W.I.T.C.H. S2 E3

## Plot

Miranda and Sandpit are sent to Earth to get revenge on the guardians. Will forgot about her history test and didn't study. When she blows her hair out of her eyes, there's static. Her calculator starts talking to her during the test, and Will freaks out at it. Since talking during the test is considered cheating, she's sent to the principal's office. She meets the "new student", Melinda. Alchemy, one of Elyon's old friends, is worried because Elyon and her parents have been gone for so long, so she convinced the principal to call the police. Speaking of Elyon, she's really bored with a lot of the duties that come with being queen, like having to personally listen to every citizen's complaint and hear about new construction projects and such. The other girls can hear Sammy (the calculator) talking, but no one else can. All the other machines can talk to them too. Anything with a current, in fact. Susan sends the girls home. She grounds Will after hearing about the test. When she gets home, Irma's dad, Tom Lair, who's a cop, starts questioning her about Elyon. When Irma wishes he would question her little brother Chris instead, he does just that. Sandpit and Miranda take Will's calculator. The next day at school, the girls are called into the principal's office to speak with Tom and two detectives, Joel McTiennan and Maria Medina, about Elyon. They don't have a story sorted beyond "She's on vacation" though, so they each give contradicting stories. I notice that the only parent present is Irma's dad. The police speculate that they don't know anything and are just repeating rumors when Miranda talks to them. She says that the girls actually hated Elyon and said they had a "surprise" for her waiting in her basement. The one thing the police do right is get a search warrant for the house, but I'm still confused. They need a search warrant for an abandoned house that has likely been foreclosed for months? It's likely that the bank owns it, just go ask them, and they'd probably cooperate. Assuming that the bank hasn't given up trying to sell it, in which case it's public property, which you don't need a warrant to search. And if they did need a warrant, are you telling me they got a judge, like Taranee's mom, to sign it so quickly? And with zero evidence, since you need probable cause to get a warrant. I guess the judges in this town are also idiots, like the cops. No offense to Taranee, her mom, Irma, or her dad. Back at her house, Irma's dad starts giving her the third degree, saying that she's been acting strange and disappearing all the time for months. Irma suddenly uses her powers without even trying to. Not only are their elemental powers much stronger, but they've got new ones. Taranee now has telepathy, but it once again only works between them. Irma has mind control, or at least mind suggestion powers, and Hay Lin can turn invisible. Irma accidentally reveals that she has a crush on an older boy named Andrew Hornby. It's because the council lowered the Veil. All of the magic needed to maintain it went back into their Aurameres. It's even why Cornelia temporarily lost control of her powers and why she looked the way she did after they first got back to Earth in the previous episode. The detectives find a new hollow wall in the basement. It's really Sandpit, and Miranda leaves Will's calculator there to frame the girls. The detectives question Will. Once again, I don't see her mom. She leaves through her window and the girls meet up at Taranee's house. They realize that Melinda is really Miranda, and she plus Sandpit are trying to frame them. Will has a plan, but they need to buy her time. Hay Lin, Taranee, and Cornelia fight Sandpit and Miranda at Elyon's old house, and they're awesome at using their new powers! They create a lot of noise though, and a neighbor reports it. The girls can't let the police see them. Irma comes along for the ride and uses her mind control to get them to go to the airport. Cornelia has telekinesis. Miranda and Sandpit escape. At the airport, the police spot Will and run after her. They can't arrest her though, plus the matter is resolved when Elyon returns with her parents, her "cousin" Caleb, and her "new puppy" Blunk. Will and Elyon convinced her parents to let her finish the school year. So Elyon's boredom problem is solved. Caleb will be enrolling too. Alchemy is glad to see Elyon again. Aw! Irma's dad apologizes for treating her like a criminal, and says that he's proud of the person she's growing up to be. Susan receives Will's report card and sees that her grades aren't improving. She requests a transfer out of town.

## Review

The stupidity of the cops aside, this was a really good episode. I like all of their new powers and the fight scene. I also like Alchemy, my favorite minor character. The writers clearly know nothing about how the police and the criminal justice system actually works though. In order to question a minor, a parent or legal guardian must be present, otherwise everything they say is inadmissible in court. So only Irma's "testimony" would be valid. Plus, you'd think they'd check their sources, i.e. "Melinda" first. Then they'd see that not only is she a new student and therefore couldn't have seen Elyon months previously, but also that she has no records. And since she has no records, she couldn't have been enrolled as a student. So she's obviously lying to them. The goal was to throw the girls in jail. But they're kids. Not only would a jury go easy on them, but all of the "evidence" is circumstantial. They could just tell Elyon the problem and have her family show up and testify. These detectives may be idiots, but even they wouldn't suspect a bunch of children of triple homicide, especially when two of the "victims" are adults. And if they did, they'd wear gloves while investigating the "crime scene", and they'd have forensic analysts look at it! Are there only three people who work for the police in this city? People would be taking pictures, marking evidence! There would be cops everywhere, all doing a job. Questioning neighbors, calling airports to see if the family purchased any airplane tickets, doing the same thing with car rental places, train stations, etc. And why is Irma's dad on the case? He has a bias because his daughter is involved! It's also why if this case ever went to court, Taranee's mom wouldn't be the presiding judge, and none of the girls' parents or known associates, like teachers or the principal, would be on the jury. Conflict of interest. Now that I think about it, it's kind of ridiculous how the girls can keep their secret. I know it was 2006 when the second season aired, but no one ever came across a portal other than Matt? There were never any security cameras that caught the fights? What about the damages to buildings and public places? Maybe the council secretly had something to do with it, I don't know. Excess magic or something. Especially since the girls don't learn the glamour trick until later this season. In fact, I'm pretty sure it was just Nerissa and some other characters that did the glamour trick. It reminds me of *The Wolf Among Us*, although the show came out before the game. Not sure about the comics though.