WOMAN: Are you ready?
♪ Ooh ♪
♪ I know you see me
standing here ♪
♪ Do I look good,
my dear? ♪
♪ Do I look good today? ♪
♪ Today, today ♪
♪ Ooh ooh ooh ♪
♪ I'm just another
kind of girl ♪
♪ And you want
to see my world ♪
♪ So come and run away ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ If you wanna play ♪
♪ Come and play today ♪
♪ Let's just get away, yeah ♪
♪ I will make you see ♪
♪ All of the things ♪
♪ That you can be ♪
♪ Believe in yourself ♪
♪ Come follow me ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ ♪
- No way!
- I swear.
- Oh, come on,
that is not true!
- It's so true.
- They're not the same size?!
- Nope. My left one's bigger.
- I don't believe it.
- They have to be
the same size.
- Uh-uh.
Almost a full size bigger.
See? My right one's a size
five-and-a-half,
and my left
one's a six-and-a-half.
- Insane.
- Freaky.
- Afternoon, girls.
- Hello?
- Dean Rivers?
- Why are you sitting with us?
- Zoey, have you heard of
a girl named Paige Howard?
- The girl who won
the National Science Achievement
award this year?
- Exactly.
She's considering switching
schools and coming to PCA.
- Really?
- I'm talking to Zoey.
She's gonna visit here
a few days,
and I want you to be her host--
y'know, show her around,
talk up the school,
that kinda thing.
- Um, sure.
- Well, this is exciting.
I can ask her all about
her proton energy converter.
- Wow, hours
of fun conversation.
- And she's
gonna be installing
her energy converter
thingy here at PCA,
which means that we will be
the first school in the world
running on Paige Power.
- I can't handle
this much excitement.
- Twenty-eight...
Twenty-nine...
- He's almost an hour late!
- I'm aware.
- This is the third time
he's flaked on us.
How many times are we supposed
to put up with him
blowing us off and not even
caring enough--
- What's up, fellas?
Pardon my tardy.
- It's not funny, dude!
We got four days left
to get this psychology
project done,
and we don't
even have an idea.
- I pitched an idea.
- We can't send a bunny
up in a rocket.
- Why not?
- We have no bunny,
we have no rocket,
and it has nothing to
do with psychology.
[cell phone ringing]
- Oh.
Ah ha ha!
It's my baby!
What's up, Lil' Lisa?
- Hang up.
- Okay, yeah,
I'll be there in ten.
All right.
- C'mon, man!
- What? Look, I'll only
be gone ten minutes,
three hours tops.
Sh'loom!
[knock on door]
- Come in.
- Mr. Berringer?
Sorry I'm late. I was in
Dean Rivers' office meeting--
- Paige Howard!
Please, please come in.
- Everyone, this is Paige.
She's from Boulder, Colorado,
and she's thinking
about coming to PCA.
- Hey, guys.
- You better come to PCA.
It would be an absolute honor
to have a scientist
of your caliber
on this campus.
- Oh, stop.
- Hi, Paige.
I'm Quinn Pensky.
- Oh, yeah, I've read
your science blog a few times.
I loved your take
on the Heisenberg
Uncertainty Principle.
- And the fun begins.
- Okay, uh, Paige,
why don't you just have a seat
next to Zoey?
Quinn here,
if you will, regale us.
- Well, as I was saying,
a geosynchronous satellite
is a satellite whose orbital
track on the earth repeats
regularly over the equator.
- Right, right.
Pretty impressive,
huh, Paige?
- Um...yeah.
Uh-huh.
- Oh...that was not a very
convincing "uh-huh."
Something you wanna share?
- I'm really
just here to watch.
- It's okay, Paige.
You can jump in.
- Um, okay...
Um, actually,
if the satellite's orbit lies
over the equator,
it's technically called
a geostationary satellite.
- Oh. Right.
- But a geostationary
satellite
is a type of
geosynchronous satellite,
so you're pretty much right.
- Thanks.
- Very impressive, Paige.
Kind of makes me wonder
what other wrong things
Quinn has taught us
this semester.
Settle down.
I'm just kidding, Quinn.
- Heh heh...
- Ok, moving on
to Kepler's First Law...
- [laughing]
All right, I'll see you
around seven-thirty.
[kissing sounds]
- Okay, that is like the
biggest fish I've ever seen.
- What fish?
- The one you snagged.
I didn't know you
were a fishing man.
- Okay, I'm so lost.
- The picture--on the student
snapshot board.
Right over here.
See?
- Wh-what's that?
- Hmm. It seems to be
some sort of sea bass.
I'd say somewhere around
seventeen pounds.
How'd you catch it,
Captain Sassy?
- I didn't.
I've never been fishin'
before in my life.
- But the caption says,
"Michael Barret
displays his prized catch."
And that's you
holding a fish.
- I know,
but I don't remember.
Maybe I went on a fishin' trip
and...just forgot about it?
- Um...sure.
- Huh.
MICHAEL :Huh.
[beeping and crackling]
- Should I be scared?
'Cause I'm feeling scared.
I've noticed
you're not answering.
So scared.
- Aah!
- Maybe it's time
to give up?
- I'm not giving up.
I've got three months
of my life in this thing,
and it's going to work.
- No one can
defeat gravity, Quinn.
- I can--if I could just...
[sighs]
[beeping, whirring]
There!
I think I've got it!
Uh, give me your cell phone.
Now I activate the electrically
charged ion field...
[machine humming louder]
[machine shuts down]
Uh-oh.
- Nice goin', Quinn.
You created
the cell phone destroyer!
- Did, uh...did you get
the extended warranty?
[Zoey and Paige laughing]
- Hey, guys.
- Hi.
- [sniffing]
What smells
like burning plastic?
- Burning plastic.
Quinn melted my cell phone with
her anti-gravity doo-hickey.
- You built
an anti-gravity chamber?
- Well, not yet.
But it will be as soon
as I figure out how to balance
the iomagnetic gamma wave.
- Ah.
Would it be cool if I, uh...?
- Sure.
[beeping]
[beeping]
I don't think, um...
- Okay, now let's
give it a sh*t.
- Wait, what are you...?
[beeping, whirring]
- Oh, my God!
- Look at that!
- And down we go.
- That's amazing!
- Paige, you defeated gravity!
- Nah, Quinn built it.
I just--
- Made it work.
- Well...
- Uh, I'm gonna go...
take a walk.
Later.
[cell phone ringing oddly]
[buttons beeping]
- I don't know
how to answer this.
- ♪ What I can
to somehow right ♪
♪ This wrong
that's been done to you ♪
♪ I've been trying
the best that I can ♪
- Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Excuse me, miss?
- Yes?
You're...
you're...
you're...
- Albert Einstein.
How are ya?
- But--but you d*ed in 1955!
- Oh, no, no.
I just had a cold.
I've been living in Orlando.
- Really?
- Oh, yeah.
Anyway, I've come to PCA
because I want to meet
the greatest young female
scientist of our time.
- "The greatest young female
scientist of our time"?
You really mean that?
- Yeah.
Where is that Paige Howard?
- Here I am, Albert!
- Ohh!
- Aah!
- My goodness!
Paige Howard!
Oh ho ho!
It is a privilege
to meet you.
Mwah!
- Oh, Al, stop.
- I just can't believe
how brilliant you are!
And beautiful!
And you're two years
younger than Quinn!
It's amazing!
- Aw, thanks.
- Dance with me!
[waltz playing]
♪ ♪
[both laughing]
♪ ♪
[laughter echoing]
- Why was she
fluffing his hair?
[alarm beeping]
- Wake up, boys.
We got class in thirty.
- What?
What the--
I'm wearing a tuxedo?
Why am I wearin' a tuxedo?!
- I was just
gonna ask you that.
- Why would you go to sleep
in a tuxedo?
- I didn't!
I mean...I don't think I...
No, I know I didn't!
- Well, dude,
you're wearing a tuxedo.
- Well, I can see that!
But--but I'm a teenager.
I don't even own a tuxedo!
- Well, then
where'd you get it?
- I don't know!
[gentle music]
♪ ♪
- Quinn...
- Hey, Quinn...
- Why are you throwing out
all your stuff?
- Because I'm
giving up science.
- Will you stop?
- Quinn!
- Let go!
- Not till you tell us
why you're doing this.
- Because I don't wanna be
a scientist anymore.
If I can't dance with Einstein,
what's the point?
- What is she talking about?
- Paige.
She's better than me.
She's smarter, she's younger,
and she has silkier hair.
- That is true.
What kind of shampoo
do you think--ow!
- Okay, first of all,
I wouldn't say
Paige is smarter than you.
And even if she is, so?
- So, my whole life has been
devoted to being the best
at what I do.
But it's all been a lie.
I'm not the best.
- Can't you just use
the same shampoo Paige does?
- C'mon, Quinn,
you're being silly.
- Just leave me alone.
- No, not until you stop
throwing all your
science stuff away.
Aah!
[banjo playing]
♪ ♪
- Hey, uh...
Hey!
Who are you?
- Bah ha ha ha ha ha!
Bah ha ha ha ha ha!
- What?!
- Shh!
The jalapenos are sleeping!
- Okay, what are you sayin',
and who are you?
- I'm everything...
and nothing.
[laughing]
Oh.
[footsteps]
- Freddy! Freddy!
Look at that guy!
I mean, why is he--
- What guy?
- There was...there was
a little guy,
and he was playin' a banjo
and wearin' a wedding dress
with ruby red slippers!
- Yeah.
Maybe, uh...
Maybe you should
go see the nurse.
- But, hey...
I'm not crazy!
I swear!
He was--
Aah!
Hey! Wh--
[disco music playing]
- Shh!
I'm taking my fish
for a walk.
[imitating siren]
Ha ha ha ha ha!
- Aah!
- Oh, run!
Run!
Run like a bunny who's late
for his appointment!
Oh!
[laughing]
[indistinct chatter]
- We're live
at Pacific Coast Academy
to meet one of the brightest
young scientists in the country,
Paige Howard.
Just last June,
Miss Howard won
the Junior National Science
Achievement Award
for her work in reducing
energy consumption.
Right now, with the help of
the California Department
of Water and Power,
Miss Howard
is installing her
prize-winning proton
energy converter,
which will increase the school's
electrical efficiency
by twelve percent.
[converter humming]
- How's it coming?
- Almost set.
- Where's Quinn?
- I don't know.
She ditched English
and blew off study hall.
- [sighs]
- Hey...here she comes.
- 'Sup.
- Where have you been
all day?
- Sleepin'.
- You can't just blow off
class and sleep.
- I can, and I did.
- Quinn, you're
twenty minutes late.
- Eh, you're lucky
I'm here at all.
- I am a grown-up.
Don't talk to me like...
Did you hear the way
she talked to me?
- I am not crazy.
I'm not crazy.
I'm not...crazy.
- What?
"Best friends and a fish"?
Chase! Logan!
Help me!
Please help me!
- What?
- What's the matter?
- I think I've gone crazy!
I'm outta my mind, man!
I'm crazy!
- [chuckling]
- Excellent.
- Nice work.
- Huh?
Did you hear what I said?
- We're gonna get an "A"
on our project.
- An "A"?!
Okay, what are you guys talk--
- Our psychology project.
- Since you wouldn't help us,
we came up with our own idea.
- What idea?
- To prove that if
you make someone think
they're going crazy,
they'll actually go crazy.
- Which you did.
- Nicely done.
- But--but the pictures...
a-a-and the tuxedo...
- All us.
- Okay, but, what about
the crazy little man?
- Coco's cousin.
- I had to pay him fifty bucks
to put on the wedding dress.
- Anyway, congrats, man.
All we gotta do now is just
type it up and turn it in.
- You're cute.
- ♪ If I could fool
the world... ♪
[gentle music]
[panel beeping]
- There.
It's done.
Now, as soon as I activate it,
all the power in the school
will be redirected through
these proton converter chambers.
- I am tingling!
REPORTER: We're back live
from Pacific Coast Academy
and only seconds away
from witnessing
a revolutionary event
in terms of energy
conservation and efficiency.
Incredibly, it all comes from
the brain of a thirteen-year-old
girl named Paige Howard,
who won the National Science
Achievement Award this year
for inventing a device known
as a proton energy converter,
which has been
getting attention
from the world's
top scientists.
- What's that?!
[alarms beeping]
- What's wrong?
- The power's fluctuating.
[beeping, alarm sounding]
- Um...just a moment...
What's happening?
- A power build-up.
- Is that good?
- Not really.
Gimme an output reading.
- I got ten-point-four.
- Ten-point-four?
- Wait, ten-point-nine...
eleven-point-one.
We better shut down
your device.
- It can't be shut down
unless you k*ll the power
at the main grid.
- You can't do that
without city authorization.
- What's happening?
- I'm handling this.
What's happening?
- Um, you might wanna
evacuate PCA.
Not kidding.
- A serious situation
is unfolding here
at Pacific Coast Academy.
The device that was supposed to
maximize electrical efficiency
has, instead, created chaos
here at the school.
Due to a potential overload,
all students and faculty
are being ordered to evacuate
the campus immediately.
- [groans]
[nervous chatter]
- Come on, come on.
Please, let's go, let's go.
Go, go, go, go, go.
- Come on, kids!
Let's go!
This is not a drill.
Everybody out!
Get off the campus!
Everybody off the PCA campus!
Go!
- You guys! Wait!
- Paige! What happened?!
- Quinn, come help me!
- Why?
- 'Cause you're a genius!
- You're the genius.
- Look, we're both
really smart, okay?
- Quinn, go help her!
- She needs you!
- Bye.
- C'mon, Paige,
I'll help you.
- Do you know anything about
electrical engineering
or theoretical physics?
- Nothing at all.
- Perfect.
- Okay, you go help Paige.
- Right, and
what are you gonna do?
- I'm gonna go hide
behind that big tree.
- All students and faculty,
exit the north gate!
- Come on!
[alarm blaring]
- Here.
- I don't know
what to do with this!
- Just keep yelling out
the number
so we know how much
power's building up.
Okay, I already restricted
the input capacitors
down to zero, but the power's
still bouncing back.
Why is the power
still bouncing back?!
- I don't know!
Maybe it's confused?
- Can you invert
the counterflux?!
- Oh, thank God.
I don't have to think anymore.
- I can't.
It's a parallel flux.
- Fourteen-point-seven!
[device humming]
Fifteen-point-one!
- What kind of metal did you
use for this bridge circuit?
- Zinc. Why?
- I think you need
something more conductive!
- What does that mean?
- We need something small
and metal
that's more
conductive than zinc!
- What about my key?!
- Give it here!
Hurry!
- Got it.
- Here.
It's aluminum!
- How do you know
it's aluminum?!
- It tastes like aluminum!
Move!
[alarm blaring]
Okay...flip the breakers.
I'm gonna replace
the bridge circuit!
- Are you crazy?!
- I can't make a swap
on a live circuit!
- If I flip the breakers,
you're only gonna have
like five seconds to--
- I get it!
Flip the breakers!
- Okay, do it!
- Fifteen-point-seven...
Eight...
- Yes! There!
Punch it!
- Fifteen-point-nine!
[crackling, beeping]
[all scream]
[powering down]
- It's dropping.
- So...
you guys wanna
go get a smoothie?
- Sure.
- Smoothie sounds good.
- ...and despite a shaky
and near disastrous start,
the power-saving module
designed by Paige Howard
and Quinn Pensky
is now working flawlessly.
- All right!
- Yeah!
- Based on the revolutionary
success of the device,
both Miss Howard,
age thirteen,
and Miss Pensky,
age fourteen,
were offered early admission
to the California
Institute of Technology.
- Quinn!
- You're going to college?!
- Now?!
- No.
Paige accepted the offer.
She's going.
I told 'em no thanks.
- How come?
- Because...
I don't wanna go
to college yet.
I wanna spend
my high school years
in high school...
at PCA...
with all my friends.
ALL: Aww!
- She loves us.
- Yeah, I do.
- Well, I'm the most glad
you're staying.
- Why's that?
- So you can go
repaint my key.
- Mmm...aluminum.
[everyone laughing]
- Ahh, what a freak.
[laughter]
WOMAN: ♪ If you wanna play ♪
♪ Come and play today ♪
♪ Let's just get away, yeah ♪
♪ I will make you see ♪
♪ All of the things ♪
♪ That you can be ♪
♪ Believe in yourself ♪
♪ Come follow me ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
[ding]
MAN: Mmm.
- Insane.
- Freaky.
03x13 - Paige at PCA
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Series centers around Zoey Brooks as she enrolls in Pacific Coast Academy, a prestigious Southern California boarding school that previously only allowed boys to attend.
Series centers around Zoey Brooks as she enrolls in Pacific Coast Academy, a prestigious Southern California boarding school that previously only allowed boys to attend.