Episode
Lab Rats: Sink or Swim (1)
Overview
Leo and Donald escape the elevator. Principal Perry lets them stay at the school temporarily in order to get her money from Donald quicker. The Lab Rats stow away on a cargo ship to hide from the FBI and must choose to either keep quiet or help stop a submarine that will crash into the ship and risk being caught. The Lab Rats decide to stop the submarine, with Chase activating his GPS, revealing the Lab Rats' location. Douglas ends up capturing them, disguised as Donald. Douglas reveals that his new bionic partner is a billionaire named Victor Krane, who wants to destroy the Lab Rats permanently. When Donald calls the Lab Rats and tells them that Principal Perry kept their secret, they return home, only for them to get crazy as a result of the Triton App and attack the family, Leo manages to disable Chase's Triton App when he talks to him and Chase manages to disable Adam and Bree's apps. The Lab Rats and the family later see the demolition that happened to the lab and are upset.
Details
- Series
- Lab Rats
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 2014-02-17
Episode context
Sink or Swim (1) is Episode 1 in Season 3 of Lab Rats. It aired on 2014-02-17.
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Episode 3: The Jet-Wing
Since the lab is destroyed, the Lab Rats go without their capsules. This causes glitches in their bionics. In order to prevent this, Donald pulls off a huge stunt in a fiberglass jet wing he invented. Things go wrong when the jet wing runs out of fuel. Meanwhile, knowing the Lab Rats' bionic secret, Principal Perry uses Adam and Bree as her bionic servants for the day.
Episode 4: Mission: Mission Creek High
Since Principal Perry knows that the Lab Rats are bionic, she wants to get in the action and go on a mission with them. When they stage a fake mission and take her down to the newly built lab, things don't go as planned, and they have to save Mission Creek High from a speeding rocket. Meanwhile, Janelle goes on a date with Leo, but is beginning to see him as a jinx because she always gets hurt when he is around.
Episode 5: Zip It
Bree gets a part-time job at a tech-support store with Caitlin, but gets out-shined by Chase while he is talking to the manager of Tech Town, Scott. Chase sees how she feels later and they agree to treat each other with respect. Meanwhile, while Tasha is away visiting Grandma Rose, Leo and Adam make a turbo zip-line instead of doing the chores that Tasha gave them, with Donald joining them later. When Tasha finds out about the zip-line, she makes the boys do the chores and she hangs out on the turbo zip-line instead, much to the dismay of Adam, Leo, and Donald.
Episode 6: Not So Smart Phone
Chase loses the phone with a bowling video of him and Adam doing bionic bowling stunts at Tech Town while working. Leo and Bree try to get Principal Perry to spend her money when she retires after Donald gives her money and Trent becomes the principal and makes Leo's life miserable. It works in the end, but Principal Perry is broke and Scott fires Caitlin after she destroys an ePhone 7, the one that had Adam and Chase's bowling stunts on it, while giving them to the customers as revenge. Leo makes Trent wear a different uniform, but to Bree and Leo's shock, he loves it, much to their dismay.
Episode 7: Scramble the Orbs
Leo invents his first high-end technological creation, a pair of attack orbs meant to protect the family, but when they can't differentiate between friend and enemy, they create more bad than good. Meanwhile, Chase steals Donald’s Eddy technology to make a Cheddy application to win a Tech Town employee contest and beat Scott, but things go wrong when the technology doesn't work as expected. Leo and Tasha go to see Janelle's play which Adam is starring in, but when Trent steals Leo's ticket, Leo and Trent ruin her play, much to Adam and Janelle's dismay.
Episode 8: Principal from Another Planet
During a lunar eclipse, Principal Perry arrives at the house to inform everyone that aliens are on the planet, much to the cha Bree, Chase, and Donald's chagrin, but Adam and Leo's shock. She insists that Chase's upset stomach is due to an alien growing inside him and chases him. However, they notice green goop leaking out of Principal Perry's ears and mouth. Donald then admits that she's an alien. Principal Perry chases everyone, while Leo records the whole thing, and eventually tires herself out. Leo accidentally wakes her and she runs off with him to the school. Adam's heat vision destroys the alien pods Principal Perry laid and Leo is freed. The mother ship beams Principal Perry away just as Donald arrives. Thinking that they will miss Principal Perry, they are sadly mistaken when the mother ship beams alien-less Principal Perry back down. It is then revealed the whole thing was Leo's entrant in a contest.
Episode 9: Taken
Donald shows a new motorcycle to the Lab Rats when they get a video message from Douglas that Krane has lost it and implanted himself with more bionic abilities, abilities even he doesn't know about. The Lab Rats instead believe this to be a trap, leading Donald to activate a new security system that only he can bypass. While Leo is at Mission Creek High School, Douglas arrives and tries to appeal to Leo by reminding him that he knew about Douglas and Marcus before the rest of them. Douglas then shows Leo video footage of Krane implanting himself with bionics and asks him to call his brother to prove his honesty. Back at the lab, a transmission comes in and shows Leo and Tasha captured. While Donald thinks it's Douglas, Krane reveals himself on-screen as the captor and demands that the Lab Rats arrive in 10 minutes. While the Lab Rats want to rescue them, Donald heads out alone with an extremely powerful thermal blaster. Donald arrives at Krane's lair, only for Krane to siphon the power from the blaster, rendering it useless and quickly beating Donald with super strength and molecularkinesis. During the battle, Leo and Tasha are trapped in an exothermic energy field to fry them. Afterward, Krane geo-leaps to the lab, allowing Donald to use the thermal blaster to suck in the heat to set Leo and Tasha free. As Chase works to deactivate the security system, Krane arrives and easily beats the Lab Rats with his more advanced bionics. Before Krane can finish them off, Douglas arrives and blasts Krane with a laser blaster. Although he saves the Lab Rats, Krane quickly recovers and knocks him down with another force wave. As he once again prepares to attack, Chase repels his blast back at him with a force-field, defeating him for good. Douglas plans to capture the unconscious Krane, but Donald arrives and blames the entire mess on him. Unfortunately, Krane geo-leaps out of the house and Donald demands that Douglas leaves.
Episode 10: Three Minus Bree
Bree is accepted for a semester abroad program in Australia, but when Donald learns about it, he refuses to let her go. When Donald again refuses to let her go to a concert with her friends in favor of bionic chip maintenance, she decides she's had enough and smashes her bionic chip, much to Adam, Chase, and Donald's horror. At first, Bree relishes her new freedom and even begins bragging to a disgruntled Leo. During a mission, Bree feels helpless as Adam and Chase are gone for hours. Chase reveals that they barely made it out alive and because Bree is no longer bionic, the mission took twice as long. Bree realizes she was selfish and apologizes to Adam and Chase. She's ready to become bionic again, but Donald sadly tells her that since Douglas built the chips, he isn't sure if Bree will ever be bionic again. Meanwhile, Tasha is sick, so Leo decides to use his new pill invention on her to see if her diagnosis will reveal the problem, but when he takes some of the software from Eddy, Eddy is stuck in Tasha's body. Eddy spends the day dressing her horribly and getting her kicked out of every spot in town. Donald finally uses his nasal vacuum on Eddy and the pill is extracted. However, Eddy reveals he did a news report as Tasha, and much to her shock, he made her look like a complete buffoon.
Episode 11: Which Father Knows Best?
As Donald attempts to repair Bree's damaged chip, the replacement chip keeps malfunctioning, much to Donald's frustration. Although Leo believes Douglas can help since he was the original creator, Donald refuses to even see his brother again. Realizing Donald won't change his mind, Leo finds Douglas, anyway, who reluctantly agrees to help. While Donald is away, Douglas creates a new chip as close to the original as possible, and though it seems to work, it also malfunctions by causing Bree to run uncontrollably. Donald finds Leo with Douglas at the lab, but helps out and all three manage to keep Bree still; however, they still can't find a solution. After several minutes, they finally find the error and collaborate for the first time in years, fixing Bree's chip and saving her life. Meanwhile, Adam and Chase try to find a way to replace Bree's speed. While Chase manages to power up Donald's motorcycle to go 350-400 MPH, it runs out of gas almost instantly. After Bree's chip is fixed, Donald still kicks out his brother. While watching Bree apologize for her mistake, Donald realizes everyone deserves a second chance. The next morning, Donald offers his brother a chance to move in with them temporarily, and he accepts.
Episode 12: Cyborg Shark Attack
Leo's scared by a shark movie, so Adam and Chase use one of Donald's sharks to scare him, but it goes haywire and Adam, Chase, Leo, and Janelle end up stuck in the house. In the end, Leo turns the sharks off. Meanwhile, Principal Perry enlists Bree and Donald's help to get into a country club, but when she lies that Donald is her husband and Bree is her daughter and they have pottery around the world, Bree must use super speed to go places without the country club owner knowing about her bionics. Eventually, Principal Perry doesn't get in after the manager figures out the lies, but she decides to spend the summer with the Davenports.