Speed Racer: TNG S2 E5

## Plot

While reviewing camera footage of the saboteur taking Annalise's car and disappearing, something messes up the video. A sudden surge in the virtual track's electromagnetic field messed up the capture. Spritle has asked Conor to take a look at the track to check for any signs of tampering. The others ask Annalise how she knew about the ambush before it even happened. She just tells them that her father was involved with them, and now they're after her. They warned her before the race. They're most likely the same people who attacked Speed at the salt flats. Professor Aniskov tells the class that they'll be leaving their comfort zones by switching cars. X gets the Mach 6, and Annalise gets his car. Conor tells her that they'll get her old one back, and in the meantime, he'll make her a new one. She flirts with him a little, and Lucy tells her that it's cruel to get his hopes up like that, but she says it helps her get what she wants. Speed gets… Conor's golf cart. It's not an approved race car. Speed will be helping Conor repair the virtual track. While driving Jared and Jesse's car, Mitch gets a message from the shadow woman, who tells him to get her the files. So I guess she has moments of idiocy too? Mitch mentions it to Jared and Jesse. They're supposed to steal the Mach 6 files and plan to make a fortune after that. Mitch is interested in the fortune part, so he tries to do it before the twins can, and they go after him. He hides in X's car, and Annalise finds him. He mentions the shadow woman and stealing files before running off. Lucy asks her what's wrong, and she asks for the access card to Conor's garage, claiming that she left her makeup in there. Lucy gives her the access card, but tells her that they're not friends. Mitch breaks into Conor's garage, and hurts himself while looking for the files. He finds them hidden in the first aid kit. He takes them and unplugs Conor's help desk/security system. Conor tells Speed that there's a tear in the virtual track, which would allow someone to get in from a remote location. Aniskov tells the rest of the class that they have one hour to prepare for an exhibition race. The winner will get an A grade and track privileges for a week. While leaving the garage, Mitch hides when he sees Annalise coming. She sees that the door is already open. Mitch gets away, and Annalise realizes that he must be after the Mach 6 files for the shadow woman. Lucy calls her and tells her to get down to the track for the race. The shadow woman refuses to pay Mitch, so he decides to see what he can get for it on the black market. Lucy overhears him talking to someone on his phone, and wonders if he stole secret files. She accuses Annalise of having something to do with it. Annalise reminds her that she took a bullet for them during the last race, so it's the least they can do to trust her. Speed and Conor find the tear… right as bad guys come out of it. Annalise tells Lucy that she went to the garage to try and stop Mitch from stealing the Mach 6 blueprints, and Lucy finally agrees to trust her and gives her advice on driving the Shooting Star. She calls X and tells him to take out Mitch. They box him in, but then Jared and Jesse ram into him and demand the files. Aniskov calls off the race due to their reckless driving. The twins get the files, and they upload them before Annalise and X can stop them. Conor hacks into the virtual track's terrain code to try and get the bad guys off their back. They exit the portal, and the bad guys come out. X and Annalise distract them. Speed tells them to lure them back into the virtual track portal so they can trap them inside. Once they're inside, Speed crashes into the virtual track again to close the gate. The cars looked just like the ones that attacked them before. Speed wants to prepare a full on assault as soon as possible to get back to the tear and see where it leads. Lucy and Conor tell him that's too dangerous. The safest thing to do is to patch the tear with a firewall so nothing can get through it again. Back at the garage, Conor tells everyone that the real Mach 6 files are safe. He doesn't just leave them out in the open. It turns out that the files that the twins and Mitch were fighting over was a recording of his love for Annalise.