Zack and Cody knew something was wrong when they both woke up the next morning, and it wasn't just because of their twin telepathy, either.

"You know, Cody," said Zack as he took a bite out of his toast, "I think something bad happened last night. Something very, very bad."

"Yeah," agreed Cody as he gulped down his orange juice. "I had a horrible nightmare that I saw you working on our rewrite and you made all sorts of spelling and grammar mistakes."

"That actually happened," said Zack slowly.

Before Cody could make another wisecrack, Carey came running in. "Boys," she panted, looking worried, "there was a murder in the hotel last night."

"Really?" said Zack. "Awesome!"

"No, not awesome," said Carey, shaking her head.

"Who got killed?" asked Cody.

"It was no one we know, thank goodness," said Carey.

"How did he get killed?" asked Cody.

"He was drowned in the pool," said Carey. "So now the pool is off limits until all the evidence has been examined. To make a long story short, the police have concluded from the evidence they've collected so far that the murderer is in the hotel and they're questioning everyone one at a time, so we're going to be here a while."

"Aw man," grumbled Zack. "Why couldn't this have happened on Monday?"

"How can you make jokes at a time like this?" burst out Carey.

"And how can you act like an actual adult instead of a sitcom adult at a time like this?" rebutted Zack.

Carey was about to reply to that, but instead she said, "Good point. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go in my room and write out my next song."

When Carey was in her room, Cody said, "You know, Zack, this just might be a blessing for us: Now we have more time to work on our re-write!"

"My theory about twin telepathy is only proving to be truer and truer," said Zack.

"Only, let's go back to our old 'you-dictate-I-write-but-throw-in-sentences-of-my-own-every-now-and-then' style, okay?" said Cody. "The last thing we want is for the teacher to have a heart attack!"

Cody then sat down at the desk, picked up a pencil, and waited for Zack to speak...