02x12 - The Guilty Party

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Okay, there's this really
bad dude named hacker --

Hacker: the hacker, to you!

Whatever.
He wants to take over

The cyberworld
from motherboard.

[ Gasp ]
the three kids
are sucked into cyberspace,

And they use brain power
to help save everybody.

Jackie:
okay, here's the plan.

So they travel
all over and run into all these

Weird creatures...and have all
of these awesome adventures.

It's totally up to them
to save cyberspace.

Can three cool kids and a wacky
bird outsmart the hacker?

Hacker: never!
Matt: there's only one way
to find out!

Tune in
to "cyberchase"!

Cyberchase!♪

♪ We're movin', we're beatin'
hacker at his game. ♪

♪ Don't tell me that he's trying
to hack the motherboard, ♪

♪ We'll get him every time. ♪

♪ Cosmic worlds,
freaky places that we've seen, ♪

♪ We got the power
of one, two, three, four! ♪

♪ Runnin' in a cyberchase, ♪

♪ We'll meet him face to face. ♪

♪ We'll stick together
all the time! ♪

♪ Adventures in cyberspace ♪

The chase is o

♪ Just wait and
♪ advc-y-b-e-r-chase! ♪Ace ♪

Jackie:
turn on the light, matt.

Matt:
it doesn't work.

Inez:
great. H are we supposed to
find your old football trophy?

Jackie:
is that the one you got for
best waterboy of the year?

Matt:
very funny!

I got it for kicking the
longest field goal in camp.

See!

Jackie:
aww, you were cute!

What happened?

Hey, guys,
look what I found!

Way to go,
sherlock!

Now I feel like
a real detective.

Let's find that trophy!

All I see are shadowy shapes.

Matt:
just look for something
shaped like a football.

Hacker alert!
Poddleville!

Hacker's recharger key...
Missing.

Must find the key.

Suspect not guilty...
Can't be! Can't be!

Why not, mother b?

He's dr. Marbles nephew!

Inez:
hacker robbed. Wow!

Chief:
he threw a big party
for us poddles last night.

Claims one of the guests,
sleight o'hand,

Made off
with his recharger key!

Why would you poddles want to
go to a party given by hacker?

After all those dirty tricks
that green-faced phony

Played on you guys!

That's old news.
History.

No more trying
to steal our energy.

He even gave us a present.

Mayor:
and so, on behalf
of all poddles,

I accept hackers gift,

Celebrating our new era
of friendship!

Poddles:
(gasp)

I, I mean, we are extremely
grateful, mr. Hacker.

That's the hacker,
to you, mayor!

But nevertheless, I'm thrilled
we're palsy walsy again.

Now, let's party!

Poddles:
yay!

Chief:
and what a party it was!

Music, dancing,

And the best donuts hacker's
money could buy!

And for entertainment,

The great sleight o'hand
and his dog presto!

Ok presto, double flip.
Alley oop!

Poddles:
(cheers)

C'mon, presto,
don't embarrass me.

Do your double flip!

Alley oop!

Ditsy dog!
He's hopeless!

I tell you folks,
you can't trust no one!

Come here,
you canine con man!

Folks,
I don't like to brag,

But I'm known as the best
pickpocket in cyberspace.

So before I go,

Mayor, your wallet.

Poddles:
(laughs)

And mr. Hacker,

Just for you.

Hacker:
wha--? My recharger key!

Without this key
to recharge my energizer-

Sleight:
oh, almost forgot,
your undershirt?

When the party was over,

Hacker found out
his key was missing.

Inez:
so what makes you think
sleight o'hand

Is the one who took it?

Front door had a metal
detector, back door didn't.

So whoever took that key
went out the back.

As you can see in this photo
taken from our news blimp,

The only one who left through
the back was sleight o'hand!

Besides, he's the best
pickpocket in cyberspace.

Said so himself!

Hacker:
I came here in peace!

I came here as a friend!

And what happened?

That trickster with the dog
stole my recharger key!

Well hear this poddles,
no more mister nice guy!

I want my key back!

And if it's not returned
in twelve hours,

Poddleville will perish
in a pile of pumice!

Poddles:
(gasp)

Digit:
whoa! A pile of pumice!

What's pumice?

It's a kind of rock.

Man, I wouldn't want to be
a poddle.

We better find that key fast!

Jackie:
where do we start looking?

Elementary, my dear jackie!

Sleight o'hand is the main
suspect.

We start with him!

Sleight:
I'm innocent!

I never stole nothin'
in my life!

Now check with my uncle marbles,

He'll vouch for me!

Matt:
it doesn't matter what
dr. Marbles says.

If hacker doesn't get his key-

Well, I don't have it!

I'm a magician, not a thief!

It just looks that way
to the audience.

Just looks that way,
hmmm?

What about this picture?

It just happens
to look like you.

Sleight:
well, it's not!

I never went out the back.
I used the front!

I was framed, I tell you.

Say, have you've seen my dog?

Delete:
c'mon presto, again!
Alley oop!

Uh-oh!

The boss ain't gonna
be happy about this.

Hacker:
get off of me,
you mangy mutt!

Buzz:
sorry boss.

Delete:
I think he likes you.

I want this slobbering pooch
out of here now!

If those nosy nippers
from earth see him

It could ruin everything!

Buzz:
c'mon presto!

Delete:
atta boy, let's find
a new home.

Chief:
I'm only listening to you kids
because motherboard said so.

Sleight o'hand
better fess up soon,

Or poddleville is doomed.

Digit:
sure looks bad
for poor sleighty.

Inez:
but we still don't know what
really happened last night.

C'mon, c'mon, we know
a triangular shape

Went out the back door
with the key,

And sleight is shaped
like a triangle!

He's the one!

Maybe, but he's not the only
one shaped like a triangle.

Yeah.

Where were you when hacker's
key disappeared, anyway?

You kids trying
to pin this on me?!

No, chief.

We're just saying,

You can't always trust
the way things look.

Would you mind turning
sideways?

Matt:
hey! The way he is now,

You'd never know he's
a triangle at all!

Precisely!

Things look different
from different directions.

To find out if sleight
is guilty or not,

We've got to look
at the evidence

From every point of view!

Yeah?

Well, there's one point of view
I haven't even shown you yet!

Back door
has a security camera.

As you can see,

It shows sleight leaving at
exactly nine sharp last night!

Inez:
freeze it right there, chief!

Ah-ha! Now sleight looks
like a square!

Jax, why don't you compare
your drawings of sleight

With what's on the tape?

Maybe that'll
prove he didn't do it.

Jackie:
okay!

From this angle,
whoever's leaving town hall

Looks like a square.

And my drawing of sleight from
the same angle shows that he-

(Gasp!) Oh, no!

Matt:
looks square, too!

Yoikes! Then sleighty
did do it!

Hacker:
time is running out,
you par-boiled poddles!

Instead of standing here,

You should be telling
sleight o'hand

To return my recharger key!

Oof!
Get this dog off me!

Delete and buzz:
sorry boss!
Yeah, he got away!

I want this mutt out of here!

Take him someplace where
no one can see him!

But boss,
presto's so friendly.

Buzz:
yeah, and he does tricks.

There's only one trick I want
this mutant mongrel to do...

Disappear!

Digit:
we're runnin' out of time,
guys.

We gotta find that key!

Jackie:
but if sleight didn't do it,

And he doesn't have the key...

Matt:
then who does?

I have an idea. C'mon!

Not you again!

Inez:
chief, that tape only showed

What the suspect looked like
from the back.

What's he look like from
the front?

Thought you might ask that.

Send irma in here!

Go on, irma.
Tell 'em what you saw.

Well, nine o'clock that night
I took out the trash,

Just like I always do.

It was dark,

But I could still see someone
coming toward me,

Someone who looked like
a square!

Wait a minute!

I think I have a drawing
of sleight from the front.

Okay. Even though sleight looks
like a square from the back,

His silhouette
from the front is...

A square!

Satisfied now?

Matt:
nice going, sherlock!

Well, that doesn't
prove anything.

It could still be someone else!

Chief! This just came in!

Chief:
you want another view
of the culprit?

Here's a side view!

Digit:
that's a triangle,
not a square!

Which proves it's not sleight,
right?

Hold on. I've got a drawing
of sleight from the side...

Somewhere...
Oh, found it!

Digit:
from the side sleight looks
like a triangle, too!

Oh man!

Whatever we do, sleight
looks guiltier and guiltier!

(Phone rings)

Chief, here.
Mm-hmm.

Go on.
Good job!

A break!

New witness swears
he saw sleight o'hand

Going up hollow street
at : last night!

What'll that prove?

It'll prove beyond
a shadow of a doubt

That sleight is lying.

He swore he was never
on hollow!

It's a famous poddleville
landmark.

See that hollow section
in each building?

Certain time of day,
sun shines right through 'em.

Jackie:
no way to miss a landmark
like this!

Digit:
but sleighty claims he was
nowhere near

Any hollow buildings.

Witness says different.

Here he comes now.

Jock poddle:
have to keep jogging.

I'm training for the
poddleville marathon!

Chief:
now, you're sure you saw
sleight o'hand

Here on hollow street
last night?

Oh, recognized him from tv!

I was jogging right
where you are now.

Looking up hollow street,

Sleight came up solid avenue...

Reached the corner of solid
and hollow...

Sleight:
presto? Where are you boy?
Presto!

Jock poddle:
and then he turned right
onto hollow,

And headed up the street.

Well, that's enough for me.

Sleight is definitely
the key culprit.

Matt:
I guess sleight was lying about
not being on hollow street.

Jackie:
I don't buy it!

If mother b thinks he didn't
do it, so do i!

And I sure don't believe
hacker!

Digit:
neither do i,

But from where I stand,

It looks like sleight's
been lying from the get go!

From where you stand?

Didge, you're a genius!

This is what we gotta do!

Everyone's in position,
sherlock!

Matt:
I'm at the corner of solid
and hollow

Where sleight was when
the jogger said he saw him!

Jackie:
and I'm on hollow,
where the jogger was!

Cool! Let's compare
points of view.

Jackie, what do you see?

Jackie:
a bunch of hollow buildings,

Just like the jogger said!

Matt! What do you see?

Matt:
the buildings don't look
hollow at all to me!

They look like rectangles!

Excellent observation!

So, from the point of view
of the jogger

He can easily see the hollow
buildings of hollow street,

But from sleight's point
of view

The buildings didn't
look hollow at all!

He saw them only
from their thin side!

Digit:
and sleight's never
been here before,

So he had no idea he had
turned onto hollow street!

Though the witness
knew he had!

So sleight wasn't lying!

Inez:
nobody was lying!

They were just seeing things
from different points of view!

Then sleight is innocent!

Inez:
from this point
of view maybe.

But from the back,
the front and the side,

He still looks guilty!

Digit:
I can't stand it anymore!

What's the truth?

What really happened?

Inez:
I'm afraid, watson,
this case won't be solved

Until we've examined it from
every possible point of view.

We've got to bring sleight
back to the scene,

And recreate the crime!

Announcer:
three, two, one, ignition.
We have lift-off!

Hacker:
you're sure that mangy
mutt is on board?

Delete:
uh-huh.

Buzz:
he's on his way to the stars,
boss!

Hacker:
now my ingenious plan will
have a happy ending...

For me!

(Barking)

Poddles:
give hacker the key...
Give hacker the key...

Give hacker the key...
Give hacker the key...

The poddles are so worried
about what hacker might do.

They've already convicted me!

Matt:
chill, sleight.

We're working on this
from every angle.

We're going to recreate
the crime

Just like it happened
the night of the party.

Jackie:
inez has it covered
from that blimp up there.

And the rest of us will tape it
from different points of view.

Digit:
and you're gonna walk out
the back door

Just like hacker
said you did.

Sleight:
okay, okay,
if you think it'll help.

I just wish I knew
where my dog was.

Inez:
cool!

We're in the same spot
where this photo was taken.

Keep it here!

Poddle pilot:
you got it, miss.

Guys, I'm in position.
Ready?

Matt:
ready!

I'm in the exact same position
as the security camera,

Looking in the same direction.

And the tape is cued up to
when someone left the party!

Jackie:
irma and I are in position.

Looking right where she saw
someone square shaped

Coming out of the building.

Digit:
and I'm standing where
the side view photo was taken,

Looking at the doorway.

Inez:
great! Are you all inside
and ready to roll, chief?

Ready!

Okay, sleight, you're on.

Sleight:
I'll do it, chief,

But I never left through
the back door!

Of course you did!

I saw you on a videotape!

Now where's my key!

Chief:
we'll know soon enough.

Start walkin'.

Sleight's on the move.

From behind, his silhouette
is square-shaped.

It looks the same as whoever's
on the security tape.

Okay,
sleight's coming our way.

Square as square.
Right, irma?

Irma:
yep! From the front

It looks just like the square
I saw last night!

Okay, I'm snapping
the side view, now!

Hold up the other one.
Wu-oh...

My new side view of sleight
looks like the old one!

How's the view up there,
sherlock?

Inez:
very interesting, watson,
very interesting indeed!

Delete:
I've never watched a crime
scene recreation before.

Have you, buzzy?

Buzz:
first one for me too.

Gee, what if they find out
the truth?

They're just kids,
they'll never figure it out.

(Barking)

Both:
presto!

Hey! It's sleight's dog!

What's he doing here?

Delete:
sorry boss.

Sleight:
presto!

You're back!
Oh, good boy!

Inez:
whoa! I should have seen it
from the start!

Sleight did tell the truth!

But why would hacker...

Of course, the answer
is elementary!

It was all a trick.

Hacker wanted us looking
elsewhere!

Chief!

He what?
They did?

Hacker:
bye!

Places to go, people to see.

Chief:
not so fast, hacker!

Escort this crumb-bum
out of poddleville,

And dismantle
that statue he gave us!

Hacker:
crumb-bum! How dare you!

You can't talk to
the hacker that way!

So, thanks to the chief
and our earth friends

The thr*at to poddleville
is over.

Poddle a:
but we still don't understand!
Who took hacker's key?

Poddle b:
and why?

Poddle c:
who went out the back door?

Yeah!

What happened!

Who done it?

Mayor:
hold on, hold on.

Inez:
it all comes back to hacker.

He wanted to get poddleville's
energy,

Since he failed to get it
the last time he tried.

His plan was clever.

He needed to smuggle an energy
siphonizer into poddleville,

So he pretended to make
peace...

And so, on behalf of all
poddles,

I accept hacker's gift.

Matt:
but hacker had to draw
attention away from the statue

While the machine did
it's dirty work.

So he threw a party,

And hired sleight and his dog
presto to entertain.

Being a pickpocket made
sleight the perfect choice

To take the blame.

Hacker:
my recharger key!

Inez:
a little while later,
sleight left by the front door,

Just as he said.

But hacker made it look like
he left by the back door

By having his henchmen lure
presto out the back.

Hacker knew that presto
looked enough like sleight

To fool us all!

Jackie:
in dim light they have the same
silhouette from the rear,

From the side,

And from the front!

Digit:
but when inez got a birds eye
view from the blimp

The truth hit her!

Inez:
seeing sleight and presto
at the same time

Is what did it.

Although sleight looks like
a triangle from the side,

When you look at him
from above,

His outline is rectangular!

Show them, sleight.

From the side, triangle,

From the top, rectangle,

But the triangle in the
newspaper photo is a top view.

We all assumed it was sleight

Because he's triangular
from one point of view.

Once I saw sleight from above,

I realized it couldn't be him
in the picture.

The shapes didn't match!

Jackie:
once presto raced out
to join sleight,

We realized what we'd been
looking at all along,

Was the dog!

Matt:
right.

Because presto and sleight
look the same from the back.

Jackie:
from the front...

Digit:
from the side...

Inez:
but not from above!

From this point of view,
sleight looks like a rectangle

But presto looks like
a triangle.

Anyway, I got to thinking
about hacker being a nice guy

And giving poddleville
a statue,

And it all clicked into place!

Accusing sleight was nothing
more than a diversion

To cover up hacker's
real mission:

Stealing your energy!

Chief:
but fear not, poddles,

We turned off the siphonizer

Just in time!

Poddleville is safe!

Poddles:
(cheers)

Kid poddle:
excuse me?!

Uh, who took the recharger key?

Digit:
that's the best part!
No one did!

The key never left
the building!

Hacker had it hidden
in plain sight all along!

Jackie:
from the side, the key looked
just like one of the donuts!

The chief was the one
who found it.

Matt:
yeah, tell 'em how you figured
it out, chief.

The hard way!

Sleight:
now I know why uncle marbles
thinks you kids are the best.

Thanks for everything.

Oh, by the way, inez,
I believe this is yours.

(Laughter)

Buzz:
good thing you had a spare
recharger key, boss.

Hacker:
never mind that!

Did you duncebuckets tighten
the charger struts

Like I told you to?

I didn't. Did you?

I thought you
were gonna do it!

Hacker:
whoa! Yeow!

Matt:
eureka!

My trophy!

Jackie:
but that shape looks round!

Inez:
exactly! From the end,
a football shape looks round.

But from the side...

Jackie:
it looks like a football!

Admit it, I'm still cute,
aren't i?

Inez:
not from our point of view!