The InBESTigators (2019–…): Season 2, Episode 7 - The Case of the Vanishing Koalas - full transcript
Mario had his bag of Kakow Koalas snacks stolen and wants The InBESTigators to find out who on the playground is responsible.
[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]
[voice over]
The Case of the Vanishing Koalas.
I have big plans for the Inbestigators,
which is why I enrolled in a
Grow Your Business course online.
Actually, my Dad did, but he left
all his notes on the kitchen bench,
and I learned that
people love a good deal.
So, I made some good deal coupons with
Maudie, Ava and Kyle
during lunch on Tuesday.
And on Wednesday.
And on Thursday.
It was really fun.
No offence Ezra, but these have been the
most boring three lunchtimes of my life.
Kyle, don't you want to grow our business?
No, I want to play handball.
It was really fun for some of us.
By Friday the coupons were ready.
Oh, is this for your detective agency?
Wait is this a loyalty card?
It sure is. You pay for ten crimes
and get the eleventh free.
Are you really expecting that much crime?
I hope so.
All we had to do now
was hand out the coupons.
Kyle had an interesting method.
[Kyle] Bullseye!
You're turning our coupons
into paper planes?
-Yes!
-Awesome!
Kyle has a big career in marketing.
But just as business was soaring,
literally... Miss Tan stopped it.
[Miss Tan] Kyle!
Sorry Miss.
No more paper planes!
Look at all these wrappers!
Can someone explain what these are?
They're Kakow Koala wrappers, Miss Tan.
They're the latest craze.
If you didn't have
Kakow Koalas in your lunch box,
you may as well have taken the day off.
If your Mum would let you.
Which mine wouldn't.
Maudie told Miss Tan that...
They're little chocolate covered caramel
biscuits in the shape of Koalas and...
Thank you, Maudie,
I know what Kakow Koalas are.
I mean you're all turning into litterbugs.
James, where are you going?
I need to call my Mum, Miss,
I left my Kakow Koalas at home.
I'll give you one of my
rice paper rolls for one, James!
You can have my leftover mac and cheese!
I'll give you all of my rice paper rolls!
Kakow Koalas were making people
promise the craziest things.
I'll give you my entire fridge!
I'll get my Dad to bring it!
Miss Tan, can I go call my Dad?
He'll need to organise a trolley.
Kyle sit down, James you too. You can
survive one day without Kakow Koalas.
[James gasps]
They're just biscuits.
[class gasps]
Please Miss!
No!
Don't worry James, you can watch me
eat my Kakow Koalas at snack time.
Is that very nice Mario? No!
I'll tell you what is nice,
you volunteering to clean
up the playground at snack time.
Oh, Miss Tan! I'll help!
And I would like to nominate myself
as leader of the litter committee.
Ooh, I'm going to call
it the littermmittee!
Thank you, Ava!
Who else will be joining the littermittee?
-Maudie and I will help.
-You hate cleaning up.
But I love a business opportunity.
I thought you were
supposed to be cleaning up.
No, you'll be the one cleaning up,
with this great deal.
My Dad's online business course
was wasted on Pixie.
I don't get it.
-Pixie!
-Ooh! Yummy, thank you, Charlotte.
It's a discount coupon
for our detective services.
It's statistically unlikely that it'll be
useful but you might as well take it.
We're still working
on Maudie's sales pitch.
Ten crimes, eleventh free!
-What a saving! Am I right, Maudie?
-Not really.
-Shh.
-Yummy, Charlotte!
Oh! This is exactly what I mean!
You children are littering everything!
What a waste! This is 2ply!
Kids really were throwing out everything.
Our coupons aren't rubbish, Ava!
Sorry Ezra.
I'll go find some actual rubbish.
Oh Charlotte! We ate the whole bag.
That's fine. I'm not allowed
to eat Kakow Koalas anyway.
-Are you gluten free?
-No.
-Are you lactose free?
-No.
-Are you vegetarian?
-They have meat in them?
No, but they really look like koalas.
It's just I'm supposed to eat
mainly protein when I'm training.
-Really?! What kind of protein do you...
-[whistle blows]
Just then, Mrs Parides interrupted.
-[whistle blows]
-[Mrs Parides] No fighting!
Unless it is supervised green Taekwondo
and we're not doing that until term three!
But Miss! He stole my Kakow Koalas!
It was very bad news for Mario.
But very good news for the Inbestigators.
-I want to hire the Inbestigators.
-Maudie, hole punch.
-I don't have a hole punch.
-Maudie, stamp.
-Why would I have a stamp?
-Do you at least have scissors?
Ezra, I'm a girl, not a pencil case.
Are you even listening to me?
James stole my Kakow Koalas out
of my bag and I want them back!
How did he know they were there?
Everyone knew. Mario was mean
about it in front of the whole class.
Don't be rude to the client!
James stole them when he
went to keyboard this morning.
Do you want this case or not?!
Of course, we do. How can you pay us?
My Mum has a ten dollar
Office Maxi Mart voucher?
We clearly needed a hole punch and a stamp
so, we agreed to the voucher.
I still had a lot of coupons to hand out,
and Ava was in charge of the Littermittee,
so, Maudie and Kyle went to inbestigate.
I was pretty sure James would just say yes
he stole Mario's Kakow Koalas.
No, I did not steal Mario's Kakow Koalas.
Ask Archie.
We went to keyboard together because
he's my music buddy.
Did Archie come back with you?
No, because he was still at music.
So, you were all alone in the corridor,
right near Mario's bag?
I wasn't alone! Pixie
and that gym girl came out.
-Gym girl?
-He means Charlotte.
Charlotte is training for the
national gymnastics finals.
She misses a lot of school
because of her practise,
which is why James
couldn't remember her name.
Yeah, Charlotte.
She and Pixie saw me walk
-straight back into the classroom.
-Hi James.
Maudie and Kyle needed to talk to
Archie, Pixie and Charlotte
to see if James was telling the truth.
Archie was still at his music lesson.
He plays trombone, guitar and drums.
Really loud drums.
[Maudie] Archie!
Archie, can I ask you
a couple of questions?
Firstly, did James stop and
get anything out of the bags
on your way to music this morning?
No, he was helping me
carry my instruments.
-Mr Spanti's letting me trial the cello.
-You couldn't trial the flute?
[Maudie] So his hands were full.
Yep. And what was the other question?
Do you think you could teach me how
to play the drums some time?
[Archie] Sure!
[Archie continues playing the drums]
It was clear James didn't steal the
Kakow Koalas when he was with Archie,
and it was also clear that Maudie
wanted to learn the drums.
She and Kyle needed to talk to
Pixie and the gym girl Charlotte,
and they found them
them doing cartwheels.
Charlotte is amazing at flipping.
Woh! Charlotte, you are amazing
at flipping! Do you ever get scared?
No, I leap off the high bars all the time.
Do you think you could teach me?
Maudie, I can't believe I'm
the one saying this... but focus.
Sorry. Charlotte, were you and Pixie
in the corridor during class?
Um... yeah. I had to go to the bathroom.
-Miss Tan made me her toilet buddy!
-And did you notice James walk past?
Yeah! Remember Charlotte?
-Hi James.
-Did you ring your Mum, James?
No, I went to music.
So, you still don't have any Kakow Koalas?
Drats. I really wanted some.
Pixie, why did you change
your hair in the toilets?
Is this a trick question?
Because there was a mirror!
And I was chatting to Charlotte.
...but even though I really,
really love pink,
sometimes I think my
favorite colour is turquoise.
How long does it take
to do all those little plaits?
[Ezra] Kyle was surprised.
First the drums,
then the flips and now the plaits.
Well, the bottom ones are easy,
the top ones take ages.
Maybe five minutes.
It'd be so much quicker with your hair,
why is your hair so short?
My Dad and I were sick of
brushing the knots out so we cut it.
Kyle, we need to go to the
bathroom before the bell rings.
I don't need to go.
Oh, actually, I'm busting.
Unfortunately for Kyle, Maudie wanted
to go to the outside of the bathroom,
not the inside,
which is where Ava and I found them.
This is where Miss Tan found
the toilet paper, isn't it?
So?
How high up do you think
that bathroom window is?
Two meters?
What's the girls' bathroom
got to do with anything?
Can everybody please
stop talking about bathrooms
because I really need to use one.
Kyle went to the bathroom
and then it was time for art.
So, we went to get
our aprons out of our tubs.
Any updates on my Kakow Koalas?
-No.
-Yes.
-I think you need to talk to Charlotte.
-Who's Charlotte?
[Pixie] She's Charlotte.
-You took my Kakow Koalas?!
-No, she didn't!
Yes, I did.
-When you went to the toilet, right?
-She was with me the whole entire time.
Or was she?
-No, seriously, was she?
-No, she wasn't.
Pixie, when you were braiding your hair,
you thought Charlotte was in the cubicle.
But Charlotte actually
climbed out the window...
and jumped onto the ground.
Of course!
Charlotte leaps off bars all the time!
She jumped out... oh... and that's when
she knocked the toilet paper out.
What toilet paper?!
You children are littering everything!
But Maudie, Charlotte and I were talking
to each other while she was in the toilet.
Pixie, you were talking to yourself.
[Pixie] Last night we had moussaka,
and tonight, we're having tacos.
Was I? I was. I totally was.
I always do that, don't I, Pixie?
I'm sorry. Maudie's right. I jumped out,
ran back to the corridor,
and took Mario's Kakow Koalas
from his bag and put them in mine.
But you came out of the toilet again.
Because she ran back and climbed up
onto the recycling bin...
and back through the window
and into the locked cubicle.
But I think purple's best for that,
don't you think?
Charlotte, why would you do that?!
Because she was lonely.
I know. What?
Charlotte's a champion gymnast who can
do amazing things and impress everyone.
Why would she be lonely?
Because she missed so much school because
of gym... she doesn't have any friends.
[Maudie] Don't you remember when we
were making the coupons in the library,
Charlotte was there too, alone?
She had no one to play with.
So, when Charlotte saw how obsessed
everyone was about Kakow Koalas...
I'll give you my entire fridge!
...she knew if she had some to share,
it would be a sure-fire
way to make some friends.
Thanks Charlotte!
She wasn't allowed any of her own,
so, she decided to take Mario's.
I am really sorry, Mario.
I'll get you some more Kakow Koalas,
and also, I'll make you some
of my special training muffins.
Okay fine.
[Pixie] Charlotte...
I am devastated that you think
you need Kakow Koalas
to sit with us because you don't.
And I am so sorry that I didn't
notice you alone in the library.
I'm so sorry Charlotte.
I'm really sorry.
The girls got all gooey and hugged and
everything and then Charlotte felt better.
And she did make her
special muffins for Mario,
which don't have any chocolate or sugar
or butter or flavour so they weren't
what Mario was expecting.
But that didn't stop him eating
them because he's a garbage guts.
And Mario gave us the
Office Maxi Mart voucher,
which was handy because
we needed a recycling bin.
We may have made too many coupons.
[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]
[voice over]
The Case of the Extremely Empty Freezer.
Hello and welcome to the Inbestigators.
-Two Thursdays...
-[Ezra] Ava, wait!
My Mum said I have to finish my
homework before I do any filming.
Well my Mum is picking me
up soon so I have to start.
Okay... can you go slow though?
-So, two Thursdays ago...
-[Ezra] Go slower than that!
[sighs] it was payday
in the Inbestigators office.
And this is the Office Maxi Mart voucher
that we got for finding
Mr Henderson's glasses.
He really didn't need to pay us,
they were on his head.
Oh! I've already made a list of everything
we need from Office Maxi Mart.
Stapler, fruity scented highlighters, oh!
It's Mr Barker's birthday on Wednesday!
We have to do something super special!
Should we get him
a cupcake with a candle?
Maudie that's adorable but he needs
something much bigger than that because,
you have to promise not to tell anyone,
but my Mum does Pilates
with Mr Barker's sister
and she said that his girlfriend moved
back to London because she was homesick.
What's that got to do with anything?
It means Mr Barker is lovesick.
I don't get it.
Kyle, imagine if your favorite soccer
player that you liked to go and watch...
Louis Prestia.
Okay, imagine if Louie
suddenly moved to Spain.
Poor Mr Barker!
That's why he was being weird yesterday.
Hey Mr Barker, catch!
I thought he didn't like his soup but
I guess he was... what's that word again?
Lovesick.
My Mum and I watch a lot
of romantic comedy movies,
so, I know how sad grown ups
can get when their heart is broken.
But I also know the secret
to mending a broken heart is...
a party! Who's in?
Ava, when did the Inbestigators
branch out into party planning?
Fifteen seconds ago.
The secret to party planning is starting
with the most important thing.
Tuna dip?
What...? No! A theme.
What does Mr Barker like?
That girl who moved to London.
Not helpful, Kyle.
He likes his dog Crayon!
We could do a dog party!
That sounds scary, I mean boring.
There are much better themes, like...
Um... well when was he born?
Nineteen-eighty-two.
Nineteen-eighty-two.
We could have a nineteen eighties party?
Yes! Wait, what happened
in the nineteen eighties again?
Mr Barker was born a long,
long time before we were.
We needed to do some searching up
about what happened in the eighties.
Guys, you will not believe this. No one
had the internet in nineteen eighty-two!
I read that on the internet,
so that means I couldn't even
tell you there was no internet
in nineteen eighty-two if I was
telling you in nineteen-eighty-two.
No internet. How did anyone plan parties?
Once we'd come up with enough
information about the eighties,
we came up with our party jobs.
Kids can watch me solve a Rubik's cube!
Maudie, it's a party, not a science fair,
and I need you to do
the decorations with me.
Ezra, you'll be making the piñata.
Oh, what if it's a boombox
filled with lollies?
Yes, and glow sticks! Kyle,
you'll be making the ice cream cake.
Can the cake be a Rubik's cube?
Wouldn't that hurt your teeth?
A Rubik's cube ice cream cake.
Yes! Sugar meets science,
Mr Barker will love it!
Awesome! I'll make the cake.
Oh, except I've got one teensy problem.
-What?
-I don't know how to make a cake.
We can order one.
I can ask for some money
from the SRC party fund,
and then all you have to do is pick it
up from the shop and bring it to school.
Boring. Can I have another job too?
Definitely.
DJ K-Boom-Klimson
coming live from the hall!
-[applause, cheering]
-[girl] Let's dance!
-[Eighties music playing]
-[girl] Come on boys!
Our planning had paid off and everyone
was having a blast from the past.
But the person I most wanted
to be having a blast was Mr Barker.
-Mr Barker, do you like the party?
-I don't.
I love it!
-Wait till you see the last surprise!
-Will Mr McGillick do karaoke?
-No!
-Will Miss Tan do karaoke?
-No!
-Will Mrs Parides do kara...
No one's doing karaoke! It's a cake!
You got me a cake?!
That makes me feel so special. Thank you!
Mr Barker looked so happy...
I think he had actually
forgotten about being lovesick!
I couldn't wait till he saw the cake,
because the cake
was the icing on the cake!
I mean... you know what I mean.
Kyle and his dad had bought
the most amazing six flavoured,
Rubik's cube ice cream cake.
This square's banana-rama, that one's
hokey pokey, there's strawberry sherbet,
or is that strawberry sherbet? No, that
one is boysenberry-licious and there's...
Kyle, keep walking!
The ice cream will melt!
Hurry up and put it
in the staffroom freezer!
A birthday cake is not just a cake.
It's a whole package.
You need plates, spoons, pretty napkins,
and three people to carry it all.
-Where's the cake?!
-It must be here somewhere.
It's not! The freezer is empty!
-Except for blueberries.
-And ice packs.
And seafood.
But no cake! Someone must have taken it!
Or eaten it.
-[all] Kyle!
-[Eighties music playing]
[all] Kyle!
Great song, right?
Did you eat Mr Barker's birthday cake?
What?! No way!
Last time I ate a whole birthday cake,
I sugar crashed,
and slept through my whole party.
I'm never doing that again.
Well where is it then?
-In the freezer in the staffroom.
-Are you sure you put it in there?
Of course, I'm sure!
I put it on the middle shelf,
and made room for the box and everything.
We believed Kyle had
put the cake in the freezer,
and that he hadn't eaten it,
mainly because he wasn't asleep.
But now the cake was missing and
I say this without exaggeration,
Mr Barker's entire future happiness
depended on finding that cake.
We need a distraction until we find
the cake, Kyle, make a speech!
Okay. Um, I can make one about
Louie Prestia, my favorite soccer player.
He eats three bowls
of pasta for breakfast.
The speech has to be about Mr Barker!
I don't know what
Mr Barker eats for breakfast.
Oh! Do the one you
memorised in class! About Freddie!
About Freddie?
Yes! Just change the name to Mr Barker!
Yeah, okay. I can do that.
[microphone screeches]
Shout out to our teach Mr B!
Got some special words for your birthday!
[applause, cheering]
Five years ago, my family rescued Fre...
Mr Barker from the animal shelter.
I maybe didn't think the whole
speech idea through properly,
because Freddie is Kyle's dog.
But the important thing was,
it gave us some more time.
We need to talk to every single person
here right now about the missing cake,
and if we question five people,
six people at a time
we'll get through it quickly.
Okay, that's one plan.
Or we can speak to someone
we know went to the freezer today.
Mr Barker's favorite food
is definitely liver treats.
Come on.
I don't know if Mr Barker
likes liver treats,
but we all know Miss Tan
likes blueberries in her smoothies,
and Maudie remembered there were
blueberries in the staffroom freezer.
Mr Barker also loves his baths,
in the laundry sink.
-[Kyle] Mr Barker's favorite things are...
-[Maudie] Miss Tan!
...long walks on the beach...
did you make your blueberry
smoothie this morning?
-Yes.
-Miss Tan!
I cannot believe you ate Mr Barker's
birthday cake! How could you?!
What Ava is trying to say is
when you got your blueberries from
the staffroom freezer at snack,
did you see Mr Barker's ice cream cake?
No. There was no cake.
That was silly of me to accuse
Miss Tan of eating the cake...
because she's been off sugar this whole
term and she has amazing self-control.
We knew that the cake had gone missing
sometime between before school and snack.
We had to find out who else had
gone to the freezer in that time.
And we all love him,
even though he's getting older,
and his back legs
are wobbly and he dribbles.
So, let's hear it for Mr Barker!
[weak clapping]
Kyle had finished his speech.
We needed a new distraction, fast.
Piñata time! Let's go Miss Tan!
[Miss Tan exclaims]
Okay, um, so, just hit it?
-Swing to your left!
-Her left? You mean her right?
I spent a lot of time making that piñata.
I don't want it to break.
It's a piñata. Its job is to break.
To your left, Miss Tan!
[gasps]
Oops.
Seeing Mr McGillick get hit
with the inflatable microphone,
made us remember that we had seen
something else we had seen in the freezer.
There was a bag of frozen seafood
with his name written on it, 'Henry'.
Come on, Miss Tan,
I think it's somebody else's turn now.
Did you put a bag of
food in the freezer today?
No, I don't have anything in the freezer.
We know you're lying!
You ate a whole birthday
cake until you were full,
then hid the evidence in
your bag of frozen prawns!
I may have been getting desperate.
Ava, I didn't understand a word of,
wait, did you say prawns?
Oh, that's where they went.
They were for our Christmas barbecue.
I better call my wife.
So, you haven't opened the
staffroom freezer since last year?
No. Did you notice if the
prawns have expired yet?
[whack]
[screaming]
-Is there another piñata?
-No there's not!
With the piñata as broken
as Mr Barker's heart,
and the cake nowhere to be seen,
we really needed another distraction.
Ava, I think the cake needs to come out
now because the bell's about to ring.
Sure thing, Mr Barker but, um,
I've been flooded with
requests for your robot dance!
Oh, I couldn't possibly
do that at my own party!
Kyle! Hit me with some funky beats!
Go, Barker! When I say 'Mister',
you say 'Barker'! Mister!
-[all] Barker!
-[Miss Parides] Mister!
-[all] Barker!
-Whoop!
Mrs Parides getting excited, made Maudie
remember the last thing in the freezer...
her ice packs.
Mrs Parides, have you been to the
staffroom freezer today to get ice packs?
And maybe to make room for those ice packs
you had to chuck out a beautiful cake!
How could you Mrs Parides?!
I'm good at investigating
and I'm excellent at party planning,
just not at the same time.
Ava just wants to know if you were
at the freezer before snack time.
Are you kidding me? I'm at the freezer
every ten minutes to get an ice pack!
Let's see, today there was
nine-fifteen when Jason hurt his elbow,
ten forty-five when
Harry rolled his ankle,
ten fifty-five when Harry
rolled the other ankle.
And did you see a cake box?
What, like a white
cardboard box from a shop?
[both] Yes!
No, I didn't. There was no cake.
That freezer is almost empty.
Mrs Parides said the freezer was almost
empty and Maudie got her thinking face on,
-which is when we suddenly heard a...
-[Mr Barker groans]
Stop the music! This is not a move!
This is not a move! I've put my back out!
And twelve fifty-eight I'm getting
an icepack for Mr Barker's back.
No, we'll get it, Mrs Parides.
Ava, get Kyle.
I was like why does Kyle have to come?
It doesn't take four
of us to carry an icepack,
but Maudie said he had to be there.
To show us where the cake was.
I know. What?
How many icepacks do, what do
you mean you couldn't find the cake?
Kyle, that's not the freezer!
You put the ice-cream cake in the fridge!
A fridge is still very cold so
I thought the cake would be fine.
[Ava screams]
I was wrong.
It's not a Rubik's cube,
it's a Rubik's puddle!
I'm so sorry,
at home our freezer is on that side.
I thought I did such a good
job being careful with the cake,
and I didn't even break any eggs.
-Eggs don't go in the freezer.
-They do if you want them to last.
Mr Barker's birthday party is
ruined without his birthday cake!
Does it need to be a cake?
♪ Happy Birthday Mr Barker ♪
♪ Happy Birthday to you ♪
-Hip Hip!
-[all] Hooray!
-Hip Hip!
-[all] Hooray!
Are those my blueberries?
-Hip Hip!
-[all] Hooray!
Ava, this is the best
birthday I've ever had!
-[cheering/applause]
-[Mr Barker groans]
Even though Mr Barker never
got his Rubik's cube ice cream cake,
he did get a Rubik's cube puddle
cup so it was a happy ending.
-Finished!
-Perfect timing. So have I!
Oh, very funny Ava as if you have fin...
[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]
[voice over]
The Case of the Vanishing Koalas.
I have big plans for the Inbestigators,
which is why I enrolled in a
Grow Your Business course online.
Actually, my Dad did, but he left
all his notes on the kitchen bench,
and I learned that
people love a good deal.
So, I made some good deal coupons with
Maudie, Ava and Kyle
during lunch on Tuesday.
And on Wednesday.
And on Thursday.
It was really fun.
No offence Ezra, but these have been the
most boring three lunchtimes of my life.
Kyle, don't you want to grow our business?
No, I want to play handball.
It was really fun for some of us.
By Friday the coupons were ready.
Oh, is this for your detective agency?
Wait is this a loyalty card?
It sure is. You pay for ten crimes
and get the eleventh free.
Are you really expecting that much crime?
I hope so.
All we had to do now
was hand out the coupons.
Kyle had an interesting method.
[Kyle] Bullseye!
You're turning our coupons
into paper planes?
-Yes!
-Awesome!
Kyle has a big career in marketing.
But just as business was soaring,
literally... Miss Tan stopped it.
[Miss Tan] Kyle!
Sorry Miss.
No more paper planes!
Look at all these wrappers!
Can someone explain what these are?
They're Kakow Koala wrappers, Miss Tan.
They're the latest craze.
If you didn't have
Kakow Koalas in your lunch box,
you may as well have taken the day off.
If your Mum would let you.
Which mine wouldn't.
Maudie told Miss Tan that...
They're little chocolate covered caramel
biscuits in the shape of Koalas and...
Thank you, Maudie,
I know what Kakow Koalas are.
I mean you're all turning into litterbugs.
James, where are you going?
I need to call my Mum, Miss,
I left my Kakow Koalas at home.
I'll give you one of my
rice paper rolls for one, James!
You can have my leftover mac and cheese!
I'll give you all of my rice paper rolls!
Kakow Koalas were making people
promise the craziest things.
I'll give you my entire fridge!
I'll get my Dad to bring it!
Miss Tan, can I go call my Dad?
He'll need to organise a trolley.
Kyle sit down, James you too. You can
survive one day without Kakow Koalas.
[James gasps]
They're just biscuits.
[class gasps]
Please Miss!
No!
Don't worry James, you can watch me
eat my Kakow Koalas at snack time.
Is that very nice Mario? No!
I'll tell you what is nice,
you volunteering to clean
up the playground at snack time.
Oh, Miss Tan! I'll help!
And I would like to nominate myself
as leader of the litter committee.
Ooh, I'm going to call
it the littermmittee!
Thank you, Ava!
Who else will be joining the littermittee?
-Maudie and I will help.
-You hate cleaning up.
But I love a business opportunity.
I thought you were
supposed to be cleaning up.
No, you'll be the one cleaning up,
with this great deal.
My Dad's online business course
was wasted on Pixie.
I don't get it.
-Pixie!
-Ooh! Yummy, thank you, Charlotte.
It's a discount coupon
for our detective services.
It's statistically unlikely that it'll be
useful but you might as well take it.
We're still working
on Maudie's sales pitch.
Ten crimes, eleventh free!
-What a saving! Am I right, Maudie?
-Not really.
-Shh.
-Yummy, Charlotte!
Oh! This is exactly what I mean!
You children are littering everything!
What a waste! This is 2ply!
Kids really were throwing out everything.
Our coupons aren't rubbish, Ava!
Sorry Ezra.
I'll go find some actual rubbish.
Oh Charlotte! We ate the whole bag.
That's fine. I'm not allowed
to eat Kakow Koalas anyway.
-Are you gluten free?
-No.
-Are you lactose free?
-No.
-Are you vegetarian?
-They have meat in them?
No, but they really look like koalas.
It's just I'm supposed to eat
mainly protein when I'm training.
-Really?! What kind of protein do you...
-[whistle blows]
Just then, Mrs Parides interrupted.
-[whistle blows]
-[Mrs Parides] No fighting!
Unless it is supervised green Taekwondo
and we're not doing that until term three!
But Miss! He stole my Kakow Koalas!
It was very bad news for Mario.
But very good news for the Inbestigators.
-I want to hire the Inbestigators.
-Maudie, hole punch.
-I don't have a hole punch.
-Maudie, stamp.
-Why would I have a stamp?
-Do you at least have scissors?
Ezra, I'm a girl, not a pencil case.
Are you even listening to me?
James stole my Kakow Koalas out
of my bag and I want them back!
How did he know they were there?
Everyone knew. Mario was mean
about it in front of the whole class.
Don't be rude to the client!
James stole them when he
went to keyboard this morning.
Do you want this case or not?!
Of course, we do. How can you pay us?
My Mum has a ten dollar
Office Maxi Mart voucher?
We clearly needed a hole punch and a stamp
so, we agreed to the voucher.
I still had a lot of coupons to hand out,
and Ava was in charge of the Littermittee,
so, Maudie and Kyle went to inbestigate.
I was pretty sure James would just say yes
he stole Mario's Kakow Koalas.
No, I did not steal Mario's Kakow Koalas.
Ask Archie.
We went to keyboard together because
he's my music buddy.
Did Archie come back with you?
No, because he was still at music.
So, you were all alone in the corridor,
right near Mario's bag?
I wasn't alone! Pixie
and that gym girl came out.
-Gym girl?
-He means Charlotte.
Charlotte is training for the
national gymnastics finals.
She misses a lot of school
because of her practise,
which is why James
couldn't remember her name.
Yeah, Charlotte.
She and Pixie saw me walk
-straight back into the classroom.
-Hi James.
Maudie and Kyle needed to talk to
Archie, Pixie and Charlotte
to see if James was telling the truth.
Archie was still at his music lesson.
He plays trombone, guitar and drums.
Really loud drums.
[Maudie] Archie!
Archie, can I ask you
a couple of questions?
Firstly, did James stop and
get anything out of the bags
on your way to music this morning?
No, he was helping me
carry my instruments.
-Mr Spanti's letting me trial the cello.
-You couldn't trial the flute?
[Maudie] So his hands were full.
Yep. And what was the other question?
Do you think you could teach me how
to play the drums some time?
[Archie] Sure!
[Archie continues playing the drums]
It was clear James didn't steal the
Kakow Koalas when he was with Archie,
and it was also clear that Maudie
wanted to learn the drums.
She and Kyle needed to talk to
Pixie and the gym girl Charlotte,
and they found them
them doing cartwheels.
Charlotte is amazing at flipping.
Woh! Charlotte, you are amazing
at flipping! Do you ever get scared?
No, I leap off the high bars all the time.
Do you think you could teach me?
Maudie, I can't believe I'm
the one saying this... but focus.
Sorry. Charlotte, were you and Pixie
in the corridor during class?
Um... yeah. I had to go to the bathroom.
-Miss Tan made me her toilet buddy!
-And did you notice James walk past?
Yeah! Remember Charlotte?
-Hi James.
-Did you ring your Mum, James?
No, I went to music.
So, you still don't have any Kakow Koalas?
Drats. I really wanted some.
Pixie, why did you change
your hair in the toilets?
Is this a trick question?
Because there was a mirror!
And I was chatting to Charlotte.
...but even though I really,
really love pink,
sometimes I think my
favorite colour is turquoise.
How long does it take
to do all those little plaits?
[Ezra] Kyle was surprised.
First the drums,
then the flips and now the plaits.
Well, the bottom ones are easy,
the top ones take ages.
Maybe five minutes.
It'd be so much quicker with your hair,
why is your hair so short?
My Dad and I were sick of
brushing the knots out so we cut it.
Kyle, we need to go to the
bathroom before the bell rings.
I don't need to go.
Oh, actually, I'm busting.
Unfortunately for Kyle, Maudie wanted
to go to the outside of the bathroom,
not the inside,
which is where Ava and I found them.
This is where Miss Tan found
the toilet paper, isn't it?
So?
How high up do you think
that bathroom window is?
Two meters?
What's the girls' bathroom
got to do with anything?
Can everybody please
stop talking about bathrooms
because I really need to use one.
Kyle went to the bathroom
and then it was time for art.
So, we went to get
our aprons out of our tubs.
Any updates on my Kakow Koalas?
-No.
-Yes.
-I think you need to talk to Charlotte.
-Who's Charlotte?
[Pixie] She's Charlotte.
-You took my Kakow Koalas?!
-No, she didn't!
Yes, I did.
-When you went to the toilet, right?
-She was with me the whole entire time.
Or was she?
-No, seriously, was she?
-No, she wasn't.
Pixie, when you were braiding your hair,
you thought Charlotte was in the cubicle.
But Charlotte actually
climbed out the window...
and jumped onto the ground.
Of course!
Charlotte leaps off bars all the time!
She jumped out... oh... and that's when
she knocked the toilet paper out.
What toilet paper?!
You children are littering everything!
But Maudie, Charlotte and I were talking
to each other while she was in the toilet.
Pixie, you were talking to yourself.
[Pixie] Last night we had moussaka,
and tonight, we're having tacos.
Was I? I was. I totally was.
I always do that, don't I, Pixie?
I'm sorry. Maudie's right. I jumped out,
ran back to the corridor,
and took Mario's Kakow Koalas
from his bag and put them in mine.
But you came out of the toilet again.
Because she ran back and climbed up
onto the recycling bin...
and back through the window
and into the locked cubicle.
But I think purple's best for that,
don't you think?
Charlotte, why would you do that?!
Because she was lonely.
I know. What?
Charlotte's a champion gymnast who can
do amazing things and impress everyone.
Why would she be lonely?
Because she missed so much school because
of gym... she doesn't have any friends.
[Maudie] Don't you remember when we
were making the coupons in the library,
Charlotte was there too, alone?
She had no one to play with.
So, when Charlotte saw how obsessed
everyone was about Kakow Koalas...
I'll give you my entire fridge!
...she knew if she had some to share,
it would be a sure-fire
way to make some friends.
Thanks Charlotte!
She wasn't allowed any of her own,
so, she decided to take Mario's.
I am really sorry, Mario.
I'll get you some more Kakow Koalas,
and also, I'll make you some
of my special training muffins.
Okay fine.
[Pixie] Charlotte...
I am devastated that you think
you need Kakow Koalas
to sit with us because you don't.
And I am so sorry that I didn't
notice you alone in the library.
I'm so sorry Charlotte.
I'm really sorry.
The girls got all gooey and hugged and
everything and then Charlotte felt better.
And she did make her
special muffins for Mario,
which don't have any chocolate or sugar
or butter or flavour so they weren't
what Mario was expecting.
But that didn't stop him eating
them because he's a garbage guts.
And Mario gave us the
Office Maxi Mart voucher,
which was handy because
we needed a recycling bin.
We may have made too many coupons.
[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]
[voice over]
The Case of the Extremely Empty Freezer.
Hello and welcome to the Inbestigators.
-Two Thursdays...
-[Ezra] Ava, wait!
My Mum said I have to finish my
homework before I do any filming.
Well my Mum is picking me
up soon so I have to start.
Okay... can you go slow though?
-So, two Thursdays ago...
-[Ezra] Go slower than that!
[sighs] it was payday
in the Inbestigators office.
And this is the Office Maxi Mart voucher
that we got for finding
Mr Henderson's glasses.
He really didn't need to pay us,
they were on his head.
Oh! I've already made a list of everything
we need from Office Maxi Mart.
Stapler, fruity scented highlighters, oh!
It's Mr Barker's birthday on Wednesday!
We have to do something super special!
Should we get him
a cupcake with a candle?
Maudie that's adorable but he needs
something much bigger than that because,
you have to promise not to tell anyone,
but my Mum does Pilates
with Mr Barker's sister
and she said that his girlfriend moved
back to London because she was homesick.
What's that got to do with anything?
It means Mr Barker is lovesick.
I don't get it.
Kyle, imagine if your favorite soccer
player that you liked to go and watch...
Louis Prestia.
Okay, imagine if Louie
suddenly moved to Spain.
Poor Mr Barker!
That's why he was being weird yesterday.
Hey Mr Barker, catch!
I thought he didn't like his soup but
I guess he was... what's that word again?
Lovesick.
My Mum and I watch a lot
of romantic comedy movies,
so, I know how sad grown ups
can get when their heart is broken.
But I also know the secret
to mending a broken heart is...
a party! Who's in?
Ava, when did the Inbestigators
branch out into party planning?
Fifteen seconds ago.
The secret to party planning is starting
with the most important thing.
Tuna dip?
What...? No! A theme.
What does Mr Barker like?
That girl who moved to London.
Not helpful, Kyle.
He likes his dog Crayon!
We could do a dog party!
That sounds scary, I mean boring.
There are much better themes, like...
Um... well when was he born?
Nineteen-eighty-two.
Nineteen-eighty-two.
We could have a nineteen eighties party?
Yes! Wait, what happened
in the nineteen eighties again?
Mr Barker was born a long,
long time before we were.
We needed to do some searching up
about what happened in the eighties.
Guys, you will not believe this. No one
had the internet in nineteen eighty-two!
I read that on the internet,
so that means I couldn't even
tell you there was no internet
in nineteen eighty-two if I was
telling you in nineteen-eighty-two.
No internet. How did anyone plan parties?
Once we'd come up with enough
information about the eighties,
we came up with our party jobs.
Kids can watch me solve a Rubik's cube!
Maudie, it's a party, not a science fair,
and I need you to do
the decorations with me.
Ezra, you'll be making the piñata.
Oh, what if it's a boombox
filled with lollies?
Yes, and glow sticks! Kyle,
you'll be making the ice cream cake.
Can the cake be a Rubik's cube?
Wouldn't that hurt your teeth?
A Rubik's cube ice cream cake.
Yes! Sugar meets science,
Mr Barker will love it!
Awesome! I'll make the cake.
Oh, except I've got one teensy problem.
-What?
-I don't know how to make a cake.
We can order one.
I can ask for some money
from the SRC party fund,
and then all you have to do is pick it
up from the shop and bring it to school.
Boring. Can I have another job too?
Definitely.
DJ K-Boom-Klimson
coming live from the hall!
-[applause, cheering]
-[girl] Let's dance!
-[Eighties music playing]
-[girl] Come on boys!
Our planning had paid off and everyone
was having a blast from the past.
But the person I most wanted
to be having a blast was Mr Barker.
-Mr Barker, do you like the party?
-I don't.
I love it!
-Wait till you see the last surprise!
-Will Mr McGillick do karaoke?
-No!
-Will Miss Tan do karaoke?
-No!
-Will Mrs Parides do kara...
No one's doing karaoke! It's a cake!
You got me a cake?!
That makes me feel so special. Thank you!
Mr Barker looked so happy...
I think he had actually
forgotten about being lovesick!
I couldn't wait till he saw the cake,
because the cake
was the icing on the cake!
I mean... you know what I mean.
Kyle and his dad had bought
the most amazing six flavoured,
Rubik's cube ice cream cake.
This square's banana-rama, that one's
hokey pokey, there's strawberry sherbet,
or is that strawberry sherbet? No, that
one is boysenberry-licious and there's...
Kyle, keep walking!
The ice cream will melt!
Hurry up and put it
in the staffroom freezer!
A birthday cake is not just a cake.
It's a whole package.
You need plates, spoons, pretty napkins,
and three people to carry it all.
-Where's the cake?!
-It must be here somewhere.
It's not! The freezer is empty!
-Except for blueberries.
-And ice packs.
And seafood.
But no cake! Someone must have taken it!
Or eaten it.
-[all] Kyle!
-[Eighties music playing]
[all] Kyle!
Great song, right?
Did you eat Mr Barker's birthday cake?
What?! No way!
Last time I ate a whole birthday cake,
I sugar crashed,
and slept through my whole party.
I'm never doing that again.
Well where is it then?
-In the freezer in the staffroom.
-Are you sure you put it in there?
Of course, I'm sure!
I put it on the middle shelf,
and made room for the box and everything.
We believed Kyle had
put the cake in the freezer,
and that he hadn't eaten it,
mainly because he wasn't asleep.
But now the cake was missing and
I say this without exaggeration,
Mr Barker's entire future happiness
depended on finding that cake.
We need a distraction until we find
the cake, Kyle, make a speech!
Okay. Um, I can make one about
Louie Prestia, my favorite soccer player.
He eats three bowls
of pasta for breakfast.
The speech has to be about Mr Barker!
I don't know what
Mr Barker eats for breakfast.
Oh! Do the one you
memorised in class! About Freddie!
About Freddie?
Yes! Just change the name to Mr Barker!
Yeah, okay. I can do that.
[microphone screeches]
Shout out to our teach Mr B!
Got some special words for your birthday!
[applause, cheering]
Five years ago, my family rescued Fre...
Mr Barker from the animal shelter.
I maybe didn't think the whole
speech idea through properly,
because Freddie is Kyle's dog.
But the important thing was,
it gave us some more time.
We need to talk to every single person
here right now about the missing cake,
and if we question five people,
six people at a time
we'll get through it quickly.
Okay, that's one plan.
Or we can speak to someone
we know went to the freezer today.
Mr Barker's favorite food
is definitely liver treats.
Come on.
I don't know if Mr Barker
likes liver treats,
but we all know Miss Tan
likes blueberries in her smoothies,
and Maudie remembered there were
blueberries in the staffroom freezer.
Mr Barker also loves his baths,
in the laundry sink.
-[Kyle] Mr Barker's favorite things are...
-[Maudie] Miss Tan!
...long walks on the beach...
did you make your blueberry
smoothie this morning?
-Yes.
-Miss Tan!
I cannot believe you ate Mr Barker's
birthday cake! How could you?!
What Ava is trying to say is
when you got your blueberries from
the staffroom freezer at snack,
did you see Mr Barker's ice cream cake?
No. There was no cake.
That was silly of me to accuse
Miss Tan of eating the cake...
because she's been off sugar this whole
term and she has amazing self-control.
We knew that the cake had gone missing
sometime between before school and snack.
We had to find out who else had
gone to the freezer in that time.
And we all love him,
even though he's getting older,
and his back legs
are wobbly and he dribbles.
So, let's hear it for Mr Barker!
[weak clapping]
Kyle had finished his speech.
We needed a new distraction, fast.
Piñata time! Let's go Miss Tan!
[Miss Tan exclaims]
Okay, um, so, just hit it?
-Swing to your left!
-Her left? You mean her right?
I spent a lot of time making that piñata.
I don't want it to break.
It's a piñata. Its job is to break.
To your left, Miss Tan!
[gasps]
Oops.
Seeing Mr McGillick get hit
with the inflatable microphone,
made us remember that we had seen
something else we had seen in the freezer.
There was a bag of frozen seafood
with his name written on it, 'Henry'.
Come on, Miss Tan,
I think it's somebody else's turn now.
Did you put a bag of
food in the freezer today?
No, I don't have anything in the freezer.
We know you're lying!
You ate a whole birthday
cake until you were full,
then hid the evidence in
your bag of frozen prawns!
I may have been getting desperate.
Ava, I didn't understand a word of,
wait, did you say prawns?
Oh, that's where they went.
They were for our Christmas barbecue.
I better call my wife.
So, you haven't opened the
staffroom freezer since last year?
No. Did you notice if the
prawns have expired yet?
[whack]
[screaming]
-Is there another piñata?
-No there's not!
With the piñata as broken
as Mr Barker's heart,
and the cake nowhere to be seen,
we really needed another distraction.
Ava, I think the cake needs to come out
now because the bell's about to ring.
Sure thing, Mr Barker but, um,
I've been flooded with
requests for your robot dance!
Oh, I couldn't possibly
do that at my own party!
Kyle! Hit me with some funky beats!
Go, Barker! When I say 'Mister',
you say 'Barker'! Mister!
-[all] Barker!
-[Miss Parides] Mister!
-[all] Barker!
-Whoop!
Mrs Parides getting excited, made Maudie
remember the last thing in the freezer...
her ice packs.
Mrs Parides, have you been to the
staffroom freezer today to get ice packs?
And maybe to make room for those ice packs
you had to chuck out a beautiful cake!
How could you Mrs Parides?!
I'm good at investigating
and I'm excellent at party planning,
just not at the same time.
Ava just wants to know if you were
at the freezer before snack time.
Are you kidding me? I'm at the freezer
every ten minutes to get an ice pack!
Let's see, today there was
nine-fifteen when Jason hurt his elbow,
ten forty-five when
Harry rolled his ankle,
ten fifty-five when Harry
rolled the other ankle.
And did you see a cake box?
What, like a white
cardboard box from a shop?
[both] Yes!
No, I didn't. There was no cake.
That freezer is almost empty.
Mrs Parides said the freezer was almost
empty and Maudie got her thinking face on,
-which is when we suddenly heard a...
-[Mr Barker groans]
Stop the music! This is not a move!
This is not a move! I've put my back out!
And twelve fifty-eight I'm getting
an icepack for Mr Barker's back.
No, we'll get it, Mrs Parides.
Ava, get Kyle.
I was like why does Kyle have to come?
It doesn't take four
of us to carry an icepack,
but Maudie said he had to be there.
To show us where the cake was.
I know. What?
How many icepacks do, what do
you mean you couldn't find the cake?
Kyle, that's not the freezer!
You put the ice-cream cake in the fridge!
A fridge is still very cold so
I thought the cake would be fine.
[Ava screams]
I was wrong.
It's not a Rubik's cube,
it's a Rubik's puddle!
I'm so sorry,
at home our freezer is on that side.
I thought I did such a good
job being careful with the cake,
and I didn't even break any eggs.
-Eggs don't go in the freezer.
-They do if you want them to last.
Mr Barker's birthday party is
ruined without his birthday cake!
Does it need to be a cake?
♪ Happy Birthday Mr Barker ♪
♪ Happy Birthday to you ♪
-Hip Hip!
-[all] Hooray!
-Hip Hip!
-[all] Hooray!
Are those my blueberries?
-Hip Hip!
-[all] Hooray!
Ava, this is the best
birthday I've ever had!
-[cheering/applause]
-[Mr Barker groans]
Even though Mr Barker never
got his Rubik's cube ice cream cake,
he did get a Rubik's cube puddle
cup so it was a happy ending.
-Finished!
-Perfect timing. So have I!
Oh, very funny Ava as if you have fin...
[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]