Flaw and Order

Flaw and Order is the second half of the 5th episode of season 10 of Arthur. It is also one of the many Arthur Mystery episodes. It first aired May 21, 2006. It is a parody of Law and Order.



Plot
Mr. Read comes into the living to find his cake plate chipped. He is very upset about this, and wonders how it happened. D.W. shows Mr. Read a tape that she has just filmed of Buster and Arthur about to go outside, and Arthur holding a baseball and saying, "Hey Buster, let's play ball. Here catch." He throws it, and in the background, you here the cake plate get hit, but it's unseen. Arthur and Buster swear that they didn't chip the plate, but Mr. Read doesn't believe them, and says that when he gets home from work that, he's going to have a serious talk with them. In an effort to prove it wasn't them who chipped the plate, Buster and Arthur act as detectives, with Brain acting as their scientist, and Fern acting as their advisor. At first they're unsucessful in finding clues, but Brain discovers from a picture of the chipped plate, and a book on types of chipped plates that it wasn't a baseball that chipped it, and from anylizing the tape, just before the plate chipped, there's a strange bumping noise. Arthur and Buster go back to Arthur's house, and find a broken watch that happens to belong to Miss Persky, the lady who sold Mr. Read the cake plate. She blames them for braking her watch and asks them to leave. Just as all hope is about to be lost, Arthur and Buster arrive at Arthur's house once again, and Buster is hit by a rock. Arthur looks at the manhole cover on the rode, and as a car goes ontop of it, a rock is flung into the air, and hits Arthur's house. Arthur and Buster have solved the mystery. When Mr. Read comes home from work, Arthur, Buster, Fern, and Brian use their evidence to reveal that after Miss Persky had dropped off the cake plate, her watch fell off without her noticing, and landed on the manhole cover. As a car drove by, the watch was flung into the air, and it hit the cake plate, braking the watch, and chipping the cake plate. Mr. Read appologizes to Arthur and Buster, Mrs. Read anounces that she'll call someone to fix the manhole cover, and Miss Persky gives Mr. Read a new cake plate for free out of sorrow for what her watch had done. She sits it by the open window, and once again, a rock is flung into the air, and chips the cake plate as everyone screams "Oh no!"