01x01 & 01x02 - Time Capsule Mystery Part 1/Time Capsule Mystery Part 2

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Time Capsule Mystery, part one.

[students shouting] [drums tapping]

- And don't forget, today at two o'clock

is a special school ceremony.

We'll be digging up the Mulberry Springs

Elementary School time capsule,

and we'll be able to share some things about our school

and community from years ago.

See you all then.

But for now, I need to see Michael Evans,

[curious music]

Marta Perez,

and Millie Wheeler in my office, right away.

- Ooh, Millie is in trouble.

[fingers snapping]

[soft rhythmic music]

- What did we do?

- I don't know.

- I'm not worried.

[pen scratching]

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[book thudding] [curious music]

- So, Millie Wheeler,

Mike Evans,

Marta Perez,

welcome to the first ever meeting of the Mystery League.

- I thought we were in trouble.

- I knew we weren't.

- You're sponsoring our club Principal Platt?

- I sure am. I love mystery books.

I've been reading them since I was your age.

- So, just double-checking, we're not in trouble?

- You are not.

[Mike exhaling loudly]

So, what do you all love about mysteries?

- Ooh, I love that they're so surprising and full of action

and adventures.

- For me, it's all about how detectives use cool equipment

to look for clues.

- I love how they piece together clues

to solve their mystery.

- I love all those things, too.

And all of those things happen in our first book,

"The Dancing Detective in Time Travel Troubles."

- [All Together] Read it!

- Me too!

Did you know I almost met the author, H.I. McDoyle, once?

[screen whooshing]

[students chatting]

- [Students] Mr. Doyle! Mr. Doyle!

- I came this close to getting his autograph.

[screen whooshing]

So, I wanted this time travel book to be our first,

because this week is Mulberry Springs Elementary's

Time Capsule Celebration.

- What's a time capsule?

- Aagh!

- I read about these. [curious music]

They're like treasure chests.

People bury containers filled with things

that are important to them

for someone to dig up in the future.

- My mom told me my grandma was actually one of the students

who helped bury it.

I wonder what she was like back then.

- This time capsule was put together

by teachers and students.

I bet we find some items inside

that tell us what school was like back then.

And later, our school will put together our own time capsule

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to bury at the end of the week.

We'll put a few special items in that tell the story

of what our community is like today.

[students clapping]

[ahem]

All the communities to which we belong, our town,

our school, our clubs, our families,

each tell their own special story.

A time capsule is one way

to preserve those stories for the future.

Mr. Davis.

- Oh. [chuckling]

Ah. Oh. [curious music]

The first principal of Mulberry Elementary School

buried the time capsule on this very day in .

Now, that's when the school was built,

and he left behind instructions

that we are to open it on today's date,

[chuckling]

and instructions on where to find it.

Let's see. Ah, okay.

He says to take steps from the school's back door.

So help me out, everyone. Here we go.

- One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, ten,

eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,

sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen.

- Woo-hoo. Ha ha ha.

[students clapping]

- The time capsule's buried there.

[spade thudding] [suspenseful music]

- Huh, there's nothing here.

- [Students] Oh!

[dramatic music]

- [Students] Aagh!

- Aagh!

- Umm...

[teacher grunting]

That's steps from the back door.

Where's the time capsule?

- Um, follow me.

- Okay. Come on.

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- Wait!

My grandma helped bury that time capsule years ago.

It has to be here.

[soft music]

[soft bright music]

- I heard about the time capsule.

I'm so sorry you didn't find anything.

- What do you think grandma and her friends picked

to include in the time capsule?

[chuckling]

- Well, I don't know.

It was actually buried before I was born.

What are you and your classmates going to put in yours?

- I think we're going to put in

something about our school clubs.

Clubs are a big deal at school,

and maybe a recording of music class.

Did they have ways to record things in ?

[chuckling]

- They did,

though you couldn't fit recording equipment into your pocket

like you can today.

Oh, look at your grandma in those bell bottoms!

[chuckling]

Oh goodness. And look, some cars had wooden sides.

You would never see that today.

Oh, wait until you hear the rock music grandma listened to.

[box thudding] [mother exhaling loudly]

- What's this?

- This is Grandma's -track collection.

I would say there's as much music in this box

as there is on your phone.

- I wonder if grandma put any rock music

in the time capsule.

Let's call her and ask.

- Now, where's the fun in that?

I'm sure the time capsule will turn up

and then you'll have all the excitement

to learn a little something about

what school was like when your grandma was a student.

- But we've already looked.

The whole school yard is covered in holes.

I wish the Dancing Detective were here to help.

- Hmm. What if he were, what would he do?

- He would investigate the scene and consider every clue,

no matter how small.

- Sounds like a plan, kiddo.

[soft rhythmic music]

[curious music]

- I say we solve this mystery ourselves.

- Huh?

- The Mystery League is a Mystery Book Club.

We read mysteries. We don't solve them.

- Why not? Who says? We have to find this time capsule.

Aren't you guys curious what life was like back then?

- My dad told me that back then,

you can buy a comic book for a dime.

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[upbeat music]

[objects rumbling]

- Yeah, yeah,

[playful music]

yeah, yeah, yeah.

[screen whooshing]

- Let's do it.

[upbeat music]

[tinkling music]

- Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen.

This is the spot.

[curious music]

- Oh, sick!

I mean, no clues here.

- No clues in here either.

- [Mike] Argh!

- [Millie] Mike, you okay?

- Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine.

I just tripped over the...

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You think it's a clue?

- Could be.

- Clue to what though?

- The Dancing Detective would start with the one solid clue

we have first.

- What's that?

- The old instruction letter!

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[door thudding]

To be continued.

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A good detective knows that the present time

is based on the past.

♪ Phones were on the wall, computers were offline ♪

♪ Pastel colors, pleated pants, paisley-printed boots ♪

♪ That was the past time

♪ Now the phone is a computer and a camera and a phone ♪

♪ You can grocery shop online

♪ And have it delivered to your home ♪

♪ This is the present time

♪ Oh, that was then and this is now ♪

♪ Use a mimeograph machine? I don't know how ♪

♪ That was then and this is now ♪

♪ Driving cars that drive themselves, now that's a wow ♪

♪ From past to present, a lot of things have changed ♪

♪ From past to present, some things remain the same ♪

♪ From past to present, a lot of things have changed ♪

♪ From past to present, some things remain the same ♪

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♪ Disco-fashion jumpers and disco leisure suits ♪

♪ Classic TV shows and TV show reboots ♪

♪ Bell bottom pants, but now we call them flares ♪

♪ Music was on vinyl, now we spin, scratch, and tear ♪

[record scratching]

♪ That was then and this is now ♪

♪ Using rotary phones to call? I don't know how ♪

♪ That was then and this is now ♪

♪ We sent a satellite to the Sun, now that's a wow ♪

♪ From past to present, a lot of things have changed ♪

♪ From past to present, some things remain the same ♪

♪ From past to present, a lot of things have changed ♪

♪ From past to present, some things remain the same ♪

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Time Capsule Mystery, Part two.

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- Principal Platt!

[gasping]

- Sorry, Principal Platt.

- Don't worry about it.

- We're on the case.

- What case?

- The case of what happened to the time capsule.

- Terrific.

I could use all the help I can get.

I've got my hands full

getting our own time capsule together.

Oh, do you have any suggestions on what to include?

- A picture of my pet cat-to the Gato?

[meowing]

- [Principal Platt] Very cute.

That would be perfect for a family time capsule,

but I'm looking for items that reflect

what's important to the students, teachers,

and staff of our school community.

- Maybe we could leave them a yearbook

with a special message inside.

- [Millie] Or a program from the Annual Harvest Festival.

- [Mike] Or a video of one of our drama club's plays.

- Okay.

- [Mike] I wonder what play they put on in .

- Speaking of ,

we'd love to see the time capsule instructions,

to solve our mystery.

- Here you go, detectives.

Good luck.

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[sighs]

- [Mike] It definitely says

the box was steps away from the back door.

- This thing is really annoying.

Ow.

- This mystery is way too confusing.

- I'm not giving up.

steps.

How can we be looking at the wrong spot?

- I don't know.

Like if somebody moves something?

- Hey, remember in Time Travel Troubles

how the time machine marker was moved by the wind?

- The dancing detective

kept on looking for it in the wrong place

until he figured it out.

- How could the door have moved?

- Maybe it was taken by a backdoor burglar,

a person in a mask who sneaks into schools at night

and puts back doors into different places, then leaves.

- Come on.

Wait, this says built in .

- [Mike] I thought the school was built in

when the time capsule was buried.

Why does it say it was built in ?

Principal Platt!

[papers rustling]

- We have a clue.

- The instructions are from when the school was built.

- But the school was changed in .

We know that 'cause it says on the back door.

- I don't know much about any construction work,

but I know where we can find out.

All the construction work ever done to this school

is in this file.

Oh, oh, oh.

Good luck.

- [Mike] Thanks.

[whimsical music]

[sighs]

- You okay, Millie?

- I wanted to video chat with my grandma last night

and ask her what she put in the capsule,

but my mom said it wouldn't be as satisfying

as seeing it for myself.

- You know, I was talking with my abuela last night

and she said in , no one had cell phones

and there was no video chat and if you weren't home

and couldn't afford an answering machine,

the phone would just ring and ring and ring and ring

and ring until the person calling you hung up.

[muffled chatter]

[splattering]

[muffled chatter increases, gasp

I wonder how you knew that the phone had rung enough times.

[shouting]

- Well, that's just it, Marta.

You didn't.

- Have you been here this whole time?

- Well look, if I wasn't home to take your call,

I could have been at my grandmother's house

watching Mr. Rogers.

Well hello there, neighbor.

[chuckling]

That was the most popular show in .

Or I could have been at the toy store

buying the st most popular toy of the time,

Frisbee, the dog puppet.

[barking]

[slurping]

Frisbee.

[whimpering]

We're still training him.

Or I could have been watching them

put the finishing touches on this building.

Take a look at what Mulberry Springs Elementary School

looked like before the new one was built.

Ah.

Much smaller, huh?

Well, but the times had changed.

The town had gotten bigger, so the school had to grow too.

[map curling up]

- [Mike] Has that map always been here?

- Bye kids.

- Bye, Mr. Davis.

- Seriously,

I think he was just standing there

waiting to share that with someone.

Teachers are wild.

- [Marta] Here's a drawing of the school

from when it was built in .

- [Mike] And here's one from

when they did construction.

- Let me see this.

Look, the door's in different places.

It really did move.

- So if this backdoor was built in ,

where's the spot of the original backdoor from ?

- Beats me.

- Hmm, where'd that door used to be?

That is the worst rock.

- That's it.

It was a clue to the old back door.

This is where it was!

- So if this is the old back door.

, , , .

This is steps from the old back door.

[mysterious whimsical music]

[dirt scraping]

Something's down here.

- The time capsule!

- Thank you, Mystery League, for solving this mystery.

[people applauding]

What will these items tell us

about the students and teachers

that made up our school community years ago?

Oh, there is a letter addressed to us,

the openers of the time capsule

and it lists the items that are inside.

Ah.

- [Marta] A copy of the Daily Crier newspaper

from September th, .

The same day the capsule was buried.

Look, they have an article on the Harvest Festival.

They had a watermelon contest back then too.

My abuela is definitely going to win this year.

- Oh, hey look.

Mulberry Springs lunch lady, Enid Elmore,

crowned School Cook of the Year in .

What a cook!

What an inspiration!

- And here's a photo of our school.

This was the new construction.

This is what our school looked like right after being built.

Uh.

[chuckling]

This is our time capsule.

These objects will tell the story

of what our community is like today.

After looking through the students' ideas

and after careful consideration,

this is a mural painted by our students

about our school clubs.

Here is a collage of flags representing the countries

that our students and their families are from

and-

- [Student] The best hide and seek spots on campus.

Passed down for three generations.

I've got those memorized, I don't need that anymore.

- [Principal Platt] And last but not least,

the Dancing Detective in Time Travel Troubles.

Did I ever tell you guys about the time

I came this close to getting the author's autograph?

[overlapping chatter]

- [All] We know!

[chuckling]

- Now, it is time to bury our time capsule.

Mystery League, will you do the honors?

[sighs]

This time capsule is not to be opened until .

[mysterious whimsical music]

- [Marta] I wonder what kind of gadgets there will be

in .

Maybe by then,

there'll be flying cars and robot mail carriers.

- Maybe there will still be a Mystery League.

What's wrong, Millie?

We followed all the clues and found the time capsule.

- Yeah, but I didn't see anything about my grandma

in that time capsule.

- [Mike] Oh, it was a tape recording.

- What do you think is going to be on it?

- Maybe some 's rock music.

- [Maxine] Testing, testing.

One, two.

I hope this thing is working.

Hello, future students

of Mulberry Springs Elementary School.

This is Maxine Lewis.

- That's my grandma!

- [Maxine] I have been a part

of the Mulberry Springs community

since I was in elementary school.

The old school was much smaller than the new one,

but it's not the building that makes this community special.

It's the people and the shared experiences,

the friends, the teachers,

the annual festivals, the traditions.

By the time you hear this recording,

this school will have been here for years.

Wow, years

and though everything won't be shiny and new anymore,

I hope you love this school as much as I know

the first students to go here do.

Next year, I go to college.

I'll be the first woman in my family to go,

but a part of me will always be in Mulberry Springs.

Okay, I have to go.

Bye now and go Warthogs!

- [Principal Platt] Thank you, Mr. Davis.

Thank you everyone.

Have a good afternoon.

- Wow, your grandma sounds a lot like you, Millie.

- Yeah,

I guess she does.

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