Best Friends Whenever S1 E16

## Plot

The girls jump back to the present, and have a lot of questions for Barry about what they just saw. Drake comes over and asks Shelby out, and she accepts. She realizes that present Barry wouldn't know anything about what he hadn't done yet, so they jump back to the future lab and ask future Barry what his deal is. Shelby jams the door with a pair of scissors. They ask him why he would experiment on them. He reveals that they asked him to. He realizes that they're from the past. They broke into GDD so Barry could use their high tech equipment to take away their time travel abilities. They told him that if they kept their powers, something terrible would happen in the future. They refused to tell him what it was because it was too dangerous for him to know. Drake texts Shelby that he had a great time during their date on Saturday. This means that the future lab is only a week away. Wait, if they had their phones on them every time they went to the future lab, then how come they never checked the date or took a time selfie to try and figure out *how far* into the future it was? Barry reveals that Marci broke up with him. The girls jump back to the present as the guards break in. Shelby tells Barry that he's the guy in the hazmat suit, and Marci breaks up with him. Cyd and Shelby jump two years into the future to find out what the terrible thing is and stop it from happening. It's a dystopian future run by Janet Smythe. Shelby and Drake are still together. Janet made herself Supreme Leader of the United States. Ah, sweet, naive, 2015, when we thought dystopian societies and dictatorships were far away. I miss it so much! Janet supposedly created every major technological invention in the last 25 years. A kid is shocked with a baton and taken away when he breaks one of Janet's rules: He slept when people were supposed to be saluting her. That… actually reminds me a lot of Nazi Germany, and the old U.S. salute, which we got rid of because Nazis stole it, along with a ton of other things. Cyd finds out that Drake is the leader of the Janet Smythe Cadets that enforce the police state rules. People who break them are frozen in suspended animation permanently. That's what happened to Barry and Naldo. But if it's supposed to be permanent, then why not just kill them? Sounds like you'd waste less resources that way. Also, this is just one school in Portland, Oregon. What do Barry and Naldo's families think happened to them? What is the rest of the city like? Or the state? Or the country? Or the world? Cyd tells Shelby about it, but she doesn't believe that Drake is evil. Janet Smythe is going to visit the school. She hasn't been there since she oversaw their clock being installed. The girls try to jump back, but can't. Barry is devastated by the news that Marci is going to break up with him, and tells her what Cyd and Shelby told him about the future. They think it's inevitable, so they break up. However, they realize that it's their choice. They don't have to break up if they don't want to, and get back together. That was fast. In the future, the girls try to leave, but they're cornered by Janet Smythe and her guards. She placed time travel sensors around the school that alerted her when they jumped into their bodies. She's become a time traveler too, which would explain how she invented everything and took over the United States. She installed a time travel blocker in the school to prevent them from jumping out of the future and erasing the timeline. Couldn't they just… leave the school grounds then? Oh, wait, they were about to do that before she showed up. Janet orders them to be put in suspended animation. Drake asks her to spare Shelby. She and Cyd fight, because all day long she's been talking about Drake and getting distracted by him; refusing to see that he's evil. They take two batons from some guards and prepare to fight each other. Janet allows it because she thinks it'll be entertaining. However, it was all an act, and they throw the batons at the clock, destroying it. That's where the time blocker was. They jump back to before Drake asked Shelby out. Cyd reveals that she meant what she said about her and Drake. She was a little jealous. Shelby apologizes, and tells Cyd that she'll always be her best friend. This time when Drake comes over, Shelby breaks up with him, due to the person he was in the bad future. Time travel has really messed up their lives. They decide to not tell Barry and Naldo about the dystopian future, and stop Janet before she gets the ability to time travel.