Poindexter (The Phantom)

Poindexter  is the fifth episode of the first season of  The Phantom, premiering on the CW Television Network on November 11, 2015.

Previous Episode: Power Outage (The Phantom)

Next Episode: Thirteen to One

When Danny obnoxiously uses his powers to emberass Dash, he learns a lesson, when a nerdy teenage ghost from the 1950's, attempts to kill him and anyone he sees tormenting others. Meanwhile, Danny's investigation on his parents' secret work on the supernatural leads him to one of their old partners.

Synopsis
Down in the Fenton Lab late at night, Danny, Tucker, and Sam continue to research Danny's parents' work on the supernatural. After Tucker and Sam go, home, Danny stays up all night still reading files, before noticing it's already morning and gets ready for school.

Arriving at school, Danny is picked on by football jock, Dash Baxter, then uses his powers to embarass him, and Sam gets angry at him for using his powers that way. Suddenly, a green mist flows through the ground and into Dash. While Danny is walking to class in the empty hall, before being attacked by Dash. Danny defends himself and knocks Dash into the wall, knocking him out. When Dash comes too, he doesn't remember anything.

After School, Danny, Sam, and Tucker investigate and discover that Dash was filled with ectoplasmic energy. Danny begins reading a file about an accident that occured during his parents' college years with an old colleague and sets out to find him, but when a ghost is detected at the school, and transforms and heads off. He goes to the school were Valerie is attacking Paulina. She nearly kills her, but Danny stops her and she passes out. Like Dash, when she wakes up, she doesn't remember anything.

Danny sees a green mist leaving the School and follows it. When he does, it forms into a teenage nerdy ghost, who introduces himself as Sydney Poindexter and explains that when he went to Casper High in the 1960s, he was bullied and killed in an accident that was just supposed to be a prank, by the Football team. Poindexter attacks him, after a short battle, Danny wins and traps Poindexter in the Ghost Thermus.

Afterwards, Danny returns to the Fenton Lab, where Sam tells Danny about an old partner that used to work with his parents.

Danny flies all the way out to a mansion in Wisconsin, where he meets a man that introduces himself as Vlad Masters.

Cast

 * Dylan Sprayberry as Danny Fenton/The Phantom
 * Kira Kosarin as Sam Manson
 * Trevor Jackson as Tucker Foley
 * Galadriel Stineman as Jazz Fenton
 * Zendaya Coleman as Valerie Gray
 * Jim Carry as Technus
 * Paul Giamatti as Mr. Lancer
 * Robbie Amell as Aaron "Dash" Baxter
 * Daniella Monet as Paulina
 * Robert Downey Jr. as Vlad Masters