Mildred Hubble is flying over an earth covered in old buildings
- which we can assume is Cambridge. We see a mysterious cloaked figure making a potion, and a girl riding along on a
bike which has a Canadian flag on it. A posh car drives through the streets, and nearly runs over the girl on the bike,
who flicks her hand and magically changes the green traffic light to red. The posh car stops and the girl on the bike
rides by. Two fairly good-looking guys eating muffins look at each other and wink upon seeing this. That creepy
cloaked guy we saw earlier strides through the corridors of a college. The girl on a bike looks around her and enters
two big doors, which she doesn't open - they just let her straight through the middle. The door of that posh car opens.
We see a pair of high-heeled shoes, and legs with a pleated skirt, going up to a very made-up looking Ethel Hallow.
(This is a very nice surprise the first time you watch it, but after that the novelty kinda wears off). She walks in
the same door as the girl on the bike. The two guys eating muffins run straight in through a side door after chasing
away some poor scared pigeons. The creepy cloaked guy drinks a potion and disappears. Milly lands on the roof,
and a cat basket appears - she looks at a sign that says "Weirdsister College."
In an old fashioned office, an invisible person opens a drawer and
an invisible hand picks out Mildred Hubble's file. Through a door enters a short, fat woman/man, who talks to the invisible
person. However, s/he lets him escape as a bell goes to warn her/him of Milly's arrival in the tower. Milly comes
down from the tower, and is immediately fined by the short fat woman/man (who tells us that she is The Beetle) for illegal
broomstick flying. The invisible person bumps into Milly. The two good looking guys are talking in a hallway full
of people. We learn that their names are Tim and Azmat as they introduce themselves to the Canadian girl on the bike
(Cas Crowfeather). The Beetle leads Milly to her living area, and she meets Ethel - they just happen to be sharing rooms.
They don't exactly get off to a flying start.
Outside, a girl in a weird white costume is having a sword fight
with a guy in a black coat. Cas, Ethel and Milly all run out to see what is going on. Once they've stopped fighting,
the girl in the weird white costume takes off her mask - she is Deirdre Swoop, who was Head Girl at Pentangle's. The
guy in the black coat is Nick Hobbes - I personally recognised his voice as the one who bumped into Milly, but I dunno if
you did. Nick Hobbes invites "someone" (he looks at Milly, who is going to accept), to go for a coffee, but Ethel pushes
her way in. Cas, Tim and Azmat arrive with pizza and drinks after they've gone and have a party. Ethel and Nick
Hobbes go to Misery's café. Hobbes tells Ethel about "The All-Seeing Eye," which they all have to face before they are
allowed into Weirdsister.
The Beetle, Jenny Wendle, Alicia Thunderblast and Jonathon Shakeshaft
are arguing about whether to put the students through the ordeal of going before the Eye. The three teachers open a
box, which has runes on it, and an orb-shaped object like a moon rises out of the box.
Ethel goes and apologises to Milly and says that they should try
to be friends. Milly looks slightly doubtful about this. Cas walks in and recognises Ethel as the girl who nearly
ran her over in her car. Ethel apologises again and offers to make breakfast the next morning - Cas and Milly look doubtful
again.
In the morning the students are told about the Eye. They are
in their rooms, looking worried. Deirdre comes in and tells them not to worry. All that happens is you stand before
it. If it glows green, you can go through, but if it glows red, a figure from your past appears and tells you about
your worst faults. If you are evil enough, it sends you right back to where you came from. Deirdre leaves.
Ethel tells Milly that she can outwit the Eye - Milly refuses to cheat. However Hobbes meets up with her later and convinces
her to go through with it by telling her that he likes her. Just before the ceremony Cas really puts her foot in it
and tells Milly her plaits make her "look like a kid." (Maybe it's 'cos everyone else is all dressed up and poor old
Milly hasn't bothered to make the effort). The Eye is summoned from its box. Cas walks through first with a green
light. Milly goes next and Miss Hardbroom appears, telling her not to go through with the plan. Milly tells her
to push off 'cos she is running her own life now. Azmat's gran is there with a list as long as a toilet roll, just as
he predicted. Hobbes slips off to talk to Milly - he says that she must do it now. Surprise surprise, he is going
to go before Ethel, so she can get in too. Milly unrolls a drawing of the Gauge of Humility, and makes it come to life
and settle on top of the real one. It works - Hobbes and Ethel go through to the Weirdfest.
Later, Milly goes to look for Hobbes. He is with Ethel - looking
very cosy. She runs off to her room. She summons her drawing back and rips it up. Cas comes in, and stands
there in a very fake gob smacked pose as Milly cuts off her plaits (I'd really like to know if that was a wig or not).
