Lady Wifi

"Lady Wifi" is the seventh episode of the first season of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug &amp; Cat Noir. It premiered on January 17, 2016.

Synopsis
After being expelled from school, Alya is akumatized into Lady Wifi, a villain who will stop at nothing to expose Ladybug.

Plot
Alya cuts Ladybug's face out of a photograph during class. She holds the picture up to her classmates' faces to look for the perfect fit, trying to find out who Ladybug is. She stops on Chloé, who points at Miss Bustier, who is standing in front of Alya's desk. Once she realizes the entire class is watching her, she puts the picture away. Miss Bustier asks if Marinette is still in the bathroom, since she has not returned to class. Alya shrugs. When class ends, Miss Bustier gives Alya Marinette's homework to pass on to her.

After school, Alya calls Marinette, but is forwarded straight to voicemail. Alya notices Chloé pulling several Ladybug-themed items from her locker (including what looks like a costume and a yo-yo) and putting them in her bag. Believing Chloé to be Ladybug's secret identity, Alya calls Marinette, only to be directed to voicemail again, so she grabs Nino to explain her belief. Nino sympathizes with Alya's inability to contact Marinette, as Adrien also disappears for hours on end when he tries to call him, although Nino blames it on Mr. Agreste's strictness. Alya checks her phone and finds a news report that Ladybug has once again saved Paris. The news report focuses mainly on Ladybug, with Cat Noir in the background behind reporter Nadja Chamack.

Alya recognizes the yo-yo in Ladybug's hand as the yo-yo Chloé took out of her locker and tells Nino that she's figured out that Ladybug's secret identity: Chloé Bourgeois. Nino laughs at her revelation, saying Chloé is too narcissistic to be a hero.

Marinette comes home and finds that Alya has dropped off her book bag and tablet with Sabine at the bakery. Alya also left a note, telling Marinette to call her because she's figured out who Ladybug is. Marinette is a little panicked, but when she tries to call Alya back, she finds that she doesn't have any signal. She wanders onto the roof to find a workman, who tells her that they're updating the service. Marinette spends the rest of the day doing her homework.

When she wakes up at her desk the next morning, Marinette realizes that she's already an hour late to school. Meanwhile, Nino is still skeptical that Chloé is Ladybug, but Alya has him distract Chloé while she tries to take a picture of the evidence in Chloé's locker. However, Sabrina and Kim catch Alya snooping, and she and Chloé wind up in the Mr. Damocles' office. Mr. Damocles gives Alya detention after school, but citing her right to privacy, Chloé uses her father's name to blackmail Mr. Damocles into suspending Alya for a week.

Alya storms out of the school just as Marinette runs in, Alya swearing to expose Chloé and tarnish her reputation as Ladybug. In his lair, Hawk Moth senses Alya crying and her anger, sending an akuma her way. The akuma lands on her phone and transforms her into Lady Wifi.

Marinette sneaks into Miss Bustier's class but disrupts it by shouting, "What?" twice when she learns that Alya was suspended for trespassing in "Ladybug"'s locker. Miss Bustier sends Marinette to the headmaster's office, where she finds Mr. Damocles frozen in his seat with a pink pause sign on his chest. Just then, Lady Wifi uses the school projector system to play a recording of herself. She introduces herself as the deliverer of truth and promises to show all of Paris who Ladybug really is. Recognizing Alya from the charm on her phone, Marinette transforms into Ladybug to save her best friend.

Miss Bustier dismisses her class for their safety, and Adrien runs to the bathroom to transform into Cat Noir, reasoning that Lady Wifi will no doubt pay Chloé a visit if she really is Ladybug. Later that evening, he waits on a rooftop across the street from Le Grand Paris and watches Chloé's window. He finds her dressed in Ladybug's super suit and practicing throwing her yo-yo and panics that he might have fallen for Chloé. But the real Ladybug shows up beside him and explains that Chloé is just a huge fan.

Chloé's phone rings. When she answers, Lady Wifi uses the phone to teleport into the room. She freezes Chloé with a pink pause icon and opens a video recording icon to broadcast Chloé's unmasking to the public. Cat Noir and the real Ladybug arrive on the scene, and Lady Wifi realizes her mistake. When she tries to freeze them, they escape into the stairwell and lure her toward the basement of the building where there's no signal.

Lady Wifi catches onto their plan and leaves to set a trap. Ladybug and Cat Noir then run back up all the stairs, only to find that the door on every floor has a lock icon on it. (Meanwhile, Cat Noir wants him and Ladybug to get to know each other outside the costume, but she brushes him off because they have more important things to worry about.) They finally reach an unlocked floor and kick the door open, finding themselves in the hotel's dining area. All the tables have a phone on them, and they soon learn that Lady Wifi can use them to teleport around the room. Ladybug starts smashing the phones with her yo-yo, and Lady Wifi flees into the kitchen, where she locks the door, trapping Ladybug in the kitchen with her. Cat Noir uses the dumbwaiter (service elevator) in the dining area to get into the kitchen.

Lady Wifi manages to corner Ladybug against the wall and lock her hands down. She then re-opens the video recording icon and proceeds to try and take off Ladybug's mask for the public to see. The mask appears to be glued on and just won't come off. Just then, Cat Noir arrives in the food elevator to rescue Ladybug, but Lady Wifi traps him in the freezer and locks the door. The impact knocks the ring off Cat's finger, and he transforms back into Adrien and is unable to find the ring. Plagg refuses to help Adrien, stating that it's too cold.

Hawk Moth advises Lady Wifi to force Ladybug into using Lucky Charm. When her time runs out, the video recording will broadcast her de-transformation, and Lady Wifi can take her Miraculous. Lady Wifi unlocks Ladybug's hands but leaves the recording on, disappearing and leaving her in the kitchen to rescue Cat Noir from the locked freezer.

Chloé manages to escape the building and join her father and the police waiting outside. When her phone rings, she answers, and Lady Wifi teleports from the phone onto the hotel's roof, forcing Paris to watch as Ladybug tries to save Cat Noir. Trying to kick the door down doesn't work, so she uses Lucky Charm, and a frozen meal appears. Using her lucky vision, she spots the non-microwaveable icon on the box, the lock icon on the freezer door, and a nearby microwave oven. She puts the non-microwaveable dinner in the microwave and blows it up to diffuse the signal. The door unlocks just as Adrien, nearly freezing to death, finds his ring and transforms back into Cat Noir.

Because she is running out of time, the heroes have to work quickly to stop Lady Wifi. The kitchen door is still locked, but Ladybug suggests blowing up the signal receiver on the roof. Cat Noir covers the camera icon with a pot and uses the food elevator to get out while Ladybug waits in the kitchen. Growing suspicious, Lady Wifi returns and chases Cat Noir onto the roof. He distracts her by throwing his staff at her and then uses Cataclysm to destroy the signal receiver. Lady Wifi loses her powers, and the recording and lock icons in the kitchen downstairs dissolve as Ladybug's earrings beep down to two dots. Ladybug escapes the kitchen and shows up on the roof soon after. She uses her yo-yo to yank the phone out of Lady Wifi's hand, smashing in on the ground. She captures the akuma, purifies it, and returns everything back to normal.

Lady Wifi turns back into Alya, who is thrilled to see Ladybug and Cat Noir. However, Ladybug is about to de-transform, so they escape from the roof before Alya can get an interview. They run into the hotel lobby, and Ladybug ducks inside a closet. Cat Noir tries to stop her, promising not to tell anyone who she is, but she says she would rather they keep their identities a secret, even from each other. The closet door swings between them just as her transformation wears off, and Cat Noir is tempted to open the door. Conflicted, he ultimately decides not to betray her trust and leaves closing the closet door for her.

Adrien runs outside of the hotel and opens up his jacket. Plagg flies out and questions Adrien. He says that "the girl of his dreams" was right there. He asks why he shut the door for her, and what he was thinking. Adrien replies saying that he can't think when he's with Ladybug, in one of the episodes sweeter scenes.

Some time later, Marinette and Alya are on Marinette's rooftop balcony. Alya has gotten a new phone and has noticed that when she draws a costume over a picture of Adrien, he kind of looks like Cat Noir. Marinette is offended that Alya would compare a nice sane guy like Adrien to someone like Cat Noir. Marinette joking that Alya should send the photos of Adrien to her. She grabs Alya's phone, laughing while Alya chases her around.

Major characters

 * Marinette Cheng/Ladybug
 * Adrien Agreste/Cat Noir
 * Tikki
 * Plagg
 * Hawk Moth
 * Akuma
 * Alya/Lady Wifi
 * Chloé Bourgeois

Minor characters

 * Nino
 * Sabrina
 * André Bourgeois
 * Kim
 * Rose
 * Juleka
 * Caline Bustier
 * Mr. Damocles
 * Nadja Chamack
 * Max
 * Ivan
 * Nathanaël
 * Mylène Haprèle
 * Alix Kubdel
 * Sabine Cheng
 * Tom Dupain
 * Mireille Caquet
 * Aurore Beauréal
 * Civilians

Trivia

 * The Korean title for this episode is "My Friend Alya".
 * In the Korean version of this episode, the picture that Alya cuts Ladybug's face out of is from an old promotional picture, as seen with the red tips on Ladybug's hair. This is corrected to an updated picture in the French and English versions.
 * Ladybug makes a joke about Chloé being a copycat. This may be a reference to Theo Barbeau.
 * In the Korean version she compares Chloé to a cosplayer instead.
 * The note Alya attched to Marinette's tablet is written in French and it says: "Appelle moi. Je sais qui est la VRAIE LADYBUG!!"
 * While Alya is Lady Wifi, her eyes are shade of violet instead of the usual brown.
 * This is the first time a holder get separated from the Miraculous as Cat Noir drops his ring and reverts back to normal.

Errors

 * Max doesn't have glasses in the classroom.
 * However, when he's seen running away from the classroom, he has them back.
 * It's around ten in the morning when Marinette and Adrien transform, but when they meet in front of Le Grand Paris, it's almost dark.
 * When Cat Noir spies on Chloé, he is holding his stick even though it is still attached to his back.
 * Later when he and Ladybug enters the restaurant, Cat Noir holds his stick in staff form while it is also attached to his back.
 * After Ladybug uses her Lucky Charm, the middle spot of her earrings is the first to dissappear, but when the third spot is seen disappearing, the midle spot is back.
 * When the smoke comes out of the service elevator, two microwaves are seen next to it, even though they weren't there when Ladybug grabbed the first one.