Bailee Madison | The Hardy Boys

• Genre: Mystery, Drama, Supernatural horror
• Based on: The Hardy Boys by Edward Stratemeyer
• Developed by: Steve Cochrane, Jason Stone
• Starring: Rohan Campbell, Alexander Elliot, Anthony Lemke, Keana Lyn, Linda Thorson, Bea Santos, Adam Swain, Atticus Mitchell, Riley O'Donnell, Laara Sadiq
• Composer: Edo Van Breeman
• No. of seasons: 3
• No. of episodes: 31
• Executive producers: Joan Lambur, Jason Stone, Peter Mohan, Athena Georgaklis, Pam Westman, Doug Murphy
• Cinematography: Fraser Brown
• Editors: Aaron Marshall, Christopher Minns, Ana Yavari, Daniel Sadler
• Production companies: Nelvana, Lambur Productions
• Network: Hulu, YTV (Canada)
• Release: December 4, 2020 – July 26, 2023

The Hardy Boys follows two brothers, Frank and Joe Hardy, alongside their friends and father, trying to disclose the truth about something quite menacing happening right in their own town of Bridgeport.

"A Strange Inheritance"

• Season: 3
• Episode: 1
• Directed by: Jason Stone
• Written by: Chris Pozzebon
• Premiere: July 26, 2023

After revealing herself to Fenton, Laura smacks his gun out of his hand and knocks him out. In a flashback to the 1960s: George stashes the Eye away on a plane which will eventually crash decades later. George has his scrolls (each one contained in a codex) delivered to Gloria before he consents to having his consciousness uploaded into a crystal. Back in the present day: George (still occupying Frank's body) helps Joe dress for Gloria's funeral. Fenton learns that Olivia, despite confessing to murder, has been freed by higher-ups who've pulled strings on her behalf. Agent Driscoll arrives in town, photographing attendees at Gloria's funeral. Gloria has willed her entire estate to Frank. Callie tells Joe that she is transferring to Rosegrave but she'll still be just a phone call away whenever Joe needs support, even though she and Frank have broken up. They hear the crystal fall over in Gloria's study, and Callie gently puts it away. Stacy shows up at the funeral to approach Frank, but George-as-Frank feels flustered by her presence due to his lack of familiarity with her; believing him to still be Frank, she wants to help him reenter The Circle. Trudy tells Jesse she hid the codexes in the Hardys' laundry room, but George-as-Frank eavesdrops on their conversation. Joe catches George-as-Frank snooping for the scrolls and helps him to unlock the codexes. Joe thinks Cox took the crystal, and they arrange a trade at Wilt's Deli. While they wait for Cox to show up, Joe berates his brother for having improperly prepared a milkshake. When Cox arrives, they piece together the scrolls from the codexes, creating three-fourths of a map. Joe theorizes that the final scroll is hidden in Gloria's manor. The gang meets up there, and they surmise that the final scroll is actually hidden in the Heritage House painting at the museum. George-as-Frank mediates an agreement where they keep the other codexes in the Hardys' attic safe but only Cox will know the safe's combination. At Rosegrave, Callie encounters a science prodigy named Drew Darrow. Driscoll tells Brian that his agency needs the relic that had once contained the Eye. Stacy and two other members of The Circle offer George-as-Frank an alliance to fully resurrect The Circle. Drew introduces herself to Callie as Callie's new roommate. At the museum, lookouts Biff and Phil warn Frank, Joe, and Cox that police officers are approaching, and Cox bails on the Hardys but gets apprehended by the cops. After being distracted by his "brother," Joe realizes that Frank has stolen the final codex from the painting. Joe, Biff, and Phil return to the Hardys' home where they find Chet and Belinda bound-and-gagged from an unseen intruder. They realize the scrolls are all missing from the attic's safe. Stacy, Kanika (who has also returned to town), and other Circle Members wait for Frank to show up at their meeting spot; but when he does, another stranger hits a detonator. George-as-Frank is the only member of The Circle to survive the blast. Olivia reveals to Fenton that she's an agent for the DSA (Defense Support Agency) and trying to figure out why Laura faked her death. At Rosegrave, Drew tells Callie she's searching for the same "Sleep Room" once used by Project Midnight that Callie hopes to relocate. Joe catches George-as-Frank rifling around at the manor; he calls out his "brother" for being an imposter. George, inhabiting his great-grandson's body, aims a gun at his other great-grandson Joe.

"A Vanishing Act"

• Season: 3
• Episode: 2
• Directed by: Jason Stone
• Written by: Chris Pozzebon
• Premiere: July 26, 2023

In a flashback to the 1960s: George transfers himself into the crystal. Back in the present day: George-as-Frank ("Frankengeorge") fires his gun at Joe, who jumps out of the way. They fight, and Joe escapes into the next room where Chet and Belinda help him to restrain Frankengeorge. Biff takes inventory of the scrolls and codexes. Phil agrees to decipher the fully-constructed map. Frankengeorge taunts the gang, claiming not all of them will survive what's coming; he also outs Phil for being in love with Biff. At Rosegrave, Drew confides in Callie about her late brother's identity as Patient A in the Midnight Project. Fenton summons Sam to the DSA safehouse, and Sam suspects that the local coroner had helped Laura to fake her death. Biff tells Phil she only likes him as a friend. At Wilt's Deli, Biff meets with her biological sister, Tess, who tells her about their deceased father and what Abigail was like before she'd skipped town. Joe cuts a deal with Frankengeorge, who confirms Frank is still alive inside the crystal. Joe, holding the Eye, has a flash of someone stealing a portion of the crystal but he doesn't know the thief's identity. Trudy interrupts Biff and Tess's lunch to locate Frank and Joe; Biff tells her they're at the Estabrook manor. When Trudy arrives at the manor, the gang stashes Frankengeorge away in George's secret vault. Once Joe is able to get rid of Trudy, the gang realizes Frankengeorge escaped through a hidden passageway. Frankengeorge arrives at the mine shaft where Jesse is investigating the recollapsed chamber; she takes him into custody. When Biff arrives at the police station to meet back up with Trudy, she sees Frankengeorge being questioned and phones Joe; they scheme to retrieve the codexes from Frankengeorge's bag. Drew hacks into Rosegrave's security system so she and Callie can gain access to the Sleep Room. Fenton gets lured into a trap. Jesse confronts Frankengeorge about how an eyewitness had spotted him near the detonation site. Drew and Callie enter the Sleep Room as Callie theorizes that Drew's brother somehow found his way into Frank's body; Trudy arrives at the police station to collect Frank, and Frankengeorge finds an opportunity to flee. The gang, who has also arrived at the station, chase him down. In the back alley, a mysterious stranger named Cadmus Quill shows up and invites the gang to come work for him. Back at the Hardys' house, Quill tells Joe and Frankengeorge that his employer wants them to retrieve The Core, which is the final relic left behind by The Circle. In exchange, Cadmus can deliver Laura to them alive. Biff tells the gang that Cox had managed to steal George's map. Joe knocks out Frankengeorge, reassuring the gang he doesn't trust his great-grandfather. The gang brings Frankengeorge, bound-and-gagged, to Callie and Drew's dorm room.

"A Promise of Trouble"

• Season: 3
• Episode: 3
• Directed by: Felipe Rodríguez
• Written by: Laura Seaton
• Premiere: July 26, 2023

Callie introduces Drew to the gang, but Joe doesn't trust her. Drew decides to leave them alone, but she boasts to Joe how the gang will eventually need her help. Joe plans to absorb the Eye's power; the gang will then send Joe into the crystal where he'll reunite with Frank and share the Eye's power with his brother. The gang must then download Frank and Joe back into their original bodies using the Midnight Machine. Joe convinces the gang to get assistance from the incarcerated Adrian Munder. Munder warns them that both of the boys' consciousnesses could end up sharing the same body, so they should repurpose Burelli's second Midnight Machine. Belinda and Chet attain the chip for Burelli's machine from Brian. Frankengeorge taunts Callie about how she'll end up as a failure. Callie recruits Drew to steal a new part for rewiring the machine; meanwhile somebody sends Drew a mysterious warning message via computer screen. Down in the Sleep Room, Joe informs Belinda, Callie, and Chet that Munder will lead the reengineering process using Burelli's chip. Frankengeorge warns them that the crystal might be destroyed if something goes wrong, and the person who'd murdered The Circle is still alive. Joe touches the Eye and receives a premonition of him and Frank reuniting inside the crystal. Frankengeorge whispers to Munder that Aaron is still trapped inside the crystal along with Frank. Munder performs the upload, transferring Joe into the crystal. George's apparition informs Frank he'll never escape from the crystal. Frank witnesses a flashback of a younger Gloria sparing the life of George's chauffer as she fires him with severance pay; the chauffeur steals some of the crystals before leaving the manor. Frank jumps to a premonition of Callie deciding to leave Bridgeport. Joe arrives inside the crystal, reuniting with Frank. As they argue about their next move, George arrives inside the crystal as well. Back in the lab, Munder forces the gang to upload him into the crystal too. George tries to reabsorb the Eye's power from his great-grandsons, but they entrap him. As Frank and Joe commune to make sure the Eye's power is divided equally between them, Munder arrives. The boys help Aaron and Adrian to reunite, and the Munders decide to stay trapped within the crystal together. As their friends complete the download, Frank and Joe return to their corporeal bodies; they transfer the power of the Eye back into the relic. Drew meets with Donald Mckay in the Rosegrave courtyard, and he blackmails her. Frank and Joe prepare to travel to Dixon City so they can reclaim the map from Fox. Joe reveals to Frank that Laura is still alive. Back at Rosegrave, the gang finds Drew and Donald were mugged...Drew's computer has been stolen.

"The Crash"

• Season: 3
• Episode: 4
• Directed by: Felipe Rodríguez
• Written by: Ramona Barckert
• Premiere: July 26, 2023

Cox tries to extort a higher fee for the scrolls from his buyer, to no avail. The gang ambushes Cox at his apartment in Dixon City, but he decides to skip town because he's sick of the danger. However, Cox sees intruders coming and hides the gang in a safe room. Driscoll tells Brian he's perplexed that both Munder brothers are catatonic, so Chet and Belinda update Brian on the events that just took place in the Sleep Room. Adelia Kurt, the new dean of Rosegrave, implores Drew and Callie to keep the hooded assailant's attack a secret so Rosegrave can avoid more bad P.R. Back at the safe house, Frank surmises that George's chauffeur needs to be tracked down, and the map can be reconfigured to pinpoint the location of The Core. Drew plots with Callie to expose The Circle's nefarious activities to the general public. Phil identifies George's chauffeur as William Vogel. Down in the chamber, Frank and Joe have psychic flashes and experience seizures. Olivia visits Trudy to seek out Fenton's whereabouts; when Trudy speculates that the boys pieced together the full map, Olivia fears for their lives if they unlock The Core. After Frank and Joe recover from their seizures, they realize they were unable to shed themselves entirely of the Eye's power. The gang arrives with the other codexes, which fit together to create a holographic map of lay line powers showing how the relic pieces connect with the crystal as its Core. The lay line burns holes into the map; those holes serve as location markers connecting a path to the Core's location. At the deli, Wilt tells Phil and Biff how he used to know Vogel when they were younger. Frank, Joe, Chet, Belinda, Callie, and Cox follow the map to a rock quarry, where Cox's buyer and his operatives have tracked them. Cox lures them away. Drew sneaks into Dean Kurt's office and locates a hidden passageway leading back to the Sleep Room (now a cordoned-off crime scene), where she photographs evidence. Biff and Phil learn from the local jeweler that Vogel had his stolen crystals made into a necklace, which appears to match the one Drew is wearing. Joe theorizes that the final relic is contained in a meteor bound for the rock quarry, which they witness in the sky above them. Cox returns to his apartment, where he ambushes Quill; he then phones his buyer to lure them back there. Frank, Joe, Chet, Belinda, and Callie return to the rock quarry and retrieve the final relic. DSA agents close in on the gang, chasing them down. Once the gang is cornered, Trudy and Olivia emerge from one of the vans. Olivia tells them The Core is unstable once activated; she offers to transport the artifacts to Dixon City along with Frank, Joe, and Trudy so they can reunite with Fenton and Laura. En route to Dixon City, the Hardys realize Olivia is lying to them; Trudy knocks out Olivia, and they run her van off the road. Emerging from the wreckage, the Hardys are forced to hide without retrieving the artifacts as Olivia's accomplices arrive at the crash site. Back at his apartment, Cox watches from the safe room as the hooded figure enters and kills Quill. Frank and Joe sneak into the bar where they're supposed to rendezvous with Cox. The hooded figure, who'd pursued Cox to the bar, begins to shoot at random bystanders. Using himself as a shield, Cox takes a bullet in order to save Joe's life.

"Revelation"

• Season: 3
• Episode: 5
• Directed by: Jason Stone
• Written by: Ramona Barckert
• Premiere: July 26, 2023

With his dying breaths, Cox utters a series of numbers to Joe. The boys return to Cox's apartment, and Frank phones Trudy to let her know they're safe. Trudy updates the gang, who continue to investigate Olivia and Vogel. Kept in a cell by his captors, Frank spots a hidden message that may have been left there by Laura. As Frank eats a sandwich they've fed him, he realizes it's drugged as he blacks out. Joe reminisces about Cox's dumb cover story from when the two of them first met; he blames himself for Cox's death. Frank finds a locker full of surveillance tapes in Cox's apartment, and Joe unlocks it using the code Cox had whispered to him. Awakening to find himself bound to an operating table, Fenton assaults Dr. Grafton — the surgeon employed by Fenton's abductors. Grafton admits that Laura's body and mind were being controlled remotely. Fenton phones Trudy with a secret message containing a rendezvous point. Driscoll confirms for Belinda, Chet, and Brian that Olivia was using the Kowalski namesake as part of an alias; he lets them search through his disorganized files. Biff and Phil locate Vogel at the Pine Grove facility. Once Phil summons Frank and Joe to the facility, Vogel reveals that he gave the necklace to biotech mogul Hurd Sparewell's daughter — for whose family he used to work. Chet has a psychic flash of Brian in danger. Callie finds out from Donald that Drew is one of the Sparewells. Frank, Joe, and Callie ambush Drew and confront her about her deceit. Drew reveals she's trying to bring down her father's empire, but Hurd had confiscated the crystal from her necklace even before Drew arrived at Rosegrave. She wants to bring justice to her late brother, Orrin, who was killed by Project Midnight. Then, Drew realizes she knows Olivia's true identity: her older sister (and Orrin's fraternal twin). Trudy and Jesse go to Fenton and Laura's old apartment, where they encounter Brian. The three of them get locked in and knocked out with gas. Biff and Phil spy on Hurd and Olivia transporting The Core to the Sparewell headquarters. Fenton and Laura meet up at their old apartment, where Laura reveals she's been tasked with eliminating him. Fenton restrains and tases her. Drew tries to convince the gang to let her help them steal back The Core. Hurd phones Cox's apartment to taunt the gang and threaten the lives of Trudy, Jesse, and Brian, whom he is holding as leverage. Fenton forces Grafton to remove the Sparewell microchip from Laura's brain, but Grafton admits he can only disable it or else Laura will die. Joe blames himself for everyone who is currently in danger. Drew suspects her dad has brought The Core to his thermodynamic lab. The eight teenagers vow to pull of the ultimate heist.

"The Spider's Net"

• Season: 3
• Episode: 6
• Directed by: Melanie Orr
• Written by: Madeleine Lambur
• Premiere: July 26, 2023

Drew explains to Frank and Callie that The Core is essential to her father's covert weapons technology. Soonafter, Drew blackmails her father's chief engineer, Bob Carpenter, into giving them the building's master plan. Joe, Biff, and Phil hear a suspicious clicking nose when they replay the tape recording of Hurd threatening Cox. Driscoll follows Belinda and Chet to Fenton and Laura's old apartment, where they find Trudy's key ring. Olivia shows up and fires her gun at Driscoll's chest, but Chet and Belinda escape through the window. As Chet and Belinda flee, Olivia shouts after them how they'll never find The Core "down there." Drew introduces Callie to Hurd so Callie can give him a pen as a "gift" and pretend to interview him; after he leaves for a moment, Drew laments how Hurd's old key card reader had been removed. This setback forces them to revise their plan by reentering the building through the parking garage so they can reach the basement faster; Frank and Joe stow away in the trunk of Drew's car. As the three of them use the building's elevator, it spontaneously stops; over their walkies, the gang can hear Callie being abducted by Olivia. Frank and Joe gain access to the ventilation shaft, which leads them into a lab where Olivia is waiting for them. Biff and Phil figure out that the clicks belonged to a computer transcribing Hurd and Cox's phone conversation. Olivia reveals that she lured Frank and Joe into the lab by manipulating Chet and Belinda with her choice of wording. Callie returns to the stakeout van, where she and Chet realize somebody had emulated Callie's voice to make it sound as though Olivia had abducted her. In the lobby, Hurd intercepts Chet, Belinda, and Callie. Upon interrogating them, Hurd realizes his daughters have been working together behind his back. Drew joins Frank, Joe, and Olivia in the lab, revealing to Frank and Joe that she used them to acquire The Core for herself. Drew also reveals that she secretly brought Frank and Joe to another location while they were in the trunk of her car; The Core was never even in Hurd's building! Hurd realizes that Drew and Olivia used him to create their ruse for the gang; Drew lied to the gang about everything, including her "brother" Orrin. Drew and Olivia activate a gaseous spray to knock out Frank and Joe, as Drew brags how they're about to take an helicopter ride — and the Sparewell sisters are planning to use The Core's technology in a way that will have global ramifications.

"At The Old House"

• Season: 3
• Episode: 7
• Directed by: Jason Stone
• Written by: Chris Pozzebon
• Premiere: July 26, 2023

Frank and Joe awaken in a new location, where Drew tells them that Laura was her test subject for mind control. Drew wants to use The Core to manipulate the behavior of public figures all over the planet. After Drew leaves, Fenton and Laura break in and rescue the boys. Laura admits she doesn't remember most of her behavior while under the microchip's influence; she warns them she could be a liability. Frank and Joe confront Drew at the airstrip, and Laura knocks Drew out from behind. The boys disable The Core, but the Eye communicates with them and warns them they're still in danger. Driscoll reveals himself to the Hardy family; he claims to have survived by wearing a bulletproof vest when Olivia had shot him. He tells them the DSA is banning Sparewell technology from the public domain; Trudy, Jesse, and Brian were taken to the hospital for medical assessment. Laura suggests the Hardys return to their old house in Dixon City for some family bonding. Once they arrive there, Frank realizes it's his birthday; he and Laura play a game of catch. While walking back from the grocery store with Fenton, Joe sees an apparition of Cox; he tells Frank, who is skeptical. Laura suggests they remain in Dixon City, and Frank suspects Laura is still being controlled by the microchip. Laura tries to reassure him, but Frank worries he may have been supernaturally affected from the time when he'd resided within the crystal. Joe notices visual anomalies throughout the house; he and Frank figure out they are stuck in a virtual reality simulation run by Drew. The boys try to tell Fenton what's going on, but he is in denial. Frank identifies Laura as a facsimile. Fenton is forced to admit to himself that his perspective of the simulation began when Olivia brought him to the warehouse. This means that Laura isn't actually still alive, after all. Drew and Olivia monitor the Hardys' virtual simulation. Drew wants to fix the coding that the boys have cracked, but Olivia emphasizes how they need to activate The Core. As the boys tearfully say goodbye to Laura's facsimile, they reawaken in the Sparewells' virtual reality chamber. Fenton similarly emerges from the simulation. Drew inserts the crystal into The Core, declaring "The future is here."

"A Wild Ride"

• Season: 3
• Episode: 8
• Directed by: Melanie Orr
• Written by: Chris Pozzebon
• Premiere: July 26, 2023

The rest of the gang abducts Bob to help them find Drew; he thinks Drew has brought The Core to a secret bunker she had built at the Edgecliff retreat house. Frank, Joe, and Fenton find George's corpse down in the Edgecliff bunker. Drew kills Olivia due to Drew's abandonment issues. Frank and Joe confront Drew, who explains how her virtual reality technology will envelop everyone on the planet via the lay lines fueled by The Core. This phenomenon, she says, will feed off of humanity's collective consciousness. Fenton rescues Trudy, Jesse, and Brian; but Drew traps them inside a vault. Drew activates The Core, and Chet fails to follow Callie, Biff, Phil, and Belinda down an escape hatch into the bunker in time. The entire world outside of Edgecliff transforms into virtual reality. Drew lectures Frank and Joe about how she's saving the world from climate change and other manmade disasters. When Frank and Joe refuse to join her, Drew shoots both of them. As she heads to the upper level of Edgecliff to celebrate, Drew is shocked to be confronted by Callie — who reverses time and knocks out Drew before Drew can kill the Hardy Boys. Frank, Joe, and Callie send Drew into the virtual reality program; Callie enters it, as well, so she can find the kill-switch that Drew has memorized. Inside the simulation, Drew claims to Callie that she'd lied about having created a kill code for the program. Callie tricks Drew into admitting the real relic which can reabsorb The Core's energy was hidden by her back at DSA headquarters. Frank pulls Callie out of the simulation. Belinda, Phil, and Biff join them to reveal how Chet had the relic on his person the entire time. Frank and Joe urge the rest of the gang to return to the control room so they can join the simulation if the boys are unable to safely collect the relic from Chet's body outside. The Hardy Boys successfully bring Chet down the hatch into the bunker, relic in tow. The gang realizes the only way they can shut down the simulation is by unleashing the Eye's energy onto the rest of the world. Frank volunteers to absorb The Core's energy so he can use himself as a vessel for accomplishing that. But when The Core proves to be too strong for Frank to withstand all by himself, Joe, Callie, Belinda, Chet, Biff, and Phil share the absorption burden. Phil, at the end of their "human chain," connects all of them to the relic so they can transfer the joint energies from The Core into the relic containing the remainder of the Eye. Together, the gang's seven-person consciousness disables Drew's virtual reality simulation. Afterward, at DSA headquarters, Driscoll (who'd been wearing a bulletproof vest when Olivia shot him, the same way Driscoll's simulation counterpart claimed to have been) swears the gang to secrecy. Drew is now in a catatonic state. Driscoll discloses that all computers worldwide now seem to be interconnected due to Drew's scheme (which has, in fact, created the Internet). He hints that he'll look the other way if the gang wants to steal some Sparewell laptops once they've signed their NDAs. Callie uploads all of Drew's information onto the newly-created Internet. Weeks later, Trudy and Jesse move in together. Sam tries to recruit Fenton for another mission, but Fenton announces he's retiring. Fenton suggests that Frank and Joe pick up Sam's case. The gang celebrates by playing video games as they help Frank and Joe track down some missing stamps for Sam. As they brainstorm and joke about how maybe Wilt stole the stamps, Wilt fields a phone call over in his deli. Wilt confers with his heist partner — it turns out that the two of them are indeed the actual culprits for the theft Sam needs investigated.