During an undercover sting operation, boxes of band candy were accidentally discovered in the lake. The candy is traced back to the Red Robins, seemingly a school club in the same manner as Girl Scouts who make record sales of their award-winning taffy. In reality, the Robins strong-arm their competition, and the Safety Patrol have been trying to catch them in the act for a long time. Ingrid goes undercover as a Red Robin, but Vallejo isn't convinced she's the right person for the job and suspects something might go wrong.

Mrs. Lawson's field trip to the Modern Contemporary Natural History, Art, Science and Miniature Museum takes a horrifying turn as someone draws a mustache on the priceless painting "The Lobster Man at Port". Fillmore, Ingrid, and O'Farrell work to find the culprit and save the painting, but the clock is ticking and everyone's a suspect.

Tina and Toby are the stars of the school at both dancing and smoit-collecting. Smoits are tokens found on dairy bars and packets of chips used to buy basically anything a kid could want once enough of them are saved up. The smoit stash goes missing, and Fillmore and Ingrid go undercover in X's steamy underground casino scene. They discover Toby's gambling debts, and he becomes the prime suspect, which destroys his dance partnership with Tina.

Spring break has arrived, so Fillmore's taking the time to visit his former partner, Wayne Liggett. In Wayne's new school, something about the Safety Patrol stinks. The prize pralines of the school have been stolen, and the prime suspect is their Patrol Sheriff Thrift—who just so happens to be the son of their principal.

Vampirita, a series of novels about an astronaut vampiress, has attracted a huge following at X—and none moreso than Torrey and Terri. The next installment of the series will be released in a fortnight, and until then, fans can audition to star in the next book. The girls start to build projects to win the auditions, but every time one is finished, it gets sabotaged. The main suspects are two members of a rival novel's fan club, however, the evidence seems to point to neither of them.