Wicked Science

It's the first day back at school after the holidays and the giant doll still stands in the school grounds as a reminder of the events which occurred at Sandy Bay School last term.

Charming, manipulative new student Jack befriends Garth so he can gather information about the shrink ray which he saw Garth use to shrink the giant doll.Garth is initially so impressed by Jack's friendly overtures he rebels against Elizabeth.

Toby has his eye fixed firmly on Jack's sister Nikki.He is desperate to impress her, but how? Given she's a swimming star,he decides his best chance is to get on the school swim team.There's only one problem - Toby's a pathetic swimmer!

Elizabeth catches a bad cold from Verity.With a raging temperature, her power to hyperfunction and use her genius is out of control.She finds herself acting against her will, fulfilling other peoples wishes - a cold cream for Verity, sunglasses which give Russ scientific formulae and an exo-skeleton for Garth, transforming him into an armoured warrior Garthdor.

Ltrying to help his friend, Russ finds himself forced to masquerade as Toby at a meeting with Nikki in the surf café.Wearing a Toby invention - a hi-tech polymer vivo interface suit(which makes Russ look and sound exactly like Toby).

When Russ is bullied by Garth,Toby tries to prove Russ is not a loser.Toby creates a time portal to show Russ his ancient,valiant ancestors.But things go horribly wrong.The time machine is damaged and Russ finds that he's swapped places with his 350,000-year-old hominid ancestor,Rog.

Disaster strikes when the school clock breaks and Elizabeth is forced to hide her lab equipment in the school storeroom or risk Mr Woods discovering her secret laboratory.A curious Jack accidentally locks himself in the storeroom and is and is zapped by one of Elizabeth's new inventions,causing his arm to go right through the door.

Flagging morale and shocking times have hurt the Sandy Bay swim team.Nikki is suffering most of all so, in order to boost her confidence,Toby invents a 'doubt eliminator' in the form of a ring.

Sacha has been feeling increasingly homesick over the last few weeks and misses her horse, Misty, terribly.Feeling sorry for her, Toby invents a homing device that teleports her horse to Sandy Bay.But the device malfunctions and Misty keeps appearing next to Sacha in school.

Russ continues to be on Toby's back about helping him with girls so Toby invents a flying disk to make Russ look good on the beach.That tactic fails, of course, but Jack is convinced the flying disk is another example of Toby's weird powers.

A hungry Garth is a careless Garth and when he 'borrows' Elizabeth's shrink ray to increase the size of his breakfast, Jack not only sees the device in action, but steals it.

The 'sibling' rivalry between Sacha and Russ escalates to the point where the trio threatens to break up.During a heated argument, they manage to trigger some of Toby's wicked science devices and as a result find they have swapped bodies.

Elizabeth is driven wild with jealousy when Toby and Nikki decide to go to the school dance together.She invents a lightning generator, producing a fork of pure lightning which pursues Nikki.

Toby's liquid nitrogen cryogenic refrigeration chamber malfunctions, spelling potential disaster.The Raptor cells stored inside begin to thaw and Toby must allow them to grow or lose them.Meanwhile, Jack is eager to learn more about Toby.

Working on the odd theory that if she makes Toby desperately ill,he will come running to her for a cure,Elizabeth invents a device that drains his hyperfunctions.

After damaging an experiment involving a rare plant from Boggy Creek,Verity is banished from Elizabeth's lab.To her horror,she starts growing scales and gradually turns into an amphibious monster!As rumours of the strange creature spread ,Verity is delighted to find she can terrorize Garth and decides to pay out on him.

Jack films the lead-up to an inter-school Science Expo as an excuse to find wicked science and hopefully blackmail Elizabeth and Toby into making him a genius too.

Toby invents an anti gravity belt that will lift the wearer to any height.But Jack manages to steal the belt and attach it to a small dog,Dudley who belongs to the school's new benefactor, Mrs Xavier.

When Elizabeth finds that Verity and Garth can't meet her exacting standards as personal assistants, she decides to create a self-learning artificial intelligence program to do the job instead.

Unable to bear the thought of Toby and Nikki getting together,Elizabeth traps Toby in a time loop, forcing him to relive the same day over and over until he accepts the alternate reality she has created for them.

The crimson ringed octopus has venom so toxic that one drop can immobilise an elephant;or one Mr Woods and one Elizabeth.Mr Woods, hit by a poisoned spitball from Garth,ends up stuffed into a cupboard and Elizabeth, accidentally stung,remains gracefully unconscious on her laboratory floor.

Nadine Sterling, a movie star,has come to Sandy Bay to shoot her new film in the house where the legendary Violet Strickland is believed to have died a horrible death.Meeting Nadine, Russ is immediately in love.

When Garth's little cousin, Rodney, turns up in Sandy Bay,he immediately causes havoc with his pranks.He starts by spraying Sacha with a water hose and soon goes on to bigger and better things at the school.

Desperate for information about Elizabeth's genius, Jack offers her a deal.If he can turn his (and Nikki's parents) against Toby causing the couple to split up, will Elizabeth tell him what he wants to know about wicked science? Planning on lanning on telling him nothing, Elizabeth agrees and sets out to ensure the lunch with Jack and Nikki's parents is a disaster.

In an attempt to make Toby jealous, Elizabeth partners Jack in an end-of-year science experiment.However,Jack's persistence and undeniable charms are working their magic and when Jack kisses Elizabeth she begins to fall for him.