the Twins of Ink

Episode: Tourist Trapped, Pines' Flashback + The Rest of Episode

Jason was in town and (Name) was... somewhere else.

It all began when our parents decided we could use some fresh air.They shipped us up north to a sleepy town called Gravity Falls, Oregon, to stay at our great-uncle's place in the woods.

Dipper and Mable saw that there were things on the bottom left and top right bunk. Mable shrugged and hung her posters.

"This attic is amazing. Check out all my splinters!"

Dipper turned around.

"And there's a goat."

Mable walked over to it. The goat started chewing her sweater.

"Oh! Yes, you can keep chewing on my sweater."

She laughed.

My sister tended to look on the bright side of things.

The Pines Twins are now outside the shack

Mable rolls around on the grass.

"Yay! Grass!"

A woodpecker flies over to Dipper and starts pecking at his hat.

But I was having a hard time getting used to our new surroundings.

"Boo!" "Ah!"

Dipper falls over. He looks over and sees a guy wearing a mask. The guy takes it off, revealing Stan laughing.

"Ahahahaha! Hahaha!"

And then there was our Great Uncle Stan. Our uncle had transformed his house into a tourist trap he called "The Mystery Shack." The real mystery was why anyone came.

Mini Time Skip to Dipper in the Woods

"Ugh, Grunkle Stan. Nobody ever believes anything I say."

When Dipper starts to hammer a nail on another tree trunk, it makes a metallic sound. He taps the tree with the hammer, which makes more metallic sounds. He wipes away some dust and opens a secret window revealing a mechanical box with two control switches on top. He tests one control but nothing happens. Then he tries the other. Behind him, a hole opens up in the ground.

"What the?"

He looks inside the hole, and there is a book. He picks the book up and places it on the ground, and checks for people watching. He flips one page and an eye-glass is in it. He looks at the eye-glass and puts it down. He flips another page, and begins reading aloud.

"It's hard to believe it's been six years since I began studying the strange and wondrous secrets of Gravity Falls, Oregon."

He flips through the pages.

"What is all this?"

He stops on a page that says "TRUST NO ONE" and starts reading.

"Unfortunately, my suspicions have been confirmed. I'm being watched. I must hide this book before he finds it. Remember: in Gravity Falls there is no one you can trust."

He closed the journal.

"No one you can trust..." "Hey, you must be Dipper Pines." "Ahh!" "Sorry, didn't mean to scare ya. Name's (Name) Stein." "Yeah, it's okay." "So you found a journal? Cool. I got one of my own, it's in my bag back at the Mystery Shack."

(Name) sat next to him and smiled a bit.

"So that stuff on the bottom left bunk is your's?" "Yep. Jason, my dumb brother, and I are staying there the summer. You and Mable will be bunking with us. We got here yesterday." "Alright, that explains the bags."