"Why are we keeping this a secret again?" Quinn asked, firmly buckled into the seat next to Rachel, Finn four rows back. He had tried, naturally, to sit next to her but her accomplice had pulled him away, leaving the seat open to be stolen. She had wasted little time.

"Because we're supposed to be using original songs. But Mr. Schue doesn't realize that we can't walk into a competition like Nationals with half-assed work and expect to win anything. There's no way we can pull two songs out of thin air before we get to New York. It's absolutely ludicrous!"