More Information About Kayla (Transcript)

After lunch, the kids were waiting for more information about Kayla when Zoe's watch started beeping.

Kandace: What's going on?

Zoe: There's more information about Kayla.

Josh: Really? What is it?

Zoe: Kayla has been cheating on many exams during her time in secondary school. She's never an honest person because of her academic performance as well. Not that just her home life is bad but her school life is worse.

Hayden: Write it down on your notes.

Song: Eye of the Tiger by Survivor

Hayden: #Rising up, back on the street #Did my time, took my chances #Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet #Just a man and his will to survive #So many times it happens too fast #You trade your passion for glory #Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past #You must fight just to keep them alive#

Kandace: #It's the eye of the tiger #It's the thrill of the fight #Rising up to the challenge of our rival #And the last known survivor #Stalks his prey in the night #And he's watching us all #With the eye of the tiger#

Josh: #Face to face, out in the heat #Hanging tough, staying hungry #They stack the odds 'til we take to the street #For the kill with the skill to survive#

Zoe: #It's the eye of the tiger #It's the thrill of the fight #Rising up to the challenge of our rival #And the last known survivor #Stalks his prey in the night #And he's watching us all #With the eye of the tiger#

Sofia: #Rising up, straight to the top #Had the guts, got the glory #Went the distance, now I'm not gonna stop #Just a man and his will to survive#

All: #It's the eye of the tiger #It's the thrill of the fight #Rising up to the challenge of our rival #And the last known survivor #Stalks his prey in the night #And he's watching us all #With the eye of the tiger #The eye of the tiger #The eye of the tiger #The eye of the tiger #The eye of the tiger#

Zoe wrote down the new things Isabelle grabbed about Kayla. Then, her watch is beeping that means that there is more information about Kayla.

Zoe: Kayla was a cheerleader but got disqualified due to terrible academic performance. However, she keeps lying that she's a cheerleader even though her name is not on the cheerleading board.

Josh: Wait, Kayla was a cheerleader?

Zoe: Yup.

Kandace: I never see her name on the board. Also, since when did Kayla mention being a cheerleader?

Zoe: According to Isabelle, she said that this is always the topic Kayla talks about to her peers. In order to explain why her height is taller than every other girls in her class. But if I want to explain her height, it's actually because she's 18, not 16-17 like her peers in Year 11.

Josh: But I'm tall.

Zoe: I meant she's taller than other Year 11 girls. Most Year 11 guys like you are taller than her.

Josh: Oh.

Hayden: How tall?

Josh: 6 ft. A lot taller than Zoe who's 5 ft 1.

Zoe: It's because I'm short. I need to grab more information before the extra-curricular activities. And I need to turn on the computer in case Isabelle gets Kayla's hard drive.

Each time Zoe's watch gets a beep, Zoe takes down notes on what else Kayla has lied about. There's one which is completely dark, dark enough to scare younger kids.

Zoe: Erm... guys? This bit of information about Kayla is a bit dark.

Hayden: Why?

Josh: What did it say?

Zoe: Kayla is actually a pathological liar which is the reason why she lies a lot.

Kandace: What do you mean?

Sofia: Is Kayla a psychopath?

Zoe: She probably is.

Josh: No wonder why she sees lying as an addiction. She's addicted to those lies.

Zoe: And the consequences according to Hannah Arendt, she said that the consequences of such lying are "not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie – a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days – but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows."

Kandace: So the more she lies, the more we don't believe her.

Zoe: Exactly.

Josh: Lying really is a bad idea.

Sofia: I have no choice but to agree to that.

Zoe: Yeah.

Hayden: What is pathological lying?

Zoe: Pathological lying or mythomania is a mental disorder in which the person habitually or compulsively lies. It was first described in the medical literature in 1895 by Anton Delbrück. Although it is a controversial topic, pathological lying has been defined as "falsification entirely disproportionate to any discernible end in view, may be extensive and very complicated, and may manifest over a period of years or even a lifetime".

Hayden: Oh.

Kandace: Guess almost everything makes sense.

Josh: It's almost extra-curricular, is Isabelle done?

Zoe: Not yet, she's still collecting data.

Sofia: How many minutes?

Zoe: 10 minutes.

Hayden: There's still time because extra-curricular starts in half an hour.

Zoe: Good, Isabelle must be done by this time.

Half an hour has passed and Isabelle finally came back. Zoe turned off invisible mode and started talking to her robot.

Zoe: Did Kayla catch you?

Isabelle: Almost. But overall, no.

Josh: That's good.

Isabelle: I hacked into Kayla's laptop and got a copy of her hard drive.

Kandace: Hard drive? What does a hard drive have to do with Kayla?

Isabelle: The main things she lied about and why she lies.

Sofia: And how did you find Kayla's laptop?

Isabelle: When Year 11 were done with class, Kayla left her laptop on which means I could carefully sneak and copy her entire hard drive. This is what I could find which connects to her lies.