02x70 - House of Nine Lives

[bunniefuu]

[adventurous music]


- [yells]


- Rufus! That's impossible.

No.

[engine revvs]


- Jerome!
- He was dead.


- Jerome!
- [grunts]


- He's not gonna get away with it this time!
- The worm is in the hole.

Eddie's laptop is virused to the max.


- Excellent work, guys.


- Now all we have to worry about is tracking down that dollhouse.


- Yeah.


- Someone must have seen something.

I mean, it's a big dollhouse.


- Yup, it was the middle of the night.

No one would have seen anything.


- Shame the walls don't have eyes.


- Alfie, that's brilliant.

Both: Lounge cam.


- Lounge cam.


- Maybe we're starting to get somewhere.


- The crown is the same as the one on the woman in the footage.


- We don't think it's sarah now.

We think it's a spirit brought here With the artifacts in the exhibition.


- You think the lady in the video Is the unknown ruler?
- It doesn't matter what we think.

I mean, imagine how many hits we'll get on this baby.

I mean, you wanted eyeballs.


- So what do we know about her?
- Well, nothing.

She's the unknown ruler.


- Let me see the picture of her in the cellar again.


- Yeah.

[computer chiming]


- What's the matter?
- I don't know.

The file looks corrupted.

Umm Oh, don't worry.

You type it up, and we go live tomorrow.


- Cool!
- I do believe you're getting the hang Of this journalism game, mara.


- This is a disaster! We've lost the dollhouse, And now that article is gonna get every amateur Ghost hunter in school down there.


- Not to mention the information it's going to give victor.


- [sighs]

this is hopeless! There's nothing we can do.


- There is one thing.

Fabian could try and persuade joy not to.

You know, just sweet talk her.


- Are you serious?
- I think I am.


- [laughs]

congratulations, buddy.

[laughs]

you're bait! [laughs]


- And patricia, you need to apologize to eddie.


- What?
- It's a two
-pronged attack.

You work on eddie, and fabian works on joy.


- Are you going to ask me to get close to alfie, Because I wilt, you know, if that's what you want.


- Yes, actually.

I need the two of you to watch lounge cam And find the dollhouse thief.


- Are you sure about this?
- No, But right now, it's the only plan we've got.


- Yes, that's it.

Would you? Now.

Aha! Look, vera, it's the falcon symbol.

Excellent.

This is indeed one of the reflectors.


- Oh, ingenious.

[gasps]


- Mm?
- And have you made some progress with the next one?
- Ah, yes.

Now.

Um Right.

See, you see, the sun hieroglyphic Is used as an ideogram.

This is an elongated wave symbol.

Now on line r
-10 of the rosetta stone
-
- What?
- [sighs]

Victor, that all seems very complicated.

What if it's actually deceptively simple?
- [laughs]

[coughs]

You are surely not suggesting That we are looking for the sun, my dear?
- Yes, actually, yes.

That's exactly what I think we're looking for.


- Mm?
- Come with me.


- Mm? [door opens]


- They see you?
- No, but they might have had a camera Watching the camera.

I'm starting to get paranoid.


- [sighs]

boring.

Fast forward.

Stop.

Rewind.


- No.


- Jerome?
- [gasps]

the sun!
- Under our noses the entire time.


- [sighs]

isn't everything?
- Oh, yes.

The falcon! Excellent!
- Oh, victor, we make the perfect team.


- Mm
-mm
-mm.


- [whispering]

gotcha.

But who is he? I've never seen him on the antique circuit.


- [whispering]

you might know him as rene zeldman.


- Rene zeldman? No.


- No.

Don't!
- Trudy's in there.


- Just stay there, jasper.

Please.

You don't know what this man is capable of.

He's pure evil.


- I don't get why I have to say "sorry.

" I didn't do anything.

Feels li I'm selling out.


- That's not selling out.

That's a relationship.

Now go, make up.

Now, you.

[sighs]

Go in there.

Just be nice.

That's not too hard, is it?
- Right.

No, no, no.

No, no.


- You charm her.

You convince her that putting this article online Would be an error.


- An error?
- Sorry.

I'm nervous.


- Yeah, you
-
- [coughs]

You and me both.


- [laughs]

I'll be fine.

You'll be fine.


- What? Um What I do if, I don't know, I have to ask her out to eat or something?
- Why would you ask her out to eat?
- Oh, I don't know, I'm just asking, What's my limit?
- I don't know! Just remember, fabian, There's a lot riding on this, okay?
- [sighs]

Please.


- Good luck.

[knock at door]


- Oh, if it isn't blabs.


- Will you stop giving me goofy nicknames?
- Stop doing goofy stuff.


- Just shut up for a second.

I've come to apo
-
- I've come to apol
-
- I mean, I was r
-
- I just want to say s
-
- [sighs]

no, I can't do it.

You're a doofus.


- Worst apology ever.


- I'm not sorry, because I didn't do anything.

I kept your secret.

I'd keep any secret of yours.

Yeah, I was mad at you, but I'd never do that.

And the fact you think I would really makes you a doofus.


- [sighs]


- Now why would I want to pull this story? This is gonna make my relaunch.


- I just have a feeling that this is a hoax.


- Oh, you have a feeling.


- Oh, come on, joy.

Ghosts? Haunted egyptian relics?
- I've seen stuff, remember? Stuff that we don't talk about Because you and the scooby g*ng shut me out.

And after everything I went through last term, Being shut away with just my parents, A chess board, and no phone, And you Well, you chose that exact moment To finally get a girlfriend.

Besides, we've got proof.


- It's just a blurry image, joy.


- No.

The spirits on the bid video.

I shot it myself.


- It's a hoax! Effect software.


- Do you know this for a fact, Or are you just guessing?
- Well, no, I don't know this for a fact.

Look, what I they're not real though?
- People don't care about the details, fabes.

They want to believe in this stuff.


- What if you're being taken for a ride? Don't you care?
- Well, why do you care so much?
- Because I do care!
- Really?
- Yeah.

Yeah, of course I do.


- Fine.

I'll drop the article.


- You will?
- But on one condition.


- Anything.

Anything.


- You kiss me.


- [gasps]


- I kiss you?
- Well, if it means that much to you.

Do it properly this time Knowing that it's me and not under false pretenses.


- [gasps]


- [stammering]

I can't.


- Why?
- I'm sorry, I just can't.


- Still not over nina?
- No.

No, I'm not over nina.

And she may never want to get back together again, But I can't move on.


- I'll drop the article.


- [gasps]

[whispering]

yes.

Yes.


- [muffled]


- You really need me to do this, so I'll do it.


- Thank you.


- [sighs]

So
- So
- You didn't do it on purpose.


- No.


- You know I knew that before you came in my room All high horse and stuff.


- And what about mara?
- What about mara.


- Admit it: You're trying to make me jealous.


- Don't push it, yacker.

[sighs]

okay, maybe a little.

Will you cut me some slack now?
- I guess.

[footsteps approaching]


- [sighs]

are you okay?
- Of course.

I'm joy.


- Okay.


- [inhales shakily]

[exhales shakily]


- I did it.


- You did?
- Yeah.

She's not going to publish the article.


- Wow! That's fantastic! [giggles]


- Hmm.


- Eddie, about this article
- Uh
-huh.


- Mara aside, I don't get why you're doing it.

I think it's kind of lame.


- [scoffs]

I think it's really cool.

I mean, I don't know if ghosts really exist, But the more you look into it, the less lame it gets.

Trust me.


- Wow, you're really serious about it.


- Sure.

But, I mean, you think it's stupid, so
- No.

Actually I don't.

But don't do it the way joy wants it.

Mara's right.

You need it to be taken seriously Or you won't be taken seriously.


- Yeah.

You're right.


- [exhales heavily]

Is this a raid?
- Sit down, buddy.

We've got something to talk to you about.


- [scoffs]


- Tell me this isn't as bad as it looks.


- It's actually much worse.


- Do you want the good news or the bad news?
- What's the good news?
- Eddie and I are good again.


- She couldn't do it.


- I couldn't do it.


- That's all right.

Fabian was amazing.

I mean, you must have been.

He got joy to drop the article.


- There you are.

Jerome's got something to tell you.


- Tell them.


- He took the dollhouse!
- What?
- Sorry, you tell them.


- I took the dollhouse.


- But wh
-
-
- wait.

There's more.


- It was for jasper! Sorry.


- I knew it.

I knew it! Why would he do that?
- 'cause he was being blackmailed.


- Amber!
- Sorry.

Sorry.


- Jasper is not the bad guy, fabian.

He was being blackmailed By the person who kidnapped trudy.

Both: What?
- Get out.


- Vera
-
-vera is his agent.


- Whose agent, jerome?
- Rufus is back.


- Rufus.

No! No, he's dead.

We read his obituary.


- Trust me, he's alive and well.


- How?
- All I know is if he doesn't get what he wants, Then trudy is d
-
- Trudy is in trouble.


- What does he want?
- Something in the house.

He's been searching high and low For anything and everything frobisher.

That is why he wanted the dollhouse.


- Not to play dolls.


- Hey, I'm sorry I didn't tell you, But there was so much at stake, okay? Trudy, you
- Me?
- You threatened jasper, fabian.

We couldn't tell you.

We couldn't put you in danger.


- It's okay.


- What now?
- We have to tell victor.


- Rufus zeno is dead.


- Well, then he faked it, because he's not now.


- Victor, I saw him with my own eyes! And vera's involved.


- Now you have gone too far!
- It's true.

She works for rufus.


- Ask yourself how she got the job.

Were there any other applicants?
- No one could have possibly
-
-
- Vera devenish is the finest housemother This place has ever had.

This is outrageous!
- Mara was right.


- She's evil.


- Enough!
- What's all the commotion?
- [clears throat]


- Victor?
- Nothing.

Usual nonsense.

Be gone, all of you.


- Victor
-
-
- now! [clears throat]


- What's going on?
- Nothing.

[clears throat]

We'll, um, have to stay close to them, though.

[clears throat]


- You're what?
- You heard me.

I'm not running the story.


- Well, why?
- Because I'm the editor, and I say so.


- But it's a great story.

It could be huge for the site.

Think of the "eyeballs.

"
- I'm just going to have to make the jackal A success without it.

You're not the only one around here who can write, mara.


- This was my only chance to get my work out there.


- I know, and I'm sorry.

But after what sweetie said, I wouldn't be able to put your name to it anyway.


- Huh.

Well, that marks the end of my "making an effort" phase.


- [sighs]


- I brought you a cup of tea and some fig rolls.


- Oh, I'm not hungry, vera, thank you.


- Victor, you have to keep up your strength.

Here.


- Oh.


- [giggles]

Any progress?
- Um, well, some of these pictures
-
- The scarab with the ankh on its back, the cupbearers
-
- I think I've worked out that together They refer to a silver goblet Which once belonged to sarah frobisher
-smythe.


- Did you know her well?
- Hmm? Oh, yes.

Yes.

All my life.


- What happened to her?
- Oh, well, we grew apart, and Soon after I found her again, she
-
-she
-
-she died.


- Oh.

I'm sorry to hear that.


- Well, death comes to all of us eventually, vera.

Well, most of us, at least.


- Uh, so this silver goblet
-
- where is it now?
- Ah, now, that is the problem.

It stood in the downstairs dresser for decades and decades, But it is no longer there.


- Well, they've beaten us to it.


- It's possible.


- But victor
-
-
- oh, not to worry.

They're not going anywhere.

We have three of the reflectors, you know.


- He's got three reflectors? That must mean he has the doll's eye and two others.

What are they?
- Search me, but he's onto us.

He's figured out the goblet's missing, And they know it was us.

We heard him telling vera.


- Wait, he talked to vera about this?
- Yup, and trust me, there is a significant amount Of romantic tension between those two.


- Yeah, but she's working for rufus.


- Maybe she's a double agent.


- You've got to hand it to her.

She is good.


- Yeah, she is.

The lying, double
-crossing mask
-hijacking witch! Hoodwinking us with her cakey ways.


- Back in the room, alfie.

Maybe victor and rufus have teamed up.


- Well
-
-
- that is not a nice thought.


- Either way, vera's got victor wrapped around her finger.

Did you see the way she stuck up for him the other day?
- Yup.

A total puppy dog.

So in love.


- I
-
-I don't know what's going on here.

All I do know is that we can't trust either of them.


- Can we recap on who I can trust, Because my head is literally about to explode.


- Whoever he's working for, guys, it doesn't matter.

We've got the other three reflectors, remember? [door opens]


- Do you recognize this?
- [shakily]

yeah.

It was junk.

I threw it out.


- That's why you're there and I'm here.

This thing is priceless.

It's worth more than you, in fact.


- What does that mean?
- It means simply that very soon, You will no longer be needed.