Tina wants to get an interview with the police about the building fire. Gabby then writes a note using descriptive words that best illustrates the fears of fires and convinces the police to do Tina's interview.

After escaping from the THABTOs meeting, the team analyzes the chant they recorded and proves without a doubt that the Double Defenders players are the backpack thieves, and they discover THABTO to be an acronym for their creed that "two heads are better than one."

Alex and Jamal deduce that the THABTO note is written in a secret code and work to decipher it.

With the coded message that Gabby found in her backpack, Alex determines that the letter R stands for the letter E, thus cracking the code and deciphering most of the messages.

The team deciphers the remainder of the coded message, giving them the location of the THABTO's meeting. They discover the time by having Ghostwriter speedread the Double Defenders books.