The InBESTigators (2019) s01e09e10 Episode Script

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[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]
[voice over]
The Case of the Exciting Excursion.
Hello!
Ezra went to buy some fish food
for Poppy's fish Tibbles,
so I'm in charge of telling
you about this week's case,
which all started the day
before our class excursion.
Not just any excursion.
The best excursion ever.
In. Door. Rock. Climb. Ing.
[indistinct noisy chatter]
-Okay, settle down children.
-[Maudie] Miss Tan.
What time will we be leaving?
-Nine-fifteen at the latest, so
-[Mario] There are harnesses,
aren't there Miss?
It's definitely safe, isn't it?
Of course Mario,
we wouldn't take you otherwise.
Miss Tan, I don't like heights,
so, can I just watch?
No, you'll be fine, Ruby,
you don't have to go high and
Can I go before Ezra?
What - why?
-He's really slow.
-I am not.
We went indoor rock climbing
at my birthday,
and at the end when we were having cake,
Ezra was only half way up the wall.
That is not true.
I was three quarters of the way up.
Scene of the Climb, which is the name
of the rock climbing place,
has these two identical walls
so you can race against each other.
And the faster you can go up
the quicker you can come down
and go up again.
I could not wait to get
on that excursion bus.
Kyle I don't think you'll be
getting on that excursion bus.
What?
I haven't got your permission slip
and if you don't bring it in the morning,
then you won't be
allowed to come tomorrow.
It's coming Miss, I swear.
It's on the way. I promise.
You lost the form again, didn't you?
Yes.
Last one, Kyle.
Put it in your diary now.
Yes Miss Tan.
And I'll write it down so I don't forget.
I will not forget my permission slip.
-That's my diary, Kyle.
-Oh.
I wasn't the only one
who needed a reminder.
And Pixie, I'm missing your slip as well.
No, I definitely, totally, one hundred
percent gave it to you, Miss Tan.
I don't think you did.
Oh. Then I probably left
it on the fridge at home.
Well, you must remember it tomorrow, okay?
Oh, and Mario!
I haven't received yours either.
Miss Tan sounded surprised
because I always forget,
Pixie always forgets,
but Mario never forgets.
It's not like you to forget.
I know, I'm sorry, Miss Tan.
My Nonna is looking after
me while my parents are away,
and she keeps forgetting to sign it.
It's fine. I'll have it tomorrow.
Make sure you remind your Nonna tonight,
okay?
Miss Tan,
I have a question about the excursion.
What is it, Kyle?
Before when you said that was the last
form you would give me, did you mean it?
-Yes.
-Okay.
-You've lost it, haven't you?
-Yes I have.
I don't know why Miss Tan
needed that piece of paper.
Obviously if I had my birthday
party at indoor rock climbing,
then obviously my parents would
give me permission to go there again,
and obviously I shouldn't
be carrying two chairs at once.
I had one more chance
to go on the excursion.
I got it!
Right on time!
You're actually fifteen minutes late,
Kyle and you give the slip to me,
not Ray the bus driver.
-Right. Can I sit up the front Ray?
-No.
-Can I drive the bus?
-No.
[Miss Tan] Hang on
What's wrong, Miss Tan?
The permission slips. They're not here.
Nobody was surprised when Miss Tan said
she didn't have the permission slips,
because Miss Tan loses everything.
She lost my Maths homework, my book
report, my ancient Egypt assignment
Okay, she didn't lose
any of that stuff, I did.
Miss Tan if you're watching this, sorry.
But this time, Miss Tan was positive
she did not lose the permission slips.
They were here,
they were in this folder on my desk.
And they were still in the folder on your
desk when I put mine in this morning.
Yeah, same for me.
Maybe one of you dislodged them
when you put your slips in.
So it might have dropped out when
you picked up the folder, Miss Tan?
-But does it matter Miss?
-Yeah, we all handed them in.
I need them with me
to leave for the excursion.
Well Ray, I guess it's just you and me.
-Kyle, stop getting on the bus.
-But I have my slip here!
You'll have another slip in a minute
and it will be a detention slip.
I got off the bus.
Miss Tan told everyone
to wait by the bus and
I'll go to the classroom and have a look.
I'll go too!
Why is he in such a hurry to help?
Because it's five past nine.
We have to leave in ten minutes.
Miss Tan!
If you can't find them,
does that mean we can't go?
Oh, well, it won't come to that, Ruby,
because I'm sure we will find them.
We wouldn't be able to go if we
didn't have permission slips?
Why didn't you say so?
I needed to be like Mario
and take this way more seriously!
This excursion has to go ahead!
It is the social event of the season!
Ruby! Hurry, come on!
[Kyle] Ruby was being a slow
coach which was annoying,
because we only had ten minutes,
but the rest of us sprinted to the
classroom to search for the slips.
I knew I'd be able to find
them if I looked really hard.
-What are you doing?!
-Just grabbing my jumper.
Not you Mario, Kyle.
Pick those chairs up, Kyle!
Now,
the folder sleeve with the slips in it
would have dropped out somewhere
around my desk, here
-Where were the folders, Pixie?
-I think it was over here.
Wait, no, it was over here. No, it was on
the whiteboard ledge! Ah, I don't know!
-A-ha!
-Did you find them?!
No, but I've been
looking for these all week.
[Kyle] It was seven past nine.
We had eight minutes to find those slips,
and Miss Tan didn't seem very focused.
Luckily Ezra was there to take control.
T minus eight minutes people!
We need to find those slips asap or
-Ezra, get off the desk.
-Yes Miss Tan.
It didn't last long
but I still found it helpful.
Alright everyone, we need to work fast.
Um, Ava, Pixie, Maudie,
keep searching around my desk.
And, um, James and Justin, go look
down the corridor towards the garden.
And Mario, I don't think it will
be around the notice board,
You go with Archie, along the other
end of the corridor towards the office.
-Yes Miss Tan!
-On it!
And everyone else, just
spread out around the room, and look!
We looked everywhere,
the desks, the chairs, the shelves,
the bins, the tubs, the pencil cases,
the bins, the tubs - wait,
I already said that.
Anyway, you name it, we looked there.
[Kyle] And suddenly,
we only had five minutes left.
-Miss Tan, it's ten past!
-[Miss Tan] This makes no sense!
Where could they have gone?!
Pixie and Ruby! Are you even helping?
Sorry.
Wow. Ruby really does not want
to find those permission slips.
[Mr McGillick] What's going on in here?
Maudie was in the middle of talking
when we heard a familiar voice.
I thought you would have left by now,
Miss Tan.
Oh, yes, um we just have some
last minute things to do, Mr McGillick.
Mario needed his jumper,
and um, I, I needed some water
Everyone knows
Miss Tan loses things a lot,
so obviously she did not
want Mr McGillick to know
she couldn't find the permission slips.
It's like when my Dad loses his keys,
and then his wallet and then his phone,
and then his keys again and says,
"We're not telling your mother, okay?".
Right, well, it's almost nine fifteen.
Yes, I know, so,
thank you for stopping by,
and, uh, we look forward
to telling you all about our day at the
[whispers] Hurry!
We were starting to lose hope.
Any ideas?
A football that never
needs to be pumped up.
Ideas about where
the permission slips are.
Oh. Nope.
What if we're not supposed
to find them at all?
What?
Maybe someone wanted
this excursion cancelled.
Who hates fun?!
Mr McGillick!
It's like that time he wouldn't let
me play with my frisbee in his office.
-I bet he
-It wasn't Mr McGillick.
Mrs Parides! She's jealous
she's not going rock climbing too!
I'm talking about Ruby.
-Ruby?
-Yes!
She's the only one who isn't
excited about going rock climbing.
Maudie thought Ruby must
have hidden the permission slips
so she wouldn't have to go rock climbing.
Ruby is a monster.
We know what you did!
You hid the permission slips
so we wouldn't find them,
so we couldn't go rock climbing,
so we could do your favourite
thing all day, long division.
-I hate long division!
-Fine. Short division!
No division!
Just because I don't
want to go rock climbing,
doesn't mean I'd ruin
it for everyone else.
I can't believe you would think that!
I can't believe we wouldn't think that,
because there is absolutely no one
else here who knows where they are.
-Found it!
-Apart from Mario, sorry Ruby.
Just to be clear, Ruby is not a monster.
We were so excited Mario
had found the permission slips.
[all clap and cheer]
-Where were they?!
-In the corridor, behind the photocopier!
What? How did they get there?
It was amazing!
He thought that maybe someone put them
there by mistake and they'd fallen behind.
And he was right!
He knew exactly where to look!
-Three cheers for Mario, hip hip
-Kyle!
There's no time for three cheers.
One cheer for Mario, hooray, let's go!
Now Maudie was being the slow coach.
And we had to get on that bus.
Oh, hold on, hold on!
I need to mark you all off.
Can't we just go?
Ava, quickly, check everyone off.
Maudie, can you find Pixie's and Mario's
slips I haven't seen them yet.
Okay, Justin, James,
Archie, Kyle, Esther, Ezra
-[bus horn honks]
-[Kyle] Hey Ray!
-Ruby, Pixie.
-Yep. Here's Pixie's.
Thank you. Mario!
Yep, that's mine.
-Um
-What is it, Maudie?
Well
That's fine!
But it's signed, Nonna Rischitelli.
Yes, Mario's Nonna is looking
after him at the moment.
Yeah, my parents are away.
My Nonna signed it.
But is her name 'Nonna'?
My grandma wouldn't sign her name
Grandma Miller she'd sign it Nancy Miller.
Mario, did you sign this yourself?
I think that's why our
permission slips went missing.
I'm really sorry, Miss Tan.
We were all really confused.
Well, all of us except Maudie.
What do you mean Mario
hid the permission slips?
His Nonna thought rock
climbing was too dangerous,
and even though he told
her his teacher said it was safe
-It's definitely safe, isn't it?
-Of course Mario.
She wouldn't say yes, so he
pretended he'd handed his in.
[Maudie] And then took all the
slips out of Miss Tan's folder
and hid them in his tub.
He thought that the excursion
would just go ahead as normal,
but when it didn't he knew
he needed a signed slip.
I'll go to the classroom and have a look.
I'll go too!
[Maudie] He got the slips out of his tub
and pulled out one of the spare forms,
and tried to quickly sign it,
but then we all came in.
[Miss Tan] What are you doing?
Just grabbing my jumper.
And so when Miss Tan sent him
to look for the slips in the corridor,
he had the chance to sign a slip,
and then took them all back to class.
I found them!
And it would have been fine if he
hadn't signed his Nonna's name wrong.
I mean,
obviously it wouldn't have been fine
because he would have been doing the
wrong thing but you know what I mean?
Poor Mario.
The good news is that although
Mario got in a bit of trouble,
Mr McGillick understood
and spoke to Mario's Nonna,
and convinced her
that it was totally safe,
so he brought Mario
to the excursion a little bit later.
The even more good news is
that I beat Ezra on the rock wall!
Everyone did.
Even Mario who came an hour late.
Wow, I reported the whole
case and built a blanket fort!
I should keep doing stuff and so Ezra
is really impressed when he gets back.
[snores]
[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]
[voice over]
The Case of the Very Lost Notebook.
[beeping, whirring]
Okay, ready.
Today has been an historic
day for the Inbestigators so
We're in the art room at
lunchtime to report this case.
So we don't forget a single detail
or get distracted by anything.
Ezra is that salami on your sandwich?
I love salami. And pastrami.
I love all the 'ami's.
Kyle! You're distracting yourself!
Sorry. Back to the prehistoric
day we've had, Ezra.
Were there dinosaurs? I said historic.
Meaning it will go down in history,
because today was the first day that
Maudie was unable to solve a case.
And that's because the person
who needed a case solved was
[all] Maudie.
[Ava] So, this morning, Maudie was late.
And when she came in she went straight to
her tub and started looking for something.
Good morning Maudie.
Maudie? Is everything all right?
Maudie didn't even answer.
She just kept searching through her tub.
Making a very big mess.
[Ezra] And when she couldn't
find what she was looking for,
she went over to her table
and searched through that.
Maudie, what are you looking for?
But Maudie still didn't answer.
We have seen Maudie do a lot
of weird stuff but not like this.
She was upset and I was beginning
to get worried. So was Miss Tan.
Well, if you just told us
what you were looking for,
we might be able to help you find it.
Maudie? Where's she gone?
Miss Tan found Maudie under a table.
What is it? What's the matter?
-I've lost my notebook.
-You've lost your notebook?!
We could not believe Maudie could lose
her notebook. It was so precious to her.
It was like an extra part of her,
like lungs or a liver.
Or a grey blankie with elephants
on it that you need to go to sleep with.
Because I read that in a book
once about a boy who is not me.
Maudie used her notebook to write
every detail about every case.
And she also used it to
put special things in like
when Ezra made us our first
Inbestigators business cards.
And sometimes she just
likes twanging the elastic
-to think while she's solving a case.
-[Kyle] Do you know who did it yet?
What about now?
-What about now?
-Kyle!
[whispers] Can I twang the elastic too?
Maudie keeps her notebook
in her pocket all zipped up,
so I had no idea how
she could have lost it.
I thought maybe it made
a hole in her pocket,
and slipped through and
got wedged in her underpants.
That happened to me with footy cards.
We had never seen Maudie without
her notebook, neither had Miss Tan.
She knew how important it was.
Okay, why don't you go with
Ezra to the Lost and Found
I've looked there.
Okay, what if Ava takes you to the office
and you ask if anyone's handed it in?
I've done that and they haven't.
Miss, she should check the top
of her underpants because once I
It's not in my underpants.
It's not anywhere. It's disappeared.
No, its gotta be somewhere Um.
Everybody hop up and let's look
on our tables and in our tubs.
We'll find it.
But we didn't.
Miss Tan said sometimes not trying
to remember helps you remember,
so we should not think about
the notebook for a while,
and think about our school work instead.
But without the notebook
Maudie couldn't think at all.
Octagon. Maudie,
how many sides would an octagon have?
Turkey.
What? No, listen. If a pentagon has five
sides and an octagon would have?
Three thousand.
An octopus has eight arms
so an octagon would have?
The pyramids.
Something was seriously
wrong with Maudie's wiring.
She was biting her nails which she
never does and she was all panicky.
She was exactly like my big sister
when she went on school camp,
and she couldn't find
her sleeping bag cover,
and she was having this
meltdown and my Mum said,
"For Heaven's sake, Alice,
calm down, we'll find it!"
So I said to Maudie
For Heaven's sake, Alice,
calm down, we'll find it!
Who's Alice?
There is no use freaking out,
because it doesn't help us find
your sleeping bag cover,
I mean your notebook any faster.
Kyle was amazing.
He really knows how to rally a team.
He told Miss Tan that
we needed to leave class,
so he could rally us together
to find Maudie's notebook.
So, Maudie.
Where did you last have your notebook?
-I can't remember.
-Did you definitely lose it at school?
I can't remember.
Was it yesterday in the
morning or the afternoon?
I can't remember.
Maudie not being able to remember
was like me not being able to
Recite prime numbers to a thousand.
It was the worst thing that could happen.
So we had to remember for her.
[Kyle] I told Maudie we needed
to retrace her steps.
You walked into school yesterday.
Then did you step this way?
Or this way?
Or this way?
Kyle's method of retracing
steps was very literal.
You say literal, I say thorough.
Luckily Ava helped us
fast forward the steps.
Fruit Kebabs!
Remember? Yesterday in health?
Miss Tan was teaching us fun ways with
fruit and we were making tropical kebabs.
Oky doky look at that!
[Kyle] Yah! Take that!
Kyle, these are for eating
not for going into battle.
-[Ava] I'd finished mine,
-Maudie!
so I was making melon name plates.
You made me a Maudie melon!
I love it, Ava!
You loved it so much that what did you do?
I ate it?
You wrote the idea down in your notebook!
I'm gonna make on of those for my Dad,
because he is terrible at eating fruit
but excellent at reading words.
Ava, you're right!
I still had my notebook in health!
Maybe you left it in the kitchen!
Let's go see.
And if we have time can you make
me a Maudie melon too?
Your name's Kyle.
A 'Kyle melon' doesn't sound as good.
[Ezra] We ran to the classroom kitchen
but there was nothing there.
Standing back at my bench made
me suddenly remember something.
There was a
Fire drill!
Ezra, that's right, there was!
Yes, because Miss Tan thought
that I'd set off the smoke alarms!
[smoke alarm blares]
Kyle, did that banana
fly off your fruit sword?
It wasn't me, I promise!
It's a fire drill, Miss Tan.
Mr McGillick had it scheduled
on the staffroom whiteboard.
Why were you looking at the
staffroom white, oh, never mind.
Okay. Everyone, line up quickly
and quietly at the door.
In a sec, Miss Tan. I just want
to finish my fruit powered rocket.
And then, what Ezra said made me
remember what happened next.
Miss Tan got impatient that we were
being slow and put on her serious voice.
Children!
This is a very important fire drill.
So put down whatever you are doing
right now and come to the door!
[Ava] Maudie put her notebook
in her apron pocket!
You were so surprised by
Miss Tan's serious voice,
that for once you didn't
zip it up in your uniform!
I didn't?
So all we have to do now
is look in the aprons.
The class rep parents
take turns to wash them.
Oh great, so the notebook has gone
through the washing machine?
Still? I said I was sorry!
You need to take your foot out
of your mouth, Ezra Banks.
That's what my Mum says to me
when I'm trying to fit all my toes in.
Maudie looked like she was about to cry,
so I suggested we keep retracing our steps
in case she'd taken it out of the apron
pocket and left it somewhere else.
When we left the kitchen classroom we went
to the fire drill safe assembly spot AKA,
the oval.
[Kyle] Fire drills are the worst because
you have to stand around on the oval,
and you're not allowed to
kick any balls or anything.
Kyle! Give me back my hat!
I'm not sure what Mr McGillick expected
me to do without anything to play with.
It was so boring.
-So?
-What did you do?
I don't know. Just talked and stuff.
No you didn't!
You re-traced the next
bit for Maudie, remember?!
Oh yeah! I told her I was feeling so bored
without anything to throw or kick.
when I saw the girls in
our class doing handstands,
and one of those girls was Maudie.
Kyle told Maudie how
he had joined in too.
And that we were
trying to see who could
stay up the longest!
Oh yeah.
You were pretty good
at it but not as good at me.
I can't remember everything Kyle
but I remember that's not true.
Fine, I was terrible.
You stayed up and I fell down, but
while I was down, I saw something.
[Kyle] Your notebook fell out!
And then what happened? Did I pick it up?
Did you pick it up? Kyle?
I wished I could tell
Maudie what happened,
but I honestly couldn't
remember a thing after that.
And that's because
[Ava] he fell asleep.
Who falls asleep in the
middle of a crowded oval?
At ten-thirty in the morning?
That grass is surprisingly soft.
The fire drill finished and everyone left
and Kyle didn't even wake up
until Mrs Parides brought the
Grade Fours out for softball.
[Mrs Parides] Kyle!
Oh good, you've brought my pillows.
-They're softball bases.
-Thanks Mum.
I'm Mrs Parides!
I think I was dribbling.
It was so embarrassing.
The good part though,
was that we found someone else
who may have seen Maudie's notebook.
Maybe Mrs Parides saw it!
Maybe Mrs Parides picked it up!
Maybe it's been in her
office this whole time.
Come on!
[Ava] We suddenly felt
very optimistic because things
were finally making sense.
Maudie had dropped
her notebook on the oval.
And then a teacher had been out
on the oval and would have seen
-Or been handed
-The notebook.
Mrs Parides definitely
would have the notebook.
I definitely don't have the notebook.
I'm sorry Maudie.
you tried Lost and Found?
Watching Maudie look so
sad made us feel terrible.
Her notebook wasn't just lost,
it was very lost.
We told ourselves she'll be okay,
kids lose stuff all the time.
And even though Maudie is amazing,
she's still only ten years old,
and ten year olds forget things.
I still forget things and I'm eleven.
Still. We felt like we'd let her down.
We should probably go back to class.
-Yeah.
-We should.
I wish we knew what happened
after the grade fours played softball.
Kyle suddenly ran out into the playground
and so we ran out after him.
[Ezra]
But we had no idea where we were going.
Maudie, come on!
[Ezra] Maudie started running too, then
we ran and we all followed Kyle to the
[Ezra, Ava] Sports shed?
Mrs Parides took the
Grade Fours out for softball, right?
What if a softball base
landed on Maudie's notebook?
Kids are pretty sloppy about putting
equipment away, which bugs me a lot.
so they may not have cared if they'd
packed something away that didn't belong.
Like Maudie's notebook!
-Kyle had found the notebook.
-He had worked it out.
It was the best day of my life.
Then it was the worst.
-Maudie, disgusting. Let go.
-Thank you Kyle.
Maudie was so happy because the notebook
wasn't the only thing Maudie had lost.
Maudie, is this you? How old are you?
You are adorable.
Wait, is that your Mum? She's so pretty.
She is, isn't she? It's very annoying
because I can't remember her very well.
But I remember this day,
it was before she got sick,
and we went to the movies and
we went to the photo booth outside,
and she made us do all these
different funny poses, see?
Kyle, let's go and see Mr McGillick,
and ask for a merit award
for you for solving this case.
Well, it was a team effort.
What popped into my head then,
was when we asking Maudie
about losing her notebook,
and she was upset and kept
saying I can't remember.
Maybe she was talking about her Mum.
What?
Maybe she was thinking that if she
lost the photo of her and her Mum,
she would lose the memory of her.
-But she wouldn't.
-She couldn't.
Of course not. But I'm glad
that you found it for her.
Well, it was a team
Okay, this day is just getting revolting.
Turn these cameras off.
I do not want anyone to see this gross!
[upbeat instrumental rock music playing]