The InBESTigators (2019–…): Season 2, Episode 13 - The Case of the Freaky Frequency - full transcript

[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]

[voice over]
The Case of the Freaky Frequency.

[beep]

This video entry of
The Inbestigators comes with a warning,

you need to concentrate.

Ezra, you can't talk to the
people watching like that!

I'm not talking to them.
I'm talking to you!

Why do I need to concentrate?

Because it's bit of a complicated story,
remember?

Yes.

No. Fine, I'll concentrate.



So, last Saturday, my Mum went to pick
up our car from the repairs shop.

My Mum and Dad share a car so,
it's been tricky without it,

and she was so excited to get it back,
that she gave me, Kyle, Ava and Maudie

money to go the ice-cream shop.

The shop gets really busy,
so, we were hurrying to get there early.

but someone was in our way.

Inbestigators!

It was Mrs Maniaci, my neighbour.

She looked like she had
important agency business.

My doorbell is broken!

-She didn't.
-She really didn't.

All she had was a broken doorbell,
she made us all go look at it.

Look, see? My new electric doorbell.

No sound. It's broken!



Yes, we see, that's definitely broken.
Okay, bye.

Oh, please, I need your help.

I really wanted to get ice-cream,

but it's hard to not stop when an
old lady tells you she needs your help.

So, Monday evening, the bell rings,
ding dong, I go to the door,

and no one's there.

Five minutes later the bell rings again,

ding dong, I go to the door,
and no one's there.

Ten minutes later, the bell rings again,

ding dong, I go to the door
and guess what?

-No one's there?
-No one's there.

Mm?

Maudie and I knew what was must
have happened on Monday night.

Kids were pranking you, Mrs Maniaci!

They were running up
and pressing the doorbell,

and then running away before you answered.

I'm in the middle of my story.

Oh, sorry, go on!

Fifteen minutes later the bell rings
again, but this time, just a ding.

No dong?

No dong. Just a ding.

Ooh, twist!

The doorbell must have got stuck
on the push in which is the ding.

And because it's stuck,
it's affecting the transmitter signal,

which is why there's no sound.

So now I have no ding and no dong.
Since Monday, no doorbell.

[Kyle] I don't want to be rude,

but this was the most boring
conversation I had ever been part of,

which is saying something because
I've had a lot of conversations with Ezra.

I had to find a polite way to ask
Mrs Maniaci to get to the point.

Oh, Mrs Maniaci, get to the point!

I didn't say I found one.

Kyle, that is so rude!

Poor Mrs Maniaci is telling
us that kids were pranking her,

and she wants us to find them!

That's not what I'm telling you.

Oh.

Kids will be kids. I don't care.

Then how do you want us to help?

I want you to fix my doorbell!

All of that for 'fix my doorbell'?

I'm really sorry Mrs Maniaci,
but we solve mysteries not doorbells.

What about Ezra? He's very good
with the gadgets and the technology.

I am very good with the gadgets
and the technology but...

But we were supposed to be eating
ice-cream not fixing broken doorbells.

I knew Ezra found it hard to say
no so I jumped in to save him.

Oh boy, Mrs Maniaci, you do not want
to have Ezra fixing your doorbell.

He tried to fix my doorbell
and my door fell off and the rain got in,

and my whole house flooded
and we had to move.

You're welcome.

Mrs Maniaci looked sad, so I said,

We're on our way somewhere right now,

but what if I come back later
and have a look at your doorbell?

Mrs Maniaci said she could wait so...

finally, we got to the ice-cream shop.

Lots of Mums and Dads drive their
kids to get ice-cream on Saturdays,

so, we were worried that there
would be big queues by now.

But when we got there...

Where is everyone?

There was no-one there.

-And the person who runs the shop.
-Whose name is Cole.

Looked very unhappy.

Hi Cole!

Oh... hey Ava.

Why is it so empty in here?

That's why.

[Cole]
See that woman getting out of her car?

She's one of my regular customers.

[Kyle] I don't get it.

What's one of your customers
locking her car,

got to do with no one being in the shop?

A customer not locking her car you mean.

Look, the blinker lights aren't coming on.

Ooh, she can't lock her car!

-She's leaving!
-[Cole] Yeah. And it's not just her.

It's happening to everybody.

Nobody's electronic car keys
are working around here.

-What do you mean?
-It's been happening since Monday night.

When people press their buttons
their car doors won't lock.

-That is weird.
-Super weird.

Yeah. And super bad for business.

All my customers are worried their cars
will get stolen so they're leaving.

[Kyle] Poor Cole.

We all felt terrible that
he lost all his customers.

Yes! More ice-cream for me!

Oh no, that's right, we felt great!

You felt great. The rest of us felt bad.

Oh Cole, that's awful!

I just can't understand what's going on.

Why are all the
car key remotes not working?

Oh, there's a really
simple explanation for that.

-Something is...
-Everyone's batteries ran out

-at exactly the same time!
-That's impossible.

Yeah, it's not that, something is...

Robbers broke into everyone's
houses and stolen the batteries.

Why would they steal the batteries
and not the car keys?

No, like I said, it's really simple,
something...

Aliens have broken into the neighbourhood!

Kyle! Stop interrupting
with your silly explanations!

Ezra said it's actually really simple.
Go on Ezra.

The car keys aren't working because
something is blocking the frequency.

Ezra's idea of 'really simple'
is very different to mine.

You said aliens had taken over.

To be fair to Kyle,
he wasn't the only one who was confused.

Could you um, repeat that please Ezra?

Something must be blocking
the frequency which the car keys use.

Right, that makes sense.

I guess the only part I don't understand
is everything you just said.

So, everything that's wireless,

everything that sends out messages,
like radio and the internet and...

Mrs Maniaci's doorbell?

Exactly! Everything uses frequencies.

Oh, got it! Oh, except for one thing.
What are frequencies?

They're like invisible roads
in the air that signals travel on.

So, if Ava is the car remote key,
and Kyle is the car door lock...

and they're on the same frequency...

-Yes!
-But, no radio, or internet,

or doorbells or anything else
can be on that same frequency.

No.

'Cause then the car key wouldn't
be able to send the invisible signal

to the car lock.

That's right!

So, something must be using
that same frequency, right now,

which is why nobody's
car keys are working.

I did it. I taught Kyle something!

You really did. I understood science.

For a minute.

And I know what is using
the car key frequency!

What?

Aliens!

Almost a minute.

It could have been aliens.

It couldn't have been aliens.
Like I told you in the shop.

It's probably something
like a phone tower,

that connects all our phones,

which is broken and sending
out a faulty signal,

and ending up on the car keys frequency.

Aren't there mobile phone towers
up the road next to the library?

Maybe we should take a look.

[Ava] Yes! Let's go!

But if we go,
Cole will have no customers at all!

And that would be terrible for Cole!

-Are you really thinking about Cole?
-Yes.

No. I wasn't. But I was so hungry
for some delicious ice-cream.

Luckily,
Cole insisted we take some with us.

Unluckily, we bumped into Mrs Maniaci.

[Mrs Maniaci] Ezra!

Are you going to come and
look at my doorbell now?

I can't right now, Mrs Maniaci.

Cole needs our help.

Nobody's car keys are working,
so, Cole has no customers.

My doorbell isn't working so,
I have no customers.

But you don't have a shop.

Oh.

I promise I'll come as soon as I can.

Okay.

I knew our priority was to help Cole,

but I felt bad that Mrs Maniaci
was so worried about her doorbell.

Old people always get upset
when stuff doesn't work.

Like my Nanna when the remote
control doesn't work for the TV.

Except that it's never
the remote control's fault.

It's always my Nanna's because
she really cannot work that remote.

We walked towards the library,

where the mobile phone towers are
when Maudie saw something weird.

[beep]

Guys, look!

[beep, beep]

[Ava] Her car locked!

-Someone's fixed the problem!
-[man groans]

No, they haven't. See?

So, the car keys frequency
is working here but not there.

How do we know where it stops
and where it starts?

Maybe it's not just in this street.

Ava, do you think the library might
have a map of the neighbourhood?

Ava ran into the library
and ran out with a map,

and three books she'd
been wanting to borrow.

I had these on reserve.

Ava is an excellent multitasker.

I got a red marker and a green marker
from the two-dollar shop,

and we set off to explore
the neighbourhood.

[beep, beep]

[beep]

We walked all around and made
a note of every car key that worked,

and every one that didn't.
And then a pattern started to form.

The red crosses show
where the car keys worked,

and the green crosses
show where they didn't.

Wouldn't it have been better to use green
for working and red for not working?

You know, because green means
go and red means stop.

Does it matter?

No. It's just a bit confusing, that's all.

Anyway, what do we have when
we join up all the green crosses?

What were the green ones again?

-Where the car keys didn't work.
-Yeah, I think Maudie's right.

It is a bit confusing.

What wasn't confusing was what
happened when you joined them all up.

[gasps] A pancake!

I would have said a circle,
but close enough.

So, the thing that's blocking
the frequency would be right in the

-middle.
-middle.

Ezra, your street is in
the middle of that circle.

It is too!

There's my house.
But that makes no sense.

We haven't had any problems
with our car keys.

That's because your car's been
at the repairs shop all week

[Ezra and Maudie] Oh...

Of course, we didn't have
a problem with car keys.

-We hadn't used our car keys!
-Everything suddenly started making sense.

For the others, not for me.

Wait, whatever is blocking the frequency
is coming from your house?

It's not coming from Ezra's house.

Oh boy. How could we not see that?

Oh! They both started happening
on Monday night, of course!

I had no idea what
they were talking about.

I felt just like my Nanna when I try
to explain how the TV remote works,

and she says,
'Slow down, Kyle! I don't understand!'

Slow down Kyle, I mean, you guys,
I don't understand!

Where is the faulty signal coming from?

And if you say 'aliens', I'm going
to be like, 'I said that ages ago'.

[Ezra, Maudie, Ava]
Mrs Maniaci's doorbell!

Oh. Yeah, that makes sense.

We'd been so busy thinking about big
things like phone towers or radio stations

that we hadn't thought a broken
doorbell sending out a faulty signal,

could be on the wrong frequency.

So, when your doorbell got stuck it
started sending out a faulty signal which-

What faulty signal?
I thought there was no signal.

There's no ding, no dong.

Yes, but even though
there wasn't any sound,

it was still sending out an invisible,

silent message which got
muddled with all the car keys,

and stopped them from working.

Anyway, the point is Mrs Maniaci,
it's a happy ending.

Well, hopefully a happy ending.

Because no pressure Ezra, but you're
not just fixing a broken doorbell,

you are fixing a broken ice-cream shop
and in fact, a whole broken community.

That's actually a lot of pressure,
isn't it? Sorry.

I really wanted to be able to fix it.

For Mrs Maniaci, for Cole,
for everyone who couldn't lock their cars.

But also, for me.

Maudie is always so brilliant
at solving every case,

I really wanted to be
able to solve this one.

But Ezra couldn't fix the doorbell.

Kidding!

[ding dong]

[all cheer]

He totally fixed the doorbell!
He was amazing!

Cole thought so too.

[beep beep]

[Kyle] He was so excited that Ezra had
got everyone's car keys working again,

and people started coming
into the shop again.

He said we could have free
ice-cream for the rest of our lives!

-It was only for that one afternoon.
-Drats.

Move out of the way,
you're on my frequency.

I, I taught Kyle something!

[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]

[voice over]
The Case of the Tricky Trimathlon.

Last Monday, something very
exciting happened to Ezra.

-He got an erasable pen!
-That's not what I was going to say.

Maudie.

Getting an erasable pen,

is literally the most exciting
thing that can happen to you!

So, look, I can write Ezra
and then rub it out like this.

My cousins got those pens!

When you rub the paper,
the friction creates heat,

and the heat makes the ink disappear!

Woh. I didn't understand what you
just said but it sounded amazing.

Okay Ava, you're right,
getting an erasable pen is exciting.

Thank you.

But the exciting thing I was talking
about was why Ezra was with

Kyle, James, Ruby, Amelia and Diet
at lunchtime waiting for Miss Tan.

[classroom door slides closed]

Sorry everyone,

Mr McGillick was hogging
the microwave again!

Don't repeat that please.

Thank you so much for signing
up to compete in the Trimathlon.

The Trimathlon is a maths
competition on the internet.

Where you compete against
other schools on your tablets.

And if you love maths like Ezra,
it's the best thing ever.

Yes! I can't believe we're getting
to be in the Trimathlon.

Triathlon. There's no M.

Kyle, there's definitely an M.
We've signed up for Trimathlon.

And if you don't love maths like Ezra,
it's the worst thing ever.

I thought this was for the triathlon
where you swim, run, cycle...

Why would I be signing up for a triathlon?

Why would I be signing
up for a trimathlon?

Oh boy, I can't believe
I wasted ten minutes of soccer.

Kyle was desperate to get out to the oval.

But Miss Tan said,

Kyle, wait!

The thing is,
you signed up for the Trimathlon,

so, I registered you
to compete in the first round.

What?!

Miss Tan probably could have
replaced Kyle with someone else,

but she really wanted him to have a go.

And she wanted him to have a go with Ezra.

[Kyle/Ezra] What?!

You heard me.

You're competing
in the first round with Ezra.

Which Ezra? Me Ezra? No!

Yes!

And Ruby you're with James,
and Amelia is with Diet.

In the first round of the Trimathlon,

the three pairs from our school
compete against each other,

and then one pair gets eliminated.

James, Ruby, Amelia and Diet
are all really good at maths.

And Kyle is not known for being
good at maths, so Ezra said,

Can't I go with one of the others?

No, you can't!

But Miss Tan,

the Trimathlon rules are
that you have to take turns

with your partner to answer questions.

I know the rules, Ezra.

[Ezra/Kyle] Miss, this is so unfair!

Miss Tan had made up her mind.

But Miss!

You have two days
before the first two rounds,

so, stop arguing and start studying.
Alright, Ezra?

And Kyle?

Give me back my lunch.

After lunch, Miss Tan said that

all the Trimathlon kids could have
an hour to go study together.

"Matthew buys six donuts
for thirty-six dollars."

Where from?

Uh, what?

Where's Matthew buying the donuts from?

-I don't know.
-Thirty-six

dollars is a lot to pay for donuts.
What are the fillings?

Kyle! It's a made-up question.

Can you just concentrate?

Well not now I can't.
Now I'm hungry for donuts.

[James] Good luck in round one.

[James chuckles]

-James was really mean.
-And Ezra was really frustrated.

But by the next morning,
he had a come up with a plan.

-[chatter indistinctly]
-[school bell chimes]

I'm going to say
Kyle's got glandular fever,

and he can't come
to school for three months.

A terrible plan.

Ezra, Miss Tan obviously
thinks that Kyle is capable

of answering questions in the Trimathlon.

Kyle just gets distracted.
You need to help him focus.

Ooh! I know!
Why don't you make a cheat sheet?

A cheat sheet?

A cheat sheet is a guide you're
allowed to have in the Trimathlon.

It's a reminder of the formulas
and rules that you might need.

Ezra had never thought of a cheat sheet,

because Ezra had
never needed a cheat sheet.

So, at snack time,
Ezra sat down with Kyle and made one.

So, when you get a fractions question,

look at this fraction box
to help you figure it out.

Wait, that should be a C not an A.

[Ava] Ezra was using his new erasable pen,

so, he could rub out his mistakes,
not cross them out,

so, everything was super clear for Kyle.

But Kyle didn't appreciate it.

Okay, so you've got long division,
decimals, measurement...

Ezra, this is so boring!
I don't want to use the dumb cheat sheet.

Thanks a lot Kyle!

Imagine if I was on your football team
but I refused to study the playbook.

We may as well just
forfeit the Trimathlon.

Kyle had no idea how upset Ezra was

until Ezra put it in sports
language that Kyle understood.

Sorry Ezra.

I've been a terrible team player.

I'll practise with the cheat sheet tonight
and be ready for the Trimathlon tomorrow.

Thank you, Kyle.

I just have one question before then.
Where is the cheat sheet?

Thank you.

Kyle actually practised with
the cheat sheet that night,

so, he did know how to use it.

But when Round One happened
first thing on Thursday morning,

Kyle looked very nervous.

-[Ezra] Are you okay?
-Yep.

Except I've got a headache, my vision
is blurry and I can't feel my feet.

-Kyle! We're going to be fine.
-[bell chimes]

A bell rang out on all the tablets,
the Trimathlon had started,

and everyone got the same question.

Ezra went first on their team.

"What is the next number in this pattern?

630, 760, 890."

That's a difference of 130,

so, the next number is 890 + 130...

One thousand and twenty.

Ezra got the first question right!

But then it was Kyle's turn.

"What is ten percent
of five hundred and seventy?"

Um...

We were thinking, look at the cheat sheet,
look at the cheat sheet!

[clock ticks loudly]

Wait...

five hundred and seventy divided by ten...

Fifty-seven!

Yes!

He looked at the cheat sheet!

Kyle and Ezra didn't get a single
answer wrong the whole way through.

But neither did James and Ruby
or Amelia and Diet.

So, whoever solved
the last question the fastest,

and the second fastest
went through to the next round.

And the final question was Kyle's.

[Kyle] "What's 27 minus 4 x 3?"

"Multiplication before subtraction..."

So, 27 minus 12...

27 minus 12...

Fifteen!

Yes!

Ezra and Kyle came second!

They were through to the next
round later in the afternoon!

Everyone was very surprised,
but not as surprised as Kyle.

We did it!

Kyle, you were awesome!

The cheat sheet was awesome.
Thank you, Ezra.

Well done boys!

Miss Tan was super proud of Ezra and Kyle.

She told them and Ruby and James to
go study for Round Two in the afternoon.

But first Ruby and James wanted
to discuss something with Miss Tan.

It's unfair that Kyle
was using a cheat sheet.

You can use a cheat sheet too.

-Maybe we should!
-No! We don't need one!

Nobody should need one.

I hope you're not being
a sore winner, James.

James was being a sore winner.

He was worried because Kyle had proved
he was actually very good at maths.

We absolutely have to beat Kyle
and Ezra this afternoon, okay Ruby?

-I think if we made a cheat sheet...
-No way! No cheat sheets!

We felt sorry for Ruby
having to study with James,

when he was in such a grumpy mood.

Especially when Ezra and Kyle
were feeling the opposite of grumpy.

[Kyle and Ezra chuckle]

[Maudie] They spent the morning
revising and doing practice quizzes,

and they were really enjoying themselves.

Can you guys be quiet?!
You're making Ruby get the answers wrong!

James was stressing Ruby out so much
that when the bell went for lunch,

she stayed back to study.

[lunch bell chimes]

Aren't you coming to lunch, Ruby?

I just want to go over my
decimals to fractions again.

Ezra and Kyle told
us how Ruby was feeling,

so, we went to visit
her in the study centre.

But she wasn't at the desk.

Ruby!

She was at the photocopier.

Ezra and Kyle told us that James
was being a bit mean. Are you okay?

You guys are so nice. I'm just
copying some stuff that will help me.

That's a lot of copies.

Yeah, um, hey, I'm starving,
can you please get my lunchbox?

Oh, my goodness of course!
You have to eat before Round Two!

By the time we got Ruby's lunchbox
from her bag and brought it over,

it was actually the end of lunch.

Here you are, Ruby!

Miss Tan said we should
go back to class now.

Round Two starts in 20 minutes.

Come on Ruby. Let's go.

Okay, who's been playing
with the photocopier?

Did one of you photocopy 100
pieces of blank paper?

-Blank paper?
-[Mr Barker] Yes.

And this is pre-set to 100 so someone's
been fiddling with the buttons.

-Ruby, were you the last person to...
-Maudie!

We don't have time to talk about the
photocopier! Ezra, Kyle, get your things!

-Everyone was pumped for Round Two.
-Especially Ava.

And lastly, let's remember that no matter
what happens we'll always have Round Two!

Okay! Thanks Ava.
Trimathletes, come and take your seats!

I'll just get my cheat sheet...

-Kyle's cheat sheet was not a cheat sheet.
-It was a blank piece of paper.

Kyle! Where's your cheat sheet?!

I don't know, it was in my work book!

-Are you sure you put it there?
-I'm positive!

-You must have dropped it again!
-[Maudie] Wait!

Let me see that piece of paper.

Maudie took the blank
piece of paper from Kyle.

Kyle, this is your cheat sheet!

Look, you can see the indents
of all of Ezra's writing on the page.

Ezra had written the cheat sheet
with his erasable pen.

And now someone had erased it.

Your cheat sheet has been erased?

And I know who erased it. James!

You didn't want me to have a cheat sheet,

so, you used Ezra's pen
to rub it out at lunchtime!

I was playing soccer
with you at lunchtime!

And also,
my erasable pen was in my pocket.

You must have left it somewhere hot!
Heat makes the ink disappear.

-I didn't leave it somewhere hot!
-No, but Ruby did.

We were like, Ruby did what?!

I'm so sorry Kyle, I didn't mean
to erase it, I meant to...

Photocopy it.

We were still like, what?!

Ruby was under such pressure
from James to beat Ezra and Kyle,

so, when everyone went to lunch,

Ruby decided to photocopy
Kyle's cheat sheet.

You didn't have to sneak it from me Ruby,
I would have let you use it.

But James didn't want he
to use a cheat sheet at all,

so, she was trying to do it secretly.

By the way James, that's appalling,
you are not the boss. Go on Maudie.

When we saw her...

[Ava] Ruby!

[Maudie] ...she panicked and accidentally
hit the preset button for 100.

Which is why Mr Barker found
100 blank copies in the tray.

Blank copies? Why were they blank?

I must have hit another wrong button.

No, they were blank because...

You were photocopying a blank page!

The heat from the photocopier
erased the cheat sheet!

Oh. My. Goodness.

I'm so sorry, Kyle. When I saw
the copies were blank, I just gave up,

and I slipped the sheet
back into your workbook,

and it was face down,

so, I honestly had no idea
what I'd done until now.

Can I help you write it out again?

Oh, I don't think so.
The Trimathlon starts in two minutes.

I'm sorry boys,
you have to take your seats.

Ezra looked so disappointed.

He thought he and Kyle didn't stand
a chance without the cheat sheet.

And Kyle looked so upset that
Ezra looked so disappointed.

The Trimathlon started and then,
the most amazing thing happened.

"What is the missing number?
Six times something = 3 x 10."

Three times ten is thirty, so six times...

Five.

Kyle answered the questions
correctly without the cheat sheet!

He was so worried about letting Ezra down,

that he concentrated really hard

and answered a whole
lot of the questions right.

He answered a few of them wrong as well,
but not as many as James.

James answered nearly everything wrong.

I think he felt bad about
being a grumpy bossy boots,

and couldn't concentrate at all.

So, Kyle and Ezra won!

-[Kyle/Ezra] Yes!
-[all cheer]

Miss Tan was so proud that Kyle had proved
to himself that he is good at maths.

She told Ezra and Kyle that when
they compete in Round Three,

Kyle wouldn't even need a cheat sheet.

-He will need a cheat sheet.
-Totally needs a cheat sheet.

Oh! I almost forgot!

I put Kyle's rubbed out
cheat sheet in the freezer.

What?

Well, I thought if heat
makes erasable pen disappear,

does being very cold make it reappear?

And I was right!

Maudie that is so clever,

and you're amazing but maybe we should
let Ezra make another one in normal pen.

Yeah. Maybe we should.

[Maudie giggles]

[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]