Punn is confident that he can ace all events of the Academic Excellence Competition. He uses his potential to his great advantage, but beneath his success lies a dark secret.
Driven by his past and his over-competitiveness towards Pang and the other Gifted, Wave resolves to prove his superiority through an expertly orchestrated school shutdown. Pang and the remaining Gifted students work together to stop him.
Thefts and ransacking plague the school; Mr. Pom and the Gifted students have no other person to suspect but the antagonistic Wave. As Namtaan checks up on Wave, she learns about his painful past.
For their midterm exam, the Gifted students play detective to unlock the secrets behind a mysterious death in their school. When Wave apparently aces the exam, Pang digs deeper and discovers more about the case.
Pang barges into the Director's meeting with the Ministry of Education and, with Wave's help, exposes the Director's crimes to the officials. Pang and Wave's plan takes an ugly, unexpected twist.
As the other Gifted students take on their final mission of the semester, Pang and Wave hunt down the folder containing the evidences they can use against the Director. Mr. Pom faces a painful revelation.
Ms. Ladda orders Koi of the Journalism Club to dig up confidential information about the Gifted Program. Getting over Claire's rejection, Korn finds new love with Koi, unknowing of her ulterior motives.
As Mon and Korn decide to drop out from the Gifted Program, the Director reprimands Mr. Pom on his handling of the Gifted students. Pang and Wave join hands to bring the Director down and break the status quo.
Pang takes the 10th Grade Placement Exam and, much to his confusion, he is accelerated to the Gifted Program despite being from the most inferior Class VIII. The Gifted students are challenged to discover why they are chosen to be one.
The Director explains to the Gifted students the nature of the Gifted Program. As some of the Gifted students reveal their hidden potentials, Ohm discovers his own the hard way through an incident with his former friend Folk.