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- An English priest is transferred to a small Irish village.
- Annie is defeated badly by a formidable opponent in a hurdles race, and her confidence leaves her after that. Plato tries to help her get her it back by telling the story of "The Minatour", where an opportunity was taken to protect people in spite of the danger. When Zach acts confident, Ari points out to them both that different levels of courage are needed in different situations, as shown in Aesop's fable "The Brave Mice", and Plato speaks of William Tell, who put plenty at risk for his own sake and others'. Even the poem "If" is a reminder about how much courage life demands all in all.
- Zach is sorely tempted to touch his dad's beautiful antique camera, despite promising not to - and when he does, he breaks it and lies that it fell off its display table naturally. Plato tries to convince Zach to tell the truth by telling him the stories of "The Frog Prince", where the title character received a punishment for breaking a promise and another had to keep one made, and the legend "George Washington and the Cherry Tree", whose protagonist too broke something he promised to leave in good shape but learned his lesson in a different way. Annie even tells a family tale of "The Indian Cinderella", where an Algonquin warrior only wished for an honest companion. Even the poem "Truth" shows how good it is and how much joy it can give through life.
- It's Zach's birthday and he wants to plan a large party to celebrate, but is bitter when his parents inform him they can only host a moderate one. Seeing this and how Ari is glum that his small size is why Sock won't let him do much to help set up an earlier celebration for Zach, Plato points out that what is actually had in life should not be easily scorned, as a man found out during his many experiences and longings in "The Discontented Stonecutter", and Aurora reminds that some things in life, like people, are worth more than ones that show wealth by reading "Cordelia's Jewels". Even the prayer "Father in Heaven, we thank thee" points out how much there is to be grateful for in life.
- Zach enjoys birdwatching with Mr. Cleveland, but in climbing on a plaque to get up to a tree he breaks it and doesn't get why Mr. Cleveland is so worked up over it, especially when he shows confusion over why anyone would care about such an aged thing. Plato explains the meaning of one of the words on it, "loyalty", by telling the stories of "Yudisthira at Heaven's Gate", where a king is challenged to choose between a companion and his dreams, and "The Cap That Mother Made", where a boy is tempted with great things for something he values. When Plato remembers that the plaque was a war memorial and Zach remembers that Mr. Cleveland knew someone who died in World War II, Plato also brings up the story of the Jewess Persian queen Esther, who had to make the choice of risking life itself if she wished to save her own people. Even the poem "The Thousandth Man" shows how strong and great true loyalty is.
- Annie volunteers to tutor a younger student in math, but grows openly frustrated with Josh when it doesn't turn out as easy as she hoped, then regrets her offer to help to begin with. Meanwhile, Ari is ready to quit trying to teach Sock to roller-skate. Plato tries to convince them that patience can make a difference, just like it did with another teacher, Anne Sullivan, who was forced to test every bit of hers to help her pupil, Helen Kellar. He also shows how using it enough to deal kindly with others brings satisfaction in "How the Brazilian Beetles Got Their Coats".
- Annie agrees to put her brand-new bike to good use by delivering cakes from her mom's bakery, but can't resist Zach's offer to race - and is angry with him when her bike crashes and the food is ruined. Plato and Aurora try to convince her that responsibility is always handy to keep around as shown in "Icarus and Dedalus" where a boy had too little responsibility to obey his father and paid for it, or the legend "King Alfred and the Cakes" where even a renowned ruler was forced to admit he neglected his simple duty. Ari tells "The Chest of Broken Glass", where a mother reminds her family what rewards responsibility versus irresponsibility bring and how much can be owed to those in a family. Even the poem "If You Were" sums up what responsibility everyone has to humanity to make the world better.
- 1990–200022mNot Rated7.4 (708)TV EpisodeA young boy grieving over the death of his conductor father becomes obsessed with trains and railroads, and one day finds himself repeatedly returning to a train nightmare.
- 1990–200022mNot Rated7.5 (691)TV EpisodeA boy and his sister, wishing to spend more time with their workaholic father, get more than they bargained for when their father's work comes home, in the form of an Egyptian curse and a live mummy.
- 1990–200022mNot Rated7.0 (536)TV EpisodeSpending her summer break in a retirement home full of old people wasn't Claudia's first choice, but it turns out to be more interesting than she expected when a ghostly boy begins stalking her.
- 1990–200022mNot Rated8.0 (723)TV EpisodeA girl was killed in a fire several years ago while trying to stop a ghost. In the present day, two boys move in and discover the secret of the house's past.
- 1990–200022mNot Rated7.6 (833)TV EpisodeA boy who enjoys playing pranks goes too far one day and is punished by being trapped in a virtual reality game.
- 1990–2000Not Rated6.1 (570)TV EpisodeWhile skiing in Canada and searching for their missing friend, two teenagers get lost in a cabin with a spooky life-sucking demon lurking around.
- 1990–2000Not Rated6.9 (347)TV EpisodeTwo friends fix up a wrecked V8 from a junkyard and get caught up in a dark deal with a group of ghosts from the 1960s.
- 1990–2000Not Rated6.6 (700)TV EpisodeAmbitious kid who wants to be a professional hockey player finds a hockey stick that can't miss. Unfortunately, it's cursed.
- 1990–200024mNot Rated6.0 (533)TV EpisodeA boy tired of being pushed into lame recreational activities and lessons learn how to erase his problems, literally.
- 1990–2000Not Rated7.1 (725)TV EpisodeA spoiled goth boy obsessed with vampire lore finds himself getting more than he bargained for when he finds himself face-to-face with real-life bloodsucking fiends.
- 1990–200022mNot Rated6.5 (602)TV EpisodeA teen boy finds himself trapped leaving him, his friend and his sister as pawns in a life or death board game.
- 1990–2000Not Rated6.2 (538)TV EpisodeA self-conscious teen model discovers a cult of girls run by an old crone who steals their beauty for herself.
- 1990–2000Not Rated6.5 (571)TV EpisodeA murdering nurse's ghost begins terrorizing two teen girls when they spend the week at their grandfather's house.
- 1990–2000Not Rated7.2 (458)TV EpisodeA boy who wants to join a stuck-up popular club at his school steals a photograph of theirs and uncovers a tragic mystery dating back to the 1940s.
- 1990–2000Not Rated7.1 (364)TV EpisodeShy high school girl Maggie gets notes from a secret admirer and with the help of a jock student learns of a horrible accident in the wood shop that may be the cause.
- 1990–2000Not Rated6.8 (501)TV EpisodeA boy is turned into a statue in the woods after he refuses to introduce his artist girlfriend to his snobby parents. His girlfriend then tries to save him with the help of two eccentric adults.
- 1990–200022mNot Rated6.6 (494)TV EpisodeA man working in an arcade has been shrinking kids and selling them as tiny pets, and now a teen is gambling for his life.
- Jamal Jenkins' family is preparing for his older sister Danitra to go to college. That night Jamal sees strange things happening in the park, then receives a strange message on his computer from a mysterious being who asks, "Where are the children? Are they all right?" The next morning he revisits the park and finds a strange coded message, then finds a warning in his locker. His attempts to find out what's going on lead him to Lenni Frazier, a girl who lives with her musician father in an apartment above the bodega owned by the parents of Alex Fernandez and his little sister Gaby, who is the latest victim in a string of backpack thefts committed by unusual culprits. Lenni also receives a strange message in her notebook after speaking to Jamal. They find out they're the only ones who can see letters being rearranged on signs and posters, and decide to try and contact the mysterious spirit.
- While working in the new community garden set up a cleaned-out landfill with Lenni, Rob, and Sally Lewis, Gaby suffers a headache and faints for no reason the doctor can see. She seems better after having Grandma Jenkins' soup, but then collapses and is hospitalized. Rob tells her dad many are getting sick with similar symptoms, but they haven't spent time together so it's probably not a virus. The next day, the garden bunnies are found dead. Except Jamal, who's stuck house-cleaning, the Ghostwriter Team does a survey to find out what's causing the illness, and Ghostwriter confirms the connection they see: everyone has either visited or eaten produce grown in the garden. They return to it and Ghostwriter reads some incomplete words then show them what they can from: foul-smelling barrels buried underground.
- Sally evacuates the garden when it's found the barrels contain a toxic cleaning chemical called technocloroethelyne, or "perc", someone illegally dumped rather than dispose of properly. Ghostwriter manages to reveal a bit more writing on another barrel first. After many failed phone calls, the team contact the Environmental Protection Department, but they won't be able to remove the barrels for several months since they need to make sure no other site is worse first. The alternative is to catch the dumper since that person must by law remove them, but they need to learn who it is. Gaby worries her life is in danger since the rabbits' ended, so Alex tries to find out the chemical's effects. This time, Tina is missing out on the investigation after her brother Tuan gets into an argument with their parents about skipping school to focus on his music, and Tina (and her sister) are confined to home too since her parents say she's been helping them too little. The Ghostwriter Team decide to approach local activist Fanny Mae Banner, who hosts a show exposing crooked actions - but they first must prove the perc case is an actual scandal. Lenni's dad and Sally seem to be falling in love. Gaby finds the warning sign put up to keep people out of the garden is ineffective since kids don't get it. The team learn the barrels came from Eco-Safe Chemical Co., but the company says the buyer must've dumped it. Thanks to Ghostwriter's letters, they're able to trace it to French Garment Cleaners. Momo works there, but when Rob and Lenni approach him he seems nervous and is reluctant to say if he knows who the hauler responsible for taking and dealing with their perc is.
- After getting an anonymous call from someone asking them to meet to hear who handled the barrels, Lenni and Rob go to find it's Momo. He plans to secretly check his boss' files to see. The team find the garden fence is broken and some people are desperate enough for its old free-food produce to enter despite their new warning signs. Momo can't get to the records, but Ghostwriter finds three companies before the words the team gives him narrows it down to Miller's Hauling Company. Lenni finds her dad is starting to date Sally, and resists. Tina and Alex go to Miller's Hauling Company posing as school reporters. It turns out John Miller is about to get the Citizen of the Year award, but they hear him angrily talking on the phone with someone about shredding something, and when they briefly "interview" him he seems nervous to be asked about disposing of chemicals too dangerous for a landfill. Ghostwriter finds part of a memo in the garbage and they conclude he's going to shred evidence of him dumping the perc, and possibly steal French Garment Cleaner's invoices to link him to it.
- With French Garment Cleaners' boss' invoice's stolen, Miller doesn't have to worry about them being read as evidence before he can shred them. Momo says his boss won't talk to kids even for an investigation, so presses them to bring an adult, but they still need proof to convince anyone to back them. Alex and Tina return to the hauling company to record the documents being shredded. Ghostwriter confirms they're the invoices, but in trying to get the camera close enough to view the documents, they're discovered. They escape and even share a kiss, but the papers are shredded without a clear shot of words. The two take them since they ended up in the garbage truck they were hiding in, along with the tape they managed to get of him remarking he did shred something secretly important. They approach Fanny Mae Banner, who says she'll do their story - but she needs a witness or something strong enough to condemn Miller definitely. They decide to have Momo's boss talk to her. They're also determined to make sure Miller wastes no time cleaning out the perc.
- 1995–199822mNot Rated7.4 (648)TV EpisodeJessica, a teenage girl obsessed with money but greedy when it comes to sharing it, is swept away into a surreal small town environment and learns the hard way that being greedy gets you nothing but trouble.
- 1995–199822mNot Rated6.5 (595)TV EpisodeMatthew, who loves baseball but isn't very good at it, has the chance to play for his life in a surreal version of the game.
- 1995–199822mNot Rated7.0 (601)TV EpisodeA boy's friends try to save him from being turned into a plastic doll by a sadistic and stuck-up man.
- Joan Girardi thinks she hears someone calling to her in her room in the middle of the night, while her police-chief father Will is investigating a murder of a woman. The next day, Joan sees someone spying on her from their yard and Will wonders if it was the murderer, who left behind no clues but a footprint. On the city bus toward school, Joan is approached by a boy about her own age who apologizes for startling her that morning, knows many details about her life - and claims that he is God and wants her to apply for a job at a bookstore in town. Will, trying to learn more about the killer who has struck again, is also trying to reconcile with the fact that his son Kevin won't end up living a life playing sports as they both hoped since the accident that cost him his ability to walk, but his wife Helen wants to see her son move on and figure out what he now wants to do with his life. Joan asks her science-obsessed brother Luke if he believes in God, but he thinks the conversation isn't worth hearing when she wonders if he could be an attractive boy. However, God takes on another form to reach her, and encourages her to do what SHE requested, and leaving her with the choice of what to believe and what to do.
- Joan sees a newscaster on TV speak to her as God, but doesn't get to see what message He has when Will turns it off. The next day, God tells Joan that he wants her to take pride in her work and stop shirking. Joining the Advanced-Placement chemistry class that Luke is already in, Joan gets to work with Gothic rebel Grace Polk, and intelligent but distant suspected drug-user Adam Rove. Will attempts to solve an arson case, but has to deal with political opposition. Helen wants Kevin to start moving on in his life by learning to drive a car with hand-controls, but he is angry that he is not expected to pay for the vehicle himself and feels as though others' respect and expectations for him have fallen.
- God, as a postal worker, delivers a book on chess on Joan, telling her to learn to play. Meanwhile, several of Joan's classmates want her to discover whether Grace Polk is homosexual. Will reluctantly accepts the help of a psychic while trying to find a missing child, struggling with his doubts about her alleged gift.
- The director of the camp, "Uncle" Brian, explains it's another neighboring Camp Hawkwood and invites the group to stay while contacting theirs. But everyone but Dave is troubled by how the campers act as though they know of nothing from less than before thirty years ago. Charlotte and Erin start to be warned by a camper named Drew about something before he is interrupted by a counselor, Will, and they're led back to camp. Russell hears Drew locked in a barn, but he's unresponsive when Will investigates, but only indirectly. And Will's lied to Erin and Charlotte about calling Ramos; Uncle Brian admits to Russell he severed the phone from the wall. The four eventually learn that this Camp Hawkwood is cursed by the Indians who lived on the spot years before, and it now exists one weekend a year as opposed to not at all. But if any of the original campers leave or further damage the trees or grounds, everyone there will all pay, and Drew is desperate to be free...
- Russell is reluctant to go on Camp Hawkwood's seniors' experience "The Haunted Cabin", especially since he's heard stories of campers' disappearing there. The night before, a message warning against going is somehow engraved in his and Dave's cabin's floor. The night Russell, Erin, and Charlotte, and Dave go, Dave is trapped in his sleeping bag and almost sucked through the floor. The next morning the door opens then shuts on its own with a message heralding doom, and after they play a trick on Ramos, the counselor they know plays pranks for the Haunted Cabin, they find the landscape changed, leading them to a camp with unfamiliar people who react strangely to them...
- When Alex gets a new desk, it opens up to reveal a journal with the following day's date in it - and a recount of something that actually happens to him the next day. When he tests it by reading the next day's entry and it comes true for him again, he plans to get rich betting on the future. But he finds it's harder to predict or control than he thinks when his showing off in gym causes others to cheer him results so the bleachers fall apart and his best friend breaks an ankle, his trying to flee wood-cutting in shop almost sees the teacher cut, and he is hit by a truck. His friend Tessa eventually figures out why he's acting so strangely and steals the diary, but when he sees it again he reads a page where the first-person writer's words are coming from beyond the grave, and doesn't know if he'll have a chance to save her.
- When Danielle and her family move into their new house, she doesn't know that her annoying younger brother Peter hears voices calling in the basement. And she thinks his acting like he has trouble remembering simple things while their parents are away is just a joke after she tries "hypnotizing" him to turn him nicer. But when he continues to do it, and she starts forgetting things too, she wonders if something else is going on. All she knows is, when she finds everyone denying they know about him and he appears from the cracks in the basement floor covered in slime with a bunch of other kids, that they may both be in danger.
- A cart crashes near Freddy, Janet, Dex, Todd, and Alexis holding invitations for them to come to an old creepy house. It turns out to be Freddy's new home, where he's invited them for a special Halloween party full of props - and an accusation that one of them is a werewolf who's been attacking people in town. He's determined to use this full-moon night to discover which one of them it is, with the help of some special werewolf-catching creatures...which themselves may be a reason to panic.
- Superstitious Luke is miserable at the end of Friday the 13th when his until-then-perfect locker breaks, and he is assigned #13 instead. In it, though, he finds a mysterious charm with a picture matching a face he sees in the locker's mirror, saying it will give him good luck forever. He does win at wrestling against strong, tough Gomez, gets a congratulatory kiss and party-invitation from a girl he admires, and manages to win a radio-contest. But then he is dragged into the locker to meet the Fatemaster, who reveals that the luck from his charm must be repaid by life. Luke must either give the charm to his best friend so he will temporarily be lucky and then weaken as Luke has since he found it...or, if he refuses to let the Fatemaster enslave Jeff, he will continue to suffer the short time until his own life-force is finished.
- On good-natured Morgan's birthday, he and his friends go to a carnival where he is made a fool of by his pretty classmate Kristin...and declared evil by a fortune-teller. The next day, when his friend Jason is revealed to be going out with Kristen instead and she says she asked him before Morgan asked her, Morgan is angry and feels his arm itching just before Jason has an accident, and Kristin gets Jason to believe Morgan was responsible. The same thing happens when Jason sinks through the ground after beating him at track-team tryouts, but Kristen turns every student, even his and Jason's friend Justin, against Morgan. The fortune-teller reveals how the whole thing started innocently, but Morgan seems to have grown an uncontrollable power to lash out at others with, at the cost of others' trust.
- Dylan is switching rooms and packing away all his toys from over the years. Then he is approached by a mysterious younger boy who acts as if Dylan already knows him...and seems responsible for his best friend's being slipped an allergen in his sandwich. Buddy looks and sounds exactly like Dylan's old doll Buddy, and Dylan's other good friend is attacked. The doll continues to approach and torment Dylan, not accepting that this part of Dylan's life won't include him.
- Dex, Freddy, Todd, Alexis, and Janet have detention with stern Mr. Langley, who leaves them alone after a blackout, unsure of what they're doing there since they don't have him and never knew him well. After a while, four of them try to leave and find the school locked, and Freddy sees writing appear on the blackboard - then is confronted by Mr. Langley and disappears, leaving a note implying the others will soon follow. Dex does leaving behind a similar note after finding out more about Mr. Langley, and Alexis vanishes as the others discover he is a ghost. Janet learns why all of them are being haunted except Todd, who is next, and Mr. Langley doesn't show any sign of letting her go long enough to find out how to appease him.
- When Josh tells the substitute math teacher unfamiliar with his excuses that his homework was stolen by unique robbers along with his entertainment system, Mr. Farber seems to believe him. Afterward, Josh finds the science snakes he told scornful bully Patrick were in his backpack actually there, is robbed just like in his story, and a menacing boy shows up claiming to be his older military-school dropout brother Frank - a character he made up to threaten Patrick. Everyone suddenly believes that the things happening are the truth even when he admits they're not, and his excuse of why his parents can't be told of his getting in trouble lands them in Hawaii. Everything he says comes true, which creates problems when he has to deal with Frank, ninja mercenaries, Sting Borden attacking him, and a mummy coming to life...
- Supernaturally-obsessed Spencer, his friend Vanessa, and new kid Charlie decide to try out a gadget Spencer bought in a novelty shop, The Howler, which is supposed to contact the dead. But it's when they're not using it that they see three figures in the light it sends off, saying something unclear. They think they're kids who disappeared in an abandoned hangout construction site, "The Pit". and get a message in their cereal prompting them to go there to communicate with them. When they do, a beam of light goes toward each of them, though the only effect seems to be on Vanessa, who's suddenly is eager to try it again. She has really been trapped in the machine while her body is inhabited by one of the ghosts who wants to let her friends into Spencer's and Charlie's bodies. It isn't until they get a warning from Vanessa the next night that they realize it, but the ghost in her body lets one of the others take over Charlie. Spencer has to hurry to think of how to save himself, and the others.
- The insecure Andrea Kuhn is encouraged by her psychiatrist to disclose her true feeling to her family, and when she is happy being herself, her husband accidentally kills her after an argument. Ruth recalls how stress triggered a depressive psychosis in George and his treatment with electroshock. Brenda has a miscarriage in the eve of her wedding day. Billy invites Claire to move to his place. David and Keith are discussing the alternative for their baby, adoption or to rent a belly. Rico misses a steady relationship while dating women from an Internet site.
- A gay couple is attacked and one of them is killed, causing controversy among the family and a confession to be made.
- The family prepares for the worst funeral of their lives. Ruth makes things worse on David by taking out her pain on him until he stands up for himself, and Nate makes things worse for Brenda by reminding her she had the chance to marry Joe if she doubted him. Claire, troubled by the fact that mainly negative memories come to mind, again finds comfort in Ted, who explains that it's not unusual. In the middle of the preparations, Keith gets an emergency call from Roger to remove a breaking-and-entering actor...who reveals Roger taped their affair as he promised he wouldn't, so Keith quits working for him. David has no other business so concentrates on the funeral to keep himself together, especially after a brutal insult from his father, who dodges the question on whether he had favoritism among his children but openly condemns David's gayness. Ruth's pain increases when learning it's a green burial so helps David in order to see the body. At the private burial, David is terrified when he imagines he's attacked by Jake in an orange-sweatshirt in the car and suffers another panic attack, so doesn't help. Ruth gets some comfort with Bettina's visit and, after the funeral, with Brenda's request for her to watch Maya until she can recover from her own pain...and anger.
- An adult film star electrocutes to death in her bathtub, which leads to a memorial service that is anything but ordinary.