02x14 - Trick or Treat

Episode transcripts for the TV show "Cyberchase". Aired: January 21, 2002 –; present.*
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Matt and his group of friends use gadgets and follow clues to mysteries and any other problem that comes their way.
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02x14 - Trick or Treat

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* 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 on!

* Just wait
and c-y-b-e-r-chase! *

C'mon, let's try
the next house.

Jackie:
it's my piano teacher's
house.

They always do fun stuff
outside.

Scarecrow:
ha ha! Happy halloween!

Matt:
whoa, a talking scarecrow!

Push a button,
get a treat!

Matt:
cool, a candy machine!

I love coconut raspberry
sugar bombs!

Jackie:
my turn!

Oh! I don't like sugar
bombs.

Maybe if I press
a different button,

I'll get a different
candy bar.

Only one way to find out.

Jackie:
totally tasties!

Oh, man,
these are the best!

You're turn, inez.

Hmm, let's see,
button in, candy out.

Yellow gave a sugar b*mb,
green gave totally tasties.

Wonder what red will do?

Well, to be sure,
go with what you know.

That way you're in
control.

Okay, I'm going with
yellow.

If it works the same as before,
I'll get a sugar b*mb.

It worked!

Want a sugar b*mb?
Press yellow.

Matt:
totally tasties--
press green.

(Like an announcer)
results you can count on!

(Like a pirate)
aye, follow me, mateys,

Let's see what treasure
awaits next door! Arrrh.

Digit:
* those trick or treaters
will come my way *

* It's halloween,
my favorite day. *

Da-da-da-da da da-da-da-da
da-da-da da da-da-da da da...

Motherboard's voice:
digit! What are you doing?

Watering the new garden,
motherboard,

Just like you asked.

Motherboard's voice:
turn the climate control
to medium exposure, please.

Digit:
medium exposure...
Comin' up.

(Doorbell)

Digit:
ah, our first trick
or treater.

Coming! Coming!

What a fun costume.

It's me, motherboard.

Your wayward child
has returned.

Hacker!

Hacker?! Here?

(Skwak pad beeps)

Ahoy! Wait up, mateys.

My skwak pad's a beepin'!

Emergency! Hacker's here!

Jackie:
hacker's there?
With you?

Acting strange.
Wants to come home.

How weird is that?

Let's go!

I know, you think
I'm a viper.

A nefarious knave.
A maleficent malefactor!

Inez:
huh, you're not?

Hacker:
I was, but I've changed!

I've given up
my despicable ways!

You've seen the door too.

Use it!

Oh, digit!
My old friend, my old pal

Don't be so hard on me!

I've missed you!

Ugh! Let go of me!

What do you want, hacker?

A chance to redeem myself,
mom.

It's all in here.

(Reading) "put good out
into the universe,

And good comes back
to you!"

And listen to this:

(Reading) "treat others as you
would have them treat you!"

Why it's pure genius!

Jackie:
that's the golden rule!

Matt:
yeah, everyone knows it.

Well, it was news to me.

Motherboard:
after what you've done...

To the cyber universe...
And to me...

You're not welcome here!

Let's face it,

What has being rotten
done for me?

Fame, wealth,
infinite power... Ygh!

I think I'm going to be
sick.

I know now that,

You're nobody till
somebody loves you.

Of course, I don't expect you
to love me right off the bat.

Ha! Don't worry,
we don't.

To prove I've changed,

I'll start by removing
that awful virus I gave you.

Adjust my circuits?!

Never!

Secure him in the garden,

Till we figure out
what to do with him!

Jackie:
a frog?

Matt:
what's he doing with
a frog?

Digit:
I don't know,

But I don't care what
he says or how he's dressed,

I don't trust him!

Uh-oh!
Now he's playin' with it!

Jackie:
maybe it's just a toy.

Digit:
no way! Hacker doesn't
play with toys!

My uncle emilio always says,

"The truth is somewhere
between what you think,

And what you know."

Jackie:
meaning?

Inez:
if I know hacker,

That frog's going to do
something terrible!

But what?
What can a frog do?

We better find out quick!

You're not going anywhere, pal!

Hacker:
but the frog is a present
for motherboard.

It just seemed so right
for the garden.

Jackie:
if that's true,
you can have it back...

Maybe.

Of course, I understand.
You're still uneasy.

As the book says,
building trust takes time.

But once you see that my present
is completely harmless,

I'm sure we can all become
really good friends.

In the meantime,

I'll just sit here
and read my book.

Ah, bliss.

Jackie:
man, he is too nice.

Nice my eye!

Hacker's up to something,
guaranteed!

Hm, maybe it has to do with
these buttons he was pushing.

Let's find out
what this thing can do.

(Evil chuckle)

Buzz! Delete!

Boss, you made it in!

How goes operation
bullfrog?

Brilliantly!
Darkspot is in the building.

Buzz:
way to go, boss!

This is your nastiest
scheme ever!

Did you get him inside
the air vent

So we can power him up,
like?

Not yet,
there's been a slight glitch!

But once darkspot
is hip-hopping

Through motherboard's circuits,
the rest is up to you!

Delete:
we got it covered, boss!

Once darkspot is inside,

We'll guide him right
to motherboard's cpu!

Buzz:
a couple of bites
out of that

And it's lights out
for motherboard!

Yeah. Crash time! (Laughs)

Matt:
maybe it's supposed to go
somewhere special...

Like on a secret mission.

Yeah!

Maybe hacker programmed it to do
something really bad!

All we know is,

When hacker pushed a button
the frog hopped away!

We need more info!

We've got to protect
motherboard!

I wonder if the number
on the button

Controls how many hops.

Input causes output,
you know.

Just like getting a sugar
b*mb from the scarecrow!

Jackie:
inputting a one.

Two hops forward.

Do it again, jax...
Just to make sure.

Jackie:
input a one...

Two hops forward.
Same output as before.

Huh! A one gets you two.

Betcha a two
gets you three hops.

Kids:
one, two, three, four!

Four hops?
Somethin' must be wrong!

Not necessarily, didge.

Maybe that's just what
inputting a two does--

Makes it hop four times.

Matt:
inputting a two again.

Kids:
one... Two... Three... Four!

Same result for the same input!

Great! We're in control.

I better get this down
on my skwak

Or we'll never keep track.

Inez:
input a three, guys.

Buzz:
(making airplane noises)

Delete:
c'mon buzz,
let me practice!

I'm not done yet!

(Makes airplane noises)

No fair,
no fair!

Knock it off,
you duncebuckets!

That joystick is the key
to operation bullfrog!

You hold my entire future
in your clumsy little hands,

So be careful!

Inez:
okay, we've tried them all.
What do we know?

We know the frog hops
whenever we input a number.

And each number gives us
a different number of hops.

Input a one
and we get two hops.

A two gives us four hops,

A three gives us six,

A four gives us eight,

And a five gives us
ten hops.

All right!
There's a pattern there.

A pattern? Where?

Matt:
look. A one gets you two,
a two gets you four.

The hops out are always
twice the number in.

Inez:
that's a rule!

The frogs output
is always twice the input.

Works for me.

Me too.

Hey, we forgot about
these buttons!

Matt:
it made a quarter turn
to the right!

Jackie:
push it again, didge!

Another quarter turn!

If I keep pushin' the "r",

El frogo should make
a full circle!

Try pushing the "l" button.

Jackie:
the "l" makes it turn left!

Inez:
cool!

With the right input,

We can make this guy
go forward, left, right...

We've got complete control!

Which means...

All:
what?

Well, I'm not sure...

But we know that the buttons
are inputs we can use

To make the frog turn and hop
wherever we want.

What's that got to do with
why hacker showed up here?

Maybe nothing.

Maybe it is just a toy.

Now tell me again,

What do you do when darkspot
is inside?

Buzz:
uh, we press go

And use the joystick
to move it around, right?

Hacker:
then?

Delete:
guide the frog
to motherboard's cpu.

Then munch, munch!

Precisely!

Someone's here!

Hate to say it, hacker,
but even motherboard agrees.

Your frog appears
to be harmless.

No hard feelings,
old friend.

Yuck!

Let's let bygones
be bygones.

Aah!
Cut that out!

Just because you got
your frog back

Doesn't mean we trust you
or like you!

Ta-ta!

(Evil chuckle)

Go, darkspot, go!

Fulfill my destiny at last!

(Evil chuckle)

Buzz:
ooh-ooh! Look, deedee!

Darkspot is blinking! Oh!

I gotta start controlling it.

Hey, it didn't move.

That's cause you didn't
push the go button.

I'll do it!

Buzz:
oh no!

You pushed grow,
not go!

Grow?
Oh, no!

I better fix it.

I'll do it!

I wanna do it!

(Sparks)

Both:
uh-oh.

Now look
what you've done!

Hacker:
so I said, sorry lady,
not potato chips...

Computer chips!
(Laughs)

All:
huh?

Hacker:
I guess you had to be there.

Can you believe it?

We're hanging
with hacker.

I know.
Ugh! How gross!

(Alarm goes off)

Motherboard:
security alert!

Matt:
I knew it!

Jackie:
c'mon!

Security alert!
Secur-

Jackie:
what did you do hacker?

Oh, sure.
Blame the bad guy.

Digit:
something got into
our operating circuits!

Nothing in sector one!

Matt:
sector two is clear.

Inez:
sector three is...

Wait a minute!
I see something!

Didge, bring it into focus!

Digit:
nothin! Sector three is clear.

Yoikes!
It's hacker's frog!

What's it doing out there?

It's headed right
for motherboard's cpu!

(Whistling)

Matt:
c'mon guys!
We've gotta find that frog!

You stay here!

Digit:
he's not going anywhere.

The frog should be
in here somewhere.

Go that way.

Jackie:
forget it!
No way I'm going down there!

It's too dark and scary!

Matt:
we don't have a choice, jax.

We have to stop that frog
before it reaches the cpu.

Hey, is it raining in here?

Frog:
(growl)

Kids:
(gasp)

(Screaming)

Kids:
runnnn!

Run!

Run!

Jackie:
wait! We can't run,
we have to catch that thing!

Or we can go home
and go trick or treating.

Jackie:
is that what we're all about?

Halloween fun?
Trick or treating?

No! Not when motherboard
needs us!

So what if there's some
giant frog on the loose!

So what if it's scaring
the heck out of us!

We've got a job to do!

(Gasp)

Uh, jackie?

What?!

Run!

It's getting a bit nippy
in here.

How close is that darkspot
to the cpu?

Uh, I think you should ask
for a refund boss.

Refund?

Yeah!

You should sue whoever sold you
this joystick thingy.

It's a piece of junk.

I made the joystick thingy!

What's going on there?

Well, it's kinda funny,
actually.

There we were,

Guiding the frog
with the joystick,

Just like you said...

And the next thing we knew

The silly joystick
sort of fell off!

Fell off?!

Oh, and one other thing.

Somehow, the frog got
really, really big.

Big?
You duncebuckets!

If he's too big,

He'll never fit
into the cpu area

To devour motherboards
circuitry.

Jackie:
if we don't find that frog
soon, motherboard is doomed.

Digit:
what about hacker?

Jackie:
oh yeah, I forgot about him.
He's doomed too!

All:
frog!

Jackie:
man! Look at the size
of that thing!

Inez:
what do we do now?

It's not moving.

Jackie:
maybe it's making a plan.

Matt:
this is all hacker's fault.

Once a lump of garbage,
always a lump of garbage.

Say that again.

Matt:
once a lump of-

Garbage! That's it!

That's how we get rid
of the frog!

Jackie:
what are you talking about?

Digit:
we get it into the garbage chute
around that corner

And take it out
with the trash!

Jackie:
great idea!

We know how to control
how it moves!

Matt:
all we have to do
is get close enough

To push the input buttons.

Inez:
oh no, don't look at me.

Whoa!

Can we talk about this?

Matt:
push a button and take control!

Inez:
whoa!

Jackie:
it worked!

Inez:
around that corner, didge?

Digit:
roger! Then around another
corner, down a few hops,

And we're there.

Four hops ought to get me
to the corner.

I input a two, right?

Yep. Two in,
four hops out!

Whoa!

Oh boy! The boss isn't going
to be happy about this!

Delete:
hey buzzy, it's still moving.

Jackie:
one, two, three.

Digit:
you came up short!

Jackie:
that's because it hopped
three times, not four!

Why? What happened?

I don't know.

Maybe the rule changed
when it grew.

We need to find
the new rule and fast!

Jackie:
inez, see what happens
when you input a one.

It should hop twice.

Inez:
whoa!

Nope, only once.

But the turn buttons
are still working the same.

Let me input a three.

Whoa!

Matt:
ride 'em, cowgirl!

Inez:
that time it made five hops

It made six before!

The rule has definitely changed!

Digit:
not only that,

You passed the turn
to the trashbin

Three hops back.

Jackie:
okay, we'll figure it out.

We know that putting in
a one, gives one hop.

Digit:
and a two makes it hop
three times.

Jackie:
button three is five hops.

Matt:
it looks like the output

Is now one less
than twice the input.

And if this pattern
continues,

Four should give us
seven hops.

Matt:
and five in
should give us nine hops.

Jackie:
the rule did change!

Now the hops out are twice
the number in, minus one!

Matt:
it's a new ballgame
with a new rule!

We're back in control!

Digit:
let's dash for the trash!

Jackie:
not so fast!

We have to make sure
we're right.

Inez, input a four.

Matt:
if we're right,
that should get you seven hops.

Okay, but you guys owe me!

Whoa! Agh! Whoa!

Jackie:
the new rule works!
It made seven hops!

Matt:
we're good to go, nezzie!

Inez:
don't call me nezzie!

Get me out of here!

Digit:
three hops to the corner, inez!

Jackie:
to get three hops, input a two.

Two it is!

Whoa!

Digit:
turn left!

Inez:
turning left!

Seven hops
and you're in the bin!

Jackie:
seven hops, input four!

Inez:
four for seven!
Trash, here we come!

Don't forget to jump off!

Kids:
all right! We did it!

Jackie:
that was totally awesome!

Matt:
way to go, nezzie!

Inez:
what did I tell you
about calling me, nezzie?

Sorry.

That's okay.
I don't mind, matthew.

(Teeth chattering)

You'll pay for this!

Digit:
yeah, right.
Send me a bill!

Kids:
happy halloween, hacker!

Motherboard:
good job, cybermates.

You turned a trick
into a treat.

Jackie:
that was a close one,
motherboard.

Inez:
yeah, I guess hacker's
not ever going to change.

Matt:
unless he changes that suit
he was wearing!

(Laughing)

Trick or treat!

(Gasp)

Gribet!

Kids:
ahhhhhh!

Frog kid:
hey, don't you want some candy?
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