Next day.
"I can`t believe you got me to come out here!" Debbie says rolling her eyes.
"Come on- Jimmy's mom says if we pick fifteen big apples she would make us an apple pie!" Ginger said as she picked an apple off the tree.
"Fifteen- how may pies is she trying to make?!" Alisa asked.
Ginger shrugs and says. "I think she`s trying to keep us busy since the whole going to school thing didn't work out."
"I guess, what happens when we collect all the apples?"
Ginger shrugs.
"You know something weird?"
"What?" Maci asked.
"How did Thomas popping up out of know where?"
"Yeah that was a little weird."
"You don't think he followed us here- do you?" Debbie asked.
"How would he know we were here?" Ginger asked.
"Maybe someone told him." Courtney said staring straight at Alisa.
"Why would anyone do that?" Macie asked.
Courtney shrugs.
Debbie started to fake cough and said. "Speaking of the Devil."
"Hi guys." Thomas said.
"Thomas." Debbie says.
"Thomas can I ask you a question?" Ginger asked.
"Sure."
"Did you follow us here?"
Thomas laughed and asked. "What?"
"Did you follow us here?"
"No."
"Then how did you know we were going to be here?"
"I didn't my grandma owns a house a few miles away from here and I use to work at that horse ranch during the summer so I thought I'd drop by."
"How covenant." Alisa says.
"What is?"
"That you came here around the time we came."
"Well with all the craziness going on in Oceanside my parents thought I should come visit my grandma until all the craziness calms down."
"How interesting." Ginger said.
"So what were you guys doing?"
"Picking apples." Susie says looking up.
"Can I help?"
"Sure."
"What are we picking apple for?" Thomas asked.
"To eat." Alisa says real sarcastic like.
"You`re going to eat all these apples?"
"Jimmy`s mom is going to make us an apple pie." Timberly says.
"Tim, you can't tell our business to just anyone, you don't really know everyone`s motive." Alisa says staring at Thomas as she continued to pick apples.
"That`s a bit hypocritical don't you think Lis?" Courtney asked.
Throwing her last apple down as she jumped of the stepping stool Alisa says.
"I`m going in now."
"Did I do something?" Thomas asked.
Court
"Macie, for how long would you say you were on the island total?" Mr. Burney asked.
Macie sways her head back and forth and said. "Twenty-three I think."
"Is that when the games stopped."
"Technically."
"Just yes or no."
"It's complicated, the Physical games stopped day 16 but the mental games didn't stop until we left." Macie explained.
"So could you explain what you guys did when you were no longer doing the physical games?"
"We looked for the other host and then we took a break and relaxed."
"You relaxed?"
"Yes."
"How do you relax when you`re being forced to stay, wouldn't you want to get of this island as soon as possible?"
"Yes."
"Then why did you stop looking?" Mr. Burney asked.
"Don`t answer that." Mr. Burney continued.
"Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury like I`ve been saying for the past month these kids were not kidnapped or held hostage, they were there on their own free will."
"And since they were there on their own free will, my clients should not be held responsible for any of this."
"Let me ask you a question ladies and Gentlemen of the jury…."
"Have you ever been blamed for something you didn't do, have you ever actually gotten in trouble for something you didn't?"
"It sucks doesn't it- now I know it`s easy to get caught up in what the prosecutor is trying to make seem like a horrible event, but it simply didn't happen, at least not the way they`re trying to paint the picture, they we're simply given a ticket and later regretted the vacation and now they`re out to get him, and for what, just because they think they can, your only job here is to make sure the innocence gets justice, and in this case it is Curly." Mr. Burney continued.
"You`re honor with all due respect Mr. Burney is full of crap, you heard a few days back that one of his clients were in charge of keeping them on that island, what kind of vacation has to keep their visitor's hostage on an island, shouldn't they be able to decide when they can leave?" Ms. Sullivan said.
Walking around her table Ms. Sullivan walked to the jury and said.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, how many times have you been on a vacation of any sort and they wouldn't let you leave?"
"Not really a vacation is it- it's more like prison."
"Mr. Burney, the defender can keep saying they were not held hostage, they were not held hostage until the cows come home, but it doesn't make it true now does it, let's just take the word hostage out of our vocabulary for a moment, these innocent victims were given a ticket to a place that was promised to be a wonderful get away but once they got there they were immediately separated and divided in groups and forced to play bazar life threating games each and every day, where if they won they would be rewarded with food if they lost they were punished with starvation, now can you imagen being weak and not thinking clearly most of us would go crazy after three days of not eating can you imagen doing that for nearly a month?"
"If that wasn't bad enough they were given necklaces that shocked them if they didn't do what was said, and oh there is this other tiny detail I forgot to mention not only was there a butterfly net over the island for who knows why, but there was also a force field over it now I`m not saying they were , held- you know the 'H' word I`m simply giving you the facts and letting you draw your own conclusion, now there is one thing the defender did have correct, and that is your only job is to make sure the victims get justice and the guilty gets what they deserve, and the only victims in this case contraire to what the defender seems to believe are my clients." Ms. Sullivan continued.
After the court session.
"You sure did show them!" Debbie said happily.
Ms. Sullivan didn't crack a smile not even a little.
"What`s wrong Ms. Sullivan?" Didi asked.
"I don't know where to start."
"How about the beginning." Sam said.
Ms. Sullivan takes a deep breath and asked.
"Do you want to hear the bad news or the terrifying news first?"
"Well we don't wanna hear the terrifying one first." Helga says.
"I guess I`ll give you the bad one first."
"They plan on bringing Curly in for the finale week of trial."
"Run that past me again!" Ginger says tilting her head to the side as her orange hair dangled over her shoulder.
"Curly will be in the court room tomorrow."
"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!"
"And the terrifying news?" Trudy asked.
"We we we." Ms. Sullivan stuttered.
"Spit it out!" Big Bob said.
"We still haven't found Curly`s last accomplice."
"WHAT?!" Kim yelled.
"Wait we already knew that."
"But what you don't know is that Curly`s accomplice, is a most likely a guy and based on the information the Fbi has gotten he`s been in close radiance with you more than you think, we just don't know who he is yet."
"A guy, a guy well that`s a lot of help that knocks of at least half the population." Courtney says.
"Have you came in contact with half the population?"
"I`m going to need you guys to think and think hard of any males you`ve came in contact with that have been really interested in you from the moment you`ve stepped into the witness protection program until now."
Back at the house.
Walking through the front door they are quickly greeted by the Cornel and his wife.
"Cornel, Grandmumzy what are you doing?" Debbie asked.
"We`re having a dinner with the knights so we're going to need you guys to get all dressed up." Cornel answered.
"We`re having a real dinner with royalty- now this is what I`m use too!" Courtney says snatching her dress and running up to her room.
"That`s the enthusiasm I was talking about!"
"The rest of your dresses and suits will be in your room, dinner`s in an hour." Grandmumzee says.
"Great." Debbie says dragging her feet.
In the girl's room...
"You know this just might be fun!" Alisa says.
"Trust me, it isn't." Debbie says as she continued to get dress.
"I`m sure it is, you just have to look at it differently." Lila says.
"So who do you think is working for Curly?" Helga asked.
"Do we even have to think about it- its Thomas." Alisa says applying makeup.
"What makes you think it`s him?" Kim asked.
"Come, on who else has shown great interest in why we were in Oceanside?"
"Who else just so happened to be here the exact place and time we are?" Alisa continued.
"Yeah but he could really be here because of the reason he said, we came here to stay out of troubles reach and it wasn't weird, why is it weird that he did?"
"Yeah and who ever working for Curly has to be smart they wouldn't be that obvious."
"Well do you have any other suspects?"
"What about those girls back in Oceanside, that outed us?" Phoebe asked.
"Delilah and Savannah." Phoebe continues.
"No I don't think it's them." Alisa says.
"Alisa we honestly don't know who it is, so we can't cross them off the list."
"They said it was a guy."
"They said most likely."
"What about the guy that liked little miss princess?" Helga asked.
"Steven?" Sheena asked.
"He could be working for him."
"Or Scott." Kim suggest.
"Or it could be one of us." Ginger suggested.
Each girl looks around in dead silence exchanging glares when Debbie laughs and asked.
"Ginger foutley, why would it be one of us?"
"Think about it, it's always someone you never expect."
"Yeah in a life time movie or a story but this is neither of it." Debbie says.
"But what if it is, what if this is one big story where the writer is pointing all the clues to someone like Thomas, Scott, Delilah, Savannah or even Steven, when that`s just a smoke screen to distract the readers from the fact that it`s one of us, this all could be a game, some sick twisted game for her so at the end they would all be surprise to find out its one of us, probably the last person we`d suspect, like you Debbie, or Lila who would suspect poor sweet little Lila the one with anxiety, she would be the perfect one, or even me, and now you`re all self-consciously thinking how it could literally be anyone, I mean Reggie was once one of us, or at least we thought - its all a mind game." Ginger explains.
Debbie just stares at Ginger without saying a word when she finally speaks and says.
"You need to stop watching so much TV, this is not a story this is real life."
Ginger shrugs her shoulders and says. "Yeah you're probably right."
"Come on guys its time dinner!" Courtney says cheerfully as she popped her head in the room.
Dinner…
"I can`t believe they have me in a dress looking all girly." Spinelli whispers to Helga.
"Well you are." Helga says back.
"Where`s the food?" Mickey asked.
"The servers are going to bring them in." Grandmumzy says.
"Well can they hurry I`m starving." Penny says slouching in her chair.
"Penny!" Trudy yells.
"This is a very lovely table you set." Olga says.
"Thank you Olger." Grandmumzy says.
Debbie coughs and says. "It`s Olga grandmumzee."
"Olga."
"Oh here comes the servers now." Grandmumzy says.
"I feel sorry for whoever got this job." Alisa whispers to Debbie.
"Right?" Debbie said laughing.
Looking up one of the servers caught Alisa`s eyes which caused her to slide down her seat and then under the table quickly pulling her best friend down with her.
"What are you doing?!" Debbie asked.
"Look at the server at the door."
"Okay?" Debbie says pulling herself up.
"NO- NOT YET!" Alisa says snatching her back down.
"Alisa this is ridiculous."
"Okay okay look."
"Girls what are you guys doing under there?" Kira asked.
"Alisa just dropped her fork." Debbie says pulling Alisa up.
"Oldest lie in the book." Tj mumbles.
"Look." Alisa says.
"It`s Thomas."
"Yeah, what is he doing here?!"
"My grandma probably hired him."
"How covenant."
Later that night…
"So none of you find it weird that Thomas was here?" Alisa asked pacing back and forth in her pajamas.
"No I do." Jamie O says.
Not the person she was expecting to agree with her, Alisa just glares at him and goes back to what she was saying.
"We need to tell Ms. Sullivan or Sunny or Fred about him."
"But what if it's not him." Ginger says.
"And what if it is, it`s not our job to figure that out, our job is to point out anyone suspicious and point them to Ms. Sullivan or Sunny."
Throwing her hands up Ginger says. "Look all I`m saying is we need proof."
"And following us around isn't enough proof?"
"No."
"Then what is proof?!"
"I don't know."
"So what you`re saying is we just sit here in this program for the rest of our lives afraid?!"
"Look Lis, how about we go to sleep and if you still think he`s working for Curly tomorrow then will investigate it and if we find enough clues then will go to them." Debbie says.
"Thanks Debs."
"That should by us the night." Debbie mumbles.
"I know at least we can get us some sleep." Helga says.