Best Friends Whenever S1 E18

## Plot

Janet refuses to let Barry and Naldo go. She leaves, and the girls think they're idiots. Every time they try to make things better, they end up making things worse. Without their power, they have no choice but to go to Mr. Marcus for help. They tell him that Janet is evil, she's kidnapped Barry and Naldo, they know about the top secret lab, and they took his key card to get in. He's angry and disappointed in them, and doesn't believe them about his boss taking their neighbors. Now they're on their own. Barry and Naldo are being held in the lab. Barry says he can't give Janet the power to time travel, but she thinks he just needs the proper motivation. She locks Naldo up and threatens him with spider robots. Barry agrees to give her the power to time travel, and she lets Naldo out. Good thing he's not afraid of spiders, or robots, or spider robots. The girls are looking through what's left of the RV to find something to help them save their friends. They remember that when they first became time travelers, Cyd opened a cooler looking for food, and a beaker of blue stuff came out. The laser went through the beaker before it hit them. That's why Barry hasn't been able to recreate time travel. Janet took it with the rest of the equipment, but she doesn't know what it is. They could trade that information for Barry and Naldo, but Janet getting the power to time travel leads to that dystopian future. They decide to break into GDD again and wing it. They get caught right away, but they're allowed in when they tell Janet that they have the answer she's looking for. They reunite with Barry and Naldo. Shelby accidentally reveals that the secret to time travel is the blue beaker. Now that she doesn't need them anymore, Janet tells the guards to take the kids to Level 9, as "volunteers" in their new suspended animation program. Mr. Marcus comes in to get her signature though, and still doesn't believe Shelby. However, Janet reveals to him that she's evil, and tells the guards to freeze him too. He apologizes for not believing Shelby, and fends off the guards with Barry and Naldo. He even refers to them all as his kids. Aw! It's also pretty funny too, especially Janet's reaction. Nora Dunn was the perfect casting choice. Cyd takes the blue beaker and hits herself and Shelby with the laser again, restoring their power. Afterwards, she smashes the blue beaker, and they jump back two days. They're in school. However, they forgot about Janet having the tachyometer. She still remembers everything. Sure enough, they're restrained by guards, and Janet enters. She went to Barry's RV and took the laser and the blue beaker to give herself the power to time travel. The girls vow to stop her, but she points out that everything they tried has brought her closer to this moment. They don't deserve this power, but she does. Unlike the girls, she'll be a single time traveler. She gets the power to time travel. She decides to jump back and stop the girls from ever meeting. Then they'll never be friends, or interfere with her plans ever again. But wouldn't that create a paradox, since if the girls never meet, they might never get the power to time travel, which means they'll never go back and leave tachyon particles in your garage, which means you might not develop the tachyometer, which is the only reason you even remember any of this in the first place. Would time as we know and experience it then break like in *Red vs. Blue*? Would this world's rules of time travel that Cyd and Shelby have already run into with going outside of their lifetimes and other such things still apply to Janet? I'm assuming it would, although she's been alive longer than them, so she can go back further without losing some of her power or forgetting things. Anyways, the girls fight back, and jam her jump. Barry says that the convergence of three different tachyon sources has the potential to create a thermo-tachyal explosion. He and Naldo evacuate the students. An explosion does occur, but other than blasting Janet and the girls back, it doesn't hurt anyone. It creates an invisible time rift. Shelby and Cyd drained Janet's power. Before the guards can get them, two older girls come out of the time rift and fight them. They unmask to reveal that they're potential future versions of Shelby and Cyd. The present versions of them kick Janet into the time rift. She'll be put in jail by the future versions of them, who take the blue beaker with them to be safe. Once the time rift closes, the timeline will reset, and no one will remember what happened except them. The girls finally stopped Janet Smythe, not with time travel, but with each other. They are heroes. They tell Barry the secret to time travel. The blue stuff in the beaker was Naldo's homemade hair gel. He doesn't remember how he made it though. The girls know they'll get themselves into something else crazy, but they'll handle it together. After that, there's a teaser for season 2, which was only 12 episodes. I don't plan on reviewing it.