Best Friends Whenever S1 E17

## Plot

Shelby's dad Norm tells the girls that Janet is coming over for dinner. He's freaking out, because, among other things, Shelby's mom Astrid is out of town that weekend at a spa. He can't cook, and he can't order takeout for his boss. Shelby tells him that Barry makes a great Beef Wellington. She's worried that Janet is coming over to do something to them. Cyd reminds her that the Janet in this timeline has never met them, and doesn't know who they are, which they can use to their advantage. They can confront her, learn how she gains the power to time travel, and stop it from happening. Then they can go back so that conversation never happened from her perspective. That's actually really clever. Barry agrees to cook dinner for his hero, and Naldo agrees to help. Janet reveals to the girls that she's been working on time travel since she discovered tachyon particles in her garage in 1991. She created a device called a tachyometer. It senses the presence of tachyon particles. She detected small amounts of tachyons from Mr. Marcus. Not enough to make him a time traveler, but it meant he was in contact with one, so she invited herself over to find them. She needs more tachyons to develop her own time travel powers, and her scientists have discovered a way to harvest them from Cyd and Shelby. They jump back to the beginning of the night. However, she's in their room, and remembers everything. The tachyometer also allows her to remember alternate timelines that she's in and plan accordingly. She's not going to kidnap them in front of Mr. Marcus, but she'll be back for them. The girls decide that the only way to stop her and prevent the dystopian future is getting rid of their power. They think they don't deserve it anyways. They use it for trivial things, and they're teenagers, not superheroes. Everything has been leading to the future lab timeline. Personally, I'd find a way to break or steal the tachyometer. They tell Barry to take away their power in the lab with a laser. They break into GDD that night. It's changed since their last visit. Janet's discovery of tachyons in 1991 changed how she runs the place. Shelby took her dad's key card to get in. He gets a call from security, and tells them to delete the old key card and issue him a new one. He's about to head over there, but he forgot about the annoying twins. He finds Naldo in the RV and asks for Barry, because he can't find the girls. Naldo says he can babysit. At GDD, the girls and Barry enter a restricted area filled with cameras. They're approached by guards, and the girls jump back. They need stuff to get through security, but they'll never get anything through the metal detector at the entrance. Shelby remembers when they were five, she brought Cyd along for her dad's "bring your daughter to work" day. They jump back, and Cyd causes a diversion while Shelby hides the equipment. Somehow, no one found it for all those years, or threw out the bench. They change the security camera footage to a football game. However, they run into knockout gas, so they go back and hide breathing filters in the light panel. Which was also never replaced. Then they're spotted by guards outside the lab. Shelby hides a digital recorder in the vent, and sets the timer for ten years. It's a recording of them as five year olds saying they got stuck in the vent and calling for help. Barry puts on a hazmat suit, and tells the girls that he won't be able to hear them with the helmet on. All of the adventures they're been on this year have made them so much closer. They'll miss being time travelers, but they'll always be friends. They get their power taken away. However, Janet Smythe is watching them. The next day, the girls wonder if they did the right thing. They had to stop Barry and Naldo from being frozen in the future. The most important thing is keeping their friends safe. When they enter the RV though, they find it ransacked, and Barry and Naldo are gone. Janet is there. She tells them that she knows they're not time travelers anymore, and that Barry is the brains behind all of it, so she kidnapped him and Naldo, and took all of their equipment. They're going to turn her into a time traveler, and the girls are powerless to stop her.