[theme music]
TOBY NARRATING: Hi!
I'm Toby.
I'm just a regular student.
Well, I was before I got zapped.
Now I'm some kind of science genius.
The only problem is, Elizabeth is too.
-You're about to witness history in the making.
Watch and wonder.
OK, Garth, pick up the spoon.
-With my hands?
-Unless you want to use your feet.
OK, now do like I showed you.
-Nothing's happening.
-Push hard.
-I am.
Can I stop now?
I feel kind of stupid.
-That's not unusual.
-Eh!
Concentrate.
Harder.
-Hey!
It's going through.
What's happening?
-All matter is just a bunch of atoms, Garth, with a lot of
empty space in between.
I've discovered a way to weaken the bonds
between those particles.
Got it?
-You're talking about the spoon, right?
-Yes.
It's an intra-atomic space modifier.
-What?
-So the spoon should now be able to pass
through solid matter.
-Sure.
-Push hard.
Harder!
-OK.
[ricocheting]
[grinding]
-Garth, I think you broke the clock.
-Me?
-Yep.
You pushed too hard.
-We don't have time to worry about the clock.
-Mr. Woods.
The purpose of a clock to mark the progress of time.
Do you agree?
-Certainly, Ms. Hammer.
-So then why is ours stopped?
-Stopped?
That clock's a genuine 1930 Lichtenstein.
-Oh, so you know it.
-Well, I--
I've read about them.
They're, uh-- they're actually quite sturdy.
-Good.
Then you can fix it.
Have it done before you go home, would you, Neil?
-Man, typical.
First girl who ever liked me, she explodes.
-[clears throats]
That paper goes in the bin.
-But it's not mine.
-As members of the human race, we are all responsible for the
rubbish of the world.
-All of it?
-If you want to continue this discussion,
Russell, feel free.
I could use an extra pair of hands to fix that clock.
Someone has to go up there right now.
Well?
I'll just--
BOTH: Put it in the bin.
-That should do it.
I think it's ready for a human trial.
Volunteers?
[phone ringing]
-Yes?
TOBY (ON PHONE): Elizabeth.
-Oh, Toby.
I was just thinking about you.
-Elizabeth, listen.
Something's happened to the clock.
Mr. Woods is going up the tower.
-Then stop him.
-I can't, he's already gone.
You've got to get everything out there.
Now!
-All this equipment.
I'm right in the middle of something.
-Elizabeth, five minutes and everyone knows our secret.
Elizabeth, listen.
-OK, OK.
TOBY (ON PHONE): All right, get everything to the middle
of the room.
-What?
Why?
-Just do it.
I'll call you back.
-Hey!
What's the big hurry?
-Hey, Toby.
-Uh, later, OK?
-Now.
What's happening?
-Uh, nothing.
-So why are you in such a hurry.
Come on, there's plenty going on around here that I don't
know about.
Don't you think it's time you filled me in?
-You're imagining things.
Sorry, Jack.
Got to go.
-Move it all to the center, quick.
[dials phone]
[phone ringing]
TOBY (ON PHONE): OK, fire up the teleporter and send
everything to the storeroom.
-That's the great plan?
-Just do it.
-[sighs]
-[grunts]
This hasn't been opened for ages.
[rattles]
-[coughs]
-OK, stand back.
-Toby.
What are you doing here after hours?
-I had to come back, Ms. Hammer.
I was just on my way to the toilet.
-This isn't the way to the toilets.
-Right.
Right!
Thanks very much, Ms. Hammer.
-The walls, come on!
[vacuum]
-I had it on suck instead of blow.
-Stupid.
Trap door.
-[yelps]
[vacuum]
-[gasps]
-The rest'll have to go into the lift--
quietly!
-[strains]
-Now this.
Come on.
-[grunts]
[coughs]
-I can't reach the buttons.
You packed it wrong.
-Not a movement or a sound until he leaves.
-Are you still here?
-No.
Well, yes.
I'm just going.
-Move it.
-Right.
-What was that?
Anyone out there?
Help!
I'm locked in!
Is anyone out there?
Help!
Get me out of here!
Help!
Get a grip, Jack.
Get a grip.
[banging]
-Something smells funny.
-What?
-Oh, no.
I'm going to sneeze, I can't control it.
[sniffles]
[sneezes]
-Nice one.
You almost got us caught.
-It's not my fault my nose is sensitive.
You should try a different deodorant.
-Deodorant?
What deodorant?
-Mr. Woods left without fixing the clock.
-Slack.
-Do I have to do everything?
Oh, come on.
I need my tools.
Everything's in the storeroom.
-I wonder if Elizabeth got out of the tower in time.
-That's her problem.
Toby did what he could.
-Yep.
-Coming?
-Uh, I might have another smoothie.
-Nikki started her shift.
-Has she?
Hmm.
Here she comes.
-It's her job.
-You guys seen Jack anywhere?
-No, actually.
Nope.
-I've asked everybody.
He was supposed to start work half an hour ago.
-I could help you look.
I mean, he could be anywhere.
-This isn't like Jack.
He's always on time.
-Maybe you should try ringing him.
-Yeah, I did.
I'll try again.
[dials phone]
[phone ringing]
-Hey, I'm in here!
In here!
[phone ringing]
-I hate this place when it's empty.
Can we come back tomorrow?
-No.
-Hey, Veri, you heard about the ghost
that lives down here?
It was a music teacher who choked on a
pecan 50 years ago.
They say he still walks the corridors.
-As if, Garth.
-What was that?
-[screams]
What?
Where?
GARTH (OFFSCREEN): [laughs]
Made you jump.
[laughs]
-You two, quiet!
-In here!
Hey!
Help!
Help me!
-Did you hear something?
-[screams]
JACK (OFFSCREEN): Who's out there?
Come on!
Let me out!
-You zapped Jack?
-He must have zapped himself.
It was your great idea to put everything in the storeroom!
-Yeah, I didn't know it included--
what did you call it?
-An intra-atomic space modifier, to allow objects to
penetrate solid matter.
-And people!
-People?
Great, Elizabeth.
Up until now, he had no proof.
Now, because of you, he has proof of our powers.
How could you be so dumb?
We're just going to have to zap him back to normal before
he tells anyone.
What was that?
-The spoon.
-The spoon?
-Uh, yes.
I tried the modifier on that.
I'm going to have to go over my calculations again.
It must have weakened the atomic s-structure too much.
This could present a slight problem.
-Slight problem?
What about Jack?
-Well--
-That's going to happen to him to?
-Possibly quite soon.
-Then fix it!
Now!
-We'll need to build another modifier.
-We?
-All right, we're going to have to move it.
Mr. Woods could come back at any minute.
-[laughs]
You keep all that in your locker?
-Yeah.
Why, what do you keep in yours?
-Just pictures.
-Of what?
-So what's happening down there?
Uh, Russ is watching out for Mr. Woods and
Garth's guarding Jack.
So let's do it.
-I need a micro laser projector.
-And a quantum energy field manipulator.
-How'd you guess?
-You almost ready?
-Receiver module.
-That's a reduction inhibitor.
-My mistake.
-Exactly.
Receiver module, Verity.
-Coming up.
-Good that someone knows what they're doing.
-Can we drop it?
Please?
-Fine by me.
-Good!
We need to get out of here.
-That's odd.
-Very odd indeed.
Piece of metal lodged in the gears.
It's quite a tricky job.
-Right.
[tapping]
[whack]
-Karen's just gone and Mr. Woods is in the classroom.
-Good.
[thunderous noise]
-What was that?
-Come on!
-[groans]
-What happened?
-Don't know.
He went all quiet, and the bang!
The door busted open.
-I've got to start putting safety switches on these
things.
-Smart thinking.
Let's find him.
[dials phone]
-Nikki!
Nikki, great.
Look, something really terrible's happened.
And you won't believe me.
Look, I'm at school.
Get here now, OK?
I need your help, sis.
-Jack.
What was that noise?
-Uh, Mr. Woods.
I'm just getting my phone.
-Eh.
Now, you know the school's out of bounds after hours.
And what's that behind your back?
-Nothing.
-Come on.
Come on, what are you hiding?
-Nothing, all right?
MR. WOODS (OFFSCREEN): Jack!
-He doesn't have much time.
Come on.
MR. WOODS (OFFSCREEN): Jack!
Jack.
-Wait.
-Jack?
-We've got to stop him.
-Here.
Jack?
You in there?
-OK, let's go.
And cover your ears.
-Come on, go!
-No!
-Jack.
-I've got to go.
-Don't move!
What's going on?
-They're after me.
-Who?
-I need help.
Something weird's happened.
-What was that noise?
-It's their crazy inventions!
-You're not making sense.
-They've done something to me.
It's--it's not normal.
I--
I go through things.
Look, I'll show you.
-[yelps]
-I did not mean to do that.
I--
I thought it would go right through.
Sorry.
Sir, I can explain.
M-my-- my arm.
See, my hand--
-My office!
Right now!
-Please, you've got to believe me.
It's all that crazy stuff.
Everything's in there.
I'll show you!
Look!
You've got to see if for yourself.
It's full of high tech gadgets, I swear.
Come on.
Wha?
-Mops, buckets, vacuum cleaners-- all very high tech.
-And what happened to the door?
VERITY (OFFSCREEN): Hey, Garth.
-Shouldn't you balance the main spring?
-Done.
-What about the counter weight?
-Yes, Toby, it's reset.
[grinding]
-There.
Don't you love it when everything
fits neatly back together?
-What's going on?
-[sighs]
Hammer's in there with Mom and Dad.
I'm going down big time.
-What did you do?
-Nothing!
I was set up.
-Set up?
By who?
-Don't know.
Just leave me alone.
-Jack!
Talk to me.
-I just need to clear my head.
-If you're in trouble, I want to know.
-It's--
just forget about it, OK?
I can handle this school.
-Jack, all this about being set up, are you sure you're
not imagining things?
-I'm not imagining anything.
-I see you made your deadline, dear.
-Excuse me?
-The school clock-- it's working perfectly.
congratulations.
-Me?
Wha-- that was--
-Well, my lab's safe.
-Yeah?
What about Jack?
-We've got to watch our backs.
-Yeah.
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