Super Secrets

"**Super Secrets**" is the sixth episode in Season 1 of ***The Villains of Valley View***. It first aired on July 1, 2022 to 0.17 million viewers.

## Plot

### Synopsis

Jake and Hartley head off to confront Starling before she can rally the other superheroes to strike, keeping Amy and the rest of the villain family in the dark.

### Full Plot

The episode begins with Eva and Vic sitting at their kitchen table eating, as Amy comes in, asking them to sign a disciplinary letter for her from their school, detailing her missing over 32 days-worth of classes. Jake also comes in and asks about Colby who has now randomly shape-shifted into a sledgehammer, and no one knows why or how, as his new shape-shifting powers are still grossly malfunctioning. Amy and Jake are preparing to go to school, until Amy asks why Jake has a big trash bag along with his book bag. He defends himself by saying it's just some old trash he wanted to throw away to help de-clutter his room and his life a little bit. Amy can't help but notice Jake has been acting weird recently and wonders why.

When he goes outside to the garbage and recycling cans in the backyard, he takes out the autographed photo of Starling where she left him the note from the ColossaCon, saying "*I know who you are*." Hartley then comes over to Jake and says she'll offer to throw his garbage bag away for him to be nice. Jake then asks her to let him see the bag so he can throw it away himself, but Hartley insists on throwing it away herself. They then wrestle over the bag until the bag rips open and all the trash falls out. He then reveals the trash bag was filled with lots of old papers he had that had notes, plans, blueprints, sketches, and stories detailing his days and his life as former teen supervillain Chaos, and that he was trying to get rid of it. Hartley then takes the autographed photo with the note from Starling and realizes that Starling knows Jake's secret.

When Hartley asks Jake how she knows, Jake says he doesn't know how she knows, but that he's scared and determined to not let Starling use any leads to track him down or expose him or his family. Jake explains to Hartley about how Starling once saved his life when he was about to fall off of a skyscraper once back in Centropolis, and Hartley then realizes that that's the reason why he's trying to become a better person and be a good guy because Starling saved him from falling.

Jake then says that's probably the reason why Starling let him go when they were at ColossaCon and didn't bother to turn him into her superhero colleagues or to any law enforcement authorities. Hartley suggests Jake needs to find Starling somehow and ask her why she didn't turn him in and find a way to prove to her that he wants to be a good guy and no longer be a supervillain. Hartley then tells Jake that she believes Starling is still in town in Texas filming a commercial and that maybe she can find a way to visit her on set and get him to talk to her in person. Jake then asks Hartley to help him out and to keep it a secret from Amy and not let her find out what they're up to. Amy then comes outside and gets suspicious at Jake and Hartley acting weird. Jake and Hartley try their best to keep their secret and convince Amy that they're just going downtown to help volunteer with Hartley's Sunshine Club, which they know Amy has no interest in being a part of.

Later on, Eva and Vic are sitting on the couch with Colby in his sledgehammer form, when Celia comes in. Vic and Eva then notice Celia is being nicer than usual and are worried Celia is up to something. Celia then tells them she's in a good mood because she just came from a lunch date with a guy she knows named Robert. Amy then comes downstairs and asks Celia if she's seen Hartley since her and Jake have been gone for a while. Celia then says she'll text Hartley, but at that moment, she gets a flirty text from her friend Robert, and she then leaves and says she'll talk to the Maddens later.

Amy then asks Eva and Vic if they should go through Celia's journal that she accidentally forgot and left behind inside their living room on the chair near the door. When Eva opens it up and reads through it, they then stumble across an entry that seems like Celia is admitting to robbing a casino in her younger days, and confessing that she hid the stash of cash in her rental house: the house that the Madden's are living in. They then set out to see if they can find the stash of cash anywhere in the house.

At the studio that Starling is supposed to be at, Jake and Hartley arrive, and Hartley is star-struck. Jake then leads Hartley further inside the studio, until they get stopped by a security guard, Jackson, who asks to see some ID. Jake then tells them he's the clapper operator for the cameras, but Jackson doesn't buy it and kicks them back out. They then sneak back in through a mobile rack carrying several costumes and outfits on hangers, and then when they hop off, Starling herself greets the two of them, startling them. Starling recognizes them from the ColossaCon, as Hartley fan-girls over Starling and asks if she can pet her. Jake then says he needs to talk to Starling more in-depth about something they tried to discuss at the ColossaCon, prompting Starling to ask what is it about. Jake then tells Starling that he wanted to thank her for being an inspiration for him to want to become a better person. Starling is highly appreciative of it and says she's honored. Jake then says he was worried that if Starling didn't know he was trying to become a good person, he was worried Starling would threaten or hurt his family. Taken aback, Starling asks why would she ever do something like that. Before he can answer, Jackson comes back and tells Starling that they're the same two intruders he threw out before and that they snuck back in again. Starling then tells Jackson not to worry about it and says she actually saved him and his family's lives once before from a dangerous sinkhole. Shocked and confused by what they're *now* hearing, Jake and Hartley then ask Starling if they can step away for a minute for a private conversation.

When Jake and Hartley realize that Starling is confusing him for someone else she saved a long time ago, they then decide it should be okay for them to go ahead and leave so that Starling doesn't remember who he *truly* is. Just before they can leave, Starling offers to let them stay and asks them if they want to be in her new commercial and says she can get them roles in her commercial as a thank you to them for being such great fans of hers. Jake and Hartley still try to leave, but Starling insists against their will, and says that she wants them in the commercial with her.

Later on, Jake and Hartley are in costume preparing for the commercial and are panicking because they know if Jake's family sees him in a commercial with a superhero, they may go as far as to disown him, and if Amy finds out about Hartley being in it, she may freak out and not want to be her friend anymore. Hartley then checks her phone and sees that Amy is texting her asking her where she is and asking her if she's with Jake. Just as they try to sneak out and leave, Jackson stops them and says he didn't catch their names at first so he just included them on his personnel list as "Friends of Starling" and says any friends of Starling are also friends of his as well. He then tells them that no one says No to Starling and then tells Starling to catch them before they try to leave.

Back at the house, the Madden Family, save Colby who's still stuck in a shape-shifted sledgehammer form, are still searching for the stash of cash that they think Celia hid in their house. Vic then uses a special detector he invented to find that there's a box hidden somewhere in the walls of the house and that they're going to need Colby in his sledgehammer form to smash a hole in the wall to find the box with the cash. When Eva and Vic take out the box, and open it, they realize it's nothing but a time capsule box with personal memoirs in it. Celia then knocks at the door as they panic to see if they can find a way to hide the hole they made in the wall.

Back at the studio, Starling is walking Jake and Hartley through the script of the commercial and then she tells them to get ready for the stunt they have to do. She leads them over to a large mat on the floor in the middle of a blue-screen setup, where they release a giant animatronic prop shoe that swings down from the ceiling and kicks Jake and Hartley, knocking them down onto the mat on the floor. Starling congratulates them on the first stunt and then says she wants to get a shot of them getting kicked by the shoe from the front as well. Moments later, while they're filming another part of the commercial, Starling, Jake, and Amy are reciting their lines as the film crew is recording them on the giant blue screen set, and Starling notices Jake is saying his lines very nonchalantly. Starling then says she wants to see him act like he's the most scared he's ever been in his life and imagine himself dangling from a volcano to help fit the scene. When he says the line the final time, Starling realizes his voice sounds very familiar which makes her awkwardly suspicious. She then has a flashback of her saving Chaos back in Centropolis, prompting her to realize that Jake is actually Chaos. Starling then leans down to Jake and whispers to him, and tells him she knows his true identity as the former teen supervillain Chaos.

Jake and Hartley are scared when they realize Starling now knows the truth and Starling asks the crew if she can take a break from filming and talk to Jake and Hartley privately. She takes them aside while the crew is on break and asks Jake and Hartley why they invaded her commercial. Jake then explains that he thought that when she wrote, "*I know who you are*" on his autographed picture of her, that she knew he was Chaos back at the ColossaCon, and that she just didn't do anything to him because she figured he was trying to reform and be a better person. He then explains that's the reason why he and Hartley came to see her so he could prove to her he was trying to become a better person and a good guy.

Starling then explains she has a hectic schedule with lots of ColossaCon's, talk shows, podcasts, and sometimes an occasional Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah, and that its easy for her to forget and confuse people a lot of times. She then asks why Jake is in Texas in the first place, to which he explains how the Madden Family is hiding out from Onyx, the leader of the League of Villains, because they rebelled against him, and that they're trying to commit to being a normal family and leaving their life of crime and villainy behind them, at least temporarily unless they decide to become fully good in the future. Starling then asks Hartley if she's a supervillain too, but she tells Starling that she's just his friend and neighbor.

After hearing his explanation, Starling says that she's genuinely happy that Jake is trying to become a better person, but at the same time, she can't let a family of supervillains live undercover amidst normal civilians and that part of her duty is to turn them in to the authorities and the superheroes to face justice. Jake and Hartley then become afraid as they realize she means business.

Back at the house, Celia is serving some lemon bars she baked to Eva, Vic, and Amy as they're sitting in the living room eating and talking with each other. Celia then asks them if they've seen her journal anywhere because she thinks she lost it or left it at their house. Vic replies, saying he hasn't seen it and tries to ask her where does she usually hide or leave other things when she forgets them. Just then, the picture they hung up on the wall to try and hide the hole they smashed from earlier falls down and Celia sees the big, gaping hole in the wall when she stands up and turns around. When she angrily asks them to explain, Vic confesses that they read her journal and that they know about the money she hid from her casino heist. Celia then laughs as she explains it's not her journal that they read but actually one of her stories she was writing for a creative writing class she attends with her romantic partner and friend Robert. She then says if the story was good enough for the Madden Family to actually believe it was true, then that means its good enough to be published as a real book. Celia then takes the journal back and rejoices at the fact that she's gonna be rich if she publishes her story as a book. She then leaves as she tells them they still have to pay to get the hole in the wall repaired.

Back at the studio, Jake and Hartley beg Starling not to turn Jake and the Madden Family in. Hartley vouches for them, and Jake offers to let Starling turn him in alone since the rest of his family wasn't involved in him coming there. Hartley then reminds Starling that she used to always say that anyone can be a good person. She then begs her to give them a chance to reform their lives and become better people in society. While she's talking, one of the scaffolding structures with the spotlights attached to it, falls from the ceiling, and Jake immediately uses his super strength to catch it before it comes tumbling down on Starling.

Starling then realizes Jake just saved her life, but before the rest of the film crew can react, Starling uses her superpowers to freeze time, except for her, Jake, and Hartley. Starling then tells Jake that she'll be taking a big risk if she just lets him go free and lets their family continue to stay in Texas undercover if things were to ever go wrong, especially if they find out that she knew about it and didn't do anything, and Jake says he's aware of the risk, but he promises his family will not let anything go wrong on their account. Starling and Jake then agree to both keep each other's secrets. Starling then asks Jake that if they ever tell his sister Amy/Havoc about her finding out about them living in Texas undercover, take a video of her face and her reaction and send it to her.

Jake agrees to do so if he ever tells Amy, but before he and Hartley leave, he asks Starling if he could have her number to text her and keep in touch with her occasionally. Starling agrees and says she'd love to text him and keep in touch with him just to make sure him and his family are continuing to stay on the right path. After they exchange numbers, Jake and Starling exchange one last look and a friendly goodbye wave at each other, as Starling watches him walk out the door and smiles at him with a flirty and romantic gaze. She then unpauses time and tells the crew that she's great - they assume it's because she's not hurt but it's really because she inspired a super villain to become a better person.

The episode ends with Celia having her friend, Robert, at their house fixing the hole in their wall. They then thank Robert for coming to fix the wall and Eva says it's lovely that Celia is good friends with someone who works in construction. Robert then corrects them and says he doesn't work in construction, he just knows a little bit about repairs and being a handyman, but that his real career is being the city's Chief of Police. Scared, the Madden Family retreat from their original comment, and nervously try to rush them out of the house. But Celia says Robert will be their permanent handyman for the house, especially since him and her are seeing each other as good romantic friends. Just then, Jake and Hartley come home and confront Amy about where they've been the whole time. Amy then tells them she knows what's going on between them: she thinks they were secretly planning for her birthday coming up so that they could give her a big surprise. Relieved that she doesn't suspect anything, Jake and Hartley nervously tell her that she's absolutely right and that she'll find out about her birthday surprise very shortly, when her birthday comes.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Isabella Pappas as Amy Madden/Havoc
* Malachi Barton as Colby Madden/Flashform (Voice only)
* Reed Horstmann as Jake Madden/Chaos
* Kayden Muller-Janssen as Hartley
* James Patrick Stuart as Vic Madden/Kraniac
* Lucy Davis as Eva Madden/Surge

### Recurring Cast

* Patricia Belcher as Celia
* Mariah Iman Wilson as Starling / Judith

### Guest Cast

* Harrison White as Robert
* Shay Roundtree as Jackson
* Ken Heang as Cameraman/Sound Engineer (uncredited)

## Trivia

* This episode was filmed on February 8, 2022.
* Celia's close friend that she's dating, Robert Gossman, appears for the first time, and is revealed to be the Chief of Police for Valley View.
* Starling is the second character, behind Hartley, to find out about The Maddens' secret.
* The official job title Jackson asks Jake to name was "clapperboard operator."
* Amy says that Celia has been "Freaky Fridayed" referring to the 1974 Disney film ***Freaky Friday,*** that was remade in 1995, 2003, and 2018.
* It is implied that Starling may have a crush on, or at least may be starting to have a small crush on Jake in this episode, by the way she romantically and sweetly looks at him as he leaves the studio they were filming her commercial in. It's also implied Jake may also be starting to have a small crush on Starling as well, by the way he asked her if they could exchange numbers and he implied maybe they could talk about more than just making sure his family is "still staying on the right path."
	+ It is revealed that afterwards, Jake and Starling call each other every day until the events of Battle for My Brother.
* In the scene where Jake and Hartley tug-of-war the plastic trash bag between them, either Jake didn't use his superpower or did, but Hartley could somehow match his super strength, leading to the trash being pulled back and forth between them.
* Malachi Barton doesn't physically appear as Colby is shape-shifted as a sledgehammer for the whole episode.
* This is the first episode where the school setting isn't used.

## Videos

Super Secrets - The Villains of Valley View - @Disney Channel
## References

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