A New Nest

**A New Nest** is the first episode in season 1 of *High School.*

## Overview

The older gang starts High School, and everyone is adjusting. Cory adjusts to a new job.

### Season 1

* **Fish Outta Water:** The gang enters high school and struggles to adapt. Sunny starts at daycare.
* Mr. Matthews is teaching older kids now, and Riley’s crew is having trouble. The Baudelaires feel out of place. Auggie realizes second grade is “real school”. Charlotte’s ease in school makes Gunner frustrated. Midlo High has a shooter threat, scaring Gunner.
* Lucas makes a choice, but a choice is already made for him. Maya teaches Isadora how to survive High School. Smackle is having too easy a time in class and tries to do something challenging, with Quigley and Harley’s help. Katy and Shawn get engaged. Gunner is taken off Instagram.
* Gunner runs for Class President, worrying the gang. While Riley, Harley, Klaus, Isadora, and the twins are excited for him, the others worry about what will happen if he loses. Maya and the Baudelaires plan a wedding, and the Smackle gets picked on at school.
* Gunner shows off in the cafeteria, making a name for himself. Riley doesn’t try out for the cheerleading team, and her friends are concerned. Duncan, Klaus, and Smackle find a documentary they like. Auggie feels like he’s too young to hang out with his sister and her friends. Suzi makes an enemy.
* **And The Winner Is...:** Gunner’s election results come in, and the results force him to accept a truth. Zay makes the baseball team, not Lucas. Klaus has a boy’s night with Duncan, Quigley, Lucas, and Auggie. Maya gets in a fight. Suzi has two new friends.
* Health class is a pain for everyone, and the triplets try to learn what the class is about early. Riley acts out. Klaus’s book goes misssing, and Klaus gets Zay and Isadora to help him find it, to no avail.
* At Thanksgiving, Uncle Josh returns with a girlfriend, making Maya and Auggie upset. Harley’s family needs help preparing so the Baudelaires come over. The Quagmires invite Smarkle over, but not Lucas and Zay.
* Midterms arrive, and everyone makes holiday plans. Gunner and Farkle argue over Christmas. Gunner watches Star Wars with an old friend.
* Christmas brings the Stinnetts’ a surprise. Lucas and Zay enjoy Texas, while Riley and Maya are disappointed by New York. Harley and the ASOUE crew have fun at home.
* The gang goes back to school and tries to fall back into the groove. Maya and Quigley become friends. Gunner tries to help Charlotte be a better person.
* Harley and Gunner team up for assignments and Lucas gets injured. Zay gets jealous of Lucas’ athleticism and quits sports. Auggie and Sunny are both sick and spend a day together.
* Gunner goes skiing, and the gang is left without a key member of their group, and try to function without him.
* Gunner struggles to ski, and the gang tries to connect with eachother. Riley and Lucs,who have avoided each other, mend their friendship, Violet helps Smackle embrace her brain, and Harley tries to bond with Zay, much to Farkle’s displeasure, much to Smackle’s displeasure.
* Gunner comes home, shocked at the changes (Riley and Lucas are friends again, Violet and Smackle are friends, and Harley and Zay have something going on.) Isadora breaks up with Klaus. Zay and Farkle are miffed with each other.
* As quarantine begins, Gunner is surprised by the ease he has with the classes. Riley loses it being stuck at home. Maya feels like she’s become a background character.
* Klaus host a Quaran-trivia game about each other, and the teams are crazy. Riley and Lucas, Duncan and Zay, Maya and Smackle, Farkle and Quigley, and Isadora and Harley. Gunner’s non-participation leads Klaus, Duncan, and Maya, to investigate him.
* As the year ends, the gang decides who's going back to school, and who stays virtual. Isadora reveals Riley’s feelings for Lucas, and the kids all make it through the year and look ahead.

S2
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1. The gang returns to school with Harley, Quigley, and the GMW crew in person. They are sad to see the harsh restrictions. Gunner enjoys solitude. Riley and Lucas talk and agree they will wait and see. Maya realizes what happened to Gunner in middle school.
2. Quigley gets a hobby. Mr. Matthews teaches the class about the Black Plague, as a marker of things to come. Gunner recalls his new friend, and her opinion of him. The Quagmires worry they're taking away their knowledge of the outside world.
3. Zay tries to find his new role in the group. Farkle and Harley bond when they take a ben barber class together. Klas and Isadora try to spend time toether.
4. Lucas’ coach is hesitant to let him on the team due to his injuries last year. Duncan takes a newspaper class, as does Riley. Violet regrets taking a virtual Ben Barber class. Charlotte resents Gunner for making her be virtual.
5. Suzi has to sing in the virtual choir class. Maya asks Harley about Gunner, but she says nothing is wrong. Gunner, acting fast, tells Harley to distract her, which she does effectively. However, Riley gets suspicious. Violet’s house loses power.
6. Klaus reads about a test to identify everyone’s fears. Gunner and Riley have a common fear, which resparks Maya’s curiosity, and she seeks Mr. Matthews help. Zay’s fear of being second fiddle rekindles his friendship with Lucas, which was burned when Lucas made the Baseball team. The Baudelaires bond. Auggie doesnt want to take the test, but does, and learns his fear is losing his friends.
7. Maya gets in trouble for fighting the no-mask rule. Isadora and Riley form an unlikely bond when they help track down Riley’s rabbit. The two learn someone may be moving, but it was just a misunderstanding.
8. Zay tries to get Duncan to interview him to increase his popularity. Lucas’ team loses its game because the team couldnt get along. He finds the one stirring it up, and coach kicks him off. Gunner tries to decide if he’ll do Halloween this year.
9. The Stinnetts’ are quarantined for Christmas, and the others do secret Santa. Gunner’s family gets bad news.
10. As Gunner’s Papa lays in a hospital, the gang rallies to comfort him. Harley in particular is sad because she’d met him before. Auggie is worried about his grandprents.
11. Gunner’s Papa dies, devastating the family. Mr. Matthews teaches the class about grief. The Quagmires and Baudelaires reflect on their losses.
12. Gunner takes Drivers Ed, and an old flame shows up. Josh proposes to his girlfriend. Gunner’s mom is still grieving and turns to Gunner. Zay asks out Riley, to get Lucas to do so. Sunny tries to get her sitter to take her seriously.
13. Harley lets slip that Gunner once tried to run away to Isadora. Auggie finds out Riley lied to him about his old favorite toy. As racial anger rises nationwide, Zay feels confused. Gunner is confronted by Isadora over his anti-social nature, forcing him to come clean about his 7th grade year.
14. Riley hosts a girls’ night out with Isadora, Maya, Harley, Smackle, Violet, and Sunny. There, Isadora accidentally tells Maya about her revelation. Ava tries to come, but won’t. Klaus reads Violet’s notes, and realizes she’s close to a big invention.
15. Suzi fails a big test, and Gunner comes to his support. Maya contemplates whether or not to intervene with Gunner. She instead tells the group, angering Mr. Matthews, Topanga, and Harley. Farkle, Smackle, Quigley, Violet, and Harley get an opportunity. Katy and Shawn get married.
16. Charlotte realizes she’s going to not get the sentimental photo she’d wanted. Klaus tries to win Isadora back, with help from Zay and a reluctant Duncan. Zay also convinces Quigley to pursue Maya.
17. Gunner comes in for an AP test, and his friends try to talk to him. Auggie and Ava fight. Sunny looks forward to school ending. The Jack-STEM Five make up their minds.
18. As school ends, summer brings new hope. The crew goes to FC Camp, where Gunner comes clean to his friends. Riley and Luas go to the banquet together, as do Quigley and Maya as friends, Violet and Duncan, and Farkle and Smackle.

S3
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1. Gunner comes back hopeful and ready for the year, but his friends are concerned about how long it’ll last. Quigley comes back without his brother.
2. Gunners new classes are hard, and he fears the end. Riley and Maya dont ave classes tgether. Isadora submits poems to a large contest. Brooke is teaching at a STEM school, but the kids are not advanced.
3. Gunner explains the reasons for his happiness to his friends. Maya and Quigley go out on a date, but it is a mess. Farkle and Smackle try to challenge each other in the face of another easy school year.
4. Zay learns a secret about Lucas. Gunner makes a new friend. The Quagmire parents go on a business trip, leaving the triplets to fend for themselves.
5. The gang notices Gunner has been distant lately, and Harley goes to his gospel meeting to check on him. Riley and Maya convince the STEM kids to make a haunted house for Halloween. Duncan realizes he likes riley.
6. Homecoming week has come: the pairings are Smarkle, Mayigly, Dunclet, Kladora, and Rucas, who go as friends. Harley’s sisters show uo to surprise the family.
7. Gunner’s phone is taken. As thanksgiving rolls around, the Diaz’s go to Massechusetts to Rachel and Georgie, the Matthews go to their parents and leave Maya aloe, Sunny convinces the Baudelaire to start a food drive, and the Quagmires get quarantined.
8. Katy and Shawn give Maya a surprise, Lucas wants to tell Riley he like her, but so does Duncan. Lucas ends up getting their fist, and the two gte back together.. Zay asks out a girl. Violet and Smarkle work together to figure out her invention, but Violet eventually turns to Harley.
9. Covid hits th Stinnetts during christmas again. Zay spoils No Way Home for Farkle, and the two argue. The Baudelaires go to France for Christmas. At the end, all the complaining families bond, and christmas is saved. Smackle is shocked by the culture of Mexico.
10. Lucas wants to spend time with her girlfriend, but Riey and Duncan end up together on valentines day, trying to figure out what is wrong with Gunner, whose grades are slipping fast. Riley gets conflicted by her crushes, and turns to Gunner for help. Smarkle breaks up. Za realizes he is a good comedian.
11. Isadora finds Gunner’s post about his parents and tells the group. Lucas goes to his father for help, who defends Garrison. Zay’s grandmother is sick, and the Babineaux family might move out to be with her. While driving, Violet hits a dead hog.
12. Zay goes to Mr. Matthews for advice on leaving. As the day nears for Ethan to graduate, Harley fears being the oldest. Violet’s research suffers water damage and the smart people help her salvage what she can. Gunner gets his license.
13. As the yearbook is nearly done, Gunner learns he is not wellliked by his peers. Sunny gets bit by a kid. Maya and Quigley are still dating, and Maya thinks shes falling hard. Riley and Duncan, now a powr couple, try to tell the story of Ukraine, but it falls on deaf ears.
14. Isadora gives up poetry, and needs a career. Auggie fails a test, and feels like a failure. Klaus helps Diley publish a blog post abut current events. Maya worries abut being a sister. Gunner’s grades get worse, as does his physical well-being. Zay figures out he’s moving.
15. As a purely GMW episode, the crew is stuck in a bank, where revelations come out.
16. Lucas realizes his feelings for Riley, thanks to Uncle Josh. Violet’s parents force her to hang out with others, and she ends up liking someone. Kladora says “I love you”. Suzi gets a job.
17. Maya tries to break up with Quigley, as she fears she’s not good or prepared enoughfor him. As arguments arise in the GMW crew as Zay moves, the Baudelaires work up a goodbye present for him. Zay finds Gunner, and tells him everything he needs to hear. The Quagmires get a job offer in Canada.
18. Trivia week has come, as have finals. Gunner mnages to pass his classes, and makes all the questions about the times the group has helped eachother, nd him. They all decide to come to Lake Ridge together next year. Lucas confesses his feelings to Riley, and they part as friends. He tells Gunner to be himself, not his father. The Quagmires decide to stay, but the Baudelaires consider taking the job.

S4
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1. Riley is shocked at the change and pressure of senior year, Maya got a summer hair change, Farkle regrets going back to basic school and misses the Texans. In Texas, Lucas and Zay are avoided, as they are new kids and held back a year. Since Maya is popular, Quigley keeps getting trashed by kids, much to Isadora’s dismay. Violet and Klaus are just trying to get by.
2. The gang finds out the Baudelaires might move to Idaho, and everyone freaks out. Isadora doesn’t want them to break up, and Farkle and Violet started a spark during the summer.
3. Riley tries to join the school play, but she is too playful for them. Gunner pulls some strings and gets her in. Farkle tries to woo Harley, but comes across arrogant.
4. Gunner’s yearly trip to Louisiana comes around. Riley, Duncan, Isadora, and Klaus have an idea.
5. Maya’s brother is born, named Max. As everyone gawkes over the baby, Farkle realizes he wants a sibling. The Baudelaires reminisce on Sunny’s birth, and Gunner struggles in school.
6. As decision day nears, the gang tries everything to delay it. Eventually, the Baudelaires decide to work from home until Klaus graduates, with Minkus Int. helping them.
7. Isadora learns about Riley’s therapist, and considers it as a career. While on a “college visit”, Lucas stops by, and tensions are high with Duncan. Lucas comments on the Farkle/Harley spark, creating more tension.
8. Maya/Quigley and Duncan/Riley go on a double date, which bombs. Smackle worries she’ll end up alone, and goes to Gunner. Zay’s grandmother gets worse.
9. Riley gets a rejection letter, prompting a tailspin. The Quagmires insult the STEM kids by telling Gunner his plans are too small. Suzi struggles in high school, and Gunner intervenes, reforming their bond.
10. Lucas comes back for the holidays, as does Zay. Riley jokingly planting mistletoe lands her in hot water with most of the couples, but Farkle lures Harley under it for a heart-to-heart.
11. Zay’s grandmother dies, and the entire GMW crew takes a weekend trip to Austin to see him. Harley has to drive her siblings everywhere all day. Klaus and Violet, having been on bad terms after episode 8, work it out.
12. On valentines day, Smackle, Lucas, Zay, and Gunner trade woes. Auggie babysits Sunny but ends up feeling insecure beside the smart child.
13. Prom comes and the gang decides not to do dates, in order to fight the tradition. In the end, it's revealed they did it for gunner, who is fine with the dating. Zay arrives and goes with Smackle, and the normal couples go together. Violet and Gunner spend the night at their houses.
14. During their last spring break, the Seniors all try to have a perfect week. They recall the Covid spring.
15. Senior skip day comes around, but not everyone participates. Duncan takes a leap of faith. Gunner fears he won't be remembered by people and sets out to make his legacy.
16. Gunner forces the couples to be “married” for a week, and ideals clash. Suzi realizes she’ll miss her brother. Smackle decides to wait on romance, disappointing Zay. Gunner hires a mariachi band to follow Alloway around all day.
17. Graduation has come for the Seniors. Life decisions are made. Everyone reunites for the end. As everyone leaves, the crew turns around, and Sunny says “not over”