Fri, Oct 2, 1992
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.
Sat, Oct 10, 1992
Jamal and Lenni find out their new friend can't see or hear, but can communicate through words, so they type to him on the computer. He doesn't know who he is or where he came from, but knows he used to be a man. They name him Ghostwriter, and try to crack the coded message Jamal found at the park, along with a button that says THABTO. Lenni has recommended Alex, who's an expert on mysteries and codes, so he goes to him. Gaby believes the stolen backpacks are being left in the junkyard, with only the lunch money missing from them. Alex and Jamal go with her.
Sat, Oct 17, 1992
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 she also got a coded message in her backpack, and the team now tries to crack two codes and decide to call on Ghostwriter for help.
Sat, Oct 24, 1992
Ghostwriter makes contact with Gaby, and she'd made a fourth member of the team. Alex finally catches somebody using the school locker Ghostwriter led them to, and follows the kid to the arcade where he joins three others who are playing a game called Double Defenders, about two-headed aliens. Alex finally figures out how to crack the coded message Jamal found, and they discover the THABTOs are meeting in the corner of the navy yard the night before the Double Defenders tournament for "the final secret ceremony". Alex decides to infiltrate the THABTOs to find out what they're up to, and Lenni and Jamal work out a coded note to fool one member into not showing so Alex can fill his spot.
Sat, Oct 31, 1992
Alex gives the wrong name during the THABTO ceremony and is found out; he and his friends are chased through the navy yard by the three remaining members. They manage to escape and regroup to figure out the THABTOs' plan. Going over the tape recording of the THABTOs' ceremony, they decipher the group's chant to figure out their plan for the Double Defenders tournament.
Sat, Oct 31, 1992
Jamal is playing a computer game inside Mr. Brinker's video store, when a man comes in and gives Mr. Brinker a piece of paper that enrages him. Tina comes in to buy a blank videotape, but insists the one Brinker hands her isn't new, he yells at her and runs her out, then yells at Jamal, complaining about kids running off his customers and only buying cheap things. Jamal goes home and writes a complaint letter against Mr. Brinker. He goes back to the store at 7 P.M. and drops it in the slot in the door, then firecrackers go off behind him, and he rips his sleeve in the door slot. After Jamal leaves a fire breaks out in the back room. The next morning Ghostwriter sends Alex, Gaby and Lenni a message to get to Brinker's store, where the police are investigating the cause of the fire. Lenni picks up Jamal's letter without realizing what it is. Meanwhile, Jamal tries to help Craig, the new kid, get in a game of basketball against Momo to see who's the better player.
Sat, Nov 7, 1992
Mr. Brinker accuses Jamal of starting the fire in his store. Jamal denies being there the night before, even though the police have a surveillance camera that show somebody at the drop slot at the time before the fire. Ghostwriter starts asking Jamal about the F.B.I. and copyright infringement, so he and Alex head to the library to find out what Mr. Brinker was so upset about the other day. Gaby and Tina work on a video to try and figure out who set the fire, tracking down the cab driver who took the man to Mr. Brinker's and find out he left for Washington D.C. the same night. Lenni reads Jamal's letter and finds out he was at the video store and wants to know why he lied to her. The police further question Jamal about his alibi for the time of the fire, and he finds himself lying to his parents and grandma as well because he thinks the truth will land him in jail.
Sat, Nov 14, 1992
Lenni is furious with Jamal for lying to her about being at the store the night of the fire. Jamal confides in Craig that he's being accused of starting the fire even though he didn't do it. Ghostwriter makes contact with Tina, and the team comes together to explain Ghostwriter to her, and she becomes a member of the team. Ghostwriter warns the kids that 'videos are key' to the fire mystery after finding out the 'blank' tape Brinker sold Tina had a movie on it. Alex suspects the man who came to Brinker's store is an FBI agent. Craig comes to Jamal's defense when Lt. McQuade tries to use Jamal's cap he left at the store as evidence against him. Jamal confesses to the team about being at Brinker's store, and tells them about a delivery truck that was around back the night of the fire.
Sat, Nov 21, 1992
Gaby and Tina track down the delivery driver Jamal saw at Brinker's store the night of the fire, and find out he supplies blank videotapes. Craig has Jamal and Alex help him sneak in to Brinker's store to check the back room where the fire broke out, to find the evidence they need once and for all to solve who set the fire.
Sat, Nov 28, 1992
There is an ongoing election for President at kids' school and Alex (David Lopez) is one of the candidates and with the help of his friends, Jamal (Sheldon Turnipseed) and Lenni (Blaze Berdahl), he's trying to write the perfect speech in order to beat his adversaries. But someone is decided to sink Alex's candidature by spreading intimate secrets about his personal life, so the team starts doing what they do best: Investigate.
Sat, Dec 5, 1992
Alex (David López) accuses Rob (Todd Alexander) of being the one responsible for the defamatory flyers because of the text fragment he and Jamal (Sheldon Turnipseed) found, but Rob evades and leaves both kids alone. Tina (Tram-Anh Tran) suggests they make a video footage trying to show that Alex is nothing like how he was pictured in the flyers, and then they start working in a storyboard. Ghostwriter shows to Alex and Gaby (Mayteana Morales) fragments of an unsent letter from one of the other competitors, showing friendship towards Alex and thus, making her not suspects anymore.
Sat, Dec 12, 1992
Jamal (Sheldon Turnipseed) rallies the team to let them know Rob (Todd Alexander) has seen Ghostwriter's writings and when asked why, he pushes the kids to know Rob better. Tina (Tram-Anh Tran) and Alex (David López) work on the video footage for his campaign while Gaby (Mayteana Morales) joins Jamal's karate class. Ghostwrites contacts Rob again, suggesting him to speak with Jamal, which ends up resolving the situation caused by the text fragment found once it becomes clear that it was just part of a story Rob was writing. When Ghostwriter shows another defamatory message, Alex runs throughout the school trying to find the flyers it could've come from and discovers that one of the competitors, backed up by Calvin Ferguson (Joey Shea), is rehearsing his speeches in school property, which is disallowed by election rules.
Sat, Dec 19, 1992
Alex (David López) overheard a secret meeting of one of the competitors and rallies the team to try to put an end in the situation. Ghostwriter finds out more about the last defamatory message and this gives Alex an idea of where it could've come from, confirming that is indeed one of his pen pals the source of his intimate secrets. The team then comes up with a plan to discover who's the contact in Alex's school and Calvin's (Joey Shea) name arises as a cousin of Alex's friend but, when confronted, he just laughs being very sure nothing will happen to him, even if snitched out. The kids then decides to give him a taste of his own medicine and asks Rob (Todd Alexander) to help with the printing of a few flyers with shameful messages about Calvin, then Jamal (Sheldon Turnipseed) finishes with some funny drawings. Together with Jamal and Lenni (Blaze Berdahl) at Calvin's "HQ" Alex intimidates the creep, threatening to put the flyers all over the school. Cornered, Calvin gives up and agrees to confess to the Principal. After the elections, the sweet taste of superiority: As Calvin comes to require the kids give him all the flyers as fulfillment of their part of the deal, they hand over a box with a just a couple of them since the entire volume was falsely filled, as decoy to fool him.
Sat, Dec 26, 1992
Lenni persuades the team to enter a scavenger hunt-style contest in order to win the chance to be drawn into an issue of Hoodman. Their efforts are hindered by an embittered comic book artist named Manny Gites, who will stop at nothing to win the contest disguised as his own character, Stoop Dude. Meanwhile, Rob continues to be distant from the team, but makes friends with an eccentric homeless poet.