Season One Episode Eight

The eighth episode takes place in November, and follows the blossoming friendship between Yuri Rhodes and Dorothy Halverson.

## Main Plot

While Dorothy takes pictures of the hidden waterfall in Brindleton Bay when she discovers her fellow 8th-graders having a party on the beach. Even though she's shy and doesn't have any desire to attend social gatherings, she still feels kind of left out.

The next day, Dorothy gets paired with Yuri Rhodes, a popular student, to work on a journalism project in Ms. Benton's English class. Whichever pair does the best gets their article published in the Crumplebottom Daily newspaper! Yuri wants to win by doing a hard-hitting investigative piece. However, Dorothy doesn't think the idea is strong enough. Yuri asks to go over to Dorothy's apartment after school to review her photographs, to see if there's anything juicy there.

In the middle of a dodgeball game in gym, Dorothy escapes and hides out in the hallways. She spots her 8th grade classmate, Jia Zamora, crying outside of the headmaster's office. Apparently she is breaking dress code rules because her skirt is too short, and she is waiting for her mom to pick her up. Jia argues that she wears the same uniform as everyone else, but because she is bigger, she gets singled out for violating the dress code. Dorothy is upset and wants to do something about it.

After school, Yuri goes to Dorothy's house. When they enter Dorothy's room, she's embarrassed by her Voidcritter poster. She shows Yuri her photographs and she's impressed. She asks to see Dorothy's dark room.

When they're in Dorothy's dark room, Yuri admits that she lives in the same building as her. Dorothy is surprised, because the building isn't very fancy, and Yuri seems like she's very wealthy. After telling Yuri about Jia's dress code incident, Yuri has the idea to write about the problematic dress code at Crumplebottom Academy for their journalism assignment. They begin researching the dress code and how it has evolved over the years.

The next day, Yuri and Dorothy meet in the library. Yuri tells Dorothy that she gathered some intel from a senior, Lisa Blackwell, who told her to look into a former student, Will Howard. Yuri wants Dorothy to sneak into the headmaster's office and steal his file. Dorothy agrees, as she has a hard time saying "no" to Yuri.

After school, Yuri distracts Headmaster Kirkland while Dorothy climbs into his office through the window. After finding Will Howard's files, Dorothy takes a bunch of pictures and gets out of his office as fast as possible. They head back to Yuri's apartment to review the files, and what they find is disturbing. Basically, the dress code became stricter after Will Howard started taking pictures up students' skirts. Because his parents gave the school a hefty donation, he didn't get into any trouble himself. Now, Dorothy isn't so sure they should be exposing this type of information, but Yuri has never been more sure. As Dorothy's feelings for Yuri become more romantic, she finds it even harder to say "no" to her, and agrees to write the article.

Ms. Benton finally reveals the winner of the journalism competition: Ezra and Clover for their piece on the Jennifer Pleasant Memorial Theater. Ms. Benton asks to see Yuri and Dorothy after class and tells the girls that if the article they wrote gets out, they could get into huge trouble. Yuri talks back to Ms. Benton, something Dorothy would never do!

At lunch, Dorothy sits with Clover, Ezra, and Yuri, her first time rubbing shoulders with Crumplebottom Academy royalty. Ezra gives them the idea to talk to his cousin Apollo about creating an underground Crumplebottom Daily to let the school know about the sexist dress code rules.

After school, Yuri and Dorothy meet Apollo at his robotics club and asks for help making a secure website for submitting anonymous tips. He agrees, but asks what it should be called. Dorothy suggests the name Ask Agnes after the old advice column in the Crumplebottom Daily.

## Quotes

* "Come on, we can't let Clover and Ezra win this. They're probably gonna investigate the amount of calories in the cafeteria salad." - Yuri
* "OW! You hit me in the boob!" - JoJo
* "These are cool. You're like a real photographer." - Yuri
 "Eh, they're okay...." - Dorothy
 "No, they're good. Trust me, I have a good eye." - Yuri
* "I already asked the gardening club if I could borrow their ladder. You just need to sneak in through the window while I distract Headmaster Kirkland." - Yuri
 "The gardening club?" - Dorothy
 "Apollo would do anything for me." - Yuri
* "Isn't your mom a lawyer? She could help us out." - Yuri
 "Yuri, my mom's an environmental lawyer. Unless we turned into a rainforest, there's nothing she could do." - Dorothy
* "Just one question: what should we call this project?" - Apollo
 "How about Ask Agnes? After the old advice column in the Crumplebottom Daily, and Agnes Crumplebottom, our school's namesake. I hear she's pretty cool." - Dorothy

## Trivia

* Dorothy's mom, an environmental lawyer named Aria Halverson, is enemies with the mayor, Griffin Campbell. In this episode, they fight over protecting a nature preserve.
* Yuri wants to write an investigative article about the founder of Crumplebottom Academy, Agnes Crumplebottom.
* Dorothy reveals that her parents gave her the middle name Danger because they thought it would be funny.
* Yuri gives Dorothy a silver bracelet that she wears in every season one episode.
* This episode marks the beginning of Ask Agnes.
* Dorothy gets braces between this episode and the next.