A Little Havoc

**"A Little Havoc"** is the seventh episode in Season 1 of ***The Villains of Valley View***. It first aired on July 8, 2022 to 0.18 million viewers.

## Plot

### Synopsis

When Amy agrees to help Hartley babysit a young neighbor girl, Scarlett, she learns that Scarlett is a huge fan of Havoc, so Amy starts to “mentor” her.

### Full Plot

The episode begins at Valley View High School with Amy going through her locker in the hallway. She then takes the peeling from her banana she was eating and because she's too lazy to go throw it away in the trash can at the other end of the hallway, she tosses it behind her head, thinking she's tossing it on the floor. Unbeknownst to her, she *actually* tosses the banana peel onto Hartley's head, who was coming up behind her wearing her Sunshine Club t-shirt. Hartley angrily scolds Amy for littering in the school hallway and says that she and the Sunshine Club just got finished cleaning trash and litter from around the school, most of which was actually Amy's. Hartley then sternly warns Amy that she can't keep continuing to engage in negative and bad behaviors and not expect the bad consequences to eventually catch up with her.

After school, when Jake and Amy return home, they are surprised to see Eva and Vic with a ventriloquist dummy that resembles Colby. When Amy asks why they have the dummy, Eva reveals that it the dummy actually *is* Colby, and that his shape-shifting powers are still malfunctioning and making him turn into random things back and forth, which now includes being a ventriloquist dummy. Colby then begins cracking and reciting stand-up comedy routine jokes, but he only manages to annoy the Madden Family as they leave out of the room.

After they leave, Amy stays in the living room with Colby the ventriloquist doll, as Hartley comes to the door and rings the doorbell. When Amy opens the door and lets her in, Hartley asks Amy if she can help her with spending time with and babysitting a certain 11-year-old fifth grade girl she knows named Scarlett, whom she's been assigned to as a mentor for her Sunshine Club mentoring program. Hartley explains she can't host Scarlett at her and Celia's house because her grandmother is having a special game night with her friends, and that she needs Amy to let her host Scarlett at the Madden House. Amy at first doesn't want to, but when Scarlett herself rings the doorbell, Amy realizes Hartley already told her she could come over to their house.

When Scarlett comes in, she greets Hartley and Amy but interrupts their etiquette small talk to say she actually needs to hurry up and go down to the harbor later on that day and sign off on a shipment of hair scrunchies she and her parents ordered from Guatemala. She then says her and her family will be selling the hair scrunchies and she'll be taking a few to sell at her elementary school. Scarlett then notices Colby as a ventriloquist doll on the couch, and remarks at how it looks creepy, until Colby actually speaks and responds back to her with a snide insult. Amy and Hartley then tell Scarlett the ventriloquist dummy is a smart, robotic dummy that belongs to Amy's brother, and that its programmed to talk back to you when you talk to it or try to insult it, so that Scarlett won't suspect anything weird.

Hartley then takes Colby the ventriloquist dummy and throws him into the kitchen so that they can get him out of their hair and it can just be the three of them. After doing so, Hartley asks Scarlett what's her favorite doll(s) to play with, to which she responds she loves playing with her Havoc doll, because she looks up to Havoc as her favorite supervillain. Hartley is shocked to learn that Scarlett has a supervillain as her idol, but Amy is flattered and actually says she's quite happy about the revelation of Scarlett admiring Havoc as her favorite supervillain and role model.

Meanwhile, Vic and Eva are downstairs sitting at a desk in their secret underground lair working on a contraption when Jake comes downstairs and asks for their help with a problem he's having. He then tells them that his super-strength has been getting significantly weaker for some reason and he doesn't know why. Eva reveals her electricity powers have also been getting weaker as well, but Vic tells them both that it's just superpower atrophy, meaning that it's normal for their superpowers to get weaker sometimes when they haven't used them for a while.

Back upstairs in the living room, Amy is excitedly and happily talking with Scarlett about her being a huge fan of Havoc, and she also tells Scarlett that she's a big fan of her as well. Hartley tries to change the subject and tries to get Scarlett to play a game with her she made up called the "Self-Esteem Game" to help boost each other's self esteem by saying nice compliments to each other. Scarlett calls the game lame and says she would rather keep talking about Havoc and her evil character traits and evil schemes with Amy. Amy is happy to oblige, but Hartley fears Amy is hogging Scarlett away from her and being a bad influence on her.

Hartley then pulls Amy aside and chides her for hogging Scarlett and encouraging her bad behavior and bad mindsets, and being a negative role model to her, while she's trying to be positive role model towards her. Scarlett then says she wants to go inside the kitchen and eat some junk food, to which Hartley stops her and forbids it. Amy then tells Scarlett that yes she can go and get some junk food out of their kitchen if she wants some because it's her house and she has her permission. As Scarlett leaves the two of them, Amy and Hartley glare at each other until Amy says she knows what she's doing and assures Hartley that everything will be okay and she then follows Scarlett into the kitchen as well.

In the kitchen, Amy and Scarlett sit at the kitchen table talking about Havoc again until Scarlett says she actually wishes Amy was her mentor instead of Hartley, because she enjoys Amy more and feels like Hartley is lame and boring. When Amy hears this, she then tries to convince Scarlett that Hartley isn't lame and that she can be cool if she gives her a chance and appreciates her as a mentor. Amy then leaves back outside the kitchen to go find Hartley, and when she leaves Scarlett by herself, Colby as a ventriloquist dummy calls out to her from the floor. Colby then asks her to pick him up off the floor, and Scarlett does so, but not for the reason he thinks: when he asks her to take him out of the kitchen, she instead takes him outside and threatens to get rid of him and throw him away.

Back in the lair in the basement, Vic has Eva and Jake wearing electronic headbands connected to a machine he invented (which he built using stolen parts from one of Celia's old cars) which he says will help them restore their powers to normal. When he powers it up, it sends a powerful and painful electroshock through them which causes them to stagger and flinch in pain. When he powers it off, Eva and Jake learn that the machine accidentally switched their powers, giving Eva Jake's super-strength, and giving Jake Eva's electric shock powers.

Back upstairs in the living room, Amy and Hartley are on the couch talking about Scarlett. Amy apologizes to Hartley for hogging Scarlett and for being a bad influence on her with trying to encourage her troublemaking behaviors; Hartley forgives her and says she'll go talk to Scarlett and sort things out with her. When they go back inside the kitchen, Scarlett confesses to them that she got rid of the Colby ventriloquist doll and says she threw him away in the garbage can outside. Shocked and frightened, Harltey and Amy then rush outside to see if they can go find and retrieve the doll when they see the local garbage truck has already emptied their garbage can.

When they come back, Amy and Hartley are covered in dirt and garbage from looking for the Colby doll through the city landfill, while Scarlett teases at how ridiculous they look. Scarlett then confesses to Amy and Hartley that she actually didn't throw the doll away, but she actually gave the doll away to a little girl down the street she met outside who was the daughter of one of their neighbors. Amy then angrily scolds and reprimands Scarlett for taking the doll without permission and giving it away, and says she had no right to take it or even touch it. Scarlett then angrily responds back to Amy and says Amy is just like Hartley and that they're both "fun-killers". She then leaves as she says she doesn't want either one of them to be her mentor.

In the secret lair downstairs, Jake and Eva are still trying to figure out how to swap their powers back with Vic's invention, although Eva is starting to really enjoy the super-strength. Vic says they can hook them back up to the device again and reverse the original process to give them their respective correct powers back. Eva then says she actually doesn't want to get rid of the super-strength because she's starting to enjoy it too much.

In the backyard outside, Amy and Hartley are panicking as they still haven't found Scarlett and are afraid that she ran away. Suddenly, cheese curl chips rain down on their heads from above, until they look up and realize Scarlett is up in the tree in their backyard, eating cheese curls. Amy then says she'll climb up the tree and talk to Scarlett herself. While she's up there, Amy tries to impress upon Scarlett that she can't keep continuing in negative and troublemaking behavior and not expect bad consequences to catch up with her and badly affect her. Amy also tries to connect with Scarlett because they admit to both having bad reputations for their bad behaviors in the past, and tells her that she also should give Hartley a second chance. Scarlett says she'll consider it but that Hartley needs to lay off the rules just a little bit. Scarlett also reveals another reason why she looks up to Havoc is because she's strong, doesn't care what others think about her, and always stands up for herself. Amy is flattered to hear this and says Scarlett should take some of Havoc's good qualities, and some of Hartley's good qualities and use those to become a better person. Scarlett agrees as they then climb down the tree to go find Hartley.

Back in the secret lair, Vic and Jake are still trying to convince Eva to let them swap her and Jake's powers back to normal but Eva stubbornly refuses. They then tell her they're worried she may fly into fits of rage and accidentally hurt people or destroy things with her super-strength. She angrily stomps her foot, claiming she doesn't have any problems with her temper, until she accidentally stomps a hole in the floor and falls even further and deeper into the ground. She then concedes and allows Jake and Vic to hook her up to the machine.

Back upstairs, Scarlett apologizes to Hartley for calling her lame, ignoring her, and being disobedient to her from earlier and says she'd like to give Hartley another chance as her mentor. She even says she'd like to play the self-esteem game that Hartley came up with from earlier. Hartley forgives her and says she'd be honored to be her mentor, but says first before they can do anything else, they still need to find the neighbors who took the Colby doll. Scarlett then reveals she actually texted them to come over with the Colby Doll. At the door, the neighbor family and their daughter, Kylie, that she gave the Colby doll to, stand in the doorway and greet Hartley and Amy. Scarlett then goes over to Kylie, and trades her Havoc doll for the Colby doll back. Kylie is excited to get the Havoc doll and says she loves Havoc, as she gives the Colby doll to Scarlett, who hands him to Amy.

As the episode ends, Amy and Hartley are talking in the living room as Amy tells Hartley she wants to take her advice and actually start throwing away her trash in the right place where it belongs, including her math textbooks since she hates her math class. Jake, Eva, and Vic then come into the living room and tell Amy, Colby, and Hartley about what they had been up to down in the lair in the basement. Eva then says after the long day they had, she wants to go out for a walk for fresh air, until she accidentally tears the front door off the hinges, revealing she may still have a little bit of super-strength still left in her.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Isabella Pappas as Amy Madden/Havoc
* Malachi Barton as Colby Madden/Flashform (Voice Only)
* Reed Horstmann as Jake Madden/Chaos
* Kayden Muller-Janssen as Hartley
* James Patrick Stuart as Vic Madden/Kraniac
* Lucy Davis as Eva Madden/Surge

### Guest Cast

* Jaidyn Triplett as Scarlett
* Gianna Bilby as Kylie

## Trivia

* This episode was filmed on February 15, 2022.
* This is the fourth consecutive episode where Colby's shape-shifting superpowers are malfunctioning and he has not actually appeared on-screen in his human form since "The Villain Experience."
	+ This is due to the fact that Malachi Barton was still filming his DCOM "*Under Wraps 2*," during the production of these episodes.
* Jaidyn Triplett's character, Scarlett, is *very* similar to her character, Millicent Mitchell, from the 2021 Paramount Plus series, *iCarly*, considering both characters have precocious troublemaking tendencies , both are sassy and snarky, and both have trouble connecting to the older women who are supposed to be their role models and mentors, i.e., Carly Shay with Millicent on iCarly, and Hartley with Scarlett on The Villains of Valley View.
* Jaidyn Triplett played the role of "Young Ruby Tremont" in the third season of ***Secrets of Sulfur Springs***.

## References

1. ↑ https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-friday-7-8-2022-top-150-cable-originals-network-finals.html
2. ↑ Had to dumpster dive on set today **#fyp** **#setlife** **#disney** **#LaysGoldenDuet** **#euphoria**

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