Soos sighed, "I'm still bummed we're no closer to finding the author guy. At least I got his science-y coat and briefcase." He holds up the laptop, which flops open, "Whoa! What the?"

"Soos, that's not a briefcase, it's a laptop!" Dipper shouted.

Mabel frowned, "...And a really busted up one too."

"I bet I could get this thing fixed up in a few days. It's gonna take a lotta duct tape," Soos admitted.

Dipper smiled, "This could be our next clue!"

A label on the laptop reads "Property of F" (MO52584).

"Alright, Mabel, today is the big day."

Mabel smiled, "Big day!"

"Soos finally fixed up the laptop. If this thing works, we could learn the identity of The Author and unravel the greatest mysteries of Gravity Falls. You ready?" Dipper asked.

"Oh, I'm ready, baby." Mabel flips through pages of a pop-up book with a drawing of an infant, "Ma-ma."

"This is it. This is it." Dipper powers on the laptop, which reads "Welcome", "Aha! It worked."

Dipper & Mabel smiled, "Blip, blap, bloobity bloop, twins." They high-five, bump fists, and stick out tongues.

Alarm sounds. The laptop reads "/UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS FORBIDDEN/", and then it reads "Enter Password".

Dipper groaned in annoyance, "Ugh! Of course, a password."

"It has important information. Of course it has a password," Will sighed, looking over at Dipper.

Mabel smiled, "Don't you worry, bro bro. With your brains and my laser focus, there is literally nothing that can distract us from... Did you hear that?"

Gabe Benson, singing, "All my life I've been dreamin' of a love that's right for me. And now I finally know her name and it's..." talking to the kids, "sing it with me kids." Singing with kids, "Literacy!" Bee puppet, "I finally understand what all the buzz is about. Reading!" Book puppet, "Give me some of that honey!" They "kiss". Gabe laughs.

Mabel , flapping pages of a pop-up of a heart, "Ba bump. Ba bump."

Dipper sighs, "Oh, boy."

Gabe laughed, "Haha. Thank you, thank you."

Mabel sighed, "Just when I was getting over Mermando, of course, you show up at my doorstep."

Dipper, walking over to the bookshelf, "Oh, yeah, I forgot about Mermando. Did not care for Mermando." He grabs the library book off of the shelf and flips though it, "Okay, this cryptology book says that there's 7.2 million 8-letter words. I'll type, you read. Okay, Mabel? Mabel?"

Mabel's empty chair spins.

Gabe, singing, "That's why we don't stick our hands in" with kidsl other people's mouths!" Talking, "Hey, I'm Gabe Benson, ya'll. Good night!" Parents walk their kids out. Gabe to puppets, "Hey, good job today, you guys." Book to Bee, "You were late on your cue!" Bee, "WHAT?" Normal, "Hey hey, be good to each other. We're all stars."

Mabel rolls in on book cart, "Hey! Guess who's Mabel! I am. Care to learn more? I bet you do. You like to learn- WAA" She falls off the cart and walks up to him, "And I'm up!"

"Oh, hey, I'm Gabe. Master of puppets. Nice to meet you," Gabe has the bee puppet shake her hand.

Mabel gasped, "You're amazing with those puppets."

"Really?" Gabe asked, sadly, "A lot of people think puppets are dumb, or, just for kids or something."

Mabel smiled, "Are you kidding me? I'm puppet-CRAZY! People call me Puppet-Crazy-Mabel!"

"Really? People used to call me Puppet-Crazy-Gabe! So when's your next puppet show?" Gabe asked.

Mabel was confused, "My huh?"

"I mean, you can't truly love puppets if you're not throwing puppet shows, right?" Gabe asked.

Mabel nodded, "Ha, yeah, I mean I'm TOTALLY working on a puppet show."

"Oh, what are the details?" Gabe asked.

Mabel, stalling, nervously, "There are soooo many details..."

Dipper typesin "PASSWORD" on the computer. It beeps., "Huh..." Mabel sits next to him, "So, how'd it go?"

Mabel sighed, "Dipper, how hard do you think it'd be to write and compose a sock puppet rock opera with lights, original music and live pyrotechnics by Friday?"

The computer beeps. "What?" Dipper grabs Mabel, "Mabel, are you serious?"

Mabel frowned, "I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED! I got lost in his eyes and his ponytails and I'm gonna be so embarrassed on Friday if I don't have ANYTHING."

"What about cracking this password? You know, mystery twins?" Dipper bumps fists.

Mabel frowned, "If you help me with this for JUST a couple of days I promise I'll help with the password! Please, pretty please!" She whispers, "It's for love."

Dipper sighed, "All right, okay-"

Mabel hugs him, "YES! THANK YOU! THIS GUY! HE'S NUMBER ONE!"

"Okay, okay, okay, shhhh..." Dipper and Mabel are leaving the library, "I can't wait to get to the bottom of this laptop. We're close to something big here; I can feel it..."

Bill's shadow follows them while walking out of the library.

Will turns around, sees nothing, before shaking his head, and following the two.

Mabel smiled, "Alright. This is gonna be called Glove Story: A Sock Opera. Just to warn you, people's eyes will get wet. Cause they'll be crying. From laughter! From how tragic it is."

Dipper, trying to rip sock puppets that are glued to his face, "Yeah, um. That's sounds great."

"Come on, Dipper, you gotta roll with Mabel's craziness. It's what makes life worth living," Wendy smiled.

Mabel, singing, "Puppet boy, Puppet boy, you're the boy I-"

Everyone, besides Will, sings "-Loooooovvvvveeee!" Waddles squeals along.

Stan starts to walk in, "Not even gonna ask."

Mabel is putting the puppets around her bed, "Goodnight, my babies." She takes a Gabe puppet and makes it kiss the Mabel puppet, "Mwop mwop mwop mwop. Mwah! Soon, Gabe Benson-"

Computer beeps.

"Ugh, wrong password, WRONG, WRONG! UGH!" Dipper collapses on his bed.

Mabel frowned, "Don't stay up all night, Dipper. Last time you got this sleep-deprived you tried to eat your own shirt."

Dipper, sucking on his shirt, then spits it out, "Pleh. Just a few more tries."

Dipper is on the roof, typing and making the computer beep, "Ugh, I can't take that sound anymore." He starts pounding on the computer, I. Hate. You. Sound." He yawns, "There has to be some shortcut or clue. Who would know about secret codes?"

Wind blows. An eye creeps around the moon, and bricks form around it to reveal Bill. Color vanishes from the world.

"I THINK I KNOW A GUY."

"Well, well, well. You're awfully persistent, Pine Tree. Hats off to you!" He takes his hat off, tilting the world sideways.

Dipper, falling off roof, "AA! AAA! AAA! AAAAAAA!" He falls back on, "You again!"

"Did you miss me? Admit it, you missed me."

Dipper scowled, "Hardly. You worked with Gideon! You tried to destroy my uncle's mind!"

Bill laughed, lIt was just a job, kid! No hard feelings! I've been keeping an, "becomes bigger and voice becomes lower, "EYE ON YOU, "normal size and voice, "since then, and I must say I'm impressed!"

"Really?" Dipper asked.

Will makes it on the roof, "Dipper! Don't listen to him! He's just trying to manipulate you!"

"Wouldn't you know better than to listen to Blue? He barely tells you anything!" He glared at Will.

Dipper frowned, looking at Will, "Like what?"

"Well... my twin is one thing... but he's a completely nutcase and I don't want you anywhere near him!" Will shouted, glaring at him.

Dipper bit his lip, "Why?"

"He's just going to use you, Dipper! He's going to use you like you're just a pawn or a puppet! That's how he's been since..." Will sniffed, looking down.

Dipper woke up.

Mabel, waving the Stan puppet in Stan's face, "Hey, I'm puppet Staaaannn!"

"Still ignoring this," Stan grumbled.

Dipper walks in and yawns, "Hey Mabel." Dipper yawns again.

"Woah, bag check for Dipper's eyes. Ha ha! Nobody?" Stan looks at Mabel and Will.

Mabel frowned, "Dipper, I told you to get some sleep last night! Here, wake up with some Mabel Juice." She blender full of red liquid with various objects floating around, "It has plastic dinosaurs in it!"

"It's like if coffee and nightmares had a baby!" Stan grimaced.

Dipper, pushing Mabel into living room, "Mabel, listen, last night I had a dream with Bill in it."

Mabel frowned, "Wait, hold up, the triangle guy?" She holds fingers around her eye to make a triangle.

Dipper sighed, "He said he'd give me the code to the laptop if I gave him something. Like I'd actually trust Bill, right?"

Mabel smiled, "Don't worry, bro. Today's the day that the mystery twins are back in action. I'll help you crack that code. I've just got to hand off my puppet stuff to my production crew."

"Production crew?"

Candy smiled, "We read the script. Very emotional."

"I cried like eight times," Grenda announced.

"Hey ladies." Gabe skates up to them.

Mabel smiled, "GABE!"

"I was just bladin' by. Helps me dry out my ponytail after a shower." Gabe takes off the helmet and shakes his hair.

Grenda smiled, "Hubbity-hubbuty."

Candy whispers, "매이블이 한테 개이브을 훔쳐하겠다! (I must steal him away from Mabel.)"

"It's so great to see you! I was just working on the world's greatest puppet show. IT HAS PUPPETS!" Mabel smiled.

Gabe smiled, "Your passion is so refreshing, Mabel. Unlike the girl from last night's puppet show. Single-stich on one puppet, and cross-stitch on the other? I was like, "Uh-uh"!"

"Cross-huh?" Mabel asked, confused.

Gabe sighed, "Naturally I deleted her off my cell phone contacts list."

"NATURALLY! Hahahaha!" Mabel smiled.

Gabe smiled, "I know you won't let me down. Based on what you said the other day, you must be a puppet expert." He skates off.

"GWAAA! We gotta up our game, girls! Did you hear that thing he said about the stitches?!" Mabel asked.

Grenda smiled, "Don't worry, Mabel, your crew can handle it!"

Soos, trying to keep a mountain of stuff on the car, "I got it, I got it, Ah! I'm not okay!"

"AAA! Okay, I'm back on fabrication." Mabel starts running inside, "Get me my lint roller!"

Dipper grabs her, "Whoa, whoa! Hey, you just said you were going to help me!"

"DIPPER! This sock crisis just bumped up to code argyle! The laptop can wait!" Mabel shouted.

Dipper sighed, "Mabel, do you seriously think that your random crush of the week is more important than uncovering the mysteries of this town? You're obsessed!"

"I'm obsessed? Look at you! You look like a vampire! And not the hot kind!" Mabel complained.

Dipper rubs his eyes, "But you said you were going to help me today!"

Mabel , Sock, "Oh, I can help you. With tickles!" She tickles him.

"Ha! Ha! Ha!" He punches her arm and Candy and Grenda laugh, "Okay, fine! You know what? I'll do it on my own!"

"Passwords. Passwords. Mabel. Is. Useless." Dipper yawns, "Oh, man..."

Computer announces, "Too many failed entries. Initiate data erase in five minutes..."

"No! Noonono! I'm gonna lose everything?! I only have one more try?!" Dipper yelps in surprise.

Everything turns black and white and Bill appears, "Well, well, well. Someone's looking desperate."

"I thought I told you to leave me alone... besides, Will told you to leave me alone as well..." Dipper grumbled, "I can just go ask Will for help with this, not you. I'm sure he'd be glad to help me."

He laughs, "Are you sure that Will would want to help you? He seems to like Mabel a LOT more... but I'm sure you've noticed that too, haven't you?"

Dipper, looking at computer, which is at 4 minutes now, "Uh, what crazy thing do you want anyway? To eat my soul? To rip out my teeth? Are you gonna replace my eyes with baby heads or something?"

"Yeesh, kid, relax. All I want is a puppet!" He laughed.

Dipper frowned, "A puppet? What are you playing at?"

"Everyone loves puppets. And it looks to me that you've got a surplus."

Dipper shakes his head, "I don't know, man. Mabel worked really hard on these."

"One puppets not that bad, you know... there are worse things I could be asking for."

Dipper sighed, "That's a good point... but... I'm saying no."

Will smiled, listening to them from behind the door.

Once they're all at the theater...

Mabel peeks through the curtain. Gabe is sitting down with his puppets.

The lights flicker, "The show is about to begin! Please turn off your cell phones! Unless you're texting me, cuties!"

The house lights dim, and, to applause, the curtain opens. The set is a glittery and colorful Mystery Shack.

A light illuminates Candy, standing at a keyboard, dressed as David Bowie, "Gather round, and let us sing, about a girl who had almost everything."

She is rolled off the stage. A Dipper puppet pops out of a window and sings.

Mabel , as Puppet Dipper, "Look, it's Mabel!" As Puppet Mabel, "Hi there!" As Puppet Soos, "Did you say stable?" As Puppet Stan, "No, he said Mabel!" As Puppet Mabel, "Okay, hit it, boys!" The puppets form a line and sing. Singing as puppets, "Who's that girl with the pig and the braces? She puts smiles on everyone's faces!" Gabe smiles and nods along, "When she's around, you're never bored!" As Puppet mayor, "I am a mayor, and here's an award!" Singing as Puppet Mabel, "Thank you, mayor, it's true I'm great. But the perfect girl needs the perfect maaaate..." Gabe puppet is revealed. As Puppet Gabe, "Hey, what's up, I'm Gabe." As Puppet Mabel, "Bwaaaa?" Heart glasses are layered over the puppet's eyes.

Will sighs, shaking his head.

Mabel, as Puppet Mabel, "Finally, we're together." As Puppet Gabe, "I'm sorry, Mabel, but I have to go fight. In the war!" A helmet lands on his head. He yells and runs off into a ravaged, flaming background. With a roar, a gigantic many-tentacled monster appears. Lasers flash, fog rolls in, and gunshots are heard. As Puppet Mabel, "I'll wait for you, Gabe! I'll wait for you!"

Happy music plays and the curtain closes. The audience cheers.

Grenda announces, "Our intermission has begun! Mill about!"

The audience does.

Mabel, in her dressing room, "Whew, okay, you can do this, Mabel. Only 36 more musical numbers." She drinks from the water fountain. There is a knock on the door and Gabe enters with flowers.

"Hey, Mabel, do you have a moment?" Gabe asked.

Mabel smiled, "GABE!"

"Mabel, it's clear to me now that you really love puppets. I mean, you went whole hog. And if you stick the ending, well, maybe later you could join me for a biscotti?" Gabe asked.

Mabel gasped, "You drive a biscotti?"

The lights flick on and off.

"I'll be waiting," Gabe leaves.

She pushes the "Big Finish" button. The puppets are revealed to be on a pile of pyrotechnics, which explodes, sending fireworks shooting into the audience and blowing up the box of puppets. In slow motion, the Grunkle Stan puppet arcs through the air, aflame, as Gabe, amid falling puppets, looks on in shock. "Ave Maria" plays mournfully.

The rest of the fireworks go off in a cacophonous boom. As the smoke clears from the smoldering set, the twins turn to the audience. Some scaffolding crashes to the floor behind them.

Mabel smiled, "Don't worry. I've seen enough movies to know this is the part where the audience thinks it was all part of the show and loves it. Cue applause!"

The audience stares at them and starts to boo. They get up and leave the theater, grumbling about how they almost died. Gabe stands, frowning.

Mabel smiled, "Gabe! Stick around for the wrap party? We've got mini-quiches!"

Gabe frowned, "Don't speak to me, Mabel. You've made a mockery of my art form. Let's go, my loves." He walks away, kissing the puppets.

"Did he just make out with his puppets?" Dipper asked.

Mabel grimaced, "I might've dodged a bullet there..."

"You might've?" Will asked, staring at her.

Candy, running after him, "개이브이 잠깐! 캔디 나 아직도 널 사랑해! (Wait, Gabe! Candy still loves you!)"

"Okay... I did," Mabel laughed.

Dipper stares at him, "Hey, could you... help us figure out the password?"

"Sure," Will smiled.

Mabel picks up the laptop, that had somehow been dropped from a high height, "Dipper..."

"Oh man..."