Mystery Script

So things are starting to look up for Gideon and Ellie after he asked her to dance at the Christmas ball. Oh, yeah, and we can’t forget that Mark and Paige shared a kiss underneath some mistletoe, and they seem to think a romance is blossoming between Connor and Jessica, too. Gabrielle finally revealed her heinous plan, and Winston has something up his sleeve, too. The Dixie Singers just returned from Christmas break, and they’re definitely not ready for drama.



'''THE MUSIC BOOK '''



Trista and Jessica are in their room, unpacking. Trista is chattering away.

Trista: Yeah, our parents took us to L.A., which Gabrielle absolutely loved. She’s so obsessed with fame, honestly. I love her anyways.

Trista’s voice fades into the background, since Jessica isn’t paying attention. Instead, she’s staring at Twitter on her phone.



<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@THEYOUNGNBEAUTY: HELLO, JESSICA.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@JESSLARKDANCES: WHAT DO YOU WANT NOW?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@THEYOUNGNBEAUTY: AW, IS THE LITTLE BABY GOING TO GO CRY TO MOMMY?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@JESSLARKDANCES: NO. I CAN HANDLE YOU MYSELF.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@THEYOUNGNBEAUTY: I’M SURPRISED YOUR FIVE OTHER FOLLOWERS HAVEN’T COME TO YOUR RESCUE. GUESS THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@JESSLARKDANCES: NO, THEY JUST DON’T NOTICE. NOW GO AWAY.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: Hey, what’s going on?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: *quickly closes Twitter* Nothing.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: Are you sure? You looked kind of upset.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: No, I’m fine. I’m going to take a walk, maybe get some coffee. You want something?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: Um, just a decaf misto with extra mocha.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica hurries out of the room. As she goes, music starts.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Everybody’s waiting ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Everybody’s watching ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Even when you’re sleeping ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your eyes open ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The tricky thing ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Is yesterday we were just children ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Playing soldiers ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Just pretending ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dreaming dreams with happy endings ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In backyards, winning battles with our wooden swords ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But now we’ve stepped into a cruel world ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Where everybody stands and keeps score ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your eyes open ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Everybody’s waiting for you to breakdown ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Everybody’s watching to see the fall-out ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Even when you’re sleeping, sleeping ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your eyes open ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your eyes open ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your eyes open ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So here you are ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Two steps ahead and staying on guard ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Every lesson forms a new scar ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">They never thought you’d make it this far ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But turn around (turn around), oh they’ve surrounded you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It’s a showdown (showdown), and nobody comes to save you now ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But you’ve got something they don’t ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yeah, you’ve got something they don’t ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You’ve just gotta keep your eyes open ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Everybody’s waiting for you to breakdown ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Everybody’s watching to see the fall-out ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Even when you’re sleeping, sleeping ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your eyes open ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your eyes open ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your eyes open ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your eyes ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your feet ready ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Heartbeat steady ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your eyes open ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your aim locked ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The night goes dark ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your eyes open ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Everybody’s waiting for you to breakdown ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Everybody’s watching to see the fall-out ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Even when you’re sleeping, sleeping ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your eyes open ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your eyes open ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your eyes open ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your eyes open ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keep your eyes open ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica takes a shaky breath and opens the Calhoun Coffee door. The bells at the top jingle, and the place sounds busy. Jessica passes Winston and Gabrielle, the latter of whom watches Jessica as she goes by.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The glee club is gathered in their usual classroom.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark: I wonder what’s wrong. It’s not like Mr. Dom and Ms. Handel to call an emergency meeting.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Drew: I’m missing lunch with Faith for this, so it had better be good.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez and Ms. Handel make their entrance. They’re wearing Sherlock-style capes and hats and carrying magnifying glasses.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gabrielle: *mutters* They look ridiculous.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: Dixie Singers, there’s a mystery afoot!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: The music book has gone missing!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: Please tell me this isn’t some lame team-building exercise. I’m all for a strong glee club, but a scavenger hunt is kind of lame. No offense.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Dominguez: None taken. But we’re serious. The music book was missing this morning when Ms. Handel and I went to retrieve it and plan ideas for this week. Until it’s found, glee club cannot move forward.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: I understand the music book is important, but can’t you pick a theme without it?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: *leans over and whispers* You’ll learn quickly—never question the music book.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ms. Handel: It needs to be found and fast. Without it, there is no glee club.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: *leaps out of his seat* Let’s get on it, Dixie Singers!

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie and Devin lead the pack; Gabrielle trails at the end, looking bored. The glee club enters the Half Moon. Ellie makes a beeline for the music book’s case.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Magnifying glass.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle hands it over and gives one to Devin, too. Devin and Ellie peer closely at the glass case’s lock.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: No evidence of tampering.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: Someone must’ve gotten a key.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Mr. Dom and Ms. Handel are the only people who have keys, and it’s not like they leave them lying around in their offices.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Miles: We’re dealing with an expert here, then.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: Who would want to steal the music book, though? It’s not worth a lot of money, and it’s only useful to us.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Someone looking to play a prank on the glee club, I’m sure.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Or someone looking to exact revenge.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: What?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Think about it! We made Julie Watson awfully mad at Sectionals. What if she and some of her Boppin’ Belles snuck in here and stole the book?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Drew: Great, it could be as far as Lexington by now!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: I don’t know… Your idea is good, Jessica, but a bit unlikely. You’d have to have a student I.D. to get onto campus. The Belles might not know that, so it’s doubtful they could pull off something so elaborate.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: So that means we’re back to someone playing a prank.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Let’s not try and figure out who now; let’s just look for the book.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: But we might need to know who stole it to find it.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: This is so frustrating!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: We’ll solve this mystery; it’ll just take some time. Let’s meet again at the usual glee club time. Come prepared with ideas.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica is sitting on a bench, staring at her phone. The camera zooms in over her shoulder and another Twitter conversation is seen.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@THEYOUNGNBEAUTY: WELL, HELLO, DAHLING, IT LOOKS LIKE YOUR PRECIOUS MUSIC BOOK HAS GONE MISSING.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@JESSLARKDANCES: YOU’RE BEHIND THAT?!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@THEYOUNGNBEAUTY: YOU THINK I’D DO SOMETHING SO CHILDISH. HEAVENS, NO. BUT I SEE EVERYTHING.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@JESSLARKDANCES: WHO ARE YOU???

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@THEYOUNGNBEAUTY: AW, THAT’S SWEET. YOU ACTUALLY THINK I’D SAY. THAT WOULDN’T KEEP THE MYSTERY ALIVE, DEAR JESS.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@JESSLARKDANCES: WOULD YOU JUST BUZZ OFF?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@THEYOUNGNBEAUTY: OOH, LOOKS LIKE I STRUCK A NERVE. DON’T GET TOO STRESSED NOW. THAT’LL MAKE YOU EVEN WORSE AT DANCING.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@THEYOUNGNBEAUTY: AND YOU MIGHT WANT TO LAY OFF THE STRESS-EATING, TOO. YOU’RE STARTING TO LOOK A LITTLE CHUBBY. ;)

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Jess?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica looks up, startled.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Oh, hey, I didn’t hear you coming.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Yeah, I kind of figured. *peers closer* Is everything okay? You looked kind of freaked out a minute ago.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Yeah, everything’s fine.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: All right… well, are you coming to dinner? The dining hall is going to close soon. *confides* I lost track of time studying. I have to ace that geometry test.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: You’ll do fine. And no, I’m skipping dinner tonight. I’ve got to, um, head to the library. Study for that geometry exam, too.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Oh, you’ll do great. You’re much better at math than me.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Thanks. *pauses* Do you think I’ve gained some weight?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Well, um, I’m not exactly the best person to ask. You’d be better off asking Trista or one of the other girls—

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Just answer the question.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Okay, maybe a pound or two, but you’re nowhere close to being fat. All that dancing keeps you thin.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor reaches out and touches Jessica’s arm.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Where is that coming from? You’ve never stressed about your weight before.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: It’s nothing. I’m just worried for dance class tomorrow, that’s all.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: *looks doubtful* Okay… well, I’ll catch you later, okay?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Yeah.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor hesitates and then leans over and kisses Jessica’s cheek. She watches him go and then heads back to her dorm—not to the library.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gabrielle strides into the stable. It’s dark outside, and as such, the stable is dimly lit. There’s a piece of paper stuck on Berry’s stall door. Gabrielle plucks it off and reads the note. She rolls her eyes and heads over to a ladder up to the hayloft. Winston is waiting on a hay bale, a lantern on the floor beside him.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gabrielle: You know, elaborate isn’t always better.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Winston: I know. But I thought this would fit with that whole mysterious theme the Dixie Singers have thought up for this week.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gabrielle: Ugh, don’t even get me started. I wish I knew who stole the music book, though. I’d like to thank them. The glee club might be over if the book can’t be found.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Winston: Well your thanks are accepted.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gabrielle: Wait, what?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Winston: I stole the music book.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gabrielle: Are you stupid? It was way too risky, Winston.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Winston: You just basically called the thief brilliant.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gabrielle: Yeah, well after the crime we already committed, anything big is just too dangerous. We could get caught at any moment.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Winston: Relax, I was careful. It was easy to get Ms. Handel’s key and make a copy. I left no fingerprints and avoided the security cameras. Additionally, the music book is where they’ll never find it. We’ve finally accomplished our goal, Gabrielle. Now we’re both free of that glee club and I’ll have my revenge for my brother.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The camera pans Jessica and Trista’s dorm room. Trista is sound asleep, but across the room, Jessica keeps tossing and turning.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A digitally-altered voice is heard in voiceover.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Unknown: Guess they don’t care about you… I see everything… That’ll make you even worse at dancing… You’re starting to look a little chubby. ''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica sighs and rolls over to face the wall. Her gaze looks worried. The screen goes black.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The glee club, minus Gabrielle, is gathered in the Half Moon.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: All right, does anyone have any leads?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark: Paige and I talked to security and checked the videos from the last time the music book was seen in the case up until it was found missing. There’s nothing.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: It doesn’t help that there isn’t a camera focused on the book’s case.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Right, well when we get the book back, we’ll have to make sure that’s fixed.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: But there’s a camera on the door to the Half Moon. Something fishy is going on here. It’s like the tapes were tampered with.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: Then there’s nothing we can do about that. We’re at a dead end with that lead.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Okay, what else do we have?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Neal, Ian, and I checked for fingerprints on the case. The case is clean. The only fingerprints we found were Mr. Dom’s and Ms. Handel’s, and there’s no way they stole the music book.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: We’re getting nowhere. It’s like the book just disappeared in thin air or a ghost took it.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: Okay, now you’re being ridiculous.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Don’t start fighting, please.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: It’s bad enough that, by the end of the week, we might not have a glee club.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: That means we just have to try even harder to find the music book.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: I know I’m new and all, but does our future really depend on the music book?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There’s dead silence as all the others stare at Paige.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: *holds up her hands* Okay, okay, it’s a big deal.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: I think we need to delegate teams to search for the book.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Good idea. The conservatory needs to be scoured. The various dorms need to be searched. Someone will need to check the student center.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Jessica, Neal, Danielle, and I can check the student center.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: Ellie, I think you, Paige, and I should take the conservatory.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ian: I’ll help, too.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Okay, so that leaves Mark, Miles, Drew, and Trista to look in the dorms. You’ll only be able to check public areas, but if you see anyone suspicious, take note.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: *jumps up* Let’s get started!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Music starts, and a montage of the various teams searching begins.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dixie Singers: H-Hey, H-Hey ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">H-H-Hey ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ooooh ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: I’m the kinda girl who doesn’t say a word ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Who sits at the curb and wais for the world ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">But I’m about to break out, about to break out ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’m like a crook tonight ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I caught you staring at me and I was thinking clearly ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Now I’m like a bee and I’m hunting for the honey ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And I’m kinda shy but you’re super fly, yeah ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I could be your kryptonite ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dixie Singers: Like ohh, ohh, ohh ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Light my heart up, baby, like a match stick ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ohh ohh ohh ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And hit the gas quick ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Here I come ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Where you at? ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The night is young ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In the crowd, the music’s loud but I will find you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Here I come ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I like your face ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Do you like my song? ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Just sing it la la la la la la and I will find you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: Hello my name is… (Trista) ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nice to meet you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I think you’re famous ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Where have I seen you? ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You’ll be my William, I’ll be your Kate ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Livin’ like a fairytale ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We could have a palace right next to Oprah ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">37 cars and a yacht down in Boca ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Take me away wherever you say ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yeah we could be setting sail ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dixie Singers: Like ohh, ohh, ohh ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Light my heart up, baby, like a match stick ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ohh ohh ohh ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">And hit the gas quick ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Here I come ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Where you at? ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The night is young ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In the crowd, the music’s loud but I will find you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Here I come ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I like your face ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Do you like my song? ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Just sing it la la la la la la and I will find you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not, here I come, here I come ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You’re like a breath of fresh air in my lungs ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You and me dance from the night to the dawn ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not, here I come, boy it’s on 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not, here I come, here I come ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You’re like a breath of fresh air in my lungs ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You and me dance from the night to the dawn ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not, here I come, boy it’s on 

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Here I come ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Where you at? ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The night is young ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In the crowd, the music’s loud but I will find you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Here I come ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I like your face ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Do you like my song? ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Just sing it la la la la la la and I will find you ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">  

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not (you’re like a breath of fresh air in my lungs) ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not (here I come, oh) ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Boombada Boombada Boombada ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center">''<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ready or not! ''

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica jogs down the running path at Calhoun. She has earbuds in, but the Twitter alert sound can be heard through them. Jessica stops and pulls out her phone. She takes a shaky breath as she stares at the screen.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@THEYOUNGNBEAUTY: SO I HEAR YOU BOMBED A DANCE ROUTINE TODAY…

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@JESSLARKDANCES: HOW?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@THEYOUNGNBEAUTY: I TOLD YOU, I SEE EVERYTHING. I HAVE EYES AND EARS EVERYWHERE.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@JESSLARKDANCES: NOW YOU’RE BEING CREEPY. AND WHAT DOES IT MATTER TO YOU IF I DIDN’T DO WELL IN DANCE CLASS TODAY?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@THEYOUNGNBEAUTY: BECAUSE IT MEANS YOU’RE NOT AS PERFECT AS YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE THINKS.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@JESSLARKDANCES: DID I EVER SAY I’M PERFECT?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">@THEYOUNGNBEAUTY: NO. BUT I’M HERE TO MAKE SURE YOU KNOW YOU’RE UGLY, DUMB, A TERRIBLE SINGER, AN AWFUL DANCER, AND FAT.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica’s eyes fill with tears. She shoves her phone back in her pocket, turns, and runs back towards the main campus. As she passes the student center, she almost runs into Ellie.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Oops! Sorry, Jess—hey, are you okay?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Yeah, I’m fine. Sorry to almost run you over.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: It’s totally fine. But are you sure you’re fine? You look like you’ve been crying.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: That’s just the cold air. It always makes my nose and eyes run a bit.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Okay…

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: I’ve gotta go.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica runs on. Ellie stares after her before pulling out her phone and dialing a number.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Hey, Connor? …Listen, I think there’s something up with Jessica…Okay, good, I’m not the only one... Anyways, I think you need to go talk to her. She just ran by me and looked like she was in tears. I’m sure she was headed for her dorm… Yeah, no problem. You’re welcome… Okay, bye.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor heads into one of the girls’ dorm. He’s stopped by the RD at the desk, who he speaks to briefly. Then he heads upstairs and down the hall to Jessica and Trista’s room where he knocks on the door.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Jess? Are you in there?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There’s no answer, so Connor knocks again. This time Jessica opens the door.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Hey! Um, I was wondering if you wanted to walk into town with me. We could get lunch.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: No, thanks, I’m not hungry.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Oh. It’s just…we haven’t had much time together, just the two of us, since we all got back from break. I miss talking to you.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: *sighs* Ellie called you, didn’t she?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: What? No! Well…yes.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Look, Connor, I’m fine.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Ellie said you were crying.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Oh my gosh, I told her I wasn’t. I had just been for a run. It’s cold out, so my nose and eyes were running a bit! Big deal.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Okay, I’m sorry. Do you want to hang out? We can go to the coffee shop or see if there’s a good movie playing at the student center or—

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: I’ve got to get to the dance studio. I ruined a routine this morning, so I want to get some more practice in.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Oh. All right. Well, I’ll see you later, I guess.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Yeah, I’ll see you in class.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">She heads back into her room and firmly shuts the door. Connor sighs and heads back downstairs.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The glee club sits in the classroom, moping, except for Gabrielle, who is filing her nails. Devin and Ellie slump into the room.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Well, this is it. Our last glee club meeting.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Danielle: This is so sad.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Neal: I can’t believe it’s just…over.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Drew: Guess we’re going back to being completely unpopular.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: I feel so bad. We’ve let Mr. Dominguez and Ms. Handel down.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: Are they going to get fired?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Hopefully not. Oh gosh, now I feel even worse.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: C’mon, guys, we still have one day left. We can do this. Let’s look every place the book couldn’t possibly be.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Dixie Singers perk up enough to run out of the room. Gabrielle stays behind and pulls out her phone.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">GABRIELLE: WINSTON, YOU’D BETTER REHIDE THE BOOK. THE DOUCHEY SINGERS ARE BOUND AND DETERMINED TO FIND IT.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WINSTON: WELL, THAT’S GOING TO BE KIND OF HARD, CONSIDERING THEY’RE LIKELY SEARCHING THE CONSERVATORY RIGHT THIS SECOND.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">GABRIELLE: WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WINSTON: THE BOOK’S IN THE AUSTEN CONSERVATORY.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">GABRIELLE: WHAT???

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WINSTON: IT’S IN AN AIR DUCT. THAT’S HOW I AVOIDED THE CAMERAS. I CAN’T COME TO GET IT WITHOUT ANYONE SEEING ME.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">GABRIELLE: WELL, THE GOOD NEWS IS, THERE’S NO WAY ON EARTH THEY’LL CHECK THE DUCTS.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">WINSTON: I’VE GOTTA GET TO PRACTICE. TTYL.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">GABRIELLE: TTYL.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gabrielle slides her phone back into her pocket and then saunters out of the classroom. She looks up and down the hall as her fellow Dixie Singers run here and there. Gabrielle covers a smile and shakes her head.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark, holding Paige’s hand, skids to a stop.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: What?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark: Oh, no.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Paige: Tell me!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark: Let’s gather the others first.

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Dixie Singers have formed a huddle. Ian, Trista, and Danielle hurry to join them.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Okay, we’re all here.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark: I really hate myself for this, but I just had a thought. The thief isn’t shown on the cameras trained on the Half Moon’s doors, correct?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Miles: I’m pretty sure you were the one to tell us that.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark: Well there’s only one other way to access the Half Moon. The air ducts.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Gabrielle looks momentarily startled; she recovers quickly.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: Do you really think that’s possible?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark: I’ve seen a ton of spy movies. I honestly think it’s how the thief got to the book.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: But that doesn’t mean the music book is still up there.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: No, but it’s worth a look. Let’s go tell Mr. Dom and Ms. Handel. They can help us get access to the air ducts. I think we should form a team of three Dixie Singers to go look.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Devin: Ian and Danielle, you two come with me to talk to Ms. Handel. I know she’s in her office.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: And I think Mark, Trista, and Jessica should be the ones to search the ducts.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: Awesome, let’s go get ready, guys.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Connor: Jess, bring your cell, okay? We can guide you through the ducts so you don’t get lost.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ellie: Let’s do this!

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<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark leads the way through the air ducts. Jessica, her cell phone pressed to her ear, follows. Trista brings up the rear.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: All right, we just turned left at that T you mentioned.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark: I’m not sure I’m the best man for this job! These ducts are kind of small.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Shut up, Mark. Connor said that we need to go until we see the second extension on our right.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: *fans herself* Can we hurry this up a little? It is so warm up here.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark: Here’s the second duct on our right.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: All right, Connor, now what?... Okay, Mark, a couple feet this way, there’s an exit.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark: Well, actually, we can start heading back.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista: Why?

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark: *lifts a book* The book was just laying here.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Oh my gosh!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trista squeals. Mark covers his ears.

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark: Um, ow!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jessica: Connor, we found the book!

<p align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The excited members of the glee club can be heard over the phone. The camera jumps to them, jumping around and celebrating. Gabrielle crosses her arms over her chest and frowns. She pulls out her phone and starts to text Winston and then stops. The screen goes black.