producer

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Emily Jones stops by Whit's End at Mr. Whittaker's request, and over a chocolate sundae with extra, extra sprinkles she finally admits something she has been carrying for a while: she hasn't just been distrusting Morrie and Suzu - she has been distrusting Whit himself. Ever since the escape room, where Whit knew ahead of time what she would face and let her go through it anyway, Emily has felt hurt and angry, because in that room she truly believed she and Matthew might die. Whit surprises her with a sincere apology, admitting he was wrong not to involve her sooner, and asks her to forgive him. Caught off guard, Emily manages only a halfhearted "I guess... I'll forgive you," and then begins telling Whit her side of what happened with Suzu the night before.

Suzu had shown up at Emily's door needing help with a case. Morrie thought the job was beneath him, but a popular classmate named Carrie Daniels - debate champion, gymnast, and FaceSpace star - had asked Suzu to investigate something valuable stolen from her room, and Suzu was too nervous to face her alone. At Carrie's house, Carrie seems oddly thrown that Emily came along. She makes the girls take off their shoes because of a supposed no-shoes rule, disappears for ten minutes to fetch cookies she claims she baked herself, and finally shows them her wall of awards. The stolen item is her math tournament award, signed by Damien Strafer, a famous mathematician. A mysterious caller with a distorted voice has demanded that Carrie complete their math class's extra credit assignment and leave it in a locker by morning, or the autograph will be burned.

The clues start piling up: dirt by the bedroom wall, footprints through the garden, a muddy scrape on the shed below the window. Carrie's friend Nicole, who loves detective shows, gushes over the investigation while repeating an ugly rumor that Suzu is Emily's "criminal sidekick." But Emily notices the clues don't add up. The footprints go out of the intruder's way, the carpet shows shoe marks despite the no-shoes rule, and the "homemade" cookies were stale and store-bought. When Emily voices suspicion of Carrie, Suzu accuses her of letting her feelings poison the case, and the argument turns painful. Suzu bursts out that she is the only one without a real friend, that even Morrie has made friends in Odyssey, and cries, "I am not a robot." She sends Emily away.

Blocks from the house, Emily realizes what has been bothering her: Nicole, who practically lives on her phone, didn't have it. Checking Carrie's FaceSpace channel, Emily discovers the whole evening is being livestreamed - Suzu is being set up for public humiliation. And here Emily confesses the worst part to Whit: still angry over everything Suzu had done to her in the past, she decided Suzu might deserve it, turned off her phone, and walked away. Only at the end of the block did she remember Whit's challenge to be an example of Christ and a leader, and she turned back.

By then the trap has sprung. A flip phone Suzu has never seen falls out of her backpack, its last call made to Carrie, and the "stolen" award is found inside her bag too. On camera, Carrie accuses Suzu of staging the theft to protect her grade point average and declares she has lost the first-in-class honor award. Emily arrives just in time, pulls her partner into the hallway, and reveals the livestream - then urges Suzu to win back the watching school by solving the case herself. Together they lay it out: Carrie stole her own award, stalled with cookies while Nicole staged the garden "crime scene," planted the phone and award in Suzu's backpack, and filmed everything from a camera hidden behind the books - all to stop Suzu from beating her for first in class. Nicole smugly announces she already ended the livestream before the big reveal, but Emily has one more move: "Not on your livestream, but mine's still rolling." She has posted her own link in the comments, and half the school has watched Carrie's scheme exposed. Carrie shrugs it all off as a joke, but her followers aren't laughing.

Back at Whit's End, Emily admits that running her own livestream felt like fighting fire with fire, and that she confessed to Suzu on the walk home how she almost abandoned her. Whit reveals that Suzu told him none of it - not the case, not the humiliation. All Suzu said was that Emily stood up for her, and, softly, "I may have a friend." Speaking as Suzu's legal guardian, Whit thanks Emily for being there for her. Emily then changes her earlier answer: she forgives Whit completely, for everything, and asks him to forgive her in return. After a teasing "Eh, I guess," Whit warmly forgives her too, and both agree the talk was a long time coming.