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- Commercial fire within city

limits at Archer high school.

Be advised, we have reports

of gunshots at at the scene,

possibly inside the building.

- High school, with fire showing

on the second floor inside

and the roof of the building.

- We have a fire.

- Go, go, go!

- Oh, my god.

- Can you get up?

- I can't feel my legs.

- Line to the main door.

- Here we go, move it, move it!

- I can't believe

I never saw it before.

What I did was wrong.

- Take that line out that way,

over there.

- Gary, you hold line somehow.

- This whole place

is about to blow.

- I didn't think it would end

this way.

Wait.

- Be advised,

we have an explosion,

possible chemical fire,

second floor, "a" side.

Upgrade to second alarm.

- After what

you've just been through,

you're lucky to be alive.

I'm not so sure you can say the

same about your friend, though.

- Huh?

- I'm sorry.

Uh, if you remember

anything more,

just, uh,

have your foster parents

get ahold of me, okay?

- According to chief Irwin,

it was one of the worst chemical

fires he's seen in many years.

The weather

wasn't cooperating, either,

forcing the firefighters to work

in subzero temperatures.

Lucy Vander,

a substitute teacher,

was also one of the volunteers

helping put out the Blaze.

- It was heartbreaking to see

the school like this, uh,

but I mostly think about

the families

and, uh, their loved ones

at this time.

- The mysterious fire has left

Archer high school shut down

pending an investigation.

- That Tammand girl's suicide

last year, and now this.

I mean, you see these things

happening at other schools.

You just...

You just never imagine it

happening at your own.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, well, we're doing the best

we can under the circumstances.

- Oh, it's right there?

- Thank you.

- Principal Donato?

- Hold on one second.

You shouldn't be here. We'll

be issuing a statement later.

It's the press.

- I'm from Phil Benson's office.

- Teresa,

I'm gonna have to, uh...

I'm gonna have to call you

right back.

Well, uh, where's...

Where's Phil?

- He's tied up with the mayor.

- Who... who are you?

- I'm the associate counsel

under Mr. Benson.

- Really?

What, are you fresh out

of law school?

This is a big deal,

you understand?

- Principal...

- Yes?

- I am here to take care of this,

and I need you to cooperate,

understand?

- I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I shouldn't have said that.

Uh, I'm a little out of sorts

with everything

that's going on here today.

Uh, let me just go get

the files.

- Great, I'll be right here.

- I don't even want to think

about the settlement.

When they're done with us,

Archer's bank account

is gonna make us look like

we're located in the projects.

- Will the parents sue?

- The parents

are out of the picture.

Foster care.

But you better believe

that once this thing leaks,

every ambulance-chasing,

blood-sucking attorney

in the state

is gonna be calling this kid.

No offense.

- I'm here to build a case that

Alex's own poor decision-making

led us to this situation.

As a result, any publicity or

threats of lawsuit will go away.

In here?

- Yeah, yeah.

- Thank you.

- Hello, Alex.

- Is my paperwork done yet?

- Not yet.

- Alex, this is Laura Sedgewick.

She, uh...

She wants to talk to you

about last night.

- I already talked to the police.

- I-I work for the school board.

It, uh, won't be a problem

if we talk here in private

for a little while, will it?

- No, I'll check with

the detective, but, uh...

-there won't be a problem?

- No, no.

The, uh, phone lines are down,

so if you need me,

I'm... On channel 2.

I'll just leave you two alone,

then.

- I already told the police

everything I know.

- I doubt that.

- When my paperwork comes

through, I'm allowed to leave.

- I see you're in foster care.

That means that every aspect

of your transfer

has to go through

social services,

and I'm sure you're aware

of how efficient they can be.

I need you to tell me

every single detail,

even the ones you didn't tell

the police.

- I told you,

I told the police everything.

- How do I even know

you're not a cop?

- Here's my card.

Other than that, you're just

gonna have to trust me.

I'm gonna be blunt.

The sooner you're out of the

school system, the better.

But before I can allow that

to happen,

I need to know everything.

Everything.

Off the record.

And what if I don't have

anything to say?

- Well, that's your prerogative,

but I will warn you

that it could make the rest of your

formative years extremely difficult.

- W-what exactly... Do you want?

- We can start

from the beginning.

- It all started a few weeks ago.

Looking around

that detention room,

it was as unlikely a group

as you'd ever find.

A class president,

his popular girlfriend,

two of the biggest troublemakers

in the school...

And me.

- This is all your fault.

- No talking.

- Then it's gonna be hard

for her.

- I said, no talking!

- Very nice, guys.

Just great.

Really.

No defense,

no pleas of innocence?

Is someone gonna at least try?

Yes, Cameron.

- I have no idea what this

is about, Mr. Connor.

- "A" for effort, Cameron.

You see, the answer key to the

midterm was stolen last week.

Now, when this was brought

to my attention,

my first thought was, great,

now I have to write

a new 250-question test.

But then I realized that

if I kept the same exam,

I could nail whoever stole it

and either passed it out,

or, more likely,

sold it to his buddies.

If you are going to cheat

on a multiple-choice test,

at least get a couple wrong,

you know?

Aim for a b-plus tops,

especially you two clowns.

- How do you know

we did not just study extra hard?

- Save it, Putin!

Now you're all getting zeros

on the midterm.

- Wait, you can't do that!

That's gonna ruin my GPA!

- I've never done anything

like this before.

- You cheated!

You all just cheated on one of

the biggest tests of the year.

You're lucky I don't bring this

to the principal.

I need to speak to you

outside for a minute.

- Well, win some, you lose some,

right, guys?

- Do you realize

how screwed we are?

- No, I don't.

Do you feel screwed, Ricky?

- Nyet.

- It's easy not to care when you

don't plan on going to college.

- Tell your boyfriend

that elitism

is no way to get me to help him

out of this jam.

- You think we can fix this?

- We?

Who are you again?

Alex.

I don't need some loser making

things even worse for me.

- So, do you have a plan?

- After a day in I.S.S.,

Cameron and Ricky

told us their plan.

They'd been thinking about it

since their freshman year.

It was actually a good idea,

considering that

these were the guys

that thought setting up a stink

bomb was a revolutionary act.

Their problem was that they were

always in trouble,

so they needed students

with access to things

that they couldn't get to.

I guess us getting caught on

that test was their lucky break.

- It's the perfect plan.

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