Special Episode 3

**Special 3** is the third episode of Special Episodes of Alex & Co. and the 54th episode overall. It premiered in Italy on June 28, 2017.

## Plot

Alex meets Penny, but she doesn't reveal to him that she saved Nicole. Penny dreams of becoming a singer, but has no courage to enroll in her dream school, M.A.R.S. Alex helps her to find the strength to follow her dreams and a great friendship is born between them.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Leonardo Cecchi as Alex Leoni
* Eleonora Gaggero as Nicole De Ponte
* Beatrice Vendramin as Emma Ferrari
* Riccardo Alemanni as Ray
* Giulia Guerrini as Rebecca Guglielmino
* Luca Valenti as Matt
* Olivia-Mai Barrett as Penny Mendez

### Recurring Cast

* Lucrezia Roberta Di Michele as Linda Rossetti
* Asia Corvino as Samantha Ferri
* Arianna Amadei as Giada Guglielmino
* Shannon Gaskin as Camilla Young

### Guest Cast

* Martin Silvio Di Pietro as Rodolfo
* Rodrigo Robbiato as Host of The Talent
* Martina Polly Lampugnani as Alicia, the fake saviour

## Songs Featured

* Music Speaks (theme song; Alex and Penny version)
* Truth or Dare (Matt and Ray version)
* The Universe Owes You One
* The Magic of Love (ending credits song)
* Live It Up (ending credits song)

## Videoselfies

Camilla Young

Emma Ferrari

The Lindas
 Camilla is very happy about Alex and Penny's friendship. She is very excited to have helped Alex to finish his song.

## Trivia

* In this episode Alex meets Penny for the first time. He is angry after his conversation with Alicia, the fake saviour of Nicole, and refuses her but later they meet again and sing a version of Music Speaks.
* Penny is staying at the hotel of The Talent but she is not taking part of it and lies Alex telling him she is on vacation with her family. Anyway, she is convinced she wants to become a singer and attend to the M.A.R.S. music school.
* Penny leaves at the reception an envelope containing Nicole's bracelet and the text "The universe owes you one" written on it.
* The Lindas plan to take Rodolfo to the hospital and tell him to kiss Nicole, like they were the Sleeping Beauty and the Prince Charming. However, Giada ruins it by making him believe he has to kiss her instead.
	+ After seeing Giada and Rodolfo's photo on a social network, Linda expels her from The Lindas.
* Alex performs The Universe Owes You One at The Talent World for the first time.
	+ Penny, Camilla, Emma and Nicole are shown to be watching him. The last moves a finger after the song ends.
* Martina Polly Lampugnani, who plays Alicia in this episode, already appeared in Episode 16 but with a different role.
* This episode is titled "The universe owes you one" in France.

## Goofs

* When Alex is in his room showing Emma the unfinished lyrics of The Universe Owes You One, Nicole's diary is opened and both pages are written. At the end of the scene, only the right page of the diary is written.
	+ The text on this right page contains the first three verses of Alex and Bakìa's duet version that will be sung in the next episode.
* While Matt is singing Truth or Dare with Ray, he says "*There's no **right or wrong***" instead of "*There's no **wrong or right***" for unknown reasons.
* At the beginning of Alex and Penny's Music Speaks cover, we can see he plays one chord on his guitar but we hear two chords.
	+ While singing the line "*And if I can't explain I'll sing a song*", Alex moves his arm to play a sharper chord in the word "and" but we hear this chord in "can't".
	+ The final chord of the song is also seen before being heard.

## Quotes

**Emma, about Ray and Matt's song:** So awesome, guys! But why?

**Ray:** Do I need an excuse to dedicate you a song?
**The Lindas, doing meditation:** ♪ Oh my gloss, oh my gloss, oh my gloss... ♪