Episode 3: Sick Teenz

## Official Synopsis

*Join our heroes as they find out who is stealing from the arcade inside of Wet Pins and they deal with health insurance problems at the urgent care in this episode of Critical Bits!*

## Plot Summary

Picking up from the end of the previous episode: after Gerry grabs an ice pack for his injured face, Alex tells him that he didn’t have to punch Austin. Gerry admits he did it partly to blow off steam and partly because he's disturbed about maybe having watched a friend die. The two commiserate as they clean up bloody Lego pieces from the (already disgusting) floor of Wet Pins.

Back in the arcade, Kim watches the young man at the skee ball machine. Upon further inspection, she finds he looks eerily similar to Matthew Lillard's character from the 90's movie *Hackers*. She approaches "Matthew" and asks what he's doing. At first he makes a few flimsy excuses, but stops when he realizes that Kim looks familiar. Sure enough, he pulls out his phone and confirms Kim's identity, telling her that Game Room can't wait to hear who he's found.

"Matthew" puts his hand back on the machine and starts shooting skee balls at Kim. She attempts to blow up his phone, but in her haste she accidentally knocks herself over with a *Turtles in Time* machine instead. The noise alerts Alex and Gerry to Kim's location and they join her in the fight against "Matthew".

The fight goes... poorly. Alex initially does well with her gymnastics abilities, but she accidentally hits Gerry in the face with a skee ball, worsening his already broken nose. Likewise, Kim accidentally stabs Gerry in the back with a bunch of flying cutlery. Oops.

Despite their missteps, the trio manages to subdue and restrain "Matthew" with a length of jump rope. Kim asks what his name is. He brags that they ought to look at the screens around them, for his name precedes him. No, it's not "ASS" -- his name is High Score, and he claims to be one of Game Room's "boys".

The three drag High Score out back to the employee smoking area (after returning their bowling shoes, of course). Kim continues to interrogate him but he won't tell her much. As they continue, High Score tries to turn the tables on Kim, telling Alex and Gerry about a bounty that was placed on Kim's head after her betrayal of The Mechanics. He offers to split the bounty with Alex and Gerry if they help him take Kim in, pointing out to Gerry that Kim literally just stabbed him in the back.

Not in the mood for any of this, Gerry punches High Score in the face. Alex joins Gerry in beating him up, and Kim follows suit not long after, heartened to see that—despite her making mistakes and hurting them—her new friends are not willing to sell her out for money. As group beatdowns go, it really is quite sweet.

High Score soon relents, saying he won't tell anyone about Kim as long as they let him return to Game Room. However, as he continues to protest, the three suddenly hear a beeping noise coming from his wrist. He is not wearing a watch. In the middle of his next sentence, High Score seems to shut down like a machine, slumping down on the ground.

The group consider taking High Score's body with them but decide against it when they spot employees from Wet Pins nearby. They leave High Score in the alley and Kim takes his phone, removing the SIM card and battery so it can't be tracked. As they drive Gerry to an urgent care center, Kim explains that Game Room is known in criminal circles as an eccentric villain whom no one wants to cross. Anyone who does so tends to go missing, never heard from again.

Upon reaching the urgent care center, the group spots two of Alex and Gerry's friends from school: The T(h)oms. Thom looks quite sick, and sure enough, when Alex and Gerry question the two they admit that they ate some corn dogs at the drag strip earlier that day.

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## The Original Plot Summary for This Article (Preserved for Posterity)

i dont really remember what happened in this episode except oh wait no yeah kim accidentally stabbed gerry with a bunch of knives and a robot matthew lillard was there and was also a cyborg. maybe. they didn't investigated it, they just left him there in the wet pins back alley. oh! also alex broke brantley's minecraft pickaxe