The InBESTigators (2019–…): Season 2, Episode 15 - The Case of the Burgled Bags - full transcript

[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]

[voice over]
The Case of the Burgled Bags.

Hello and welcome to this week's case
report which all started last Monday...

Wait Ezra,
that's the second part of the story.

We have to say the
first part of the story.

-What do you mean?
-What happened five years ago.

[clears throat] When I first started
school, I didn't like it.

He really didn't like it.

[Ezra]
He didn't talk to anyone for two weeks.

-I didn't want to come to school at all.
-That is so hard to imagine.

I know right?
No one loves school more than Kyle.



-Guys, please.
-Why can't we tell the story as well?

Yeah, why can't we?
You have all these cameras filming us.

But I have to edit it all
and it takes ages.

Ooh, wait,
I've an idea so you don't have to edit.

Don't go anywhere.

There! Now, where were we?

Over the other side of the table,
where it was a lot less squishy.

Sh, Ezra, this is fun.
Kyle, go on with telling the story.

I forgot what the story was.

You were saying how you didn't like school
because you'd just moved from the country,

'cause your Dad got a job and you'd
never been to the city before,

and you didn't know anyone.

-I hadn't said that yet.
-Just helping you out.

Thank you. So, I first started school,



and I was scared.

[Ava] Poor little Kyle.

I should have organised a
Welcome-to-your-new-awesome-school-party.

-You were five.
-What's your point?

I probably wouldn't have gone anyway.
I was scared of you too.

Of me? Why?!

My name's Ava and you're in my class,

and when's your birthday? And
what's your favourite colour?

Because I'm making a chart.

Okay, I get that.

The point is for two weeks
I cried when I came to school.

-What made you stop crying?
-Gary.

Oh!

[Kyle]
Gary is our crossing guard/lollipop man,

and he has been helping kids cross
the road for about a billion years.

-I don't think it's a billion.
-Shh!

[Kyle] So one morning my Mum was trying
to get me to cross the road

to go to school with
Gary and all the other kids,

and I really didn't want to,

and then I noticed that
Gary had something in his pocket.

It was a baby chicken!

Gary had a chick in his pocket?!

Yes!
Just like the ones we had in the country

It's name was Ivan.

It was the coolest thing ever.
Gary brought him over to me and said,

He lost his Mum so I'm taking very special
care of him until he gets a bit bigger.

How about you go across
the road with the other kids,

and I'll let you have a little hold?

[Maudie] And you crossed the road?

Yep, and after that,
I didn't mind going to school,

because every day
I got to see Gary and Ivan.

What happened to Ivan?

so now he stays at home with Mrs...
Gary and all their other rescue animals.

And instead he brings Barney.

Barney doesn't sit in Gary's pocket,

because Barney is a dog, not a chick.

And Gary would need an
enormous pocket for him to fit in.

Instead Barney greets the kids
coming into school every day.

Literally greets us,
Barney really likes shaking hands.

-[Maudie] And he even says hello to us.
-Hi Barney!

[Barney barks]

Barney can lie down,
roll over, spin and dance,

especially if you give
him some of your lunch.

because he's a greedy guts for food,
especially sandwiches.

Barney knows lots of tricks,
because he's an ex-police sniffer dog.

that Gary adopted when
he retired from the police.

When Barney retired, not Gary.
Gary was never in the police.

-Everyone loves Barney.
-So, when it was his birthday,

three weeks ago, I organised all the
kids to buy him a new stretchy lead.

The cool kind that goes
in and out so the dog can run.

Which Gary said he wouldn't
have had the money for himself.

[Kyle] Because he and Mrs Gary
have a lot of animals to look after.

So, he was really happy.

And I was really happy to see Gary happy.

Which finally brings
us to our actual case.

Which happened on Monday.

School had just started,

and Miss Tan was putting us in
our new table groups for the week.

And Kyle, you can go with oh...
looks like we have an odd number now.

That's okay Miss, I don't have to
work this week, I'll just play outside.

Thanks for the suggestion Kyle, but...

[Sadie yells] My bag has been stolen!

Someone was yelling across the playground.

[Sadie yells] My bag! My bag!
My bag has been stolen!

Miss Tan! Someone's in trouble!

Okay, everybody stay calm and
I'll try to find out what's happening...

Oh, I can't seem to see it from here.

Miss Tan said stay calm.

She didn't say stay in the classroom.

A woman was yelling that
her bag had been stolen.

And, we would have been terrible citizens
if we hadn't rushed out to help.

And also, terrible investigators.

We raced out and saw the person calling
out was the lady from the sports store,

who was standing next to her van
in the carpark near the fishpond.

[Maudie] We all ran over to help.

My bag is gone! It was right here,
in the front seat of my van!

The lady from the sports store was
making such a big fuss that Henry...

Mr McGillick, the Principal.

...came out too and
tried to calm things down.

Okay, okay, I'm sure we can work this out,
we can all have a look for your bag.

It's been stolen!

Well we don't know that for sure.

I do know that for sure!

The window was open, and he must have
leant right in and taken my bag!

-Who?
-Him!

Who? I can't see anyone,
Gary's in the way.

Kyle, she saying Gary took her bag.

-Gary looked upset.
-But not as upset as Kyle.

What?! Gary is not a thief, Mr McGillick,

tell her that Gary
would never steal anything!

Kyle,
we're going to get to the bottom of this.

[Barney barks]

Barney was upset too.

He must have sensed
that Gary was in trouble,

so, he ran up to him at the crossing.

[Ava] He was still tied up but he
had his new long stretchy lead.

Gary brought him back over to the gate,

as the lady from the sports store
was saying what had happened.

I drove up and was pleased because
there was a spot here to park.

There was no one else around.
Apart from him.

-That doesn't mean anything.
-Kyle, sh!

I had to deliver two bags of netballs,

I took the first one in and
I left my handbag in the van.

If you don't mind me saying so,

I don't think it was very smart
to leave your handbag in your van.

I thought it was safe because
there was someone nearby! Him!

I didn't take anything!

See? He didn't take anything, the end.

No! Not the end,
because I don't have a handbag!

It's terrible to have
your bag go missing,

but it's also terrible to accuse
someone of stealing it,

in front of a lot of people.
Which is why Mr McGillick said,

Look, um...

-Sadie.
-Sadie.

Um, I know you're upset, but
I don't think it's fair to accuse Gary.

We really don't know that he
was the only person out here.

I do know he was, because that dog...

held up his paw for me to shake,

and I thought it was so cute
when I bent down to shake it,

I looked around to see
if anyone was watching.

There was no one apart from him!

Unfortunately,
Sadie's story sounded true.

We knew Barney always
put his paw up to shake.

When she crouched down with him,

the sports store lady would have been
able to see exactly who was around.

Look, I've still have wet sand
on my hand from the dog's paw!

Wet sand?

May I ask what was in your handbag?

I beg your pardon?

I'm just wondering what a thief
might have been looking for.

Well, my wallet of course!
And my phone!

Anything else?

Ah, a hairbrush, my favourite lipstick,

half a bacon and egg sandwich
that I was saving for lunch,

but I don't think a thief
would be interested in that.

Why am I being questioned
by a bunch of ten-year old's?

I don't think you're
taking this seriously.

I am... I'm sorry, of course I am.

It's just that Gary has been
with us for a very long time...

Mr McGillick got this bad look on his
face and looked at Miss Tan like...

Like they suddenly realised what had
been happening for the last three weeks.

Because the worst part was Sadie's bag
was not the first bag to go missing.

Several bags had been taken
from cars with their windows down,

and the school had warned parents
to make sure they locked their cars.

Perhaps we could discuss this in my office
Sadie. Gary, would you mind coming too?

What? Mr McGillick, no!

You can't seriously think that Gary
would take anything from anyone?!

The only thing he would take from you,

is an animal,
if you couldn't look after it any more.

-It's alright, Kyle.
-It's not, Gary!

Tell them about your identical twin,

who is also a crossing guard
who actually stole all the bags!

Gary doesn't actually have an identical
twin who is also a crossing guard.

You're kidding.

But I had to say something.

I knew he didn't do it but there was no
other person around except for Gary.

No other person.

Wait! Mr McGillick!
Gary didn't take the bag.

Really Maudie? Are you sure?

Almost sure. Gary, did you take
Barney to the beach this morning?

-The beach? No.
-Then I'm sure.

If he didn't take it, who did?

Barney.

Barney?

Maudie, Barney's been tied up all morning.

But he has his new long stretchy lead you
saw him run up to Gary across the road.

Maudie's right!
The lead stretches to ten metres,

Barney could have easily
reached Sadie's van,

jumped in the window and taken the bag.

Barney!

So you're telling me the dog went all
the way up to my van to get my bag out?

How would he even know that it was there?

Because of your half
a bacon and egg sandwich.

Barney is an ex-police sniffer dog.

And a greedy guts for sandwiches.

He would easily have smelt
a yummy bacon and egg one!

Barney is professionally trained to sniff.

He would have no problem jumping in
through your window and getting your bag,

if it meant he was
getting a tasty sandwich.

Yes! That's what happened! See?!
It wasn't Gary, it was Barney!

Hang on Kyle. Maudie, if this is true,
then where's the bag?

Sadie's bag wasn't anywhere near Barney.

Maybe he hadn't taken it after all.

Or maybe he had.
Miss Tan had asked the wrong question.

The question isn't 'where's the bag?'.

The question is,
'how did Barney get wet sand on his paws?

Yeah, how?
That's why you asked me about the beach.

Wait,
Barney can travel ten metres on his lead,

But where is there sand within ten metres?

The junior sandpit is much
further away than that.

It's wet sand, remember.
Which maybe you'd find...

at the bottom of the fish pond.

Of course!

Barney could easily have slipped around
the fence and gone through the fish pond.

Which would have explained
why he had wet sand on his paws.

This is where Barney must
have brought the bag!

-Bags.
-Start digging.

We dug in the fishpond and you
will not believe what we found.

They probably will if they've
been following the story.

-Sadie's bag!
-And then we found six more bags.

Barney has stolen all those
bags in the last three weeks?!

Yep. Since we gave him
the new stretchy lead.

If there was the slightest smell of food,

he would jump through a window
or an open door and take the bag.

But then why did he bury them?

Because he felt guilty for stealing
and didn't want to get into trouble.

No! Barney didn't know he
was doing anything wrong!

[Maudie] It was just a game with himself.
Dogs love burying stuff.

Maudie was explaining what had happened,

when she suddenly noticed
that Sadie looked really upset.

Are you okay?

No... I was rude to you when you were
trying to explain everything to me and I,

I'm so sorry.

I said terrible things and accused you...
that was so unfair.

-Can you forgive me?
-No... I can't.

Of course, I can forgive you, Sadie.
And I'm sorry Barney took your bag.

It was nice of Gary to be so kind
to the lady who had been so mean.

She obviously felt really terrible.

She gave Gary and Mrs Gary
vouchers for the sports store.

[Ava] So they could come
and get whatever balls or

sports toys they
wanted for all their animals.

And she also gave us a special
voucher for the sports store.

She actually gave it to
Maudie for finding out the truth.

And I said we should share it.

But I didn't even want a voucher,

because the greatest gift of all
was Gary not being in trouble.

Finished. Can we go to the sports
store now and use the voucher?

You just said you didn't want it.

Yeah, but I never said I wouldn't use it.

It's for a sports store,
what do you think I am, crazy?

Actually, the way you stuck up for Gary,
I think you're very sweet.

Yuck Ava, don't be disgusting.

[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]

[voice over]
The Case of the Distracted Detective.

[Ava/Kyle]
Hello and welcome to the Inbestigators.

Kyle! We said I'd start!

But then I got excited. Sorry, go on.

[both] So two weeks ago Ezra told...

-[Ava sighs]
-Did I mention I was excited?

Two weeks ago, Ezra told us that
he had some amazing news.

Maudie! Ava! Kyle!

Something incredible has
happened to the Inbestigators!

Are we finally getting a dog
to help sniff out clues?

-Can he sleep on my bed?
-Can we call him Rainbow?

Guys! This is much,
much better than getting a dog.

We're getting a pony?!

Where would we keep a pony and no, listen.

We got into
The Young Small Business Competition!

I know what you're thinking.

The Young Small Business Competition?
What even is that?

And how is it better than a dog?

The Young Small Business Competition,

is open to people under 16,
who have started some kind of company.

What's that got to do with us?

We're under 16 and
we started the Inbestigators.

Woh. We're so little yet achieved so much.

Only three local businesses got into
the competition and we're one of them!

-We could see how this was exciting.
-Especially for Ezra.

It's been my lifelong dream
to get into this competition,

ever since I first found about it.

-When was that?
-Last Tuesday.

Mr Barker helped me with the application,

but I didn't tell you guys in case
I got your hopes up too much.

But getting our hopes up
about a pony was fine.

Ezra told us all about the competition.

And then on Saturday,

all three young small businesses
do a big presentation at the library.

Woh, it makes me nervous
just thinking about it.

Who are the other two finalists?

-There's Jordan's Jams.
-Oh, I love Jordan's Jams!

My Dad buys it from him
at the Sunday market.

The strawberry one is so good.

I have it with mustard.

Of course, you do.

There's also a website design company
run by this girl called Harriet.

Maybe we should ask
her to redo our website.

-What's wrong with our website?
-Oh, I mean,

the toggle is a bit weird,

and I think the comments on our videos
would look better on the side,

and don't you think the colour
scheme could use an update?

There was one problem with Ezra asking
us what we thought of our website.

We have a website?

None of you look at our website?

Well, it's just that you're
so good at managing it.

And you're so good
at all the technical stuff.

Does it have any games?

Ezra looked disappointed in us,

so, we reassured him that
we were one hundred percent ready

to help with
the big presentation on Saturday.

What do we have to do?

We have to pitch our business,
describe what we do,

tell some amusing anecdotes
and explain why we should win first prize.

What's first prize?!

A trophy and a year's supply
of photocopying at Office Maxi Mart.

What was second prize?
Two years of photocopying?

-I did not think that was a cool prize.
-At first.

Wait, can you photocopy anything?

Like what?

Like feet and hands
and the inside of my ear.

Now he thought it was a cool prize.

We arranged to spend as much time as
we could working on our pitch with Ezra.

Maudie went first,
after school on Tuesday.

...and that's how we cracked
the mystery of the missing work bag.

We solved it very quickly
because it was a brief case.

Get it?

I said it was a brief case because
it was a work bag that went missing.

Okay.

Ezra! You told me to work a joke
into that story and I tried hard!

Yeah, no sorry, it was really good.

The Young Small Business Competition
was making Ezra distracted.

Very distracted.

Because when I went over to practise
on Wednesday, Ezra wasn't his usual self.

[Kyle] So this is the story of how
we found Penny's cat up the tree.

Now I know you're going to say
no to me dressing up as the cat but...

It's fine. You look great.

Ezra never lets me dress up when we're
being Inbestigators so I was surprised.

And even more surprised
when he agreed to my next idea.

And you're sure you don't
mind being the tree?

No worries.

Ezra was being weird.

But by Thursday afternoon,
he was more than weird.

And so,
ask not what your country can do for you,

ask what the Inbestigators can do for you!

Ta-da!

Ezra! Are you even listening?!

I feel a bit funny in the tummy.

By Thursday afternoon, he was sick.

Poor Ezra.

It's like he'd turned all his excitement
about the competition into nerves.

It's good to be a bit nervous because
it means something is important to you.

Like when you have
a grand final soccer match

and you can't stop going
to the toilet to do number twos.

Apparently.
That can happen to other people.

But to be too nervous is not good
because it can get in the way.

So, I gave Ezra a pep talk.

Ezra Banks,

you have dreamed of doing
this presentation since last Tuesday,

when you did
the application with Mr Barker.

So whatever little voices are making
you too nervous to concentrate,

you just tell them to go away, okay?

You want this, you deserve this,
you are going to nail this,

do you hear me?!

Yes!

Yes! I'm going to nail this!
That was a really good pep talk, Ava.

Thank you.

Ezra stopped feeling sick and was
able to focus on the pitch again.

And on Saturday,
we were all ready for our presentation.

Woh...

Guys, I'm so excited!

-Weird Ezra was gone.
-And business Ezra was back.

Business Ezra is still pretty weird.

Okay, no time to waste,
let's get schmoozing.

-What?
-Sorry Kyle,

I'll go easy on the jargon.

What?

Schmoozing means meeting and greeting,

and jargon means using words people
don't understand like schmoozing.

But Ezra didn't have time to explain
because he was too busy smooshing.

Schmoozing.

That's what I said.

[Ezra] Excuse me, Harriet.

-I'm Ezra Banks.
-Oh Ezra, hi! You're here!

Oh, my goodness, Harriet, we have heard
all about your amazing web design company.

Congratulations!

Well right back at you, Ava!

I can't believe
I'm meeting the Inbestigators!

Wow! Hi Maudie, hi Kyle!

-You know who we are?
-Of course!

I watch your vlog all the time!
You guys are so clever!

Jordan, do you know the Inbestigators?
The other finalists?

-No, hi!
-[Maudie] Jordan.

I love your jam. Have you ever thought
doing a strawberry mustard combo?

-Err, I uh...
-[Ava] Jordan.

Congratulations on being a finalist too.
You must be so proud!

Actually, I'm not.

It kind of feels like a dumb competition
when I see who I'm up against.

You guys are so little. No offence.

Yes offence. And a lot of it!
Jordan was so rude.

He was lucky that we got interrupted.

Hello, I don't believe we've met,
I'm Mr Barker.

Mr Barker,
I go to the school you teach at.

I organised your birthday party,
and I'm very close with your dog Crayon.

-Ava. I'm kidding. [laughs]
-[Ava] Oh.

I'm so sorry, Mr Barker.

I was just very thrown by Jordan from
Jordan's Jams being so rude to us.

Wait until he sees our presentation.

Then he'll realise he's
got some serious competition.

Maudie was right.
People often make the mistake

of thinking that just because
we're kids we're not serious.

Which is ridiculous.
We're always serious.

The presentations began and
this lady called Natasha was our host.

My name's Natasha and I was the winner

of the Young Small Business Competition
15 years ago.

Shouldn't she have gone home by now?

Today, I run my own
very successful cosmetics company,

Natasha Eyelasher, so it makes me
very happy to be hosting today's event.

If Natasha got her start by winning
the Young Small Business Competition,

then this was
a competition really worth winning.

Harriet and Jordan
obviously thought so too.

They were both standing off to the side,

going over their presentations, looking
like they were making last minute changes.

But the presentations were starting.
Jordan went first.

Hey, I'm Jordan,
and these are my homemade jams,

now I promise this presentation
is going to be... cherry good.

[Kyle laughs]

Cherry good.
Like saying cherry instead of very.

Jordan was off to a sizzling start.

I take recipes that I find in cookbooks
and online and put my own spin on them!

Or, should I say,
I put my own mandarin on them.

[chuckles] My own mandarin.

I turned to laugh with Ezra...

But Ezra was gone.

[Jordan] ...because I think that jam
recipes are always ripe for re-invention.

-We didn't know where Ezra was and...
-Our presentation was on in a few minutes.

We had to find him. Fast!

Alright, Kyle, you check the bathrooms,
Ava you do the nonfiction shelves,

-I'll do fiction.
-Wait, can I do fiction?

-Why?
-I just prefer made up stories.

-Ava!
-Guys, shh!

Sorry Kyle, you're right,
we're in a library.

No... look.

-Ezra looked upset.
-That's because Ezra was upset.

Ezra? What's wrong?

I don't think I can do the presentation.

Ezra! You can't let your
nerves get the better of you.

It's not nerves. It's...
I'm not good enough.

Ezra wasn't making any sense at all.

Why would he think he wasn't good enough?!

Maudie suddenly noticed something.

Ezra, what have you been looking at?

It doesn't matter.

Every time you've been distracted,
or upset this week,

you've been looking
at something on your iPad.

Oh Ezra! Have you been reading
about global warming again?

No, he's been reading about himself.
On our website.

I feel like I say this sentence a lot,

but we had no idea what
Maudie was talking about.

Oh Ezra...
You know none of this is true.

What's not true? Maudie, what's going on?

Someone's been leaving comments
underneath our videos.

Bad comments.

Don't worry, they're not about you.
They're all about me.

-That made it even worse.
-I was so mad.

Who would say mean
and cruel stuff about Ezra?

You are the nicest guy in the world
and the cleverest,

and the only reason we're
all here is because of you,

and the only reason we have
a website is because of you,

and the only reason we have a vlog
for all our cases is because of you and...

-Kyle, that's it!
-No, I want to keep talking.

No, I mean,
you've made me realise something.

Whoever wrote these
is in the library right now.

-Come on, we need to talk to Mr Barker.
-You think Mr Barker wrote the comments?

No, I think we need to tell
an adult that Ezra's being bullied.

Maudie was absolutely right.
We had to find Mr Barker.

The most important part of any web design
is the layout and user experience.

Well, this is awful Ezra,

as well as being a big, bubbling pot
of nonsense and patently untrue.

You know that don't you?

Someone is bullying you because they are
jealous and insecure in themselves and...

Worried that Ezra will win the
Young Small Business Competition.

Look...
the comments only started last Tuesday,

which is when
the finalists were announced.

It's under the same username,

Bumblebee2J88 and the last comment
was submitted half an hour ago.

You think it was one of
the other finalists writing these?

Jordan! From Jordan's Jams! Of course!

He was so rude when he met
us and saw how little we were!

Except he didn't know what
we looked like until he saw us today.

Jordan, you know the Inbestigators?
The other finalists?

No... Hi.

If he had been writing
mean comments on our website,

he would definitely know how old we were.

But that only leaves...

[Harriet] ...and that's why I feel
my company would be the perfect

marketing tool in any industry.

Harriet?! But she was so nice.

She was also very surprised
to see Ezra turn up at all.

Oh Ezra, hi! You're here!

I think she thought her comments
would have been enough

-to scare Ezra off from competing.
-But why?

Because of everything
Kyle said before about you.

You're the reason we're here and she
was threatened by how clever you are.

Really?

So that's all from me, thank you so much.

Wow! Wasn't that something?
Let's hear it for Harriet Jacobi!

[applause]

Okay, I think I can
have a quiet word with...

Oh, Harriet, is that your name is it?

Because I thought your name
was Bumblebee2J88!

Okay, that's another strategy.

In hindsight, there may have been
a better way of handling the situation.

But I don't think so.

Harriet admitted she had
written the comments and...

Natasha was really, really mad.

She told Harriet that she'd only gotten
to where she was by sheer hard work,

not by sabotaging her competition.

Harriet was disqualified
and we got to do our presentation.

It went so well.

I really don't remember agreeing to this.

It was terrible that Ezra got bullied.

It was great that I got to be
a cat and he got to be a tree.

-And it was even greater that we won!
-We did! We actually won!

[applause]

Ezra was so happy.

And now we have a year's supply
of photocopying at Office Maxi Mart!

Look, I've already done my face, my hand,
my other hand, my foot...

It's going to be a long year.

[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]