Code Lyoko Evolution: Episode 4

There’s a new student in the gang’s class: Laura Gauthier, a charming blonde girl who shows off her skills in front of the class and teacher. While Jeremy’s mind blanks due to fatigue, Laura takes his place and confidently finishes the difficult equation.
This catches the heroes' notice.

<sub>While Jeremy grumbles about his failure, Odd and Ulrich pester him about it. Aelita isn’t happy when Laura approaches them and shows some interest in Jeremy.
The heroes are talking about the Cortex and a new vehicle that Jeremy programmed so that the heroes won’t be devirtualised during one of the Sector’s characteristic topology changes. Laura then invites herself into the conversation. The heroes pretend that their jargon is referring to a secret video game that Jeremy is developing. Laura offers her help, citing her computing and scientific skills.

The group brush her off and hurry to the factory. They virtualise onto Lyoko and set off in the Skidbladnir, destination: the Cortex.
Once there, Jeremy reveals his creation: a four-wheeled, four-seater racing car that can traverse the Cortex. After a brief argument, Jeremy decides that Yumi will be the driver. Odd is upset about this and never misses an opportunity to rub it in Yumi’s face whenever she makes a mistake.

Although it’s very good at anticipating the Sector’s changes in configuration, the Megapod proves to be very difficult to drive, and its trajectory calculations aren’t infallible.

At Kadic, Laura hasn’t given up. She talks to William to try and find out more about the “online game being developed by Jeremy’s gang.” Realising what’s going on – that his friends are on Lyoko without him – William brushes Laura off and heads for the factory…not realising that she’s following him.

When William arrives in the lab, he rants about how his friends still don’t trust him. He soon turns on his heel and leaves again.
When he leaves the lift, he doesn’t notice that Laura is hiding behind the crates. She watches him leave and then investigates the lift control panel.

On Lyoko, things get tricky: after a terrain change, the Megapod becomes stuck, its wheel caught in a rut. XANA doesn’t waste time in sending some Krabs to attack. Jeremy teleports Odd, Ulrich and Aelita out of the vehicle to fight while Yumi remains inside to try and free the Megapod…but the vehicle bugs up, becoming unresponsive and trapping her inside.

Odd, Aelita and Ulrich fight the Krabs that are trying to destroy the vehicle. Jeremy starts debugging but freezes in shock when he sees Laura enter the lab. By listening to and observing Jeremy, Laura quickly realises that he’s working on a quantum computer and that the situation is serious. Jeremy gives in and accepts Laura’s help in debugging. He instructs her to work directly on a wall panel out of reach from the computer terminal.

Aelita tries to slip away to get to the Core Zone, but she’s forced to return when the ground splits open beneath the Megapod, causing it to fall into a precarious position above the Digital Sea. She uses her shield to block the vehicle from lasers, but she drops her defence after becoming enraged by one of Odd’s jokes and ends up being devirtualised. The monsters continue to fire at the Megapod.

When Aelita finds Laura helping Jeremy, she becomes extremely jealous of the “other Mrs. Einstein”…but given the urgency of the situation, she simmers in silence.

Odd and Ulrich put up a good fight but they end up being devirtualised. The monsters continue firing at the Megapod, knocking it off the edge of the platform.

Jeremy and Laura’s combined efforts allow Jeremy to devirtualise Yumi just before the Megapod falls into the Digital Sea.

At the factory, the heroes need to make a decision about Laura. Jeremy notes the help she gave him and proposes that they vote on whether she should become part of the group. Unable to stand the sudden turn of events and Jeremy’s interest in Laura, Aelita launches the Return to the Past without consulting the others.
Laura gives her a bitter and spiteful glare before she’s enveloped by the white light of the Return to the Past and loses all memory of the day’s events.

Back in that morning’s class, Jeremy apologises to Aelita. Aelita insists that “I just don’t trust her.” She then encourages Jeremy to go up to the board and complete the formula he’d gotten wrong the first time around, and pull the rug out from under Laura.
When Odd remarks that it wasn’t very ethical of her, Aelita replies that sometimes you need to forgo morals because, after all, there can only be one Mrs. Einstein.</sub>