With Mystery Incorporated scattered since the finale of Season One, and Crystal Cove now being terrorized by the Crybaby Clown, the new mayor sends Scooby Doo off to reunite the team and save the city. Getting everyone back together goes well until it's time to bring Daphne into the fold. Having moved on with her life, taken up with Baylor Hottner and given up mystery solving, Fred and Velma are finding it difficult to perform their previous strengths of trap building and logical reasoning, respectively. Although Daphne spurns their offer to rejoin the team, Fred still builds an elaborate trap that relies on her participation. When Daphne doesn't show, it allows Crybaby Clown to escape and destroy the fireworks factory, laying waste to Crystal Cove. With the team still fractured and Crybaby Clown on the loose, "those meddling kids", for the first time ever, don't catch villain. (Episode to be continued.)