His Secrets

**His Secrets** is the first episode of season 2 of Metal Family.

## Plot

Dee goes on a school trip to a laboratory with unexpected results.

## Summary

The episode starts with Glam cooking breakfast for his family while the kids get ready for school. Dee has to remind Heavy where he placed his homework before he runs off, with Glam throwing Heavy's breakfast in a paper bag at him and Heavy catching it with his mouth, causing Vicky to scold him. Glam then serves Vicky her breakfast and she is disappointed that he made her something healthy instead of bacon but Glam simply lectures her about how eating too much bacon can cause memory loss. As an annoyed Vicky eats her food with her hand she asks Dee, referring to him as the "little princess", about why isn't he following his brother to school and Glam explains that Dee will arrive later since he has a school trip and Dee offends his mother by claiming that since she forgot about it she should "lay off the bacon", this results in his angry mother demanding Dee to hand over his phone so that she can check it but Glam talks her out of it, claiming that Dee is old enough to have his secrets. Vicky then glares at Dee and tells him that if he isn't going to eat he better leaves and Dee replies that he was just doing that and leaves the house, with Vicky calling him a jerk.

Dee and his classmates are taken to a laboratory, where a scientist talks to them about their experiments in a room full of rats used for animal testing. As the professor talks, Dee notices that a black rat is trying to escape and tries to speak up but doesn't get the chance to and in the mean time, another rat escapes so the professor has another worker kill it with an axe in front of the kids, despite the teacher's objections and the black rat Dee was watching manages to escape it's cage and sneaks into Dee's school bag. Dee tries to take the rat out of his bag but the professor notices and bans him from touching his school bag since it's against the rules for the kids to get anything in or out of their bags so Dee, after insulting the doctor for touching his bag, sees no choice but to let the rat stay. The tour goes on without any more problems until another employee tells the doctor, who was just bidding goodbye to everyone, that the black rat had escaped and put the place in a lockdown, but to no avail. At the bus, Dee ponders on what to do with the rat when a girl notices it and for the rest of the trip Dee is surrounded by his classmates who admire the little black rat.

Back in Dee's classroom, his classmates are still surrounding him and the rat as he sits on his desk, looking annoyed at all the unwanted attention until the teacher arrives and everyone take their seats while the rat goes back to Dee's bag. The students all go quiet about the subject while the teacher proceeds with the lesson while Diana, a girl who sits next to Dee, stares at him, further annoying Dee. The teacher calls out Diana for this and asks her a question but she doesn't know the answer so she looks at Dee for help but he gives her the wrong answer on purpose, embarrassing her, while he gives the correct answer, impressing the teacher. Suddenly, the rat sneaks out of Dee's bag and soils the teacher's shoe before returning to it's hiding place. The teacher notices it and demands to know who brought it to class so Diana, wanting to get back at Dee for what he did, admits that Dee brought it with him from the laboratory, enraging the teacher.

When Dee returns home, he walks in on Glam's office and tells his father that he has been called to the school because the teacher "is seeing imaginary rats" so Glam leaves what he is doing and gets ready. At school, the teacher is shocked by Glam's appearance while Glam sits down and recounts that he was called to the school because the teacher had problems with his son's appearance and behavior but the teacher denies it and tells him that he called Glam because Dee "brought his pet to school" but Glam, believing what Dee told him, recommends some medication so that he won't hallucinate anymore but when the teacher shows him the shoe that the rat soiled, Glam has doubts and opts for not letting the glitter bomb he brought with him go off.

When Glam returns home, he goes to Dee's room and talks about how well the meeting went while checking Dee's drawers until he reaches a locked box and wants to know what Dee is hiding there, but Dee reminds him that he is old enough to have his secrets so after taking a long look at his eldest son he reminds Dee about the "No Pets" rule in their household and even as he leaves he still peeks though Dee's door while repeating "Even fish!" until Heavy asks what Glam is doing so he finally backs off. Once he is out of sight, Dee breathes a sigh of relief and opens the box, revealing that he has turned it into a temporary home for the rat until he can find it a home. He then goes to his laptop and asks his online friend if they like rats and they answer positively but "only black rats". Dee is very pleased by this and tells the rat that this is its last chance and that he hopes it doesn't stink too much so that his parents won't find out about it.

## Trivia

* **Episode's Playlist:**
	+ NEMDIS - The Unconscious
	+ Lamb of God - What I've Become
	+ Twisted Sister - We're not gonna take it
	+ Ghost - Rats
* This marks the first appearance of Diana and Dee's classmates as well as his history teacher.
* It is revealed that Dee's friend has an Instagram account and that she likes rats but only black ones, meaning that Dee will give her the rat.
* This is the second time Glam is called to school and takes a glitter bomb with him but unlike in "Father To School" Glam didn't let the glitter bomb explode in the classroom after finding that the teacher had a valid argument against Dee.