01x17 - Return to Sensible Flats

[bunniefuu]

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

Hacker: thehacker, 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"!

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

♪ Don't tell me that he's tryingto 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 on! Just wait
and c-y-b-e-r- chase! ♪

[Inez]
one lap to go, jax! Stretch
it out!

Go, girl, go!
You're doing great!

[Jackie]
phoo! How fast did I run today?

[Inez]
fastest time yet, jax!

Three minutes and twenty-four
seconds.

[Jackie]
the question is-

Can I get down to three minutes
flat before the race?

[Motherboard]
time out, cybermates!

Return to sensible flats
as soon as possible...

Sensible flats? Again?!

Sensible flats is running dry
the picture's changing fast.

Find the story before it's...

What story, mother b?

Time's awastin', cowpokes.
Saddle up!

[Girls]
yee-haa!

[Inez]
uh-oh. This is not good.

Look out below...!!!

[Jackie]
whoa-whoa-easy, boy, easy!

[Inez]
thanks, jax.

Sorry, inez.

[Digit]
bada-bing-bada-boom!

Can I get a little help here?

Gotcha, partner!

[Digit]
howdy, earthlies.

Welcome back to sensible flats,
didge.

Looks different, doesn't it?

[Matt]
looks like it hasn't rained
for weeks.

Last time we were here,
it was green and pretty.

Remember?

[Inez]
wow! It's a different story
now.

Hm... I wonder if hacker's
still got that

Piece of land here.

[Hacker]
♪ I'm aholding fifty land deeds
in my hand... ♪

♪ Make that fifty-one land deeds
in my hand... ♪

♪ When all is said and done,
I'll be the only one - yahoo! ♪

That's right. The cker will
own everyone's land.

[Delete]
the hacker's plan must
be workin',

It's been a long time since
we sold a lemonade.

Maybe everyone's left town
already.

[Buzz]
not yet! Here comes another
one!

Lemonade! Ice cold lemonade!

Get yer lemonade here! Wet yer
whistle!

That wasn't very nice.

Mm...tasty, though.

[Inez]
so what's the story, sheriff?

[Sheriff judy]
you can see fer yerself, kids -
reservoir's plum outta water.

Nothin' to send down
to the town. Right, trudy?

[Judge trudy]
right, judy. No water
in the reservoir -

No water in sensible flats.
Folks are leavin' in droves.

[Sheriff judy]
and hacker's buying up all
the land cheap.

If we don't find out what
happened to the water soon,

We'll be a ghost town. Right,
rudy?

[Rudy]
right you are, cuz.
We're as dry as a bone.

Most often the water levels
off right about here...

At the meter mark.

[Inez]
maybe there's a leak.

[Rudy]
nope! No leak. That's the first
thing I checked when I saw-

The water level startin'
to drop.

[Jackie]
when did the water start
dropping?

[Rudy]
well, it's hard to say exactly.
One day I realized

It was lower than ever before
and it just kept droppin',

Til it got to where you see
it today.

[Matt]
do you have any records, rudy?

If you kept track of the water
level,

It might tell us a story about
what happened.

[Rudy]
you want records? I'll show you
records - last days' worth!

[Rudy]
see here? All specified
and writified.

The day of betty lou's weddin'
the water level was meters.

And on milk-a-cow-win-a-chicken
day, the level was .

It was the day bubba came
down with shin splints.

[Ine
t these@meurements
dot hp

Unless we know the date each
measurement was taken.

[Rudy]
dates? Why didn't you say so?

Got 'em all right here -
day one through !

[Jackie]
there's got to be a way
to organize this stuff.

[Inez]
how can we use the dates
to tell us the story?

[Matt]
well, we could make a graph
to show

How the water level changes
day by day!

And we can use the side
of the t*nk to mark it!

[Jackie]
okay, rudy, let's see what
the story is.

What was the water level
on the first day of the month?

[Rudy]
let's see...day one...
Meters. Same day

The chicken house caught fire.
Never forget that day.

[Matt]
day one... Meters!

Meters...marked!

[Rudy]
day two... Meters.

Meters, didge!

Meters...marked!

Hate to interrupt a good story,

But what do all those
criss-crossy lines mean?

These numbers we wrote down
here are the days of the month.

And those numbers tell
us the water levels in meters.

[Rudy]
I know that! I painted those
numbers myself!

[Matt]
and the lines that criss-cross
each other make a grid.

They show information in a way
that you can understand it.

[Inez]
what was the water level
on day , rudy?

[Rudy]
lost my harmonica that
day...never did find it...

[Jackie]
meters, didge!

Meters...marked!

[Rudy]
so what's the story?

All I see is a buncha dots!

[Judge trudy]
rudy's right, buckos.

That there graph of yours
doesn't tell us a thing.

That's because we're not
finished.

[Inez]
to see the big picture, we need
to connect the dots.

Go for it, didge!

[Digit]
d-dots all, folks!

[Matt]
there you are, folks -
our graph!

[Jackie]
but not just any old graph -
you're looking at a line graph!

It gives a picture of how
the water level changes

Over time.

[Rudy]
well, I'll be! There's a story
there after all!

[Sheriff judy]
sure 'nuf. First days
of the month,

Everything was hunky-dory.

Water level stayed pretty much
the same.

[Judge trudy]
but lookee what happened
sometime around

The seventh day.

The line starts droppin'. Water
took a nose-dive!

[Jackie]
so there's the story!

Something majorly changed
around the seventh! But what?

Maybe somebody started using
a lot more water than usual.

[Sheriff judy]
can't be! Everyone in sensible
flats

Gets the same amount of water
as everyone else.

Which is a big fat zero, right
now!

Anything else happen around
the seventh?

Come to think of it - something
did happen.

That landnappin' scoundrel
hacker showed his pointy chin

Around here again!

[Buzz]
uh-oh! Trouble.

H-hey, boss! An angry mob
is coming this way fast!

[Hacker]
relax, you neurotic numbskull!
It would take a herd

Of wild buffalo to knock down
that gate.

Did you say buffalo, boss?

Zip it!

You're under arrest for stealing
water from the reservoir

You no-good water-snatcher!

[Hacker]
you must be mistaken, sheriff.

The reservoir distributes
an even amount of water

To everyone in sensible flats.
Including yours truly.

Check my water t*nk,
if you like.

[Rudy]
empty!

Just like the rest
of the tanks!

[Buzz]
good one, boss! Ha ha!

[Delete]
good one, boss! You got
'im there!

[Judge trudy]
then how do you explain
all this?!

A pool filled with water!

[Inez]
a lush, green garden!

[Jackie]
a really gross fountain!

[Hacker]
ever heard of recycling?!

[Kids]
recycling?

Water in - water out -
same water back in!

Can I help it if I'm a genius?

[Buzz]
hey, you're the man, boss!

[Hacker]
now get off my land-

And take motherboard's little
helpers with you-

Before I have you arrest
yourself for trespassing.

[Inez]
c'mon, guys, let's go. Maybe
he's telling the truth.

[Hacker]
soon sensible flats will
be waterless-

All those cyber-bumpkins will
be gone-

All their land will be mine!
Yahoo!

[Matt]
you don't really think hacker's
recycling water, do you inez?

[Inez]
no, but we can't prove
he isn't.

We're just missing something.

[Jackie]
sshhh! I'm thinking.

[Digit]
sshhh! She's thinking!

[Jackie]
day after day, the water level
dropped...

So if no one was taking
out more than their share...

Then less had to be coming in!

[Inez]
wait! Jackie's onto something.
Reservoirs store water.

[Matt]
so the big question is-

How does water get in here
in the first place?

[Sheriff judy]
seems to me, when trudy
and me was youngins,

The town did build a pipeline
from lost lake

Down to this here reservoir.

[Judge trudy]
but nobody's been up there
in years. Never been a need.

[Jackie]
did you say...pipeline?

[Buzz]
hm. The boss was right.

Those nosey kids are headed
to the lake!

We gotta stop 'em!

[Delete]
no prob
I got it covered.

Have a nice trip, kiddies!

Wha-whoaaaaaaa!!!

Sheesh! I gotta do everything!

[Inez]
you sure we're going the right
way?

[Matt]
stop worrying, inez. Rudy said
the lake was a long way up.

[Jackie]
no wonder nobody ever comes
up here.

[Delete]
why me? Why do things always
happen to me? Why not buzz?

I need a new agent!

Al-most got it... There!

[Delete]
ahhhh...ouch

[Matt]
you guys hear something?

Probably a member
of the accipiter family.

Who is the accipiter family?

Hawks.

[Matt]
how does she know s$uff like
that?

[Jackie]
uh, am I having a moment,
or... Is that a banjo I hear?

[Matt]
it's a banjo, alright.

[Deke]
well don't just stand there.
You got somethin' to say -

Say it!

[Inez]
we uh...

We're here because there's
no water in sensible flats.

Check the reservoir.

There's no water there, either.

Can't be! If there's water
here, no matter how little,

It flows down into
the reservoir.

That's how it works!

[Matt]
well, for some reason,

The water's not making it down
there.

[Digit]
what are those fish doing?

[Deke]
a rain dance! What's it look
like they're doin'?

Will it work?

It worked way back in ' -
or was that ' ?.

'Course, I used snakes then,
but they all hightailed it

A week ago. It's just
me... And my fish now.

[Inez]
any idea about when the water
in the lake started dropping?

[Deke]
I know exactly! Got it all
plotted out on a graph!

You use a graph?

[Deke]
'course I use a line graph!

Best way I know to keep track
of how things change over time.

You can use a line graph
to predict the future, too,

You know. Wanna see it?

[Deke]
if it doesn't rain soon,
the lake'll dry up

In about four more days -
even the fish'll be gone.

[Jackie]
how can you tell?

[Deke]
simple. Just take a gander
at the pattern.

If no water is added
to the lake -

It'll keep droppin' at the same
rate it's been droppin'. See?

No water! Zip! Zero! Zilch!

No rain - no water in the lake.

No water in the lake - no water
in the reservoir.

No water in the reservoir -
no water in sensible flats!

Looks to me like those fish
better keep dancin'!

[Inez]
but there's still one question,
deke?

Where'd the water from the lake
go,

If it didn't go into
the reservoir?

[Deke]
we are creatures who look
before and after.

- William shakespeare.

[Matt]
oh, great. Another quoter.

[Inez]
what the quote means
is, sometimes we don't see

What's right in front
of our eyes. Right, deke?

Right on, missy!

[Digit]
what I see, is a great big pipe

Starin' me right
in the beakster!

[Deke]
that there pipe leads all
the way down to the reservoir.

[Jackie]
well, maybe it's broken
somewhere along the line.

Maybe that's why the water
didn't get through!

[Matt]
only one way to know for sure!
Let's check it out!

[Jackie]
right behind you, matt.

[Digit]
ohhh, too bad. There's no room
for all of us.

[Inez]
I'll wait here with didge.

Give us a quack on the skwak
if you need us!

[Matt]
give us a shout.

[Deke]
bon voyage

Aaaaaah!

Whaaaaaaa!

[Jackie]
oh no, we're going to crash!

What happened?

[Matt]
look at this. The old pipe's
been closed off!

[Jackie]
and this pipe looks brand new.
What should we do?

Go with the flow!

[Kids]
yeowwwwwwwww!!!

A light! We should
be at the reservoir!

[Kids]
wwwwhoooooaaaaaaa...!!!!!

[Jackie]
wait a minute!
This isn't the reservoir!

[Matt]
it's hacker's swimming pool!

So that's the end of the story!
Hacker isn't recycling

The town's water -
he's stealing it!

[Jackie]
give me the skwak pad.
I've got an idea!

Inez, it's jax! Let me talk
to deke!

[Judge trudy]
it's a sad, sad day
for sensible flats, judy.

[Judy]
a sad day indeed trudy.
Everyones leaving

And hacker owns all
the land in town.

[Delete]
boss!boss!

[Hacker]
it's about time you got back,
you ridiculous retreads!

Can I assume those kids never
reached the lake?

[Delete]
well, actually, boss, they uh-

Ow!

[Buzz]
oh, we stopped 'em, alright,
boss. Eh, just like you wanted.

Right, delete? Huh, right?

[Delete]
oh, yeah, right, right.
We stopped 'em, boss! Cold!

You'll never see them again!?

[Hacker]
excellent! I've got a little
business to take care of -

And then we celebrate!!

[Hacker]
♪ I'm aholdin' land deeds
in my hand... ♪

♪ Make that land deeds
in my hand... ♪

[Deke]
now. When I say 'turn', give
it all you got to the right -

That'll shut 'er down!

I'll turn mine to the left -
make 'er wide open!

You sure this is going to work,
deke?

If your friends are right about
where these pipes go -

It'll work like a charm.

That's what these shut-off
valves are for. Ready?

Turn!

It's comin' up - I can feel it!

Oh, the sweet, sweet music
of water gurglin'

Down the line to the reservoir!

[Inez]
way to go, didge! We did it!

[Deke]
well, not exactly.

We still need rain to fill
the lake. Wait here!

This is the hacker,
motherboard.

Sensible flats is about
to become mine!

As you know... No, no, no! Cut!
Much too nice. Take two!

Hear me well, motherboard.

The king of chaos has struck
again!

Sensible flats is now
hackerville!

[Buzz]
eh, uh, you feel something?

[Delete]
huh?

[Delete]
where'd our water go, buzzie?

[Buzz]
the boss is not gonna be happy
about this...!

[Rudy]
yeehaw! We got us some water!

[Jackie]
good job, inez. The flow
is a go!

[Matt]
uh- better make that a no-go!

The lake didn't even have enough
water to save the town!

[Deke]
never seen it this dry before.
It's just you and me, fish.

Dance yer heart out and bring
us some rain!

It's workin'! It's gonna rain!
Don't quit now, fish -

Don't quit on me now!

[Inez]
reach for your rainboots, jax!
You're gonna get wet!

It's raining up here, and soon
the pipe will bring water

Down to you!

[All]
[cheers]

[Rudy]
it's a gusher!

[Matt]
I think the water's rising
too fast!

[Jackie]
what should we do?

[Matt]
let's graph it!

[Hacker]
ah, yes! It's good to be awful!

What happened here,
you two duncebuckets?

Who stole my water?

[Matt]
according to our graph,
the water level has risen

Meters in minutes!

[Jackie]
and look at this! If the water
level keeps rising

At the same rate -

And we extend the line
on the graph...

We can predict the water level
will rise past meters

In another three...four...five
minutes!

[Rudy]
above meters?! Why, that's
over the top of the t*nk!

Sorry, rudy. But that's
the story.

[Rudy]
if that picture's right -
and the reservoir does overflow

- The whole town'll be flooded!

[Jackie]
hold on! If inez and digit can
turn the water on -

They can turn the water off!

[Inez]
you want us to do what??

[Matt]
close the pipe to the reservoir
and open the pipe to hacker's!

[Digit]
if we do that, the hacker gets
all the water again!

[Jackie]
if you don't, sensible flats
will be a giant mud puddle!

[Inez]
okay, jax - we're on it!

Didge! Close the reservoir!
I'll open the pipe to hacker's.

Turn!

[Hacker]
because of you two
duncebuckets,

My paradise is parched! My home
away from home is dehydrated!

My perfect plan is in peril!

[Buzz]
easy, boss, uh, you're beepin'.

[Hacker]
oh, my plan was flawless!
My goal achieved.

And now...all is lost!
I want my water back!!!

Whoaaa!

Whoaaa! Ow!

[Hacker]
the irony of all this is not
lost! I will not be denied!

[Buzz]
boss, uh, who are
you talking to?

[Delete]
yeah. Ther's nobody there.

[Hacker]
the will of the hacker
shall prevail!

[Buzz]
c'mon, boss, give it up.

[Delete]
yeah. There's lots of other
cybersites out there.

We'll get one of those!

[Hacker]
make no mistake - the hacker
shall return!

[Rudy]
never thought water would look
so good.

[Sheriff judy]
now that we've got it comin'
through the right pipe,

Sensible flats is back
in business! Right, trudy?

[Judge trudy]
right, judy. And since hacker
lied and cheated

To buy everyone's land,

I hereby decree that
transaction null and void

Everyone gets their nd back.

[Rudy]
and guess what?
I found my harmonica!

It was in my pocket
all the time.

[Sheriff judy]
we owe it all to motherboard
and you kids.

[Inez]
actually, you owe
it all to deke.

[Matt]
it was his rain dance that
brought the rain.

[Sheriff judy]
who's deke?

[Judge trudy]
don't know any deke.

[Rudy]
me neither.

[Motherboard]
time to go, cybermates.
End of story here.

Job well done.