Backstabber

Backstabber is the first episode of the Fifth Season of Static Shock that aired on January 15, 2005 on Kid's WB.

Plot
While Virgil, Richie, and Jimmy are walking in school before the bell rings when they witness a girl being bullied by a group of other girls who were throwing her onto the lockers and threatening her, Virgil quickly steps in between them, followed by Richie and Jimmy, and Stella asks them threateningly if they know who she is and tells them that she can ruin their lives, they shrug this off as just a bully trying to appear tough and then right afterwards the bell rings and as Stella and her girl posse go to their classes, Virgil, Richie, and Jimmy helped the girl she bullied (Who reveals that her name is Alyssa) get to the nurses office while she told them about who Stella is.

After school, they discuss, what they had found out about Stella and the only way they could defeat her is to expose her to the entire school for who she really is so that she could no longer get away with telling rumors nor bullying people ever again, when they see Stella once again bully Alyssa with her girl posse in a parking lot and while they were too late to fully stand up to her this time, they still managed to comfort Alyssa and tell her that they care about her and that they are going to expose Stella, once and for all, she thanks and hugs them for everything and before she leaves they help her pick up everything that Stella poured out of her backpack. Afterwards Richie hands over all the secret agent gadgets he made for him and tells him that this is his first mission and that he should go home and change, Jimmy was really excited about this as this was his first ever mission that he had ever been on and that he had been waiting for this ever since they had offered him the position, then he did just as Richie said, he hurried back home and put on his uniform, before he left however, he took some time to admire himself by the mirror in his room, until his mom walked in and asked him what he was wearing, he lied and said that he went out shopping with his friends and bought himself some new cloths and novelty goggles and that he was just trying them on, fortunately his mother bought his lie and after his parents left the house, Jimmy sprung into action.

Then he got out of the windows via a grappling hook and sneaked around to find Stella and then he spotted her with her girl posse in the middle of an alleyway vandalizing the walls, with an even more battered and guilt ridden looking Alyssa, Jimmy then climbed up a nearby tree and started taking a lot of pictures of them and than when he was about to climb down a bird landed on his nose, which caused him to fall and for his secret identity to be blown, when they heard him fall they went to go see what was going on, when Stella and her girl posse found Jimmy lying on the ground, they quickly took pictures of him while Alyssa tried to intervene, one of Stella's girl posse, a blond haired girl named Violet grabbed her wrist so that she couldn't grab the camera. The next day at school Jimmy could feel all eyes on him as he was walking through the halls, a few seconds later he realized why, there were pictures all over the halls of the fall he had yesterday with the caption 'He didn't change a bit', he knew exactly who was responsible but then Virgil and Richie asked Jimmy if he got any evidence against Stella and that they were sorry for putting him in a position where he would be humiliated, he told them take he did and there was no need to apologize and that he was going to show the evidence to the police tomorrow.

Like he said the next day Jimmy showed the police the images and they arrested Stella, her girl posse, and Alyssa. The next day at school Frieda Goren said that Stella and her girl posse are both in juvie and due to the amount of bullying accounts that Principal Aguilar had received, he had decided to expel them whereas Alyssa was allowed to stay in school and was merely sentenced to community service due to her being forced into it and it being a first-time offence, seconds later Alyssa came in and hugged Virgil, Richie, and Jimmy, looking happier than she had ever been, even when they were first interacting, thanking them for exposing Stella and being the only few people who had ever stood up for her.

Continuity

 * First appearance of Stella ‘Backstabber’ Hunter. She made her second appearance (and last speaking role) in the episode "Stella’s Enemy".

Home video releases

 * Static Shock: The Complete Fifth Season (DVD)

Production notes

 * In some scenes, Stella's eyes seen to be a purple color, rather than their usual black color.

Trivia

 * This is the second time Melissa Greenspan voiced a 'Mean Girl' as she previously voiced Cassandra Bleem from Doug, which is the reason why she was chosen as Stella ‘Backstabber’ Hunter.

Cast

 * Phil LaMarr as Virgil 'Static' Hawkins
 * Jason Marsden as Richie 'Gear' Foley
 * Richard Horvitz as Jimmy Osgood
 * Melissa Greenspan as Stella ‘Backstabber’ Hunter
 * Danica McKellar as Frieda Goren
 * Pat Musick as Mrs. Osgood
 * TBA as Alyssa
 * TBA as Violet
 * TBA as Elizabeth

Quotes
"Thank you for exposing her and standing up to me when no one else would!"

- Alyssa thanking Virgil, Richie, and Jimmy for all they done for her.

Tropes
See Backstabber/Tropes