Bright Lights, Dean City.Dean has gotten an internship with Impossible Industries, which has recently downsized now that Impossible has joined Phantom Limb's Revenge Society alongside Baron Ünterbeit. Dean, however, simply wants to become a reporter rather than a scientist, while Dr. Venture comes to New York to attempt to hit it big with a new Broadway show based on his life, cramping Dean's style. Phantom Limb starts to recruit other members into the Revenge Society, noting their need for an elemental, until Impossible shows him Cody being kept in an oxygenated atmosphere to provide energy to the whole building. Phantom Limb also reveals his diabolical plan to put the Monarch, Dr. Mrs. the Monarch, 21, and Dr. Venture to their dooms, suggesting that Tim-Tom and Kevin are actually in his employ. Dr. Venture stays with Dean more, and gains the attention of the Revenge Society who try to take him out, only for their plans to backfire, and for Rusty to be saved by the spider-themed superhero Brown Widow. Dean eventually discovers the villains, and Impossible assures him that he is running a villain rehabilitation service now that he has downsized, and Dean helps coordinate interviews for new candidates, with Fat Chance, a supervillain with a portal in his chest that he can pull things out of, and the duo of Ladyhawk and Lyndon Bee Johnson, separated by a curse that keeps him a bee during the day and her a hawk at night, as new members. That night, Dean finds that his father has blocked off access to the bathroom with his attempt to turn his budding Rust! musical into a roller skate number, while Ünterbeit finds a copy of Rusty's script. Dean feels downtrodden when Brown Widow comes to cheer him up, until he becomes more interested in singing Rusty's musical number. The next day, Dean writes up his resignment letter, having decided he'd rather become a "boy reporter" than a "super-scientist" like his father. Meanwhile Rusty is lured to the Impossitower by Fat Chance, who is posing as an agent interested in his script. The Revenge Society corners Rusty until Dean accidentally frees Cody, causing the power to go out. In the confusion, Fat Chance falls on Rusty, sending him into the strange portal in his stomach. Dean returns home, to see Hank glowing in his realized lost virginity, until both wonder where their father is. The Dr. Venture with the full head of hair suddenly appears in their room, revealing their father had somehow found his way into his dimension and attempted to usurp his place and has come to return him before the other Dr. Venture goes to attend the opening night of his new successful Broadway show.