That Monday, Alex sees Pete go into the Head Coach's office. The coach isn't there. While in the office, Pete searches for the Game Plan. After finding what he is looking for, Pete exits the office with the folder under his shirt. A little while latter, Sam sees Pete making a copy of a rather large document, and Clover sees Pete enter the Head Coach's office for a few minutes again. Pete replaces the document, and then leaves. The gals don't think anymore about it.
The spies are walking home from school.
"If Mr. Jenkins gives any more homework, I'll have to miss our Mall date!" says Alex.
"Totally!" replies Clover. "The man obviously thinks his is the only class we are taking!"
"Well, I don't think it will be too bad!" says Sam soothingly.
Just as they start to cross the street over a sewer cover, they get WOOHP'd!
"Jerry!", they exclaim.
"Glad you could drop in!
"Ladies, we have a serious situation. Someone has stolen important documents from the Weapons Lab at Los Alamos! We fear that they will sell them to an enemy foreign power!" says Jerry.
"What do the documents contain?" asks Sam.
"They are documents for a top secret space laser gun! Should someone build and deploy such a weapon, nothing would be safe on earth, as it could destroy anything, including flying objects! The country with this weapon would quite literally rule the world!"
"Then we better get started and stop them!" says Clover.
"Exactly! And now for your gadgets: bungee belts; the new combination x-ray m-ray contacts; sound enhancing earrings; and jet-drill-suction go-go boots. You'll be using your voice-activated cycles as transportation. Good luck, girls!"
And the gals are off to New Mexico. Arriving at the Lab, they visit the head of the Lab, Dr. Stele.
"What can you tell us about the theft?" asks Sam.
"The laser gun is a top secret project. We have worked on it for years, and the plans were just completed!" says Dr. Stele.
"Where did you keep the plans for the project?"
"In our top secret safe! Only three people besides me have access to it: Paul, Karen, and Sheldon. You need two people to open the safe; there is only one of each key and a combination that goes with it. You need both to open it."
"What if someone duplicated a key?" asks Alex.
"It would be useless without the combination that goes with it. We did that purposely so that two people must ALWAYS be present to open the safe. Plus the safe records who and when the safe was open, on our security computer."
"Sounds like all we have to do is investigate who opened the safe between the last known time the documents were there, and the time they disappeared!" says Clover.
"It won't be that easy! Our security thought the same thing. But there was no record of anyone entering the safe between the last time we saw the documents, and the time they were missing!"
"Then we better start by interviewing the other three people with access. Let's each take one, to speed up the process: Clover, you talk to Sheldon; Alex you take Paul; and I'll talk to Karen!"
"Right Sammy!' says Alex.
"On my way!" says Clover.
Sam tracks down Karen.
"Hi, Karen. My name is Sam. I'm investigating the theft of the top-secret plans!" says Sam, as she introduces herself.
"Hello, Sam. What can I do to help?" asks Karen.
"Well, could you tell me where you where last week?"
"Oh, yes! I was on vacation! My husband and I went to Hawaii! It was BEAUTIFUL!"
"I see. We're you gone all week?"
"Yes. We just got back yesterday evening!"
"Ok! Thanks, Karen."
"Sorry I wasn't much help, Sam," and Karen goes off with two girlfriends for some coffee.
When Sam checks the timekeeping records, they confirm that Karen hadn't clocked in all week, and her timecard showed her on vacation. That clears Karen.
Clover talks to Sheldon.
"So Sheldon, what do you know about the missing plans?" she asks after introducing herself and telling him the purpose of her visit.
"Not much, Clover. I was working on two other top-secret projects, B08A3F and B05N89."
"Did you have to use the top-secret safe at any time?"
"No, that safe is for completed projects only! We have safes in our areas for those in process! Both of mine ended up in our area safe."
"I see."
Clover also checks the timekeeping system to verify if Sheldon is telling the truth. According to the system, he is. Sheldon left his interview with Clover, and joined a friend for lunch.
Alex searches out Paul.
"Hello, Paul? My name is Alex. I'm looking into the theft of the top secret plans."
"Well, Alex, I wasn't working on them! I was working on B01NM9A all week! I had no reason to go to the top-secret vault."
"Where would your project be stored, when you're not working on it?"
"In our departmental safe. All in-process projects would be there for our department."
"Ok, thanks Paul."
With that, Paul trudges off to lunch.
Alex verifies Paul's time in the timekeeping system, and it checks out.
The gals report back together to compare notes.
"Karen checks out. She wasn't even here! She was in Hawaii on vacation.!" says Sam.
"Sheldon checks out also. He can account for his time the entire period in question!" says Clover.
"So can Paul!" says Alex.
"Well, where do we go from here?" asks Clover.
"The perpetrator has to be either Sheldon, Paul, or Dr. Stele," says Sam.
"Dr. Stele?" cry Alex and Clover together.
"He also has a key and access code. So he is not above suspicion either! I checked his time out, and he also can account for his whereabouts. I think each one of us should shadow one of these three guys! Why don't you and Alex stay with Sheldon and Paul and I'll shadow Dr. Stele," says Sam.
"OK, Sammy!" says Alex.
"Ok," says Clover.
Sam shadows Dr. Stele. She follows him home on her cycle, and bungee's to the roof of the house. She uses the new contact lenses to watch his moves in the house and employs the sound enhancing earrings to listen in on his conversations, especially over the phone. But she is coming up empty. He only has one telephone call, from a friend who wanted to check if he was going to the football game this weekend. A careful examination of papers in the house with the contacts showed nothing from Los Alamos.
Clover does the same with Sheldon. She follows him to his apartment, as well as to a hot date he has at the local dance club. She checks his apartment with her contacts. Nothing from Los Alamos. She follows Sheldon to the dance club and bungees to the top of the club. She listens in on his conversation, but nothing unusual is transpiring, with regards to stolen weapons. Again, nothing.
Alex follows Paul. He lives alone in a manufactured house. She bungees to the top of the house and uses the contacts to search it. During her scan, she sees something from the Lab on his desk. Before she can continue her search, she sees a car coming down the drive. She quickly lies flat to avoid detection. The car stops, and a very beautiful woman steps out, dressed provocatively. She knocks, and Alex gives a listen, as she secretly snaps a picture of her with her compowder.
"Paul!" says the mystery woman with enthusiasm as she gives him an amorous kiss.
"Svetlana!" replies Paul. "Good to see you, again!"
"Do you have my package, sweetums?"
"Of course! But first, my payment!"
Alex compowders Jerry. "Jerry, what can you tell me about a woman who looks like the photo I sent you and goes by the name 'Svetlana'?"
Jerry is quick to respond, "Svetlana is a notorious spy! She deals in underground weapons!"
"Then I think I have our suspect! Thanks, Jerry!" says Alex.
Alex then calls Sam and Clover, "Guys! I think I found our thief! HEY! What gives????" and her compowder dies.
Sam and Clover got the initial call. "Alex!" they both say at the same time.
Sam calls Clover. "Clover, we have to lock in Alex's GPS coordinates and find her! It's a good thing the coordinates are automatically generated on a connection, because I can't seem to raise Alex on her compowder now!"
"Right, Sam! Meet you there!"
Alex had made just a little too much noise on the roof of Paul's house. He thought he heard a voice and quickly secured a ladder and grabbed Alex. Her compowder fell from her grasp, and broke to pieces on the cement of the driveway below.
"A voyeur! Can't even enjoy some intimate privacy!" says an angry Paul to Alex, as he secures her with duct tape.
"I am NOT a voyeur!" Alex says indignantly. "Besides, you don't know what you are doing! She is a spy!" says Alex.
"Don't believe her, honey!" says Svetlana sweetly. "I'd never betray you!" and she kisses him.
Paul tapes Alex's mouth shut, as she continued to protest. He goes to call the police.
"No need, darling! I've already done so! And here they are!" says Svetlana as two of her fellow agents arrive, dressed as policemen.
"We'll take this lawbreaker into custody! You won't be bothered by her again!" they say.
Meanwhile, Sam and Clover have arrived on their cycles. They employed their sound enhancing earrings and know exactly what is going on.
"Clover! You hit them from that side of the van, I'll hit them from this tree!"
"Ok, Sam!"
As the fake police carry Alex to their van, Clover and Sam attack, catching them off guard. They quickly summon WOOHP on their compowders, as they free Alex.
"Guys! You've got to stop him! Paul has the documents! I saw them on his desk! He's going to give them to that Svetlana!" cries Alex in alarm.
"Don't worry! When we free you, we'll all go in and get them," says Sam, just as WOOHP starts to arrive.
Svetlana can see that she has been found out. She grabs the documents, pushes past a startled Paul, and runs out the back door – right into Jerry.
"Going somewhere, Svetlana?" says Jerry as he quickly subdues and handcuffs her, recovering the documents.
The spies are in the house and are handcuffing Paul.
"I always wonder what causes someone to turn traitor," says Alex.
"Traitor?" says Paul. "Those documents are useless! I wouldn't betray my country!"
"But..," says Clover.
"Yes, I stole some documents, but if anyone takes a good look at them, they're for a gatling gun, circa 1860! I knew Svetlana didn't really care for me! A hot woman like that doesn't fall for a roly-poly engineer!"
"Then why did you do it?" asks Sam quizzically.
"Because she was the only woman who would go out with me! Everyone knows me at work, but not after. I was lonely!"
"Lonely or not, you still stole some documents, even if they are over 100 years old!" says Jerry, as he takes Paul into custody.
"But, where are the laser gun plans?" asks a confused Sam.
"I bet I know," says Paul.
"Where?" asks Clover.
"They're still in the vault! I'll bet they slipped behind the drawer they are in! It happens all the time! If we had some modern equipment it wouldn't, but those filing drawers are 75 years old! I'll bet you'll find them there!"
So saying Dr. Stele and the in-custody Paul go to the vault and unlock it. Sure enough, the plans had slid behind the drawer and under it! They were still secure in the safe!
"Excellent work, ladies!" says Jerry, as he takes Paul away. The gals are off for home.