Simon Says

"Simon Says" is the eighteenth episode of the first season of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. It is scheduled to premiere on August 20, 2016.

Synopsis
After being humiliated while performing a hypnotist act, Simon gets akumatized into Simon Says and is able to get anyone to do his bidding.

Plot
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The episode begins with a live broadcast of a KIDZ+ competition show called "The Challenge" at the TVi Studio. Nino is the next candidate, in which his challenge is to make the mayor, Andre Bourgeois, dance.

At the bakery, Marinette learns that she is being grounded by her parents because of how often she is absent from school. Marinette tries to explain to her parents that Nino is counting on her to support him during "The Challenge". But her father says that as long as her unjustified absence continue, she will stay at home. So Marinette accepts her punishment and walks up to her room. She turns on her computer and watches Nino try to complete his challenge.

Nino is successful in making the mayor dance, and Alec calls up the next contestant, a hypnotist named Simon Grimault. Alec tells Simon that his challenge is to hypnotize Gabriel Agreste and to make him come to the studio. But when Gabriel refuses to participate, Simon is automatically disqualified. Hawk Moth senses Simon's frustration over not even getting the chance to perform, so he sends an akuma after him. The akuma possesses Simon's deck of hypnotic cards, and Hawk Moth offers Simon a chance to seek revenge on Gabriel and Alec, and so he is akumatized into Simon Says. Using his cards, he hypnotizes Alec and Adrien's chauffeur, who both become his servants.

Marinette is still watching the show, and sees these events unfold. Tikki instructs Marinette to put her pillow under her sheet so her parents would think she is sleeping. Then, Marinette transforms into Ladybug and heads for the studio.

At the studio, Adrien transforms into Cat Noir and tries to stop Simon Says. Simon Says sends Adrien's chauffeur to fight Cat Noir. While the two are fighting, Simon Says uses his powers to enslave people in the building, and sends them to find Gabriel Agreste. Ladybug arrives to the studio and finds Nino hiding in the recording room. Nino explains that Adrien is somewhere in the studio, so they both start searching for him.

When Adrien's chauffeur enters an elevator, Cat Noir uses his Cataclysm on the elevator's control panel, causing it to drop down the shaft. Cat Noir then meets Ladybug and Nino, and they conclude that Simon Says is going after Gabriel. Cat Noir tells them they have to get to the Agreste mansion before Simon Says can, but he realizes that he is about to detransform. After Cat Noir runs off and detransforms, he meets up with Ladybug and Nino, and they all head for the mansion.

At the mansion, Gabriel refuses to listen when Adrien tries to warn him about Simon Says, and sends Adrien and Nino to Adrien's room with Nathalie. Gabriel then tells Ladybug that he trusts her to protect him.

Once Adrien gets to his room with Nino, Adrien says that he needs to take a shower. While in the bathroom, he transforms into Cat Noir and meets Ladybug and Gabriel in Gabriel's office, where Ladybug was admiring Gabriel's pictures of Adrien. Cat Noir warns them that Simon Says and his army have arrived, and tells Gabriel to activate the mansion's defense system. This leads Gabriel to inquire as to how Cat Noir knows so much about the mansion. Meanwhile, the servants of Simon Says begin to break through the mansion's defenses.

Ladybug and Nathalie go to Adrien's room make sure he and Nino are all right. Ladybug warns Nino about what's happening, and he and Nathalie leave Adrien's room while Ladybug calls for Adrien to get out of the shower. Cat Noir climbs in the bathroom window and hears Ladybug calling for Adrien. Quickly, he detransforms while turning on the shower. Ladybug opens the shower door and tells Adrien that they need to go, and freaks out when she realizes Adrien may not have his clothes on. Adrien says that he needs to get dressed and then they can go.

As Ladybug waits for Adrien to come out of the bathroom, she notices the person on the wallpaper of Adrien's computer. When he leaves the bathroom, Adrien reveals to Ladybug that the person is his mother on her seventeenth birthday. Both simultaneously tell each other, "she's got your eyes." Suddenly, hypnotized servants of Simon Says break into the room. Ladybug pushes Adrien back to his bathroom to keep him safe. In the bathroom, Plagg teases Adrien, saying that Ladybug actually does love him, but only as Adrien. Adrien ignores Plagg's teasing and transforms into Cat Noir again

The servants of Simon Says break into the mansion and capture Gabriel. Simon Says brings Gabriel back to the TVi Studio, where he hypnotizes him to think he is a butterfly. By the time Ladybug and Cat Noir reach to the outside of the recording room of the studio, Ladybug assumed that the akuma is inside one of the cards. As they break in, Ladybug uses Lucky Charm, which gives her a normal yo-yo. Ladybug tries to attack Simon Says with her magical yo-yo, but Simon Says uses a card to break it. Cat Noir attacks Simon Says while Ladybug rapidly rips up the villain's cards to look for the akuma.

Simon Says then hypnotizes Gabriel to think he is a plane, sending him to jump off the studio roof. Ladybug determines that the best course of action would be to defeat Simon Says as quickly as possible, rather than going to try to save Gabriel. Ladybug then uses her normal yo-yo to knock Simon Says' pack of cards out of his hands. Cat Noir uses Cataclysm to destroy the pack of cards, and tosses the pack to Ladybug, who breaks it and reveals the akuma. She then tosses her Lucky Charm yo-yo and cleanses the city, returning everyone except Simon back to normal. Then she captures and purifies the akuma, returning Simon back to normal. Ladybug and Cat Noir then go to the roof and check on Gabriel. When Cat Noir and Gabriel shake hands, the latter looks closely at Cat Noir's ring before he and Ladybug leave.

Back at the Agreste mansion, Adrien is looking at pictures of his mother when Gabriel suddenly walks into his room and gives him a hug. Then, Gabriel notices Adrien's ring and asks about it. Adrien avoids the question, and Gabriel leaves the room.

At the bakery, Tom and Sabine tell Marinette that because she has had a perfect week of attendance at school, she can go and meet Nino for the second round of the Challenge. Marinette decides that she would rather stay at home and watch the Challenge with her parents. However when she hears that Nino wants Ladybug and Cat Noir to be there for the challenge, she makes an excuse and leaves for the studio.

Major characters

 * Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Ladybug
 * Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir
 * Hawk Moth
 * Tikki
 * Plagg
 * Akuma
 * Simon Grimault/Simon Says
 * Gabriel Agreste

Minor characters

 * Alec Cataldi
 * Adrien's chauffeur
 * Nino Lahiffe
 * André Bourgeois (video chat)
 * Nathalie Sancoeur
 * Alya Césaire (video chat)
 * Mrs. Agreste (pictured)
 * Civilians

Trivia

 * This episode was the 23rd to air on TéléQuébec and the 18th on ABC3 in Australia
 * In the French version, the episode is called "Jackady".
 * In French, Simon's name is Jacques Grimault because the phrase "Jacques à dit" is the French version of the phrase "Simon says."
 * The cat Ladybug saves is the same cat that knocks Alya's phone into the trash can in "The Mime".
 * The card Simon Says use to immobilize the Gorilla has the same symbol Lady Wifi uses to immobilize her opponents.
 * The photo of Mrs. Agreste that Adrien uses as his computer background is an edited photo of voice actress Tara Strong.
 * This is the first episode in which Ladybug's yo-yo breaks.
 * Although only partly, this is the first time Cataclysm is used to destroy an akumatized object.
 * As it is not activated on the ground, the activating sequence is also cut.
 * Like in "Pixelator", Ladybug uses the Miraculous Ladybug before capturing the akuma.
 * This episode doesn't have an end card.

Errors

 * The Gorilla take and throws Cat Noir's staff away from him when they fight, but another one is attached to his back until he picks up and reattach the first one.
 * Ladybug's yo-yo is duplicated when she picks it up in order to talk with Cat Noir.
 * Even though Gabriel leaves the door open when he enters Adrien's room, it is closed until he leaves.

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