The InBESTigators (2019–…): Season 2, Episode 11 - The Case of the Lousy Lunch Orders - full transcript

[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]

[voice over]
The Case of the Lousy Lunch Orders.

At school, I'm one of the sports captains,

so, I have the second most important
job after Mr. McGillick, the Principal.

Don't tell Miss Tan I said that.

Being a sports captain is awesome
and you get to do cool things

like when we helped our P.E. teacher,
Mrs Parides announce some big news.

Alright, listen up people!

-Listen up people!
-We have some exciting news.

Exciting news.

This week we're launching...



-We're launching!
-Kyle!

Kyle! Wait, what?

I've got this bit.

Mrs Parides clearly doesn't
understand how you build hype.

This week we're launching...

The Premier's Healthy Eating Challenge!

No hype.

For the next few weeks,
all the students and all the teachers

will be keeping track of every
meal we eat in these booklets.

The more healthy food we eat,
the more points we get.

So, who's ready to eat some healthy food?!
Woo!

Any other exciting news, Mrs Parides?

We have to pick up litter at lunchtime?

So, I want to see carrots and celery
and apples in those lunchboxes!



[Kyle] Guys!

Who wants a new basketball half court?!

With cushion technology flooring
and a 72-inch backboard?!

Because that's the prize for winning
the Premier's Healthy Eating challenge!

-Who's in?!
-[all clap and cheer]

You're welcome, Mrs Parides.

The half court was a very cool prize.

Dayani, the other sports captain,
said why it was so important.

Our school has great basketball teams but
we don't have great training facilities.

Imagine us being able to practise on
a brand new, state of the art half-court.

Dayani is an amazing basketball player
and wants to go pro when she grows up.

So, getting the half-court would make
a big difference to her team's training.

But there was another
reason why we needed it.

Even if you're not on the basketball team,

you can play on the
half-court before school,

at snack, at lunch,
during maths and reading time...

Not during maths and reading time.

But Miss,
the half-courts from the Premier.

It would be rude
not to use it all the time.

So, who thinks they can eat healthy food
every day of this challenge?

[all] I can!

Everybody was really excited.
Except Ezra, who was a teensy bit worried.

Mrs Parides, we're not talking about
eating healthy food on Fridays, are we?

Why, what happens on Fridays?

It's lunch order day.

Lunch order Day is Ezra's
favourite day of the week.

His Mum makes him eat
healthy food all the time,

but on Fridays he gets
to order whatever he likes.

Which is definitely not healthy.

Ezra, would it kill you
to order a salad roll

instead of a hot dog
in your Friday lunch order?

My usual order is pizza and yes,
it would kill me.

I will probably definitely die.

Ezra takes his pizza lunch
orders very, very seriously.

So does everyone actually.

Which is why Miss Tan stepped in.

Oh, I'm sure everyone can still
have their treat day on Friday,

can't they Mrs Parides?

Mrs Parides takes her healthy
eating challenge very, very seriously.

Miss Tan said that everyone could
still order their lunch orders,

as long as we all tried
really, really hard

to eat lots of healthy food before that.

Which we did. The whole week...

kids ate cucumber
and capsicum with hommus...

and they ate apples
and pears and strawberries...

and they ate wholemeal sandwiches
and celery and avocado dip.

Mrs Parides was really happy,

because all our booklets were
being filled up with healthy food.

By Friday though, everyone was excited
for their treat day lunch order.

Especially Ezra.

But something was wrong.

What is this?

What is this?!

[shouts] What is this?!

That's a salad roll, an apple,
and a carton of milk.

I ordered a pizza and a gummy snake
and a raspberry cordial.

That's funny.
I ordered a pie and a jam doughnut.

And I got a salad roll and an apple.

It wasn't just Ezra and Maudie.

[Kyle] It was everyone with a lunch order.

The schnitzel looks different this week.

What did they do to the schnitzel?

No one had their right order.
Then, Maudie noticed something.

Ezra, look!

Someone's put labels over my order.
"One salad roll". "One apple".

There are labels on mine too!

One for a salad roll, one for an apple,
and one for milk.

Someone had replaced everyone's treat
food orders with healthy food orders.

Ezra was slightly upset.

What happened to my lunch order?!
Ava! Pixie!

You two are the lunch order monitors.
Did you do this?

Why? Did someone pay you? Who?

How much? And I'll double it.

Ezra! Of course, we didn't do this!

I'm as disappointed as you are not
to get my sausage roll and muffin.

Although this carton of milk is completely
adorable and this apple looks delicious.

But we would never do that to everyone!

Sorry, Ava, I'm just hungry.

Then eat your salad roll.

Don't insult me, Maudie.

What happened when you went to collect
the lunch orders this morning, Ava?

Nothing unusual. We took the
lunch order basket to the office

like we always do...

and left it on the little
table in the corridor.

Someone must have put
the labels on after we left.

Wait! I just remembered who
came in as we were leaving...

-Hi Ava, hi Pixie.
-Hi Kyle.

[Ezra] Kyle?

Kyle did this?! Where is he?

Why isn't he collecting his lunch order?

I wasn't collecting my lunch order
because I didn't get a lunch order.

I brought my lunch from home.

You brought your lunch from home?!
On a Friday?

Yeah, I was...

Kyle, how could you do this to us?!

Taking away my pizza on a Friday is like
taking away your legs on a Saturday.

Which is when you play soccer.
And when you really need your legs.

I didn't know what Ezra was talking about.

He really needed to eat something.

Maudie explained what had
happened with the labels.

Wait, you think I put the labels
on everyone's lunch orders?

Well, you did come into
the office this morning

after we had left the lunch order basket.

And you brought your lunch from
home instead of getting a lunch order.

And you really want us to win
the basketball half court.

Everything they said was true.
And it looked bad. So, I said...

I'm the sports captain,
and I really want that half court,

so, I brought my own lunch instead of
getting junk food so I can set an example.

Is that really so hard to believe?

Of course, it was.

[sighs] Fine, I forgot it was Friday.

I was running late, and I didn't remember
not to pack a healthy lunch.

Yeah, that makes sense.

But why didn't you
just write a lunch order

when you saw the basket in the office?

It was right next to the late book.

I didn't see the lunch order basket
and uh oh, I just remembered,

I didn't sign the late book either.

I had gone into sign the late book,
but then I got distracted.

-What distracted you?
-Not what. Who. Dayani.

Dayani the other sports captain,
who desperately wants to win

the healthy eating challenge
to get the half-court Dayani?!

Let me at her!

Please have a bite of your roll Ezra.
What happened, Kyle?

I was about to sign the late book,
but then I saw Dayani was in sick bay.

Are you okay, Dayani?

Yeah, I was just a bit dizzy so
Mr Barker said I should just come

and lie down with my legs elevated
on these pillows for half an hour.

Wait! So, Dayani was alone with the
lunch orders for half an hour?!

Where is she?!

Ezra wait! I'll go after him.

Maudie went with Ezra to find Dayani,

which was just as well because
Ezra was at maximum hangry.

-Dayani! We know what you did!
-What?

Sorry Dayani, what Ezra meant to say is,
are you feeling better?

After being in sick bay this morning?

Oh, yeah... I'm fine. Thank you.

No, thank you.
For literally the worst day of my life!

-Um, what's going on?
-He needs to eat.

Pizza! I need to eat pizza!

Oh, is this about the lunch orders?

Yeah, I had to have
a salad roll and an apple too.

Do you remember how long
you were alone in sick bay?

-Um... maybe thirty-five minutes?
-Thirty-five minutes!

Yeah. I'm not sure,
you can check with Mrs Parides.

Mrs Parides?
What did Mrs Parides have to do with this?

She was with me while I was in sick bay.

I mean, she wasn't actually with me,

but she was outside in the corridor,
talking to me.

What was she doing?

I don't know, she was printing something.

Ezra remembered what Mrs Parides
had said to him in the classroom.

Ezra, would it kill you
to order a salad roll

instead of a hot dog
in your Friday lunch order?

And now we found out that
Mrs Parides was printing something

in the corridor next to the lunch orders.

Printing labels to stick
on lunch orders maybe?

Before Maudie could stop him,
Ezra had bolted to find Mrs Parides.

Well, well, well.

-I expected more of you, Mrs Parides.
-What are you talking about, Ezra?

You were alone in the corridor with
the lunch orders this morning.

Says who?

Dayani.

[scoffs] So? I'm allowed to be alone.
I'm a grownup.

What were you doing at the printer,
Mrs Parides?

What printer?

Mrs Parides was acting like I do,

when my Mum asks
who ate all the chocolate biscuits.

And I pretend I've never
heard of chocolate biscuits.

I think you know what
printer I'm talking about.

The bulky one that always
flashes ERROR 2370.

We know what you did.

I'm sorry! But it's not for me!
It's for my husband's Yaya.

Maudie and Ezra were very confused.

Mrs Parides made everyone eat
salad rolls for her husband's Yaya?

Everything I printed this morning is for
my husband's Yaya's eightieth birthday.

-These are recipes for Greek food.
-I know it looks bad,

all this baklava and
moussaka and treat food,

and you must think I'm letting the
school down by not eating healthily,

-but I have to help cook...
-Wait, what?

I'm not even going to eat this stuff,
I promise!

Mrs Parides had been printing recipes.
Not labels.

So, who had been printing the labels?

Well if it wasn't Mrs Parides
or Dayani or Kyle, then who was it?

Who else wanted the half-court
badly enough to do this

-and ruin our lives forever?
-Ezra, eat your salad roll.

No.

You need to eat.
And even though we've solved the case,

there's no pizza coming so,
you may as well eat that.

I don't want to eat...
what do you mean we've solved the case?

Maudie? Maudie. Oh fine.

Mm... that's actually delicious!

What do you mean we've solved the case?

Ezra was way too hungry
to work out what had happened,

but it was pretty obvious to me.

After Maudie had explained it.

-It was Dayani.
-Dayani?! Are you sure?

No one else wants the
half-court more than Dayani.

I think that when you and Pixie brought

the lunch order basket in,
and left in on the little table,

Dayani had gone to the sick bay
and was waiting for you to drop it off.

so she could stick on all the labels,

which she must have made
at home the night before.

[Maudie] She must have been
putting them on when she heard Kyle,

and quickly hid
the basket under the covers.

They weren't pillows under her legs,
they were lunch orders!

Then, because Mrs Parides was so scared
of anyone seeing what she was printing,

Dayani was able to sneak the lunch order
tub back onto the little table.

I'm feeling better now, Mrs Parides.
I'm going back to class.

Okay Dayani.

That all makes sense Maudie,
but how do we prove it?

Also, does any one have another apple?

Maudie! Get out of the bin!
Ezra's not that desperate.

When Dayani told us she had to
have the salad roll lunch order as well,

she seemed keen to get rid of her bag
and it made me wonder why.

That's because she wrote
the order on herself,

and didn't need to stick labels on top.

[Ava gasps]

Everyone was really mad. Especially me.

Dayani is a sports captain, she should
know that a competition only works

if everyone sticks to the rules.

I was really cross she tricked everyone.

The Healthy Challenge
only means something

if everybody decides
to eat healthy, Dayani!

The points don't mean anything today!
You owe everyone an apology.

And a pizza slice,
a gummy snake and a raspberry cordial.

I'm really sorry. I'm just really
desperate to get that basketball court.

And I'm really desperate to get a
dedicated stationery wing for the school,

but that doesn't mean
I trick my way into getting one.

I know. I'm sorry.

-[whistle blows]
-[Dayani] Oh boy.

I'd better tell Mrs Parides what I did.

Obviously, we felt sorry for Dayani having
to turn herself in but she had no choice.

Just like everyone else had
no choice with their lunch orders.

We didn't win the Premier's challenge.

We had a stack of birthdays
in our class over the next three weeks,

and you cannot win
a healthy eating competition

with five parties at the Pancake Palace.

What? I'm practicing for next year.

[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]

[voice over]
The Case of the Interrupting Intern.

This week the Inbestigators
had some big changes,

and they weren't all good ones and wait,
let me start at the start,

which was on Saturday.

Kyle, Ezra, Maudie and I were
going through Ezra's Dad's books

to find a receipt that
he'd used as a bookmark.

-This is not worth ten bucks.
-That's why he's only giving us five.

I love an activity, but it really was
the most boring activity ever.

Luckily, we were interrupted.

[front door squeaks open]

Hi! I'm Elijah, I live around the corner.

This is the
Inbestigators Detective Agency, right?

-Yes!
-Thank goodness.

Do you have a crime
you'd like us to solve?

Actually, I'd like to solve some crime.
I was wondering if you have any jobs.

-You want to work here?
-Yeah! You guys are legends!

That's what I like to hear!

Ledge-onds!

-We don't really have any jobs for you.
-I can do literally anything.

And that's when Ezra
had a really clever idea.

-Do you want to find a receipt for us?
-Yeah, okay!

Congratulations. You can be our intern.

That's someone who
works without getting paid.

So... we're all interns?

Elijah started looking for the receipt,
so, we didn't have to,

and that was when our friend
Amelia burst through the door.

[front door opens quickly]

-Somebody stole my bike!
-What?!

Somebody stole my bike!

I didn't mean 'what' like I didn't
hear you, I meant 'what' like what?!

Can you please, please,
please help me find it?

-Of course, we will!
-Are you sure it was stolen?

Um, yes, because I always leave it at
the side of my house and it's gone.

Okay, we'll come to your
house and check it out.

Can I come too?
I'd love to see you guys solve a case.

The whole world can come,
just find my bike!

So, we went to find Amelia's bike.

Well?

So, this is where you left it?

-And you didn't...
-And what sort...

Sorry Maudie, I was just going to ask,
what sort of bike is it?

-A purple mountain bike.
-And you don't lock it up?

-[Amelia] No.
-Oh, Amelia!

If you don't lock something up,
it will get stolen.

That's what happened to my skateboard,
my basketball, my cricket pads,

-my roller skates...
-None of that stuff got stolen.

-You lost it all.
-Sh!

You never know when
my mum could be listening.

Yep! All that stuff got stolen,

and so did the jumper
aunty Laura got me for Christmas!

We couldn't find any trace of the bike but
I knew Maudie would know what to do next.

Let's go see the neighbours',
in case they have the bike.

-Kyle and Ezra, you cross...
-[Elijah] Guys?

This might be nothing,
but are these track marks?

I'm not sure but see here...?

Yeah, they do look like track marks.

And look at these grooves.

They match the wheels on
a mountain bike like yours, Amelia.

Fresh track marks that matched
the wheels of the missing bike?

Elijah had found the perfect clue.

-That's amazing!
-Aw, sick!

-Not bad for an intern!
-Wow, you found that really fast.

Well, once Amelia said it was a mountain
bike, I knew it would leave a trail.

Oh. Yeah, of course. Good job!

-So, where's my bike?
-Well, should we follow this track?

-Yeah!
-Other way, Kyle!

We followed the tracks which went all the
way down the street and around the corner.

Maybe whoever lives here
knows something about the bike.

-Does anyone know...
-[bike bell rings]

My bike! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

-Elijah you are incredible!
-How did you find it?

Well, I knew that if someone stole a bike,
they'd want to hide it.

Wow. That is very clever.

And, I noticed some of those
branches were broken.

They are too! Oh my gosh!

So, I went behind and there it was!

That. Is. Sick.

Everyone was so impressed
with Elijah's detective skills.

Except Maudie.
She was the opposite of impressed.

I'm just unimpressed by all this.

We don't know who lives here, or why they
took the bike... it's really weird, right?

Well that's Amelia's bike, isn't it?
Elijah found it and that's what counts!

Go Elijah!

Even though we had found the bike,
there were still a lot of questions.

Does that mean whoever lives here
took the bike? What do you think?

-Well...
-Elijah?

I'm gonna go knock on that
door and confront them.

Oh, Elijah, we don't go around accusing
people of anything without proof.

[knocks on front door]

Elijah was one step ahead of us.

-[Ava] That's Dana!
-Who's Dana?

She works at the Bunbelievable Bakery.

Oh, wow. She's the one that makes
those coconut finger buns.

She spreads the icing so evenly,
which is actually really important.

This must be a mix-up! Dana's way too nice
she would never steal somebody's bike.

I'm really sorry Amelia!
I promise I won't do it again!

I take that back.

Amelia accepted Dana's apology and she
was really excited to have her bike back.

Thanks again guys!

This doesn't feel right.
Don't you think...

You were really,
really great today, Elijah!

-Everything you did was so clever.
-You were just like Maudie.

-Except obviously way faster.
-And you noticed really tiny things.

And also,
you have really good people skills.

-And I love your jacket.
-You're like Maudie 2.0.

[laughter]

We were all so excited by Elijah
being such a natural-born detective,

that none of us realised
Maudie was getting very cross.

I don't want to break up the fun but
I think we should talk to Dana again.

Um... Elijah,
should we go back to talk to Dana?

Sure, I guess we can... although,
Amelia just gave me this as payment.

I thought we could go
get some ice cream with it.

Actually, that's Inbestigators money,

and normally we have to save that for
boring stuff Ezra says we need to buy.

-That's true.
-Okay, I get it.

It's just... there's a special
new fruity tootie flavour,

and we have enough money to all get some.

-Well in that case.
-Yes!

See, this is why we needed an intern.

Kyle had given me the best idea.

Oh, my goodness, Elijah,
you shouldn't just be an intern,

you should work for
the Inbestigators full time!

Yeah! We couldn't have
found the bike without you.

-Yes, yes, yes! Give me an E...
-Hang on,

we haven't talked about this as a group.

-Yes, we have, right now. He's joining.
-It'll be fun, Maudie!

-[Kyle] Woohoo!
-Fine.

I have some things to do.
Enjoy tootie fruity.

Maudie, wait!

It's actually fruity tootie.

We all went to get ice cream,
and I wished Maudie had been there,

because the fruity tootie was delicious.

The next day was Elijah's first day
working for the Inbestigators,

and we were still looking for
the receipt when we got a delivery.

[noise at front door]

Is that a letter?

Maybe your postman
couldn't find your letterbox.

"To the Inbestigators Detective Agency."

It's fan mail! I am so ready for this,
I've been practising my autograph.

-It's from Maudie.
-Why is Maudie writing us fan mail?

She wasn't writing us fan mail.

I hereby announce my resignation effective
immediately. Sincerely, Maudie Miller.

-She's quitting!
-[Ava] What?!

How could she? Why would she?
Oh, I miss her so much.

-Why is she quitting?!
-I don't know!

Is it really that big of a deal?
I mean, you still have four people.

Of course, it's a big deal!
Maudie is the Inbestigators.

She solves every case.

Well not every case.
She didn't solve yesterday's.

Do you think this is about yesterday?

She was upset she didn't
find Amelia's bike herself?

That's bananas. If I quit every time
I didn't solve a case I would have quit...

Every day for a year.

Exactly. Come on, let's go talk to her.

We knew Maudie couldn't have gone far.

She'd just put the letter
underneath the door,

and also, she's little and little legs
mean you won't walk as fast.

[Ava] Maudie!

-What's going on?
-Please come back!

It's okay you didn't crack the case.

I feel like we have a lot more
in common with you now.

Actually, it's good you're all here,
I have some stuff to give you.

Kyle, this is the footy card you gave
me of your favourite player.

Ava, here's the hair-tie you gave me
just in case my hair ever grew.

It didn't. Well it did,
but my Dad kept cutting it.

Ezra, this is my
Inbestigators business card.

You can probably keep that actually Maudie
I got 5000 printed.

No, sorry, I get what you're doing.

Maudie was really leaving
The Inbestigators.

None of us could believe it.

Is this about how you didn't
solve the case yesterday?

No, it's about how yesterday
you replaced me with Elijah.

-We didn't replace you!
-We just let him join as well.

You listened to everything
he said and not a word I said,

and also, you called him Maudie 2.0.

If something is 2.0,
it means it's replaced 1.0.

That is not what 2.0 means.

Okay, I looked it up and that
is exactly what 2.0 means.

Oh, and by the way,
I did solve the case yesterday.

-Sure you did, buddy.
-No, I did!

I solved the case of how
Elijah tricked you guys.

-What?
-Um... what?

Yesterday while you were all
enjoying fruity tootie, and by the way,

who would ever get fruit ice cream
when chocolate exists,

I went back to talk to Dana.

Because we were all at
ice cream and you felt lonely?

No! Because I wanted to ask her...

What exactly did Elijah say to you before?

Oh, that was so weird.

He said I bumped into that girl Amelia
walking out of the bakery last week,

and she's been really upset about it.

Who gets upset about that?

And he asked you to apologise?

Yeah. It was really random!

-So, he didn't mention a bike?
-A bike? No.

So, Elijah didn't mention a bike
to Dana... he just... wait, what?

Elijah had some serious explaining to do.

And by that, I mean Maudie had
some serious explaining to do

about what Elijah had done.

You made it look like Dana took
Amelia's bike, but really it was you.

[Maudie] You got Amelia's bike...

and used it to make track marks on the
nature strip that led to Dana's house,

where you hid the bike behind a bush.

And the ten dollars was your own money.

Amelia never gave you any payment.

I should have known that.
Amelia never has any money.

Come on!
I just wanted to be in the Inbestigators!

Time for you to hop on your bike, Elijah.
And not a stolen one!

Elijah had completely tricked us.
We felt really stupid.

And then we felt really terrible,
that we had accidentally replaced Maudie.

Sorry Maudie. Do you forgive us?

Please forgive us!
I'm going to do a handstand until you do.

Ow!

[Ava] Maudie we are so, so sorry.

You're the heart and soul
of the Inbestigators.

Just please come back.

-Okay. I unquit.
-Fine, then I quit too!

I said I unquit, Kyle. I'm coming back.

Okay, now that we've lost our intern,

who's going to look
for Ezra's dad's receipt?

Because I'm not doing that again.

And he didn't have to.

Because Ezra's dad found the receipt
in a drawer and he didn't pay us anything.

I was so glad that Maudie had unquit,

and now the original
Inbestigators were back together,

and so today I made
Maudie a scrapbook to prove it.

"The Inbestigators Scrapbook
for the one and only Maudie Miller."

If you're the one and only,
then you can never be replaced.

[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]