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#1
S1E26 8.9
Who's Who: Part 4

Lana (Patricia Berry) receives a telegram with another threatening message but, once again, she didn't seem too much concerned about it. Tina (Tram-Anh Tran) explains to the team why Stone Harrison (Sam Stoneburner) is angry with Lana. Jamal (Sheldon Turnipseed) says he'll follow the clue on the store of wigs, Gaby (Mayteana Morales) raises Lana's daughter as a suspect and Rob (Todd Alexander) reinforces the suspicion with some substantial evidences. Lana arrives at the ceremony hall and goes straight to her dressing room, ignoring everyone, including her daughter, Janine Peretti (Gretchen Krich), who leaves the room visibly upset. Tina asks Ghostwriter to read something near Lana's dressing room and he brings them a draft of her speech that doesn't sound like Lana. Stone Harrison passes by them at same time, so the kids believe whoever is in Lana's dressing room is someone pretending to be her. While Tina goes with Alex (David López) and Lt. McQuade (Mike Hodge) to Lana's apartment, Rob and Gaby read all the threatening messages again, trying to get something they might've missed. Rob finds out who's behind all of this and rushes to Lana's dressing room, but he's hit by the villain in the head. Lt. McQuade gets back to the ceremony hall just in time to arrest the culprit during the false speech and Lana to make her own, including a few words of recognition to the person behind this all. The next day Lana and her daughter strengthen their relationship and Alex finally gets courage to tell Tina about his feelings - even though masked through a movie script.

#2
S1E21 8.8
To the Light: Part 4

Ghostwriter tells the rest of the team, who were trying to understand "Double T.'s" (David Patrick Kelly) poem, that Rob (Todd Alexander) needs help, but with so little information they think finding "Double T." would be a better way to help him. They ask if Ghostwriter can read anything else near him and an avalanche of words start flying around the apartment. Putting together all clues they have and with the help of a phone book they find the most probable place "Double T." could be: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Later, Jamal's (Sheldon Turnipseed) dad (Dean Irby) is not quite happy with the new friend of Grandma Cece (Marcella Lowery) and while Rob keeps trying to write with pebbles on the ground, Alex (David López) and Gaby (Mayteana Morales) try to convince their father (Shawn Elliott) to let them go to the Memorial hoping to find "Double T.". The kids get together at the Memorial and finally find "Double T." who does not understand why they're in such a rush to meet him. They explain the situation and mention that Rob - and Lisa (Kristy Graves) - are missing and ask him if he knows about a tunnel where they could've been looking for. Jamal gets word from Alex about the subway tunnel "Double T." and Mr. Hush (John Griesemer) used to sleep and asks his father for help, but the tip Ghostwriter gave to them only tells about the general area of where Rob could be, without specifics. Although it's not the best of the plans they go meet altogether to try finding him.

#3
S2E11 8.8
Just in Time: Part 3

The hand writing the distress call to Ghostwriter belongs to Frank Flynn, a boy who lived in Jamal's house in 1928. Ghostwriter's strength is pushed to its limits when he has to time travel from Frank and his best friend Catherine in 1928, to Jamal and the team in 1993, and back, in order to help Frank clear his name in the theft of a priceless tea set, as if he is not cleared, he will be sent to live in an orphanage. Meanwhile, Jamal learns his dad is getting very sick, and clearing Frank's name may be the only link to his recovery, as he played an important role in Jamal's father's childhood.

#4 Building Bridges: Part 2 S1E32 8.7
#5 Building Bridges: Part 3 S1E33 8.7
#6 Building Bridges: Part 4 S1E34 8.7
#7 Just in Time: Part 2 S2E10 8.6
#8 Lost in Brooklyn: Part 1 S2E13 8.6
#9 Who Is Max Mouse?: Part 1 S2E17 8.6
#10 Don't Stop the Music: Part 1 S2E21 8.6

Lowlights

#42 S1E3 Ghost Story: Part 3 6.8

Alex becomes a member of the Ghostwriter team. Jamal suspects THABTO is connected to the gang of people stealing backpacks, who wear green two-headed masks. The team asks Ghostwriter to find more THABTO buttons, and the search leads them to the Party Animal store, where an order was placed for four buttons. Ghostwriter leads them to a locker at school that's connected to one of the THABTO members, but they don't know who. Gaby reveals that she also got a coded message in her backpack, and the team tries to crack two codes and decide to call on Ghostwriter for help.

#41 Ghost Story: Part 4 S1E4 7.0
#40 Ghost Story: Part 2 S1E2 7.0
#39 Into the Comics: Part 1 S1E14 7.1
#38 Don't Stop the Music: Part 3 S2E23 7.2

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