20. Gideon Rises — Episode — Gravity Falls

20. Gideon Rises

After 'Lil Gideon swindles the Mystery Shack away from Stan, everything in Gravity Falls appears to be even more west of weird - Dipper, Mabel and Grunkle Stan are forced to move in with Soos and his grandmother, while the town remains enamored with Gideon's charm. Meanwhile, Grunkle Stan isn't certain he can take care of the twins and is considering sending them back home. With their summer in Gravity Falls threatening to come to an end, Mabel and Dipper decide to take on Gideon and win back their home.

Plot summary and ending

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Complete story — includes the ending

Gideon swindles the Mystery Shack away from Stan, so the Pines are forced to move in with Soos and his grandmother. After being unable to sway the public from Gideon's charm, and unable to defeat him with help from the gnomes, Dipper and Mabel are sent back home. However, after Gideon gets ahold of Dipper's journal 3, realizing there is one more missing alongside his journal 2, he attacks them using a giant mech of himself. The twins defeat Gideon, and Stan exposes him as a fraud, as he is arrested, the townspeople turn against him, and the Mystery Shack is returned to the Pines. Afterwards, Stan gets his hands on the two journals, revealing he's had the first one all along, and prepares to activate a portal hidden in the shack's basement.

Sources and content license

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